Manuscript, History of the Oranges in Essex County, New Jersey, 1860-1892.

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Manuscript, History of the Oranges in Essex County, New Jersey, 1860-1892.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39131651

Manuscript, published in 1892, is an original, handwritten document, and includes corrections, notes and an index. Orange history subjects include Native Americans, early settlers, roads, copper mining, hat manufacturing, distilleries, schools, land tenures, the Mountain Society and religious life. Also includes several chapters of an unrelated manuscript, "The Crisis-Revolution, 1765-1781."

0.5 linear ft. (ca. 350 p.)

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Wickes, Stephen, 1813-1889

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Dr. Stephen Wickes, prominent physician and local historian of Orange, N.J. (Essex County). As Standing Committee chairman and president of the Medical Society of New Jersey, he rescued and preserved the Society's earliest papers. Wickes is also the author of "History of Medicine in New Jersey and of its Medical Men from the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800" (1879). From the description of Manuscript, History of the Oranges in Essex County, New Jersey, 1860-1892. (New Jersey H...