John Jacob Faesch
Deceased Person
1726 – 1799
Who was John Jacob Faesch?
John Jacob Faesch 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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