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ELIZABETH , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Union county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on Elizabeth See also:river, See also:Newark See also:Bay, and See also:Arthur Kill, to m. S.W. of Jersey City. Pop. (189o) 37,764; (1900) 52,130, of whom 14,770 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 1139 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 73,409. It Ti served by the See also:Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley and the Central of New Jersey See also:railways. The site is level and the streets are broad and shaded. There are many residences of New See also:York business men, and several historic buildings, including See also:Liberty See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, the See also:mansion of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Livingston, first See also:governor of the See also:state; See also:Boxwood Hall (now used as a See also:home for aged See also:women), the former home of See also:Elias See also:Boudinot; the old See also:brick mansion of See also:Jonathan See also:Belcher (1681-1757), governor of the See also:province from 1747 to 1757; the First Presbyterian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church; and the See also:house occupied at different times by See also:General See also:Winfield See also:Scott. The city has several parks, the Union county See also:court house (1905), a public library and several charitable institutions. Elizabethport, that See also:part of the city on Staten See also:Island See also:Sound, about 2 M. S.E. of the centre of Elizabeth, has a See also:port open to vessels of 300 tons; it is an outlet of the Pennsylvania See also:coal See also:fields and is thus one of the most important coal See also:shipping depots in the See also:United States. Here, too, are a plant (covering more than Boo acres) of the See also:Standard Oil See also:Company and a large See also:establishment for the manufacture of the " See also:Singer " sewing machine—according to the U.S. census the largest manufactory of sewing See also:machines in the world—employing more than 6000 workmen in 1905; among the other manufactures of Elizabeth are foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products (value in 1905, $3,887,139), See also:wire, oil (value in 1go5, $2,387,656), refined and smelted See also:copper, the output of railway repair shops, edge tools and lager See also:beer. The value of the manu-
factured products was $10,489,364 in 189o; $22,861,375
(factory product) in 1900; and $29,300,801 (factory product)
in 1905. '
Elizabeth was settled in 1665 by a company from See also:Long Island for whom the See also:land had been See also:purchased from the See also:Indians and a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant had been obtained from See also:Richard See also:Nicolls as See also:agent for the See also:duke of York. But about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the duke conveyed the entire province to See also:John, See also:Lord See also:Berkeley, and See also:Sir See also:George See also:Carteret, and these two conflicting grants gave rise to a long-continued controversy (see NEw JERSEY). The See also:town was named in See also:honour of Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Carteret, and was first known as Elizabethtown. From 1665 to 1686 it was the seat of See also:government of the province, and the legislature sat here occasionally until 1790. In the home of the Rev. Jonathan See also:Dickinson (1688-1747), its first See also:president, the first sessions of the See also:College of New Jersey (now See also:Princeton University) were held in 1747, but immediately afterwards the college removed to Newark. In See also:December 1776 and twice in See also:June 178o the See also:British entered Elizabeth and made it a See also:base of operations, but on each occasion they were soon driven out. Elizabeth became a " See also:free town and See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough " in 1739; the borough See also:charter was confirmed
by the legislature in 1789 and repealed in 1790, and Elizabeth was chartered as a city in 1855.
See E. F. See also:Hat See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, See also:History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York, 1868).
End of Article: ELIZABETH
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