Hoboken (Ho`boken) , a city of New Jersey, on the Hudson River, adjoining Jersey City and opposite New York; is an important railway terminus and shipping-port; does a large trade in coal, lead-pencils, iron-casting, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 59,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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