HACKENSACK, a town of New Jersey, U.S.A., on the Hack ensack river, 13 m. N. of Jersey City, served by the Erie Railroad company; the county seat of Bergen county. The population was 17,667 in 192o (20% foreign-born white, nearly half from Italy) and was 24,568 in 193o by the Federal census. The town rises gradually from the bank of the river to a ridge commanding good views to the south and east. It is principally a suburban residential community, but it has various manufacturing industries (includ ing paper and silk mills, iron works, wall-paper and jewelry fac tories) with an output in 1925 valued at $5,157,467. Hackensack was settled by the Dutch about 1640, and was named after the Hackensack Indians of the region, whose chief Oritany was a friend of the whites.