The first known Lebanese immigrant to the United States was Antonio Bishallany, a Maronite Christian, who arrived in Boston Harbor in 1854. He died in Brooklyn, New York in 1856 on his 29th birthday. Large scale-Lebanese immigration began in the late 19th century and settled mainly in Brooklyn and Boston, Massachusetts. They were marked as Syrians, many of the immigrants were Christians. Upon entering America, many of them worked as peddlers. The first wave continued until the 1920s.Many immigrants settled in Northern New Jersey, in towns such as Bloomfield, Paterson, Newark, and Orange.