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Elizabeth (City and county-seat of Union)

a city and county-seat of Union co., N. J., on Staten Island Sound and on the Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, Baltimore and Ohio, Philadelphia and Reading and New Jersey Central railroads, 14 miles S. W. of New York City. It covers a wide expanse of level land, is laid out with broad and handsome streets, running at right angles, has numerous business blocks, and is noted for the large number of handsome residences of New York business men.

The chief articles manufactured are ELIZABETH sewing machines, oilcloth, hats, saws, mill machinery, stoves, hardware, edge tools, harness, cordage, and combs. A large business is done in the shipment of anthracite coal. The Crescent Steel Works and Shipyard, in which many naval vessels have been built, are located here. Among public institutions are the Alexian Brothers' Hospital, General Hospital, Orphan Asylum, Home for Aged Women, and Public Library. The educational institutions include the Battin and Pingry High Schools, and a business college. The The city city has electric lights and street railways, many old and handsome churches, a National and several private banks, building and loan associations, etc.

Elizabeth has considerable historical interest. It was settled as Elizabethtown in 1665, and was the capital of New Jersey from 1755 to 1757. It contains an old tavern where Washington stopped on his way to New York for his first inauguration, Gen. Winfield Scott's home, the Boudinot House, and the Livingston Mansion. Pop. (1910) 73,409; (1920) 95,- 682.