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Auto theft To Ballantine House (New Jersey)

Auto theft. For many years, the rate of auto theft in New Jersey’s urban areas consistently ranked among the worst in the nation. This ranking reflects some of the realities of auto theft. Jersey City and Newark serve as entry ports for many of the vehicles that are imported into the United States. The primary […]

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company To Bardeen, John (New Jersey)

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Chartered in 1827, the Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) was the oldest common carrier in the United States. Originally operated by horsepower, it hosted a race between a steam locomotive and a horse—the locomotive lost. Locomotive technology advanced rapidly, however, with the B & O playing a major role […]

Barkan, Alexander E. To BASF (New Jersey)

Barkan, Alexander E. (b. Aug. 8,1909;d. Oct. 18,1990). Labor leader and political organizer. Alexander Barkan was born in Bayonne to Jacob and Rachel Barkan. A University of Chicago graduate, Barkan began his career in the labor movement as an organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (CIO) Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC) and its successor, […]

Basie, William "Count" To Battleship New Jersey

Basie, William "Count" (b. Aug. 21,1904; d. Apr. 26,1984). Jazz musician, composer, and bandleader. Count Basie was one of the greatest bandleaders of the swing era, along with Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. He developed a new approach to jazz piano. Basie and company revolutionized swing rhythm and the concept of the jazz rhythm section, […]

Bayley, James Roosevelt To Becton Dickinson and Company (New Jersey)

Bayley, James Roosevelt (b. Aug. 3,1814; d. Oct. 3, 1877). Roman Catholic bishop and founder of Seton Hall University. James Roosevelt Bayley was born in Manhattan to a prominent New York physician, Guy Carleton Bayley, and Grace Roosevelt, a member of a venerable Dutch family. Raised an Episcopalian, Bayley entered Amherst College in 1831 but […]

Bedle, Joseph Dorsett To Belvidere (New Jersey)

Bedle, Joseph Dorsett (b. Jan. 5,1831;d. Oct. 21, 1894). Governor and lawyer. Joseph Bedle was born in Middletown Point (now Matawan), the son of Thomas Bedle, a merchant, justice of the peace, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Monmouth County, and Hannah Dorsett. After working two years in a general country store, […]

Bemmels, Cyrus W. To Berkeley (New Jersey)

Bemmels, Cyrus W. (b. 1912; d. 1993).Inventor. Working for Permacel Tape, once a division of Johnson & Johnson, Cyrus Bemmels secured twelve patents relating to tape-making processes. His greatest achievement was discovering how to make maximum-strength tape by embedding parallel strands of filament in the tape’s adhesive, resulting in a product five to ten times […]

Berkeley College To Birds (New Jersey)

Berkeley College. Established by Alyea Brick in East Orange in 1931 to offer business education to women, Berkeley College has evolved and expanded in the intervening seventy-plus years. It is now a multicampus coeducational institution offering associate and bachelor’s degrees as well as professional certification. Approximately forty-five hundred national and international students study at three […]

Birds, colonial To Blairstown (New Jersey)

Birds, colonial. Colonial birds are birds that nest in breeding colonies of a few to several hundred pairs. Breeding colonies may be composed of one species or of many species. Colonial waterbirds include herons, egrets, ibises, gulls, terns, and skimmers, which normally nest along the coasts on barrier beaches, on salt-marsh islands, or in trees. […]

Blakelock, Ralph Albert To Boardwalks (New Jersey)

Blakelock, Ralph Albert (b. Oct. 15,1847; d. Aug. 9, 1919). Painter. Ralph Albert Blakelock was born to Caroline Olinarg Carry and Dr. Ralph B. Blakelock, a homeopathic physician, in New York City, where he attended the public schools. In 1863 he enrolled at the Free Academy of the City of New York, but withdrew after […]

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