Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Mercer County, NJ Events Date Type 04/24/1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Philadelphia before dawn and moves across New Jersey Personal 10/07/1866 Former U.S. Navy Commodore and U.S. Senator Robert Field Stockton dies at home in Princeton. Personal 06/30/1860 State statistics number the 1886 enrolled students of the College of New Jersey at 238. Education/Culture People Birthplace of Stockton, John Potter Burial Place of Bayard, George Dashiell Green, James Sproat Hunter, David Pryor, Roger Atkinson Stockton, John Potter Thomson, John Renshaw Documents Images College of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, 1861, artist's impression