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PRINCETON , a 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 of See also:Mercer See also:county, New See also:Jersey, on Stony See also:Brook, and the See also:Delaware & Raritan See also:canal, 49 M. S.W. of New See also:York See also:City. Pop. (1905) 6029; (1910) 5136. Princeton is served by the See also:Pennsylvania railroad, and by two electric linesto Trenton (to m.), passing through Lawrenceville (in See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence township; until 1816 called See also:Maidenhead; pop., 2522 in 1910), the seat of the Lawrenceville school (1882), for boys, which was endowed by the residuary legatees of See also:John Cleve See also:Green (1800-1875), and is probably the first endowed secondary school for boys in the See also:Middle States.
Princeton is situated 210 ft. above See also:sea-level, and the county to the See also:east, See also:north and See also:west is rocky and hilly. The borough is the seat of Princeton University (q.v.), and of " The Theo-logical See also:Seminary of the 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 in the See also:United States of See also:America," commonly known as Princeton Theological Semi-nary, which was opened in 1812, and was chartered in 1824. The seminary was for one See also:year under the See also:sole care of See also:Archibald See also:Alexander (q.v.), and among its teachers and representative theologians have been See also:Samuel See also:Miller (1769-1850), who was See also:professor of ecclesiastical See also:history and church See also:government here (1813–1849), See also:Charles See also:Hodge, See also:Joseph See also:Addison Alexander and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Waddel Alexander, 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:- 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 Green, Archibald Alexander Hodge, See also:Francis L. See also:Patton,who became See also:president in 1902 and See also:Benjamin B. Warfield (b. 1851), professor of didactic and polemic See also:theology from 1887. Under such leaders Princeton theology has been distinctly conservative, supporting the old See also:standards of the See also:Westminster See also:Confession and Catechisms. The seminary is well endowed, so that there is no See also:charge for tuition or See also:room See also:rent; among its See also:principal benefactors were James See also:Lenox (1800-188o), See also:Robert See also:Leighton See also:Stuart (1806-1882), his widow and his See also:brother Alexander (1810-1879), John Cleve Green, mentioned above, and Mrs See also:Mary J. See also:Winthrop (d. 1902). It has a See also:fine campus See also:south-west of the business centre of the borough; in the Lenox Library and the Lenox Reference Library, built in 1843 and 1879 respectively, and gifts of James Lenox, there were 82,200 See also:bound volumes and 31,500 See also:pamphlets in 1909; Stuart 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 (1876) contains lecture-rooms; Miller See also:Chapel is the See also:place of See also:worship; and the three dormitories are Alexander Hall (the " Old Seminary "), first used for this purpose in 1817, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown Hall, built in 1864—1865, and Hodge Hall (1893). In 1908—1909 the See also:faculty numbered 16 and the students 153, of whom 8 were See also:fellows and 17 See also:graduate students.
Princeton became in 1897 the See also:home of Grover See also:Cleveland, who died there; and from 1898 until his See also:death it was the See also:residence of Laurence See also:Hutton (1843-1904), a well-known writer on the history of the See also:stage. Besides its fine residences and buildings of the seminary and of the university, the only notable buildings are the handsome Princeton See also:Inn, about midway between the campus of the university and that of the seminary, and " Morven," the See also:homestead of the Stocktons, built in the first See also:decade of the 18th See also:century. In the Princeton See also:Cemetery are buried presidents and professors of the university.
The first settlers were the companions of See also:Richard See also:Stockton, the grandfather of Richard Stockton, signer of the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence. The removal hither in 1756 from See also:Newark of the See also:College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, gave the place its first educational prominence. At the 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 of the See also:War of Independence See also:town and See also:gown were both strongly patribtic. The first See also:state legislature of New Jersey met here on the 27th of See also:August 1776; and in See also:Nassau Hall, the first of the college buildings, erected in 1754–1756, which was then the largest edifice in the colonies, the See also:Continental See also:Congress sat from the 3oth of See also:June to the 4th of See also:November 1783, and on the 31st of See also:October Congress received the See also:news of the See also:signature of the definitive treaty of See also:peace with See also:Great See also:Britain. After the See also:battle of Trenton See also:Cornwallis's troops were hurried to that place, three regiments and three companies of See also:light-See also:horse being See also:left at See also:Prince-ton when the See also:main See also:body, on the 2nd of See also:January 1777, passed through. See also:Washington, unable to See also:retreat or to meet the See also:British attack, turned Cornwallis's left flank and advanced on the weak See also:garrison at Princeton. On the 3rd a force under Gen. See also:Hugh Mercer (c. 1720-1777), ordered to destroy the Stony Brook See also:bridge, and so cut off See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape to Trenton, met two of the three regimen ts,led by Lieut.-See also:Colonel Charles Mawhood,near the bridge, and, though doing great See also:execution with its rifles at a distance, was unable, being unequipped with bayonets, to hold its ground
In See also:hand-to-hand fighting, and fled through an See also:orchard, leaving Mercer there mortally wounded; he died on the 12th in a See also:farm-See also:house (still See also:standing) on the battlefield. Washington's main See also:army now came to the assistance of the retreating Americans, and forced the retreat of the other British regiments (the 55th and 40th) to Princeton, where they either surrendered or fled towards New See also:Brunswick. The British losses were heavy and the Americans lost many See also:officers. The bridge was destroyed by the See also:American troops just before the approach of See also:General Alexander See also:Leslie (c. 1740—1794) with reinforcements from Cornwallis. Washington's flank See also:movement at Trenton and his engagement with the British at Princeton made necessary the withdrawal of the British from West Jersey. In the autumn of 1783 Washington, summoned to Princeton by Congress, then in session there, made his headquarters at Rocky 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, about 4 M. north of Princeton in See also:Montgomery township, See also:Somerset county, whence on the 2nd of November he issued his farewell address to the army; his headquarters is preserved as a museum. A battle See also:monument in Princeton, designed by See also:MacMonnies and paid for by the Federal Congress, the state of New Jersey and the borough of Princeton, has been projected.
See J. R. See also:Williams, Handbook of Princeton (New York, 1905); J. F. Hageman, History of Princeton and its Institutions (2 vols., See also:Philadelphia, 1879) ; W. S. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Prince-ton (See also:Boston, 1898) ; and V. L. See also:Collins, The Continental Congress at Princeton (Princeton, 1908).
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