BLOOMFIELD  , a

town of Essex county, New Jersey, U.S.A., about 12 M . W. of New York, and directly adjoining the city of Newark on the N . Pop . (190o) 9668, of whom 2267 were foreignborn;(19o5,state census) IT,668;(191o),15,070 . Area, 5.42sq.m . Bloomfield is served by the Erie, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railways, and by several electric lines connecting with Newark, Montclair, Orange, East Orange and other neighbouring places . It is a residential suburb of Newark and New York, is the seat of a German theological school (Presbyterian, 1869) and has the Jarvie Memorial library (1902) . There is a Central Green, and in 1908 land was acquired for another park . Among the town's manufactures are silk and woollen goods, paper, electric elevators, electric lamps, rubber goods, safety pins, hats, cream separators, brushes and novelties . The value of the town's factory products increased from $3,370,924 in 'goo to $4,645,483 in 1905, or 37.8% . First settled about 1670-1675 by the Dutch and by New Englanders from the Newark colony, Bloomfield was long a part of Newark, the principal settlement at first being known as Wardsesson . In 1796 it was named Bloomfield in honour of General Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823), who served (1775-1778) in the War of American Independence, reaching the rank of major, was governor of New Jersey in 1801-1802 and 1803-1812, brigadier-general in the United States army during the War of 1812, and a Democratic representative in Congress from 1817 to 1821 .

The township of Bloomfield was incorporated in 1812 . From it were subsequently set off

Belleville (1839), Montclair (1868) and Glen Ridge (1895) .