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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UNION (known locally as Union See also:Hill and officially as See also:Town of Union)  , a See also:town of See also:Hudson See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on the Hudson See also:river, adjoining See also:West See also:Hoboken and See also:Weehawken, and opposite New See also:York See also:City . Pop . (1900), 15,187, of whom 5179 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 U.S. See also:census) 21,023 . In the foreign See also:element Germans predominate . The town is served by the See also:railways passing through Weehawken and Hoboken . The See also:principal manufactures are See also:silk goods, shirts and See also:malt liquors . In 1905 the factory products were valued at $3,512,451, Originally a See also:part of the township of See also:North See also:Bergen, See also:Union was incorporated as a separated township in 1861, and as a town, under the name Town of Union, in 1864 . Town of Union must not be confused with Union township (pop. in 1910, 3419), Union county, incorporated in 1808; Union township (1910, 2756), Bergen county, incorporated in 1852; Union township (1910, 982), Ocean county, incorporated in 1846; and Union town-See also:ship (1910, 930), Hunterdon county, incorporated in 1853 . Union township, See also:Camden county, became See also:Gloucester City in 1868, and Union township, Hudson county, became West New York in 1898 .

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