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UNION (known locally as Union See also: town of Hudson county, New See also: Jersey, U.S.A., on the Hudson See also: river, adjoining West See also: Hoboken and See also: Weehawken, and opposite New See also: York City
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Pop
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(1900), 15,187, of whom 5179 were See also: foreign-See also: born; (1910 U.S. census) 21,023
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In the foreign See also: element Germans predominate
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The town is served by the See also: railways passing through Weehawken and Hoboken
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The See also: principal manufactures are See also: silk goods, shirts and malt liquors
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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, Union was incorporated as a separated township in 1861, and as a town, under the name Town of Union, in 1864
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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
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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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