John Jacob Faesch

John Jacob Faesch

John Jacob Faesch (1726-1799) was a Swiss ironmaster who established the Mount Hope Iron Furnace in the Mount Hope village section of Rockaway Township, New Jersey in 1772 which played an important role in providing munitions and tools during the Revolutionary War.

Faesch established himself as an early patriot to the American cause. He was appointed as a Morris County judge, justice of the peace and later one of three Morris County delegates to the New Jersey State Convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787.

Faesch relocated to Boonton, New Jersey in his later years and died in May 1799.

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The Highlander Magazine "John Jacob Faesch, Ironmaster" by Ernst Kraus , 1974 Report of the State Geologist of NJ, 1910, Cook , 1911


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