Editing Elsinboro Township, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Elsinboro Township, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Elsinboro Township include:

* [[George Hires]] (1835–1911), represented [[New Jersey's 1st congressional district]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1885 to 1889<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000642 George Hires profile], [[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]. Accessed August 13, 2007.</ref>
* [[Pauline Waddington Holme]] (1848–1940), temperance and suffrage activist<ref>Nathanson, Marsha. [https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009657345 Biographical Sketch of Pauline Waddington Holme], [[Alexander Street]]. Accessed May 23, 2022. "Pauline Waddington Holme was the eldest of seven children born to Joshua and Ann Waddington of Salem County, New Jersey. The Waddingtons were a prominent New Jersey family dating back several generations. Joshua Waddington owned a 140-acre farmstead in the Elsinboro Township of Salem County, and 500 acres along the Rappahannock River in Richmond, Virginia."</ref>
* [[Esther Saunders|Esther "Hetty" Saunders]] (1793–1862), poet of African American descent, born into slavery, who escaped to freedom with her family and lived most of her life in Elsinboro<ref>[https://njwomenshistory.org/discover/topics/african-american-women/little-wanderer/ The Little Wanderer], New Jersey Women's History. Accessed May 23, 2022. "This poem is one of fifteen extant poems by Esther Saunders, a free African American woman living in Salem County in the first half of the 19th century. Known as 'Hetty,' Saunders was the daughter of an escaped slave from Delaware who had sought shelter for his small daughter among Salem County Quakers. Hetty was raised in the Hall family of Elsinboro and worked as a servant in their household and later in other Salem County households."</ref>