William T. Fidurski

William T. Fidurski 

Historian and Trustee

The League of Historical Societies of New Jersey

Clark, New Jersey 

Historian William Fidurske, a graduate of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, completed additional studies at Columbia University and Cornell University in New York, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He served in the civilian military during the Vietnam War, and later spent two decades as a federal agent before retiring. Fidurske specializes in the early history of the Stars and Stripes and the New Jersey campaign of 1777.  He has been involved in historic preservation efforts such as Vass Farmstead in Hardwick Township, Mount Farm in West Windsor and the Victorian row houses along Essex Street in the Paulus Hook Historic District in Jersey City. He was instrumental in the successful effort to achieve historic registry for Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge, a colonial, Revolutionary War and abolitionist site that today stands across both Middlesex and Union counties as the Oak Ridge Golf Club. He is currently investigating the role of the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad in Central New Jersey.