He had laboratories at Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey
... telegraph operator, and by the early 
1870s he had achieved a reputation as one of the industry's leading... [DOC] [TLE] Life, work of Thomas Edison illuminated in New Jersey | The ... [PAR] Sep 13, 2015 ... WEST ORANGE, N.J.  Ohio proudly claims Thomas Edison as a native son, ... 
You can still see the Menlo Park lab  but in Greenfield Village at the Henry ... 
awards and mementos he had received, and statues he fancied.