Downer, Harry E. History of Davenport and Scott County Iowa: Illustrated, Volume 1, p. 856. S.J. Clarke, 1910. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Acting upon this advice he went to New Jersey and stopped at the pleasant village of Rahway, where he remained some time and then went to Carlisle, Pennsylvania."
Kagan, Jerome. An Argument for Mind, p. 4. Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN9780300126037. Accessed May 30, 2014. "Rahway, New Jersey, a town twenty miles south of New York City, with a population of about twenty thousand in my childhood, had a relatively large working-class population and a small group of Jewish merchants, including my father."
HistoryArchived 2013-06-15 at archive.today, Rahway Police. Accessed May 22, 2013. "The Rahway Police Department was officially established on May 3, 1858, at the first meeting of the city council."
Rahway Board of Education District Policy 9000 - Role of the Board, Rahway Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020. "The Rahway Board of Education is constituted, authorized, and governed by New Jersey statutes and exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free pre-K-12 public education in the Rahway Public School District. The school district is comprised of all of the area within the municipal boundaries of the City of Rahway."
Van Hoesen, Walter Hamilton. Crafts and Craftsmen of New Jersey, p. 70. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. ISBN9780838610800. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Brokaw was born in Raritan, Somerset County, in 1746, and died in 1826.... Isaac began his trade in Elizabeth around 1770 and remained there until 1790, when he removed to Bridge Town, on the south side of the Rahway River, which is now known as Rahway."
Gado, Mark. Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press, p. 94. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. ISBN9780275993610. Accessed July 26, 2019. "Of all of the women executed in New York during the twentieth century, Mary Frances Creighton received the least sympathy from the public -- and this may be deservedly so. Mary Frances Avery was born in the suburban city of Rahway, New Jersey, in 1899."
American Ancestry. Vol. 4. Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons. 1889. p. 210.
Cheney, Margaret. "Tesla: Man Out of Time". Accessed June 5, 2007. "The Tesla Electric Light Company was formed, with headquarters at Rahway, New Jersey, and a branch office in New York.
Antonio GarayArchived 2007-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, Chicago Bears. Accessed May 17, 2007. "Earned Prep Star All-American and All-New Jersey Group III honors as a senior at Rahway H.S. in Rahway, N.J. after totaling 141 tackles and 10 sacks in his final season... Outstanding wrestler who was tabbed the 275-pound national champion by the National High School Coaches' Association"
History, City of Rahway. Accessed May 20, 2022. "In January 1777, the Battle of Spanktown was fought on St. Georges Avenue in the vicinity of Robinson's Branch and the North Branch of the Rahway River. The battle lasted twelve hours with the rebels getting the best of the British, who lost almost one hundred men."
Rahway City Council, City of Rahway. Accessed August 16, 2021. "The Municipal Council is made up of nine (9) members elected by the citizens of Rahway. There are six (6) wards in the City of Rahway and a Councilmember is elected by the citizens from each respective ward. There are three (3) Councilmembers-at-large who represent the entire City and run with the Mayor. All Councilmembers are part-time."
City Council, City of Rahway. Accessed April 19, 2024.
Mark Slonaker, Georgia Bulldogs. Accessed July 12, 2016. "A native of Rahway, N.J., Slonaker lettered for the Bulldogs (1976–79) and was co-captain of coach Hugh Durham's first team at Georgia in '79."
Kean, Thomas. "Congressman Thomas Kean Jr". United States House of Representatives. United States House of Representatives. Retrieved February 15, 2025.
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About WayneArchived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, Congressman Wayne Gilchrest. Accessed May 17, 2007. "Born in Rahway, New Jersey, he was the fourth of Elizabeth and Arthur Gilchrest's six boys."
Jennings, Duffy. "Meet Richard Moran, Menlo College", Joint Venture Silicon Valley, April 2015. Accessed May 24, 2021. "Moran grew up in a traditional Irish Catholic family in the southern New Jersey town of Rahway, best known, he quickly points out, for the state penitentiary there."
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Heinrich, Adam R., and Brock Giordano. “Late-Nineteenth-Century Foodways in the ‘Garden State’ at the Woodruff House, Rahway, New Jersey: Insights from Small Faunal and Large Macrobotanical Samples.” Historical Archaeology, vol. 49, no. 4, 2015, pp. 12–29. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2475703
Russell, Suzanne. "Merck builds in Rahway ahead of global headquarters relocation", Courier News, April 19, 2021, updated May 10, 2021. Accessed October 19, 2022. "In a return to its roots, Merck will be moving its global headquarters back to the city, and that's welcome news to Mayor Raymond Giacobbe. Giacobbe announced the news as part of his virtual 2021 State of the City address last week. Merck plans to relocate its headquarters from Kenilworth to Rahway next year."
Carino, Jerry. "In Jeff Lubreski, Plainfield's loss is Rahway's gain", Courier News, July 1, 2015. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Not that Rahway is a basketball wasteland. The Indians produced Earl Clark and Louis Campbell, among others, and achieved steady success under previous coach Kevin Conroy."
Staff. "Sagal adds edge to FX's new 'Sons'", Philadelphia Daily News, September 3, 2008. Accessed May 20, 2012. "Created by Kurt Sutter, a New Jersey native whose biography boasts that he was 'raised in the shadow of Rahway prison' and spent much of his childhood indoors, away from people, three feet from a TV screen."
Staff. "Vaches Now a Brother Act", St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 1, 1993. Accessed December 28, 2010. "The best place to freelance Allan figured is the New York area So he moved back to his and Warren's nearby hometown Rahway NJ."
Kudisch, Brianna. "This small N.J. city has been quietly reinventing itself into an arts hub", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, February 15, 2020. Accessed February 22, 2022. "Rahway, she said, has spent the last 20 years working to fill its streets with art, music, comedy, and theater in the hopes that they would spur additional development throughout the Union County city of 30,000."
Home Page, Suburban News. Accessed August 14, 2017.
Moriarty, Thomas. "Trump will name this Christie ally from Jersey to federal judgeship", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, April 10, 2018, updated January 30, 2019. Accessed January 21, 2021. "Matey, a 47-year-old who was born in Edison and raised in Rahway, spent four years under Christie at the U.S. Attorney's Office before joining him in Trenton."
Staff. "Rahway's Own, Shanice Williams plays 'Dorothy' in The Wiz Live", Suburban News, December 8, 2015. Accessed May 30, 2016. "On the evening of Dec. 4, the Rahway community gathered at the town's high school to celebrate the success of yet another of 'Rahway's Own', Shanice Williams, who won the coveted role of Dorothy in NBC's network television premiere of The Wiz Live!"
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Kania, Joe. "Wrestling: Rahway's Darrion Caldwell wins homecoming fight in Atlantic City", The Star-Ledger, May 3, 2014. Accessed May 30, 2016. "Caldwell, who won three New Jersey state wrestling titles for Rahway just down the boardwalk at Boardwalk Hall, earned a submission in 1:38 over Joe Pingitore to improve to 5–0 on his career and 2–0 since entering the Bellator."
New Jersey Aviation History, New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame. Accessed September 21, 2015. "1909 – Rahway's Boland brothers built and flew the state's first fixed-wing aircraft. They were also the first to fly in South America."
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Freddie Russo, New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. Accessed June 2, 2022. "Freddie Russo was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1924. His family moved to Rahway, New Jersey and that city became the home base for one of the classiest boxer-punchers of that era."
"Rahway Adds to Its Resume as Hub for the Arts", New Jersey Monthly, July 16, 2012. Accessed February 22, 2022. "In recent years, the arts have been central to the city’s revitalization plans, as highlighted by the 2008 launch of the Union County Performing Arts Center in the renovated Rahway Theater. Now as an extension of UC PAC, comes the sparkling new Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts, which will open its doors in September."
Milton Friedman – Biographical, Nobel Prize. Accessed August 4, 2013. "When I was a year old, my parents moved to Rahway, N.J., a small town about 20 miles from New York City."
Martin, Antoinette. "Can a Face Lift Offer a New Identity?", The New York Times, October 29, 2006. Accessed May 20, 2012. "Rahway's train station, transformed after a $16 million renovation, is in the heart of its compact downtown, offering commuters a direct trip to Penn Station in Manhattan, about 15 miles northeast of here, or to Penn Station in Newark or to Trenton."
Bodovitz, Sandra. "'Forgotten' Sculptor Has Day In Gallery", The New York Times, June 15, 1986. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Born in the Union County community of Rahway in 1790, Frazee first demonstrated his novel style by carving tombstones, many of which still dot New Jersey cemeteries."
Weber, Bruce. "Dory Previn, Songwriter, Is Dead at 86", The New York Times, February 14, 2012. May 20, 2012. "Dorothy Veronica Langan was born in New Jersey — sources differ on the town, Rahway or Woodbridge — on Oct. 22, 1925, and she grew up in Woodbridge."
Johnson, Robert. "Looking Back Is Not an Option", The New York Times, November 28, 2004. Accessed October 19, 2007. "He is also promoting his new book "Medicine, Science and Merck" (Cambridge University Press), written with Louis Galambos, describing his path from son of a luncheonette owner in Rahway, N.J., to leader of a pharmaceutical giant."
Wallye. "The story of the Assemblyman who got caught stealing an air conditioner", PolitickerNJ, May 7, 2009. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Arnold D'Ambrosa was the 40-year-old Rahway Democratic Municipal Chairman and Public Works Director when he was elected to the State Assembly in 1973.... In July 1974, six months after taking office, D'Ambrosa was arrested on charges that he sold an air conditioner owned by Rahway for $600, pocketing the money, and he took a $200 bribe from a contractor."
HistoryArchived 2013-06-15 at archive.today, Rahway Police. Accessed May 22, 2013. "The Rahway Police Department was officially established on May 3, 1858, at the first meeting of the city council."
"Work Under Way On Downtown Watt Hotel", Rahway Rising, October 23, 2017. Accessed March 5, 2023. "Work began earlier this month on the Watt Hotel, including new signage on the facade of the downtown building in recent weeks.... The 100-room hotel includes almost 17,000 square feet of retail space in the first four floors. Bridgeton Holdings plans to renovate about 6,000 square feet on the ground floor for the lobby area, housing a casual drinks and dining option. The commercial space occupies the first two floors of the building and the hotel occupies the third and fourth floors of the 17-story Carriage City Plaza."
Goldberg, Marv. "The Concords", Marv Goldberg's Yesterday's Memories Rhythm & Blues Party. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Enter Pearl Reaves, a singer originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, who had moved to Rahway, New Jersey in the late 40s."
Union County Performing Arts Center, Visit New Jersey. Accessed March 25, 2022. "The Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) operates in the historic Rahway Theatre and offers a variety of live music concerts, theater, dance, comedy and more each season."
Hill, Raven. "Colonial coin found at old home in Franklin", Home News Tribune, April 13, 2003. Accessed May 20, 2012. "It turned out to be a New Jersey Copper, minted in Rahway or Morristown between 1786 and 1790, the first coins to bear the national motto, 'E Pluribus Unum.'"
Russell, Suzanne C. "Rahway FEMA action closes books on Rahway's flood-damaged library", Home News Tribune, November 14, 1999. Accessed May 20, 2012. "The flood-damaged Rahway Public Library will never reopen at the St. Georges Avenue building because Federal Emergency Management Agency officials have deemed the damage too severe. Instead, a new library and technology center are planned by the city for the 40,000-square-foot SDI Technologies building on Main Street, Rahway officials said."
Antonio GarayArchived 2007-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, Chicago Bears. Accessed May 17, 2007. "Earned Prep Star All-American and All-New Jersey Group III honors as a senior at Rahway H.S. in Rahway, N.J. after totaling 141 tackles and 10 sacks in his final season... Outstanding wrestler who was tabbed the 275-pound national champion by the National High School Coaches' Association"
About WayneArchived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, Congressman Wayne Gilchrest. Accessed May 17, 2007. "Born in Rahway, New Jersey, he was the fourth of Elizabeth and Arthur Gilchrest's six boys."
Mains, George Preston. James Monroe Buckley, Westphalia Press. Accessed October 19, 2022. "James Monroe Buckley was born in Rahway, NJ on December 16, 1836."
