Editing Englewood, New Jersey (section)

===Etymology===
Englewood Township, the city's predecessor, is believed to have been named in 1859 for the Engle family. The community had been called the "[[English Neighborhood]]", as the first primarily [[English language|English]]-speaking settlement on the [[New Jersey]] side of the [[Hudson River]] after [[New Netherland]] was annexed by England in 1664, though other sources mention the Engle family and the heavily forested areas of the community as the derivation of the name.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1930/01/02/archives/morrow-reception-attended-by-5000-new-jersey-republican-leaders.html "Morrow Reception Attended By 5,000; New Jersey Republican Leaders Flock to Englewood for New Year's Greeting. HIS TALK IS BROADCAST Well Wishers File Past Envoy for Three Hours in His Debut in Senatorial Race. Prominent Politicians Attend. Morrow's Speech Brief."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929212851/https://www.nytimes.com/1930/01/02/archives/morrow-reception-attended-by-5000-new-jersey-republican-leaders.html |date=September 29, 2019 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 2, 1930. Accessed September 29, 2019. "In this little town of ours we are proud to call ourselves a neighborhood. The oldest maps show it as 'English neighborhood,' but this was later changed to Englewood."</ref><ref name=History/> Other sources indicate that the name is derived from "wood ingle", meaning "woody nook",<ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA119 ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 119. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed August 30, 2015.</ref> or that the name was coined anew.<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=12 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115082401/http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=12 |date=November 15, 2015 }}, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 30, 2015.</ref>

Numerous [[Englewood (disambiguation)|other settlements]] in the United States were named for Englewood as settlement in North America expanded westward. J. Wyman Jones is credited with convincing residents to choose Englewood for the city's name when it was incorporated over such alternatives as "Brayton" and "Paliscena".<ref name=History/><ref>Clayton, W. Woodford; and Nelson, William. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zDEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260 ''History of Bergen and Passaic counties, New Jersey: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men''], p. 260. Everts & Peck, 1882. Accessed August 25, 2011.</ref><ref>Horner, Shirley. [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/26/nyregion/about-books.html "About Books"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920100108/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/26/nyregion/about-books.html |date=September 20, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 26, 1991. Accessed August 25, 2011. "One landowner, J. Wyman Jones, known as the "father" of Englewood because he swung the vote to the name Englewood (presumably from "English neighborhood") over such names as Liberty Pole or Palisades, built a stone Victorian mansion on his 20-acre estate."</ref>