RAHWAY  , a See also:

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

city of See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union 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
• 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 Rahway See also:

• RIVER

river and about 20 m . S.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 . (189o) 7105; (1900) 7935, of whom 1345 were See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 U.S. See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 9337 . Rahway 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 See also:

• LINE

line of the See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania railroad, and is connected with neighbouring cities by electric lines . It has wide streets and attractive parks, and is, to some extent, a residential suburb of New York and other neighbouring cities . It has a public library (1864), with upwards of 17,000 volumes, and about r 2 m. distant is the New Jersey Reformatory (1903), to which prisoners between the ages of sixteen and See also:

• THIRTY

thirty may be sentenced instead of to the State See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

Prison . There are various manufactures . Rahway was first settled in 1720, and was 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 the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief Rahwack, whose tribe owned the site and the surrounding territory; it was chartered as a city in 1858 . For many years Rahway was popularly known as Spanktown, and in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1777, during the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

Independence, a skirmish, known as the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Spanktown, was fought here .