The WPUNJ Library hosts Congressman Robert Roe's papers and memorabilia. Stephan Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, lived in Paterson as a boy from 1876 to 1878 when his father, Rev. J.T. Crane was pastor at the Methodist Episcopal Church on Cross Street. Born in Paterson Lou Costello (1906–1959), of the comedy duo Abbott and Costello Larry Doby (1923–2003), Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player and manager who broke the color barrier in the American League Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), writer and Beat Generation poet Garret A. Hobart (1844–1899), 24th Vice President of the United States under President William McKinley Bucky Pizzarelli (born 1926), jazz guitarist William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), prominent U.S. sociology, the first to teach a course entitled "sociology" in the English-speaking world. Fetty Wap (Willie Maxwell II, (born 1991). American rapper
