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SOUTH ORANGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 515 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

SOUTH See also:
ORANGE
ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
ORANGE, HOUSE OF
ORANGE , a township and a See also:

VILLAGE

village of See also:

Essex See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New See also:

Jersey, U.S.A., in the N.E. of the See also:

state, about 15 r1. W. of New See also:

York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City. Pop. of the village (1900), 4608, of whom 114o were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1905) 4932; (1910) 6014. Pop. of the See also:

TOWN

town-See also:

SHIP

ship, excluding the village (1900) 1630; (1905) 1946; (1910) 2979. The village is served by the See also:

Morris & Essex See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the See also:

DELAWARE

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, and is connected with Orange and with See also:

Newark by electric lines. It is primarily a residential suburb of New York and Newark. On the Orange See also:

mountain is Essex county See also:

park, a See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract with See also:

FOREST

forest roads. The western See also:

PART

part of the township is locally known as Maplewood, the eastern as See also:

Hilton. South Orange has a public library and a town See also:

hall, and is the seat of See also:

SETON (Family)

Seton Hall See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic), named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

MOTHER

Mother See also:

Elizabeth Seton, founded at See also:

Madison, N.J., in 1856, and removed to South Orange in i86o. Among the landmarks of South Orange are an old See also:

stone See also:

house of unknown date, but mentioned in legal documents describing the surrounding See also:

PROPERTY

property as See also:

early as 168o; the See also:

Baldwin House (c. 1717); and the See also:

Timothy See also:

Ball House (1743). Settlements were made within the See also:

PRESENT

present limits of the township in the latter part of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century by some of the founders of Newark.

The township was created in 1861 from parts of the town of Orange and the township of See also:

Clinton. The citizens secured in 1869 a village See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter providing a village See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president and a See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of trustees; in 1904 the village was entirely separated from the township, except as regards school See also:

government. In 1891 a tract of 150 acres, known as See also:

Montrose Park and containing many handsome residences, was annexed to the village. See H. Whittemore, The Founders and Builders of the Oranges, (Newark, 1896).

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