Online Encyclopedia

HOBOKEN

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 553 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

HOBOKEN  , a

city of Hudson county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the Hudson
See also:
river, adjoining Jersey City on the S. and W. and opposite New York city, with which it is connected by ferries and by two subway lines through tunnels under the river . Pop . (i''o) 43,648; (1900) 59,364, of whom 21,380 were
See also:
foreign-born, 10,843 being natives of Germany ; (1910 census) 70,324 . Of the
See also:
total population in 1900, 48,349 had either one or both parents foreign-born, German being the
See also:
principal racial element . The city is served by the West
See also:
Shore, and the
See also:
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
See also:
railways, being the eastern
See also:
terminus of the latter, and is connected by electric railway with the neighbouring cities of north-eastern New Jersey . In Hoboken are the piers of the North German Lloyd, the
See also:
Hamburg
See also:
American, the Nether-lands American, the Scandinavian and the Phoenix steamship lines . Hoboken occupies a little more than 1 sq. m. and lies near the
See also:
foot of the New Jersey Palisades, which rise both on the W. and N. to a height of nearly 200 It . Much of its
See also:
surface has had to be filled in to raise it above high tide, but Castle Point, in the N.E., rises from the generally low level about 10o ft . On this Point are the residence and private estate of the founder of the city, John Stevens (1749–1838), Hudson Park, and facing it the Stevens Institute of Technology, an excellent school of
See also:
mechanical
See also:
engineering endowed by Edwin A . Stevens (1795–1868), son of John Stevens, opened in 1871, and having in 1909–1910 34 instructors and 390 students . The institute owes much to its first president, Henry Morton (1836–1902), a distinguished scientist, whose aim was " to offer a course of instruction in which theory and practice were carefully balanced and thoroughly combined," and who gave to the institute sums aggregating $175,000 (see Morten Memorial,
See also:
History of Stevens Institute, ed. by Furman, 1905) . In connexion with the, institute there is a preparatory department, the Stevens School (187o) .

The city maintains a teachers' training school . Among the city's prominent buildings are the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western station, the Hoboken

Academy (186o), founded by German Americans, and the public library . The city has an extensive
See also:
coal trade and numerous manufactures, among which are lead pencils, leather goods,
See also:
silk goods, wall-paper and caskets . The value of the manufactured product increased from $7,151,391 in 1890 to $12,092,872 in 1900, or 69.1% . The factory product in 19o5 was valued at $14,077,305, an increase of 34•3% over that for 1900 . The site of Hoboken (originally " Hobocanhackingh," the place of the
See also:
tobacco
See also:
pipe) was occupied about 164o as a Dutch
See also:
farm, but in 1643 the stock and all the buildings except a brew-house were destroyed by the Indians . In 1711 title to the place was acquired by
See also:
Samuel Bayard, a New York merchant, who built on Castle Point his summer residence . During the War of Independence his descendant, William Bayard, was a loyalist, and his home was burned and his estate confiscated . In 1784 the
See also:
property was
See also:
purchased by John Stevens, the inventor, who.in 1804 laid it out as a
See also:
town . For the next
See also:
thirty-five years its " Elysian Fields " were a famous pleasure resort of New York City . Hoboken was incorporated as a town in 1849 and as a city in 1855 . On the 30th of
See also:
June woo the wharves of the North German Lloyd Steamship
See also:
Company and three of its ocean liners were almost completely destroyed by a fire, which caused a loss of more than 200 lives and over $5,000,000 .

HOBSON'S CHOICE, i.e . " this or nothing," an expression that arose from the fact that the

Cambridge-
See also:
London carrier, Thomas Hobson (1544-1630), refused, when letting his horses on hire, to allow any animal to leave the
See also:
stable out of its turn . Among other bequests made by Hobson, and commemorated by Milton, was a conduit for the Cambridge market-place, for which he provided the perpetual maintenance . See Spectator, No . 509 (14th of
See also:
October 1712) .

End of Article: HOBOKEN
[back]
ARTHUR HOEHOUSE HOBHOUSE
[next]
SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530–1566)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.