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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 707 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:Hudson See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., between the See also:Passaic and See also:Hackensack See also:rivers, adjoining See also:Harrison, and connected with See also:Newark by See also:bridges over the Passaic. Pop. (1900), 10,896, of whom 3597 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census), 18,659. The New Yo.k & See also:Greenwood See also:Lake See also:division of the See also:Erie railroad has a station at See also:Arlington, the See also:principal See also:village (in the N.W. See also:part), which contains attractive residences of Newark, Jersey See also:City and New See also:York City business men. The town covers an See also:area of about 7 sq. m., including a large See also:tract of See also:marsh-See also:land. In Kearny are railway repair shops of the See also:Pennsylvania See also:system, and a large. See also:abattoir; and there are numerous manufactures. The value of the town's factory products increased from $1,607,002 in 1900 to $4,427,904 in 1905, or 175.5%. Among its institutions are the See also:State Soldiers' See also:Home, removed here from Newark in 1880, a See also:Carnegie library, two See also:Italian homes for orphans, and a See also:Catholic See also:Industrial School for boys. The See also:neck of land between the Passaic and the Hackensack rivers, for 7 M. N. from where they unite, was See also:purchased from the proprietors of See also:East Jersey and from the See also:Indians by See also:Captain See also:William See also:Sandford in 1668 and through Nathaniel Kingsland, sergeant-See also:major of Barbadoes, received the name " New Barbadoes." After the town under this name had been extended considerably to the northward, the town of See also:Lodi was formed out of the S. portion in 1825, the town of Harrison was founded out of the S. portion of Lodi in 1840, and in 1867 a portion of Harrison was set apart as a township and named in See also:honour of See also:General See also:Philip Kearny, a former See also:resident. Kearny was incorporated as a town in 1895.

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