PATERSON  , a See also:

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

city and the 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-seat of See also:

• PASSAIC

Passaic county, New See also:

• JERSEY
• JERSEY, EARLS OF

Jersey, U.S.A., in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-eastern See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• BANK

bank of the Passaic. See also:

• RIVER

river, and 16 m . N.W. of New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York city . Pop . (188o), 51,031; (1890), 78,347; (1900), 105,171; (1906, estimate), 112,801; (1910), 125,600 . Of the See also:

• TOTAL

total in 1900, 38,791 were See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born . Paterson is served by the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main lines of the See also:

• DELAWARE

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the See also:

• ERIE

Erie, and the New York, Susquehanna & Western See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, and by a number of inter-See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

urban electric lines . The See also:

• MORRIS
• MORRIS [MORRISON], CLARA (1849– )
• MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR (1752–1816)
• MORRIS, JOHN (1810-1886)
• MORRIS, RICHARD (1833–1894)
• MORRIS, ROBERT (1734–1806)
• MORRIS, SIR LEWIS (1833–1907)
• MORRIS, WILLIAM (1834-1896)

Morris See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

Canal was formerly important for See also:

• SHIPPING

shipping See also:

• FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight between Paterson and Jersey City, but has fallen into disuse . The city lies along a See also:

• BEND

bend of the Passaic river, the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern portion being in a See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain and the extreme See also:

• NORTHERN

northern part lying among the hills that rise from the stream near the See also:

• GREAT

Great Falls . The river has a descent here of about 70 ft . (of which 5o ft. are in a perpendicular fall), and furnishes See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power for manufactories . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal public buildings are the city-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, the See also:

• POST

post See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, the county See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house and the Danforth Memorial (public library) See also:

• BUILDING

building . Paterson is pre-eminently a manufacturing centre .

There were, in 1905, 513 factories employing a See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of $53,595,585, and furnishing See also:

• WORK

work for 28,509 employes; and the total factory product was valued at $54,673,083 . The city is the centre of See also:

• SILK

silk manufacturing in the See also:

• UNITED

United States . In 1905 it contained 190 silk-See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills, and the products were valued at $25,433,245 . There were also, in 1905, 27 See also:

• DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing and See also:

• FINISHING

finishing establishments, with products valued at $5,699,295; 39 foundries and See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine shops, with products valued at $2,317,185; 3 wholesale slaughtering and packing houses, with products valued at $z,zo6,698; and 3 jute and jute-goods factories, with an output valued at $929,319 . Among the machine See also:

• WORKS

works are two See also:

• LOCOMOTIVE

locomotive shops, with an See also:

• AVERAGE

average capacity of three locomotives per See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, and a large See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

mill . Paterson had its origin in an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of the legislature of New Jersey on the 22nd of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1791, incorporating the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, the See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan for this society being See also:

• DRAWN

drawn up by See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• HAMILTON
• HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
• HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
• HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
• HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
• HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
• HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
• HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
• HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
• HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
• HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
• HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)

Hamilton . As the most suitable location for its enterprise the society in the following See also:

• YEAR

year selected the Great Falls of the Passaic river, and named the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place Paterson, 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:

• 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 Paterson (1745-1806), a member of the state Constitutional See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention in 1776, See also:

• ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of New Jersey in 1776-1783, a delegate to the See also:

• CON

Con.tinental See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress in 178o-1781, and to the Constitutional Convention of 2 The books of the See also:

• DARIEN

Darien See also:

• COMPANY

Company were kept after a new and very much improved plan, believed to be an invention of Paterson's (See also:

• BURTON, JOHN HILL (1809–1881)
• BURTON, ROBERT (1577-1640)
• BURTON, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816–f goo)
• BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (1821-1890)
• BURTON, WILLIAM EVANS (1804-1860)

Burton's Hist . See also:

• SCOT, MICHAEL (? 1175-1232)

Scot. viii . 36, See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note) . 1787 (where he proposed the famous " New Jersey Plan "), a United States Senator in 1789-1790, See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of the state in 1790-1793, and an See also:

• ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1793 until his See also:

• DEATH

death . Paterson was incorporated as a township in 1831, chartered as a city in 1851 and rechartered in 1861 . Three great See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries—the manufacture of See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton, machinery and silk—were established in Paterson almost contemporaneously with their introduction into the United States .

In 1793 the first cotton See also:

• YARN

yarn was spun at Paterson in a mill run by ox-power, and in the next year, when the dams and See also:

• RESERVOIR

reservoir were completed, Paterson's first cotton factory began its operations . After 184o the manufacture of machinery and of silk gradually supplanted that of cotton goods . Although an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt was made to manufacture machinery in Paterson as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1800, there was little progress until after 1825 . The building of the " See also:

• SANDUSKY

Sandusky," Paterson's first locomotive, in 1837, marked the beginning of a new See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, and before r86o the city was supplying locomotives to all parts of the United States and to See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico and See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICA

America . By 184o the silk industry had obtained a footing, and after this date there was a steady advance in the quantity and quality of the product . From 1872 to 1881 inclusive Paterson consumed two-thirds of the raw silk imported into the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . See L . R . See also:

• TRUMBULL, JAMES HAMMOND (1821-1897)
• TRUMBULL, JOHN (1750-1831)
• TRUMBULL, JOHN (1756-1843)
• TRUMBULL, JONATHAN (1710-1785)
• TRUMBULL, LYMAN (1813-1896)

Trumbull, See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

Industrial Paterson (Paterson, 1882) .