Metuchen Edison History Features In Old Metuchen David Trumbull
Marshall Published by The Case Publishing Co., Flushing NY 1930
(Second Edition)- (c) 1930 The Edison Phonograph. When I was a
boy in 1877, most of the inhabitants of Metuchen were New York
business men with the usual number of storekeepers and tradesmen
serving such a population. My Father and Mother, with their
seven children, lived at the Parsonage of the Presbyterian
Church, the Minister, Rev. J. G. Mason, who is still the Pastor,
boarding with us. My father kept a private school where he
fitted boys for college. In 1876 Thomas A. Edison moved from
Newark to his new Laboratory at Menlo Park. Menlo Park is a very
small village on the Pennsylvania Railroad two miles nearer New
York than Metuchen. As there were few accommodations at Menlo
Park many of the men boarded in Metuchen, while there were
several Metuchenites who were also employed at the Laboratory. I
don't remember hearing much of the Laboratory at Menlo Park or
of the goings on there