Today in New Jersey history:
March 25, 1670: With quitrent payments to colonial proprietors in England due, an organization of settlers was formed in Elizabethtown to resist payment.
March 25, 1845: Dorothea Dix’s New Jersey campaign for ...a state mental hospital paid off as the state senate and assembly passed a law establishing the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, to be built in Ewing Township.
March 25, 1942: George K. Batt, president of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and vice president of Dugan Brothers Bakery, announced that Dugan had developed a wooden tire coated with “wear-resistant brake lining” for its trucks to help remedy a wartime rubber shortage. Batt maintained that trucks with the new tires “steer even easier than with rubber tires but jolt, as did the old-fashioned wagon wheel, on cobblestones.”
