Eiser’s Horse and Rider Shop Marks 67th Year in Hillside
A profile of Eisers Inc recounts founder Harry Eiser, a Romanian immigrant who built a Hillside tack and clothing center from a Newark shack. The store now offers 3000 items including Levi’s gear, horse pharmaceuticals, and wholesale sports wear with a 22 member team. Women constitute a large portion of the shop’s clientele and the broader local workforce shows 41 percent of wives employed outside the home.
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Cisei
Horse and Rider
North Broad St
Hillside
Morton St
Harry Eiser
Lyons Farms and early American Naval beginnings in Essex County
The piece traces 1775 events around Elizabethown and Hillside, detailing Livingston’s Liberty Hall near Morris Avenue and nearby mills, the post office site chosen by Franklin, and the spread of independence ideas through Elizabethtown. It notes Liberty Hall’s near destruction in 1780 and interwoven ties to John Jay and William Henry Harrison. It also mentions Ursino estate and Kean family holdings shaping local history.
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Lyons Farms
Elizabethtown
New York
Benjamin Franklin
New England
Continental Congress
United Colonies
William Livingston
Gantinantal Congress
New Jersey
Hillside
Morris Avenue
Union
Trotter
North Avenue
Livingston
Philadelphia
Liberty Hall
Connecticut Farms
Springfield
Staten Island
Martha Washington
George Washington
Sarah VanBrugh Livingston
John Jay
United States
Anna Symes
William Henry Harrison
Kear College
Susan Livingston Niemcewicz
John Kean
Congress
South Carolina
Ursino
Poland
Col John Kean
Kean
Elizabeth River Park
Woodruff
Conant Park
Reverend James Caldwell and his wife in Elizabethtown tragedy
During the Revolutionary era the First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown housed the famed Rev. James Caldwell born 1734 in Virginia. He served as pastor, joined the Continental Army as chaplain, and died at Hart's Point after a guard shot him while escorting a visitor. Mrs Caldwell was killed in a separate attack. both are buried in the church graveyard on Broad Street.
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Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth
Elizabethtown
James Caldwell
Caldwell
Virginia
Princeton
South
George
Continental Army
Springfield
Watts
Hannah Caldwell
Connecticut Farms
Staten Island
al Washington
de Hart's Point
James Morgan
Morgen
Morgan
Broad Street
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Newark
Harry Elser
Barbara Bara
Rier
Elser
Morris
Fannie
Eiser's
Levi's
Horse Pharmaceutical
The
Hillside Historical Society
Anne Mary
Lexington Cleaners
Penna. Ave
Cor
Broad St
Eliz
Hillside Radio & TV
Liberty Avenue
Bloy Street
Sweet Susan
Jonathan Dickinson
College of
Rahway Road
Cherry Street
Caleb
Dickinson
Princeton University
Mutual Savings Fund
Harmonia
Harmonia Savings Bank
Clauss
Fulton Street
Jacob Brucklacher
Union Square
Scotch Plains
Elizabeth Lobby
Family Savings Bank
Morris Ave
North Ave
Crestwood
Middletown
Harmony Road
F.D.I.C
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