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Residential borough of southern New Jersey, a suburb southeast of Camden. It was named after Elizabeth Haddon, young Quaker maiden, who settled the site for her father in the 17th century. The story of her marriage proposal to the Quaker missionary John Estaugh is told by Hendry Wadsworth Longfellow in his Tales of a Wayside Inn. Indian King Tavern (1750) was the site of the first meeting of the legislature in 1777, at which New Jersey was declared a state and the state seal was adopted.
The haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, is an Atlantic member of the cod family, Gadidae, and is similar to but smaller than the Atlantic cod. A record haddock weighed 37 lb. Haddock live in deeper water then cod; few are caught in less than 5 to 10 fathoms (30 to 60 ft), and most are taken at 25 to 75 fathoms (150 to 450 ft). Like the cod, the haddock is a cold-water fish, and occurs south to New York and New Jersey in the winter. Haddock are bottom feeders, devouring all kinds of invertebrates indiscriminately. It is the most important food fish taken from Atlantic waters.
Royal Burgh of Scotland, seat of East Lothian County. The tower of its Church of St. Mary is called the “Lamp of Lothian”. John Knox, leader of the Scottish Protestant Reformation, was born here (1505).
Women’s Zionist Organization of America, founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold. The name is the Babylonian name of Queen Esther (Esther 2:7). The purpose of the organization in America is to make known and foster Jewish ideals and culture, and in Israel to establish hospitals, schools, visiting nurse associations, and other welfare agencies. It consists of more than 1,200 chapters and has a membership of over 300,000.
Metropolitan borough of London, England, north of the Thames River. The Hackney Marshes, where evidence of Roman settlement have appeared, were a noted hideout for 18th-century highwaymen once a fashionable residential district, Hackney is now highly industrialized.
Town of northwestern New Jersey, on the Musconetcong River, 14 mi. west of Dover. The leading manufactured products are machinery, synthetic rubber, clothing, candy and leather goods. Centenary College for Women (estab., 1867) and the New Jersey State Fish Hatchery, one of the world’s largest, are here. Originally a port on the Morris Canal, known as Helm’s Mills, it became Hackettstown about 1750 in honor of Samuel Hackett, a leading landowner. Hackettstown was a leading production center for carriages and wagons in the 1880’s.
