Excerpt from Biographical and Genealogical History of the City of Newark and Essex County, New Jersey: Illustrated Day. His desire to visit America was thus aroused, and having at last, through his own industry, acquired sufficient means to gratify his desire, he left his native land for the United States, not quite decided, how ever, to make it his permanent home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Biographical and Genealogical History of the City of Newark and Essex County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 N offering to subscribers the Biographical and Genealogical History of the I City of Newark and Essex County, the publishers feel satisfied that they have been successful in producing a compilation of distinct historical value, and that all specifications set forth in the prospectus have been duly touched. The scope of the work has been such as to demand a large financial expenditure and a most discriminating research, and the result stands in evidence that the object of the publication, as defined in the prospectus, has been fully attained to fill up the wide gap in the biographical history of Essex county, and to give to the present and future generations a much deeper source of reliable informa tion touching this locality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.