The Bloomfield Public Library has made available for free genealogy research, 32 city directories of various cities and townships in Essex County New Jersey, outside of Newark. You may read the directory or download various versions of each depending on your reading device.
Ethel Lynn Eliot Beers. Goshen’s Sweet Singer, Mrs. Ethel Lynn Eliot Beers, who wrote under the nom de plume, of “Ethel Lynn,” was born at Goshen, Orange County, N. Y., in 1825 and died at Orange, N. J., in 1879. Mrs. Beers who was a woman of rare literary gifts, was a frequent contributor to the leading periodicals of her time. Perhaps her best known poem is “All Quiet Along the Potomac,” written during the civil war, which attracted wide attention, and occupies a permanent place in standard poetical literature. “All Quiet Along the Potomac” was first published in Harper’s … Read more
Victor Hugo Todd7, (Sereno E.6, Josiah5, Abner4, Ithamar3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Sept. 25, 1891, married Dec. 25, 1912, Emily Adele Reinmann, of East Orange, N. J. He is a consulting electrical engineer, specializing on illumination, motor drives, meters and protective relays as applied to industrial concerns, in Orange, N. J. Child: 1772. Clarissa Millicent, b. April 2, 1914.