Close on the heels of the cotton thread industry came that of flax spinning. In 1883 the Marshall Flax Spinning Co.. of England. erected a large plant in Kearny which is operated today as the Linen Thread Co. Just as the Clark concern brought thousands of Scottish immigrants. so did the need for experienced flax spinners lead to an influx of people from other parts of the British Isles. Families of those early textile workers were the nucleus of Kearnys present population. To that nucleus were added the families of businessmen whose enterprises were growing here. or who commuted to Newark or New York but settled in this section as an ideal suburban residential community.
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