Job Male (August 24, 1808 – 1891) was the first
Mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey Plainfield, New Jersey was incorporated on April 21, 1869. Mayors are sworn in on January 1 of the new year, so there are no overlaps in years unless someone has died in office or resigned.
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, serving from 1869–1870 and 1877–1878 and finally 1887–1890.
Biography
Male was born on August 24, 1808 in
Somersetshire
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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, England. He emigrated to the United States in 1816 at age 8, with his parents. He worked at a
toll booth on the road between
Jersey City
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, New Jersey, later becoming a carpenter and then a superintendent of construction. He was appointed to the board of the Hudson County National Bank, in 1873 becoming president, which post he held until 1878. He built the original Plainfield library, and donated the building and land, and later joined the board. In 1875, he donated land for the building of
Muhlenberg Hospital
Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center was a community-based acute care hospital in Plainfield, New Jersey.
History
It was founded in 1877 by the residents of Plainfield after a railroad accident. Job Male, the first mayor of Plainfield, donated the ...
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He died in 1891, and left an unsigned will.
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Legacy
Male donated land for the Plainfield Public Library and built the library building in 1886. It was then named the Job Male Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum. His home on Crescent Avenue and many of the houses he designed and built are in the Crescent Area Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1980.[ With ]
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1808 births
1891 deaths
Mayors of Plainfield, New Jersey
People from Somerset
19th-century American politicians