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See also:JERSEY See also:CITY , a city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Hudson county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on a See also:peninsula between the Hudson and See also:Hackensack See also:rivers at the N. and between New See also:York and See also:Newark bays at the S., opposite See also:lower Manhattan See also:Island. Pop. (1890), 163,003; (1900), 206,433, of whom 58,424 were See also:foreign-See also:born (19.314 Irish, 17,375 See also:German, 4642 See also:English, 3832 See also:Italian, 1694 See also:Russian, 1690 Scottish, 1643 Russian Poles, 1445 See also:Austrian) and 3704 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 267,779. It is the eastern See also:terminus of the See also:Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley, the See also:West See also:Shore, the Central of New Jersey, the See also:Baltimore & See also:Ohio, the See also:Northern of New Jersey (operated by the See also:Erie), the Erie, the New York, Susquehanna & Western, and the New Jersey & New York (controlled by the Erie) See also:railways, the first three using the Pennsylvania station; and of the little-used See also:Morris See also:canal. Jersey City is served by several inter-See also:urban electric railways and by the tunnels of the Hudson & Manhattan railroad See also:company to See also:Dey St. and to 33rd St. and 6th See also:Ave., New York City, and it also has docks of several lines of Transatlantic and See also:coast steamers. The city occupies a See also:land See also:area of 14.3 sq. m. and has a See also:water-front of about 12 M. See also:Bergen See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, a southerly See also:extension of the Palisades, extends longitudinally through it from See also:north to See also:south. At the north end this hill rises on the See also:east See also:side precipitously to a height of nearly 200 ft.; on the west and south sides the slope is See also:gradual. On the See also:crest of the hill is the See also:fine Hudson County See also:Boulevard, about 19 m. See also:long and too ft. wide, extending through the city and county from north to south and passing through West Side See also:Park, a splendid county park containing lakes and a 7o-See also:acre playground. Thewater-front, especially on the east side, is given up to manufacturing and See also:shipping establishments. In the hill See also:section are the better residences, most of which are wooden and detached.
The See also:principal buildings are the city 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 and the See also:court See also:house. There are nine small city parks with an aggregate area of 39.1 acres. The city has a public library containing (1907) 107,600 volumes and an See also:historical museum. At the corner of Bergen Ave. and See also:Forrest St. is the See also:People's See also:Palace, given in 1904 by See also:Joseph Milbank to the First Congregational 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 containing a library and See also:reading-See also:room, a gymnasium, See also:bowling alleys, a billiard-room, a See also:rifle-range, a roof-See also:garden, and an auditorium and See also:theatre; See also:kindergarten classes are held and an employment See also:bureau is maintained. Among the educational institutions are the German See also:American school, Hasbrouck See also:institute, St Aloysius See also:academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) and St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's See also:college (Roman Catholic) ; and there are See also:good public See also:schools. See also:Grain is shipped to and from Jersey City in large quantities, and in See also:general the city is an important shipping See also:port; being included, however, in the port of New York, no See also:separate See also:statistics are avail-able. There are large slaughtering establishments, and factories for the refining of See also:sugar and for the manufacture of See also:tobacco goods, See also:soap and See also:perfumery, See also:lead pencils, See also:iron and See also:steel, railway cars, chemicals, See also:rubber goods, See also:silk goods, dressed See also:lumber, and See also:malt liquors. The value of the city's manufactured products increased from $37,376,322 in 1890 to $77,225,116 in 1900, or 106.6%; in 1905 the factory product alone was valued at $75,740,934, an increase of only 3.9 % over the factory product in 1900, this small See also:rate of increase being due very largely to a decline in the value of the products of the sugar and See also:molasses refining See also:industry. The value of the wholesale slaughtering and See also:meat-packing product decreased from $18,551,783 in 188o and $11,356,511 in 1890 to $6,243,217 in 19oo—of this $5,708,763 represented wholesale slaughtering alone; in 1905 the wholesale slaughtering product was valued at $7,568,739.
In 1908 the assessed valuation of the city was $267,039,754, The city is governed by a See also:board of aldermen and a See also:mayor (elected biennially), who appoints most of the officials, the See also:street and water board being the principal exception.
Jersey City when first incorporated was a small sandy peninsula (an island at high See also:tide) known as See also:Paulus See also:Hook, directly opposite the lower end of Manhattan Island. It had been a See also:part of the Dutch patroonship of Pavonia granted to See also:Michael Pauw in 1630. In 1633 the first buildings were erected, and for more than a See also:century the Hook was occupied by a small agricultural and trading community. In 1764 a new See also:post route between New York and See also:Philadelphia passed through what is now the city, and See also:direct See also:ferry communication began with New York. See also:Early in the See also:War of See also:Independence Paulus Hook was fortified by the Americans, but soon after the See also:battle of Long Island they abandoned it, and on the 23rd of See also:September 1776 it was occupied by the See also:British. On the See also:morning of the 19th of See also:August 1779 the British See also:garrison was surprised by See also:Major See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee (" See also:Light See also:Horse Harry "), who with about 500 men took 159 prisoners and lost only 2 killed and 3 wounded, one of the most brilliant exploits during the War of Independence. In 1804 Paulus Hook, containing 117 acres and having about 15 inhabitants, passed into the See also:possession of three enterprising New York lawyers, who laid it out as a See also:town and formed an association for its See also:government, which was incorporated as the " associates of the Jersey company." In 1820 the town was incorporated as the City of Jersey, but it remained a part of the township of Bergen until 1838, when it was reincorporated as a distinct See also:municipality. In 1851 the township of See also:Van Vorst, founded in 1804 between Paulus Hook and See also:Hoboken, was annexed. In 187o there were two annexations: to the south, the town of Bergen, the county-seat, which was founded in 1660; to the north-west, Hudson City, which had been separated from the township of North Bergen in 1852 and incorporated as a city in 1855. The town of See also:Greenville, to the south, was annexed in 1873.
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