BLOOMFIELD, N. J., a township in Es sex County, on the Delaware, L. & W., and the Erie railroads, the Morris Canal and trolley lines connecting with Newark, which it directly adjoins, the Oranges, Jersey City and other cities, 10 miles northwest of New York. It was founded in 1675, under the name of Wat sessing, and received its present name from Gen. Joseph Bloomfield in 1796. The First Presbyterian Church, the oldest in the town, dates from this year. Bloomfield was a part of Newark until 1912, when it was incorporated as a separate township. It once ranked as an educational centre and is now the site of a German theological seminary (Presbyterian, opened 1869). It has a fine Mountainside Hos pital, the Jarvis Memorial Library, the Job Haines House for Aged Men and Knox Hall. The dating from Revolutionary days, has been enlarged into a fine public park. The town contains the residences of many New York business men; and is engaged in the man ufacture of church and cabinet organs, woolen goods, hats, shoes, rubber goods, tissue and pho tographic paper, saddlery:, hardware, lamps, pins, brushes, cod-liver oil, electric elevators and a variety of brass goods. The United
States census of manufactures for 1914 re corded 57 industrial establishments, employing 4,100 persons, of whom 3,177 were wage earners, receiving annually $1,644,000 in wages. The capital invested aggregated $8,793,000, and the year's output was valued at $8,358,000: of this $4,998,000 was added by manufacture. It has a national bank, daily and weekly newspapers, and an assessed property valuation of nearly $4, 000,000. The government, under a charter of 1900, is vested in a mayor and town council. Pop. 15,070; (1914) 17,000. Consult 'Bloomfield Old and New,' edited by J. F. Folsom (Bloom field 1912).