Editing Eagleswood Township, New Jersey (section)

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

* [[John T. Hendrickson Jr.]] (1923–1999), politician who represented the [[New Jersey's 9th legislative district|9th Legislative District]] in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] from 1982 to 1989<ref>Sullivan, Joseph F. [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/06/nyregion/jersey-clammers-ask-who-will-police-them.html "Jersey Clammers Ask Who Will Police Them"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 6, 1988. Accessed January 22, 2020. "Assemblyman John T. Hendrickson, Republican of Eagleswood Township, in Ocean County, sponsored a bill that would transfer clamming enforcement to the marine police, which he called 'a more professional organization.'"</ref>
* [[George Inness]] (1825–1894), [[landscape painting|landscape painter]]<ref>Bischoff, Dan. [https://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/2011/11/george_inness_works_highlighte.html "George Inness' works highlighted by his striking views of nature"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', November 13, 2011. Accessed June 9, 2022. "Inness was one of the first American artists to equal Europeans in value, and he took two extended trips to the continent, the first in 1851 and the second in the 1870s. He may have been introduced to the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, an 18th-century Swiss mystic, on his first trip, but by the second he had been completely converted by the Swedenborgian colony in Eagleswood Township in Ocean County."</ref>
* [[Paul Marshall Johnson Jr.]] (1955–2004), helicopter engineer who was taken hostage by militants in 2004 and had his murder in [[Saudi Arabia]] by [[Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula]] recorded on video tape<ref>Chambers, Steve; and Spoto, MaryAnn. [http://www.nj.com/news/stories/warjohnson0619.html "A Raid That Slays His Captors Comes Hours Too Late To Save Former Jerseyan Paul Johnson Jr.; Saudis gun down up to 5 militants after decapitation "], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', June 19, 2004. Accessed July 6, 2015. "Johnson, who grew up in Eagleswood Township in southern Ocean County, was abducted last weekend by militants who threatened to kill him if Saudi officials didn't release al Qaeda prisoners by yesterday."</ref>