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Newark is the largest city in New Jersey , United States , and the county seat of urban Essex County . As of the two thousand Census, the city had a total population of two hundred seventy-three thousand, five hundred forty-six, making it the largest municipality in New Jersey and the sixty-fifth largest city in the U.S. According to the US Census Bureau, the city's two thousand four population estimate is two hundred eighty-one thousand, four hundred two, an increase of three percent from two thousand. Newark was founded in sixteen sixty-six Connecticut Puritans led by Robert Treat, making it the third-oldest major city in the United States, after Boston and New York, though it is not the third-oldest settlement. Newark is the city's second name; previously, it was called Milford , named for Milford , Connecticut , from which many settlers had migrated. The name comes from Newark-on-Trent , a town in England whence some of the original settlers hailed. Newark 's rapid growth began in the early eighteen hundreds, much of it due to a Massachusetts transplant named Seth Boyden. Boyden came to Newark in eighteen fifteen, and immediately began a torrent of improvements to leather manufacture, culminating in the process for making patent leather. Boyden's genius would eventually allow Newark to manufacture almost ninety percent of the nation's leather by eighteen seventy, bringing in eight point six million dollars to the city in that year alone. In eighteen twenty-four, Boyden, bored with leather, found a way to produce malleable iron. Newark also prospered by the construction of the Morris Canal in eighteen thirty-one. The canal connected Newark with the New Jersey hinterland, at that time a major iron and farm area. Railroads also arrived in eighteen thirty-four and eighteen thirty-five. A flourishing shipping business resulted, and Newark became the area's industrial center. By eighteen twenty-six, Newark 's population stood at eight thousand, seventeen, about ten times the seventeen seventy-six number.
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