Historically speaking, did you know that:
Puerto Ricans began settling in New Jersey in 1917, shortly after the federal government granted U.S. citizenship. By 1970 there were 138,896 Puerto Rican residents. Most were in Newark, 27,443; Jersey City, 16,194; Paterson, 11,927; Hoboken, 10,047.
Editor Mort Pye, 1918-1997, is credited with transforming The Star-Ledger into the largest and most influential daily in New Jersey. In 1971 when the Evening News of Newark ceased publication, the Star-Ledger became the 16th largest circulation daily in the nation.
The Quakers emerged in England as a distinct sect; first settled in New Jersey in 1674 when Edward Bylynge and John Fenwick purchased New Jersey lands first granted by the Duke of York to Lord John Berkeley. In 1674 Fenwick led a group of Quakers to Salem; a second group arrived in 1677 in Burlington.
The Rabbinical College of America, came to New Jersey in 1956, and was originally based in a small structure in Newark, but expanded to Morristown in 1971. Programs include annual lighting of the Hanukkah menorah in front of the State House.
The Radio Cooperation of America (RCA) and its New Jersey facilities and laboratories, between 1919 and 1986, led the world in the development of broadcast and wireless communications. RCA invested in talking motion pictures by forming RKO Pictures and purchase of the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden in 1929 with an emphasis on research led to opening of RCA Laboratories in Princeton in 1942. The company supplied U.S. Navy with radar and sonar.
By 1918 there were 13 operating railroads in New Jersey.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Joseph Albright's column appears on Thursdays in The Jersey Journal.
he even got a troll comment!
