IRVINGTON, a town of Essex county, New Jersey, U.S.A., just S.W. of Newark; served by the Lehigh Valley railroad and by electric trolley and motor-coach lines. The population was 25,480 was by the Federal census 193o. It is a residential suburb of Newark and New York; and has numerous and varied manufacturing industries (including chemical plants, metal refineries, foundries, lumber mills and sash factories), with an aggregate output in 1925 valued at $26,979,051. Irvington was
settled in 1692, and was called Camptown until 1852, when the present name was adopted in honour of Washington Irving.