Staff. 1914 Year Book, p. 69. Board of Trade of the City of Newark, 1914. Accessed October 11, 2012.
Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, p. 243, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed October 3, 2013. "Montclair was formed from Bloomfield, April 15th, 1868. The first mountain forms its boundary on the west, and separates it from Caldwell township. Population in 1870, 2,853."