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The Holland Society of New York

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CONTENTS

PAGE

ADMINISTRATION:

Constitution i

By-Laws 8

Badge 1 1

MEMBERSHIP:

Historical Brief 13

Present Officers and Former Execu-
tive Officers 22

List of Members 26

Necrology 52

MEETINGS:

Poughkeepsie, 1919 72

Smoker, 1919 75

Hudson County Branch, 1919 77

Hudson County Branch, 1920 79

Banquet, 1920 81

Banquet, 1921 104

Essex County Branch, 192 1 130

Annual Meeting, 1920 131

Annual Meeting, 1921 151

Officers for 1921 157

IN MEMORIAM 166

The Champlin Press
CoLxnicBUS* Ohio

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Arthur H. Van Brunt, President,

1920-1921, 1921-1922 Frontispiece

Badge of the Society 11

The Society Button 12

Baltus Van Kleeck Homestead 72

Eagle Tavern at Bergen 77

Bergen — ^The Second Church; Pryor's Mill at

foot of Hill 79

Hon. Josephus Daniels Facing 85

Rt. Rev. Charles S. Burch, D. D Facing 99

Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke Facing 109

Rev. Edgar F. Romig Facing 112

Prof. Samuel P. Orth Facing 120

De Witt Van Buskirk, Treasurer Facing 131

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CONSTITUTION

Adopted April 30, 1885.
As Amended April 6, jg20.

Article I.

Name.

Section i. This organization shall be called
THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK.
Article H.
Object.

The object of the Society shall be:

First. To collect and preserve information respect-
ing the early history and settlement of the City and
State of New York by the Dutch, and to discover,
collect, and preserve all still existing documents, etc.,
relating to their genealogy and history.

Second. To perpetuate the memory and foster
and promote the principles and virtues of the Dutch
ancestors of its members, and to promote social inter-
course among the latter.

Third. To gather by degrees a library for the use
of the Society, composed of all obtainable books, mono-
graphs, pamphlets, manuscripts, etc., relating to the
Dutch in America.

Fourth

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Fourth. To cause statedly to be prepared and
read before the Society, papers, essays, etc., on ques-
tions in the history or genealogy of the Dutch in
America.

Fifth. To cause to be prepared and published
when the requisite materials have been discovered and
procured, collections for a memorial history of the
Dutch in America, wherein shall be particularly set
forth the part belonging to that element in the growth
and development of American character, institutions,
and progress.

Article III.
Members.

Section i. No one shall be eligible to member-
ship unless at the time of election he is eighteen years
of age, of respectable standing in society, of good
moral character, and the descendant in the direct
male line of a Dutchman who was a native or resident
of New York or of the American colonies prior to
the year 1675. This shall include those of other for-
mer nationalities who found in Holland a refuge or
a home, and whose descendants in the male line came
to this country as Dutch settlers, speaking Dutch
as their native tongue. This shall also include de-
scendants in the male line of Dutch settlers who
were born within the limits of Dutch settlements,
and the descendants in the male line of persons who
possessed the right of Dutch citizenship within Dutch
settlements in America, prior to the year 1675; also
of any descendant in the direct male line of a Dutch-
man, one of whose descendants became a member
of this Society prior to June 16, 1886.

So long as there are one thousand members of the
Society no further elections to membership shall be
held, but candidates for admission shall be placed in
order upon a waiting list; providedy however, that this
restriction shall not prevent the immediate election
of any candidate who is the descendant of a present
or former member of the Society.

Article

Constitution j

Article IV,
Oficers.

Section i. A President, Vice-Presidents as pro"
vided in the By-Laws, a Recording Secretary, a Cor-
responding Secretary, a Treasurer, and an officer
who shall be known as the Domine and who shall
be a minister of the Gospel, shall be chosen at each
annual meeting a^nd shall hold office for one year
and until their successors are elected. There shall
also be chosen from its members twenty trustees.
Those elected at the fir;st election shall divide them-
selves into four classes of fiye each: one class to hold
office one year, the second class for two years, the third
class for three years, and the fourth class for four years,
next thereafter. At each annual ineeting thereafter
there shall be chosen five Trustees to fill the place of
the class whose term will then expire. The offices of
Secretary and Treasurer may be filled by one person.

If one who is not a Trustee should be elected Presi-
dent, Recording Secretary, Treasurer 6v Domine,
he shall be ex-officio a member of the Board of Trustees
during his term of office.

Section 2. All elections shall be by ballot, under
the direction of inspectors, to be appointed by the
President, and a plurality of votes shall elect. '

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Article V.

Potoers and Duties of Officers.

Section I. The President of the Society, and in
his absence the Vice-President for New York County,
shall authorize the call for all meetings of the Trustees,
and of the Society, and appoint the place of each meet-
ing, and shall exercise the usual functions of a presiding
officer.

Vice-Presidents shall, as far as possible, keep in
touch with the members resident in their several
counties and stimulate their interest in the affairs of
the Society. On the occasion of the death of any mem-
ber, the Vice-President for the county in which such

member

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member has resided shall represent the Society and
procure the necessary material for an appropriate
memorial sketch to be inserted in the Year Book.

Section 2. The Recording Secretary shall make
and keep a true record of all meetings of the Trustees,
and of the Society, and of all Standing Committees;
he shall also act as Librarian and Curator and shall
have the custody of the Constitution and By-Laws, the
Corporate Seal, and all books, pamphlets, manuscripts
and personal articles belonging to the Society.

The Corresponding Secretary shall notify each
Trustee of all meetings of the Trustees, and each mem-
ber of all meetings of the Society; issue all other
authorized notices to members, distribute all books,
pamphlets, souvenirs and other matter, authorized by
the Trustees, and conduct the correspondence of the
Society.

Section 3. The Treasurer shall collect, and under
the direction of the Trustees disburse, the funds of the
Society, and shall keep regular accounts thereof, which
shall be subject to the examination of the President
and Trustees. He shall submit a statement thereof
to the Trustees at each regular meeting.

Section 3 a. The Domine shall perform the relig-
ious duties at the meetings of the Society.

Section 4. The Trustees shall have general charge
of the affairs, funds, and property of the Society. It
shall be their duty to carry out the objects and pur-
poses thereof; and to this end may exercise all the
powers of the Society, subject to the Constitution, and
to such action as the Society may take at its special
or stated meetings.

Section 5. The Trustees shall have power to fill
any vacancy which may occur from death or resigna-
tion among the officers of the Society, for the unexpired
term of office vacated. Absence from three consecu-
tive stated meetings of the trustees, without satis-
factory explanation or excuse, shall be deemed equiv-
alent to resignation and may be acted upon accordingly.

Section

Constitution s

Section 6. The Trustees shall cause to be prepared
annually a detailed statement of the financial condi-
tion of the Society, showing its receipts and expendi-
tures for the current year, the number of members,
and other matters of general interest to the Society, and
a statement thereof shall be printed and a copy sent
to each member ten days previous to the annual
meeting.

Section 7. The Trustees shall, from time to time,
make by-laws, rules and regulations, and appoint
standing committees and sub-committees on matters
not herein determined.

Article VI.

Membership.

Section i. Candidates for admission must be pro-
posed by one member and seconded by another, and
the member proposing a candidate shall state in writ-
ing the name of the person proposed, his occupation,
place of residence, and his qualifications for member-
ship.

Section 2. The name of every candidate, with
those of his proposers, shall be sent to the Correspond-
ing Secretary at least fifteen days, and by him sent to
each Trustee at least ten days, before he is balloted
for. Members shall be chosen by the Trustees, and
no candidate for membership shall be elected unless
he receive an affirmative vote of four-fifths of the
Trustees present, and in every instance two blackballs
shall exclude.

Section 3. Any Trustee may, at the same meeting,
move the reconsideration of a vote, either of admission
or exclusion; but after an adjournment no rejected
candidate shall be eligible for six months thereafter.

Section 4. The admission fee shall be five dollars.
The annual dues shall be eight dollars, payable in ad-
vance on the first day of February in each year, or, in
the case of newly elected members, upon notice of elec-
tion.

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tion. By the payment of ninety-five dollars at one
time a member not in arrears may exempt himself from
further payment pf annual dues. The Trustees shall
have power to increase each of said amounts from time
to time, but not to a sum greater than one hundred
dollars for the admission fee, and ten dollars for the
annual subscription.

Section 5. Every person elected to membership,
as a condition thereof, shall, within thirty days after
being notified, pav to the Treasurer the amount of the
admission fee ana sign the Constitution; the Trustees
may extend the time for the latter in special cases.

Section 6. Should any member neglect to pay
his annual subscription within six months of the time
when it is due, his name shall be dropped from the roll
of the Society, unless for any good and sufficient excuse
the Trustees shall vote to remit or suspend such penalty.

Section 7. The Trustees shall have power, by a
vote of a majority of its members, to suspend or forfeit
the membership of any member of the Society for con-
duct on his part likely, in the opinion of the Trustees,
to endanger the welfare, interest, or character of the
Society, an opportunity being first given such member
to be heard before the Trustees in his defence.

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Section 8. Any person who shall cease to be a
member of the Society shall forfeit all right or interest
in the property of the Society.

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Article VII.

Meetings.

Section i. The annual meeting of the Society
shall be held on April 6th, the anniversary of the day
when, in a.d. 1566, the 'Dutch combined against
tyranny and adopted the badge which is now the badge
of this Society. Should such date fall on Saturday or
Sunday, the annual meeting shall be held on the Mon-
day following.

Section 2. No special meeting of the Society shall
be called at any time except by order of the President,

with

Constitution 7

with the approval of three Trustees^ or by the Corre-
sponding Secretary whenever the President shall be
thereunto requested in. writing by twelve members,
setting forth the purpose of such meeting. At any
such special meeting no business other than that speci-
fied in the call shall be considered, except by unanimous
consent. At least ten day's notice shall be given to the
members of all meetings of the Society. Twenty-one
persons shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, but
a smaller number may adjourn the meeting to another
date.

Section 3. The Trustees shall hold four regular
meetings each year at such times as mav be provided
in the By-Laws. Seven members shall constitute a
quorum but a smaller number may adjourn the meeting
to another date.

Article VIII .

Notices.

Section i. All notices shall be sent to such address
as shall be left with the Corresponding Secretary. If
no address be so given, such notices shall be sufficient
if addressed to the member at his last known place of
residence.

Article IX.

Amendments to the Constitution.

Section i. To amend the Constitution, an affirma-
tive vote of two-thirds of the members present at a
general or special meeting shall be requisite, but no
amendment shall be made except upon the recom-
mendation of the Board of Trustees, or upon the
written request of at least fifteen members of the So-
ciety, and after the mailing to each member notice of
any proposed amendment at least ten days before the
meeting at which it is intended to be acted upon.

BY-LAWS

BY-LAWS OF THE HOLLAND SOCIETY
As Amended June 14-1917-MARCH 14-1918

I. Order of Business.

At all meetings of the Society, the order of business
shall be as follows :

1 . Reading the minutes of the previous meeting.

2. Reports of officers.

3. Election of officers.

4. Reports of committees.

5. Miscellaneous business.

6. Adjournment.

2. Meetings of Trustees.

The Trustees shall hold stated meetings on the second
Thursday of each March, June, October and December.

Special meetings of the Trustees miay be called by
order of the President, or, in his absence, by the Vice-
President for New York County.

3. Proof of Descent.

Before being voted upon for membership, each
candidate shall furnish satisfactory proof of his pedigree
to the Committee on Genealogy, who shall report
thereon to the Board of Trustees.

4. Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on
the day specified in the Constitution (at such place
and hour as the President shall appoint), and at least
ten days' notice of the same shall be sent to each mem-
ber by the Corresponding Secretary.

5. Nominating Committee.

The Trustees shall, at least sixty days before any
annual meeting, elect a committee who shall nominate

a ticket

By-Laws 9

a ticket to be voted for at the annual election, and a list
of the nominations shall be sent to each member of the
Society at least ten days before the annual meeting.
The Vice-Presidents shall be promptly notified of the
election of the Nominating Committee and requested
to obtain suggestions of the names, desired by the
members of each locality for nomination as Vice-
Presidents, and to forward same to the Recording
Secretary.

6. Committees and Appointment.

All standing committees and sub-committees shall
be appointed by the President or other chairman of the
meeting, unless specially named in the resolution creat-
ing the committee, ana the member first named shall
be Chairman of each committee. The standing com-
mittees shall be on Finance, on Genealogy, and on
History and Tradition.

7. COMMITFEE ON FiNANCE.

The Committee on Finance shall consist of three
members, and shall, at least once in each year, and
oftener if they choose, audit the accounts and vouchers
of the Treasurer of this Society and report upon the
same at the annual meeting of the Society, and oftener
to the Board of Trustees as they may see fit, or as the
latter may order.

8. CoMMITFEE ON GeNEALOGY.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on Genealogy
to report to the Trustees upon the genealogy of candi-
dates that may be submitted to them, and to collect
and preserve, in accordance with the Constitution of
this Society, information and documents relating to
the genealogy of the members of this Society and of
the Dutch settlers of New York and of the American
colonies, and said committee may expend the funds
of this Society for that purpose, but not to exceed a
total amount of twenty-five dollars in any one quarter
of a year, unless especially authorized by the Trustees.
Said committee shall consist of three members.

Q. CoMMITFEE

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9. Committee on History and Tradition.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on History
and Tradition to collect and preserve, in accordance
with the Constitution of this Society, information,
documents, books, and monuments relating to the
history and tradition of the ancestry of the members of
this Society, and of the Dutch settlers of New York
and of the American colonies, and to print and publish
the same, and papers and essays relating to the same,
copyrighting original publications for the benefit of
this Society; and said committee may expend the
funds of this Society for that purpose, but not to exceed
a total amount of one hundred dollars in any one quarter
of a year, unless especially authorized by the Trustees.
Said committee shall consist of three members.

10. Centers Entitled to a Vice-President.

Any county in which there may be ten resident
members of the Society shall be entitled to a Vice-
President in the Society. There may be also a Vice-
President for the United States Army and one for the
United States Navy. The Trustees may elect tempo-
rary Vice-Presidents for other localities, appropriately
delimited and containing ten members or more, and
may recommend the election of regular Vice-Presidents
for these localities at the next annual meeting.

II. Amendment.

These By-Laws may be altered, amended, or abro-
gated only at a stated meeting of the Trustees, or at
a meeting specially called for that purpose, and upon
a notice of ten days to each Trustee by the Corre-
sponding Secretary, informing him of the proposed
alteration, amendment, or abrogation, and then only
upon the af&rmative vote of a majority of members
present. Provided, however, that each meeting may
regulate and control its order of business.

BADGE

BADGE OF
THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

ADOPTED MARCH 30, iS8f

The most significant medal, from an historical point
of view, which was ever struck in Holland, is the so-
called "Beggars' Medal." It is the memorial of the
very first steps of that march toward civil and religious
liberty in which the men of the Netherlands, after
heroic struggles, finally led the world. And, therefore,
it is a most appropriate token for us to wear, who have
received in largest measure, in this New Republic, the
benefits of the noble conflict of our Dutch forefathers.
For a description of the historical significance of the
Badge, see previous Year Books.

The die, which has been cut by Tiffany & Co., is the
property of the Society. The medals, including the
cups, the flagon, the orange ribbon, and the pin, can
be furnished in silver for eight dollars (^8.00) each.
They can also be supplied in gold for thirty dollars
(^30) each. Members can obtain orders from the
Secretary and therewith be furnished with the Badge
by addressing Tiffany & Co.

THE
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THE SOCIETY BUTTON

At the annual meeting of the society, April 6, 1897,
the society adopted a button, to be worn on occa-
sions when the wearing of the other insignia might
be deemed inappropriate.

This consists of a shield of gold one-half inch high
bearing the Lion of Holland in red enamel. Members
can obtain them of the Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co.
corner of Chestnut and 12th Streets, Philadelphia,
Pa., in silver gilt at one dollar each, or in 14 k. gold
at two dollars and seventy-five cents each.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND LIBRARY OF THE SOCIETY,
90 West Street, Room 1515, New York City,
Phone 4139 Rector.

HISTORICAL BRIEF PREPARED AND READ
BY HON. TUNIS G. BERGEN

JT A MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE HOLLAND

SOCIETY OF NEW YORK HELD ON

DECEMBER 13, 1917

To the Trustees of the Holland Society:

At your request I present the following historical
brief:

In the matter of an application by one who is a
descendant in the male line of an ancestor, not a
Dutchman, who settled in Southold or Southampton,
Long Island, in the year 1647, for membership in
The Holland Society.

His claim for membership rests upon the following
clause of our Constitution — ^**descendants in the
male line of persons who possessed the right of Dutch
citizenship within Dutoh settlements in America,
prior to the year 1675."

The First Occupation and Claims of the Dutch

The whole of Long Island was always included by
the Dutch from the year 1614 as a part of New Nether-
land territory. It was so portrayed in all their maps
of the period and not infrequently was called by
our Colonial historians and writers "The Crown of
New Netherland" and was included in the official
boundaries.

In 1614 Adrian Block discovered the boundaries
of Long Island on the Sound and reached Montauk
Point, thus demonstrating that the land was an island,
and then proceeded to Block Island, Rhode Island
and the Cape and Harbor, etc., now known as Cape
Cod.

In the official description of the boundaries of New
Netherland done at the Hague February, 165 1, these
words occur: "together with Long Island must re-
main eh tirely with the Dutch, because as before stated,
they were taken possession of and inhabited long

before

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before the English came to lodjge thereon: the two
little villages of Southampton and Southold must, in
such case, . repair and pass under this State." Col.
Doc. 2 p. 545.

The first settlements by the Dutch on Long Island
occurred at the Wallabout in 1625 to 1630; at Gowanus
about 1636, Amersfort or Flatlands about the same
time, and then gradually extended eastward making
settlements as far as Oyster Bay, although exploring
further and erecting insignia of title.

The English generally laid claims to the whole terri-
tory of America from the Virginias to New England,
although they had only settled and occupied the
Virginias and part of New England at the time, their
claim being based not upon any settlement or occupa-
tion of the territory between those colonies (which in-
tervening territory was settled and occupied by the
Dutch), but upon the general statement or report
of Sebastian Cabot, son of John Cabot, after his
father had already discovered the coast of New-
foundland, etc., in about 1494, that he, Sebastian,
had sailed from that discovered region in a south-
easterly direction in 1497 and had seen the shore
of a main land. It was because of his alleged sight
of a distant shore that the English based their claims
of right of discovery and dominion. But since it
appears from the record of the voyage of his ship
that Sebastian must have come out^ somewhere off
the coast of Spain in his southeasterly course and the
line of the American Continent trended westward,
his claims even to a sight of those distant shores
have been doubted. The general records of the
voyages of Sebastian, unlike those of his father, seem
to have been influenced by a boastful spirit and a
desire to spin yarns of new coasts he had seen. Later
historians are skeptical about his narratives. Even
if Sebastian had glimpses of distant lines of coast,
it was merely the cupidity of the eye which gave any
support to the claims of dominion.

In 1620 the English King granted a patent of all
the American Continent lying between the 40th and

48th

HISTORICAL BRIEF I5

48th parallels of northern latitude "from sea to sea"
to the Plymouth Company, although the land had not
been occupied by them, had not been touched at all,
and the greater part of even the coast line had not
been seen by any English navigator. In 1636 this
Company by order of King Charles I issued to Lord
Stirling letters patent for the whole of Long Island
although the English had not occupied it and the
Dutch had been settled there for several years and
claimed dominion.

Afterwards a representative of Lord Stirling, named
James Farret, with power of attorney, visited New
Amsterdam in 1637 and claimed title to all of Long
Island. But his claim was treated by the Dutch
with contempt. In 1647 he landed at Flushing with
the same papers, demanded possession and was ar-
rested and ordered sent as a prisoner to Holland,
but escaped to England.

Down to 1640 the Dutch had no settlements on
the Eastern end of Long Island, but they had explored
it to Montaiik Point and had erected at various
points the insignia of their dominion, the Coat of
Arms of the States General. On April 17, 1640, a
few English from the New Haven colony landed at
Schouts Bay, (Cow Bay) with a deed from Farret,
as Attorney for Lord Stirling. The Indians notified
the Dutch of the landing and their Council sent a
Sergeant and some soldiers to the Bay, who seized
the English and brought them to New Amsterdam.
"They were released on May 10, 1640 upon their
apologies and statements that they did not know
they were encroaching upon lands of the States, and
upon their promise in writing immediately to depart
and not to return."

But about three weeks later, fortified by new deeds
from Farret they did return to the "Bight of the Sea"
further east. According to the official records of
the Dutch, Southold was occupied by a few English
families from New Haven "At the Bight of the Sea
(at Gardner's Bay) and at Cromme Gouw (the
crooked country) in the description of Long Island

within

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within the boundaries of Long Island and were under
the jurisdiction of the Lords, the States General/*
But the settlement was a breach of their written
promise not to return and in contempt of the Nether-
land claims of which these English had knowledge,
as is well illustrated by their own native record that
they had torn down one of the Coats of Arms of the
States General on Lohg Island, and carved a Fool's
Face on the Shield in their place. The English
settlers also claimed to have received writings or
deeds of title from some of the Indian chiefs, which
titles, including those from the King's grantee. Lord
Sterling, were afterwards declared invalid by the
English Court of Assize on Long Island in 1670,
which ordered the villagers to obtain new grants
from the government.

This settlement of the villagers at Southold in the
caves which they dug in the ground and covered or
thatched with wood and boughs, remained undis-
turbed for some time by any force from the New
Netherlands, although they record that they planned
the erection of a redoubt about three leagues east
of Southampton, and holding it by a small garrison.
But we find no record that such a fort was ever built
by the Dutch.

Thereafter the English, who were many times more
numerous in America than the Netherlanders, con-
tinued to send people from New England to the
easterly portion of Long Island, who gaining valor
with their numbers became more defiant in their
claims until by 1649 the disputes had often culminated
in hostilities, especially under the lead of the notorious
mischief maker and guerilla, Capt. Scott, when little
raids were made by armed horsemen even upon Dutch
villages, which had to be repulsed. These guerilla
excursions became so annoying that attempts were
made by the Dutch to have them settled diplomatically
by the government in Holland, but in vain. In
1649 the Holland government stated: "We have
found it impracticable to make an agreement with
the English about the boundaries for we cannot

discover

HISTORICAL BRIEF IJ

discover any one here in Holland or in England with
authority to act (for the English), everything being
turned bottom upward in that kingdom, the King
a prisoner of Gen. Fairfax and Lieut. Cromwell and
a new government being formed— God save their
people." In the same year, 1649, the English towns
on Long Island were summoned by the New Nether-
land authorities to meet in Council so as to consider
important matters and the sending of an embassy
to the Fatherland.

' In February, 1650, the authorities in Holland
wrote that there is still no chance to treat with anyone
about the boundaries question there or in England. A
government in England was not yet firmly established.

Two or three years after a few English had settled
in Southold, in September, 1650, Commissioners from
New Netherland and from New England met at
Hartford in an endeavor to settle the boundary dis-
putes on Long Island.

These Commissioners finally made a provisional
agreement, known as the Treaty of Hartford, in
September, 1650, by which the boundary line be-
tween the two Governments on Long Island would
be fixed at a line running across the Island from
Oyster Bay. The language used was: "A line from
the Westermost part of Oyster Bay and so in a straight
and direct line to the sea.*' The Commissioners
who made this provisional agreement referred the
matter to their respective governments in Europe
for confirmation, since they had no jurisdiction to fix
the boundary lines between the two nations. This line,
although agreed to by the States General, February
22nd, '1656, was never agreed to or even considered
by any English Government. Nor was it lived up
to by the colonists. On July 23 rd, 1664, the States
General instructed their Ambassador in London to
consult the English Government, about the ratifica-
tion of the boundary (as fixed by the provisional
agreement) but again nothing was done about it.
At this time the crown of Charles I had fallen and
Cromwell's protectorate had arisen. As the Dutch

records

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records state: "To treat with an English Government
became especially difficult because the authorities
for Virginia favored Charles the Second and those
for New England favored the Parliament." About
a month later, on August 25th, 1664, the English
seized New Amsterdam and New Netherland by
force of arms in a time of peace between the two
countries and Long Island became subject to the
British Crown.

The Dutch Interregnum or the Second Occu-
pation AND Claims of the United Netherlands

On July 30, 1673, during the war between Holland
and England, the Dutch recaptured New Amsterdam
and held New Netherland until the treaty of West-
minster on February 19, 1674, when New Netherland
as a matter of bargain was ceded to the British Crown.

The a:bove dates are those of the old style, as in
the English documents of the time, although the
Dutch had already adopted the new style of calendar
about two centuries before the English.

In this second occupation of the Dutch, often
called the Dutch Interregnum, they proceeded to
extend their authority over all parts of New Nether-
land again, including all of Long Island, appointing
officers and calling for reports and demanding obed-
ience to their orders from every town and locality.

On August 13, 1673, the Netherland Council of
War summoned Scuthold and Southampton to send
their deputies and constables to surrender their
English flags. This was done. Col. Doc. Vol. 2-572.

Fort James in eastern Long lisland was surrendered
to the Dutch in 1673. On August 14, 1673, the Coun-
cil of War in New Netherland ordered all Long Ifeland
towns including Southold, to send in their officers
and to receive the flags of the Prince of Orange in
place of the English. The Dutch Governor Colve
issued a charter in October, 1673, to the towns of
Long Island, including Southold and Southampton,
and sent instructions to all the towns of Long Island,
including Southold and Southampton "that the

Sheriffs

HISTORICAL BRIEF K)

Sheriffs and Magistrates shall be obliged to acknowl-
edge as their Sovereign Rulers the States General
of the United Netherlands and the Prince of Orange
and to maintain their sovereign jurisdiction, right
and dominion over this country and also cause to be
observed all ordinances and orders of the Supreme
Authority."

In September, 1673, nominations of officers by the
people of Southold and Southampton, were submitted
to the Dutch authorities and confirmed by the Council
who thus appointed the Schout, the Secretary, and
Magistrates. Later instructions to these officers were
sent by the Council about rules and regulations.
The election of all inferior officers was to be made
by the townsmen themselves.

In August, 1673, these towns sent a Hst of ten
demands to the Dutch Council, who accepted all
but one of them.

In September, 1673, these towns asked for a change
in the form of the oath of allegiance to be taken by
the inhabitants and these changes were granted. But
in objecting to the form of the oath Southold stated
"We, notwithstanding, are willing to submit ourselves
to your form of government, provided you protect
us from invasion."

In October, 1673, Gov. Colve appointed Commis-
sioners to be sent to Southold because the town "had
requested a second embassy so that the innocent
may not be punished with the guilty, not doubting
that the towns would submit as dutiful subjects, etc."
So the embassy was sent to administer the oath to
the officers and such of the inhabitants as might
feel free to take the same. Instructions were given
to the embassy to modify the orders and settle differ-
ences of opinion, to let them select their own magis-
trates if they wish to (not the Schout and Secretary)
and to assemble the inhabitants to take the oath,
"but if any inhabitants objected, they might sign
in writing of their own accord their promise to obey,
but the officers and magistrates must take the oath,
as the sheriffs had already done."

Later

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Later some of the townspeople, including those of
Southold (according to English records), tried to
make further delays in conferences concerning the
form of the oath of allegiance and sought to obtain
help and advice from Conjiecticut. A troop of horse-
men came from New Haven to advise. These "Con-
necticut Gentlemen," so the English records state,
"said they of Southold had nothing to do with a
Commission from the Dutch and when the inhabitants
were asked to take the English oath, they kept silence
and answered not. Then the Hartford Committee who
met them told them they had nothing to do with the
Dutch, but should remain faithful to His Majesty
of England and when the Hartford Committee asked
them if they would not remain faithful to His Majesty,
they answered not.^^

So with shrewdness at the interview with the "Con-
necticut Gentlemen" they maintained a discreet silence,
but did not take the English oath.

Meanwhile all this parleying in the latter part of
the year 1673 was evidently to gain time, owing to
the rumors of peace and a treaty between the mother
countries, in course of negotiation.

On February 25, 1674, the Dutch authorities des-
patched from New Amsterdam a little flotilla to
Southold to enforce order. But they retired in face
of force, or, as the English records state "were repelled
without loss." But the rumors of peace and a treaty
were in the air and the situation was delicate. In
fact, the Treaty of Westminster had been signed on
February 19, 1674, six days before the flotilla arrived!

That the people of Southold had submitted to the
Dutch laws and ordinances, in spite of all parley and
bluster, appears by the letter of those people on
November 18, 1674, about nine months after the
Dutch rule had ceased and the British Crown domin-
ion had arisen. The new English Governor ordered
"the Southold officers to appear before him or be
treated as rebels^ stating that orders to the towns
of Southold and Southampton to put in office again
those who had oflSciated when the Dutch came had

not

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not been complied with." In other words, these
towns had continued to live under officers approved
by the Dutch under Dutch laws and ordinances and
would be treated as rebels to the British Crown unless
they reinstated officers under the English laws.

As to rights of Citizenship in New Netherland, it
seems that all free male inhabitants of age had the
right to vote, sometimes to nominate certain officers
for selection by the Council or Directors and at other
times to elect thdlr own officers or some of them.
Schepens and Schouts were generally appointed by
the Council or Directors on nomination of the male
inhabitants, free and of age, of the towns, but select
men and others not infrequently were elected by the
voters, including clergymen and schoolmasters.

In 1673, in the. Dutch Interregnum, by ordei's of
the Governor and Council, the male inhabitants of
all the towns, including the English towns at the
east end of Long Island, were ordered to nominate
persons for sheriffs and magistrates from which list
the government would select. .The order of the
Council to English towns in Westchester, for example,
was to have the inhabitants nominate a list from
which the Council would select magistrates who
should take the oath, etc. This was the same form
for all the English towns, (See Dutch Official Mss.)
and magistrates were so nominated by the inhabitants
of Southold for appointment by the Council.

All male free residents of age in New Netherland
were Burger. In New Amsterdam a distinction was
made at a later period between Groote Burger and
Klyne Burger, based upon the amount of property
possessed. At one time a special tax was levied on
all inhabitants who possessed property worth looo
guilders and over. But this tax does not appear to
have had any bearing upon the general voting rights
of the male inhabitants who were free and of age
to nominate for confirmation or to elect, etc.
December, 1917.

Respectfully submitted,

Tunis G. Bergen.

PRESENT OFFICERS

AND

FORMER EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

PRESIDENTS

Hooper C. Van Vorst

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt. . ,

George M. Van Hoesen ,

Augustus Van Wyck

James William Beekman

Warner Van Norden

D.-B. St. John Roosa

Charles H. Truax

John W. Vrooman

Robert A. Van Wyck

Tunis G. Bergen

Henry van Dyke

John H. Starin

George G. De Witt

Theodore M. Banta

Albert Vander Veer

Garret J. Garretson

John R. Van Wormer

Frank Hasbrouck

Evert Jansen Wendell

Henry S. Van Duzer

Alphonso T. Clearwater

Samuel Verplanck Hoffman . . .

Henry Lawrence Bogert

William I^everich Brower

Gerard Beekman

Seymour Van Santvoord

Augustus Van Wyck

Arthur H. Van Brunt

ELECTED

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Officers

ACTIVE COUNTIES
VICE-PRESIDENTS

for new york elected
William Leverich Brower 1916

for kings county, n. y.
Walter M. Meserole 1921

FOR queens county, N. Y.

Charles V. Rapelje 1921

FOR WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N. Y.

Peter A. H. Voorhis 1921

FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY, N. Y.

J. Wilson Poucher 1921

for ulster county, n. y.
Abram p. Lefevre 1920

for albany county, n. y.
Peter G. Ten Eyck 1920

for schenectady county, n. y.
Nicholas I. Schermerhorn .- 1921

for suffolk county, n. y.
Walter L. Suydam 1920

for rockland county, n. y.
George A. Blauvelt 1920

CENTRAL NEW YORK*

Formerly Onondaga County^ N. Y.j igoi to igij
John Van Sickle 1918

for hudson county, n. j.
Henry J. Bogardus 1921

for bergen county, n. j.
Pet^r W. Stagg 1920

^See page 120, 1915 Year Book.

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for passaic county, n. j. elected
Nehemiah Vreeland 1921

for essex county, n. j.
J. Edgar Voorhees 1921

for union county, n. j.
George Gregg Teller 1920

for morris county, n j.
Samuel V. Hoffman 1921

for mercer county, n. j.
Robert Ayres Messler 1917

for pacific coast*
Frederic W. Keator 1920

for new england*
William Harman Van Allen 1913

for united states army
James Wallace Van Dusen 1921

for united states navy
RoswELL R. Hoes 1916

SECRETARIES

George West Van Siclen 1885

Theodore Melvin Banta 1891

Henry Lawrence Bogert 1903

Discontinued in 191 1

RECORDING SECRETARIES

Henry Lawrence Bogert 1911

Edward Van Winkle 1912

Frederic R. Keator 1918

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES

Edward Van Winkle 191 1

John T. Conover 1912

Seward G. Spoor 1914

Frederic R. Keator 1917

^Comprising all of the Pacific I 'Comprising the New England

Slope. I States.

Present Officers and Former Executive 25

Officers

TREASURERS

ELECTED

George West Van Siclen 1885

Abraham Van Santvoord 1886

Eugene Van Schaick 1890

Tunis G. Bergen 1896

Arthur H. Van Brunt 1898

DeWitt Van Buskirk 1919

DOMINE
Henry van Dyke 1920

TRUSTEES

Augustus Van Wyck

John W. Vrooman

Tunis G. Bergen

Frank Hasbrouck

Garret J. Garretson

William Leverich Brower ....

Francis I- Vander Beek

E. Covert Hulst

John Everitt Van Nostrand . .

Henry L. Bogert

Seymour Van Santvoord

Edward De Witt

William Brinkerhoff

James Suydam Polhemus

I. Reynolds Adriance

DeWitt Van Buskirk

Arthur H. Van Brunt

Frederic R. Keator

Charles Lott Schenck

John de Camp Van Etten

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LIST OF MEMBERS

Name Address Admitted

Abeel, John Howard New York City 1904

Ackerman, Charles M Bayside, L. 1 1916

Ackerman, Clinton D Paterson, N. J 1915

Ackerman, George H Passaic, N. J 1907

Ackerman, Herbert Stewart Ridgewood, N. J 1920

Ackerman, John Edmund Passaic, N. J 1907

Ackerman, J. Walter Watertown, N. Y 1907

Ackerson, Garret G Hackensack, N. J 1908

Ackerson, James B Passaic, N. J 1908

Adriance, Edwin Holmes Englewood, N. J 1919

Adriance, Harris Ely Englewood, N. J 1887

Adriance, Henry Benson New York City 1896

Adriance, I. Reynolds Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1887

Adriance, John Erskine Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1887

Adriance, John Pierre Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 1919

Adriance, William A Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 1887

Adriance, William A., Jr New York City 1919

AUertfon, Waltfer Scott Brookline, Mass 1914

Amerman, Frederick Herbert Montclair, N. J 1889

Amerman, James Lansing Schoharie, N. Y 1894

Amerman, William Henry Houghton. .Garden City, N. Y. . . . 1888
Amerman, William Henry Houghton, Jr. .Garden City, N. Y. . 1907

Amerman, William Libbey New York City 1889

Anthony, Richard A New York City 1888

Aten, Courtenay N Brooklyn, N. Y 1919

Aten, Kenneth M Brooklyn, N. Y 1919

Aten, William Henry Brooklyn, N. Y 1909

Baker, Willard Sharon, Ct 1911

Banker, Alexander David Schaghticoke, N. Y. . . 1920

Banta, Albert Zabriskie Jamaica, N. Y 1914

Banta, Edward Woodruff New York City 1900

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Name Address Admitted

Banta, Walter Augustus Brooklyn, N. Y 1896

Barhydt, Thomas Low Schenectady, N. Y. . . . 1888

Bates, Lindon Wallace Mt. Lebanon, N. Y. . . 1907

Baylis, Robert N Bloomfield, N. J 1906

Becker, Alfred Le Roy New York City 1918

Beekman, Alston Red Bank, N. J 1904

Beekman, Henry M. T New York City 1886

Benson, Arthur Davis New York City 191 1

Bergen, A. Beekman Newton, Pa 1909

Bergen, Francis H Summit, N. J 1890

Bergen, James J Somerville, N. J 1888

Bergen, John Brooklyn, N. Y 1912

Bergen, Teunis J Brooklyn, N. Y 1914

Bergen, Tunis G Lakewood, N. J 1885

Berry, John F Brooklyn, N. Y 1890

Blauvelt, Elmer Oradell, N. J 1902

Blauvelt, Ernest E Paterson, N. J 1911

Blauvelt, George A Monsey, N. Y 1915

Blauvelt, William D Paterson, N. J 1910

Blauvelt, William Hutton Syracuse, N. Y 1898

Blauvelt, William V. A Hackensack, N. J 1906

Bleecker, Anthony James New York City 1907

Bleecker, Theophylact Bache Cold Spring Harbor,

L. L..I889

Bloodgood, Francis Milwaukee, Wis 191 8

Bloodgood, Wheeler P Milwaukee, Wis 1919

Bloodgood, William Denton Garden City, L. 1 1916

Bloomingdale, James Saratoga Springs,

N. Y.. .1904

Bogardus, Henry J Jersey City, N. J 1915

Bogardus, Jacob T. B East Orange, N. J. . . . 1900

Bogart, John Benjamin New York City 1910

Bogart, Joseph H Roslyn, N. Y 1887

Bogert, Albert Reuben Oradell, N. J 1901

Bogert, Ambrose E. B Westfield, N. J 1920

Bogert, Charles Albert Englewood, N. J 1903

Bogert, Charles Jacob Brooklyn, N. Y 1900

Bogert, Daniel Gilliam Englewood, N. J 1903

Bogert, Frederick H Ridgewood, N. J 1904

Bogert, Gilbert P Glen Ridge, N. J 1915

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Name

Address

Admitted

Bogert, Harry Howe Birdsboro, Pa

Bogert, Harry Howe, Jr Baltimore, Md

Bogert, Henry L Flushing, N. Y

Bogert, John Jacob New York City

Bogert, Matthew J Demarest, N. J

Bonta, RoUin Adelbert Syracuse, N. Y

Bradt, Aaron John Schenectady, N. Y

Bradt, Herbert Schuyler Dongan Hills, N. Y. . .

Bradt, S. Vedder Schenectady, N. Y

Bradt, Warren Lansing Albany, N. Y

Bradt, William H Schenectady, N. Y

Brevoort, Edward Renwick New York City

BrinckerhofF, Alexander Gordon Brooklyn, N. Y

Brinckerhoff, Charles Fuller New York City

Brinckerhoff, Gurdon Grant New York City

Brinckerhoff, Henry Gordon Chestnut Hill, Maes . .

Brinckerhoff, J. Howard New Brighton, N. Y. .

Brinckerhoff, Walter R New York City

Brinckerhoff, Walter Wyckoff New York City

Brinckerhoff, William P Mt. Vernon, N. Y

Brink, Jacob Louis Creskill, N.J

Brink, Theodore Lake Katrine, N. Y. . .

Brinkerhoff, Henry H Jersey City, N. J

Brinkerhoff, Roelif Coe Riverside, Cal

Brinkerhoff, William Jersey City, N. J

Brodhead, Robert Packer Kingston, Pa

Brokaw, George Tuttle New York City

Brower, Abraham T, H Chicago, 111

Brower, Henry Wyckoff New York City

Brower, Ogden, Jr Montclair, N.J

Brower, Ward Barryville, N. Y

Brower, Wilber F West Summit, N. J. . .

Brower, William Leverich New York City

Bush, Irving T New York City

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Cadmus, William H Rochester, N. Y 191S

Christiancy, Cornelius Allandale, Fla 191 1

List of Members 29

Name Address Admitted

Clearwater, Alphonso T Kingston, N. Y 1885

Clearwater, Ralph Davis Kingston, N. Y 1906

Clearwater, William Mould Tuxedo Park, N. Y. . . 1918

Clute, Jesse H New York City 1911

Cole, Cornelius A Hackensack, N. J 1908

Cole, Peter Lozier Brooklyn, N. Y 1915

CoUett, Samuel D Brooklyn, N. Y 1915

Comegys, Joseph Parsons New York City 1919

Conover, Frank B Long Branch, N. J 1887

Cortelyou, George Bruce New York City 1904

Cowenhoven, Garret P Brooklyn, N. Y 1916

Coykendall, Frank Kingston, N. Y 1919

Coykendall, Russell A. Jersey City, N. J 1915

Crispell, Clifford Alexander Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1919

Crispell, Frank Burr New York City 1919

Crum, Frederick Henry River Edge, N. J 1914

Cuyler, Thomas De Witt Haverford, Pa 1887

De Bevoise, Charles Richmond Newark, N. J 1914

De Bevoise, Cornelius S Brooklyn, N. Y 1898

Debevoise, George New York City 1895

DeBevoise, Herbert Rapelye Newark, N. J 1917

Debevoise, Paul Elizabeth, N. J 1910

Debevoise, Thomas M Summit, N. J 1904

De Forest, Howard Lawrence, Kansas 1898

de Forest, Louis E New York City 1913

De Graff, Alfred Fonda, N. Y 1887

De Groff, Arthur Lewis Newark, N. J 1898

de Kay, Sidney Gilder New York City 1914

Delamater, John O Arlington, N. Y. . . . 1919

de la Montanye, James New York City 1894

Demarest, Benjamin G Montclair, N. J 1899

Demarest, Cornelius B Hackensack, N. J 1905

Demarest, Donald De Gray Hempstead, N. Y 1916

Demarest, Henry Samuel .Hempstead, N. Y. . . . 1907

Demarest, John G Oradell, N. J 1902

Demarest, Milton Hackensack, N.J 1902

Demarest, William H. S New Brunswick, N. J, . 1898

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Name Address Admitted

De Mott, Hiany M Brooklyn, N. Y 1919

Denise, Edwin Stanton New York City 1898

Depew, Chauncey M New York City 1885

De Pew, Pierre H Nyack, N. Y 1911

Dc Pew, Ralph Huyler Nyack, N. Y 1914

de Peyster, Frederic Ashton New York City 1909

De Witt, Edward Englewood, N. J 1902

De Witt, Edward, Jr Englewood, N. J 1919

De Witt, Henry Clinton Brooklyn, N. Y 1920

De Witt, Henry Clinton, Jr Montclair, N. J 1920

De Witt, J. Walter Newark, N. J 1904

De Witt, Jerome Binghamton, N. Y. . . . 1888

De Witt, Jerome Pennington Bloomfield, N. J 1908

De Witt, Macdonald .Brooklyn, N. Y 1915

de Witt, Moses J Bloomfield, N. J 1888

De Witt, Philip Hoffecker East Orange, N. J 1919

De Witt, Theodore New York City 1902

De Witt, William Cantine Kingston, N. Y 1914

De Witt, William G New York City 1885

Dey, Morris Amsterdam, N. Y 1913

Dey, Richard V New York City 1892

Deyo, Emery New York City 1905

Deyo, Martin Lewis Washington, D. C. . . . 1917

Deyo, Norman LeRoy Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1911

Deyo, Perry New Paltz, N. Y 1907

Deyo, Solomon Le Fevre New York City 1892

Deyo, Walter Christian Hoboken, N. J 1905

Dillenbeck, Morris H New York City 1885

Dingman, John H Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 191 5

Dingman, Wilson Charles Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 191 7

Ditmars, Edward W Brooklyn, N. Y 1886

Ditmars, Harold Edward Brooklyn, N. Y 1914

Ditmars, Isaac Edward New York City 1888

Ditmars, John Brooklyn, N. Y 1900

Ditmars, Townsend Van Pelt Brooklyn, N. Y 1906

Dolson, Josiah W New York City 1911

Dolson, William Hamilton New York City 1910

Douw, Charles G Scotia, N. Y 1887

Du Bois, Charles A New York City 1904

Du Bois, Philip H New Paltz, N. Y 1909

Du Bois, William E New Paltz, N. Y 1904

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Name Address Admitted

Duryea, Harry H. . New York City 1898

Duryec, Gustavus Abccl Pelham Manor, N. Y. . 1889

Duryee, Harvey Hoag Los Angeles, Cal 1898

Duryee, Joseph R New York City 1885

Duryee, Peter Stanford Englewood, N. J 1899

Dusenberry, Charles, Jr Tuckahoe, N. Y 1898

Dusenberry, Charles R Yonkers, N. Y 1898

Dusenberry, Elias Warner Bronzville, N. Y 1898

Dusenberry, James Dudley New York City 1914

Dusenbury, Edwin Coles Lake Mahopac, N. Y.. 1901

Dusenbury, Henry Genet Cedar Grove, N. J. . . . 1905

Dutcher, Charles Mason Montclair, N. J 1906

Dutcher, De Witt P Brooklyn, N. Y 1906

Dutcher, Frank J Hopedale, Mass 1902

Dutcher, Malcolm B Westfield, N. J 1906

Dutcher, Robert R Brooklyn, N. Y 1906

Dutcher, Warren Whitney Hopedale, Mass 1920

Dutcher, William A Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 191 1

Earl, Edward Montclair, N. J 1911

Earle, Arthur Winthrop New Haven, Ct 1914

Earle, Thornton New York City 1914

Edsall, William Henry Wallingford, Ct 1906

Elmendorf, John B New York City 1888

Elmendorf, William Burgess Albany, N. Y 1892

Elsworth, Edward Wead Watertown, N. Y 1887

Elsworth, Eugene Irvington, N. Y 1897

Elting, Irving Brookline, Mass 1887

Elting, Jacob Qintondale, N. Y 1890

Elting, Jacob, Jr Clintondale, N. Y. . . . 1917

Elting, Jesse New Paltz, N. Y 1890

Elting, Philip Kingston, N. Y 1892

Eltinge, Henry Loyd, N. Y 1904

Esselstyn, Everett James New York City 1889

Everson, Charles B Syracuse, N. Y 1903

Fosburgh, J. B. A New York City 1913

Freer, Alfred Maurice, Jr New York City 1906

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Name Address Admitted

Garretson, Elmer Sharp Roselle Park, N. J. . . . 1916

Garretson, Garret J Elmhurst, N. Y 1887

Garretson, James Elmhurst, N. Y 1911

Glen, Henry Schenectady, N. Y 1915

Goelet, Robert Newport, R. 1 1901

Goelet, Robert Walton Newport, R. 1 1901

Groat, William Avery Syracuse, N. Y. ..... . 1914

Groesbeck, Edward Center Washington, D. C. . . . 1917

Groesbeck, Herman John Cincinnati, 1887

Groesbeck, Telford Cincinnati, 1899

Groesbeck, William Gerard Philadelphia, Pa 1899

Gulick, Alexander Reading Princeton, N. J 1890

Gulick, Charlton Reading Franklin, N. J 1890

Hance, John Atkinson New York City 1911

Hardenbergh, John Warren Jersey City, N. J 1891

Haring, Teunis A Hackensack, N.J 1907

Hasbrouck, Bruyn New Paltz, N. Y 1907

Hasbrouck, Cornelius Van Dyke Rosendale, N. Y 1903

Hasbrouck, Frank Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1886

Hasbrouck, Gilbert D. B Kingston, N. Y 1890

Hasbrouck, Isaac E Brooklyn, N. Y 1889

Hasbrouck, James Foster Larchmont Manor,

N. Y...1894

Hasbrouck, J. Roswell Larchmont Park,

N. Y.. .1902

Hasbrouck, Joseph E Modena, N. Y 1890

Hasbrouck, Joseph E., Jr Modena, N. Y 1919

Hasbrouck, Levi Ogdensburg, N. Y.. . . 1892

Hasbrouck, Louis Bevier .New York City 1899

Hasbrouck, Ross Palisades Park, N. J . . 1919

Hasbrouck, William Fitch Yonkers, N. Y 1906

Heermance, Radcliffe Princeton, N. J 1906

Heermans, Forbes Syracuse, N. Y 1890

Hegeman, Adrian Augustus Black Mountain,

N. C...189S

Hegeman, .Alanson Kerr New York City 1914

Hegeman, Albert Clarence New York City 1903

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Name Address Admitted

Hegeman, Bertram New York City 1918

Hegeman, Charles New York City 1908

Hegeman, Daniel Andrew Brooklyn, N. Y 1904

Hegeman, Joseph P Washington, D. C 1885

Hendricks, Clarence P Kingston, N. Y 1906

Hendricks, Howard Kingston, N. Y 1907

Hendrickson, Charles Elvin Red Bank,[N. J 1921

Hendrickson, George Davis Jersey City, N. J 1914

Hendrickson, James P Red Bank, N. J 1898

Hendrickson, William Henry Red Bank, N. J 1898

Hoagland, Henry Williamson Colorado Springs,

Colo. . . 1909

Hoagland, Ira Gould Brooklyn, N. Y 1913

Hoagland, Thomas Gordon Rockaway, N. J 191 1

Hoagland, Thomas Hudson Rockaway, N. J 1910

Hoes, Ernest Peter Yonkers, N. Y 1904

Hoes, Roswell Randall Washington, D. C. . . . 1887

Hoes, William Myers New York City 1885

HoflFman, Charles Gouverneur New York City 191 2

Hoffman, Samuel Verplanck Morristown, N. J. . . . . 1904

Hoffman, Stoddard New York City 1921

Hoffman, William M. V New York City 1910

Hogeboom, Francklyn New York City 1898

Holdrum, Garret Samuel Milton Westwood, N. J 1903

Hoornbeek, Thomas Cornell New York City 1917

Hoornbeek, William Kenyon Boston, Mass 1919

Hopper, Abram B South Orange, N. J 191 1

Hopper, Albert A Paterson, N. J 1916

Hopper, John Jacob Waldwick, N. J 191 1

Hopper, Raymond Gould East Orange,' N. J 1912

Hopper, Robert Imlay Paterson, N. J 1886

Hopper, Roland Inslee Newark, N.J 1910

Hotaling, George P New York City 1898

Hotaling, Ira A Homer, N. Y 1919

Hubbard, H. Barkaloo Bayshore, N. Y 1887

Hubbard, Timothy I Babylon, N. Y 1889

Hubbs, Charles Francis West Islip, N. Y 191 1

Hulst, E. Covert Flushing, N. Y 1897

Huyck, Edmund Niles .Albany, N. Y 1890

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Jacobus, David Schenck Jersey City, N. J 1891

Jacobus, John W New York City 1887

Jacobus, Melancthon Williams Hartford, Ct 1891

Jacobus, Robert Fulton Ridgfield, N. J 1919

Johnson, Remsen Brooklyn, N. Y 1919

Johnson, William Colet Worcester, Mass 1904

Johnson, William Mindred Hackensack, N. J 1905

Johnston, Charles Edward San Francisco, Cal. . . . 1902

Keator, Frederic Rose New York City 1909

Keator, Frederic William Tacoma, Wash 1916

Keator, Frederic William, Jr Tacoma, Wash 1919

Keator, William Chauncey Wayne, Pa 1910

Kiersted, Everest B New York City 1896

Kiersted, Henry S Burlingame, Cal 1907

Kip, Charles A Morri«town, N. J 1893

Kip, Clarence V. S New York City 1885

Kip, Elbert S Morristown, N.J 1902

Kip, Frederic Ellsworth Montclair, N. J 1907

Kip, George G Morristown, N. J 1885

Kip, Irving De Forest Passaic, N. J 1896

Kipp, Reuben E Passaic, N. J 1909

Knickerbacker, John Troy, N. Y 1887

Knickerbacker, Thomas Adams Troy, N. Y 1889

Kouwenhoven, Gerrit Brooklyn, N. Y 1888

Kouwenhoven, John Bennem Yonkers, N. Y 1904

Kouwenhoven, William Henry Brooklyn, N. Y 1910

Kuykendall, George Benson Pomeroy, Wash 1914

Lansing, Charles Treadway Tenafly, N. J 1914

Lansing, Cleveland Coxe War Dept., U. S. A. . . 1894

Lansing, George Dow Providence, R. 1 1905

Lansing, George Dow, 2nd Providence, R. 1 1918

Lansing, Gerrit Yates Albany, N. Y 1892

Lansing, Gulian ver Planck New York City 1910

Lansing, Hugh Henry Watervliet, N. Y 1899

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Name Address Admitted

Lansing, James Albert Scranton, Pa 1904

Lansing, James B. W Tenafly, N. J 1900

Lansing, James Haswell Watervliet, N. Y 1919

Lansing, Robert Washington, D. C. . . . 1907

Lansing, Sanford Green Tenafly, N. J 1914

Lansing, Willard Irving Providence, R. 1 1905

Le Fever, Henry B New Paltz, N. Y 1902

Lefevre, Abram Philip New Paltz, N. Y 1903

Lefevre, Albert A New Paltz, N. Y 1909

Lefevre, Arthur N Albany, N. Y 191 1

Le Fevre, Edward Young Monticello, N. Y 1905

Le Fevre, Frank Jacob New Paltz, N. Y 1906

Lefferts, Marshall Cufford New York City 1917

Leggett, Edward Henry Albany, N. Y 1899

Lent, Edwin F. R New York City 1919

Lent, Loui Augustus Cincinnati, O 1920

Longstreet, Henry H Matawan, N. J 1889

Lott, Henry Ditmas Brooklyn, N. Y 1904

Lowe, John Gilbert Dayton, 191 1

Lozier, Hiram Newburgh, N. Y 1895

Lozier, John Baldwin New York City 1900

Lozier, Lemuel Hackensack, N. J 1906

Lozier, Theodore F New York City 1908

Luyster, Samuel Britton, Jr Brooklyn, N. Y 1905

Lydecker, Kenneth Hackensack, N. J 1918

Lydecker, Leigh Kent New York City 1918

Lydecker, Ralph D Englewood, N. J 1912

Lydecker, Robert Colfax Honolulu, Hawaii. . . . 1914

Lydecker, Thomas William Englewood, N. J 1905

Marsellus, John Syracuse, N. Y 1887

Masten, Arthur Haynsworth New York City 1896

Mead, Isaac Frankin Montclair, N. J 1893

Merseles, Theodore Frelinghuysen . . . .Bronxville, N. Y 1916

Merselis, Abram Jacobus New York City 1907

Meserole, Clinton V Englewood, N. J 1904

Meserole, Walter Monfort Brooklyn, N. Y 1890

Messier, Benjamin Edmund Montclair, N. J 1909

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Messier, Robert Ayres Trenton, N. J 1906

Miller, George Congdon Buffalo, N. Y 1910

Morrell, John Watson Hartford, Ct 1916

Morris, John J New York City 1896

Mott, Alexander Hosack New York City 1906

Mott, Hopper Striker New York City 1889

Myer, Albert James Pemaquid, Me 1889

Myers, Edward White Plains, N. Y. . . 1909

Myers, George T Seattle, Wash 1915

Myers, John Hays White Plains, N. Y. . . 1895

Neafie, John New York City 1912

Nevius, George Harold Shrewsbury, N. J 1920

Newk
Newk
Newk
Newk
Newk
Newk:
Newk
Newk
Newk

rk, Arthur P Jersey City, N. J 1909

rk, Charles Allison Jersey City, N. J 1914

rk, Clarence Garfield Mahwah, N. J 1906

rk, Eugene Jersey City, N. J 1902

rk, George Albert Jersey City, N. J 1913

rk, Halsey Vreeland Jersey City, N. J 1907

rk, Henry Cady New Rochelle, N. Y.. . 1916

rk, James Stewart Jersey City, N. J 1906

rk, Lewis Henry Jersey City, N. J 1913

Nostrand, George Englebert Brooklyn, N. Y 1889

Onderdonk, Andrew J Manhasset, N. Y 1885

Onderdonk, Andrew J., Jr New York City 1910

Onderdonk, Thomas W New York City 1888

Opdyke, Charles P Jersey City, N. J 1913

Opdyke, George H Jersey City, N. J 1913

Opdyke, Levings A Jersey City, N. J 1913

Opdyke, William Stryker Alpine, N. J 1892

Osterhoudt, Jeremiah P Schenectady, N. Y. . . . 1909

Ostrander, Alson B New York City 1902

Ostrander, John Edwin Amherst, Mass 1907

Ostrander, John Edwin, Jr Amherst, Mass 1919

Outwatdr, Edwin Riverdale on Hudson,

N. y.. .1910

Outwater, Herbert Gregor Scarsdale, N. Y 1921

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Name Address Admitted

Outwater, John Ogden Kristiania, Norway. . . 1921

Outwatcr, Samuel Lockport, N. Y 1906

Palen, Frank A New York City 1901

Palcn, Henry W New York City 1918

Pinckney, James Henry, Jr Garden City, L. I . . . . 1918

Poillon, Arthur Bucharest, Roumania . 1912

Polhemus, Abraham Newton Centre,

Mass.. .1887

Polhemus, Frederick Suydam Newark, N. J 191 8

Polhemus, Henry Martin Englewood, N. J 191 2

Polhemus, James Higbie Montclair, N. J 1918

Polhemus, James Suydam Newark, N. J 1887

Post, Howard Evander Richmond Hill, L. I. . 1917

Post, Jacob Judson Brooklyn, N. Y 1917

Post, James Howard Woodside, N. Y 1917

Post, James S Philadelphia, Pa 1910

Post, Livingston S Paterson, N.J 1909

Post, Walter Passaic, N. J 1909

Poucher, J. Wilson Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1890

Prall, William Princeton, N. J 1887

Prall, William Russell Boonton, N. J 1910

Provost, Andrew Jackson Brooklyn, N. Y 1904

Provost, Harry Stokes Trenton, N. J 1919

Pruyn, Foster Albany, N. Y 191 1

Pruyn, Robert C Albany, N. Y 1886

Quackenbos, Henry Forrest New York City 1894

Quackenbos, John Duncan New York City 191 2

Quackenbush, Abraham C New York City 1885

Quackenbush, Edgar New York City 1920

Quackenbush, Edward Sherwood, Oregon 191 1

Quackenbush, Eugene Schuyler New York City 1920

Quackenbush, Harold W Hackensack, N. J . . . . 1921

Quackenbush, Leonard De Graw Hackensack, N. J . . . . 1921

Quackenbush, Peter C Paterson, N. J 1915

Quinby, Frank Haviland Brooklyn, N. Y igi2

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Rapelje, Charles Vanderveer Elmhurst, N. Y 191 2

Rapelje, Peter Brooklyn, N.'Y 1913

Rapelje, Peter Ditmars Brooklyn, N. Y 191 2

Rapelje, Walter Suydam Brooklyn, N. Y 1913

Rapelye, John A Elmhurst, N. Y 1911

Remsen, Phceniz Cazenovia, N. Y 1894

Riker, Henry IngersoU New York City 1895

RiKER, John Jackson New York City 1886

Romaine, De Witt Clinton New York City 1889

Romeyn, James A Hackensack, N. J 1904

Roosa, Frederick Howland New York City 1907

Roosa, Isaac Percival New York City 1921

Roosa, Jay Hardenburgh Kingston, N. Y 1907

Roosa, Philip G Albany, N. Y 1911

Roosa, Tracy Louis New York City 1908

Roosevelt, Franklin D Hyde Park, N. Y 1910

Roosevelt, James Roosevelt .jHyde Park, N. Y 1919

Roosevelt, Robert B New York City 1885

Roosevelt, Theodore Oyster Bay, N. Y. . . . 1919

Ryder, Charles A Jamaica, L. 1 1915

Ryer, Thomas Albert Jersey Cityi N. J 1914

Ryerson, Jacob V Jamaica, L. 1 1913

Sanders, William N. S Albany, N. Y 1890

Sayres, Gilbert Barker Richmond Hill, N. Y.. 1907

Schenck, Charles De Bevoise Englewood, N. J 1898

Schenck, Charles Lott Brooklyn, N. Y 1901

Schenck, Douglas S Jersey City, N. J 1908

Schenck, Edward Felton New York City 191 1

Schenck, Frederick Parmenter East Orange, N. J. . . . 1917

Schenck, Henry Crane Ridgefield Park, N. J. 1919

Schenck, Henry De Bevoise Ridgefield, Ct 1892

Schenck, Martin Manhasset, N. Y 1920

Schenck, Mervin Ryerson Wyoming, N. J 1903

Schenck, Robert P Jersey City, N. J 1908

Schenck, Vincent R Jersey City, N. J 1908

Schenck, Willard Parker Brooklyn, N. Y 1920

Schermerhom, Arthur Frederic New York City 1909

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Name Address Admitted

Schermerhorn, E. Gibert New York City 1909

Schermerhorn, J. Maus New York City 1886

Schermerhorn, Julian H Jersey City, N. J 1902

Schermerhorn, Nicholas Irving Schenectady, N. Y 1898

Schomp, William Wyckoff Newburgh, N. Y 1893

Schoonmaker, Alfred A Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . .1920

Schoonmaker, Herbert Sage New York City 1920

Schoonmaker, James M Pittsburgh, Pa 1889

Schoonmaker, James O Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ..1921

Schoonmaker, Nathaniel Roos Nyack, N. Y 1904

Schoonmaker, Samuel V Newburgh, N. Y 1909

Schurman, George Wellington New York City 1895

Schurman, Jacob Gould Ithaca, N. Y 1892

Schuyler, Clarence R Bloomfield, N. J 1912

Schuyler, Montgomery Roosevelt. . . .Nyack, N. Y 1885

Schuyler, PhiKp Van Rensselaer New York City 1907

Schuyler, Sidney Schieffelin Plainfield, N. J 1907

Schuyler, Stephen Ballston Spa, N. Y. . . 1889

Sickels, John E West Nyack, N. Y 1916

Simonson, Charles Edgar West New Brighton,

N. Y.. .1909

Simonson, William Abram New York City 1908

Sip, Richard Garrett Jersey City, N. J 1908

Skaats, David Schuyler New York City 1899

Skillman, Joseph H Flushing, N. Y 1892

Sleght, Bevier Has Brouck Newark, N. J 1904

Sleight, David B Arlington, N. Y 1908

Sleight, Peter R Arlington, N. Y 1908

Slingerland, George Oscar Mechanicsville, N. Y.. 1910

Slingerland, Harold Bullock Saratoga Springs,

N. Y 1920

Sloat, Benjamin C Patterson, N. Y 1910

Sloat, Edson S Patterson, N. Y 1911

Smidt, a. Campbell Lee New York City 1909

Smidt, Frank B New York City 1888

Smith, H. Armour Yonkers, N. Y 1920

Snedeker, Alfred Mel vine New York City 1904

Snedeker, Charles Dippolt Perth Amboy, N. J 1908

Springsteen, Azariah M Forest Hills, N. Y 1913

Springsteen, David Forest Hills, N. Y 191 3

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Springsteen, Howard D Forest Hills, N. Y 1919

Staats, Franklin Arthur Philadelphia, Pa 1920

Staats, John Henry New York City 1907

Stagg, Edward Leonia, N. J 1892

Stagg, Peter Westervelt Hackensack, N. J 1905

Starin, James Henry Homer, N. Y 1904

Starin, Stephen Holt Syracuse, N. Y 1913

Stevens, John Bright W. New Brighton,

N. Y...1888

Stillwell, John E New York City 1901

Storm, Irving G Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 1902

Stoutenburgh, Abram Sheffield Culver, Ind 191 2

Stoutenburgh, John Hall New York City 1905

Stryker, John Edwards St. Paul, Minn 1893

Stryker, Peter Madison, N. J 1917

Stymus, William Pierre, Jr Port Chester, N. Y. . . . 1903

Sutphen, Carlyle E., Jr Newark, N.J 1904

Sutphen, Duncan Dunbar New York City 1897

Sutphen, Henry R New York City 1912

Sutphen, John Schureman New York City 1890

Sutphen, Theron Y Newark, N. J 1892

Sutphen, ^Uiam Potter Bloomfield, N. J 1904

Suydam, Evert Verona, N. J 1899

Suydam, Lambert New York City 1900

Suydam, Walter Lispenard Blue Point, N. Y 1905

Swart, Roland B Glen Ridge, N. J 1908

Swartwout, John Benjamin Richmond, Va 1909

Tallman, Francis John Newton Brooklyn, N. Y 1914

Tappen, Frank Muir Hackensack, N. J . . . . 1916

Tappen, Henry Passiac, N. J 1919

Teller, George Bingham Cranford, N. J 1919

Teller, George Gregg Cranford, N. J 1906

Teller, Harold Rickards Brooklyn^ N. Y 1919

Teller, Myron Kingston, N. Y 1896

Ten Broeck, Charles Cornwall Kingston, N. Y 1899

Ten Broeck, Theodore Morris Bayonne, N. J 1919

Ten Eyck, Mills Albany, N. Y 1911

Ten Eyck, Peter G Albany, N. Y 1911

Terhune, Everit Bogert Swampscott, Mass 1918

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Name Address Admitted

Terhunfe, J. Edwin New York City 1910

Terhune, John Alexander Hackensack, N. J . . . . 1918

Terhune, John Irving Paterson, N. J 1905

Terhune, Nicholas New York City 1908

Terhune, P. Christie Hackensack, N. J 1906

Terhune, Peter P New York City 1912

Terhune, TenBroeck Monroe New York City 19 17

Terhune, Walter Hackensack, N. J 1905

Terhune, William Lewis Swampscott, Mass. . . 1916

Terwilliger, Byron J New Paltz, N. Y 1918

Terwilliger, Edward N EUenville, N. Y 191 1

Truex, William E Freehold, N. J 1890

Turck, Fenton Benedict New York City 1917

Turck, William J Kingston, N. Y 1918

Turner, Charles Henry Black Lewes, Del 1904

Underhill, Francis Jay New York City 1907

Underhill, Frederic Edgaf New York City .1921

VAN A

Van Aken, Harry Herbert Port Ewen, N. Y 1915

Van Alen, Benjamin Taylor Jersey City, N. J 191 3

Van Allen, William Harman Boston, Mass 1890

Van Alstine, Philip Spring Valley, N. Y. . . 1898

Van Alstyne, Lawrence Sharon, Ct 1893

Van Alstyne, Percy W New York City 1905

Van Alstyne, William Becker Plainfield, N. J 1904

Van Antwerp, Dudley Strickland. . . .Montclair, N. J 1909

Van Antwerp, Elmer Howard Denver, Colo 1910

Van Antwerp, Frederick G Montclair, N. J 1909

Van Antwerp, Thomas Irwin Albany, N. Y 1889

Van Antwerp, William C New York City 1892

Van Arsdale, George D Pasadena, Cal 1910

Van Arsdale, Henry Newark, N. J '. 1892

Van Arsdale, Henry, Jr Newark, N. J 1914

VAN B

Van Benschoten, Elias T Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 1908

Van Benschoten, Elmer New York City 1917

Van Benschoten, John Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 1908

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van Benschoten, Richard Palmer. . . .New Haven, Ct 191 2

Van Benschoten, William A Paradise Valley, Ariz.. 1904

Van Benschoten, William Henry West Park, N. Y 1902

Van Benschoten, William Henry New York City 1906

Van Benthuysen, Walter New Orleans, La 1892

Van Beuren, Frederick T New York City 1885

Van Blarcom, Wessels Paterson, N.J 1914

Van Blaricom, George W Jersey City, N. J 191 3

Van Brunt, Arthur Hoffman New York City 1885

Van Brunt, Cornelius Bergen Bay Ridge, N. Y. . . . 1891

Van Brunt, Jaques Brooklyn, N. Y 1905

Van Brunt, Jeremiah Rutger Brooklyn, N. Y 1905

Van Brunt, Mervin Schenck Brooklyn, N. Y 1913

Van Brunt, Willis Dale Southampton, N. Y. . . 192 1

Van Buren, Charles Henry Englewood, N. J 1908

Van Buren, Edward Morris Plainfield, N. J 1919

Van Buren, Howard Nyack, N. Y 1915

Van Buren, John Craig San Francisco, Calif.. . 191 3

Van Buren, Martin Enders Chicago, 111 1913

Van Buskirk, Arthur Hackensack, N. J 1905

Van Buskirk, Charles John Hackensack, N. J 1906

Van Buskirk, De Witt Bayonne, N. J 1889

Van Buskirk, William Ridgewood, N. J 1914

VAN C

Van Cleef, Henry Howell Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . 1895

Van Cleve, Garret Clifton, N. J 1909

Van Cott, John Daire Brooklyn, N. Y 1918

Van Cott, Pierrepont New York City 1909

Van Cott, Waldemar Salt Lake City, Utah . . 1907

VAN D

Vander Beek, Francis Isaac Glen Spey, N. Y 1892

Vander Beek, Francis Isaac, Jr New York City 1917

Vanderhoef, Frank Fellows New York City 1899

Vanderhoef, George Wyckoff New York City 1905

Vanderhoef, George Wyckoff, Jr New York City 1916

Vanderhoef, Harman Blauvelt New York City 1898

Vanderhoef, Nathaniel Wyckoff New York City 1899

Vanderhoof, William M Bronxville, N. Y 1906

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Name Address Admitted

Vanderpoel, Harold Wilkes Hastings-on-Hudson,

N. Y 1919

Vander Poel, S. Oakley New York City 1911

Vander Poel, W. Halsted New York City 191 1

Vanderpoel, William Kemp South Orange, N. J. . . 1919

Vanderpool, Wynant Davis Morristown, N.J 1907

Vander Veer, Albert Albany, N. Y 1885

Vander Veer, Albert, Jr New York City 1905

Vander Veer, Edgar Albert Albany, N. Y 1895

Vanderveer, Edward Bennett Brooklyn, N. Y 1905

Vander Veer, Francis S Somerville, N. J 191 2

Vanderveer, Henry Boerum Brooklyn, N. Y 1898

Vander Veer, James Newell Albany, N. Y 1904

Vanderveer, John West Islip, N. Y 1912

Vanderveer, John H Elmhurst, N. Y 1910

Vanderveer, John Lott Brooklyn, N. Y 191 2

Vander Veer, Seeley New York City 1906

Vandervoort, Frederick Ten Eyck Paterson, N. J 1914

Vandervoort, John Coe Paterson, N. J 1914

Van Deusen, Frank Montague Sylacauga, Ala 1892

Van Deusen, George Clark Albany, N. Y 1897

Van Deusen, Leon Wilson Canandaigua, N. Y. . . 1915

Van Deusen, Richard James Havana, Cuba 1917

Van Deusen, Walter M Newark, N. J 1913

Vandevanter, Charles Oscar Leesburg, Va 1897

Vandeventer, Braden Norfolk, Va 1920

Van Deventer, Christopher Chicago, 111 1897

Van De Water, George Roe New York City 1886

Van Doren, J. I Ilion, N. Y 1914

Van Doren, Louis O New York City 1887

Van Doren, Nathaniel Goodwin Newark, N. J 1907

Van Dusen, James Wallace Washington, D. C 1915

Van Duyn, John Syracuse, N. Y 1887

Van Duzer, Adelbert Hervey New York City. ..... 191 2

Van Duzer, Frank A Albany, N. Y 191 1

Van Duzer, Lewis S Horseheads, N. Y 1910

Vandyck, James Rutherford Hackensack, N. J 1916

Van Dyke, Henry Princeton, N. J 1885

Van Dyke, Robert L New York City 1913

Van Dyke, Theodore A., Jr Philadelphia, Pa 1906

Van Dyke, William Detroit, Mich 1908

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Name Address Admitted

Van Epps, Robert Johnson New York City 1914

Van Etten, Amos Kingston, N. Y 1886

Van Etten, Edgar Los Angeles, Cal 1887

Van Etten, John de Camp Tuckahoe, N. Y 1909

Van Etten, Nathan Bristol New York City 1898

VAN G

Van Gaasbeek, Amos C Chester, N. J 1892

Van Gaasbeek, Harvey David Sussex, N. J 1896

Van Gaasbeek, Louis Wheat Brooklyn, N. Y 1914

Van Gieson, Henry B Bridgeport, Ct 1915

Van Gieson, John Banta Hackensack, N. J 1907

Van Gieson, Ross Elliott Bridgeport, Ct 1919

Van Gilder, Charles Gage Morristown, N. J 191 2

Van Gilder, Charles Pruden Morristown, N. J 1920

Van Gilder, Harry Pruden Morristown, N. J 191 2

Van Guysling, George Edmund Los Angeles, Cal 1904

VAN H

Van Heusen, Charles Manning Albany, N. Y 1896

Van Hoesen, David Wadsworth Mesa, Idaho 1903

Van Hoesen, Henry Bartlett Princeton, N.J 1907

Van Horn, Frank Milton Murray Hill, N.J 1905

Van Home, Byron G Englewood, N.J 1901

Van Houten, Alfred B Wyckoff, N. J 1915

Van Houten, George Dexter Richmond Hill, N. Y.. 1906

Van Houten, Isaac Paterson, N. J 1900

Van Houten, Zabriskie A Passaic, N. J 1906

VAN I

Van Inwegen, Charles F Port Jervis, N. Y 1888

Van Inwegen, Cornelius Wyoming, N. J 1908

VAN K

Van Keuren, Charles A Jersey City, N. J 1909

Van Keuren, Qarence E Montclair, N. J 1912

Van Keuren, Fred C Newark, N. J 1909

Van Keuren, George Englewood, N. J 1909

Van Keuren, Graham Jersey City, N. J 1909

Van Keuren, William Jersey City, N. J 1909

Van Kleeck, Barnard D Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1915

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Name Address Admitted

Van Kleeck, Charles Mayer New York City 1902

Van Kleeck, Louis Ashley Manhasset, N. Y 1920

Van Kleeck, Theodore Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 1889

VAN L

Van Liew, Alfred B Bloomfield, N. J 1909

Van Liew, Henry A New York City 1897

Van Loan, Andrew B Athens, N. Y 1891

Van Loan, James C. P New York City 1905

Van Loan, Joseph T New York City 1907

Van Loan, Morton Albany, N. Y 1904

Van Loan, Schuyler Brooklyn, N. Y 1920

Van Loan, Thomas Brooklyn, N. Y 1890

Van Loan, William Thomas Athens, N. Y 1912

Van Loan, Zelah Babylon, N. Y 1893

VAN M
Van Mater, Gilbert Taylor Keyport, N. J 1905

VAN N

Van Name, Calvin Decker Mariner's Harbor,

N. Y...1888

Van Ness, Carl Condit Newark, N. J 1916

Van Ness, Melville C Paterson, N. J 1909

Van Ness, Schuyler Waldron Framingham, Mass. . . 1904

Van Ness, Wallace Newark, N. J 1903

Van Ness, Wallace M Paterson, N. J 1909

Van Nest, Frank Roe Upper Montclair,

N.J... 1888

Van Nest, John Stout Princeton, N. J 1920

Van Norden, Ernest M Brooklyn, N. Y 1921

Van Norden, Howard Livingstone .... Katonah, N. Y 1920

Van Norden, Ottomar Hoghland New York City 1904

Van Nostrand, Benjamin T Brooklyn, N. Y 1910

Van Nostrand, Frank D New York City 1897

Van Nostrand, Harold Townsend . . , .Orange, N. J 191 2

Van Nostrand, John E Evergreen, N. Y 1885

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Name Address Admitted

Van OUnda, James E Brooklyn, N. Y 1889

Van OUnda, Walter King Brooklyn, N. Y 1909

Van Orden, Albert Randell Montclair, N. J 1905

Van Orden, William Catskill, N. Y 1886

VAN P

Van Pelt, John Jacob Brooklyn, N. Y 1909

Van Pelt, Walter G Los Angeles, Cal 1899

VAN R

Van Reypen, William Knickerbocker. Washington, D. C 1887

Van Riper, Alfred Jacob Hackensack, N. J . . . . 1908

Van Riper, Arthur Ward Passaic, N. J 1906

Van Riper, Charles King Carmel-by-the-Sea,

Cal 1916

Van Riper, Donald K Paterson, N. J 1916

Van Riper, Julius Fernando Westfield, N. J 1897

VAN S

Van Santvoord, George Troy, N. Y 1913

Van Santvoord, John Griswold Troy, N. Y 1916

Van Santvoord, Seymour Troy, N. Y 1887

Van Sickle, John Auburn, N. Y 1908

Van Siclen, Abraham L Hollis Park Gardens,

N.Y 1912

Van Siclen, Clinton De Witt Elmhurst, N. Y 1921

Van Siclen, G. Elmer Hollis, N. Y 1912

Van Siclen, Garrett M Jamaica, N. Y 1913

Van Siclen, G. Schenck Brooklyn, N.Y 1909

Van Siclen, James Cornell Jamaica, N. Y 1912

Van Siclen, John Remsen Jamaica, N. Y 1912

Van Siclen, Peter Nostrand Jamaica, N. Y 191 2

Van Siclen, Wyckoff Jamaica, N. Y 1912

Van Sinderen, Howard New York City 1885

Van Slyke, George W Albany, N. Y 1907

Van Slyke, Horace McBride Trenton, N. J 1915

Van Slyke, John O Newark, N. J 1915

Van Slyke, Warren Clark New York City. . 1895

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Name Address Admitted

Van Slyke, William Hoag Kingston, N. Y 1907

Van Syckel, Bennet Trenton, N. J 1885

Van Syckel, Charles S Trenton, N. J 1892

Van Syckel, James Stephens Trenton, N. J 1921

Van Syckel, Lamar Plainfield, N. J 1908

VAN T

Van Tassell, Perlee. .• Jersey City, N. J 1921

Van Tassell, Richard L Passaic, N. J igog

VAN V

Van Valen, Charles B Newark, N. J 1912

Van Valen, Garret A Woodcliff Lake, N. J. . 191 1

Van Valen, James A Hackensack, N. J 1906

Van Valkenburgh, John Bradford . . . .Albany, N. Y 1910

Van Valkenburgh, Raymond H Schenectady, N. Y 1899

Van Vechten, Arthur Livingston Elizabeth, N. J 1910

Van Vechten, Charles D Cedar Rapids, la 1892

Van Vechten, Eugene Montgomery

Elizabeth, N. J 1910

Van Vechten, Henry Girard New Brighton, N. Y.. . 1912

Van Vechten, Ralph Chicago, 111 1892

Van Vechten, Robert Clarkson Elizabeth, N. J 1910

Van Vechten, Schuyler Livingston

Elizabeth, N. J 1919

Van Vliet, Dense Mairs Plainfield, N. J 1885

Van Vliet, Frederick Christiaan, Jr. . . Shrewsbury, N. J 1910

Van Vliet, George S Staatsburg, N. Y 1897

Van Voast, Horace S Schenectady, N. Y 1909

Van Voast, Horace S., Jr Schenectady, N. Y... . 1919

Van Voast, James A Schenectady, N. Y 1885

Van Voast, Rufus A Cincinnati, 1907

Van Volkenburgh, Thomas S New York City 1885

Van Voorhis, Eugene Irondequoit, N. Y. . . . 1892

Van Vorhis, Harry Stephen New York City 1914

Van Vredenburgh, Geo. Ward Matamoras, Pa 1903

VAN W

Van Wagenen, Bleecker South Orange, N. J 1886

Van Wagenen, Easton New Paltz, N. Y 1907

48 The Holland Society

Name Address Admitted

Van Wagenen, Edward W New York City 1912

Van Wagenen, Henry William Morristown, N. J 1888

Van Wagner, Ernest Lyon Tottenville, N. Y 1907

Van Wagner, Roy Webb Waterbury, Ct 1907

Van Winkle, Arthur A Jersey City, N. J 1912

Van Winkle, Arthur W Rutherford, N. J 1903

Van Winkle, Charles A Rutherford, N.J 1905

Van Winkle, Daniel Jersey City, N. J 1898

Van Winkle, Edgar C New York City 1917

Van Winkle, Frank O Ridgewood, N. J 1889

Van Winkle, Henry L San Francisco, Cal 1908

Van Winkle, J. Albert Paterson, N. J 1886

Van Winkle, Marshall Jersey City, N. J 1894

Van Winkle, Stirling Rutherford, N. J 1919

Van Winkle, Theodore Rutherford, N. J 1916

Van Winkle, Thomas Earle Jersey City, N. J 1906

Van Woert, James Burtis New York City 1902

Van Woert, Morgan Mon tclair, N. J 1919

Van Woert, Rutger Montclair, N. J 1917

Van Woert, William Montclair, N. J 1898

Van Wyck, Albert Brooklyn, N. Y 1893

Van Wyck, Allen New York City 1919

Van Wyck, Augustus New York City 1885

Van Wyck, David B Arlington, N. Y 1902

Van Wyck, Edward W Huntington, N. Y 191 3

Van Wyck, E. Hawley Cranford, N. J 1911

Van Wyck, Frederick West Islip, N. Y 1905

Van Wyck, Herbert Lee New York City 1915

Van Wyck, Joseph H Arlington, N. Y 1899

Van Wyck, Philip V. R Summit, N. J 1893

Van Wyck, Walter Babylon, N. Y 1912

Van Wyck, William Brooklyn, N. Y 1892

Van Wyck, William New York City 1906

Varick, Theodore Romeyn Yonkers, N. Y 1885

Varick, Theodore Romeyn, HI Kinderhook, N. Y 1907

Varick, Uzal C Glen Ridge, N. J 191 1

Vedder, Harmon A New York City 1891

Vedder, Wentworth Darcy Pottsdam, Pa 1892

List of Members 49

Name Address Admitted

Vedder, William H Pasadena, Cal 191 1

Veeder, Herman Greig Pittsburgh, Pa 1894

Vecder, R. De Witt Schenectady, N. Y 1915

Veeder, Ten Eyck De Witt Washington, D. C. . . 1888

Veeder, Van Vechten Brooklyn, N. Y 1901

Vermeule, Cornelius C East Orange, N. J 1889

Vermeule, Cornelius C, Jr East Orange, N. J 1920

Vermilye, Herbert Noble New York City 1919

Vermilye, William Moorehead Montclair, N. J 1920

Ver Planck, William G New York City 1885

Viele, Charles Lewis Bronxville, N. Y 191 1

Viele, Dorr New York City 1915

Viele, John J Bronxville, N. Y i8go

Visscher, Barent Lambert Mountain Lakes, N. J.1916

Visscher, William Leversee Albany, N. Y 1909

Voorhees, Albert V. B Brooklyn, N.Y 1898

Voorhees, Anson A Upper Montclair,

N.J... 1887
Voorhees, Anson Willard Upper Montclair,

N. J...191S

Voorhees, Boynton Stephen Yonkers, N. Y 1917

Voorhees, Edwin Strange Rocky Hill, N. J 1904

Voorhees, Foster M Elizabeth, N. J 1900

Voorhees, Harvey McLean Trenton, N. J 1908

Voorhees, H. Russell Plainfield, N. J 1910

Voorhees, James Ditmars New York City 1916

Voorhees, John A Brooklyn, N. Y 1898

Voorhees, John Jacob Jersey C^ty, N. J 1889

Voorhees, John Jay, Jr Jersey City, N. J 1902

Voorhees, John Stanley Cranford, N. J 1907

Voorhees, Judah Back Brooklyn, N. Y 1887

Voorhees, J. Edgar Upper Montclair,

N. J.. .1911

Voorhees, Stephen F Nyack, N. Y 1904

Voorhees, Willis Arthur Westerleigh, S. I 1917

Voorhis, Augustus M Nyack, N. Y 1887

Voorhis, Caspar J River Edge, N. J 1914

Voorhis, Charles Calvin New York City 1917

Voorhis, Jacob Greenwich, Ct 1889

Voorhis, John R New York City 1886

Voorhis, Peter Albert Hopper Yonkers, N. Y 1918

The Holland Society

Name Address Admitted

Voorhis, William L WestN.Brighton,N.Y.i9i2

Vosburgh, Philip de Milhau New Brighton, N. Y. . 1919

Vosburgh, Royden Woodward New Brighton, N. Y. . . 1899

Vredenburgh, La Rue Somerville, N. J 1894

Vreeland, Charies M Jersey City, N. J 1909

Vreeland, Frederick King Montclair, N. J 1912

Vreeland, Hamilton Jersey City, N. J 1909

Vreeland, Harold Van Pelt Chariotte, N. C 1911

Vreeland, Herbert Harold New York City 1902

Vreeland, Herbert Harold, Jr New York City 1916

Vreeland, Howard Romine Jersey City, N. J 191 2

Vreeland, Joseph Warren Jersey City, N. J 1909

Vreeland, Louis Beach Charlotte, N. C 1910

Vreeland, Nehemiah Paterson, N.J 1909

Vreeland, Nicholas Garretson Metuchen, N. J 191 3

Vreeland, William Norbury Jersey City, N. J 1920

Vroman, Dow N.Tonawanda, N. Y. 1917

Vroom, Peter Dumont New York City 1886

Vrooman, Isaac H., Jr Albany, N. Y 1909

Vrooman, John Wright Herkimer, N. Y 1886

Waldron, Frederick Arden Westfield, N. J

Waldron, Herbert M New Brunswick, N. J. .

Waldron, William Gunsaul Amsterdam, N. Y

Wanzer, William Henry Slingerlands, N. Y

Wendell, James Augustus Albany, N. Y

Wendell, Willis Amsterdam, N. Y

Westervelt, John C New York City

Westervelt, Josiah Arnold New York City

Westervelt, William Young New York City

Whitbeck, Andrew J Boston, Mass

WicofF, John Van Buren Trenton, N. J

Williamson, Royden New Rochelle, N. Y. . .

Williamson, William A Newark, N. J

Wilsey, Walter W Ridgewood, N. J

Wiltsie, Charles Hastings Rochester, N. Y

Winne, Alonzo E Kingston, N. Y

Winne, Charles K., Jr Albany, N. Y

Witbeck, Charles Lansing Cohoes, N. Y

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Name Address Aduitted

Woolsey, Qarence Hood New Paltz, N. Y., .-. .1906

Wortendyke, Jacob Rynier Jersey City, N. J 1905

Wortendyke, Nicholas Doremus Jersey City, N. J 1904.

Wortendyke, Rynier Jacob Jersey City, N, J 1899

Wyckoff, Abraham Vanderveer Bay Shore, N. Y 1920

Wyckoff, Charles Rapelyea Hartsdalc, N. Y 1909

Wyckoff, Charles Sterling Walton, N. Y 1909

Wyckoff, Clarence Johnson Hartsdale, N. Y 1905

Wyckoff, Edwin M Rochester, N. Y 1908

Wyckoff, Frank Tuttle Springfield, Mass 1921

Wyckoff, James Perry, N. Y 1918

Wyckoff, James Newton Perry, N. Y 1918

Wyckoff, Joseph Lewis Holyoke, Mass 1899

Wyckoff, Peter B New York City 1890

Wyckoff, Richard Tuttle Springfield, Mass 1908

Wyckoff, Wlliam F Jamaica, L. 1 1887

Wynkoop, Asa Albany, N. Y 191 1

Wynkoop, Edward J Syracuse, N. Y 1896

Wynkoop, Hubert Schuurman Brooklyn, N. Y 1914

Zabriskie, Albert Patcrson, N. J 1912

Zabriskie, Albert A Kingston, N. Y 1903

Zabriskie, C. Brevoort Port Jefferson, L. I 1898

Zabriskie, Edgar Maplewood, N. J 1905

Zabriskie, Edward Graham New York City 1909

Zabriskie, Frederick Conklin Hackcnsack, N. J 1909

Zabriskie, George Albert New York City '904

Zabriskie, Simeon Templeton New York City 1896

Zabriskie, William Ackerman Patcrson, N. J 1919

Zabriskie, William Hastings Oradell, N. J 1904

( «re written in Cap* and SnuU Cipi are life

LIST OF DECEASED MEMBERS

Name Addkess

Neilson Abcel Newark, N. J.

Charles Livingston Acker New York

David D. Acker New York

David De Peyster Acker Lob Angeles, Cal.

William S. Ackerman Paterson, N. J.

Edward Boyce Adriance New York

John Butler Adriance New Haven, Conn.

John Peter Adriance Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Peter Adriance Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Benjamin Lander Amerman New York

Richard Amerman Flatbueh, N. Y.

Charles Banu New York

Cornelius Vrecland Banta Roselle, N. J.

David Demarec Banta Bloomington, Ind.

George Aaron Banta Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Banta New York

Theodore Melvin BanU Brooklyn, N. Y.

Theodore Wells Barhydt Pasadena, Cal.

Thomas Francis Bayard Wilmington, Del.

Frederick Cruser Bayles Houston, Miss.

Robert Bayles Englewood, N. J.

George L. Becker St. Paul, Minn.

Gerard Beekman New York

James William Beekman New York

Henry Rutger Beekman New York

DECEASED MEMBERS 53

Name Address

Albert V. Bensen Albany, N. Y.

Abram Winfred Bergen Cornwall, N. Y.

Edward Jacob Bergen Brooklyn, N. Y.

Ernest Graves Bergen New York

Herman S. Bergen Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tunis Henry Bergen Brooklyn, N. Y.

Van Brunt Bergen Brooklyn, N. Y.

Zaccheus Bergen New York

Richard J. Berry Brooklyn, N. Y.

George Van Houten Blauvelt Nyack, N. Y.

Delavan Bloodgood Brooklyn, N. Y.

Francis Bloodgood Milwaukee, Wis.

Hildreth K, Bloodgood New York

J. F. Bloodgood Flushing, N. Y.

Cornelius Bloomingdale New York

John Brower Blydenburgh Hudson, N. Y.

Washington A. H. Bogardus New York

John Bogart , New York

Peter Bogart, Jr Bogota, N. J.

Albert Gilliam Bogert Nyack, N, Y.

Andrew Demarest Bogert Englewood, N. J.

Edward Langdon Bogert New Brighton, N. Y.

Edward Strong Bogert New York

Henry Augustine Bogert Flushing, N. Y.

John G. Bogert New York

Stephen Gilliam Bogert New York

Stephen Van Rensselaer Bogert New Brighton, N. Y.

Walter Bogert Tenafly, N. J.

William Jesse Bogert Westfield, N. J.

William Russell Bogert New Brighton, N. Y.

Rasselas A. Bonta Syracuse, N. Y.

Henry Lienau Booraem New Brunswick, N. J.

Sylvester Daley Boorom Horseheads, N. Y.

Samuel C. Bradt Albany, N. Y.

James Renwick Brevoort Yonkers, N. Y.

John Butler Brevoort Johnsonburg, Pa.

Elbert Adrian BrinckerhofF Englewood, N. J.

Gurdon Grant Brinckerhoff New York

Henry Waller Brinckerhoff Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Henry Brinckerhoff Jamaica, N. Y.

Benjamin Myer Brink Saugerties, N. Y.

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54 The Holland Society

Name Address

George Alyea Brinkerhoff Hackensack, N. J.

Robert Bentley Brinkerhoff Pelham Manor, N. Y.

Samuel BrinkerhoflF Fremont, O.

Van Wyck BrinkerhoflF New York

William Rea Bronk New York

William Bross Chicago, 111.

Theophilus Anthony Brouwer New York

Abraham Giles Brower Utica, N. Y.

Bloomfield Brower New York

David Brower Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Brower New York

William Wallace Brower New York

James Hudson Brown Stamford, Conn.

Paul Richard Brown Tulsa, Ind. Ter.

Augustus Hasbrouck Bruyn Kingston, N. Y.

Charles Burhans Kingston, N. Y.

Samuel Burhans, Jr New York

Arthur Burtis Buffalo, N. Y

Peter Phillips Burtis Buffalo, N. Y*

Charles Freeman Cantine Kingston, N. Y.

Peter Cantine Saugerties, N. Y.

Jacob Winne Clute Schenectady, N. Y.

David Cole Yonkers, N. Y.

Alonzo Edward Conover New York

Charles E. Conover Middletown, N. J.

Frederic King Conover Madison, Wis.

Harry M. Conover Upper Montclair, N. J.

James Scott Conover New York

Stacy Prickett Conover Wickatunk, N. J.

Warren A. Conover New York

Cornelius S. Cooper Schraalenburgh, N. J.

Ebenezer Lane Cooper New York

James C. Cooper River Edge, N. J.

John William Cooper Brooklyn, N. Y.

Washington Lafayette Cooper New York

Lawrence Van Voorhees Cortelyou Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Cowenhoven Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Coykendall Newark, N. J.

Samuel Decker Coykendall Rondout, N. Y.

Deceased Members 55

Name Address

Charles Winegar Crispell Rondout, N. Y.

Matthias Van Dyke Cniser Brooklyn, N. Y.

Cornelius Cuyler Cuyler New York

Charles R. Dc Bevoise Newark, N. J.

George Pine De Bevoise Denver, Col.

George W. Debevoise New York

Isaac C. De Bevoise Brooklyn, N. Y.

Charles Rutger De Freest Brooklyn, N. Y,

Henry Peek De Graaf Oscawana, N. Y.

Alfred De Groot Port Richmond, N. Y.

Harry Van der Veer De Hart Elizabeth, N. J.

Sidney De Kay Staten Island, N. Y.

Leander Mortimer De La Mater Elizabeth, N. J.

Charles De La Montanye Port Ewen, N, Y.

Benjamin W, Demarest Nyack, N. Y.

Isaac I. Demarest Hackensack, N. J.

John Demarest Newark, N. J.

David Demarest Denise Freehold, N. J.

Frederick J. De Peyster New York

John Watts de Peyster Tivoli, N. Y.

Johnston Livingston De Peyster Tivoli, N. Y-

Alfred De Witt Staatsburgh, N. Y.

Charles Adolphus De Witt Jersey City, N. J,

Cornelius De Witt Norfolk, Va.

George G. De Witt Nyack, N. Y.

George Gosman De Witt New York

John Evert De Witt Portland, Me.

Richard Varick De Witt Albany, N. Y.

Seymour De Witt Middletown, N. Y.

Sutherland De Witt Elmira, N. Y.

Thomas Dunkin De Witt New York

William C. De Witt Brooklyn, N. Y.

Anthony Dey New York

Joseph Warren Scott Dey New York

Peter A. Dey Iowa City, Iowa

Andrew Deyo Yonkers, N. Y.

Jacob Deyo New Paltz, N. Y.

Jerome Vemet Deyo Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Peter Deyo Albany, N. Y.

56 The Holland Society

Name Address

John Henry Dingman Brooklyn, N. Y.

Abram Douwe Ditmars Brooklyn, N. Y.

Cornelius Ditmars Flatbush, N. Y.

Abraham B. Du Bois New Paltz, N. Y.

Coert Du Bois New York

Cornelius Du Bois New York

Elijah Du Bois Kingston, N. Y.

Eugene Du Bois Staten Island, N. Y.

Francis Latta Du Bois Bridgeton, N. J.

Cornelius J. Dumond New York

Hiram Duryea Brooklyn, N. Y.

Samuel Bowne Duryea Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jacob Eugene Duryee Los Angeles, Cal.

Joseph Woodard Duryee New York

William Rankin Duryee New Brunswick, N. J.

Charles Eagles Dusenberry Troy, N. Y.

Caleb Coles Dusenbury New York

Edwin Ruthven Dusinbery Liberty, N. Y.

Silas Belden Dutcher Brooklyn, N. Y.

Kenneth A. Earl* Montclair, N. J.

Peter Q. Eckerson New York

Thomas Henry Edsall Colorado Springs, Col.

Joachim Elmendorf Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

John Augustus Elmendorf New York

NicoU Floyd Elmendorf New York

William Stark Elmendorf Albany, N. Y.

Edward Elsworth Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Ezekiel J. Elting Yonkers, N. Y,

Peter Jacobus Elting Yonkers, N. Y.

Sherman Esselstyn Brooklyn, N. Y.

Douw Henry Fonda Albany, N. Y.

Peter Van Vranken Fort Albany, N. Y.

Robert L. Fryer Buffalo, N. Y.

William John Fryer New York

*Hi8 name has never appeared on the List of Members of the Society for the
reason that he was elected at the meeting on December ii. 1919, too late to appear
in the 1919 Year Book.

Deceased Members 57

Name Address

William Dominick Garrison New York

Ogden Goelet New York

Robert Goelet New York

Edward Anson Groesbeck Albany, N. Y.

Leonard Harvey Groesbeck Syracuse, N. Y.

Arnatt Reading Gulick New York

Ernestus Schenck Gulick New York

James C. Gulick. .New York

John Callbreath Gulick New York

Luther H. Gulick New York

Andrew James Hageman Somerville, N. J.

William White Hance Palenville, N. Y.

Arthur T. Hanson Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

Abram Jansen Hardenbergh Spring H'se, N. Y.

Augustus A. Hardenbergh Jersey City, N. J.

Louis V. D. Hardenbergh Brooklyn, N. Y.

Thomas Eddy Hardenbergh New York

George Titus Haring Allendale, N. J.

Isaac Cornelius Haring West Nyack, N. Y.

Alfred Hasbrouck Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Alfred Hasbrouck San Francisco, Cal.

Alvah Deyo Hasbrouck Wilmington, Del.

Ferdinand Hasbrouck New York

Frederick Hasbrouck New York

Henry Cornelius HasBrouck Newburgh, N. Y.

John Cornelius Hasbrouck New York

Joseph Hasbrouck Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.

Maurice Pcnniman Hasbrouck New Paltz, N. Y.

Sayer Hasbrouck Hamilton, Bermuda

De Witt Heermance Poughkeepsie, N. Y-

Martin Heermance Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

William Laing Heermance Yonkers, N. Y.

Thomas Beekman Heermans Syracuse, N. Y.

Daniel Van Brunt Hegeman Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Rogers Hegeman Mamaroneck, N. Y.

Johnston Niven Hegeman New York

W. A. Ogden Hegeman New York

Francis Hendricks Syracuse, N. Y.

58 Thb Holland Society

Name Address

Hubbard Hendrickson Baysidei N. Y.

Joseph C. Hoagland New York

Mahlon L. Hoagland Rockaway, N. J.

Pierre Van Buren Hoes Yonkers, N. Y.

Charles Frederick Hoffman New York

Abram Cornelius Holdrum Westwood, N. J.

John Hopper Hackensack, N. J.

John Hopper Paterson, N. J.

John Henry Hopper Paterson, N. J.

Stanley Hamilton Hopper Newark, N. J.

David Harrison Houghtaling New York

Albert Hoysradt Hudson, N. Y.

Jacob W. Hoysradt Hudson, N. Y.

Edward Tompkins Hulst Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

George Duryee Hulst Brooklyn, N. Y.

Leonard G. Hun Albany, N. Y*

Thomas Hun Albany, N. Y.

Francis Conklin Huyck Albany, N. Y.

Richard Mentor Jacobus Maplewood, N. J.

John Nathaniel Jansen Newark, N. J.

Jeremiah Johnson, Jr Brooklyn, N. Y.

Harry Mayham Keator Rozbury, N. Y.

Henr> Keteltas New York

Andrew Jackson Kiersted Philadelphia, Pa.

William Fargo Kip New York

William Vandervoort Kip* New York

David Buel Knickerbocker Indianapolis, Ind.

Edgar Knickerbocker New York

Francis D. Kouwenhoven Stcinway, N. Y.

Peter Kouwenhoven Brooklyn, N. Y.

Abraham Lansing Albany, N. Y«

Charles B. Lansing Albany, N. Y.

*Hi8 name has never appeared on the List of Members of the Society for the
reason that he was elected at the meeting on December ii, I9I9> too late to ap»
pear in the 1919 Year Book.

Dbcsjssd Members 59

Name Address

Charles E. Lansing New York

Edward Y. Lansing Albany, N. Y.

Egbert Peake Lansing New York

Isaac De F. Lansing Albany, N. Y.

James Lansing Troy, N. Y.

John Lansing Watertown, N. Y.

John Townsend Lansing Albany, N. Y.

Ralph Sazton Lansing New York

Richard Lansing Albany, N. Y.

John Lefferts Flatbush, N. Y.

John Lefferts, Jr Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jacob Lefever New Paltz, N. Y,

De Witt Chauncey Le Fevre Buffalo, N. Y.

Egbert Le Fevre New York

Abraham Lott Brooklyn, N. Y.

James Van Der Bilt Lott Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Abraham Lott, Jr Brooklyn, N. Y,

Henry R. Low Middletown, N. Y.

Charles H. Lowe Dayton, O.

Charles E. Lydecker New York

Garrett J. Lydecker Detroit, Mich.

John Ryer Lydecker Bogota, N. J^

William Mabie PeekskiU, N. Y.

\^llard Charles Marselius Albany. N. Y«

Adrian Meserole Brooklyn, N. Y.

Remsen Varick Messier Pittsburgh, Pa.

Thomas Doremus Messier Pittsburgh, Pa.

Theodore Miller Hudson, N. Y.

Charles Harold Montanye Scarsdale, N. Y.

Lewis Foster Montanye Atlantic Highlands, N. J.

William Henry Montanye New York

John Jacob Morris Paterson, N. J.

Isaac Mycr New York

John Gillespie Myers Albany, N. Y.

Barent Arent My nderse Schenectady, N. Y.

Wilhelmus Mynderse Brooklyn, N. Y.

David Nevius New York

Theodore Mellick Nevius Glen Ridge, N. J.

6o The Holland Society

Name Address

Harry Meeker Newkirk Gleni Rock^ N. J.

Frederick William Nostrand Glen Ridge, N. J.

John Lott Nostrand Brooklyn, N. Y,

Howard Osterhoudt Kingston, N. Y.

Charles F. Ostrander New York

Stephen Melancthon Ostrander Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Paul Paulison Tenafly, N. J.

George Weeks Polhemus '. Washington, D. C.

Henry Ditmas Polhemus Brooklyn, N. Y.

Henry Martin Polhemus Astoria, N. Y.

L. A. Powelson Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Goldsmith Prall Elmhurst, N. Y.

John Howard Prall Elmhurst, N. Y.

Charles Lansing Pruyn Albany, N. Y.

Isaac Pruyn Catskill, N. Y.

John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn New York

Peter Van Schaick Pruyn Kinderhook, N. Y.

Franklin David Putnam Auburn, N. Y.

Francis Salmon Quackenbos Hartford, Conn.

Abraham Quackenbush New York

Cebra Quackenbush Hoosick, N. Y.

James Westervelt Quackenbush Hackensack, N. J.

Peter Quackenbush Paterson, N. J.

Schuyler Quackenbush New York

Williamson Rapalje Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jacob George Rapelje Alassio, Italy

Augustus Rapelye Elmhurst, N. Y.

Cornelius Rapelye Astoria, N. Y.

James Pilling Rappelyea Brooklyn, N. Y.

James Riker Waverly, N. Y.

John Hancock Riker New York

John Lawrence Riker Cedarhurst, N. Y.

John Lawrence Riker, II Woodmerc, N. Y,

Deceased Members 6i

Name Address

Richard Riker New York

Isaac Romaine Jersey City, N. J.

Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa New York

Hyman Roosa Kingston, N. Y.

John Percival Roosa Monticello, N. Y.

Charles Henry Roosevelt Pelham Manor, N. Y.

Cornelius V.S. Roosevelt South Orange, N. J.

Frank Roosevelt New York

Frederick Roosevelt New York

Henry Everett Roosevelt New York

James Roosevelt Hyde Park, N. Y.

Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt New York

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt New York

Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y.

George Washington Rosevelt Stamford, Conn.

Martin John Ryerson Bloomingdale, N. J .

Jacob Glen Sanders Albany, N. Y.

Samuel Mount Schanck Hightstown, N. J.

C. A. Schemmerhorn New York

Abraham Voorhees Schenck New Brunswick, N. J.

Caspar Schenck Annapolis, Md.

Edward Schenck New York

Frederick Brett Schenck Englewood, N. J.

Henry Jacob Schenck New York

John Cornell Schenck Brooklyn, N. Y.

Junius Schenck Brooklyn, N. Y.

Robert Cumming Schenck Dayton, Ohio

Tunis Schenck Brooklyn, N. Y.

James Randolph Schermerhom Cortland, N. Y.

John Schermerhom Schenectady, N. Y.

John Egmont Schermerhom New York

Simon J. Schermerhom Schenectady, N. Y.

William George Schermerhom Schenectady, N. Y*

Adrian Onderdonk Schoonmaker Montclair, N. J»

Augustus Schoonmaker Kingston, N. Y.

Cornelius M. Schoonmaker Kingston, N. Y..

George Washington Schoonmaker Jamaica, N. Y..

Hiram Schoonmaker New York

John Schoonmaker Newburgh, N. Y-

62 Thb Holland Society

Name Address

Joseph S. Schoonmaker Plainfield, N. J.

Sylvanus Lothrop Schoonmaker New York

Clarkson Crosby Schuyler Plattsburg, N. Y.

Garret Lansing Schuyler New York

George Washington Schuyler Ithaca, N. Y.

Van Rensselaer Schuyler New York

Hiram Edward Sickels Albany, N. Y.

Robert Sickels New York

Francis Skillman Roslyn, N. Y.

Mark Vernon Slingerland Ithaca, N. Y.

William Harris Slingerland Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

William Henry Slingerland Slingerlands, N. Y.

Orson Wright Sloat Patterson, N. Y.

Dominicus Snedeker Brooklyn, N. Y.

John William Somarindyck Glen Cove, N. Y.

David Springsteen Elmhurst, N. Y.

Robert Parker Staats New York

John Henry Starin New York

John Baker Stevens New York

William Moore Stilwell New York

Qarence Storm New York

Thomas Storm New York

Peter Stryker ^ Asbury Park, N. J.

\\niliam Henry Harrison Stryker Paterson, N. J.

William Scudder Stryker Trenton, N. J.

Peter J. Stuyvesant New York

Peter Langrave Suits Tribes Hill, N. Y.

Charles Edward Surdam Morristown, N. J.

Arthur Peter Sutphen Somerville, N. J.

Carlyle Edgar Sutphen Newark, N. J.

John Henry Sutphen Jamaica, N. Y.

John Schureman Sutphen New York

Joseph Walworth Sutphen Brooklyn, N. Y.

Bemardus Suydam Elmhurst, N. Y.

Charles Crooke Suydam Elizabeth, N. J.

James Suydam Philadelphia, Pa.

John Fine Suydam New York

John Howard Suydam Philadelphia, Pa.

John H. Suydam New York

Lambert Suydam New York

Moses Bedell Suydam Allegheny, Pa.

Deceased Members 63

Name Address

William Farrington Suydam Montclair, N. J.

William M, Swartwout Troy, N. Y.

Frederick D. Tappen New York

James Macf arlane Tappen New York

Henry Moore Teller Denver, Colo.

Henry W. Teller. Pompton Plains, N. J.

Rensselaer Ten Broeck Hillsdale, N. Y.

Henry James Ten Eyck Albany, N. Y.

Jacob Hendricks Ten Eyck Albany, N. Y.

James Ten Eyck Albany, N. Y.

Sandford Rowe Ten Eyck Waterloo, N. Y.

William Hoffman Ten Eyck Astoria, N. Y.

Warren Jay Terhune Hackensack, N. J.

Henry Traphagen Jersey City, N.J.

Arthur Dickinson Truax New York

Charles H. Truax New York

Chauncey Schaffer Truax New York

John Gregory Truax New York

J. R. Truax Schenectady, N. Y.

VAN A

William K. Van Alen San Francisco, Cal.

Garret Adam Van Allen Albany, N. Y.

Harry John Van Allen Utica, N. Y.

Lucas L. Van Allen New York

Richard Henry Van Alstyne Troy, N. Y.

Thomas J. Van Alstyne Albany, N. Y.

WilUam Van Alstyne Plainfield, N. J.

Daniel Lewis Van Antwerp Loudonville, N. Y.

John Henry Van Antwerp Albany, N. Y.

Thomas C. Van Antwerp Cincinnati, Ohio

William Meadon Van Antwerp Albany, N. Y.

Abram Van Arsdale Newark, N. J.

William James Van Arsdale New York

David H. Van Auken Cohoes, N. Y,

Edward Electus Van Auken New York

James A. Van Auken. New York

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Name Address

VAN B

Earle Van Benschoten New Haven, Conn.

Eugene Van Benschoten New York

Samuel Van Benschoten Brooklyn, N. Y.

William Ide Van Benscoter Detroit, Mich.

Charles H. Van Benthuysen Albany, N. Y.

Clarence R. Van Benthuysen New York

Edgar Van Benthuysen New Orleans, La.

Watson Van Benthuysen New Orleans, La.

Henry Spingler Van Beuren New York

Jacob Craig Van Blarcom St. Louis, Mo.

Cornelius Van Brunt New York

Edmund Cluett Van Brunt Leonia, N. J.

John Holmes Van Brunt Fort Hamilton, N. Y.

John Lott Van Brunt Westwood, N. J.

Charles Norton Van Buren Elizabeth, N. J.

Effingham Marsh Van Buren Flatbush, N. Y.

John D. Van Buren Newburgh, N. Y.

John Dash Van Buren New Brighton, N. Y.

John R. Van Buskirk Brooklyn, N. Y.

VAN C

George Van Campen Olean, N. Y-

John Couwenhoven Van Cleaf Montclair, N. J.

James Wallace Van Cleave St. Louis, Mo

Jacob Charles Van Cleef New Brunswick, N. J-

James Henry Van Cleef New Brunswick, N. J-

James S. Van Cortlandt Croton, N. Y.

Joshua Marsden Van Cott New York

VAN D

Walter L. Van Denbergh Amsterdam, N. Y

Francis Isaac Vander Beek Jersey City, N. J

George Howard Vander Beek AUentown, N. J

Isaac I. Vander Beek Jersey City, N. J

Isaac Paulis Vander Beek Jersey City, N. J

George Ohlen Van der Bogert Schenectady, N. Y

Giles Yates Vander Bogert Schenectady, N. Y

Joseph B. Vandergrift New York

Nathaniel S. W. Vanderhoef New York

Deceased Members 65

Name Address

Charles A. Vanderhoof Locust, N. J.

Aaron J. Vanderpoel New York

Samuel Oakley Vander Poel New York

W. B. Vanderpoel New York

Eugene Vanderpool Newark, N. J

Charles Vanderveer Brooklyn, N. Y

David Augustus Vander Veer Freehold, N. J

John Reeve Van Derveer Mt. Kisco, N. Y

Lawrence Van der Veer Rocky Hill, N. J

Peter Labagh Vander Veer Santa Fe, N. M

Paul Vandervoort Omaha, Neb

William Ledyard Van Der Voort New York

Alfred Van Derwerken Brooklyn, N. Y

Absalom Van Deusen Madison, Wis

Albert H. Van Deusen Washington, D. C

Charles Henry Van Deventer New York

David Provoost Van Deventer Matawan, N. J

Hugh B. Van Deventer New York

James Thayer Van Deventer KnoxviUe, Tenn

Thomas Lenox Van Deventer Knoxville, Tenn

William Vandever Venturia, Cal

John Wesley Vandevort Pasadena, Cal

John Walker Van De Water New York

P. A. V. Van Doren Princeton, N. J

Daniel Polhemus Van Dorn Freehold, N. J

William Van Dorn Freehold, N. J

Abram Bovee Van Dusen New York

Harrison Van Duyne Newark, N. J

Selah Reeve Van Duzer Newburgh, N. Y

Vedder Van Dy ck Bayonne, N. J

Walter Van Dyck Oakland, Cal

Henry H. Van Dyke New York

Henry Jackson Van Dyke Brooklyn, N. Y.

Herbert Van Dyke New York

VAN E

Evert Peek Van Epps Schenectady, N. Y.

Solomon Van Etten Port Jervis, N. Y.

VAN F
Frank Van Fleet Scarsdale, N. Y.

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VAN G

Name Address

Louis Bevier Van Gaasbeek Kingston, N. Y.

Wynford Van Gaasbeek New York

Acmon Pulaski Van Gieson Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Hany Abraham Van Gilder Morristown, N. J.

VAN H

Theodore V. Van Heusen Albany, N. Y.

William Manning Van Heusen New York

George M. Van Hoesen Nyack, N. Y.

John William Van Hoesen Nyack, N. Y.

Teunis Whitbeck Van Hoesen Philadelphia, Pa.

James Dumond Van Hoevenberg New Brighton, N. Y.

Charles Francis Van Horn Newport, R. I.

Stephen Van Alen Van Home New York

Abraham Zabriskie Van Houten Passaic, N. J.

Daniel Berten Van Houten New York

VAN K

Edward Van Kleeck Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Frank Van Kleeck Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

William H. Van Kleeck New York

VAN L

Eugene Van Loan Athens, N. Y.

Frederick W. Van Loan Flushing, N. Y.

VAN N

D. B. Van Name Mariners' Harbor, N. Y.

Eugene Van Ness Baltimore, Md.

Frederick Latten Van Ness Orange, N. J.

John Newton Van Ness Newark, N. J.

Alexander Thompson Van Nest New York

Warner Van Norden New York

David Van Nostrand New York

Gardiner Van Nostrand Newburgh, N. Y.

Garret Van Nostrand Nyack, N. Y.

John J. Van Nostrand Brooklyn, N. Y.

Seymour Van Nostrand Elizabeth, N. J.

Deceased Members 67

VAN O

Name Address

Henry Dc Witt Van Orden Brooklyn, N. Y.

Philip Vernon Van Orden CatskiU, N. Y.

Wessel Ten Broeck Van Orden New Baltimore, N. Y.

VAN P

Gilbert Sutphen Van Pelt New York

Henry Trenor Van Pelt New York

Jacob L. Van Pelt Bensonhurst, N.Y.

John Van Der Bilt Van Pelt Brooklyn, N. Y.

Townsend Q)rtelyou Van Pelt Brooklyn, N. Y.

William R. P. Van Pelt Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Bullock Van Petten Cazenovia, N. Y.

VAN R

Garret Daniel Van Reipen Jersey City, N. J.

John Jeremiah Van Rensselaer Dongan Hills, S. I.

Maunsell Van Rensselaer New York

Cornelius C. Van Reypen Jersey City, N. J.

Anthony B. Van Riper Paterson, N. J.

Cornelius Van Riper Passaic, N. J.

VAN S

Abraham Van Santvoord New York

Richard Van Santvoord New York

Samuel McCutcheon Van Santvoord Albany, N. Y.

Anthony G. Van Schaick Chicago, 111.

Benjamin Alexander Van Schaick Philadelphia, Pa.

Eugene Van Schaick New York

Henry Van Schaick New York

William H. Van Schoonhoven Troy, N. Y.

John Waddell Van Sickle Springfield, Ohio

Andrew James Van Siclen Jamaica, N. Y.

George West Van Siclen Cornwall, N. Y.

\^iam Leslie Van Sinderen Washington, Conn.

C3mis M. Van Slyck Providence, R. I.

Nicholas Van Slyck Providence, R. I.

William Henry Van Slyck Valatie, N. Y.

Evert Van Slyke Riverdale, N. Y.

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Name Address

Evert Sheldon Van Slyke New York

George Washington Van Slyke Albany, N. Y.

John Garnsey Van Slyke Kingston, N. Y.

VAN V

James Monroe Van Valen Hackensack, N- J.

Joseph Dwight Van Valkenburgh Greene, N. Y.

Abraham Van Vechten Albany, N. Y.

Abraham Van Wyck Van Vechten New York

George W. Van Vlack Palatine Bridge, N. Y.

Abraham Kip Van Vleck New York

Charles King Van Vleck Hudson, N. Y.

Jasper Van Vleck New York

John Monroe Van Vleck Middletown, Conn.

Benson Van Vliet Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Frederick G. Van Vliet New York

George Piatt Van Vliet Salt Point, N. Y.

Purdy Van Vliet New York

Stewart Van Vliet Washington, D. C.

William Downs Van Vliet Goshen, N. Y.

James Van Voast Cincinnati, Ohio

Elias William Van Voorhees New York

Peter Van Voorhees Camden, N. J.

Bartow White Van Voorhis New York

John Van Voorhis Rochester, N. Y.

Menzo Van Voorhis Rochester, N. Y.

Richard Van Voorhis Rochester, N. Y.

Abraham A. Van Vorst Schenectady, N. Y.

Frederick Boyd Van Vorst Hackensack, N. J.

Gardiner Baker Van Vorst New York

Hooper Camming Van Vorst Bath-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Hooper Cumming Van Vorst New York

John Van Vorst Jersey City, N. J.

Adam Tunis Van Vranken Watervliet, N. Y.

J. Van Vranken Potsdam, N. Y.

VAN W

Edward Augustus Van Wagenen Newark, N. J.

George Van Wagenen New York

Gerrit Hubert Van Wagenen Rye, N. Y.

Hubert Van Wagenen New York

Deceased Members 69

Name Address

John B. Van Wagenen Summerville, S. C

Tohn R. Van Wagenen .Oxford, N. Y

Peter Le Fevre Van Wagenen Poughkeepsie, N. Y

Albert Van Wagner Poughkeepsie, N. Y

John Nelson Van Wagner Troy, N. Y

Jacob Van Wagoner Ridgewood, N. J

Abraham Van Winkle Newark, N. J

Albert Waling Van Winkle New York

Edgar Beach Van Winkle ; . . New York

Henry Benjamin Van Winkle Paterson, N. J.

Isaac Van Winkle. New York

John Waling Van Winkle Passaic, N. J

Stephen W. Van Winkle Paterson, N. J

Waling W. Van Winkle Parkersburg, W. Va

Harmon Van Woert Athens, N. Y

Jacob Van Woert Grieg, N. Y

James Burtis Van Woert New York

John Voorhees Van Woert New York

Jasper Van Wormer Albany,. N. Y.

John Rufus Van Wormer New York

William H. Van Wormer Albany, N. Y.

Benjamin Stevens Van Wyck New York

Henry Mesier Van Wyck New Hamburg, N. Y.

Jacob Southart Van Wyck Brooklyn, N. Y.

John Henry Van Wyck New York

John Thurman Van Wyck New York

Robert A. Van Wyck Paris, France

Samuel Van Wyck ; Brooklyn, N. Y.

Stephen Van Wyck Brcoklyn, N. Y.

William Van Wyck. New York

William E. Van Wyck New York

William Harrison Van Wyck New York

VAN Z
Milton B. Van Zandt New York

Jacob Storm Varick Susquehanna, Pa.

John Barnes Varick Manchester, N. H.

John Leonard Varick New York

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Name Address

Theodore Romeyn Varick Jersey City, N. J.

Commodore Perry Vedder EUicottville, N. Y.

Charles Stuart Vedder Charleston, S. C.

Maus Rosa Vedder New York

Ransom HoUenback Vedder Chatham Centre, N. Y.

Andrew Truax Veeder Pittsburgh, Pa.

Eugene W. Veeder Schenectady, N. Y.

Harman Wortman Veeder Schenectady, N. Y.

John D. Vermeule New York

Jacob Dyckman Vermilye New York

Theodore C. Vermilye Staten Island, N. Y.

Philip Verplanck Yonkers, N. Y.

Egbert Ludovicus Viele New York

Maurice A. Viele New York

Maurice Edward \^ele Albany, N. Y.

Sheldon T. Viele Buffalo, N. Y.

Edward Willett Visscher Albany, N. Y.

John Barent Visscher Albany, N. Y.

John Hayden Visscher Brooklyn, N. Y.

Albert Van Brunt Voorhees Brooklyn, N. Y.

Charles Hageman Voorhees Brooklyn, N. Y.

Charles Henry Voorhees New York

Charles Holbert Voorhees New Brunswick, N. J.

Frederick Pentz Voorhees New York

John Enders Voorhees Amsterdam, N. Y.

John Hunn Voorhees North Bend, Ohio

John Newton Voorhees Flemington, N. J.

Peter L. Voorhees Camden, N. J*

Theodore Voorhees Philadelphia, Pa.

W. P. Voorhees New Brunswick, N. J.

William Brownlee Voorhees Blauwenburgh, N. J.

William Dilworth Voorhees Bergen Point, N. J.

Charles Henry Voorhis Jersey City, N. J.

William Voorhis Nyack, N. Y.

Fletcher Vosburgh Albany, N. Y.

Miles Woodward Vosburgh Albany, N. Y.

Theodore Vosburgh Buffalo, N. Y.

Alfred Vredenburgh Ba3^nne, N. J.

Frank Vredenburgh Bayonne, N. J.

William H. Vredenburgh Freehold, N. J.

Josiah Pierson Vreeland Paterson, N. J.

Deceased Members 71

Name Address

Nicholas Vreeland Jersey City, N. J.

Garret D. W. Vroom Trenton, N. J.

Wellington Vrooman Parkersburg, W. Va.

Zaremba W. Waldron Jackson, Mich.

Francis L. Wandell Saddle River, N. J.

Townsend Wandell New York

Christopher Yates Wemple New York

Evert Jansen Wendell New York

Gordon Wendell New York

Jacob Wendell New York

Menzo Edgar Wendell Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

Charles Wessell New York

Theodore Romeyn Westbrook Kingston, N. Y.

Cornelius Tunis Williamson Newark, N. J.

Henry Veight Williamson New York

Theodore Sheldon Winans New York

Charles Knickerbocker Winne Albany, N. Y

Charles Visscher Winne Albany, N. Y.

Ogden Fremont Winne Kingston, N. Y.

Willis Alvin Winne Albany, N. Y.

John Winner Jersey City, N. J.

Charles Edward Witbeck Cohoes, N. Y.

Ferdinand Lott Wyckoff Brooklyn, N. Y.

George Henry Wyckoff Montclair, N. J.

Peter Wyckoff Brooklyn, N. Y.

Augustus W. Wynkoop Kinderhook, N. Y.

Gerardus Hilles Wynkoop New York

James Davis Wynkoop New York

Aaron J. Zabriskie Newark, N. J.

Andrew C. Zabriskie New York

Cornelius I. Zabriskie Hackensack, N. J.

David Demarest Zabriskie Ridgewood, N. J.

George A. Zabriskie Bloomfield, N. J.

Josiah H. Zabriskie Brooklyn, N. Y.

THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL DINNER OF

THE POUGHKEEPSIE MEMBERS

October 3, 1919

E Twenty-ninth annual dinner
f the Poughkeepsie district
lembers of The Holland Society
f New York, in commemoration
if the rdief of the siege of Ley-
en, was held at the Nelson
louse, Poughkeepsie, New York,
n Friday evening, October 3,
919.
By reason of war conditions the dinner was omitted
in 1918.

The following Poughkeepsie district members were
present at the dinner: I. Reynolds Adriahce, John £.
Adriance, John P. Adriance, William A. Adriance,
Dr. Clifford A. Crispell, Dr. John H. Dingman, Will-
iam A. Dutcher, Jacob Elting, Jacob Elting, Jr.,
Jesse Elting, Frank Hasbrouck, Ross Hasbrouck,
E. Covert Hulst, Abram P. Lefevre, Dr. J. \\ril80n
Poucher, Barnard D. Van Kleeck, Joseph H. Van
Wyck, Oarence H. Woolsey, together with Mr.
Macklin, a guest. The Vice-President for Dutchess
County, William A. Adriance, presided. Judge Frank
Hasbrouck acted as toastmaster. The President of
The Holland Society of New York, Judge Augustus
Van Wyck; the Treasurer of the Society, De Witt

Van

POU GH KEEPSIE CELEB RATION

Van Buskirk and the Secretary of the Society, Fred-
eric R. Keator, were present as the guests of the
Poughkeepsie district members and made informal
spejeches.

The seating arrangement for the dinner was as
follows :

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Dr. Johk H. Dimgman

Jacob Eltino, Jr.
Barnard D. Van Rlbbck
Joseph H. Van Wtck
Mr. Mackun
Ross Hasbrouck
John P. Adrzancb

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J5d

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£. COVBRT HUUT

Dr. Clifford A. Crispell
William A. Dutchbr
Clarbncb H. Woolsbt
Abrau p. Lbfbvrb
Jacob Elting
Jbssb Eltino

Frank Hasbrouck

Hutspot, as on previous occasions, was served by
the toastmaster from an iron pot which was brought
in and placed on the table before him.

The absence from the Menu of vinous refreshment,
due to war-time prohibition, was noted with regret
by the members and the necessity therefor deplored
in somewhat extensive remarks by several of those
who spoke.

The

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The present Vice-President for Dutchess County,
William A. Adriance, by vote of the Poughkeepsie
members present, was re-nominated to fill the position
for another year.

The after-dinner exercises wctc interspersed with the
usual number of stories and good-fellowship held the
members together until a late hour.

"Haring en witbroodt
Leiden heeft geen nood."

Oyster Cocktail

Green Turtle Soup

Olives Nuts Celery

Deviled Lobster

Huts pot

Roast Jumbo Squab

Cauliflower, Hollandaise

Fried Sweet Potatoes

Hearts of Lettuce — French Dressing

Ice Cream in Forms

Macaroons

Cheese Crackers

Coffee

The Thirtieth Annual Dinner of the Poughkeepsie
District members, which ordinarily would have been
held on October 3rd, 1920, was omitted.

THE

THE FIFTEENTH INFORMAL MEETING

HE Fifteenth Annual Smoker of
the Society was held on November
25» 1919, at the Hotel Astor. At
the suggestion of President Van
Wyck, the Committee on Meet-
ings made this meeting a reception
to the members and sons of mem-
bers of the Society who had been
in the military or naval service of the United States
and its Allies in the recent war. There was an at-
tendance of almost five hundred members and sons
of members, who had been in service, and guests
of members. Sons of members, who had been in
seri'icc, were the guests of the Society. Each mem-
ber was, in addition, allowed to bring one guest who
was a non-member. President Van Wyck, who pre-
sided and introduced the speakers, made an address
of welcome to the service men, which was followed
by a series of talks on their experiences in the
war by the following nine members and sons of mem-
bers who had been in the service, several of whom
were in uniform as were many of those in attendance:
Members: Private William Allen Adriance, Jr., of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Captain Ross Hasbrouck, of
Palisades Park, N. J.; Major Leigh Kent Lydecker,
of New York City; Lieutenant George Van Sant-
voord, of Troy, N. Y.; Ensign John G. Van Sant-
f, voord

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voord, of Troy, N. Y.; Major Edward Van Winkle,
of New Market, N. J. and Sergeant Philip de Milhau
Vosburgh, of Staten Island, N. Y. Sons of Members:
Private Frank Harold Crispell, of New York City
and Captain Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule, Jr., of
New York City. The service records of these men
may be found in the Honor Roll of the Society, pub-
lished in the 1919 Year Book. The speeches were re-
plete with interest and, by reason of the varied branches
of the service, represented by the speakers, and the
wide scope of their activities in such service, were
fascinating and memorable. The speaking was fol-
lowed by the usual collation and the meeting ad-
journed at a late hour.

*****

The Smokers for the years 1918, 1920 and 1921 were
omitted by resolution of the Board of Trustees for
reasons of economy.

THE

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE

HUDSON COUNTY, N. J. MEMBERS

December 2, 1919

HE Eighth Annual Meeting of the
Hudson County Branch was held
on Tuesday evening, December 2,
1919, in the Jersey City Club,
Jersey City, N. J., President Ben-
jamin T. Van Alen presiding. The
Secretary-Treasurer, Clarence G.
Newkirk, presented his annual re-
port showing a membership of fifty-two, the same as
the year before. The President in his annual report
made an address on "Americanism" which was very
much enjoyed by tiiose present. Mr. De Witt Van
Buskirk, one of the members, and Treasurer of the
Parent Society, spoke on the subject of The Develop-
ment of the Port of New York, which subject largely
interests the members of this Society, and suggested
the appointment of a Committee to consider the ad-
visability of calling a public meeting for discussion
of this topic; which action was approved and the
following Committee was appointed : Messrs. De Witt
Van Buskirk, Dr. Hamilton Vreeland and Rynier J.
Wortendyke. The annual election of Officers resulted
in the election of Mr. Nicholas Doremus Wortendyke
as President and Mr. Clarence G. Newkirk as Secre-
tary-Treasurer

78 The Holland Society

tary-Treasurer (reelected). Mr. Wortendyke's elec-
tion carried with it his nomination for Vice-President
for 1920 for Hudson County, N. J. in the Parent
Society. After a collation served by the Steward of
the Jersey City Qub, the meeting adjourned.

THE

THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
HUDSON COUNTY, N. J. MEMBERS

December 13, 1920

HE Ninth Annual Meeting of the
Hudson County Branch was held
in the Jersey City Club, Qinton
and Crescent Avenues, Jersey City,
N. J., on the evening of Monday,
December 13, 1920 and was well
attended.

After an enjoyable collation,
the President, Nicholas D. Wortendyke, introduced
as speakers Arthur H. Van Brunt, President, and
Frederic R. Keator, Secretary, of the Parent Society,
and Senator William BrinkerhofF. Each made an in-
teresting address.

De Witt Van Buskirk, Treasurer of the Parent
Society, a member of the branch, made a report on
the progress of work to bring about the treaty for the
development of New York Harbor. Mr. Van Buskirk
was a member of the conimittee appointed by the
society to look into the project and a member of the
Bi-State Port Commission. Mr. Van Buskirk told
the members that interest in the movement was
rapidly being revived and that he expected definite
action to follow the forums to be held for the discussion
of port development plans in the near future.

Another

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Another feature of the program of the meeting was
the reading of a paper by Daniel Van Winkle. Mr.
Van Winkle had prepared a fund of interesting data
on early Dutch education in Bergen.

The annual election of officers resulted in the selec-
tion of Dr. Henry J. Bogardus, President, and Clarence
G. Newkirk for Secretary and Treasurer. The elec-
tion of Dr. Bogardu^ carried with it his nomination
as Vice-President for Hudson County.

THIRTY-FIFTH

THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL BANQUET

HE Thirty-Fifth Annual Dinner of
The Holland Society was held in
the Waldorf-Astoria Roof Garden
on Thursday evening, January 15,
1920. The members and guests
assembled in the ante-rooms and
escorts were assigned to the repre-
sentatives of the Societies invited
as honorary guests.

The Rev. Albert A. Zabriskie, of Kingston, N. Y.,
invoked the blessing.

The President as "Voorzitter" acted as "Toost
Meester," the guests of honor of the Society being
seated in the following order:

To his right sat: Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary
of the Navy; Augustus Thomas; James MacGregor
Smith, Senior Manager, Saint Andrew's Society of
the State of New York; Richard C, Rathborne, Sec-
retary, Saint George's Society of New York; Col.
Alfred Wagstaff, President, Saint Nicholas Society
of the City of New York; W. Rockhill Potts, Vice-
President, Sons of the Revolution in the State of
New York; WitUam G. Fitzwilson, Secretary, New
York Southern Society; Rev. Howard Duffield, D. D.,
Governor, Society of Colonial Wars in the State of
New York; Cortlandt S. Van Rensselaer, Chancellor,
The Colonial Order of the Acorn.

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To his left sat: Rt. Rev. Charles S. Burch, D. D.,
Bishop of New York; D. J. Steyn-Parv6, Acting Consul
General for the Netherlands ; Justice Francis Key Pen-
dleton, Vice-President, New York State Society of the
Cincinnati; William J. Colihan, Secretary, The Friend-
ly Sons of St. Patrick; George Morgan Lewis, Secre-
tary, Saint David's Society of the State of New York;
William H. Kouwenhoven, President, Saint Nicholas
Society of Nassau Island ; William Mitchell, President
General, The Hugenot Society of America; John H.
Burroughs, President, Empire State Society, Sons
of the American Revolution; Frederick Chandler
Seabury, Deputy Governor, Society of 'Mayflower
Descendants in the State of New York.

In front of the Dais the following members and their
guests were seated at tables: I. Reynolds Adriance,
John P. Adriance, William A. Adriance, WjUiam A.
Adriance, Jr., Frank Amery, Courtenay N. Aten,
Kenneth M. Aten, Dr. William H: Aten; Thomas T.
Barr, Henry S. Bartow, Chester Baylis, Alfred L.
Becker, Alston Beekman, Edward Belknap, John
Bergen, John L. Bergen, Reginald V. Bergen, Teunis
J. Bergen, Tunis G. Bergen, James G. Beriy, Alvah W.
Bickner, Morell Birtwhistle, William Blaikey, Elmer
Blauvelt, Charles E. Bockus, Dr. H. J. Bogardus, J. T.
B. Bogardus, Charles A. Bogert, Daniel G. Bogert,
Henry L. Bogert, John J. Bogert', Frank W. Boulton,
Arthur Brigham, W. R. BrinckerhofF, Walter W.
BrinckerhofF, William P. Brinckerhoff, Theodore
Brink, William BrinkerhofF, William Leverich Brower,
Pierre M. Brown; Wm. M. Campbell, Refv. Charles
K. Clearwater, Bruce K. Conover, Tallmadge Con-
over, Dr. Burdette Post Craig, Frank B. Crispell,
D. D., Dr. D. Le Roy Culver; Charles Daniels,
James Sherlock Davis, Thomas C. Dawson, C. Rich-
mond DeBevoise, Herbert R. De Bevoise, John Oscar
Delamater, Benjamin G. Demarest, Harry M. DeMott,
Philip H. De Witt, S. L. F. Deyo, William Dietrich,
William Kenyon Drake, Rev. T. Porter Drumm,
A. Wk Duckett, George A. Duncan, Charles Dusen-
berry, Jr., Elias W. Dusenberry, Frank J. Dutcher;

Commander

Thirty-Fifth Annual Banquet 83

Commander Charles P. Eaton, Edward Earl, Kenneth

A. Earl, Thornton Earle, Frederick D. Edsall, William
H. Edsall, Charles Jerome Edwards, Lester W. Eisen-
berg, Jacob Elting, Jacob Elting, Jr., Jesse Elting;
Dr. F. W. Flagge, Howell Foster, James J. Franc,
Sheldon Franklin, David E. Freudenberger ; Maurice
J. Galvin, Garret J. Garretson, James Garretson,
William W. Gillen, Robert H. Goffe, William Gram-
lich, Frank Gulden; John R. Halsey, William B. Handy,
J. Edward Harrington, Charles Harwood, Frank
Hasbrouck, J. E. Hasbrouck, Jr., Charles C. Haviland,
W. Gerald Hawes, Howard Hayden, Charles B. Hay-
ward, George C. Henckel, Alexander Herbert, T. G.
Hoagland, T. H. Hoagland, T. Hudson Hoagland,
Dr. J. M. Hodson, C. Gouverneur Hoffman, T. C.
Hoornbeek, M. Hadden Howell, Arthur Hoyt, E.
CcKrert Hulst, Charles R. Hunt; John V. Irwin; William

B. Jenkins; Frederic R. Keator, Gerrit Kouwenhoven,
John B. Kouwenhoven, William W. Kouwenhoven;
S. L. Landon, Stanton T. Laurence, Daniel Leary,
Victor A. Lersner, A. J. Lins, George T. Linton,
Heniy S. Livingston, Myron A. Lockman; John F.
Macklin, W. B. Matteson, Justice Ei S. K. Merrell,
Henry R. Merseles, Theodore F. M'prseles, Claude
Miller, George C. Miller, Rev. Harry T. Morrell,
Richard Mutteen, Clarence G. Newkirk, James S.
Newkirk; T. W. Onderdonk, C. P. Opdyke, J. P.
Osterhoudt, Lewis B. Ostrander; John A. Pattison,
Edward D. Paulin, Frank B. Plympton; Harry A.
Polhemus, James Suydam Polhemus, Dr. J. Wilson
Poucher, Charles E. Purdy, William F. Purdy; Frank
H. Quinby, Charles V. Rapelje, P. Ditmars Rapelje,
Walter S. Rapelje, Rev. Arthur C. Roosenraad,
Jacob V. Ryerson; Charles L. Schenck, Edward
Felton Schenck, Frederick P. Schenck, Henry Crane
Schenck, Willard P. Schenck, J. Maus Schermerhorn,
William W. H. Sfchneider, William P. Schoen, Augus-
tus Sherman, William Leroy Shields, Rufus L. Shirley,
Joseph Ferris Sinimons, H. Armour Smith, Alfred
Melvine Snedeker, Bird W. Spencer, Peter Westervelt
Stagg, Lieutenant Ernest Stavey, Dr. E. T. Steadman,

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Carl E. Sutphen; Henry R. Sutphen; F. J. N. Tallman,
J. Irving Terhune, Edgar M. Tilt, Dr. Fenton B.
Turck; Carl M. Vail, Arthur H. Van Brunt, Jeremiah
R. Van Brunt, Mervin Schenck Van Brunt, Edward M.
Van Buren, Edward M. Van Buren, Jr., De Witt
Van Buskirk, Francis Isaac Vander Beek, Francis
Isaac Vander Beek, Jr., C. R. Vanderveer, John H.
Vanderveer, John L. Vanderveer, John de C. Van
Etten, Dr. N. B. Van Etten, John R. Van Horn,
Dr. Byron G. Van Home, Irving Van Hoven, Thomas
Van Loan, Melville C. Van Ness, Wallace M. Van
Ness, Frank R. Van Nest, Benjamin T. Van Nostrand,
John E. Van Nostrand, Frank J. Van Order, George
Van Santvoord, Seymour Van Santvoord, Garrett
M. Van Siclen, John R. Van Siclen, WyckoflF Van
Siclen, John O. van Slyke, Warren C. Van Slyke,
Charles B. Van Valen, Joseph R. Van Valen, Schuyler
L. Van Vechten, Edgar Wakeman Van Vleck, A. W.
Van Winkle, Arthur A. Van Winkle, Charles A. Van
Winkle, Major Edward Van Winkle, Marshall Van
Winkle, Marshall Van Winkle, Jr., Stirling Van
Winkle, Theodore Van Winkle, James B. Van Woert,
Morgan Van Woert, Rutger Van Woert, William
Van Woert, Allen Van Wyck, E. Hawley Van Wyck,
William Van Wyck, U. C. Varick, William W. Vaughan,
Anson A. Voorhees, A. V. B. Voorhees, Judah B.
Voorhees, John R. Voorhis; Henry Wagner, Qement
I. Walker, Harry W. Walker, Legare Walker, Rev.
R. K. Walker, Wm. Lanier Washington, J. Odell
Whitenack, Simon Wickes, Maurice W. Williamjs,
James Wilson, J. Winkler, Johji S. Wise, J. Hunter
WckDd, Nicholas Doremus Wortendyke, H. S. Wyn-
koop; Rev. A. A. Zabriskie, C. B. Zabriskie, William
A. Zabriskie, William H. Zabriskie, John Zahn.

The menu, like that of the dinners of 19 19 and
1918, consisted of two white cards tied at the top
with orange ribbons and bearing at the top of the
front card, above the menu proper, the seal of the

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Society in orange, while the usual toast list appeared
on the inner card.

There was no souvenir of the Dinner.

The addresses of the evening follow:*

ADDRESS OF WELCOME

Judge Augustus Van Wyck
President of The Holland Society

All are welcome to our feast. Strict economy in
speech on the part of the toastmaster is merely fair
play and justice to the invited speakers. Three dis-
tinguished speakers have accepted our invitation,
all of whom commenced life in the field of journalism
and each has reached the highest ground of fame in
his final calling: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Charles S. Burch,
the youngest member of the House of Bishops; Hon.
Augustus Thomas, author and distinguished play-
wright, leader of that profession; and Hon. Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, who made good in
directing the American Navy in the most trying time
that has ever confronted our country. We are,
naturally, overjoyed over the victory of America and
her allies in the World War; but we must not forget
that the aftermath of wasting war always presents
serious questions for adjustment. We thank the
Queen of Holland for personally cabling us her best
wishes on this occasion. Eat — ^Drink — on this last
night of legal tippling — ^Be Merry and enjoy the
literary feast that is to follow. I now call upon the
Secretary of our nation's Navy, Secretary Daniels.

HONORABLE JOSEPHUS DANIELS
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

We are often asked, or we often ask, what is the
secret of Americanism.^ What is it that has made
this Republic in all its history, short as compared
to other nations, a beacon light and has given us here
something in the way of government and life and

opportunity

*By reason of limited space, due to the combination of the 1920 and 192 1 Year
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opportunity, something of orderliness, something of
staunchness, something of a democracy of a flavor
that has not been found among other great peoples?
Sometimes, they tell us, it is because we have lived
in a new continent where the oceans have separated
us from other nations. Sometimes, they tell us, it
is because we have here a Republic, an indissoluble
Republic^ united in representative government, or
that this or that mingling of blood in the melting pot
has made America what we have found it to be in
all days of stress and trial. But you know and I
know that the very strength and glory and power,
thb something that has made America united and
standing for idealism, is none of these things. It
is the spirit of the institutions which were bom in
Holland in 1581. {Applause) The basis upon which
this Republic rests, the foundation, is the public
school, the very citadel of our citizenship, of our
tolerance, of our mingling of all races into one unified
Americanism. That education, open to all, brought
across the seas from the country whose history we
honor and to whom we owe so much, gave us also
the buttressing power of religion that was free from
bigotry, free from persecution, with a toleration
and breadth which, while claiming the right of every
people to worship God according to their own con-
science, never knew what it was to persecute men
for conscience's sake. {Applause.) And from that
little country, small in dominion, snyall in area, but
great in the spirit of liberty, came to us a free p/ess,
a press not free to a sense of license, with moderation
and a sense of justice, which, with the school and
the church and the press have given America the
trinity of those blessings which must belong to any
Republic that can build upon an enduring foundation.

The loyalty, undivided and whole-hearted, to
America by members of The Holland Society, justifies
all of us, with more or less Dutch blood, looking back
with pride, not only to what the Dutchmen who
came to America have wrought, but to glory in the
large part Dutch teaching and Dutch freedom had in

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shaping the Republic and since the good ship was
fairly launched, keeping it on an even keel. Many-
men have sought to find and to enlarge upon the
secret of America's greatness. Our written constitu-
tion, our illimitable resources, our blended blood,
our freedom from near neighbors, our indissoluble
union of indestructible States — ^these and other priceless
possessions have each been set down as the chief
source of American power and American character.
They have indeed all contributed to the making of
the America we love. But the rock upon which
our national edifice has been builded, the solid founda-
tion which enables it to stand when the rains fall
and the storms descend upon us is our free public
school system, buttressed by the freedom of religion
which is the very mudsill of all other blessings we
enjoy. Sometimes we think that the right to think
our own thoughts and express them without censor-
ship, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and
public schools are indigenous to our soil. They have
indeed expanded and grown in the free air of America,
but when this metropolis was the undisturbed home
of wild animals and none but real Indians scalped
in Tammany Hall and employed wampum on Wall
Street, the people in Holland were fighting and win-
ning the battles for freedom, freedom for themselves
and for all men who loved it well enough to die for it.
Thomas Carlyle, in a few characteristic sentences,
tells the illuminating story of eighty years of war
and suffering and sacrifice for the undying things
of God which gave a new birth to that free country.
Hear him:

"Those Dutch are a strong people.
They raised their land out of a marsh and
went on for a long period of time breed-
ing cows and making cheese, and might
have gone on with their cows and cheese
till doomsday. But Spain comes over
and says, We want you to believe in
Ignatius.' *Very sorry,' replied the

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Dutch, *but we can't*' ^God! but you
must,' says Spain; and they went about
with guns and swords to make the Dutch
believe in St. Ign&tius. Never made
them believe in him, but did succeed in
breaking th'eir own vertebral column,
however, and raising the Dutch into a
great nation." {Applause.)

The history of liberty is red with the blood of her
free men, and no nation ever won freedom for itself
without kindling a fire from which other nations
found warmth and light. No great people ever be-
came a nation who did not love liberty enough to die
for it. {Applause.)

I would that we might invoke a larger portion of
the spirit of toleration, of the spirit of justice, in our
day when men too often seem to distrust the motive
and patriotism of men because they do not agree
with their principles. Let us hark back to the Holland
idea that freedom and liberty of conscience are the
. basic principles upon which our Republic must endure.

Out of the fierce turmoil of that epic combat came
the Dutch Declaration of Independence, which was
proclaimed on July 26th, 1581, and which, in more
than one respect, may be regarded as the forerunner
of our own great document of human rights. From
it was derived that broad complacency toward other
men's opinions and beliefs, both religious and political,
which has caused Holland to be termed the "cradle
of liberty." It was in the tolerant atmosphere of
Lej'den that the Pilgrim Fathers, for twelve years
preceding their emigration to America, worked and
worshipped, so that the P,uritan impulse in American
history, although born in England, wa^s educated
and nurtured in The Netherlands, which thus con-
tributed to our American conscience a certain moral
and intellectual staunchness that continues to work
great good even down to the present tense moment
in our national development.

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The American revolution found in The Netherlands
not alone abstract sympathy, but active assistance.
The Dutch bankers in Amsterdam furnished John
Adams with loans for the American colonies to the
amount of fourteen million dollars — ^those were the
days before the discovery of war-loan "drives" — ^and
finally in 1782, by accepting Mr. Adams' letters of
credence as American Minister, The Netherlands
were the first foreign power to recognize the indepeny-
dence of the United States of America. It was the
guns of Fort Orange in the West Indies that fired
the first sfalute on land to the new stars and stripes.
This honor was seized upon by Johannus de Graff,
governor of the Dutch port of St. Eustacius, whose
portrait hangs todky in the State Hduse at Concord,
New Hampshire, representing him reading our own
Declaration of Independence. When in 1780 notes
for the draft of a treaty between The Netherlands
and the United States, which Henry Laurens, president
of Congress, was on his way to The Hague to negotiate,
were fished up dut of the sea by an English frigate,
Holland became involved in a war against Great
Britain, not as an ally of ours, but a good historical
exaitijple of what we today might term an associate.

The analogy between the history, between the
political and social temperament of Holland, and the
same manifestations in the United States, is no thing
of recent discovery. John Adams, who afterwards
became second president of the new republic, was
appoin'ted AmCerican Minister at The Hague in 178 1,
for the purpose of negotiating a Treaty of Friendship
and Commerce, which was signed on October 8th,
1782. In a memorial to their High-Mightinesses,
the States-General of The United Provinces of the
Low Countries, submitted at Leiden on April 19th,
178 1, asking that a time be named for the reception of
his di^omatic letters of credence, John Adams stated
the spirit that blazed in both countries — now as then
— in words that have remained a classic argument
for spiritual, if not for material, alliances between
great and independent nations. I shall quote from

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this document, not alone because it is peculiarly-
apposite to the present occasion, but because we have
here a description of some aspects of fundamental
Americanism as presented to Europe one hundred
and thirty-nine years ago by the first American diplo-
matic representative to be accredited to a European
country.

"If there was ever among nations a
natural alliance, one may be formed be-
tween the two republics. The first
planters of the four northern States
fotfhd in this country (Holland) an asy-
lum from persecution, ajid resided here
from the year one thousand six hundred
and eight to the year ohe thousand six
hundred and twenty, twelve years pre-
ceding their migration. They ever enter-
tained and transmitted to their posterity
a grateful remfembrance of that protec-
tion and hospitality, and especially of
that religious liberty they found here,
having sought in vain for it in England.

"The first inhabitants of two other
sftates, New York and New Jersey, were
immediate emigrants from this nation,
and have transmitted their religion,
language, customs, manners, and char-
acter; and America in general, until her
connections with the Hous.e of Bourbon,
has ever considered this nation as her
first friend in Europe.

"A similarity in the forms of govern-
ment is usually considered as another
circumstance which renders alliances
natural; and although the constitutions
of the two republics are not perfectly
alike, there is yet analogy enough be-
tween them to make a connection easy
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"In general usages, and in the liberality
of sentiments in those momentous points,
the freedom of enquiry, the right of pri-
vate judgment and the liberty of con-
science, of so much importance to all
mankind, the two nations resemble each
other more than any others.

"The originals of the two republics are
so much alike, that the historj'^ of one
seems but a transcript of that of the other;
so that every Dutchman, instructed in
the subject, must pronounce the Amer-
ican Revolution just and necessary, or
pass a censure upon the greatest actions
of his immortal ancestors: actions which
have been approved and applauded by
mankind, and justified by the decision
of Heaven.

"But the circumstance which perhaps
in this age has stronger influence than
any other in the formation of friendships
between nations, is the great and grow-
ing interest of commerce; of the whole
system of which through the globe, your
High-Mightinesses are too perfect mas-
ters for mi,e to say anything that is not
familiarly known. It may not, however,
be amiss to hint, that the central situa-
tion of this country, her extensive navi-
gation, her possessions in the East and
West Indies, the intelligence of her mer-
chants, the number of her capitalists,
and the riches of her funds, render a
connection with her very desirable to
America; and on the other hand, the
abundance and variety of the produc-
tions of America, the materials of manu-
factures, navigation, and commerce; the
vast demand and consumption in America
of the manufactures of Europe, of mer-
chandise from the Baltic, and from the

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East Indies, cannot admit of a doubt,
that a connection with the United States
would be useful to this republic.

"If, therefore, an analogy of religion,
government, manners, and the most ex-
tensive and lasting commercial interests,
can form a ground aad an invitation to
political connections, the subscriber
flatters himself that in all these particu-
lars, the union is so obviously natural
that there has seldom been a more dis-
tinct designation of providence to any
two distant nations to unite themselves
together."

This analogy drawn by Adams is in keeping with
the utterance of Benjamin Franklin, who, in 1778,
said: "In the love of liberty, and bravery in defense
df it, Holland has been our great example," and no
men knew better than Adams and Franklin from
whence came the stimulating and constructive in-
fluences wh5ch heartened and glided American patriots
in the making of the Republic. Speaking as one
proud not only of Dutch but also of British ancestry,
it is a matter for congratulation that, inspired by
Holland's successful war for independence and its
devotion to liberty, the men of all nationalities who
founded our Republic had the wisdom to cooperate
in building upon the foundations of English law a
Republic consecrated to freedom of religion, freedom
of speech, and freedom of the press, the trinity without
whiph no free Republic can keep the current of thought
and action free and p^re. It has, indeed, been said
that the early Dutch were so earnest in seeking to
impress the spirit of freeddm upon the American
chart that they generously renounced their own lan-
guage and consented to make English the one tongue
of the new republic, thus illustrating Robert Louis
Stevenson's belief that renunciation without being
embittered is a crowning virtue and a living grace.
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SO Strong in numbers, and had so many schools and
churches, that they could have perpetuated their
learning and literature in their own tongue. With
a far-seeing Americanism they chWse rather to give
the spirit of their culture and of their laws than the
vehicle through which it had been ndurished in order
to insure a unified America.

Is there not a lesson in this early Dutch surrender
of the clothing of principles for the soul of ideals for
all Americans who wish to unify and strengthen
national life and national expression.? I have never
been ctf those who decried the study of any langtiage
that' has given the thrill of song and story, the wisdom
of philosophy and science, and the glory of a literature
tl\at charms and elevates. We must not deny to
Americans their share of the blessing that comes
from gifted minds in all lands and in all tongues.
And it would not tend toward the new policy of
Americanization to deny to men and women among
us the privilege of reading and talking in the language
to which they were accustomed in their youth. But,
just as the early Dutch saw their language pass into
a national tongue, so we must look toward hastening
the day when one language shall be the rule in all
our public schools, and all children are made familiar
with the wisdom of the ages and its poetry and history
in the English language. English should be the
foundation in all our public schools, the very citadels
of American life, and other languages may be made
optional only after the mother tongue of America has
been mastered.

How much that means has a lesson for us today.
We need in America in the unifying processes that
are to make us a reborn, unified nation, one language
that shall be taught in our schools and no other lan-
guage to young children. (Applause). We need in
America to make it true that the public schools, out
of which our civilization and power came, shall teach
every student, no matter what nationality or what
tongue his fathers employed — that he shall learn the

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laws and literature in the English language in the
public schools of America. {Applause.)

In saying this I am not one of those who believe that
the America of today or tomorrow should lose the
beauty and strength and philosophy of great men
who have written and spoken in o*ther tongues; nor
that any law should inhibit men and women trained
in another language from reading and speaking that
language; or that our schools should not teach to
students who have passed the primary and grammar
grades, any language that has a literature that will
strengthen the American character and the American
life, but we should insist upon it that the voluntary
surrender by half a dozen states by Dutch people
for a unified language shall be followed by every
nationality that lives in the United States. {Ap-
plause.) *****

Let us not forget that it was the habit of the Dutch
domines to establish a schqpl where they established
a church. They brought with them to the New
World an idea that had hardly dawned upon many
peoples. They understood that liberty without knowl-
edge lacked the quality to save itself. Free schools
and free universities to train the youth were to them
the anchor to liberty. They were wise enough to
know that Religion was the mainspring of life and
culture its handmaid. Born as a republic in a fight
for freedom of religion, they brought it with them
to America. Their own domine preached the gospel
as it was given him to see it in the Word, and he
sought to enlighten and convince his hearers, some-
times by long dissertations. It is related that in New
Brunswick, the home of the solid and useful and
growing Rutgers College, to which I am proud to
hold close relationship, a certain domine, who had
been preaching three hours, was annoyed when a
hearer delicately held up his watch to indicate the
length of the sermon. The good domine replied with
this rebuke: "John Schureman, put up your watch.
Paul preached till midnight."

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The glory of your Society, the glory of people of
Dutch blood in America has been from the beginning
that, while they have had a pride in all of the achieve-
ments of the nation from which they sprung, when
they came to America they became a hundred per
cent Americans and then some. {Applause.) During
this great war through which we have passed, every
man who lived under these skies has been tested.
The calcium light has fallen upon motive, upon daring,
upon accomplishment, upon sacrifice. It was my
good fortune to have bfeen associated intimately
with more than five hundred thousand of the bravest
men who served their country during this war. I
could not begin to name even the men of high rank,
of Dutch blood who, with the spirit of the early Hdlland
Navy, helped to make the brightest page in the history
of the American Navy. (Applafise.) I must pause
a minute and give my thanks and the thanks of the
Navy to a great Domine of Dutch blood whom you
have been delighted to hear in days past — I refer,
of course, to that able diplomat, scholar, author, and
poet. Dr. Henry van Dyke. (Applause.) He was
the seniof chaplain in the Navy in the World War.
He was a living light of militant patriotism and mili-
tant Christianity. As Minister to The Netherlands,
when Holland gave shelter and hospitality to the
Belgian refugees. Dr. van Dyke not only knew but
felt the very atmosphere of Prussian crime as it fell
red-handed upon the little neighbor nation which the
Kaiser thought to make a road but which the Belgians
proved was a nation. ******

While the early Dutch domine was ready to labor
long and to edify and convince, and the modern
doniine, like his revolutionary predecessor, to blaze
with wrath against wrong and oppression and cruelty
but held freedom of conscience so dear to his own
souFs welfare, he could not and cannot permit any
restrictions to be placed upon the religious freedom
of others. In this day, when religious toleration
seems as universal and as God-given as God's sunshine,
this early faith and practice of religious toleration in

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Holland may not be deemed by this generation to
be worth emphasizing. But in the seventeenth cen-
tury it was as rare as just and tolerant political criti-
cism in certain circles is found in Washington today.

Is it possible our religious tolerance has been quick-
ened by a growing lack of the robust faith which
glorified the life of the early Dutch? Should we not
invoke a double portion of their spirit of faith and
zeal as we follow them in waging relentless war upoji
every species of religious bigotry which, alas, still
narrows and hardens some small souls. Are we not
in danger in this day, in defiance of the broadening
spirit of Dutch freedom, of being governed by such
antipathy to the evil thing we call Bobhevism a$ to
let the pendulum swing into reaction? Herein lies
the Dutch teaching cff calmness, sure justice, without
imperilling liberty of lawful acts and freedom to
think and speak and write.

However much we owe to Dutch liberty, Dutch
learning, Dutch art and Dutch commerce, in this
hour the truth uttered by the President of your society
last year — that no man is worthy of citizenship here
who loves Holland more than he loves America — ^is
the Dutch virtue that shines brightest. Some people
thought the end of the hyphen-menace was reached
when the armistice was signed. We were shocked
in the days preceding the World War when we found
here in America we had harbored citizens who not
only loved Prussianism better than they loved Ameri-
canism, but we were horro'r-stricken that we had nour-
ished some of alien blood who conspired against the
country to which they had sworn allegiance. Two
great men, unafraid, and red-blooded, cried out
against this unpatriotic hyphenism and gave a new
birth of pride and high resolve to all whose loyalty
to America was whole-hearted and unadulterated.
One of these big men whose voice aroused their coun-
trymen was Woodrow Wilson. The other was Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Speaking on November 4, 1915, the
President said: "These men who speak alien sym-
pathies are the spokesmen of small groups upon

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whom it is high time that the nation call a reckoning/'
In June, 1916, in Philadelphia, he declared: " 'America
first' means nothing until you translate it in what
you do." Speaking at West Point, as Commander-
in-Chief of the Army, in June, 191 6, he gave this living
definition: "Americanism consists in utterly believing
in the principles of America and putting them first
as above anything that comes into competition with
it," and in Philadelphia, May nth, 1915, he uttered
a truth as necessary now as then: "A man who thinks
of himself as belonging to a particular group in America
has not yet become an American."

In the s^ame spirit, with his customary vigor, Theo-
dore Roosevelt on July 18, 1918, said: "We must
insist there be in this country but one nationality,
the American nationality. There can be no fifty-
fifty Americans in this country. Americanism trans-
cends every party consideration. No man who is
not one hundred per cent American is entitled to the
support of any party which is itself entitled to be
considered an American party." In April, 1917, the
month our first flotilla of destroyers sailed across the
seas, Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at Oyster Bay, said:
"No man can serve two masters in this country at
this time. If the man is not an American, and noth-
ing else he should be sent out of this country. If he
plays the part of sedition in this country he should
be shot." In Chicago he uttered this counsel, wise
now as then: "We must not only do away with sec-
tionalism but we must see that our land really is a
melting pot of citizenship and that all peoples who
come here become Americans and nothing else."
It was such vigorous arraignment of un-American
hyphenism before and during the war tfhat lifted
America out of easy-going toleration of those who
loved some other flag more than Old Glory and which
cemented the nation in the crucible that fitted it to
win victory.

The President of the Society: I propose a toast
to the President of the United States.

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After the toast h^d been drunk standing, President
Van Wyck read the following cablegrams and tele-
grams :

"Her Majesty, Queen of the Netherlands,
The Hague, Holland.

The Holland Society of New York sends good
wishes of the season for you and your people.

Augustus Van Wyck, President.
Frederic R. Keator, Secretary."

"Augustus Van Wyck, President,
Holland Society.

I am instructed by Her Majesty the Queen to
thank Holland Society most sincerely for good
wishes. Your telegram is highly appreciated by
Her Majesty.

Van Geen, Private Secretary
to the Queen."

"Augustus Van Wyck, President
Holland Society of New York, N. Y.

The Netherlands Legation has been instructed
to transmit to you the following cablegram in re-
sponse to the courteous message of The Holland
Society of New York to Her Majesty the Queen of
Holland : ^On the occasion of your Annual Banquet^
held in celebration of the persistance of the Nether-
land tradition in America, I desire to convey my
congratulations to your Society and at the same
time to express my sincere wishes for the contin-
uance and the strengthening of the traditional
friendship between our two nations. (Signed)
Wilhelmina.'

J. T. Cremer, Netherlands Minister."

"Augustus Van Wyck, President

Holland Society of New York, 90 West St., New York.

I regret that the circumstance of my being still
confined to hospital prevents my presence at An-
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nual Banquet of Holland Society of New York and
especially inasmuch as I recall with the most pleasant
memories being the guest of The Holland Society at
its banquet during the Hudson-Fulton celebration
in 1909 at which Judge Van Wyck, my next door
neighbor on that occasion, referred to Holland
American relations in terms of the greatest warmth
and cordiality. I wish to convey to you, Mr. Presi-
dent, and to the members of your distinguished
Society my heartiest felicitations for a happy even-
ing tonight, as then, and to assure you that the
message of our gracious Sovereign but reflects the
high regards of my countrymen and myself for the
most intimate historical sympathies which have
always united the American and Dutch peoples.

J. T. Cremer, Netherlands Minister."

The Freside'nt of the Society continuing: I
propose the health of the now matured Queen of Hol-
land, who in years gone by we used to speak of as the
young and little queen. I propose the health of
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands.

The Queen's health was then drunk.

President Van Wyck: I now take pleasure in
introducing the next speaker, whoin you all know
— the Bisjiop of New York. {Applause.)

RT. REV. CHARLES SUMNER BURCH, D. /).,

BISHOP OF NEW YORK

*****Just at the present time there is no thought in
my mind quite so insistent, quite so persistent, as that of
Americanism. *****We are loyal churchmen and Amer-
icans because we believe in reverence for constituted
authority. ^Applause.) And it does not make any
difference to us whether we like the Government or
not; it is our Government, and the laws which it
enacts are the laws under which we shall live and
under which we shall do our duty as American citi-
zens. Yes, Mr. Daniels, regardless of any other
country's iriterest! {Applause.)

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We know what brave, what sturdy stock you come
from*. We know what splendid Americans you have
proved youftselves to be. We know that, in the annals
of oiir courts of justice, no Hdlland-American finds
a placte among the criminals, or those who have been
invited to leave these shores of ours because they
are alien anarchists. {Applause.) Not one!

And we are grateful to you for those lessons that
you have taught us, of which Secretary Daniels has
spoken so elo'quently. We owe you a debt of gratitude
that is unpayable, and I here give my tribute to you
for your loyal Americanism^ for that type of American-
ism which we trust shall be found in all other foreign
peoples who come here whether for asylum or for
the larger benefits and privileges that American citizen-
ship will give them. *****

N)ow I like the typie of authority that calls upon the
King of England to stqp on the Strand or in Piccadilly,
when the pWliceman holds! up his hand and tells him
to stop. And here in New York City, I do not care
whether it is a burglar or a Bishop (as the language
was used in one of our evening papers tonight), it is
his duty, whether he is on the corner of Fifth Avenue
and 42nd Street, or in any of the other congested
sections of this city, it is his duty, whether he is in a
hurry to get to a dinner of The Holland Society or to
scnie other pleasant occasion; it is his duty to stop
d!nd pay reverence to that man on the corner, who
represents constituted authority. {Applause.)

That will make every one of us better citizens; it
will help us to make these other brothers of ours, who
have come to our shores to learn our ways, to take ad-
vantage of our commercial or financial, our economic,
our Governmental systems, become good Americans;
and that is what we pray for, and that is what we
want to work for.

And I do not believe in my heart, that there is any
Society (any of these patriotic societies that find their
home here in this City of New York) th^t preaches
and lives and teaches the doctrine of true Americanism
and the doctrine of reverence for constituted authority

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any more eflPectively than The Holland Society of
New York. {Applause.)

President Van Wyck then introduced Augustus
Thomas.

AUGUSTUS THOMAS

*****The Secretary asked you what Americanism
was, and then he proposed to define it as idealism, with
certain other adjuncts that were oratorical and eiFec-
tive. In my opinioh — not differing from him, but
ohly amplifying his line of thought — in my opinion,
the thing th^at constitutes Americanism is the belief
that tjhe will of the majority shall govern. This is
the only country— ^t was the first country in the
world, in which that happened, that every man had
a vote and that the will of the majority governed. In
other countries the sufi'rage was more or less qualified,
and only here did we have it. *****

But that has always been our principle here, and
the thing that has made America America, has been
that the majority has governed.

Now we have not always been free from bigotry.
There was a time when we had a curfew; there was a
tiirie when a man's opinions were examined very much
more closely than they are now; (I don't know how
much more closely than they will com*e to be examined)
but there is on recdrd in Massachusetts the case of
a sea captain^ who, coming home from a whaling
voyage, was given thirty-seven lashes for kissing his
wife oti Sunday. If they had just struck out the
Sunday, th« punishnxent would have gone.****

Of course, as Mr. Daniels told you, you did stand
the invasion; your forebears stood the invasion of their
wonderful little country below the level of the sea,
and the attempt of the Spanish Inquisition to force
an opinion upon it and make it subscribe to the law
of Saint Ignatius, but the principle of Saint Ignatius
was that the means justified the end, and that is the
backbone and the stimulus of every bigot. There
are no real hypocrites; they are not eff'ective — it is the

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fanatic that is eflFective, and he is terrible when he
believes that the means (whatever they are) justify
the end.*****

There are some very important dogmas upon which
I feel deeply. They include even this question of
gravitation that your Chairman spoke about. I
think that everything that we have in life, every idea,
all our art, all our law, all our comedy, all our equity,
every moral, we derive from the attraction of gravita-
tion and not from any tradition, because that is
sufficient. Mr. Ejnerson says somewhere that Napol-
eon was doomed to defeat because he fought against
the moral sense of the universe. Mr. Taft said,
when the war was on, that the Kaiser was doomed to
defeat because the stars in their courses fought against
him. What did they mean? How could the stars
in their courses fight any man.^ I can understand
a physical action of the stars, but hpw c^aa they affect
anybody morally.^ Just this way, and it is very
profound and a fair deduction and worth our valuable
two or three minutes for me to tell you. A man
spends three years learning to stand up, to overcome
the attraction of gravitation, to keep the center of
gravity over the base — three years he spends on that
and there is nothing so deep in his blood as respect
for that. The Bishop in his chair puts his arm on
the back of it there, or he would fall away — that is
respect for gravitation. If I lean forward to you I
support myself on the table. We are always and
constantly conscious of it. All of the play of child-
hood is concerned with the pushing of one another
off their base. That is all that there is in their play.
The boy, beginning to work, learns that he can carry two
buckets of water more easily than he can one, and that
great sense of balance comes in there and is so per-
manently in the blood that no architect would dare
to build the capitdl at Washingtoib with one wing or
a school house in the city with one wing because it
wduld be an eyesore. You could not stand the lack
of balance there. A painter understands that. The
most iconoclastic painter that we had. Whistler, in

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that immortal painting that hangs in the Luxem-
bourg, in the painting of his mother, balances it on
the wall.

You take a skin in the most primitive times; it is
laid with the goods there; over here another skin.
Does this balance that? And, after awhile, they
learn to devise a kind of toy that swings across the
steel yard and delicately answers to the call ctf gravi-
tation to see if the things are equal.

From that, Justice ukes its symbol and it passes
into equity and so in morals we say, "Is the service
I am rendering equal to the obligation I owe?" And
it all goes back to the question and the law of gravita-
tion and that sense of balance that we have in the
bloo(L And as the stars in their courses fought
against the Kaiser, so the stars in their courses are
fighting for eternal justice now and it will always
be triumphant in this world with men of hearts, not
necessarily brains. That should make of every one
of us an optimist because it is not lying with us; the
whole solar system, the whole universal system is
committed, is pledged to that great sense of balance
which none df us may outrage without an eternal
desire to get back on the level. {Applause.)

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THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL BANQUET

HE Thirty-sixth Annual Dinner of
The Holland Society was held in
the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-
Astoria ofti Thursday evening, Janu-
ary 20, 1921.

The members and guests as-
sembled in the Astor Gallery, and
escorts were assigned to the repre-
sentatives of sister societies invited as honorary
guests.

The Domtne of the Society, Rev. Dr. Henry van
Dyke of Princeton, New Jersey, invoked the blessing.

The President as "Volpirzitter" acted as "Toost
Meester," in accordance with custom, the guests of
honor of the Society being seated in the following
order:

To his right sat: Mr. P. Staal, Consul-General
for the Netherlands; Prctfessor Samuel P. Orth, of
Cornell University; Hon. Francis Key Pendleton,
Vice-President, New York State Society of the Cin-
cinnati; Hon. Edward J. Gavegan, The Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Hon. A. T. Qearwater, Vice-
President, Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New
York; Col. William G. Bates, Vice-President, Sons
of thfe Revolution in the State of New York; Frederick
Dwight, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor, Society of Colon-
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S. Van Rensselaer, Esq., Chancellor, The Colonial
Order of the Acorn.

To his left sat: Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, Domine of
The Holland Society of New York; Rev,. Edgar F.
Romig, one of the Ministers of the Collegiate Dutch
Church of the City of New York; Mr. Alexander B.
Halliday, First Viflp-President, Saint Andrew's Society
of the State of New York; Dr. W. E. Lambert, Presi-
dent, Saint George's Society of New York; Mr. Lloyd
Robertfe, Saint David's Society of the State of New
Yorkj Rev. A. De Witt Mason, D. D., President,
Saint Nicholas Sfociety of Nassau Island^ William
Mitchell, Esq., President General, The Huguenot So-
ciety of America; Brig.-Gen. Oliver B. Bridgman,
President, Empire State Society, Sons of the American
Rev/olution; Mr. Frederick C, Seabury, Deputy Gov-
ernor, SpQiety of Mayflower Descendants in the State
of New York and Rev. John Williams, President,
The British Schools and Universities Club.

In front df thp Dais the following members and their
guests wer^ seated at tables: I. Reynolds Adriance,
Frank Amery, Samuel H. Andrews; Richard C. Baker,
Henry S. Bartow, Ed. T. Belknap, John Bergen,
Reginald V. Bergen, Teunis J. Bergen, Tunis G.
Bergen, Alvah W. Bickner, Morrell Birtwhistle, Charles
E. Blackford, Jr., Dr. H. J. Bogardus, J. T. B. Bcgar-
dus. Dr. J. H. Bogart, Daniel G. Bogert, Henry L.
Bogert, Jr., Jacob L. Briak, Theodojre Brink, William
BrinkerhofF, George T. Brokaw, Henry Wyckoff
Brower, William L. Brower; t. B. Churchill, Rev.
Charles K. Clearwater, Edmund Coffin, Samuel D.
Cdllett, Arthur B. Conner, Bruce K. Conover, Charles

E. Covert, Rev. Albert Bruce Curry, Jr., F. S. Curtis;
A. N. De Bevoise, J. A. de Lanoy, Harry M. De Mott,
Edward De Witt, Edward De Witt, Jr., Henry C. De
Witt, Henry C. De Witt, Jr., Philip H. De Witt, S. L.

F. Deyo, Walter C. Deyo, William Dietrich, T. V. P.
Ditmars, Ellsworth Doane, Wm. Kenydn Drake,
Henry G. Duffield, George A. Duncan, A. W. Durkee,
Peter Duryee, Thornton Earle, Jesse Elting; Dr. F. W.
Flagge, Howell Foster; Elmer Sharp Garretson, Garret

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J.Garretson, James Garretson, Federal Judge Edwin L.
Garvin, Mr. Goldstein, William Gramlich, A. C. F.
Grimm, Walter A. Guenther; George F. Hall, S. J.
Hallsted, Bniyn Hasbrouck, Frank Ha^sbrouck, Joseph
E. Hasbrouck, Jr., Charles C. HaViland, Geo. C.
Henckel, Charles E. Hendrickson, George D. Hendrick-
son, Alexander Herbert, Mr. Higgins, Hudson Hoag-
land, T. H. Hoagland, Ernest P. Hoes, Samuel V.
Hoffman, Stoddard Hoffman, Frahklyn Hogeboom,
T. C. Hoornbeek, A. B. Hopper, Roland Inslee Hopper,
E. Covert Hulst, Charles R. Hunt, Charles Warren
Hunt, Rev. Joseph Hunter; William B. Jenkins;
Frederic R. Keiator, John Keegan, Gerrit Kouwen-
hoven. Dr. Joh^ B. Kouwenhoven, W. H. Kouwen-
hoven, W. W. Kouwenhoven, Mr. Kuh; Abram P.
Lefevre, George O. Linkletter, William Little, Henry
S. Livingston, Henry D. Lott, August Luening; Mr.
McCarthy, Mr. Justice John MacCrate, Rev. T. H.
MacKenzie, D. D., William McKenzie, John Macklin,
Mr. Mathews, Walter B. Matteson, G. R. Merritt,
Charles S. Merton, Walter M. Meserole, Wm. J.
Metcalf, John W. Morrell; John Neafie, Clarence G.
Newkirk, James S. Newkirk; Andrew J. Onderdonk,
Dr. Thomas W. Onderdonk, C. P. Opdyke, W. A.
Overton; Robert Palmer, R. G. Paul, James S. Pol-
hemus, Dr. J. Wilson Poucher, Louis J. Praeger,
Charles E. Purdy; Edgar Quackenbush, E. Schuyler
Quackenbush, Frank H. Quinby; Hon. C. E. Remsen;
Charles L. Schenck, Edward F. Schenck, Henry Crane
Schenck, Willard P. Schenck, J. Maus Schermerhom,
William P. Schoen, Harry Schoening, A. L. Slav/ens,
Dr. Bevier Hasbrouck SJeght, H. Armour Smith,
Alfred Melvine Snedeker, Rev. W. Pi Sbper, William
J. Sortor, Bird W. Spencer, David Springsteen, Frank-
lin A. Staats, Peter W. Stagg, Ernest Stavey, Louis
Strait, M. B. Strait, Hon. Selah B. Strong, Walter L.
Suydam; Francis J. N. Tallman, Henry Tappen,
Everit B. Terhune, J. Irving Terhune, Paul Gibert
Thebaud, John H. Thumann, Dr. Fenton B. Turck,
William J. Turck, Pierson Tuttle; Carl M. Vail,
De Witt Van Buskirk, H. W. Vanderpoel, John L.

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Vander Veer, J. R. Vandyck, John de Camp Van
Etten, Dr. Byron G. Van Home, Schuyler Va'n Loan,
Thos, Van Loan, Melville C. Van Ness, Wallace M.
Van Ness, Frank R. Van Nest, Ernest M. Van Norden,
Howard L. Van Norden, Benj. T. Van Nostrand,
John E. Van Nostrand, F. J. Van Order, Seymour
Van Santvoord, Horace M. Van Slyke, John O. Van
Slyke, Charles A. Van Winkle, Morgan Van Woert,
Rutger Van Woert, William Van Woert, Judge Augus-
tus Van Wyck, E. Hawley Van Wyck, William Van
Wyck, W* W: Vaughan, Cornelius C. Vermeule,
Cornelius C. Vermeule, Jr., W. M. Vermilye, Anson
A. Voorhees, Judah B. Voprhees, Caspar J. Vooirhis,
Charles M. Vreeland, John W. Vrooman; Henry
Wagner, W. C. Wheeler, Simon Wickes, Alex. S.
Willianis, Wentworth Byron Winslow, Lt. Gov. Jere-
miah Wood, Nicholas D. Wortendyke, Reynier J.
Wortendyke, Reynier J. Wortendyke, Jr., James N.
Wyckoff, Dr. Peter B. WyckoflF, Walter C. Wyckoff,
H. S. Wynkoop; Albert Zabriskie, C. B. Zabriskie,
William A. Zabriskie, Jobn Zahn.

The menu followed the form of that used at the
dinners of 1918, 1919 and 1920. There was no sou-
venir of the dinner.

The addresses of the evening follow:*

ADDRESS OF WELCOME

Arthur H. Van Brunt, Esq.,
President of The Holland Society

Ladies and Gentlemen: It is customary at these
dinners first to drink a toast to the President of the
United States. Please fill your glasses and rise to
the toast.

(The members and guests roee and drank a toast
to the President oif the United States, the orchestra
playing "The Star Spangled Banner.")

President Van Brunt: Next please drink a toast
to the Queen of the Netherlands.

(The

*By reason of limited space, due to the combination of the 1920 and 1921 Year
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(The members and guest3 rose and drank a toast
to the Queen of the Netherlands.)

President Van Brunt continuing: Ladies, (and I
wish there were more of you) guests of tlie Society,
guests of members and fellow members: I know that
is not the sequence employed by many Chairmen,
but it seems to me it is the true order that should be
used. We meet tonight for the 36t4i annual dinner
of the Holland Society. I came into this room,
certain in the knowledge that God and I both knew
what I expected to say to you by way of welcome,
but now some two hours later God only knows what
that was — i don't. (Laughter.) I am rather disposed
in this dilemma to adopt the method of the Scotch
Dominie who advised when he had a particularly
difficult text to elucidate, that the thing to do was
to look it squarely in the fac^e and pass by. (Laughter.)
But on second thought, I won't adopt that literally
but instead of passing by, I will pass the duty over
to one who I am sure can perform it much more
satisfactorily to you than I could.

However, before so doing I want to say just a
word, and that is to ask if some methbd can't be
devised of interesting the younger men and getting
all members more actively interested in the Society
functions?

To my mind the solution lies in the development
of branches. The history of the Poughkeepsie and
Hudson County Branches shows that they make for
sociability and closer relations among the members.
At the various gatherings of the parent society the
members of these branches attend in a body, and the
presence of congenial and well-known companions
renders these occasions much more enjoyable to such
branch members than to those who only meet their
fellow-members once or twice a year, in a more or
less formal manner, on such occasions.

I feel that the forming of branches would bring
the various local members in much closer contact
and stimulate interest in all Society matters. I

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want, therefore, to urge upon your consideration
the desirability of establishing branches wherever
possible.

At the last Annual Meeting we created the office
of Domine and we filled it. I am going to ask that
officer to s^y a few words to you, and I take great
pleasure in introducing our first Domine. As such,
possibly, he should be introkJuced, but as an old
and valued member of the Society he certainly needs
no introduction. Dr. van Dyke.

REV. DR. HENRY VAN DYKE
DOMINE OF THE HOLLAND SOCIETY

I was asked tonight to make a speech of welcome.
I am glad to do it. Welcome is the spirit of Holland.
It is her honor and glory that she always has been
an hdspitaSle country, hospitable to ideas, to new
developments of art, to the persecuted and distressed
of every land.

Ask the Mayflower representatives here tonight.
Let them speak of whiat Holland did for thteir ance3-
tors. Thojse Pilgrims were not an easy people to live
with. In Amsterdam they found some previous
Pilgrims with whom they could not live because they
were all the time quarreling about women's dress.
So they went up to Leyden, and there in that lovely
city by the old Rhine they found a home and peace
and fairly good living.

That was in 1609; and then in 1685, Louis XIV in
France revoked the Edict of Nantes and the Hugue-
nots, the best blood of France, were driven out, scat-
tered. Where did they find their first refuge, their
first asylum? In Holland. And that is why we have
men with French names in The Holland Society.

In 1914 when the madness of war swept over Europe,
and Belgium was beaten to her knees but not sub-
dued, and the civil population of Belgium, the old
and the yo'unjg and the helpless, were forced to flee
before the German scourge, where did they find
refuge.^ A million of them fled to Holland; and

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Holland, like a good old mother, opened her arms and
spread her knees and made a lap for diem and took
them in. And when the war was ended, and the most
miserable, abject and despicable of all refugees, the
late German Kaiser, looked for a place where he
could be protected, where did he find it? In Holland.
Was Holland wrong? No. Holland was right, ab-
solutely right; thp traditional refuge, the traditional
asylum of Europe simply had to hold her gates open
to that un-Napoleonic Napoleon, who fled from the
consequence of his own crimes.

It took a good deal 6i courage for a small country
like Holland to perform that particular action at that
particular time. It would nolt take so much now,
because people's feeliligs have settled down; but at
that time feelings were fierce. But Holland never
flinched and never wavered: Shfe afforded an asylum
to a political refugee according to the precepts of
international law. No demand has been made upon
her for the surrender of that particular refugee so
far as I know. Nobody seems to want him. What
would she do if a demand were made? Well, if she
could find a legal way of saying, "Take him and
welcome," I think she would.

Of course you, being Dutchmen by descent, know
the noble traits of the Dutch character^ in fact, you
teel them in yourselvefe: high-mindedness, absolute
intrepidity, firmness, sometimes called obstinacy, and
a certain way of thinking things over before you act,
a certain reluctance to ride on the cow-catcher of the
engine, a preference for the smoking car — those are
Dutch characteristics. I suppose that in the develop-
merits which may come, which may be very serious,
Holland will try to still keep a level head as she did
during the war.

She stands there, not under the same kind of pressure
of external danger, but face to face with what may
happen in Europe. What doe's she stand for ? Holland
stands, as she has always stood, for constitutional
government. Whether you call It Republic or Mon-
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it in their hands. They have it in Holland. She
stands for liberty of conscience, absolute freedom.
In Hblland there is no connection between Church
and State. She stands for international law. Those
are three very high things to stand for — constitu-
tional government, liberty of conscience, and inter-
national law.

Our president has been talking tb us tonight, asking
"What do these dinners mean.^" Well, of course, I
like the sociability idea. But more important even
than sociability, it seems to me, is it for us as descen-
dants of the Dutch settlers of these United States,
to uphold the ideals of the country from which our
forefathers came: to stand for the Dutch principles,
to bring out again and again what Holland means
in the history of the world — a reasonable and sane,
fearless, honest, hospitable little country, the nucleus
and seed of hope for better relations among the nations
of the world in days to come. Holland by the sea
and Switeerland among the Alps, what glorious
little countries those are! How much greater is the
fa;me of a little country which stands for something,
than mere bigness!

Let us keep alive here in America the traditions of
our Dutch fonefathers. Let us try to show in America
that it is possible for people living here to hold deep
in their heart of hearts the memory of their fore-
fathers and the land from which they came, and at
the same time not have a hyphen in their names over
here.

This is The Holland Society in America. We are
not Holland-Americans. We are Americans! But
we do not forget that our people came frpm that
• little country beside the North Sea, which has a record
of the highest heroism, the finest art, the best science,
the broadest culture, and the most liberal spirit.
We are proud of being Americans. We are proud
that our ancestors came from Holland to help in the
making of America. {Prolonged applause.)

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The President then introduced the Reverend
Mr. Romig.

REVEREND EDGAR FRANKLIN ROMIG
MINISTER OF THE MIDDLE COLLEGIATE

DUTCH CHURCH

Mr. President, membcirs of the Holland Society,
and guests (including the ladies) : After the eloquence
of Dr. Van Dyke, a man of my tender years finds it
very difficult to give expression to any sentiments,
and yet in a company such as this no one could quite
be dumb. I count it a great pleasure to be with you
this evening. Not only as one of the ministers of
the oldest church on the Island of Manhattan, but
also as a citizen who holds the venerable Dutch tradi-
tions in esteem, do I find it an honor to be in this
distinguished company.

It is not the first time that I have broken bread
at your table. As the guest of one of your former
presidents, Mr. William L. Brower, I was here once
before, and I have come to fed that one thing that
is expected of an after-dinner speaker is first of all
to prove that he was born. I do not blame you for
wanting to know that a man is of flesh and blood
when he comes here, for these are days when we
must be on our guard against malicious spirits.
(Laughter.)

Your President has asked me — ^but before I go on
«rith what your PrjesMent has asked me to do, I shbuld
at least say that my forefathers were of old Moravian
stock who sailed to this dountry from Rotterdam in
the year 1732, after they had fdund that the original
Dutch settlers had made America a fit place for
civilized people to live in. (Laughter.)

The subject of my talk i$ "The Tercentenary Week
in HpUand." It is six months old by this time — not
news, and yet peiliaps not quite as old as some of
the che3tnuts ohie hears occasionally in after-dinner
talks! In fact, I sobietimes wiish we might have a
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of the early twenties perhaps. Which reminds me
of a rather interesting incident that took place iii a
railway train in HoUarid last summer. Thef e were
a number of Dutchmen and a number of Americans
in the same compartment. There was a good deal of
banter, and we took liberty in critici-sing certain
things Dutch, while the Hollanders took a similar
liberty with us. Finally, one of the Dutchmen said,
**0f course you know, sir, do you not, that the Pilgrim
Fathers came within an ace of gding to Dutcji Guiana?"
I said, "Yes, I think I remember that from history."
He continued, "And you know also that the original
Dutch settlers came very near settling in St. Thomas,
one of your present American possessions?" I said,
"Yes." "Well," said he, "Suppose the English Pil-
grim's had all goncj to Dutch Guiana and the drift of
migration on the part of the English, had gone toward
South America, and suppose the Dutch ha.d all gone
down into the Virgin Islands." "Yes," I said, "What
of it?" "Why," said he, "What a wonderful time
your Irish burgomaster would haVe in ruling New
York!" {Laughter.) Now that is beside the subject.
I have been asked to speak about Holland. You will
pardon me if I simply give you impressions as they
come to my mind:

The first thing that struck us was the fact that
the rank and file of the people in Holland knew what
was going on. It is a tiny country, to bp sure, but
the average man on the street seemed to know some-
thing about the Tercentenary Celebration. In Ley-
den on the first day of our visit to Holland, I asked
the advice of a laboring man as to how to get to the
town hall; and since he was going in that direction,
he gladly accompanied me, and we engaged in as
much conversation as our mutual ignorance of each
other's language would permit. I questioned him
and he told me that he was a Christian, a Protestant
a Socialist and a Prohibitionist. {Laughter.) Then
he catechised me; When he found out I was an
American, he said, "Ah, Pelgrim Fader!" which is
the Dutch equivalent of our English words Pilgrim

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Father — cognate words — and he received me like
a long-lost brother.

That same day we saw in the shop windbws posters
upcxn which was a picture of the old Pieterskerk in
Leyden and up in the corner a stoaller picture of the
Mayflower and this legend, "American Week in Hol-
land/* Surely we felt welcome.

The next day the royal stamp was placed upon that
welcome, when Her Majesty the Queen invited a
number of guests to her summer home at Het Loo.
Very thorough arrangements had been made to give
us a pleasant day. A special train took the guests
from Rotterdam, The Hague, Leyden and Haarlem,
first of all tp Amsterdam where we were entertained
at the Industrial Club at luncheon, and then we were
conveyed to Apeldoorn, the station for Het Loo.
We walked along a street with beautiful poplars
oti either side, arid finally came to the won-
derful chateau. Naturally, as democratic Americans,
we were pleased with the simplicity and the true
homeliness^if I may use that word in its real sense
— of that palace. Some palaces are simply museums.
This one was a home, and everything was done to
give us a genuine welcome. Very happily. Baron
Mackay was the chairman of the Committee on
Arrangements. He happens to be a holder of titles
of nobility in England and in Holland, but is a lover
of all things American and really treated us like
brothers.

We were taken into the ballroom and introduced to
the Lord High Chamberlain, the Governor erf Utrecht,
who in turn presented us to Her Majesty the Queen.
We were very much charmed with the unfeigned
sincerity and earnestness of manner of the Queen.
She spoke to a number of us personally, and I count
it one of the pleasant incidents of my trip to Holland
that she said to me, "I hope that your visit here in
connection with the Pilgrim Tercentenary will be a
pleiasant one." It seemed to come from her heart.
Later she led the way into the beautiful garden where
we visited the old chateau of William the First. After

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these things we were entertained at dinner at an inn
hard by.

I shall always recall it as a most happy circum-
stance of my life that I was privileged to be one of
those to be received by Her Majesty the Queen,
and I feel that it did much to help us to love Holland
— that her gracious Majesty deigned at the time to
give us such a welcome.

Of the incidents that took place during the follow-
ing days I must speak rather briefly. Leyden, of
course, was the center of activities. On Sunday,
the day following the reception, a very interesting
service was held in the Jan Pesijnshofje. You
will pardon my pronuoiciation, thctee of you who are
Dutchmen, but it is the Old Folks Home on the
site where John Robinson, the pastor of the Pilgrim
Church, lived, taught and died. Professor Van Ness
of the University had charge of the service, and Dr.
McFadyen, an authority on Pilgrim history, gave the
address. It was my privilege to read the lesson at
that time.

I must again tell you of our impressions. We were
deeply touched by the fact that so many men out of
all walks of life — there were ambassadors there, there
were foreign ministers, there were clergymen, there
were lawyers, there were representatives of four
nations present — had all come to pay tribute to the
memory of the humble Englishmen who had come
down from Amsterdam, had spent twelve years in
that little place, had been received by the Dutch,
and above all, had in that place made up their mind
to go to America.

We think of the Pilgrim fathers out on the deep.
But after all let us not forget that they decided — they
had the chpicp before them — as they met in that
little courtyard. There was one of the great mysteries
of life, the mystery of facing the easy rokd and thfe
difficult road, and df choosing the difficult road, of
deciding to venture out into the great unknown.
Such was the atmosphere that hung over that place.

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A number of meetings were held in Ley den on
Monday and Tuesday. The Congress was opened
in the great hall of the university. There again we
felt a kind of thrill, because it took us right back to
the days of William of Orange. If we may believe
tradition, William of Orange, after tjie siege of Leyden,
gave the burghers of that city the privilege either of
being exempted from taxes for a certain number of
years, or having a university. They chose the uni-
versity. The Rector Magnificus of the university
gave the opening address at that convocation and
conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon President
Lowell of Harvard and Viscount Bryce in absentia.
The other speakers at that time were the deputy-
governor of Massachusetts, Professor Van Ness of
the university, and Mr. Westermann of the Netherland-
America Society, who presented to our minister, as
well as to the English minister, that beautiful copy
of the recently published work called "Leyden Docu-
ments of the Pilgrim Fathers" which every one who is
interested in Pilgrim history ought to see because
of its interesting marriage and baptismal records.
It will throw a good deal of light upon the history
of that period.

On Monday evening there was a banquet at — this
is a strange and hard name to pronounce — ^the Kasteel
Oud-Wassenaer right near Leyden. It was an inter-
esting banquet. There was a great flow of wit, but
I think we owe it to our Dutch hosts to say that wit
was not the only thing that flowed there. {Laughter.)
And there was a sparkle of humor, but humor was
not the only thing that sparkled there. {Laughter.)

We were taken that same evening to the town hall,
and the chimes were rung, and beautiful old Dutch
tunes were played on them. The burgomaster of
the city received us.

The following day there was another session of the
Congress. It was the Queen's birthday, and in the
afternoon we had the unique privilege of attending
a tilting match, which I shall not attempt to describe.
The intricacies are such that it would take a word

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artist to even begin to give an elementary description
of a tilting match.

Then, to close the festivities at Leyden, tliere was
a session in the old Pi'eterskerk. There were a nuniber
of speakers, English, American and Dutch, but the
oine speech that stands out in my mind, and I mention
it here because it is characteristic, came from the
lips of Dr. Plooij, the secretary of the Tercentenary
committee. He spoke about the influence of John
Robinson, the spirit of John Robinson, and in summar-
izing the talk, he simply quoted the Piigrim pastor.
I shall repeat in modern parlance the ideas that he
gave there: John Robinsooi said to his congregation
shortly before they left, and this throws light on the
toleration of the man, "Brethren, I do not want you
to go ajiy farther in following me than I am going
in following the light. Second, do not be afraid of
any instruments or means which will lead you onward
to the truth. They can never harm you." And,
finally, "I am thoroughly persuaded that God still
has truth to break out of His Holy Word.'* That
was the spirit of John Robinson, who himiself was
not privileged to go wit^ the Pilgrims, but who in-
spired them as they went out upon their great venture.

Now the incidents that took place on Wednesday,
the. following day, I shall have to pass over. There
was a luncheon given by the American minister to
all the delegates, and there were a number of festivities
in Amsterdam.

But the events of the following day were rather
unique — ^Thursday of Tercentenary Week. At nine
o'clock thit morning we bade farewell to the old city
of Leyden. Perhaps I ought to say that during that
time a number of very distinguished men, both Eng-
lish and American, took opportunity to pay tribute
not only to the Pilgrim fathers but to the hospitality
of the Dutch. Among those who took part were the
British minister, our American minister, Mr. Phillips,
Mr. Hamilton Holt, Dr. William Elliot GriflSs, and
Bishop Darlington. The greetings from this Society
were read and were received with acclamations from

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those present. There were a number of gentlemen
present who spoke at that time, and I am sure that
they will not feel that it is an injustice to them if
I should forget their names.

We left Leyden on Thursday morning at nine.
We embarked in the largest boat that the canal would
hold but it was hardly large enough to carry us all.
As we broke our moorings we could hear that old
anthem of the Dutch, which still carries in fiction
the affirmation of allegiance to Philip the Second,
but which in spirit, of course, is true to the principles
of William of Orange. As we sailed down the old
c^nal we could hear that Old Dutch anthem ringing
in dur ears.

It was our intention to go as far as we could along
that same canal by which the Pilgrims had traveled.
It reminded me of that passage in Bradford's diary,
"And so they bade farewell to that goodly city where
they had dwelt twelve years, believing that they
were Pilgrims and strangers upon the earth." That
was the spirit of the Pilgrims as they said goodbye
not Qnly to their kinsfolk of English blood who re-
mained behind, but also to the Dutch who hiad been
their hofets; and we felt too that we were leaving good
hosts in the old university town of Leyden.

We traveled by that canal only as far as Leitschedam.
We couldn't go all the way to DelfshaVen by boat so,
unlike the Pilgrims, we entrained at a little point
near Leitischedam, and went on to Delfshaven. A
verj^ inspiring service was held in the old church
th^re n'fear the spot from which the Pilgrims embarked
on the Speedwell. After that we also embarked,
but not cAi an untrustworthy Speedwell^ but on ope
of the harbor boats, which after taking us all over
the harbor of Rotterdam, finally brought us into the
city so that we could partake of a very sumptuous
dinrietf, as the guests of the municipality of Rotterdam.
There the official farewells were expressed by all
present.

Now, my friends, I have given you a very sketchy
report o(f what took place in Holland. If the week

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had simply been one of holiday-making, I should not
have the courage to address you this evening. There
was something far more significant in it than that.
In the first place, we came to realize what Dutch
hospitality meant. Doctor Van Dyke has referred
to it. I discovered it then for the first time. It
has been my privilege to be entertained in most of
the countries of Europe, and also among the Arabs
in their tents, and I think I know what hospitality is,
but I feel t^hat the Dutch are hbists par excellence.

Then I think we began to see tlie Dutch influence
upon the Pilgrim fathers in i/ts true perspective. Per-
haps the t^me will come when we shall realize that
some df the things that the Pilgrinxs introduced into
New England, such as the town-meeting and the
ideals of democracy in small communities, and the
conception of education, are as much Dutch as they
are Ei^glisji, o;r perhaps more so, but after all, the
thin^ that stands out here in conriection with the
Dutch influence upon the Pilgrims was the giving to
them of the privilege of absolute toleration.

One must not forget that it was the Dutch who
leavened England in the latter part of the sixteenth
century with liberal ideas. One must not forget
that it'was the Dutch who fought the bloody fight
again'sH: Philip the Second in order that they might
win for thenijselves the privilege of liberty of worship.
And, above all, it is the glory of Holland that having
won liberty of worship for herself, she was willing
to accord it to all who came into her company. {Ap-
plause.)

Th'ere is otily one other impression that comes to
my mind and that is this: Our visit (all the delegates
would agree with me in this) emphasized the urgency
of the continued friendship of England^ Holland and
America. {Applause.) There are divisive forces at
work in the world today which would bring about a
cleavage between England and America if they could.
Those same insidious agencies would bring about a
cleavage between Holland and America, and Holland
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to withstand influences of that sort, to come to a
better understanding of what England is and of what
Holland is.

Together, we s'tand for a sane democracy which is
to be enjoyed by all people equally; together we
stand for free institutions, for public schools that
have been liberated from sectarian influence; together
we stand for a devotion not to a hierarchy, not to a
system of theology, not to a dictatorsjiip, but to the
principles of truth; together we stand for decent
home life. We three countries aVe bound together
by indissoluble moral ties which are not understand-
able if we do not understand the spirit of the Pilgrim
fathers.

All hail then to England, because it was out of her
loins that those sturdy venturers came. All hail to
Holland because it was she who ' nurtured them for
twelve long years until they dared to go out into
the- unknown. All hail to America, inheritor of the
best things in England and in Holland. Hand in
hand may we three nations go forward, working for
the rebuilding of the world! {Prolonged ApplatLse.)

The President next introduced Professor Sam-
uel P. Orth, of the Department of Government
AND Public Law at Cornell University.

PROFESSOR SAMUEL P. ORTH

*****! chose the subject of the American Pioneer
for a particular purpose. We are beginning to wonder
what America is, to define America. We have here-
tofore left this task to our foreign friends; particularly
to tjiose distinguished commentators upon American
life, De Tociqueville and Bryc'e; and to such literary
luminaries as Harriet Maxtineau, Dickens and Kipling,
and finally to that host of journalists and writers
who have come over in recent years and have honored
us with their observations.

We are beginning to define America. The war has
tau'ight us self-analysis. But you can't define America
by looking at it, and talking to it, and eating at its

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hqispitab^le board. America has a background of
pioneering which is responsible for the America of
today, and unless you understand that background
you cannot understand America.

These good friends who come to us from abroad,
enter this magnificent Watergate and hasten eagerly
and with some wonderment, to the Golden Gate.
Th^y pass through flourishing cities, they cross moun-
tains that yield of their iron and coal and copper and
gold; they traverse prairies, plains and valleys covered
with farms; they bridge noble streams and skirt in-
land seas extensive enough to bear on their bosom
the trade of an empire; they see all this, and of course
they defiae us in terms of area. They say that we
are hospitable hustlers.*****

America differs from Other lands not because it has
this material prosperity, not because it possessed a
continent and had the grit and ingenuity to conquer
it, but becaluse it has a background of pioneering
which has fixed the character of her people, shaped
their political and social institutions, determined
their traditions, and made tht conquest of the conti-
nent merely an incident in the development of a race.
Whc;n the remnant of the Pilgrims gathered on the
Plymouth hillside — it will be 300 years this Spring
— to watch the departure of the Mayflower^ there
were but two other clusters of huts on the 1000 miles
of coast from Florida to Maine — one at the mouth
pf the James, the other, your own ancestors, on Man-
hattan. This was the foothold of the American
Pioneer.

From there he turned westward and he never looked
ba'ck. He faced tlie western sun. Step by step the
wilderness was conquered. In a hundred years he
had moved the frontier inward about 100 miles. By
the time dli the Revolution the Valley of the Mohawk
and the great Valley erf Pennsylvania and the Pied-
mont of Virginia and the Caro'linas were conquered;
and no sooner had the Declaration of Independence
become a reality than the pioneer placed the Alleghan-
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gave the great Northwest and the balmy Southwest
to the Union.

The two hundredth anniversary of the landing of
the Pilgrim Fathers not only heard the coming genera-
tions welcomed in the sonorous phraees of Webster's
historic oration but beheld the great-grandsons of
Boston and dl New Amsterdam crossing the Mississippi
and conquering the prairies. Steam soon increased
the tempo of the pioneex, until in 1890 the Census
Report officially declared the frontier was closed.

My good friends, what a scenario is this in the
moving spectacle of history! A continuous procession
of trapper, hunter, woodsman and Indian fighter,
farmer, rainer and cattle ranger, off settler — man,
woman apd child; on foot, on horseback, in covered
wagons or on rafts, and finally with steeds of steam,
moving westward, always westward, until the western
ocean is reached and the Atlantic and the Pacific
are brought together in frater,nal contact. This pag-
eant is ^e beginning of our definition of America.
The frontier from the day of the first pioneer has been
the measure of America. Professor Turner has bril-
liantly shown in his essays — ^which fortunately have
recently been gathered into a volume so that you
can all have them easy at hand — ^how the frontier
has reacted upon the nation.

But we must not forget that the nation has also
reacted upon the frontier. Throughout thfese hun-
dreds of years there was a constant interchange of
talents and of products. The old and the new inter-
acted, and it is today, happily, impossible for us to
determine just what were the influences of west or
east or the north or the south; it is sufficient to know
that they were all American. The primary fact, that
I call to your minds, is that in this colossal movement
the cjiaracter of the American pioneer was the deter-
mining element, a^nd that it remains today, not merely
the background, but the active principle of American
life. What then were the traits of the American
pioneer? What were his characteristics? First of
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to use these days. It was his own muscle using his
own axe that cut down tjie forest and fashioned his
cabin. It was his own strength upon which he relied
to plant the first cfbips among the stumps, and reap
the harvest. It was his family, his wife and children,
that spun the yarn and fashioned the gatme/its and
prepared the food. It was his own strength that
brought the game and the fish into the latder. And
when neighbors came into his clearing to plant a new
civilization, they learned quickly those lessons of co-
operation that are necessary for neighborliness and
good government. It was self-reliance that susitained
him; none of that universal parasitism of living upon
others, that is now called by the general name of
socialism or communism or bolshevism. {Applause.)

Carl Marx would not hkve found any disciples
among the American p^oneer«. They were self-reliant
individualists. They did not seek to shift their
burdens on to their neighbor's shoulders.

Secondly, he had what we call character. Of course,
that involves honesty. He was reliable. It involves
industry. The size of his task demanded that. It
involves frugality. His environment compelled that.
And, naturally, it includes courage. No coward
could be a frontiersman.

He not only had character and was self-reliant,
he also had a capacity for self-government. He had
a genius for government. I mean just tliat — a genius
for government. I think Americans usually have
that gift, as do Anglo-Saxons and Dutchmen. Not
all peoples possess this capacity. Bring three Amer-
icans together and you have a chairman, a secretary
and a meeting; bring three Irishmen together and
you have an argument, a fight and a funeral. {Laugh-
ter ) He also was enterprising. His ambitions were
a match for the great prizes that awaited him. He
was never content as long as unexplored valleys
lay beyond hjs own. Enterprise is written on every
lineament of his face.

Finally he was democratic. What do I mean by
that.^ I mean that he measured men by their inten-

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tions and not by their professions and possessions.
Nothing was more loathsome to him than the idea
of class divisions with their attendant hatreds. He
would not tolerate the abominable doctrine that the
world was made for this class or that class. He had
about him the democracy of nature, the democracy
of God. Rain fell upon the just and tihe unjust,
and God's sun shone upon all the fields and hillsides.
He had that spirit, therefore^ which bade him respect
himself and fulfill Lowell's fine definition of democracy,
"Such an orgahizatioh of Society as will enable men
to respect themselves, and so to justify them in respect-
ing others."

This was the American pioneer. Whatever the
exactions of his environment, his character remained
sturdy, and his soul clung to the vision of a great,
free nation composed of free citizens. You will notice
that these traits are all individualistic, none of them
is institutional. We have organized great corpora-
tions or great institutions, but this greatness is pendant
upon great individuals. We are as yet a nation of
individualists. The pioneers were individualists in
the noblest sense of the word, as cdhtra-distinguished
from cojlectivists. That is to say — I emphasize it
again — -they looked upon life from a personal view-
point. They believed that they themselves must
first lay the foundationis of society and perfect its
structure before they could expect anything of sofciety.

Upon this character he erected the four great
traditions of American life. First the great tradition
of freedom. Freedom of movement diat he. could
go wherever he' pleased; state lines and county lines
and city lines were to him merely copveniences and
never barriers. Freedom of choice. Freedom to
choose his own occupation, his politics, his education
and freedom to choose his wife. {Laughter^ Freedom
to choose his own religion. Tolerance is a concomitant
of freedom and your ancestors in Holland taught the
world tolerance in an era when intolerance was the
fashion. Finally, the pioneer believed in and prac-
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believed that everyone should be privileged to frame
his own philosophy of life out of his own experience,
rather than the experience of others.

Secdnd, he fostered the tradition of constitutional-
ism. Wherever he went, he at once organized a
governmentj. But he always circumscribed his gov-
ernment: he limited it. That^ too, is beginning to
be assailed now by people of various degrees of in-
tellectual capacity. {Laughter.) He wrote a con-
stitution that said to the government, ^'Thus far
Thoiu shalt go and no farther." It is this principle
of self-limitation which learned foreign commentators
upon our constitution — Prof. Dicey, Goldlvin Smith
and others — have called t;he distinguishing nobility
of our political practice. No other nation, under
similar conditions, deliberately insured its freedom
by limiting its government. Here government is
only the agent of the people. To the pioneer govern-
ment was a necessity not a fetish.

The third great tradition is that of local self-govern-
ment. That means, of course, priniarily the tradition
of law and ordter. I go again to the Pilgrims. They
found themselves far north of the place where their
charter said they should go. When they found
themselves out df the jurisdiction of the Plymouth
Company, did they say: "Let ufe land here and try
to expejiment in Seventeenth Century Bolshevism.^''
You know what they did. They gathered in the
cabin, framed and signed the Mayflower colmpact,
the prophetic forerunner of the Constitution.

Wherever the American pioneer penetrated he
established a government. When he first pushed
across tjie AUeghanies the mountains formed a great
barrier between himself and his government. Did
he cut himself loc^e from law and order? Not at all,
he established at once a neighborhood government
through the instinct inherited f r6m his English and
Diitch an<:e$tors. He carried this instinctive orderli-
ness into every corner of the American wilderness.

But, while he believed in local self-government
he was also a nationalist; but his nationalism was

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founded upop local liberty. This has added great
flexibility to our written constitution and has preserved
it from many severe shocks. I for one do not view
with much equanimity the present development of
extreme centralization. I would rather be governed
from my neighbor's yard than from Washington.
{Applause.) The latest constitutional amendments,
particulatly the income tax amendment and the other
one that you have in mind, if not in body, {Laughter)
have made a desperate reality of Washington. {Laugh--
ter.) We used to be curious about the Internal
Revenue Collector. We are no lopger curious about
him. We are fearful. {Laughter.)

In a real sense we are all nationalists; there are
things that the nation must do. But Anglo-Saxon
fr^edoln began as a local plant, atid it is our own
neighborhppd affairs th^t most concern u^ and wherein
choice of action is most dear to us. {Applause.)

The fourth great tradition is that of individual
responsibility. This is the tradition of toil. The
Amerifcan has always honored labor, and has there-
fore demanded of every one that he shoujd earn his
own living. All of our national heroes were great
toilers. Walking down the Avenue today I saw
pictures o'f Benjamin Franklin displayed in connipc-
tion with Thrift Week. Benjamin Franklin was the
first great international American and one of the
most versatile men we have produced, a diplomat,
a statesman, a genial gentleman, a printer, an inventor,
a scientist. Franklin was the only man in the Con-
stitutional Convention that had ever seen an electric
splark. This was symbolic of his vision of America.
Steam and electricity have since come into our every-
day life, but the same old Constitution has survived
the footpath of the Indian, the towpath df the canal
and the shining rails of the steel highway. It lives
among us today a great reality, a living witness to
the prescience of Franklin and his associates.

Glance at our hero presidents: Gfeorge Washington,
frontiersman in his noble way, farmer, soldier, sur-
veyor, statesman, executive. Read the story of his

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eight years as President. How he labored amidst
the bickerings of petty minds, and how glad he was
to be back on the farm. Much easier to be a farmer
than to be President. Thomas Jefferson, a lawyer:
the records indicate an incredible number of cases
which he tried. When he got tired of being a lawyer
he went into politics. No one worked hardier at pol-
itics than Thomas Jefferson and no one was ever more
successful. He wrote an astounding number of letters
at a time when stenography and typewriting were
unknown. He had a genius for organization, and
knit togethe/ our first great natiqnal party machine.
Andrew Jackson, frontiersman, soldier, lawyer, Indian
fighter, president, a constant worker. Abraham Lin-
coln, the pioneer boy, railsplitter, lawyer, and most
beloved of Presidents. The furrows of toil that mark
his features are hig badge of sincerity. Roosevelt
was a member of this Society; you all knew him.
He was born into comfortable circumstances, but no
harness could hold him.

The tradition of individual responsibility means
that we honor men of achievement. We honor them,
however, because of their labors, not because of the
money that their toil may amass. We honor the
doers, not the things they bring together. Our foreign
observers are often misled by the appearance, and
overlook the reality. This great continent was teem-
ing with resources awaiting men of vigor and entjbus-
iasm. The mines, the transportation facilities, the
manufacturing facilities, the fertile valleys beckoned
to industrious and enterprising men. Is it any wonder
that we honor those who wrought the transforma-
tion from a wilderness to a civilization.^

These traditions are the fopr corners of our national
being. Each one is essential. If you remove any
one of them the structure of America will fall. Why
do I recite these perfectly obvious facts to you who
are familiar with American history? For reasons that
are equally obvious but being contemporary are not
as well understood.

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We are now in the ugly backwash of the wan Every
element in our political and economic life has been
tainted with the virus of evasion; evasioli of duty,
evasion of law, evasion of responsibility, evasion of
personal obligations. The business man and the
farmer, the two most stable elements of our national
life, are evading obligations. Sometime ago I received
a circular sent out by the United States Chamber of
Commerce. Its pages were filled with the coonplaint
that the American business man is evading orders
by the thotisands; he is not facing tiie game. Is he
losing his self-reliance? The wheat farmer of the
Northwest, the cotton farmer of the SiD^ith, the tobacco
farmer in the middle states, is Idoking to Congress,
to the State, to do something for him. Is he losing
his self-reliance.^ The wage worker, the third great
element in our economic life — silk-shirted, almost
silk-hatted — is leaning upon his union and upon the
State for such help through laws or otherwise that
he may get. Is he losing his self-reliance.^

What does it mean.'* Are we metamorpholsing from
a nation of pioneers into a nation of welchers ? From
a nation of individualists into a nation of communists.^
From a constitutional government into an institutional
government? I think not, but we ought to pause
and reflect upon what our fathers and our grand-
fathers and our great-grandfathers would have done
under similar pressure.

I can take you to trees ampng the crenulate hills
where I live, whose boughs shadowed pioneer families
on their westward march. l\s it possible that these
trees shall outlive the traditions of those who biv-
ouacked in their friendly shade? Democracy cannot
be institutionalized. It is based upon the rational
coK^peration of practical individualists. {Applause.)

There never would have been a New Amsterdam
or a Plymouth or a Jamestown under an institutional-
ized system of government. In France over every
public building you read tliese words, "Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity." Liberty is a varying phra^.
Equality, we know, is a philosophical generalization;

but

T HI RTY-Si XTH Annual Banquet 129

but fraternity is the keyword to democracy: for it
means individualism. You cannot have brotherhood
and sisterhood without individualism for you cannot
love men and women in tjie masa. Eva Booth, when
speakiAg of her work among prisonjsrs, used to say,
"You can't save men in the mass:" That is the
democracy of Christianity. It is based upon the
worth of the individual. That, likewise, is the democ-
racy of American tradition. It is founded upon the
worth ctf the individual.

The mechanical state is the foe of the democratic
state- Let us avdid the institutionalizing of our
government. We have two examples of mechanical
government before our eyes. One of them was highly
efficient^, so efficient that every citizen became a cog,
an insensate part of a great soulless sta;te mechanism.
Where is the Prussian State machine today? Yes,
the Kaiser has fled to a low country. We await his
further descent. (Laughter and applause.) I rejoice
in your orthodoxy. {Laughter.)

The other mechanical state is Russia. Bolshevism
is the apotheosis of communism. It is the complete
destruction of individual life by the inexorable State
machine. We want no mechanical state and I do
not believe that Americans will tolerate any further
"ScJcializatiqn" of the individual. These passing
shadows, cast by the havoc of war, should cause us to
reflect upon the meaning of Americian life and readjust
its details to the new demands of the social and eco-
nomic world.

I believe the pioneer American still lives in all of us.
I believe his spirit cannot be quenched: For it is
the spirit of freedom and progress. I believe it will
master collectivism, in whatever guise, militarism,
in whatever form, and all the host of modern enmities,
as it mastered the wilderness and the savage. In
the welter of the world today, gentlemen of The
Holland Society, America is sorely needed. Let
America remain true to the spirit of the American
Pioneer and the world will not look to us in vain.
{Applause.)

DINNER

DINNER OF THE ESSEX COUNTY, N. /.
MEMBERS

February i8, 1921

3E Essex County, N. J. members gave a
I dinner at the Berwick Hotel, Newark, NeW
Jersey, on Friday evening, February i8th,
' 1921.

The speakers of the occasion were the Vice-Pres-
ident for Essex County, Dr. Bevier HasBrouck Sleght;
James Suydam Polhemus, a Trustee of the Society;
and Rev. Albertus Broek, whose theme was "The
Hollander as an Immigrant of Today."

Vice-President Sleght and Mr. Polhemus, in thdr
remarks, emphasized the need for bringing into the
Society the young men of the country who were
eligible for membership, especially the sons and
grandsons of present members.

This was the first dinner of the Essex County
members since the dinner which took place on March
16, 1899 at Davis's in Broad Street, Newark, an ac-
count of which appears in the Year Book for 1899,
at page 120.

THE

^MI4^loXs^wMfK

THE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING

HE Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting
(4 The Holland Society of New
Yofk was held at th,e Hotel Aster,
Broadway and Forty-fourth Street,
New York City, on Tuesday, April
6, 1920. The Annual Meetings
are always held on April 6th (ex-
cept when such date falls on Sat-
urday or Sunday) in commemoration of the VERBOND
DER EDELEN— Confederation of the Nobles— organ-
ized by Count Henry van Brederode in the House of
Culemburg in the year 1566, A. D., when the Dutch
combined against tyranny and adopted the badge
which is now the badge of our Sofciety.

President Augustus Van Wyck took the chair
and called the meeting to order.

The minutes of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting
were» on motion, approved as printed in the Year
Book for 1919, pages 115 to 148 inclusive.

Report of Treasurer
The formal printed report follows:
DE if ITT FAN BUSKIRK, Treasurer,
in accovnt with

THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

RECEIPTS

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RECEIPTS
Dr.

Received from Arthur H. Van Brunt, April 11, 1919 $1,548.47

Initiation fees 190.00

Annual Dues 3,881 .00

Certificates of Membership 50.00

Interest on investments 447. 50

Interest on bank balance 13 • 13

Life membership 100.00

Sales of souvenirs and collections 57-50

Donation 100.00

Sale of Annual Dinner tickets 1,527.00

Exchange on checks 4.00

Loan from bank 2,500.00

$10,418.60

DISBURSEMENTS
Cr.

Rent of Society Rooms $ 700.00

Year Book 1919 ^5543 - 10

Engrossing 50. 90

Dinner and Smoker 2,876. 17

Advances to Secretary 1,350.00

Stationery, printing, etc 361 .48

Insurance premium 79-75

Electric lamp for Society rooms . 14.00

Refund (Comegys) 5 .00

Interest and war tax $2500 note 13 .92

Extra labor Treasurer a/c Annual Dues I7- 50

Donation (Lusitania Memorial) 10.00

Postage 13 •04

$8,034.86
2,383.74

$10,418.60

INVESTMENTS

PAR VALUE COST

2 West Shore R. R. ist Mortgage 4%

Bonds $2,000.00 $ 1,957.50

I St. Paul & No. Pacific Ry. 6% Bond. 1,000.00 1,230.00
I Northern Pacific Ry. Prior Lien and

Land Grant 4% Bond 1,000.00 1,037.50

1 New York, Lackawanna & Western

Ry. 1st Mortgage 6% Bond 1,000.00 1,345.00

2 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry.

General Mortgage 4% Bonds 2,000.00 2,080.00

2 Providence

t HI RTY-FIFT H ANNUAL MEETING I33

2 Providence Securities Co. 4% Bonds. 2,000.00 1,800.00

I United States 3 yi% Liberty Loan i ,000 . 00 i ,000 . 00

^10,000.00 $10,450.00

LIABILITIES

Demand Loan $2,500.00

Cash assets due from bank $2,383 .74

Balance reported by Secretary 143 ..54

Total $2,527. 28

De Witt Van Buskirk,

Treasurer*
Dated March i, 1920.

Motion was made that the report of the Treasurer
be received and referred to the Finance Committee.
The motion was duly seconded, was put by President
Van Wyck ahd was carried.

The Secretary, Frederic R. Keator, then presented
his Annual Repor*t as follows, the members rising as
a tribute of respect while the names of members
deceased during the past year were read:

Annual Report of the Recording Secretary

April 6, 1920

To the Members of The Holland Society of New Yorky
Mijne Heeren: —

The Recording Secretary begs to submit his annual
report as follows:

Membership: The total number of members re-
ported in the notice calling this meeting was nine
hundrfed and fifty-three, with Idss by death since
then of two, making the present recorded membership
nine hundred and fifty-one.

During the year we have lost by death the follow-
ing members:

Elected Members Died

Mar. 28-1889 Charles Stuart Vedder, Charleston,

S. C. Mar. 1-1917

Oct. 24-1889 Sylvanus L. Schoonmaker, N. Y. C. Aug. 17-1918

Oct.

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Oct. 14-1915 James R. Schermerhorn, Cortland,

N. Y. Feb. 3- 1919

Mar. 14-1901 Daniel V. B. Hegeman, Brooklyn,

N. Y. Mar. 23-1919

Mar. 31-1892 John R. Hegeman, Mamoroneck,

N. Y. Apr. 6-1919

Mar. 29-1894 Frank Van Fleet, New York City Apr. 6-1919
Dec. 13-1906 Harry John Van Allen, Utica, N. Y. Apr. 15-1919
June 10-1897 George A. Brinkerhoff, Hackensack,

N. J. Apr. 19-1919

June 10-1897 Jacob G.Rapelje,Alassio,Italv May 5-1919

Dec. 20-1910 Stanley H. Hopper, Newark, N. J. May 7-1919
Dec. 7-1888 George W. Debevoise, New York

City May 13-1919

Oct. 29-1891 Frederic K. Conover, Madison, Wis. May 7-1919
Oct. 27-1887 William D. Van Vliet, Goshen, N. Y. June 14-1919
Oct. 12-1905 David Nevius, New York City June 15-1919

Mar. 30-1887 Charles K. Van Vleck, Hudson,

N. Y. July 14-1919

Mar. 31-1892 William H. Slingerland, Saratoga

Springs, N. Y. July 22-1919

June 15-1886 John T. Lansing, Albany, N. Y. Aug. 12-1919
Dec. 20-1910 Charles F. HoflFman, N. Y. C. Aug. 28-1919

Mar. 14-1912 George W. Polhemus, Washington,

D. C. Sept. 3-1919

Sept. 28-1892 Charles K. Winne, Albany, N. Y. Sept. 24-1919
Apr. 30-1885 Frederick B. Van Vorst, Hacken-
sack, N. J. Sept. 27-1919
Mar. 14-1907 Jacob Van Wagoner, Ridgewood,

N. J. Oct. 6-1919

June 8-1905 David D. Zabriskie, Ridgewood,

N. J. Oct. 7-1919

Mar. 29-1888 David D. Denise, Freehold, N. J. Oct. 21-1919
Dec. 14-1905 Theodore M. Nevius, Glen Ridge,

N. J. Dec. 2-1919

Dec. 17-1908 Bemardus Suydam, Elmhurst, N. Y. Dec. 12-1919
Mar. 14-1912 Harry A. Van Gilder, Morristown,

N. J. Dec. 31-1919

Mar. 26-1891 Edward W.Visscher, Albany, N. Y. Feb. 11-1920
Dec. 1 1-1919 Kenneth A. Earl, Montclair, N. J. Mar. 10-1920
June 12-1902 Charles H. Lowe, Tucson, Arizona Feb. 27-1920
Dec. 23-1885 John C. Van Cleaf, Montclair, N. J. Apr. 4-1920

Filling of Vacancy in Board of Trustees: At the
regular quarterly meeting of the Trustees; held on
October 9, 1919, Arthur H. Van Brunt, former Treas-
ured and Trustee of the Society, who had resigned
fipm th^. Board of Trustees prior to the last Annual

Meeting,

T HI RTY'FlFT H ANNUAL MEETING I35

Meeting, was re-elected a Trustfee to fill the vacancy
in the Board qaused by the deSath of Judge David
Demarest Zabriskie, who was a Trustefe in the class
of 1920.

Increase in Dices: As the Society has been previously
advised by the Treasurer's notice of February i, 1920,
the annual dues have been increased from five dollars
to six dollars a year, commencing with the fiscal year
which began on February i, 1920. This action was
taken by the Trustees at their regular quarterly meet-
ing, held oh December 11, 1919, under the authority
given diem by Article VI, Section 4 of the Constitu-
tion.

Rescinding of Resolution Remitting the Dues of
Members in Military or Naval Service: By reason of
the return of practically all of such members to civil
life, the Trustees, at their meeting held on JMarch 11,
1920, voted to rescind the Resolution passed at the
Trustees' meeting of June 14, 1917 which remitted,
for such period as they might be in the service of
the United States, the dues of members and cancelled
all dues' exemptions, including those for the year
1920.

Publication of Records of Albany Dutch Church:
The Trustees, at their meeting held on October 9,
1919, voted to resume the publication of the records
of tixe Albany Dutch Church in the next Year Book
of the Society and that when the Society shall have
completed the printing of the records of the Albany
Dutch Church, it immediately thereafter print the
records of the Shawangunk Church. The records
of the Albany Dutch Church down to the year 1771
have been published in th^ Year Books for the years
1904-05-06-07 and 1908. None of such records has
been published by the Society since the year 1908.

Postponement of Year Book for IQ20: The Trustees,
at their meeting held on March 11, 1920, voted to
postpone until 1921 the publication of the Year Book
for 1920 and that it be combined with the Year Book
for 192 1. This action the Trustees felt to be im-
perative

136 The Holland Society

perative by reason of the deficit in the finances of
the Society and the fact that the income derived
by the Society from the dues of its members and
from its investments is not sufficient to meet the
expenses of the Society at the present time, by reason
of the greatly increased cost of printirig, paper stock,
etc. and in the expenses incurred in running the
Society.

Gift Received from Mrs. Ellen R. Peabody: Under
date of December 10, 1919, the Secretary received,
through the American bankers of Mrs, Ellen R.
Peabody, sojourning at Alassio, Italy, the sum of
one hundred dollars in memory of her brother, Mr.
Jacob George Rapelje, a former member of this Society
who died on May 5, 1919 at Alassio^ Italy. Mr.
Rapejje and his sister, Mrs. Peabody, have for many
yei^rs lived abroad by reason of the ill health of Mr.
Rapelje.

Trustees^ Meetings: The Trustees have held four
regular meetings at Delmonicos, New York City,
during the year, as follows: June 12, 1919; October 9,
19 19; December 11, 19 19 and March 11, 1920. All
of the above meetings were upon the invitation of
the President.

Society^s Meetings: The Annual Smoker of the
Society was held on November 25, 1919, at the Hotel
Astor. At the suggestion of President Van Wyck,
the Committee on Meetings made this meeting a
reception to the members and sons of members of
the Society who had been in military or naval service
of the United States and its Allies in the recent war.
There was a large and enthusiastic attendance of
almost five hundred members, sons of members who
had been in service and guests of members. Sons
of meinbers who had been in service were the guests
of the Society. Each member was, in addition,
allowed to bring one guest who was a non-member.
President Van Wyck made an address of welcome
to the service men, which wa,s followed by a series of
nine short talks on their experiences in the war by

members

T HI RTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING I37

members and sons of members who had been in the
service, several of whom were in uniform, as were
many of those in attendance. The speeches were
followed by the usual collation.

The Thirty-fifth Annual Dinner of the Society
was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Roof Garden on
Thursday evening, January 15, 1920. This is the
fir^t time that the annual banquet has ever been held
in the Roof Garden, having always pnevioiis^y been
held in the grand ballroom. There were two hundred
ahd sixty-four members and guests present^ including
the representatives of sister societies. In addition
to the Address of Welcome made by President Augus-
tus Van Wyck, the following were tjie speakers:
Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels; Right
Reverend Charles S. Burch, D. D., Bishop of New
York, and Augustiis Thomas. The President read
a cablegram, sent to the Queen of the Netjherlands
by the Society, and cablegrams received by the So-
ciety, in reply, from the Secretary to the Queen and
from the Netherlands Minister at Washington.

Branch or County Meetings: The Twenty-ninth
Annual Dinnjei- of the Poughkeepsie district members,
in commemoration of the relief of the siege of Leyden,
was held as usual at the Nelson House on Friday
evening, October 3rd, 1919. The President, Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the Society were present as
the guests of the Poughkeepsie district members and
were honored by being invited to make informal
speeches.

The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Hudson County
Branch was held oil Tuesday evening, December 2,
1919, at the Jersey City Club, Jersey City, N. J.,
President Benjamin T. Van Alen presiding. In-
formal sf)eeches were made by Mir. Van Alen and
by De Witt Van Buskirk, the Treasurer of the Society.
The usual collation was served.

Accessions: In addition to the usual list of acces-
sions to the Library and Archives during the year,
the Society has received from Mrs. Morris P. Ferris

138 The Holland Society

of Hempstead, N. Y. an old map of Holland which
was^ presented by the Netherlands Minister to her
family.

Historical and Other Functions Participated in by
the Society: The Society has been officially represented
at the various dinners of other Societies, with which
it has fraternal association, and at several functions
of an historical, religious or public nature to which
it has had the honor of being invited.

Respectfully submitted,

Frederic R. Keator,
Recording Secretary.

On motion duly made, seconded and carried the
report was approved and accepted as read.

The Chair announced that the n^ext in order was
the report of the Nominating Committee.

The formal printed report follows:

TO THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

The Committee, selected to make notninations
for officers of the Society, respectfully reports the fol-
lowing names as its recommendation for the offices
to be filled at the Annual Meeting, to be held April 6,
1920:

PRESIDENT:
Arthur H. Van Brunt

VICE-PRESIDENTS:

New York County William Leverich Brower*

Kings County Charles L. Schenck

Queens County James Cornell Van Siclen*

Westchester County J. de C. Van Etten*

Dutchess County William A. Adriance*

Ulster County Abram P. Lefevre

Albany County Peter G. Ten Eyck

Schenectady County William George Schermerhorn*

Central New York John Van Sickle*

Suffolk County Robert Lefferts*

Rockland County Howard Van Buren*

Hudson County, N. J Nicholas Doremus Wortendyke

Bergen County, N. J Peter W. Stagg

Passaic County, N. J Melville C. Van Ness

Essex

THI RTY'FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING I39

Essex County, N. J Bevier H'B. Sleght

Monmouth County, N. J William H. Vredenburgh

Union County, N.J George G. Teller

Morris County, N. J Harry Pruden Van Gilder*

Mercer County, N. J Robert Ayres Messler*

New England Rev. William Harman Van Allen*

Pacific Coast Rt. Rev. Frederic W. Keator, D. D.

United States Army Col. Alfred Hasbrouck*

United States Navy. .. .Chaplain Roswell Randall Hoes*

TREASURER: RECORDING SECRETARY:

De Witt Van Buskirk* Frederic Rose Keator*

TRUSTEES— CLASS OF 192i

I. Reynolds Adriance*

Tunis G. Bergen*

William Brinkerhoff*

Edward De Witt*

Arthur H. Van Brunt*

(*Renominated.)

Dated, New York, March 11, 1920.

THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE:

Seymour Van Santvoord, Chairman
J. Maus Schermerhorn
Tunis G. Bergen
Arthur F. Schermerhorn
James S. Newkirk

Motion was made that the report of the Nominating
Committee be accepted and that the Secretary be
instructed to cast one ballot for each of the candidates
for the varidus offices as printed in the report. Motion
was seconded and carried.

The Secretary reported that he had cast one ballot
for each of the nominees, as printed on the ticket,
and the Chair thereupon declajred that each of such
candidates had been elected.

The Chair then appointed Judge Frank Hasbrouck
and Col. John W. Vrooman to escort the President-
elect to the platform. President-elect Van Brunt
was thereupon escorted to the platform by the gentle-
men named and was welcomed by President Van
Wyck in the following words: "I congratulate you.

140 The Holland Society

Mr. Van Brant. You have received a great honor
— ^^I think one of the greatest honot-s that can be
conferred upon an American gentleman, and I know
that you will fill the bill. I take pleasure in decorating
you with the badge that represents a society of such
great influence as this and which has been such a
conservative force in the country. I hope that your
administraljion will be one of the mo'st successful
we have ever had, and I have no doubt that it will
be." {Applause.)

President Van Brant replied as follows: "Mr. Presi-
dent, netiring, and Gentlemen of The Holland Society:
I thoroughly appreciate the honor which has been
conferred on me and I am going to recognize it by
ndt inflicting on you a speech. Your former presiding
officers have all been noted for their oratoiy and any-
thing that I could say would not measure up with the
remarks you have heretofore heard from them. Take,
for instance, the pleasant, personal and always to
the point sJpeeches of my predecessor in office. Take
again the word pictures that have been painted to
you in the three years of the incumbency of his prede-
cessor. You can all remember what you ' have heard
from Mr. Van Santvoord, and I would hate to measure
up anything that I might say with the remarks
that have been addressed to you by him. Hence
you can appreciate my disposition to say as little
as pos3ible.

But I do want to aay tb you gentlemen that in your
action tonight you have continued in office our niost
efficient Secretary, Mr. Keator, and my successor
after many years of incumbency as Treasurer of the
Society, Mr. Van Buskirk. Thofee two, with the
President^ constitute the executive officers of the
Society and in tlieir hands, with the aid and counsel
of t;he Board of Trastees, is left the executive admin-
is'tration — the business administration of the Society.
All I can say to you tonight is that we hope we can
carry on the trast you have thus confided in u^, and
can be worthy of ^he duties and will worthily cany-
out the duties that have thus been consigned to us.

T HI RTY-FIFTH A N N U A L M E E TI N G I4I

I assure yo\i that we will do our best in this regard,
and I think, speaking for us all, I can say that our
hope is that when we arrive at the next annual meet-
ing of the Society we will have to report a record
not only of words but of deeds accomplished. I
thank you for the honor of being electied to this office."

President Van Brunt then called for the reports
of Committees :

Committee on Statue to William the Silent: In die
absence of Mr. Bergen, the Chairman, no report was
made.

Committee on Finance: The Treasurer stated that
Mr. E. Covert Hulst, the Chairman, was in the south;
that he had audited the bobks of the Treasurer and
believed that he had found them correct, having gone
over the matters in detail and examined the secur-
ities.

A motion was made that the report of the Finance
Committee be accepted, which motion was duly put
by the chair and carried.

Committee on History and Tradition: In the absence
of Judge Garret J. Gartetson, no report was made.

Committee on Meetings: Mr. Brolwer, the Chairman,
stated that there was nothing to report except what
was incorporated in Ae report of the Secretary; that
the Smoker was very well attended and that looking
fqrVard to the coming year thte Committee had not
yet taken any action with regard to a possible Smoker
next November, but would do so in course of time.
The Chair announced that, if there was no objection,
the report would be accepted, and, hearing none,
the report was accepted.

Committee on Memorials: Judge Frank Hasbrouck,
the Chairman, stated that there was no report from
such committee.

Committee on Banquet of 1920: Judge Frank Has-
brouck, the Chairman, stated that the Banquet
had been held and was successful, the attendance
being good and the menu and speaking both excellent.

142 The Holland Society

He added that there was a very small deficit to be
made up out of the treasury.

The Secretary read a letter dated March 30, 1920,
addressed to President Van Brunt by the Rev. J. Ir-
win Brown, Minister of Scots Church, Rotterdam,
and Commissioner and Delegate to this country of
the Leyden Committee of the Nederlandsche Pilgrim
Fathers Commissi^ presenting the matter of the
Pilgrim Fathers' Tercentenary Celebration to be
held at Leyden, Amsterdam and Rotterdam from
August 30th to September 2nd, 1920. The Secretary
stated that the Rev. Dr. Brown called upon himself
and former President Van Wyck before the Annual
Me'eting of the Society; that, by invitation, he was
present at this Annual Meeting. President Van
Brunt aisked Rev. Dr. Brown if he would be good
enough to honor the meeting with a few words regard-
ing the matter referred to in his letter. Dr. Brown
outlined the plans for the Pilgrim Fathers* Tercen-
tenary Celebration, and invited the Society to send
delegates to such celebration.

Secretary Keator presented to the meeting the
following proposed amendments to Section i. Article IV
of the Constitution:

First sentence:

"A President, Vice-Presidents as pro-
vided in the By-Laws, a Recording Sec-
retary, a Corresponding Secretary, a
Treasurer, and an officer who shall be
knoum as the Domine shall be chosen at
each Annual Meeting and shall hold
office for one year and until their success-
ors are elected."

Second paragraph:

"If one who is not a Trustee should be
elected President, Recording Secretary, .
Treasurer or Domine^ he shall be ex-
officio a member of the Board of Trustees
during his term of office."

T HI RTY'Fl FT H ANNUAL MEETING I43

A new section to be known as Section 3-A shall be
added to Article V of the Constitution and shall
read as follows:

" The Domine shall perform the religions
duties at the meetings of the Society. ^^

He explained that for some time it had seemed to him
that this Society would honor itself by creating the
office of Domine and thus bring into the life of the
Society the historic figure of the Dutch Domine.
He said that he wondered if the members present had
ever stopped to think how much we owed to the
Dutch Churches of the Colony of New Netherlands
and especially to the Dutch Domines who presided
over them; that they were the men who kept the
records which had come down through the years to
us — the most perfect churph records oif any colonial
recoMs; that there was nothing like them in New Eng-
land. In New England we had the family Bible;
we had scattered probate rfecords and we had frag-
mentary church records, but nothing like the records
of the early churches of New Netherlands; that one
need only to remember the names of Johannes Mich-
aelius, Everardus Bogardus, Johannes Megapolensis,
Samuel Megapolensis and Johannes Theodorus
Polhemius, who presided over the Dutch church on
Long Island — all of them men of learning and culture,
graduates of Leyden and other universities of Holland
— to see them in their black silk gowns with their
white bands, ministering to the various congregations
over which they presided; that we we're the only so-
ciety of which he knew which did not have a Chaplain
to say grace at our banquets and prl^side over what-
evd/ religious functions we might have and that, for
these reasons, he thought that it might add a great
deal 6i interest and historic dignity to have the figure
of the Dutch Domine in the Society. He had, there-
fore, suggested to the Trustees that they create this
office and they seemed to think so well of the proposal
that they had recommended to the Annual Meeting
the proposed amendment which was now before the

meeting.

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meeting. Secretary Keator further suggested that
the Domine should be placed on an equal plane with
the Trustees and that it would add much to the
Board of Trustees to have him in the Board. Mr.
William' L. B rower moved that the proposed amend-
ment be amended by adding the words "and who
shall be a minister qf the gospel'* after the words
"and an officer who shall be known as the Domine."
Thve adoption of the amendment to the Cohstitution
as so amended was then moved; the motion was duly
^conded and carriefd. The Rev. Dr. Henry van
Dyke and the Rev. Dr. Williahi Harman Van Allen
were placed in nomination to fill the new office of
Doimine which had Aus been created. A motion
was made that the nominations be closed, which was
setonded and carried, and upon a viva voce vote being
taken Rfev. Dr. Henry van Dyke was elected to fill
the newly-created office of Domine of the Society.

The Secre^twy read a letter from Charles T. Con-
over of Seattle, Washington, advocating the sub-
stitiition of a silk button of the same design in place
of die present m^} button of the Siociety. The
Secretary stated that" he had replied to Mr. Conover,
stating that he wdkild be glad to bring the matter to
the attention of the Annual Meeting, althojugh he was
inclined to think there would be some disinclination
to change the present design^ It was moved by
Col. John W. Vrooman that the matter be referred
to the Trustees. The motion was seconded and
carried.

The President stated that the next matter on the
calendar of business was the subject of Ways and
Means of Increasing the Finances of the Society;
that the subject came home forcibly to him as he
had been Treasurer of the Society for twenty-one
years; that the Treasurer presented to the Trustees
at their March meeting a budget which showed clearly
tha4: even with the increase of dues to^ six dollars per
ajin^un it would be impossible to cover the current
expenjs.es of tjip Society; that the rcgbult was that,
after a long a^d piptracted discuasidn, the Ti^ustees

adopted

THI RTY'FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING I4S

adopted tjie expedient qf dispensing with the pubIica^-
tion of the 1920 Year Book and of incorporating it
with the 1921 Year Bdok, which was not an innova-
tion as it had been done two or three times before
in tJie hi&tqry of the Society; that it was, howeve;*,
only a makeshift as it would save the Society a certain
amount of money and tide it over the present financial
embarrassment, but he thought that the Society
would ha^ to go further; that the Constitution
gave to the Trustees power to set the dues at any
figure up t«b $10.00 per annum and to increase the
initiation fee up to $100.00, so that it was within
the jurisdiction of the Trustees to go further but
that he thought there might be some helpful sugges-
tion from the Society itself; that the question was
brought up at this meeting tjo see if any one of the
members had anything which he would like to sug-
gest for the consideration of the Trustees who were,
of course, the final arbiters on the question of dues
and initiation fees up to the figure mentioned in the
Constitution.

A prolonged discussion ensued, many of the mem-
bers participating and making suggestions which
covered a wide range. In answer to an inquiry of
one of the members th,e Treasurer stated that the
deficit this year was in the neighborhood of $2500.00;
that if the Yekr Bobk were omitteid for lie current
year die omission of that expei^e would make the
Society just about break even, assuming that it laid
by nothing to take up the deficit of the current year
and also laid by nothing fo take up the expense, or
part of the experi:sfe of the Year Book when it was
published; that the Society ought to provide something
m this yearns budget to print the Year Bo6k in 1921,
ottierwise the whole burden would fall upon that year.
He then read the detailed item's of tJie budget. He
stated further that many members were in arrears
in their dues; that there were nine members owing
1916 dues amounting to $45.00; twenty-four mein-
bers owirtg 1917 dues amounting to $120.00; fifty-
three members owing 191 8 dues amounting to $265.00;

one

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one hundred members owing 1919 dues amounting
tb ^500.00; that unless t.he Society increased the dues
again or found some other source of income it would
still have a deficit of something like $2500.00; that
this amount could be paid out of the investments
owned by the Society, but that there would be still
no provision made for printing the Year Book for
192 1. Col. John W. Vrooman moved that the ques-
tion of the publishing of the Year Book for the year
1920 (this present year), be referred to the Board of
Trustees with the request of the Annual Meeting
that it be published as usual.

The President stated that he desired to say a word
concerning where he found the finances Qf the Society
when he came in as Treasurer in 1898; that, at that
time, the Society was no worse off, as far as the situa-
tion at the end of the fiscal year was concerned, than
it was today. The reports were gotten up in a some-
what different shape and showed, having been sub-
mitted as of March ist, a balance of cash on hand.
Out of that balance the dues which came in during
the month of February (the fiscal year begins in
February of each year) had been appropriated, at
least so much as was necessary to take care of the
deficit of former years, and that took up just about
half of the dues which had come in to run the Society
for the coming year; that that was about the position
the Society was in today; that was exactly what he
had found when he came in as Treasurer in 1898.
It took some five or six years to rectify that condition
and put the Society in comfortable circumstances,
but the diflSculty today was that our currpnt income
would not cover our ordinary anhual operating ex-
penses which were materially higher than they were
in 1898; that the Society was facing an annual deficit
and was gding wrong each year a certain amount
which was comparatively small, but that each year
that the Society persisted in the idea that it could
call on its reserves and continued backward the situa-
tion was going to grow worse and worse and that
he felt that it was just as well to face the situation

now

T HI RTY-FIFT H ANNUAL MEETING I47

now as to defer it to another year and call on our
reserves; that he had fought the matter in the Board
qf Trustees for six or seven years, calling attention
to the situation and showing to where n\e Society
was coming; that the matter did not culminate until
this year in the Board of Trustees and that there
had been a very large number of discussions in the
last few meetings of the Board, the matter resolving
itself into the temporary expedient of combining
the Year Books for two years; the question of raising
the dues; the question of making a distinction be-
tween the dues of members living within a certain
radius — in dther words, applying the zoning system
— ^and of other ^pedients; that, at the March meet-
ing llie situation was carried through to consolidate
the 1920 and 1921 Year Books, but that expedient
was not going to get thp Society over its difficulty,
and it was with the idea df trying to neach some solu-
tion that was a solution — not a mere stop-gap —
that tfce matter had been brought up at the meet-
ing tonight. He thought the Trustees would have
to solve the question but that they should haVe
the be'neiit of every recommendation that any mem-
ber of the Society could give; that something
must be done and something drastic if the Society
was goin'g to stand on a proper, firm and solvent
basis. The discussion thein veered to the matter
of the arrears in the dues of members — several
members speaking on this subject. The Chair stated
that the situation was just about what it was
twenty years ago. It meant that about fifty per cent
df our current dues had been collected and fifty per-
cent were still due, which was just about the condi-
tion he had found in 1898. We had had to apply
sixty per cent of our income to back dues, but that
he did not think that it was hopeless by any manner
or means; that, concerhing the suggestion as to the
Smbker, he had fought the Smoker hard and had said
it was a needless expense; that he did all he could do
to oppose continuance of the Smofcer on the ground
that the Society was spending too much money on it;

that

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that the only iimovadbh he succeeded in obtaijiing
was the matter of charging for guestfe; that he recol-
lected that there were as many as twenty guests at
on^e of the Smokers. The att^dance dwindled from
about six hundred, which more than half iiUed that
ropin, down to something like less than half that
number, which he thought was an illustration of the
willi/igness on the part Qf the members to pay for
that entertainment. He was inclined to limit the
Smoker, if the Society must have it, to members
and then have guests pay; that in the lojng run he
thought thje Sofciety would have to leave the solution
to the Board of Trustees:

The Treasurer stated that before Col. Vrooman's
motion was put he did nbt wish to le.aVe the impres-
sion thai the Society was "on easy street*' as would
be inferred from the remarks of one of the members
who had attempted to an^ilyze his repbi-t and budget;
that it was true that tlie Society owed ^2500.00 and
ha'd gotten in for thie year 1920, $3300.00. The note
for $2500.00, shdwii in the report as having been
n^tde by the Society, had been paid, but it had been
paljxi a}t the ekpe'nfse 6i borrowing on the year's income
that had to rufii^the Society until 192 1; tliat there
were many expenses which l^e budget showed would
have to be met. The cost oi thfe Smoker was in-
creased during thle last year b/ecausfe tJie Society made
a special effoirt to 2et the soh$ of members of the So-
ciety who had be«i in the war, to attend and extra
invitatio'ns were s^nt out which probably more l3ian
doubled the expe'nse; This would probably n6t occur
againw Besides the Smoker there were the expenses
of the Secretary's office, the rent, stationery and other
expenses which would more than take up what re-
mained of the 1920 dues^ that there would be a deficit
of $1500.00 for running expe'nse^ for the year 1920
Unless the Year Book foir 1920 was not published.
The ques'tion was called for hy several members.

The motion of Col. VrdDman, namely that th^ mat-
ter of publishing the Year Book in 1920 be referred
to the Board of Trustees with the rtequest of the

Society

T HI RTY'FIFT H ANNUAL MEETING I49

Sodety that it be published as usual, was put by-
President Van Brunt and duly seconded and carried.

Judge Frank Hasbrouck, Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Mpmorialsi offered tjie following Rescjiution
anid moved its adplption:

"Resolved; That on the retirement
of the Hon. Augustus Van Wyck of The
Holland Society of New Yqrk, his felloW-
mebibeif express tb him tjieir congratula-
tions on his. successful administratio'n,
wish fpf him long life, good heajth and
prosperity, arid ask of him the contin-
uance erf that interest in the Society's
welfare whjich he- has so loyally mani-
fested during the many years of his mem-
bership."

Motion was put by the Chair and was unanimously
carried.

Col. John W. Vrqpman stated that he had expected
ex-Prepident Seymour van SahJtvoord to be presctot;
that he was tlie Resolution niakfer fo|r the Society
and always made gobd ones, but that, in his absence,
he had hastily prepared the following Resolution
which he desired to sfubmit and to which he invited
the attention of the Society, because he thought that
this Soiciety was broader than a Smoker or a Dinner:

"The Holland Society at its Thirty-
fifth Annual Meeting desires to place
upon rcicord its unceasing loyalty to
home, country arid God. It is unalter-
ably opposed to any person, organization,
or propaganda tiiat would diisavow the
sacred ties of family, discourage un-
swerving loyalty to country and deny
the Fatherhood of God.

This Society will always work for, and
fight if need be^ tp protect one flag, the
Star^ and Stripes;, {Applause) and to pre-
serve one Constitution, the Constitution

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of the United Stated. {Applause.) To
this ertd we earnestly favor upholding
this governments which was established
by our fathers anid uniting and upbuild-
ing all the vital intierests of our country,
the hope of the world."

Col. Vrooman moved the adoption of the fore-
going Resolution-, which motion was duly seconded
and carried.

Adjournment was had.

•• i-rpj^-

{Oainfancif be for- 30! and nev^r brought to mind?

THE

THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING

HE Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting
of the Holland Society of New
York was held at the Hotel Astor,
Broadway and Forty-fourth Street,
New York City, on Wednesday
evening, April 6th, 1921. The An-
nual Meetings are always held on
April 6th (except when such date
falls on Saturday or Sunday) in commemoration of
the VERBOND DER EDELEN— Confederation of
the Nobles — organized by Count Henry van Brederode
in the House of Culemburg in the year 1566, A. D.,
when the Dutch combined against tyranny and adopted
the badge which is ntow the badge of our Society.

President Arthur H. Van Briint took the chair
and called the meeting to order.

On motion, the minutes of the Thirty-fifth Annual
Meeting were approved.

Report of Treasurer
The forma! printed report follows:
DE WITT FAN BUSKIRK, Trrasurer,
in account with
THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

RECEIPTS

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Dr. RECEIPTS

Balance on hand

Reported March ist, 1920 $ 2,383 . 74

Initiation Fees 65 .00

Annual Dues 6,021 .00

Certificates of Membership 30.00

Interest on Investments 385 .00

Life Memberships 580.00

Sales of Books, etc 98.00

Sale of Annual Dinner Tickets I941 1 ^oo

Exchange on checks 2. 10

Interest received on Balance 6.97

Overpayment of dues 2.00

Demand Loan Mechanics Trust Co 1,000.00

Sale of N. Y. L. & W. Bond 1,000.00

Sale of 3>^% Liberty Bond 9i7* 34

Total $13,902.15

DISBURSEMENTS
Cr.

Rent of Society Rooms $ 700.00

Engrossing » 63 .38

Buffet Lunch, 1920 180.75

Annual Dinner, 1921 1,798.51

Paper Stock for Year Books 340.79

Insurance on same 2.00

Overpayment of dues 6.00

Stationery, Treasurer's account 5^-75

Stationery, etc.. Secretary's account 219.58

Storage and Trucking account 13^-75

Bal. Expense Dinner 1920 57*^4

Postage, Treasurer 62 .00

Extra Labor, Treasurer, 1920 171 . 17

Records purchased 75 -oo

Demand Loans and Interest 3)543 • 12

Advances to Secretary 1,620.00

Investment account

$1,000 4th 4}i Bond 882.45

Balance in Bank, March 7, 1921 3,988. 20

Total $13,902.15

INVESTMENTS

PAR VALUE COST

2 West Shore R. R. ist Mortgage 4%

Bonds $2,000.00 $1,957.50

I St. Paul & No. Pac. Ry. 6% Bond. . . 1,000.00 1,230.00

I Northern

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1 Northern Pac. Ry. Prior Lien and

Land Grant 4% Bond 1,000.00 1,037. 50

2 Chicago, R. L & Pac. Ry. Gen. Mtg.4% 2,000.00 2,080.00
2 Providence Securities Co. 4% Bonds 2,000.00 1,800.00
I U. S. Liberty 4th Loan ^}i% 1,000.00 882.45

$9,000.00 $8,987.45

De Witt Van Buskirk,

Treasurer.
Dated March 7, 1921.

Report of Secretary

The Secretary, Frederic R. Keator, then presented
his Annual Report as follows :

To the Members of The Holland Society of New Yorkj
Mijne Heeren: —

The Recording Secretary begs to submit his annual
report as follows :

Membership: The total number of m.embere re-
ported in the notice calling this meeting was nine
hundred and twenty-six, with loss by death since
tiien of one, making the present recorded member-
ship nine hundred and twenty-five.

During the year we have lost by death the following
members:

Elected Members Died

June 12-1902 Charles H. Lowe, Dayton, Ohio Feb. 27-1920
June 1 1-1896 Peter Adriance, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mar. 3 1-1920
Dec. 23-1885 John C. Van Cleaf, New York City Apr. 4-1920
Oct. 13 1910 Orson Wright Sloat, Patterson, N.Y.Apr. 19-1920
June 25-1885 John Bogart, New York City Apr. 25-1920

Mar. 14-1885 Edgar B. Van Winkle, New York

City Apr. 27-1920

Apr. 6-1886 Charles E. Ly decker. New York

City May 6-1920

Mar. 30-1887 William H. Vredenburgh, Freehold,

N. J. May 15-1920

June 8-1 91 6 George Van Houten Blauvelt,

Nyack, N. Y. May 30-1920

Oct. 13-1904 Francis Hendricks, Syracuse, N. Y. June 9-1920
Oct. 25-1886 Adrian Onderdonk Schoonmaker,

Montclair, N. J. June 23-1920

Mar.

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Mar. 9-1899 William Russell Bogert, New Brigh-
ton, N. Y. Aug. 13-1920

Mar. 12-1914 Robert Parker Staats, New York

City Aug. 18-1920

Mar. 27-1890 Alfred Hasbrouck, San Francieco,

Cal. Aug. 18-1920

Dec. 7-1888 William F. Suydam, Montclair, N.J. Sept. 11-1920

Jan. 30-1890 Matthias Van Dyke Cruser, Brook-
lyn, N. Y. Sept. 20, 1920

Dec. 13-1906 Warren Jay Terhune, Hackensack,

N. J. Nov. 3-1920

Dec. 22-1887 Jacob S. Van Wyck, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dec. 13-1920

Mar. 14-1901 Alfred Van Derwerken, Brooklyn,

N. Y. Dec. 22-1920

June 8-1899 Frederick L. Van Ness, West Orange,

N.J. Jan. 10-1921

Dec. 10-1903 Ogden F. Winne, Kingston, N. Y. Feb. 27-1921

Mar. 10-1898 William G. Schermerhorn, Schenec-
tady, N. Y. Mar. 24-1921

Trustees^ Meetings: The Trustees have held four
regular meetings at the Metropolitan Club, New
York City, during the year, as follows: June 9, 1920;
October 14, 1920; December 9, 1920 and March 10,
192 1. All of the aboive meetings were upon the
invitation of the President.

Branch or County Meetings: The Poughkeepsie
District members omitted their usual Annual Dinner
for 1920^ which is held in commemoration of the
relief of the siege of Leyder^ at the Nelsoh House on
October 3rd of each year.

Thq Ninth Annual Meeting of the Hudson Co^irity
Branch was held on Mojiday evening, December, 13,
1920, at the Jersey City Club, Jersey City, N. J.,
President Nicholas D. Wortendyke presiding. In-
formal speeches were made by President Arthur H.
Van Brunt and Secretary Keator, guests of the branch,
and by Treasurer Van Buskirk and Senator William
Brfnkerhoff. Mr. Daniel Van Winkle read an inter-
esting paper on Early Dutch Education in Bergen.
The Annual election of Officers of the Branch resulted
in the selection of Dr. H. J. Boj?ardu§;, President and
C. G. Newkirk, Secretary and Treasurer. The elec-
tion

T HI RTY-Si XTH Annual Meeting 155

tion of Dr. Bogardus carries with it his nbmination
as Vice-President for Hudson County, N. J.

Filling of Vacancy in Board of Trustees: At the
regular quarterly meeting of the Trustees, held on
Octpber 14, 1920, Frederic R. Keatb^r was elected a
Trustee to fill the vacancy in the Bpard caused by the
death of Charles E. Lydecker, who was a Trustee
in the class of 1923.

Increase in Dues: As the Society has been previous-
ly advised by the notice sent out to all of the members
on November i, 1920, the annual dues have been
increased from JS6.00 a year to ^8.00, commencing
with the fiscal year which began on February i, 1921.
This action was taken by the Trustees at their regular
quarterly meeting held on June 9, 1920, under the
authority of Article VI, Section 4 of the Constitution.

Biennial Year Book: The Trustees, at their meeting
hold on Tune 9, 1920, voted that the Year Bobk of
the Society henceforth be published biennially, the
next i^sue to be published in 1921, and to be the
combined 1920-1921 Year Bobk.

Smoker: The Smoker for 1920 was discontinued
by the vote of the Trustees, at their meeting held oh
October 14, 1920. This action, as well as the action
in regard to the increase in dues and the Year Bobk,
referred to abovej, was taken only after the Trustees
had carefully canvassed replies to a questionnaire
on these points sent dut to all of the members of the
Sdciety by the President and Secretary, and after a
meeting of the Board of Officers of the Society at
which many of the Vice-Presidents representing the
several centers entitled to Vice-Presidents were pnesent,
at which meeting tjiese subjects were fully discussed.

Historical and Other Functions Participated in by the
Society: The Society has been officially represented
at die various Din^iers of sister societies to which it
has been invited and at the various church services
and historical and other functions to which it has
also had the honor of being invited.

1^ Accessions:

IS6 The Holland Society

Accessions: In addition to the usual list of acces-
sions to the Library aad Archives during the year,
Professor John S. Van Nest, one of our members,
has presented to the Society an old family Bible of
the Hoagland Family, which contains many of the
records of that family. The book was published
in 1645 at Leyden. He also presented five old New
Jersey deedsi^ which are a valuable addition to the
Society's collection.

Mrs. J. Stewart Barney of New York, has presented
to the S'ocie^, in meSmory of her father, an oil paint-
infg, which he owned, of the naval battle between
the Dutch flejet under Van Tromp and an English
fleet on June 11-14, 1666. The painting, which is
about 9>? feet long by 6 feet high, is by a Dutch
artist and is a copy of the original by Jan AbnpJiamsz
Beerstraaten, which is in an Art Museum in Amsterdam.
Mrs. Barney is a daughter of Alexander T. Van Nest,
a deceased member ai^d former Trustee of the Society,
and in his lifetime Chainnan of the Specia^l Committee
of this Society on the Tablets, which were placed by
the Society cin sites of historic interest in the city of
New Yoi4c, which Committee published an elabomte
report on December 26, 1889.

Respectfully submitted,

Frederic R. Keator

Secretary.

On motion the report of the Secretary was accepted
as read.

Report of Nominating Committee

At the request of President Van Brunt, Judge
Frank ttasbrouck assumed the chair and called upon
the Chairman of the Nominating Committee, Mr.
William L. Brower, to report. The formal printed
report follows:

TO THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

The Committee, selected to make nominations
for officers of the Society, respectfully reports the

following

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following names as its recommendation for the offices
to be filled at the Annual Meeting, to be held April 6,
1921:

PRESIDENT:
Arthur H. Van Brunt

VICE-PRESIDENTS:

New York County William Leverich Brower*

Kings County Walter M. Meserolis

Queens County Charles V. Rapelj*£

Westchester County Peter A. H. Voorhis

Dutchess County J. Wilson Poucher, M. D.

Ulster County Abram P. Lefevre*

Albany County Peter G. Ten Eyck*

Schenectady County William George Schermerhorn*

Central New York John Van Sickle*

Suffolk County Walter L. Suydam

Rockland County George A. Blauvelt*

Hudson County, N. J Henry J. Bogardus, M. D.

Bergen County, N. J Peter W. Stagg*

Passaic County, N.J Melville C. Van Ness*

Essex County, N. J J. Edgar Voorhees

Union County, N. J George G. Teller*

Morris County, N. J Samuel V. Hoffman

Mercer County, N.J Robert Ayres Messler*

New England Rev. William Harman Van Allen, D. D.*

Pacific Coast Rt. Rev. Frederic W. Keator, D. D.*

United States Army Col. James Wallace Van Dusen

United States Navy Chaplain Roswell Randall Hoes*

TREASURER: RECORDING SECRETARY:

De Witt Van Buskirk* Frederic Rose Keator*

DOMINE:
Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke*

THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE:

William L. Brower, Chairman
Frank Hasbrouck
Seymour van Santvoord
Charles L. Schenck
John de C. Van Etten

The Nominating Committee, after full discussion
of the subject, was unanimously of the opinion that
too infrequent rotation occurs in the personnel of

the

158 The Holland Society

the Board of Trustees of this Society. In making
their nominations^ therefore, thpy h^ave be^h guided
by this opinion.

Pursuant to the action taken by the Committee as
to rotation in office of Trustees, the following have
been nominated:

TRUSTEES— CLASS OF 1925:

Charles Lott Schenck

John de C. Van Etten

James S. Polhemus*

Francis I. Vander Beek*

John E. Van Nostrand*
(•Renominated.)

Dated, New York, March 17, 1921.

William L. Brower, Chairman
Frank Hasbrouck
Seymour van Santvoord

A majority of the Nominating Committee.

Mr. Brower stated that since the nepart had been
printed on the notice of the meeting, the nominee
for Vice-Presideint for Schenectady County, Mr. Will-
iain G. Schermerhorn, had died and that the Nominat-
injg Committee had nominated in his place Mr. Nich-
ola's Irving Schermerhorn, his son.

The Chairman further stated that, at the request
of Mr. Melville C. Van Ness, the nominee for Vice-
Preisident for Passaic County, N. J., his name had.
been withdrawn by the Comjnittee as such nominee
and Mr. Nehemiah Vreeland nominated in his plaice.

It was moved that the report be received and that
the Society proceed to the election. Seconded and
carried.

Judge Hasbrouck, the Chairman pro tern, asked if
there were any other nominations. There were none.

On motion, the rules were suspended and the Secre-
tary was instructed to cast one ballot for each of the
candidates for the respective offices mentioned on the.
ticket, as printed on the notice calling the meeting
and as subsequently amended by the report of the
Committee, substituting the name of Nicholas I.

Schermerhorn

T HI RTY'Si XTH Annual Meeting 159

Schermerhorn for that of William G. Schermerhorn
for Vice-President for Schenectady County, and Ne-
hemiah Vreeland in place of Melville C. Van Ness
for Vice-President for Passaic County, N. J.

The Secretary reported that he had casit one ballot
for each of the candidates for the re'spective offices
mentiojted oil the ticket, as so amended, and the
chair declared that each of the candidates had been
duly elected to the respective office for which he
was nominated.

The Chairman pro tern thereupon appointed Mr.
William L. Brower, Chairma\n of the Nominating
Committee, as a committee of dne to escort the Presi-
dent-elect to the platform.

The President-elect was then escorted to the plat-
form, and reinvested with the insignia of the office
of President of dhe Society. Mr. Van Brunt e;xpressed
i'n a few words his appreciation of the honor then
conferred upoji him in his re-election as President
of the Society and reassumed the chair.

Reports of Standing Committees

The President having called for reports of the
several committees of the Society, the following
reports were made:

Committee on Statue to William the Silent: Mr.
Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, reported progress.

Committee on Finance: Mr.' E. Covert Hulst, the
Chairman of the Committee, read the following
report :

Feb. loth, 1921.
Trustees of The Holland Society y

Gentlemen:

On behalf of the Finante Committee, I beg to report
that I did, on the l^enth day of February, one thousand
nine hundred ^^ twenty-one, e'xamine the securities
and accounts of De Vi^itt Van Buskirk, Treasurer of
The Holland Society, and find the accounts to be
correct and the foUdwing securities on hand :

$iooo.

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$1000. Northern Pacific Land Grant 4% Coupon bond;

$1000. St. Paul and Northern Pacific 40 year 6% Regis-
tered bond ;

$2000. West Shore 4% Registered bonds;

$1000. New York, Lackawanna & Western ist 6%
Registered bonds;

$2000. Providence Securities 50 year 4% Coupon bonds;

jSiooo. First U. S. Liberty Loan 3}4% bonds;

$2000. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific General Mort-
gage Coupon bonds 1988, 4%.

Yours vQfy truly,

(Signed) E. Covert Hulst,
Chairman of Finance Committee.

Committee on Genealogy: In the absence qf Col.
John W. Vrooman, the Chairman, Judge Frank Has-
brouck stated that the Committee had no report to
make.

Committee on History and Tradition: Mr. Henry
L. Bogert, as the representative on the Committee
of Judge Garret J. Garretson, Chairman, read the
following report:

Annual Report of the Committee on History

AND Tradition

To the Holland Society:
Gentlemen^

Your Committee on History and Tradition respect-
fully reports that the following matters have received
consideration and have been acted upon since the
last Annual Meeting, in addition to other matters
of rbutine nature.

Pursuant to an invitation of the Nederiandsche
Pilgrim Fathers Cdmmissie and the Society of the
Mayflower Descendants, the tercentenary of the
Pilgrim Fathers' journey was commemorated by
The Holland Society. Dry Harmon A. Vedder was
sent as a delegate to Holland, and a copy of the Domine
Selyns diary or record book was. sent as a sbuvenir>
toigetiier with congratulatory resolutions, framed by

Mr.

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Mr. Brower of your Committee. Similar nesolutions
were also trajusmitted to the Society of Mayflower
Descendants of New YoA:, copies of which may
appear in fiull in the Year Book. A report of the
prbceedinjgs of the celebration in Holland was sent
to your trustees and remains among their files.

A formjer employee of the Secretary, L. P. de Boer,
having made an inventory or catalogue of the Record's
of the Reformed Dutch Churches in the Netherlands
previous to 1664, off'ered it for sale to The Holland
Society, and with die approval of your Committee,
the purchase was made for the sum of $75, and this
information, gathered with considerable diligence and
skill, may be consulted at our library.

A third matter which had been submitted to the
Committee, was the question of designing and adopt-
ing a rosette or button to be worn by members of the
Society. This subject is still under consideration.

The members of The Holland Society will remember
the interesting and valuable souvenir which was
presented to the Hudson^Fulton Tercentenary cele-
bration by the Kingdom of Holland, being a replica
of the Half Moon, in which Henry Hudson explored
the river which bears his name. A thoroughly ex-
cellent and well-constructed vessel, '^De Halve Maene^^
was a most interesting feature of the celebration
and claimed the continuing interest of many of our
citizens, especially those engrossed in historical pur-
suits, and it was provided that the little vessel should
be maintained, as a state exhibit under state authority,
at some appropriate locality. Unfortunately, with
the lapse of time the Half Moon suffered from waning
inteirest and neglect to such an extent that one of our
Albany statfe officials wa3 recently impelled to write
an imploring letter to The Holland Society, calling
for its assistance to restore and preserve this valuable
gift for the benefit of our people. The subject was
prbmptly taken up by your Committee, and measures
have been taken which we trust may ilesult in an
appreciative maintenance and care of "/)^ Halve
Maene^^ from henceforth.

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An enterprise has been begun within the last few
mpnths for the purpose of celd^rating and illustrating,
graphically stxtA pdierwise, the rise and progress of
our country under the name of Americans Makings
an4 various racial grpups are designated or requested
to set forth in pageant or otherwise their national
contributiohs to America's early beginnings and present
greatness. A fair amount of money has been sub-
scribed to provide the initial expense, and it was
stated that not more than $S,ooo would be appro-
priately expended by each racial group in setting
forth its claims for coriisideration. In the Dutqh
group would be found The Holland Society, the St.
Nichdas Society and others, both individuals and
associates in interest, the organization meeting,
whicji was more or lesls tentative and under the super-
vision of Mt. John Darnell, appointed Mr. Guy Van
Amiringe chairman,, and yo^r Committee is in corre-
spondence with him, in the effort tb provide a fitting
presentatior^ anjd in the hope that thiP member^ of
the Society may materially assist in selecting and
demonstrating subjects which the Dutjch have mani-
festly contributed to the great achievements of tbday.

The tendency of the Dutch element to neglect
opportunities for making a record of th/eir ^rvices
to civilization and enlightenment^ has resulted in a
widespread impression of unimportance and insignifi-
cance, which occasions like the present may permit
to be corrected.

Your Cdmmittee submits this report, aoid urges your
cooperation and contributions^ to the end that 192 1
may be a memorable year in our aimals. The finkmres
of The Holland Society prevent it from making pecun-
iary contribution, but its advocacy of these projects
is riot less eamnest on that account.

Garret J. Garretson
(Sigated) Tunis G. Bergen Committee.

Wm. L. Brower

Committee on Meetings: Mr. John E. Van Nostrand,
the Chairman, stated that the Committee had no

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report to make, as all arrangements for the meeting
of the evening had been made and spoke for themselves.

Commiitee on Memorials: Judge Frank Hasbrouck,
Chairman, stated that there was no report.

Committee on Banquet of IQ21: Mr. James S.
Polhemus, the Chairman, read the following report:

The Annual Banque.t of the Society was held in
the Grand Ballroo^n at the Waldorf-Astoria, on the
evening of January 20th, 1921.

There were two hundred arid thirty-eight members
and guests present, including the representatives of
sister Societies. The speakers were as follows: Rev.
Dr. Henry van Dyke, Rev. Edgar Franklin Romig
anrf Prbfessor Samuel P. Orth.

President Van Brunt called upon Dr. van Dyke
to make the Address of Welcome, and this being
the first public function of the Society, since the
creation of the oflSce of "Domine," to which the Doctor
had been elected at our last Annual Meeting, he spoke
here, for the first time in this neW capacity, to the
immense gratification of all present.

Rev. Mr. R6mig, Pastor of the Middle Collegiate
Reformed Church, of this city, gave a most interest-
ing account of his visit, as a representative of the
Reformed Church of America, at the celebration,
held in Holland last s?ummer, in commemoration of
the three hundrfedth anniversary of the sailing of
the Pilgrims, being received everywhere — including
an audience with the Queen — ^with the warmest cor-
diality and the most distinguished consideration.

Professor Orth, in a very able address, speaking to
the subject, "The American Pioneer," roused his
audience both to enthusiasm and mirth. Many com-
plimentary remarks were heard fropi those who were
present, both with regard to the dinner itself, and as to
the speeches — ^all of which were considered to be of an
unusually high character and exceptionally interesting.

Respectfully submitted for the Committee,

James S. Polhemus,

Chairman.
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Miscellaneous Business

The Secretary read a letter, addressed to the Officers
and Members of The Holland Society of New York
in Annual Meeting assembled, which he had received
from Rev. Harry Howe Bogert, a member of the
Society, in which the writer deploned the number of
resignations reported in the notice of the meeting
and suggested that a committee should be appointed
to consider the matter and report what, if any, steps
could be taken to remedy this evil.

On motion, tihe le.tter was referred for action to
the Board of Trustees.

The Secretany read a letter, which he had received,
addressied to the officers of pajtriotic societies by the
Society of the Cincinnati in the Stalte of New York,
enclosing a list of Uwsed Rights, in that Society,
of Revolutionary Officers of New York State in the
War of the Revolution, and requesting such officers
of patriotic societies to call to the attention; of their
members this list, so that if there were any persons
eligible to membership through such unus'ed rights,
their claims might be substantiated and stich persons
avail themselves of the opportunity to become mem-
bers of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State
of New York.

On motion the letter was referred to the Board of
Trustees.

New Business

Mr. Edward F. Schenck moved that the Banquet
Committee henceforth be authorizeid and empowered
to offet" without charge to the ladies in the families
of members the boxes in the grand ballitx^m at the
Waldorf-Astoria at the. Annual Banquejts of the
Society. He stated that, under the prevailing cus-
tdm of charging for these boxes, very few ladies occu-
pied them, and he thought that it would be a very
nice thing tb eixtetid such courtesy free of charge
to the ladies of families of members. Motion was
seconded and carried.

Motion to adjourn was made and carried.

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Mr. Tunis G. Bei^en then introduced Dr. W.
Martin, Professor ctf Art at the University of Leyden
and Director of the Royal Art Galleries at the Hague,
who had just arrivod in this country and who delivered
an address on the subject, "Old Dutch Life in Old
Dutch Pictures," illustrated wilii lantern slides. The
address and pictures were interesting and held the
close attention of the members throughout. This
entertainment was followed by the usual collation
served at small tables. The attendance of members
at the meeting was about one hundred and sixty-five.

Hn Mtmotrmn

DAVID DEMAREST ZABRISKIE

Born — November 27, 1856.
Died — October 7, 1919.

Judge David Demarest Zarriskie, a resident of
Ridgewobdj N. J., died suddenly from heart failure
on Ocltober 7, 1919, while at work in the searching
department of the county clerii'3 ofHce at Hackensack,
N. J., whence he had gone from his office in the Horth
Jersey Title Insurance Company of Hackensack,
of which Company he was President. David Demar-
est Zabriskie was a native of Bergen Coiinty, N. J.,
born in historic Paramus Valley, November 27, 1856,
and was of the sturdy Dutch stock that in the early
days of Bergen County was so dominant in its civic
ami business aflFairs. He bore ^e name of his Polish
ancestor who came to America in 1662, but whose
desc«aidants, through inter-marriage with those who
trace their lineage to Holland, have the predominant
trtaits o| their Dutch ancestry. He was the son of
John C. Zabriskie and Jane Demarest, whose home-
stead was located on Paramus road and was well-
known tb travelers on that prominent highway.
Reared in these suriroundings, and associating with
lads of his class in the public school, young David
imbibed strong ideas of loyal Americanism which

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were developed and strengthened as he passed success-
ively and stuccessfuUy through Erasmus Hall High
School at Flatbusji, N. Y., Rutgers College at New
Brunswick, N. J., Class of 1879, and Columbia Law
School, the latter foUowinjg study with the well-
known firjn of Collins & Corbin, Jersey City, N. J.
Thus equipped, the young man was admitted to
practice as an attorney in 1882, and in due season
received his counselor's warrant. His career in the
legal profession was a record of sbccess fbunded upon
the meritorious points of strict integrity and un-
swerving loyalty to the cause of clients. His work
was always scrupulously thorough in minutest detail.
These characteristics were the basis of his reputation
for safety in advice in all legal matttets coming under
his personal care or notice', and it was becausfc of these
qualities, so essential in large business affairs^ that
Mn Zabriskie was, in 1905, made President of the
North Jersey Title Insurance Company (of which
he was one of the organizers in 1899), succeeding
General Bind W. Spencer; and he was at the head
of liiat Trkist Company when he died. Politically
a Republican and always active in the interests of
that party, Mr. Zabriskie was chairman of the County
Committee for four years, 1894-1898. He served as
a member of Assembly in 1894 ^^^ ^895, and dis-
played an independence of judgment that guided
all his actions, without regard to attempted dictation
of party leaders. In 1898 he was appointed by
Governor Griggs, Judge of the Court of Commdn
Pleas of Bergen County, an office which he held
with distinction for a period of ten years. In social
life Judge Zabriskie was a companionable man; a
good conversationalist, with a proper sense of humor.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the
Bergen County Historical Society, and a member and
Triistee of The Holland Society of New York. Judge
Zabriskie was married in the First M. E. Church in
New Brunswick to Elizabeth S. Suydam, daughter
oif Isaac S. Suydam and Mary Runyon. Judge and
Mrs. Zabriskie had one daughter, Ethelyn, who

died

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died at the age of twenty years. Mrs. Zabriskie
Svurvived her husband. In the court room of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey, at Hackeusack, on
January 13 th, 1920, with Justice Charles W. Parker,
Judge Willaitl W. Cutler and Judge John B. Zabriskie
on the bench, and a large gathering of lawyers and
other citizens, the Bar Association of Bergen County
paid eloquent tribute — through resolutions and ad-
dresses — to the worth of David D. Zabriskie, late
member of the Association and one time Judge of
the Court of Cqmmpn Pleas of New Jersey. The
resolutions, prepared by a committee composed of
former Judges Peter W. Stagg and Wm. IS/L. Seufert,
and Counselor Wm. J. Morrison, Jr., were announced
by Mr. Stagg as having been adopted by the Bar
Association, and were then handed to Mr. Johnson
for reading and presentation to the court. The
resolutions follow:

"Whereas, the sudden death of Hon-
orable David D. Zabriskie, a former
presiding Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of the County of Bergen has called
forcibly to the attention of the Bench
and Bar of this county the loss of one
of its most able, upright and patriotic
members; and

Whereas, the respect and esteem in
which he was held by the fellow-members
of his profession, impel us to record in
the minutes of the court a token of our
appreciation of the service he has rendered
to the Bench and Bar of this county;
be it

Resolved, that the members of the
Bench and Bar of the county of Bergen
perform a duty full of personal sorrow,
in recording their high estimate of the
virtues and worth of the Honorable
David D. Zabriskie, a former presiding
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas

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of the county of Bergen^ and the loss
which they and the county of Bergen
have suffered in his death. One of the
older members of the Bar; one to whom
all looked up with a feeling of utmost
reverence and respect; — throughc/ut a
life of varied activity an4 usefulness he
was ever a careful, con^derate, indus-
trious and right-minded mam A judge
singularly unpretentious, seeking the
right and the right only, it was easy foSr
him, through his pertinacity and rugged
honesty to carry out the course alloted
by himself in order to perform what was
right. Courteous to his brethren], digni-
fied in the high office he occupied^ firm
in his decisions and judgment, merciful
though just, a terror to evil doing yet
pitiful to human infirmities; he was con-
scientious in every duty, true to the best
ideals of his profejs,sion. Actively en-
gaged at the time of his death, he rqunded
out a career that will ajways be exemplary
in the traditions of the profession in this
county; be it further

Resolved, that the Bench and Bar
tender their sincere sympathy to his
widow and that a copy of these resolu-
tions be transmitted to her; that they be
recorded in the Court of Oyer and
Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the
Peace, and be published in the county
newspapers and in the New Jersey Law
Journal.'*^

Mr. Johnson then said:

"May it please the Court: In behalf of the mem-
bers of the Bar of Bergen county, I ask your Honors
to suspend for a few minutes the customary business
of the court, to permit a tribute of respect to the
memory of one who has occupied an oflScial position

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in this seat of justice for many years. We feel sure
you will not regard the time lost or misspent while
we pause to review something of liie character and
life work of one so intimately connected with tjie
work of this court. The resolutions which have been
read adequately express the feelings of his associates
6i the bar, and I ask your Honors to direct that they
be placed on the minutes of the court, as a lasting
mejmqrial of our departed friend and associate. ****

He realized the responsibilities of his oflSce, and
brought to it not only a sound judgment, but also
a conscientious effort to administer justice, with a
strict regard to fairness and right. In the adminis-
tration of the liquor law he took great pains to familiar-
ize himself with the conduct of the licensees of the
court, and did not hesitate to discipline those who
violated the law. He was courageous and outspoken,
and while just and fair, yet he inspired a wholesome
dread in those disposed to evade the requirements
under which they were licensed.

His ten years of service on the bench were marked
with probity in all his acts^ with courtesy and con-
sideration to the members of the bar and to all others
with whom he came in contact.

He had during his term the encouragement and
support of that brilliant lawyer and great jurist,
Joniathan Dixdn, who for nearly thirty years sat in
this court as presiding judge, whose name will ever be
held in reverence as one of the great judges of our state.

After the expiration of his term of office, he resumed
the practice otf the law and was actively engaged in
professional work. On October 7, 1919, David D.
Zabriskie, in full possession of his faculties, apparently
in perfect health while occupied in this building,
with no premonitory symptoms, was suddenly sum-
moned from the scene of these earthly occupations
to face the calm, deep silence of eternity. Thus
c^uickly passed away a man of high ideals, of con-
sistent Christian character, who had lived ah exemp-
lary life, respected by his n<5ighbors and beloved
by his friends.

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His friends^ who are many, his associates at the
bar with whom his relations were cordial and friendly,
are left to mourn the loss of this Christian gentleman.

It is, therefore, nbt as a mere formality but as the
sincere utterance of the heart, that we say farewell
to ofae who has passed beyond tJie limits of this earthly
life, thrbugh the d^ark pcfrtal we call death, into the
fullness ctf the life beyond. His memory and die
example of his life will not be lost. Well may we say —

How poor were Fame, did Grief confess
That death can make a great life less.
Or end the help it gave.
Our wreaths may fa(de, our flowers may wane,
But his well-ripened deeds remain.
Untouched alcove his grave."

Mr^ Zabriskie was descended from Albert Zabor-
owslky, * a Pole^ who emigrated from Prussia to New
Amsterdam in the ship "7%^ -Foa;" which sailed from
Amsterdam^ Holland, for New Amsterdakn in August,
1662. On December 17, 1676, he married in the
church at Bergen, New Jersey, Machtelt Van der
Linden and in the Bergen Marriage Record he is
stkted to be frbm Engstbur^h, which, according to
the custo!m of the time, meant he had been born
ther'e. He was, however, a Pole by extrattidn as
the name indicates. He died at Hackensack, N. J.,
September i, 171 1. The burial register of the Luth-
eran church of New York records the fact as follows:
"171 1, September i, died arid buried at Hackensack,
Albert Sabori^ki, about 72 or 73 years old."

Th'e following resolutions upon the death of David
D. Zabriskie were adopted at a meeting of the Trustees
of the Sbciet}", held on October 9, 1919:

"It is with sincere grief that tSie Board
of Trustees of The Holland Society of
New York records the death of thfeir
associate and fellow-member, David

Demarest

iSce *Thc New Nethcrland Register," January, 191 1, Vol. i. No. i, by Ding-
man Versteeg, page 13.

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DemarestZabriskie, who died at Ridge-
wood, N. J., on October 7, 1919.

A member of the Society since 1905
and a Trtistee continuously from 1908,
Judge Zabri^kie always evidenced his
interest in the Society and his zeal for
its welfare by his conscientious atten-
tion to all the duties of qffice and full
enjoyment of all the privileges of memr
bership.

Tenacious of his own outspoken views,
founded on sound judgment and good
sense, he was never intemperate in their
expression and was always tolerant of
the opinions of others.

Of the highest personal character,
with punctilious notions of honor, genial
and affable in manner, he enjoyed the
fellowship of his associates, as tiiey did
his friendly companionship.

His fellow-Trustees will miss the wis-
dom of his counsel in their meetings and
his pleasant personality in their social
intercourse."

CHARLES STUART VEDDER

Bom — October 7, 1826.
Died — ^March i, 19 17.

Oharles Stuart Vedder, eighth President of
The New England Society of Charleston, S. C, was
born in Schenectady, N. Y., October 7, 1826. In his
boyhood, it was his ambition to become an editor-
He wished to start at the bottom and learn all the
branches and so he started as a printer on a small
paj>er in New York, under the management of the
Harper Company. At the end of four years, he
was editbr of the paper. Having accumulated a small
sum of money, he decided to study for the ministry,
entering Union College. He was graduated in 185 1
at the head of his class. After he was graduated from

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cdllege, he developed throat trouble, and acccepted
an appointment as tutor and professor for a number
of years. Deciding that a milder climate would be
beneficial to his health, he went to Columbia, South
Carolina, entered the Theological Seminary of the
Presbyterian Church and was graduated with honors.
His first pastorate was at Summerville, S. C. In
1866, he became pastor of the historic Huguenot
Church in Charleston, S. C, which position he held
for fifty years. He was a member of the Charleston
Presbytery fifty-six years. In 1876, New York Uni-
versity conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of
Divinity. The College of Charleston conferred the
same degree simultaneously. Later, the College of
Charleston gave him the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws. Union College conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Humanities. Dr. Vedder was a
member of The Holland Society of New York, having
joined the Society in 1889, and wrote a poem which
was read at one of its anniversary celebrations. He
was a prominent member of the .Huguenot Society
and, for a quarter of a century. President of the
Howard Association of Charleston. He was one of
the founders of the Confederate Home and College,
lopated in Charleston. He presided at the organiza-
tion nieeting in 1867, and at the annual mfsetings for
forty years ensuing. For a number of years, he
taught in this institution, serving witjiout compensa-
tion. Dr. Vedder's reputation as a Preacher, Orator
and Lecturer was nation wide. Many of his sermons,
poems and lectures were published arid widely read.
He also acquired a great reputation as a postprandial
speaker. A distinguished New York Editor was
present at one of the annual celebrations of the New
England Society of Charleston, Si C, and heard Dr.
Vedder speak. His cbknment was: "I have heard
Chauncey Depew at his best — Dr. Vedder is his
superior." Dr. Vedder was elected to membership
in The New England Society of Charleston, S. C.
in 188 1. Three years later, he became President,
which office he held for thirty-two years. Upon

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the occasion of his Golden Wedding Antiiversary,
the Society presented to Dr. Vedder a large loving
cup as a token of the affection and high esteem in
which he was held. Dr. Vedder died March i, 1917,
in his ninety-first year. At his own request he was
buri^ by itie sjd.e of his wife in the cemetery of The
New England Society at Magnolia, S. C. Durii>g
the Civil War, Dr. Vedder was an ardent sympathizer
with the Southern cause, serving as Chaplain of the
State Soldiery in General de Saussure's Brigade, and,
after the conflict, serving as Chaplain of Camp A,
Burnet Rhett, United States Veterans.

HARRY J. VAN ALLEN

Borh;*— May 27, 1866.
Died— April 15, 1919.

RE^^. Harry J. Van Allen, for more than twenty-
five years a preacher to deaf mutes in New Yotk State,
died in Utica, N. Y., his home, on April 15, 1919.
His death brought sprrow tio eight hundred mute
parishioners who depended upon him for religious
guidance. Dr. Van Allen was born in Clayton, N. Y.
oIn'May 27, 1866, and was the son of John and Minerva
Carry Van Allen. His father was a captain of Great
Lakes steamboats and lived for a time in Duluth,
Minn., where Dr. Van Allen became deaf, as the
result of illness when he was seven years cAd. He
wa^ educated at a school for the deaf at Rome, N. Y.,
froin whiph he was graduated in 1884 and from Gallaji-
det College, in Washington^ D. C, 1889. At college
he received tlie highest honors in his studies ever
attained at) the schoiol. In 1902 he received the
degree of master of art&. He was married in 1890
to Miss Jessie Ada OHver, a schoplmate, at Rome,
N. Y. He left two children, Mary and George.
His son, who was born in Albany, had at the time of
his father's death, just been discharged from the
army with the grade of sergeant. He was a member
of the 613th Aero Squadron. Dr. Van Allen was
the only Episcopal deaf mute clergyman, outside of

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New York City, in the entire state. He spoke with
a peculiar accent characteristic of persons who have
never heard th^e sound of their own voices. After
serving as instructor in printing in the Pennsylvania
schobl for the deaf, Dr. Van Allen returned to Johns-
town, N. Y., where he wa,s foreman of the Daily
Democrat. The rector at that town was the Rev. J.
N. Marvini, who inB'uced him to take charge of tiie
Bible class and later suggested that the diocesa^n
convention authorize work among the deaf. A com-
mission was appointed at the convention, whidh in-
cluded the Rev. Frfeebom G. Jewitt of Albany, and
Dr. Van Allen was appointed lay missionary. Four
years later he was ordained d^eacon by the Rt, Rev.
William Croswell Doane, bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Albknfy,' artd was advanced to the priesthbtod
by the same bishop on February 20, 1902. He moved
tx) Bath, N. Y., where he lived for many years, work-
ing in Albany as a printer until his religious work
was achieved. In addition to his charge of the diocese,
covering the whole upstate, he was, from 1907, sec-
rfet'ary to the joint committe'e of advice for church
workers ampng the deaf. He was particularly well
educated and versed in Hebrigw and Dutch. He
had nearly completed a history of dhfe Van Allen
family, in which Albany an'd surrounding counties
werfe well represented. He also wrote a history of
the Pennsylvania school for the deaf, a series of schopl
histories anB contributed a number of papers to
magazines, niainly on historical, genealogical and
philoisophical topics. Dr. Van Allen joined The Hol-
land Society in 1906.

GEORGE ALYEA BRINKERHOFF

Born — February 9, 1861.
Died — April 19, 1919.

George Alyea Brinkerhoff died at his home
in Hackensack, N. J., on April 19, 1919 in the fifty-
ninth year of his age. He was born in Woodridge,
New Jersey, February 9th, 1861 and was the eldest

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son of Jacob BrinkerhdfF and Lavinia Alyea, being
a direct descendant of Joris Dircksen BrinckerhofF,
who came to this country from the Province of Drenthe,
Holland about 1638 and settled on Long Island,
whose setond so^n, Hendrick, settled oh the Hacken-
sack River, bought land in Bergen in 1677 and whose
descendants now write their name Brinkerhoff. ^ He
received his early education in Grammar School No.
35, New York City, and the New York Business
College. After leaving college he became connected
with the wholesale clothing house of Thomas M.
Argall, where he remained as bookkeeper until 1880,
when he purchased an orange grove in Ocala, Florida.
The heavy frost of 1883 ruining his trees, he returned
to New Yoric and associated himself with The Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York Cit^, in the
branch office of Superintendent Alvah W. Brown
at 100 Broadway. When Mr. Brown died in 1901,
Mr. BrirtkerhofF became his successor, and in 1906
he was appointed Manager of the Agency at 149
Broadway, which business he successfully conducted
until his death. Hve held a prominent place in the
life insurance world, and had the distinction in March,
1888, of writinjg the firfet ^100,000.00 policy the Mutual
Life put on its books. He was a member of the
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry of
the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, U. S. A., Valley
of Jersey City, N. J., Salaam Temple A. A. O. U. M. S,
of Newark, N. J., Pioneer Lodge No. 70 F. & A. M.,
a member of the Hackensack Lodge No. 658 B. P. O.
Elks, and of The Holland Society of New York. He
was very active in the affairs of his own town, being
a director of the Hackensack Trust Company, a
Four Minute Man, and a Captain on the Staff of the
Commandant of the Home Defense League of Hacken-
sack, N. J. He was an enthusiastic golfer, played
well, and was a member of the Hackensack Golf Club
and the Areola Country Club. His friends will
find a void in their lives from the absence of his cheer-
ful

I Year Book of The Holland Society of New York for 1915, p. 20. The Family
of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoif (1887) PP* ^^» ^3* I4* 26.

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ful presence, his noble manliness and genuine friend-
ship. He was the highest type of a gentleman, to
whom need or trouble never appealed in vain, and
leaves to his family the heritage of a life well spent.
He was survived by his wife, Pauline Anderson.

JACOB GEORGE RAPELJE

Born — October 6, 1 849.
Died — ^May 5, 19 19.

Jacob George Rapelje was a son of George Rapelje
and Ellen Eliza Polhamus. He was born at Mobile,
Alabama, October 6, 1849. He received his early
education at the Columbia Grammar School, New
York City. After the Civil War had terminated,
he returned to Mobile and for several years was in
business there. While there he served in the Mobile
Rifles. Later he removed to Chicago and in 1885
to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, where he invested
extensively in real property, was admitted to the
bar and entered upon the practice of law. For
many years he was associated with J. R. Gage, with
ofiices in the First National Bank Building in Bismarck.
Ill health had pursued him from childhood and he
was finally obliged to give up his practice and went
to Europe to try the baths and climate. He lived
for some time in Germany with his mother and his
sister, Mrs. Ellen R. Peabody, who had preceded
him there, and finally went to the Italian Riviera^
where he continued to live until his death at Alassio
on May 5, 1919. He was unmarried. Mr. Rapelje
was a man of unusual culture and of rare intellectual,
attainments; a devoted student, widely read and
extensively traveled. While a resident of Bismarck
he made frequent journeys to Europe and to other
parts of the world. He was a thorough student of
Roman History, of which subject he had acquired
a wide knowledge. After his departure from Bis-
marck, he had kept in constant touch with his friends,
there, his letters showing a clear insight into old world
affairs. Mr. Rapelje had been a life member of The

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Holland Society since June, 1897, when he joined
the Society. He maintained his interest in the So-
ciety throughout his life. Mr. Rapelje was a direct
descendant in the male line of Joris Jansen Rapalie, ^
of Rochelle, France, who came to America from
Holland in 1623, and settled at Fort Orange, Albany,
where he resided three years. In 1626, he removed
to New Amsterdam. In 1637 he obtained a patent
for a tract of land on Long Island called Rinnegaconck,
within the present limits of the city of Brooklyn.
He was one of the twelve men representing the New
Netherlands in 1641, and magistrate of Brooklyn in
1655-56-57-60 and 1662. He married Catalyntje,
daughter of Joris Trico of Paris. Joris Jansen died
about 1665.

STANLEY HAMILTON HOPPER

Born — December 29, 1865.
Died — ^May 7, 1919.

Stanley Hamilton Hopper was born December
29, 1865, at Newark, N. J., and died May 7, 19 19. He
was a son of the late Inslee A. Hopper (1836-1881),
and Mary Caroline Gould (1836-1912), both of old
New Jersey families. Mr. Hopper was an extensive
traveler in this country and elsewhere and was almost
as well known on the Pacific Coast as in the East,
having passed fifteen years in the Puget Sound coun-
try, where he had property interests. Few men have
seen more of life in the woods than Mr. Hopper, who
was passionately fond of hunting, fishing and healthy
outdoor recreations. He built for himself a log house
on the shores of beautiful Lake Cushman in the Olym-
pic Mountains of Washington, where he dwelt for
many years. Mr. Hopper explored the Olympics
extensively. He was a member of the New York
Camera Club, Seattle Yacht Club and The Holland
Society of New York. Mr. Hopper was unmarried
and was survived by two brothers, Raymond Gould

Hopper

I For data concerning Joris Jansen see Register of the Early Settlers of Kings
County, Long Island. N. Y. (1881} by Tennis G. Bergen, p. 234.

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Hopper and Roland Inslee Hopper. The funeral
services were held at the home of the latter in Newark,
N. J. Mr. Hopper was descended from Andries
Hoppen, * who with his wife, Geertie Hendricks,
emigrated from Holland to New Netherland about
1650. He was enrolled, in 1653, in the burgher
corps at New Amsterdam, and granted the small
burgher right in 1657, when he owned considerable
property in the city; but this honor he survived
little more than a year. Having agreed with Jacob
Stol for the purchase of Bronk's land, and made a
payment on it, he and Stol both died before the deed
passed. The two widows concluded the transfer.
In view of her marriage with Van Tright, which took
place in May, 1660, Mrs. Hopper secured to each of
her four children the sum of two hundred guilders.
These were Catherine, born 165 1, who married Fred-
erick Thomasz, of New York; William, born 1654,
married Minne, daughter of Jurck Paulus; Henry,
born 1656, married Maria, daughter of John Van
Blarkum; and Matthew Adolphus, born 1658, who
married Anna, daughter of Jurck Paulus. Part of
his family settled at Bloomingdale and part in Bergen
County. Inslee A. Hopper, father of Stanley Hamil-
ton Hopper, was born at Paterson, N. J., and his
parents were Andrew Hopper and Margaret Pike
Inslee. He entered the employ in 1857 of the sewing
machine firm of I. N. Singer & Co. as entry clerk and
rose rapidly in the business. In 1863, when but
twenty-seven years old, Inslee A. Hopper was in-
strumental in forming The Singer Manufacturing
Company, the partners. Singer and Clark, making
him its President. The next year Mr. Hopper evolved
a combination of the sewing machine companies
and headed that also during its ten years' duration.
This was the first Trust to be formed in America.
The Singer Company, under Mr. Hopper's manage-
ment, grew beyond parallel, largely due to its immense
world organization, matchless energy and ability.
The Company has always conducted more offices
throughout

iRevised History of Harlem (1904) by James Riker. Pages 384, 385.

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throughout the world than any other concern. Its
profits and recapitalized wealth surpass any concern
manufacturing one article. Inslee A. Hopper pre-
eminently was a Captain of Industry. He ever con-
trolled the destiny of his Company, but in 1876 re-
signed, at the age of forty. The marriage of the pater-
nal grand-parents of the late Stanley H. Hopper was
the first occasion when a Hopper had gone outside
the Dutch in selecting a wife. At the parental home-
stead of Andrew Hopper at Paramus, N. J., the
Dutch language prevailed. Andrew Hopper was then
a prosperous young merchant at Paterson; but,
feeling called upon to be a clergyman, he sold his
business, entered the ministry, and for many decades
was an esteemed Baptist minister. He later became
Vice-President of the Prudential Insurance Company
of America. When this sketch was written, two of
his daughters and one son, Oliver T. Hopper, long a
resident of Georgia, were living.

GEORGE W. DEBEVOISE

Born — ^January 22, 1840
Died — ^May 13, 1919

Major George W. Debevoise was born on Janu-
ary 22, 1840 in New York City. He was a son of
George W. Debevoise and Catherine Crocker. As a
young man he entered the army, at the commencement
of the Civil War, as a private in the Ninth New York
Volunteers (Hawkins' Zouaves). He rose through
successive ranks to that of Brevet Major at the end
of the war. He was a member of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion; George Washington Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, of New York; Society of Mech-
anics and Tradesmen and The Holland Society of
New York. For many years he was in the iron manu-
facturing business, was a school trustee and, later,
superintendent of school buildings in the city of New
York. He was married three times. .The name of
his first wife was Nettie Harker, by whom he had
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by whom he had three sons now living and three
daughters, one of whom died in infancy. His third
wife was Margaret Forbes. The names of the children
are: George E. Debevoise, Randolph Foster Debe-
voise, Kittie Price Debevoise, now deceased, Nelson
Debevoise, Thomas M. Debevoise, Elizabeth Price
Debevoise, Mary Debevoise and Paul Debevoise.
He died on May 13, 1919 at his residence, 13 East
128th Street, New York City, in the eightieth year
of his age. Funeral services were held at St. Andrew's
Church, Fifth Avenue and 127th Street, on Friday,
May 16, 1919, at ten-thirty o'clock, a. m. George
W. Debevoise was descended from Carel De Beau-
voisS the common ancestor of the family in this
country, who emigrated from Leiden in South Holland
February 17, 1659, with his wife, Sophia Van Loden-
steyn and three children. He resided at first in
New Amsterdam, and afterwards as schoolmaster in
Brooklyn, where he took the oath of allegiance in
1687. He had issue: Jacobus; Gertrude, born in
Leiden, married, June 15, 1684, Jacob Williams Van
Boerum; Catherine, born in Leiden, married, Septem-
ber 7, 1684, Jacob Hendrickse Harte; and Cornelia,
baptized March 3, 1659, ^^ New Amsterdam, married.
May 25, 1682, Gerret Gerretse Durland of Brooklyn.
He signed his name "Carel De Beauvois."

FREDERIC KING CONOVER

Born — February 17, 1857.
Died — May 7, 19 19.

Frederic King Conover was born on February
17th, 1857 at Madison, Wisconsin. He was the son
of Obadiah Milton Conover and Julia Darst. He
was educated in the schools of Madison and at the
University of Wisconsin from which he was graduated
with the degree of B. A. in 1878 and LL.B. in 1880.
He was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin and practised
law until 1884. He then became the reporter of the
Supreme

iSec Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.,
by Teunis G. Bergen, 1881, page 85.

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Supreme Court of Wisconsin, succeeding his father
in that office which he held until his death. He held
membership in the following clubs and societies:
Phi Beta Kappa, National Geographic Society, The
Holland Society of New York from 1891, Madison
Club, University of Wisconsin Club, Madison Gun
Club, Madison Golf Club, Madison Literary Club,
Wisconsin Bar Association, Public Library Board,
Wisconsin Historical Society of which he was Curator
for twenty-five years. He was married on June 6,
1 89 1, to Grace Clark, daughter of Darwin Clark,
pioneer of Wisconsin and resident of Madison from
1837 to 1899. The following children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Conover: Frederic Le Roy, Major,
Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army
during the World War; a chemist after August, 1919;
Julian Darst, Major, Heavy Artillery, Regulars, United
States Army; after September, 19 19, a graduate
student and fellow of the University of Wisconsin
in Geology and Mining Engineering; Marion Clark,
Director of physical education in Young Women's
Christian Association of Minneapolis; later an associate
professor of Physical Education in the University of
South Dakota; Daphne Grace, Bacteriologist in Sarah
Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia.

On May 27th, 19 19, memorial exercises were held
in the Supreme Court at Madison, at which the
justices and members of the bar paid tribute to the
life and character of Mr. Conover. Justice A. J.
Vinje in a brief address called attention to the fact
that the death of Mr. Conover marked an epoch in
the history of the supreme court reporter's office;
that he had been the official reporter since 1883,
editing volumes 59 to 168 inclusive, and also editing
for his father, then the official reporter, volumes 55
to 58, inclusive; that for over a third of a century
he had been the official reporter of the court and had
edited in all 113 volumes. He paid tribute to the
distinction with which Mr. Conover filled the office
of reporter, to the attraction of his personality and
to his high ideals and character which made a deep

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sense of personal loss attach to his death. Mr.
Conover was descended in the ninth generation from
Wolfert Gerretsen Van Couwenhoven who emigrated
from Amersfoort, Holland to New Netherland in 1630,
settling first at Rensselaerswyck but soon removing
to New Amsterdam. The name of Couwenhoven
became, in the various transformations through which
it passed in the process of being Anglicized, Conover,
although many of the branches of this family, possibly
most of them, have retained the original name of
Couwenhoven.

WILLIAM DOWNS VAN VLIET

Born — ^April 22, 1838.
Died — ^June 14, 19 19.

William Downs Van Vliet, Goshen's oldest busi-
ness man and its oldest Mason, died on Saturday,
June 14, 1919, at his home, 119 Webster Avenue,
Goshen, N. Y., after an eight days' illness of pneu-
monia. His age was eighty-one years, one month
and twenty-three days. He was the son of Samuel
Curtis Van Vliet and Keturah Owen, and was born
in the town of Blooming Grove, N. Y. on April 22nd,
1838. He got his early schooling in his native town,
but throughout all his life was a student and, by care-
ful application, learned much and was wise in many
things. Until September, 1857, he remained at home
on his father's farm, then became an employee of the
Erie R. R. Company and continued with it in various
capacities till 1863. In June of that year he volun-
teered to defend the United States against the Southern
Confederacy, going with Company I of the Seventy-
first New York Infantry, which was kept at the
front until after the Gettysburg campaign. After
the Battle of Gettysburg, that regiment was ordered
to New York City to assist in quelling the Draft
Riots. While there, he was attacked with a malignant
disease, from which he did not recover for five months.
This illness unfitted him for further military service
and so he was mustered out. In June, 1864, he pur-
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chased an established furniture business in Goshen.
He enlarged the plant and added to the stock. This
business he continued until his death. He was elected
a Director of the Orange County Mutual Fire In-
surance Company in 1879, and was adjuster of fire
losses, serving twelve years, until the company was
merged. On July 31, 1887, he was elected Chairman
of the Union Free Schools of Goshen, which position
he held for four years. At that time the high school
was organized, and he remained a member of the
Board for sixteen years, making twenty years service.
In 1892, he was elected Vice-President of the Goshen
National Bank and served in that capacity for four-
teen years. He was elected a Director of the Goshen
Savings Bank, July 5, 1889; Second Vice-President,
February 4, 1895; First Vice-President, November 7,
1898, and President, December 3, 1906. In the
active years of his life, Mr. Van Vliet worked hard
for the welfare of his town and was busy with many
of its affairs. He was for many years vestryman
and warden of St. James' Church. He was a member
of the executive committee of the Board of Trade,
was also a member of The Holland Society of New
York, and for fifty-six years was a member of the
Goshen Lodge F. & A. M. Mr. Van Vliet was of a
generous nature. He lived an exemplary life, giving,
doing and living for others without proclaiming his
deeds from the house top. He was survived by his
wife, who was Miss Abby M. Murray. They were
married October 5, 1887. By a former marriage to
Miss Julia Smith he had two children, a son, John J.
Van Vliet, and a daughter, Julia Marion Van Vliet,
wife of Daniel R. Bacon.

DAVID NEVIUS

Born — ^July 31, 1867.
Died — ^June 15, 19 19.

David Nevius was born July 31st, 1867, at Bush-
nell, Illinois. His parents were Garret S. Nevius and
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in 1 88 1, after the death of his parents. He attended
a private school until his sixteenth year, when he
entered Nazareth Hall Military Academy, at Nazareth,
Pa., where he completed his education. In 1886, he
entered the employ of the Fifth Avenue Bank, New
York City, as a clerk. He afterwards held positions
of trust in various financial institutions in New York
City, and in the last fifteen years of his life had been
Cashier and Vice-President of the Union Exchange
National Bank, New York City. Mr. Nevius had
never married. He died June 15, 1919, at Beacon,
New York, in his fifty-second year. Interment was
made at Somerville, New Jersey. He was descended
from Joannes Nevius S of the Neeff family of the
Netherlands, born in Holland about February, 1627,
died at "The Ferry" in Brooklyn about June, 1672,
who was the American progenitor of all those of the
name of Nevius, Nevyus, Neafie, Neefus, Neafus,
Nefie, Nafey, Naphey, Nafis, Naphis, etc., who have
since lived in this country. Joannes Nevius arrived
in New Netherland in or about the year 165 1. He
was probably a merchant, importing goods from his
native land. He married at New Amsterdam, in
1653, Adriaentje Bleijck of Batavia in the East Indies.

CHARLES KING VAN VLECK

Born — January 16, 1854,
Died — ^July 14, 19 19.

Charles King Van Vleck, D.D.S., one of the
best known residents of Hudson, N. Y., where for
many years he practised his profession as a dental
surgeon, passed away at his home at 331 Allen Street
in that city on July 14th, 1919, following a compara-
tively short but acute illness. For several years he
had been in poor healtli. He was sixty-five years old.
Dr. Van Vleck was born in Hudson, N. Y., on January
16, 1854, ^^^ son of William B. Van Vleck and Anna
King. His parents moved to Hudson from Kinder-
hook

I See Joannes Nevius and his Descendants (1900) by A. Van Doren Hone/man.
pages 17. 68, 71, 72. 282.

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hook, N. Y. in 1836. His father was a dentist and
practised his profession in Hudson with his brother,
Henry H. Van Vleck, until 1890. Charles King
Van Vleck received a preliminary education in the
Hudson public schools and studied with his father.
In 1878, he was graduated from the Pennsylvania
College of Dental Surgery and returned to Hudson,
where he began the practise of his profession. He
had always been a student, and had permitted no
improvement or progressive step in his profession
to pass him untried. At the time of his death he
ranked with the best dental surgeons of the country.
In 1885, he married Julia A. Gray, daughter of Gen.
Thomas S. Gray. She, with one daughter, Mrs.
Kirby Smith, of Washington, D. C, and his brother,
William, of Brooklyn, survived him. Dr. Van Vleck
was a true citizen, ever having at heart the best
interests of the community in which he always lived.
He took a great interest in public affairs and served
on several of the municipal boards of the city. He
had been a member of the Board of Education and the
Board of Health and was a member of the National
Dental Association, the Odontological Society of
New York, the Dental Society of the State of New
York and the Third Dental Society. He was also
a member of the old Cowles Guard, and in the early
days of that organization was one of the best shots
of the company. He was a member of the Hudson
Lodge, B. P. O. E. and held several prominent offices
in it. He was a member of The Holland Society
of New York, having joined in 1887, and in 1894 was
Vice-President for Columbia County, of that Society.

WILLIAM HARRIS SLINGERLAND

Born — ^December 10, 1863.
Died — ^July 22, 1919.

William Harris Slingerland, son of William
Henry Slingerland and Elizabeth Wayne, was bom
at Slingerlands, N. Y. on December loth, 1863. He
was educated at Albany, N. Y. where later he was

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associated with his father as a civil engineer. For
several years he was an assistant in the State Engi-
neer's office. He married Alice Keeler Bullock on
February 12th, 1896 at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
On July 22, 19 19, he was struck and killed by an
automobile at Albany, N. Y. He was survived by
his widow and one son, Harold Bullock Slingerland.
Mr. Slingerland was descended from Teunis Cornelise
Slingerlandt ^ who came from Amsterdam, Holland,
to New Amsterdam about 1650, and was one of the
early settlers at Beverwyck (Albany) where he pur-
chased lots from the Indians and settled at Onisquatha
or Niskata, now New Scotland. Teunise Cornelise
married first Engeltie Albertse Bratt and secondly,
Geertie Fonda, widow of Jan Bikker, April 9, 1684.

JOHN TOWNSEND LANSING

Born — 1 844.

Died — ^August 12, 1919.

John Townsend Lansing, leading Albany banker
and real estate man, died August 12, 1919, at Digby,
Nova Scotia, where Mr. Lansing had gone with his
wife to spend his vacation. He had been ill but a
few days with a cold. J. Townsend Lansing was born
at Sachem's Head, Conn., in 1844, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles B. Lansing, but came to Albany
in his early childhood. He was educated in the
Albany Boys' Academy and the Luther Classical
School, and was later graduated from Sedgwick
Institute at Great Barrington, Mass. After his gradu-
ation he was employed as a clerk in the Albany Iron
and Saw Works. Here he became intimate with
Robert C. Pruyn and a friendship was started which
has lasted since. He entered partnership with Mr.
Pruyn in 1877, establishing the Sheffield File Works.
The Albany Embossing Company, one of the largest
manufacturing plants in the city, is an outgrowth
of

iSee G>Ilection8 on the History of Albany (1871) by Munsell, Vol. IV. p. 166,
also Early Records of the City and County of Albany, and Colony of Rensselaer-
swyck (1869) by Jonathan Pearson, pp. 50, 303 and other pages as indicated in
the Index, p. 522.

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of the partnership. Mr. Lansing gave his personal
attention to these industries until 1880, when he re-
tired to enter the real estate business which was then
flourishing in Albany. He was Trustee of several
estates besides. He married Helen Franchot Douw
on October 27, 1870, and two years after her death,
in 1898, married in October, 1900, at Paris, France,
Leontine De Kay Townsend, who survived him.
Besides his wife, Mr. Lansing was survived by a
sister, Mrs. Edward G. Selden, wife of the late Rev.
Dr. Edward G. Selden, former pastor of the Madison
Avenue Reformed Church of Albany; by Gerrit Y.
Lansing, half-brother; a nephew, Charles B. Lansing;
and a niece, Mrs. Abbie Kernochan, of Colorado
Springs, Colo. Mr. Lansing's real estate interests
in Albany were extensive and with his estate, which
was variously estimated at from $1,000,000 to $2,000,-
000, occupied his whole attention. He owned the
block of twenty houses on the south side of Jay Street,
west of Dove Street; the People's Hotel in Broadway;
a row of twenty houses in Hudson Avenue west of
Dove Street, and two dwellings in Dove Street be-
tween Jay Street and Hudson Avenue — all in Albany.
Until a short time before he died, Mr. Lansing occu-
pied the old family home at State and Swan Streets,
Albany, which he vacated to make room for the new
State ofiice building. Mr. Lansing's philanthropies
were many and varied. He was chairman of the Board
of Trustees of the Albany Hospital; a Trustee and
Vice-President of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion; a Director of the Albany City Mission; a Trustee
of Dudley Observatory; a Trustee of the Albany
Medical College; a Director of the Albany Girls'
Academy; a Trustee of the Madison Avenue Reformed
Church and Vice-President of the Albany Rural
Cemetery Association. He was President of the
Albany Public Market, owner of the big industrial
building in Hudson Avenue, between Green and
South Pearl Streets; President of the Lansing Syracuse
Realty Company; Vice-President of the Wheeler
Rent and Power Company, a Director of the New

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York State National Bank and a former Director
of the National Savings Bank. He was a member
of the Reform Club of New York, The Holland So-
ciety of New York and the Fort Orange and Albany-
Country Clubs. For years he was one of the chief
contributors toward the support of the Dudley Ob-
servatory, which placed Albany in an important
position in astronomical circles. He was also inter-
ested in the Albany Historical and Art Society, being
President of the Association maintaining the museum
in Washington Avenue. Many of its rare paintings
were contributed by Mr. Lansing and members of
his family. He was a philanthropist of great gener-
osity and his benefactions in Albany were very numer-
ous. He was a public-spirited citizen, ever ready
to devote his services and open his purse in the promo-
tion of every cause for the public weal. He was an
Albanian who loved his city and who had a deep
affection for its people and that which was designed
to advance the interests of the one and protect the
welfare of the other. He was foremost in all public
enterprises and a leader in movements in behalf of
patriotic and civic affairs. He was, moreover, a man
of a genial and pleasing personality whfch deeply im-
pressed itself upon all who had the good fortune to
make his acquaintance The funeral took place Sat-
urday afternoon, August 16, 1919. Services were
conducted at the home at two o'clock and at the Madi-
son Avenue Reformed Church, Albany, at two-thirty
o'clock. The Rev. J. Addison Jones, pastor of the
Church, officiated.

CHARLES FREDERICK HOFFMAN

Born — ^January 28, 1856.
Died — ^August 28, 19 19.

Charles Frederick Hoffman of New York, Presi-
dent of the Union Club, Treasurer of the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine and a Trustee of Columbia
University, died on August 28, 1919 at his summer
home, Armsea Hall, Newport, Rhode Island, from

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heart disease. He had been ill since early in the
summer. Mr. Hoffman, who was at the head of the
Hoffman estate, had long been identified with the
social life of New York City. He was born in Morris-
town, N. J., January 28, 1856, the son of the Rev.
Charles Frederick Hoffman and Eleanor Louisa Vail.
Four years after his graduation from Columbia in
1878, he entered the real estate business, and later
occupied himself chiefly with looking after the exten-
sive properties of his family. The Hoffman estate
comprised the old Hoffman house on Fifth avenue,
facing Madison Square, and other holdings in the
neighborhood of Bryant Park. He was Vice-President
of the Hoffman Brothers Realty Company. His
office was at 258 Broadway. On April 24, 1883, he
married Eugenia Leonie Schieffelin. She died without
issue, March 28, 1895. On December 29, 1900, he
married Miss Zelia Krumbhaar Preston of Tuxedo,
N. Y., formerly of Philadelphia. She survived him
as did also a sister, Mrs. J. Van Vechten Olcott,
and a daughter, Marion. Some years before his
death Mr. Hoffman purchased the large Newport
estate of General Francis V. Greene on Ocean Avenue.
Its gardens are considered among the most beautiful
in Newport. In the social and philanthropic life of
the summer colony Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman were
always active. Their residence in spring and autumn
was at Cazenovia, N. Y. Their town house w^s at
IS East Eighty-fourth Street, New York City. Mr.
Hoffman was a member of many clubs, among them,
in addition to the Union, of which he was President,
the Metropolitan, the St. Anthony, the Tuxedo, the
Westchester Polo, the Newport Reading Room, the
Newport Country Club, the International Garden.
He was a member of The Holland Society of New
York, having joined the Society in 1910. He was
a Trustee of the Greenwich Savings Bank, Common-
wealth Insurance Company, United States Trust
Company, and a Director of the Colonial Assurance
Company. Funeral services were held at noon on
September i, 1919, at the Cathedral of St. John the

Divine.

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Divine. Mr. Hoffman was descended from Martin
Hermanzen Hoffman \ who emigrated to New Nether-
land about 1657. He was born about 1625 at Revel
(on the Gulf of Finland, at that period belonging to
Sweden, but now a part of Russia, having been con-
quered by Peter the Great in 1710). He is said to
have been Ritmaster in the army of Gustavus Adol-
phus of Sweden. It is probable that he lived, prior
to his emigration to America, at Ezen, Ostenbenzie,
Holland (though he is described in the registers of
this country as being from Revel), for Martinus Hoff-
man was authorized by his brother-in-law, Tjerck
Claessen de Witte (the ancestor of the De Witt family
in New York), to recover some property for him at
Ezen, Ostenbenzie, Holland. He settled first in Esopus
(Kingston) where in 1658, he joined with other resi-
dents (against the orders of Ensign Smith, in com-
mand of the garrison there) in an attack on the In-
dians. He removed to New Amsterdam, where,
according to a Directory of the city published in 1661,
he was living in De Heere Straat (now Broadway)
in that year and was a large taxpayer. It is stated
that he was an extensive auctioneer. In New Am-
sterdam he contracted his two marriages, and here
two, at least, of his children were born and baptized.
From New Amsterdam he removed to Albany, then
known as Fort Orange, where in 1672 he was living
in a house conveyed to him in that year, and which,
with the lot on which it stood, is referred to in other
deeds as a boundary. In December, 1676, he sold
this property to Cornelis Cornelise Van de Hoeve,
and bought another house and lot in Fort Orange,
where he was living and following the occupation of
a saddler in 1678. Shortly after this time he removed
to Ulster County, N. Y., and settled in Kingstowne.

GEORGE

I See Genealogy- of The HoflFman Family, Descendants of Martin Hoffman
— hy Eugene A. Hoffman — 1899. pages 96, 97, 412.

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GEORGE WEEKS POLHEMUS

Born — December 4, 1889.
Died — September 3, 1919.

George Weeks Polhemus was born at Fort Mon-
roe, Virginia, on December 4, 1889, and was the son
of Adrian Suydam Polhemus and Frances Ainsworth
Weeks. He was appointed Second Lieutenant of
Infantry, U. S. A., November 30, 191 2; First Lieu-
tenant of Infantry, U. S. A., July i, 1916; Captain of
Infantry, U. S. A., May 15, 1917 and was appointed
Major, N. A., June 7, 1918. He died at Walter Reed
General Hospital, Takoma Park, D. C, September 3,
1919 of cerebral hemorrhage, cardiac failure, his
rank at that time being that of Captain. Mr. Pol-
hemus joined The Holland Society in 19 12 by right
of descent from Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, *
the common ancestor of the family in America, who
emigrated in the employ of the West India Company
from the Netherlands to Itamarca, Brazil, and thence
to Long Island, where he officiated in the churches of
Kings County, was married to Catharina Van Werven
and died June 8, 1676. He obtained, June 25, 1662,
a patent for twenty-five morgens of land in Flatbush.

BERNARDUS SUYDAM

Born — ^August 10, 1865.
Died — December 12, 19 19.

Bernardus Suydam, one of the most prominent
residents of Elmhurst, N. Y., died on December 12,
1919, at 100 West Fifty-ninth Street, New York City,
where the family was residing for the winter. Mn
Suydam belonged to an old Long Island family who
have resided there since Colonial times and his patriotic
ancestors fought and suffered many hardships during
the war of the Revolution. He was the son of the
late Isaac Suydam and Phoebe Ryder and was bom
on August ID, 1865, in Queens Village, N. Y,, where he

spent

I For further data concerning Domine Polhemus see Regiater of the Early
Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y. (1881) by Teunis G. Bergen, p. 227.

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spent his early years. He afterwards removed to
Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1895 he went to Elmhurst,
where he made his home until his death. He married
Miss Lizzie G. Covert of Maspeth, N. Y., a sister-in-
law of the late Cord Meyer, and was intimately
connected with the latter for many years, both in
business and in social life. Throughout his residency
of a quarter of a century in Elmhurst he took a most
active part in the civic and social interests of the
place, the development of the Forest Hills section
of the Second Ward and many other activities that
put him in the forefront of the prominent business
men of the Borough of Queens, City of New York.
At the time of his death, he held the position of manager
of the Elmhurst Development of the Cord Meyer
Company; was President of the Elmhurst Coal Com-
pany; Treasurer of the Citizens Water Company and
Secretary of the Maspeth Development Company
and the Browne Park Realty Company. He was
also secretary of the Lake Charles Rice Milling Com-
pany of Louisiana. Mr. Suydam had many interests
outside of Elmhurst. Prominent among these were
the Flushing hospital, where for five years he was a
member of the Board of Trustees. He was also
Chairman of the Community Councils of Queens.
He took great interest in the cause of education and
for a number of years he represented %ieens Borough
in the Board of Education of the City of New York,
of which he was a very active member, doing much
to improve the schools of the Second Ward and to
advance the welfare of the pupils. During the various
Liberty Loan drives he was the chairman of the Elm-
hurst Committee and his own personal labors were
one of the main reasons for the very successful results
of each campaign. In Red Cross activities he always
took a leading part. He was Chairman of the Elm-
hurst Branch of the American Red Cross; Treasurer
of the Queens County Chapter; Chairman of the
Elmhurst Branch and Treasurer of the Christmas
Seals Campaign. He belonged to the Democratic
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in politics. He also was a member of The Holland
Society of New York; the Oakland Golf Club; Newtown
Council, 717, Royal Arcanum; Mizpah Lodge No.
360, F. and A. M.; Aurora Grata Consistory and
Kismet Temple and the Elks of Lake Charles, La.
He was also formerly First Lieutenant, Company L,
of the 23rd Regiment of Brooklyn. He was survived
by his widow and one son, Bernard, who is a student
at Roxbury School, Cheshire, Conn. The funeral
services were held on Monday afternoon, December 15,
1919, at his late home on Whitney Avenue, Elmhurst,
N. Y., and were very largely attended. They were
conducted by the Rev. Chas. K. Clearwater, the
pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church, of which
Mr. Suydam was a member and who paid an eloquent
tribute of love and esteem to Mr. Suydam in a few
appropriate words. The committal services at the
grave in Cypress Cemetery were conducted by the
Rev. Frederick S. Griffin, the rector of St. Saviour's
Church of Maspeth, who was an old friend of Mr.
and Mrs. Suydam, and of whose church the Covert
family were members. There was also a simple
Masonic ceremony by the members of Mizpah Lodge,
who were present in a body.

THEODORE MELLICK NEVIUS

Born — October 17, 1846.
Died — December 23, 1919.

Theodore Mellick Nevius was born in Williams-
burg, now a part of Brooklyn, N. Y., on October 17th,
1846. He was the son of William J. Nevius, of Kings-
ton, N. J., a graduate of Princeton College, and Eliza-
beth Watkins Nelson, daughter of Professor Joseph
Nelson, the blind professor of classics in Rutgers
College, who held this chair for many years with iiigh
esteem. Theodore Mellick Neviu§ was married in
Brooklyn, N. Y., February sth, 1874 to Mary A.
Smith. He had two sons, the Rev. Warren N. Nevius
and George Harold Nevius, both of whom are graduates
of Princeton University. Mr. Nevius' business life

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began in New York City and continued there until
his retirement from active business a few years before
his death. His activities were devoted during the
greater portion of his business Hfe to the iron and steel
trade, specializing in galvanized iron pipe. His assoc-
iates in business life knew him to be a man who built
his business up on the principles of fairness, justice
and reliability, and that he was always ready to
assist those who appealed to him. In his early man-
hood, at the age of sixteen, he united with the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City,
then located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 19th
Street, under the pastorate of the Rev. Nathan L.
Rice, D. D. He immediately became an active
worker in Church and Sunday School, this activity
and interest continuing to the last day of his life on
earth. After his marriage, Mr. Nevius moved to
Bloomfield, N. J., and at once identified himself with
the Westminster Presbyterian Church, serving as
the Superintendent of its Sunday School for a few
years. At that time he was residing in the portion
of Bloomfield township known as Glen Ridge. Here
with others he engaged whole-heartedly in starting
the Congregational Church of Glen Ridge, with which
organization he was actively associated to the day of
his death. He was elected to its first Board of Trus-
tees, and was its first Sunday School Superintendent.
He volunteered his tenor voice in a quartet choir,
served on the Board of Deacons almost consecutively
for many years, and was a Deacon in the Church at
the time of his death. When Glen Ridge became a
municipality he was elected a Trustee of the public
school system, and served for a period of years as
Chairman of the Board of Education. In both
secular and religious life he studied to be "a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed." In his later years
Mr. Nevius suffered from a very painful physical
affliction, and passed away suddenly at his home,
120 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J., on Decem-
ber 23rd, 1919. Funeral services were held from the
Glen Ridge Congregational Church, Friday, Decem-
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ber 26th, at two-thirty p. m. Mr. Nevius had been
a member of The Holland Society of New York since
December 14th, 1905. He was also a member of
the Sons of the Revolution. In direct line of descent
he was in the seventh generation from Johannes
Nevius S who came to New Amsterdam from Holland
in 165 1 and was married to Ariaentje Bleijck, November
18, 1653. Johannes Nevius was born in Holland
about February, 1627, and died at "The Ferry*' in
Brooklyn about June, 1672.

CHARLES KNICKERBACKER WINNE

Born — ^June 30, 1838,
Died — September 24, 1919.

Charles Knickerbacker Winne, M. D., Colonel,
U. S. Army, retired, was born in Buffalo, N, Y.,
June 30, 1838, the son of Charles Winne, M. D., and
Louise Caroline Viele, and died in Albany, N. Y.,
September 24, 1919. He was the seventh in line of
descent from Pieter Winne, born in the city of Ghent,
Flanders, who with his wife, Jannetje Adams, born
in Leeuwarden, Friesland, emigrated to America in
1650 and settled in Beverwyck, now Albany, in the
same year. Pieter Winne was apparently a man of
some importance in his new home. He was a magis-
trate in 1660 and at his death, about 1695, owned
quite a large estate, including half of "Constapel's
Island," as well as a saw mill in the country nearby.
In 1684 he had thirteen children living, nine sons
and four daughters. This gave the Winne family
an early start and accounts for the large number of
persons of the name now living in Albany and the
neighboring counties. Pieter's great-great-grandson,
Jacob Winne, (1758-1806) was Adjutant cX the 14th
or Albany County Regiment, commanded by Col.
Peter Yates, from October to December, 1779, and
Quartermaster of the Battalion commanded by Lieut.
Col.

I For data concerning Johannes Nevius see Johannes Nevius and his Descen-
dants (1627-1900) Honeyman (1900), pp.68, et seq. See also N. Y. Gen. and
Biog. Rec., Volume 5. page 158; ibid.. Volume 6, page 82.

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Col. Marinus Willett, from August to November, 1781.
Jacob's son, Jellis Winne, Jr., (i 778-1 849) was a mer-
chant in Albany and for many years Cashier of the
Bank of Albany. He married Sara Fondey, who was
a daughter of Ensign John Fondey, Jr., a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati and a descendant of
Jellis Douw Fonda, the founder of Fonda, N. Y.,
and on both her paternal and maternal sides a great-
great-great-great-granddaughter of Jesse De Forest.
Jellis Jr.'s oldest son, Charles, (1811-1877) was born
in Albany, educated at the Albany Academy and at
Union College, and studied medicine at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He
settled in Buffalo where he became one of the leaders
in his profession. In 1836, he married Louise Caroline
Viele of Waterford, N. Y., who belonged to one of
the oldest Dutch families of the state and through
her mother was descended from the Knickerbackers
of Schaghticoke. Their oldest child, and the only
one to reach maturity, is the subject of this sketch.
He received his early education largely at the hands
of private tutors, though for a few months he attended
the Albany Academy. He never attended college.
In the winter of 1857-58, he studied medicine at the
Harvard Medical School, during which time he was
a student of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The next
year he attended the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons in New York, and the next year Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia, where he was gradu-
ated in 1859. When volunteers were called for in
1 86 1 he offered his services and was for a time at-
tached to a regiment being formed in Buffalo, but
as he found that there was to be some delay in their
getting off he tried the examinations for entrance
to the Medical Corps of the regular army. He passed
a brilliant examination and entered the army in July.
He first served with General McClellan's column in
Western Virginia and was then assigned to hospital
duty and hospital construction work in West Virginia,
Ohio and Indiana. In September, 1863, he was
ordered to duty with the Army of the Potomac and

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served therein, first as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Artillery
Brigade, then as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Second
Division and subsequently as Medical Inspector of
the Corps, until the Army was disbanded, July i,
1865. He was present at the following engagements:
Rich Mountain, West Virginia, Rappahannock Sta-
tion, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsyl-
vania Court House, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Assault
on and Siege of Petersburg, Weldon R. R., Hatcher's
Run, Peeble's Farm, Quaker Road, White Oak Ridge,
Five Forks, Pursuit and Surrender at Appomattox
Court House of the Army of Northern Virginia. He
was present with his corps commander. General
Griffin, in the courtyard of the McLean House when
Generals Grant and Lee were considering the terms
of the surrender. He also rode in his place in the
Fifth Corps Staff, as Medical Inspector, during the
grand review of the Army of the Potomac in Wash-
ington, May 23, 1865. His war record was brilliant.
Officially commended by two commanders of the
Fifth Corps in succession and by the commanding
general of the District of the Chattahoochie, he was
brevetted three times by the War Department, twice
(as Captain and Major) for "faithful and meritorious
services during the war" and once as Lieutenant-
Colonel for "meritorious and distinguished services
at Tybee Island, Georgia, where cholera prevailed."
He resigned from the army in 1873, but reentered
it in the following year. In 1875, he was offered and
declined a commission as Lieutenant-Colonel in the
medical corps of the Egyptian army. Though differ-
ent in type from his war work, his later army service
was none the less distinguished and his stations were
numerous and scattered. In 1902, while serving as
Chief Surgeon of the Department of the Missouri,
he was retired for age as Lieutenant-Colonel and
Deputy Surgeon General, but in 1904 by Act of Con-
gress was promoted to the rank of Colonel, U. S. Army,
Retired, for Civil War service. He held the con-
gressional bronze medal for the campaigns of the
Civil War. He lived in Baltimore for two years

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following his retirement but in 1904 moved to Albany,
the home of his ancestors, to be near his son who had
gone there to practice medicine. Col. Winne was
tall, very slender and erect, and with a distinct mili-
tary carriage even in the later months of his life. His
military training and experience showed their effects
on his character and manner as well as on his physical
bearing. He was dignified, retiring, punctilious in
all that he did or said, prompt to the last degree in
all engagements. Strangers thought him rather stern
and severe in manner, though he was ever most cour-
teous; everyone admired him and his qualities, and
his friends were very fond of him and he of them.
He was proud of his lineage and the accomplishments
of his forebears, but seldom referred to his own record
and achievements. He was a fine conversationalist
though decided and outspoken in his opinions, fearless,
upright, honest and conscientious to a fault, hating
all sham and deceit of whatever kind. In short, he
was a true "gentleman of the old school." He was
a great reader and student and spent most of his
time in his later years in his library as increasing
deafness and an impairment of his voice rendered
conversation difficult. In politics he was an ardent
Republican and believed most heartily in America
and American institutions. He was very jealous of
this country's honour and very impatient with those,
even in authority, who seemed to trifle with it or
to allow others to do so. He fell in June and broke
his hip. His strength, impaired by age, was unable
to withstand the shock and after three months of
mental and physical suffering he obeyed the sum-
mons of the Great Commander, September 24, 19 19.
He was buried with military honors in the Albany
Rural Cemetery in the plot where lie the remains of
his parents and grandparents. He was a member
of the Sons of the Revolution and a Companion,
First Class, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
He had been a member of The Holland Society since
1892, and for several years served as its Vice-President
for the U. S. Army. He was especially interested in

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history, biography and genealogy and though never
taking an active part in the affairs of the Society,
and seldom (mainly from location of residence) at-
tending the meetings, he always maintained a very
keen interest in it and its proceedings, its aims and
accomplishments. He married, in 1874, Mrs. Caroline
E. Frey Giddings, whose family was very prominent
in central New York in the Colonial and Revolutionary
periods, and who, with a son, Charles K. Winne, Jr.,
M. D., a member of the Society, and three grand-
children, survived him.

FREDERICK B. VAN VORST

Born — ^January 19, 1855.
Died — September 27, 19 19.

Frederick B. Van Vorst died in Hackensack,
N. J., on September 27, 1919. He was born*»n New
York City, January 19, 1855, the son of the late
Judge Hooper C. Van Vorst, of Albany, New York,
the first President of The Holland Society of New
York, and Maria L. Boyd. Frederick B. Van Vorst
married on August 14, 1890, Mary L. MacRae, of
Wilmington, North Carolina. Mr. Van Vorst was
graduated from Princeton in 1875, ^^^ later from
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. He was a member of
the law firm of Van Vorst, Marshall and Smith of
25 Broad Street, New York City, which specialized
in railroad and corporation law. Mr. Van Vorst
also specialized in the law relating to Wills, in which
he was recognized as an authority. Mr. Van Vorst
served as a member and President of the Hackensack
Board of Education, but avoided politics or political
office. He was a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Johnson Free Public Library of Hackensack,
N. J., and a member of the Board of Governors of
the Hackensack Hospital, to which institutions as
well as to all philanthropic movements he was a
liberal contributor. He left surviving, his widow,
Mary G. Van Vorst. Funeral services were held

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at his late residence, ii Euclid Avenue, Hackensack,
N. J., on Monday, September 29, 19 19, at four p. m.

JACOB VAN WAGONER

Born — ^March 4, 1852.
Died — October 6, 19 19.

Jacob Van Wagoner, who was born in New Mil-
ford, N. J., on March 4, 1852, was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Van Wagoner. He was a graduate
of New York University in the class of 1876, with the
degree of A.B. His musical talent was evident in
his college years. When a Freshman he was selected
to fill the vacancy of an upperclassman as college
organist and choirmaster, and his services in this
capacity were so satisfactory that he held the position
throughout the four years of the course. He married
Miss Sarah M. Van Buskirk, also of New Milford,
and they made their home there for some years,
going to Ridgewood, N. J., about twenty years before
his death. Two daughters were born to them, Lena,
who died at the age of three years, and Miss Martha
Van Wagoner, who for some years had been associated
with her father in the Van Wagoner Studio. Professor
Van Wagoner had been identified with musical circles
throughout the vicinity of Ridgewood, N. J., prac-
tically all his life. He was organist of the North
Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh (now Dumont,
N. J.), until the Reformed Church at Oradell was
built, when he served as organist there. Later he
accepted the position of organist and choirmaster
of the First Reformed Church of Ridgewood, and
moved with his family to that village. In each of
the three churches he was instrumental in installing
new pipe organs which were purchased under his
personal direction. For years he had been an in-
structor of piano, organ and harmony, his pupils
coming from all parts of the county to his studio at
Hackensack and to his Ridgewood home. He was a
painstaking, conscientious instructor and the fruits
of his years of teaching were evident on all sides.

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Hundreds of men and women knew and loved him as
a teacher and friend, and scores of children mourned
the loss of this kindly music master. Professor
Van Wagoner was a graduate of the New York Con-
servatory of Music, and a member of the Guilmant
Organ School of New York City. He was a member
of the Bergen County Historical Society and of The
Holland Society of New York. He had been an
active member of the First Reformed Church ever
since he went to Ridgewood, and had served on the
Consistory as Deacon shortly before his death. He
was a man of sterling character, of deep religious
principles; quiet, modest, unassuming; a faithful
and loyal friend. His unselfish devotion to his wife
and daughter was an inspiration to those privileged
to come within the inner circle of his home. Besides
his wife and daughter, he left one brother, J. D.
Van Wagoner, of Oradell, N. J., and two sisters,
Mrs. John Banta, of Oradell, N. J., and Mrs. Benjamin
Parker, of Hackensack, N. J. He died as the result
of injuries received while boarding a trolley car.
Funeral services were held at his late residence on
Prospect Street, Ridgewood, N. J., on Thursday
evening, October 9, 1919, the Rev. Philip H. CliflFord,
pastor of the First Reformed Church, and the Rev.
J. A. Van Neste, pastor emeritus, officiating. A
private service was held at the home on Friday,
October 10, 1919, and the interment was in the family
plot at Dumont.

DAVID DEMAREST DENISE

Born — September 23, 1840
Died — October 21, 1919.

Hon. David Demarest Denise died at his home
at 63 West Main Street, Freehold, N. J., on Tuesday,
October 21st, 1919. His funeral was held Friday,
October 24th, services being conducted at his home
at two o'clock p. m., by Rev. J. Ernest Mertz, pastor
of the Reformed church. Interment was in Maple-
wood cemetery. Over half a century of estimable

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public service activities, which extended far beyond
the farm where he started, or the town where he
afterwards resided, was the worthy record he left
behind. Mr. Denise was descended from Teunis
Nyssen, ^ the common ancestor of the family, who
emigrated as early as 1638 from Binninck or Bunnik
in the province of Utrecht, residing at first in New
Amsterdam and on a farm on Manhattan Island.
He married Phebea Felix of England, known as
Femmetje Jans, widow of Hendrick the Boor and
daughter of Jan Seales of New Amsterdam. Femmetje
after his death married secondly Jan Cornelise Buys.
From Manhattan Island he removed to Gowanus,
where he owned and resided on a farm in the vicinity
of that of the Brouwers. In 1655, he bought a farm
in Flatbush. In 1658 and 1661 he was a magistrate
of Brooklyn, and in 1660 a member of the Reformed
Dutch Church of said place. His grandson, Teunis
De Nyse, went to Monmouth County, N. J., and
purchased a large tract of land in Freehold township,
two miles east of Monmouth Court House, on the
Colts Neck Road. The old mansion house, built
in 1756, where five generations were born, is still
standing and in a good state of preservation. When
Mr. Denise's grandfather, Daniel De Nise, (son of
Teunis De Nyse last mentioned) lived there, the
homestead farm, which was a part of the original
tract, comprised six hundred acres. Daniel De Nise,
a man of considerable means, a staunch Whig, served
forty years as county collector and was a commissioned
officer in the Revolutionary War. He was a member
of the First Reformed Church of Freehold (Brick
Church, Bradevelt). He married Jane Schanck. Their
eighth child was John Schanck Denise, the father of
David Demarest Denise who was also born there
and who was the ninth of a family of ten children.
Mr. Denise received his early education in the district
public school and later at the Freehold Institute.
After leaving school he went to operate the farm

northwest

I See "Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.'*
by Teunis G. Bergen. 1881. page 94.

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northwest of Freehold which came into his possession
through his mother. It comprised over two hundred
acres and he retained it until 1919, when he sold it.
Mr. Denise resided at the farm six years and then
went to live in Freehold on West Main Street, driving
daily out to the farm. He made a specialty of fruit
growing. He was the first man in that section to
adopt the use of commercial fertilizer and was in ad-
vance of other farmers in modern practices. In
politics, he was a Republican. He was elected to
the Legislature in 1893, being the candidate of the
Citizens' Reformed League of which he was president
and which conducted a campaign for the abolition
of gambling at race tracks. He was re-elected the
following year. One of his victories in the Legisla-
ture was the defeat of the bill to divide the County.
He was for several years officially connected with
the town government, being elected assistant com-
missioner in 1896. The following three years he
was chief commissioner, after which he declined re-
election. He was appointed a member of the Board
of Water and Sewer Commissioners in 1897 and
served thereon until 1904. While he was on the
town-governing body it was through his insistence
that the extensive use of crushed stone was inaugurated
for the improvement of the streets. It was also
during his administration that the Welsbach system
of street lighting was adopted and the ordinance
adopted granting the franchise to the electric light
company. For many years he was president of the
State Board of Agriculture, and was also for six years
its treasurer. He was chairman of the State Tuber-
culosis Commission, and it was he who while in the
Legislature secured the enactment of a Tuberculosis
bill. He was a member of the State Museum Com-
mission. It was through his efforts that the museum
was established. He was one of the directors of the
State Agricultural Experiment Station at New Bruns-
wick, and a member of the Board of Visitors of the
Agricultural College. He was one of the organizers
of the Monmouth Grange and always took an active

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part in the public meetings of the County Agricultural
Society, of which he was president for several years.
After serving a number of years in the Hook and
Ladder Company of the Freehold Fire Department,
he became a member of the local Firemen^s Relief
Association and was its president. He was a member
of The Holland Society of New York. At the age of
eighteen years he joined the Freehold Reformed
Church, and for sixty years was a regular attendant
at Sunday School and Church meetings of worship
and administration, having been teacher, superin-
tendent, deacon and elder. He was president of the
Maplewood Cemetery Company for many years.
Mr. Denise was survived by his wife to whom he
was married in 1864. She was the daughter of the
late Abel Taylor of near Cross wicks. Their only
child, Edith, died at the age of three years.

HARRY ABRAHAM VAN GILDER

Born — August 30, 1865.
Died — ^December 31, 1919.

Harry Abraham Van Gilder of Morristown,
N. J., was born August 30, 1865, at Williamsport,
Penna., and died December 31, 1919, at Morristown,
New Jersey. He had been employed by the Morris-
town Trust Company for twenty-two years, filling
line positions as they presented themselves. He was
successively Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, Treas-
urer and Vice-President of that institution. He was
survived by his wife, formerly Carrie A. Meginnis,
and by Charles P. Van Gilder, a son; Martha J. Van
Gilder, a daughter; Charles G. Van Gilder, a brother;
and Minnie C. Van Gilder, a sister. Funeral ser-
vices were held at his late residence, 201 Morris Street,
Morristown, N. J., on Friday, January 2, 1920, at
three o'clock p. m.

EDWARD

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EDWARD WILLETT VISSCHER

Born — ^April S, 1870.

Died — February 11, 1920.

Edward Willett Visscher, a member of one of
the old Dutch families of Albany, N. Y., passed away
at his residence, 311 State Street, Albany, >^Y., on
February 11, 1920, after an illness of several months.
He was born April 5, 1870, the son of John Barent
Visscher and Alida Lansing. His father died thirty
years ago. Edward Willett Visscher was educated
at the Albany Academy, and upon leaving school
entered the employ of the Albany County Bank,
remaining there but a short time and then accepting
a position with the Mechanics and Farmers* Bank,
Albany, N. Y., in the employ of which institution
he remained for a number of years, until poor health
caused his retirement from active work. Thereafter
he engaged in the real estate business, until the time
of his death. He was a former President of the
Albany Club, and at the time of his death was Vice-
President of the Fort Orange Club; a Trustee of the
Albany Country Club; and a Trustee of The Mech-
anics and Farmers' Savings Bank. He was a member
of the First Reformed Church and deeply interested
in its affairs. Always taking an active interest in
the affairs of the city, he, however, never held public
office. This interest in city affairs was evidenced by
his activity as chairman of the Commission appointed
during the term of Mayor Stevens which revised the
building code of the city and the same stands as the
existing code of today. Mr. Visscher joined The
Holland Society in 1891. His survivors are his
widow Mary Eugenia Palmer, formerly of Chicago;
his mother, Alida Lansing Visscher; and his brother,
William Leversee Vissdier. Mr. Visscher was des-
cended from Harmen Bastiaanse Visscher (De Vyse-
laer) \ born in 1619, who was in New Amsterdam
as early as 1649, and soon after went to Beverwyck
(Albany). In 1675, the father of Harmen Bastiaanse
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Visscher lived at Hoorn, Holland. Harmen Bastiaanse
Visscher was the village surveyor in 1666. His wife
was Hester Tjerkse. He had the following children:
Johannes, born in 1669; Bastiaan; Nanning; Frederick
and Tjerk.

KENNETH ALEXANDER EARL

Born — ^April 12, 1896.
Died — ^March 9, 1920.

Kenneth Alexander Earl was born on April
1 2th, 1896, at Elizabeth, N. J. He was the son of
Edward Earl, a member of The Holland Society of
New York, and Caroline F. Earl. He attended
school and was graduated with honor from the Mont-
clair Academy of Montclair, N. J., where he resided.
He later attended Williams College, Williamstown,
Mass., where he was a senior at the time of the entry
of the United States into the war with Germany.
At that time he left college to enter the military
service of his country. His record, taken from the
archives of the Society, is as follows:

KENNETH ALEXANDER EARL

Rank: Second Lieutenant.

Branch of service: Air Service (Aeronautics) Flying Status.

Date of commission: May 29, 191 7.

Length of service : Discharged January 3, 1919.

Details of service: Served eight months, Troop C, ist N. J.
Cavalry; transferred to air service; graduated from Prince-
ton Ground School; flew at Mineola, L. L, Texas, Georgia
and Mississippi; detailed as Flight Instructor and later as
Testor.

This data was received too late to be printed in
the Honor Roll of the members and sons of members
of The Holland Society who were in the service of
the United States and its Allies in such war with
Germany and her Allies, as it appears in the Year
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of The Holland Society on December ii, 1919. He
was a member of the American Legion and of the
Williams Club of New York City. After the war
he became associated with a brokerage house in Wall
Street, New York City, and later entered the paper
business; but neither of these occupations appealed
to him by reason of his liking for outdoor life and
activity. He was instantly killed on March 9, 1920
twenty miles south of Palm Beach, Florida, while
making a forced landing in a hydro-aeroplane belong-
ing to the Newport Flying Corporation of Newport,
R. I. His two companions in the aeroplane, Charles
T. Sims, of New York, and Maxwell Blanchard, of
Chicago, were also killed. Blanchard and Earl were
pilots and had seen service in France, while Sims
was a student aviator. At the time of his death
Mr. Earl resided at Montclair, N. J. He was un-
married and was survived by his father, mother and
one sister, Margery Earl.

CHARLES HARRIES LOWE

Born — June 24, 1874.
Died — February 27, 1920.

Charles Harries Lowe died February 27, 1920
at Tucson, Arizona, after an illness of about three
months. He had been a resident of Dayton, Ohio,
until 191 2, when, on account of poor health, he re-
moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, going from
there each winter to Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Lowe
was the son of Houston Lowe and Carrie Harries,
both deceased, and was born June 24, 1874 i^ Dayton,
Ohio, where he attended the public schools. He later
was graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio,
and became associated in business with his father,
Houston Lowe, who was president of the Lowe Broth-
ers' Paint Company of Dayton, Ohio. Beginning
his business career as Secretary, Mr. Lowe later
became Vice-President of that Company, in which
capacity he served until he left Dayton. He was a

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member of the Buzz Fuzz Club, the Dayton City-
Club and of the Dayton Country Club. He was
survived by his sisters, Mrs. Ella Lowe Gunckel,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hill Smith, Mrs. Henrietta Lowe
Patterson; and his brother, John Gilbert Lowe. In-
terment was made in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton,
Ohio.

PETER ADRIANCE

Born — ^April 19, 1843.
Died — March 31, 1920.

Peter Adriance, one of Poughkeepsie's oldest and
best known business men, died at his home, 25 Adriance
Avenue, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on March 31, 1920,
after a short illness. While Mr. Adriance had not
been in good health for several months, his condition
was not believed to be serious and his death came as a
shock to his friends. He was seventy-seven years old.
Mr. Adriance was born in. the town of East Fishkill,
N. Y. on April 19, 1843, a son of Thomas and Cath-
erine Adriance. He received his earlier education
in the district schools and then attended the Dutchess
Academy in Poughkeepsie. Later he attended the
Hudson River Institute at Claverack, Columbia Coun-
ty, N. Y. He served as a clerk in the store of Dart &
Company at Glenham, N. Y. and later went to Pough-
keepsie, where he entered the employ of D. O. Smith
and later was with Budd & Trowbridge. Later he
was with L. T. Mosher and then with Trowbridge &
Sherrill, subsequently purchasing an interest in the
firm, which became known as Trowbridge, Sherrill
& Adriance. Later Mr. Sherrill retired and the
business was carried on by Trowbridge & Adriance.
Mr. Adriance purchased Mr. Trowbridge's interest
in 1893 and his son, Eugene, became associated with
him under the firm name of Peter Adriance & Son.
The firm continued until three years before his death,
when it was sold. Mr. Adriance married Miss Alice
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a Mason and a Royal Arcanumite. He was also
interested in the Home Co-operative Savings and
Loan Association. Mr. Adriance was long interested
in public affairs in Poughkeepsie. He was a member
of the Reformed Dutch Church and for years a mem-
ber of the official board of the church. Mr. Adriance
left him surviving his son, Eugene, and a sister, Mrs.
S. Walker of Brooklyn. Mr. Adriance was descended
from Adriaen Reyerse, * the first American ancestor
of this family who emigrated from Amsterdam in
1646 with his brother Marten; married July 29, 1659,
Annetje Martense Schenck of Flatlands; and died
November 24, 17 10. He finally settled in Flatbush,
where he was a magistrate in 1677, 1678 and 1679;
was on the assessment roll of 1675; obtained a patent
for twenty-four morgens; and took the oath of alleg-
iance in 1687; His name also appears on the assess-
ment roll of Brooklyn of 1675.

JOHN CONOVER VAN CLEAF

Born — 1865.

Died — ^April 4, 1920.

John Conover Van Cleaf was born in New York
City about 1865, but the very early years of his life
were spent in Matawan, N. J. He was the son of
Samuel Alex. Van Cleaf and Isabella Anderson.
When he was ten years old he returned with his parents
to New York and there attended the public schools.
He was connected with many different lines of busi-
ness, always making the credit end his special interest,
finally entering the National Park Bank as credit
man. He speedily became first Assistant Cashier
and then Vice-President, which latter oflice he held
from 1904 until his death on April 4th, 1920. He
was also a director of that institution; Vice-President
and Director of the Mutual Bank; and a Trustee of
the Union Dime Savings Bank. He was a member
of

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of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the Union
League Club and had been a member of The Holland
Society of New York from 1885 until his death. He
was survived by his widow, Mary Imlay, and one son,
John C. Van Cleaf, Jr. Funeral services were held
at his home, 79 Hawthorne Place, Montclair, N. J.
The Rev. Frank Townley of St. Bartholomew's Epis-
copal Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., conducted the services.

ORSON WRIGHT SLOAT

Born — ^May 28, 1850.
Died — ^April 19, 1920.

Orson Wright Sloat was born at Patterson,
Putnam County, New York, on May 28th, 1850
and died at Patterson, New York on April 19, 1920.
The son of Edson Sloat and Jane Wright, his entire
life, with the exception of a few years of early child-
hood when, with his parents, he lived on Morton
Street, in Old Greenwich Village, New York City,
was spent in the town of his birth. On November 12,
1872, he married Sarah Louise Penny, who survived
him with their two sons, Edson Stanley Sloat and
Benjamin Crosby Sloat, both members of The Holland
Society of New York. Orson Wright Sloat was
a descendant of Jan Jansen Slot who, with his father,
Jan Pieterson Slot and brother, Pieter Jansen Slot,
emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1645.
Until his retirement in 1908, his business was that of
a country merchant and, as such, he was widely
known not only in the section which he served but
in the older business houses of New York City. He
was a loyal and most active member of the Patterson
Presbyterian Church, having served as an elder of
the church for forty-four years. As an elder of his
church he was a regular attendant at the meetings
of the Presbytery of Westchester. He was several
times a delegate to the Synod and three times a dele-
gate to the General Assembly. In the last year of
his life he was a delegate to all three judicatories of
his church — Presbytery, Synod and General Assembly.

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JOHN BOGART

Born — February 8, 1836.
Died — ^April 25, 1920.

Colonel John Bogart, Civil Engineer, was bom
at Albany, N. Y., on February 8th, 1836. He died
at his home, 640 Madison Avenue, New York City,
on April 25th, 1920, after an illness of eleven days,
in which bronchitis developed into pneumonia. Until
forced to remain in the house he had continued, in
spite of his eighty-four years, to go regularly to his
work at his office at 29 Broadway, New York City.
Colonel Bogart was the son of John Henry Bogart
and Eliza Hermans. John Henry Bogart was a mer-
chant of Albany and New York, and lived to the age
of ninety-two years and two months. The excep)-
tional vitality of Colonel Bogart was not surprising,
in view of the fact that his ancestors, for several gen-
erations before him, all lived to be more than ninety-
two years old. He was a graduate of Albany Academy
and Rutgers College, from which he received the
following degrees: B.A., 1853; M.A., 1856; Sc.D., 1912.
He married Emma Cherington JeflFeries, of West
Chester, Pa., November 2, 1870. Among the projects
with which Colonel Bogart was associated in the
early stages of his career was the construction and
landscape development of Central Park, New York
City, when he assisted Olmstead and Vaux under the
direction of Andrew H. Green. A long list of under-
takings followed, some of them of national import-
ance, all of them interesting, and the whole presenting
an unusual picture of engineering versatility. He
was in the engineer corps of the New York Central
Railroad and the New York State Canals before the
Civil War. He was U. S. Engineer at Fort Monroe
and other points, having charge of the construction
of the Rip Raps in Hampton Roads and the fortifica-
tions located there, 1 861-1866; Chief Engineer, Brook-
lyn Park Commission; Engineer for many public and
private works at Albany, New Orleans, Chicago,
Nashville, Baltimore, Buffalo, Norfolk, Kansas City,

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Toronto, Keene, Rochester, etc.; for six years Chief
Engineer, Department of Public Parks, New York;
for four years State Engineer of New York; Engineer
of State Board of Health of New York; Constructing
Engineer of Washington Bridge, New York City;
Constructing Engineer of Harbors of Venezuela; Engi-
neer for many Hydro-Electric Power Developments
from the first great plant at Niagara Falls in the late
eighties until his death, including those at Massena,
N. Y., Sault St. Marie, Atlanta and Chattanooga.
He was Chief Engineer for the Rapid Transit Com-
mission of New York City, for the Essex County,
N. J. Park Commission; for the Chattanooga and
Tennessee River Power Co. and many others. He
was Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief Engineer of the
National Guard of New York; a delegate of the United
States Government to the International Congress
of Navigation at Dusseldorf, Germany, 1902; at
Milan, Italy, 1905; at St. Petersburg, Russia, 1908,
and was President of the Inland Navigation Section
at Philadelphia, in 191 2. He was a member of the
Permanent Board of International Navigation Con-
gresses; a member of the United States Government
Board on the Lakes to the Gulf Deep-waterway; a
member of the Municipal Art Commission of New
York City; a member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers; Institution of Civil Engineers; Amer-
ican Water Works Association ; and Honorary Member
of the American Institute of Architects. He was a
member of the Century, University and Bankers
Clubs of New York and of The Holland Society of
New York and The St. Nicholas Society of the City
of New York. Colonel Bogart was a descendant
of Cornelis Bogaert \ who came from Holland previous
to 1640, and settled in Rensselaerwyck, where he held
lands under Patroon Van Rennsselaer in 1641, and
owned lands in Beverwyck, now Albany. He was
buried in Albany, July 28, 1665, and is the ancestor
of all the Albany Bogarts.
EDGAR

I See "Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families." by S. V.
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EDGAR BEACH VAN WINKLE

Born — ^March 4, 1842.
Died — ^April 27, 1920.

Edgar Beach Van Winkle, civil engineer, was born
in New York City on March 4th, 1842. He died
April 27th, 1920, at his home, 115 East 70th Street,
in New York City. He was the son of Edgar Simeon
Van Winkle and Hannah Starr Beach, who was born
in Goshen, Connecticut. Mr. Van Winkle received
the degree of A.B. from Union College in i860 and the
degree of C.E. from Union College in 1861. He
married Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Judge William
Mitchell, June 7th, 1876. She died in August, 1894.
Mr. Van Winkle married June 3rd, 1899 Mary Flower
Speiden, daughter of William Speiden of New York.
As civil engineer he was employed on the extension
to the Croton water works for the City of New York,
1 861-1862; on laying out streets and the sewerage
system of Annex District, City of New York; by
Erie Railroad; by Shepaug Valley Railroad; by City
of New York from 1 874-1 884 as Chief Engineer,
Department of Public Parks. He was a member
and ex-director of the American Society of Civil
Engineers; member of the Century Association, New
York City; original Companion, Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the U. S. ; member, Commandery-
in-Chief, Military Order of the Loyal Legion; ex-
recorder. New York Commandiery, Military Order of
the Loyal Legion; member and ex-registrar of the Sons
of the Revolution ; member and ex-president. War Vet-
erans of the 7th Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y.; member,
Associates of the Engineer Corps and Company K,
7th Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y.; comrade, Lafayette
Post, Grand Army of the Republic; member, The Hol-
land Society of New York ; treasurer, Litchfield Histor-
ical Society; president, Litchfield Cemetery Co.; mem-
ber, Litchfield Village Improvement Society. He
travelled extensively in Europe, the United States and
Canada, including Bermuda, Cuba, Panama Canal Zone,
West Indies, Hawaiian Islands and Alaska. He left

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surviving him, his widow, Mary Flower Speiden
Van Winkle, and the following children: Mary Starr
Van Winkle, Elizabeth Mitchell Van Winkle, Capt.
Edgar Beach Van Winkle, Jr., Grace Louisa Van
Winkle and William Mitchell Van Winkle. His Mili-
tary record was as follows: Private Co. K, 7th Regi-
ment Infantry, N. G. S.N.Y. June 3rd, 1862; discharged
September 5th, 1862. Commissioned ist Lieutenant
103rd New York Infantry, December 27th, 1862.
Commissioned Captain 103rd U. S. Colored Infantry,
February 12th, 1865. Resigned July nth, 1865.
Saw service in the Middle Department and Depart-
ment of Virginia; Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General
E. L. Viele, when the latter was military Governor
of Norfolk, Va. Saw service in the Department
of the South; loth Corps (Coast Division), Engineer
Bureau Department Headquarters ; Aide-de-Camp and
Chief of Staff to Brig. General John P. Hatch. Col-
onel and Division Engineer, ist Division, N.G. S.N.Y.
from 1876 to 1883.

CHARLES EDWARD LYDECKER

Born — ^May 26, 1851.
Died — ^May 6, 1920.

Colonel Charles Edward Lydecker, one of the
organizers of the National Security League in 1914
and its President for two years until illness caused
him to resign, died on May 6, 1920, after an illness
of four months, at his residence, 11 East 8 ist Street,
New York City. He was born in New York City
on May 26, 1851. He studied at the College of the
City of New York, being graduated as salutatorian
with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1871. He
was graduated in law from Columbia University in
1873 and admitted to the bar. From 1875 to 1880
he taught at City College. He was Public Adminis-
trator of New York City from 1889 to 1893. He was
associated in the practice of law with the late Amasa
K. Redfield for a number of years. At his death the
firm was Charles E. and Leigh K. Lydecker. Col.

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Lydecker was a veteran of the 7th Regiment of the
National Guard, of which he was a member from 1901
to 1909, becoming Captain of Company H and later
Major. When the regiment was ordered to the
Mexican border and later to France, after the United
States entered the European War, Colonel Lydecker
organized the depot battalion and commanded it.
He was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel. He became
President of the National Guard Association. Colonel
Lydecker was President of the Alumni Association
of the College of the City of New York from 1894 to
1897, and was at the time of his death a Trustee of
the College and formerly Chairman of its Board of
Trustees. He took an active interest in the affairs
of City College, and was one of the leaders in the
movement resulting in the new site and buildings
on St. Nicholas Terrace. After the European war
started in 1914, Col. Lydecker was one of the earliest
and most vigorous advocates of preparedness. He
was survived by his wife, Josephine Batjer who,
before her marriage to Colonel Lydecker was Mrs. A.
Edward Pond. Colonel Lydecker was also survived
by two sons, Major Leigh K. Lydecker, who served
in France in the 149th Field Artillery, and Kenneth
Lydecker, a Mechanical Engineer, and by a daughter
Natalie, wife of Commander Horace T. Dyer, U. S. N.
Funeral services were held at St. James Episcopal
Church, Madison Avenue and 71st Street on Saturday
afternoon, May 8th, at one o'clock. Colonel Lydecker
was elected a Trustee of The Holland Society on
April 7th, 1919. At their regular quarterly meeting,
held on June 9, 1920, the Trustees of The Holland
Society of New York adopted the following resolution:

The Trustees of The Holland Society
of New York, with sorrow, record the
death on May 6, 1920, of Charles Ed-
ward Lydecker a member of the
Board since the Annual Meeting in April
1919.

Colonel

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Colonel Lydecker joined the Society in
its earliest days, in 1886, and always was
an active, loyal and enthusiastic member;
interested in its affairs and devoted to
its welfare.

He was one of the pilgrims who made
the memorable trip to Holland in 1888,
under the auspices of the Society, and by
his geniality and kindliness greatly en-
deared himself to his fellow voyagers.

A man of sincere convictions, he never
shrank from their forcible expression
when occasion demanded.

During the late war his true-blue
Americanism asserted itself in detection
and denunciation of all forms of dis-
loyalty. While past the age for active
service abroad his life-long connection
with the Militia of the State of New York
enabled him to serve his country effic-
iently at home.

A graduate of the College of the City
of New York, and of the Columbia Law
School, he became in 1889 the public ad-
ministrator of the City of New York,
the duties of which office he discharged
with distinction during the four years
term. A trustee of the College of the
City of New York, he was president of
the Alumni Association of that College.
For many years a member of the Seventh
Regiment, when that organization was
ordered to the Mexican border, and sub-
sequently to France, he organized and
commanded the Depot Battalion, being
brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel. He was
president of the National Guard Associa-
tion, and one of the organizers of the
National Security League in 19 14, be-
coming and remaining its President until
his last illness made his resignation im-
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perative. A man of the highest personal
character, of the most exemplary and
industrious habits, a loyal descendant
of the Hollanders, in his death the So-
ciety loses a valuable member and an
efficient officer, and the trustees an es-
teemed and beloved associate.

WILLIAM H. VREDENBURGH

Born — ^August 19, 1840.
Died — ^May 15, 1920.

Judge William H. Vredenburgh, one of Mon-
mouth County's most prominent jurists, died sud-
denly of heart disease on Saturday, May iSth, 1920,
at his home in Freehold, N. J., in the eightieth year
of his age. Besides his wife, who was Miss Bessie
Hartshorne Williams, of New York, whom he married
February 25th, 1868, he was survived by two daugh-
ters — Mrs. S. R. Knight, of Spring Lake, N. J., and
Miss Bessie L. Vredenburgh of New York, N. Y.,
head of the Wireless Institute on East 72nd Street;
and two sons. Captain Peter Vredenburgh, former
Assemblyman and Assistant Prosecutor of Freehold,
N. J., and William H. Vredenburgh, Jr., mining
engineer of Modesto, Calif. Funeral services were
held on May 20, 1920 in St. Peter's Episcopal Church
at Freehold, of which he was a vestryman for many
years. Interment was made in Maplewood Cemetery.
Judge Vredenburgh was born in Freehold, N. J.,
August 19th, 1840, the second son of Supreme Court
Justice Peter Vredenburgh, another noted Monmouth
County jurist, and Eleanor BrinkerhofF, who at that
time resided in the handsome dwelling on West Main
Street, Freehold, where the Pennsylvania R. R.
passenger station now stands, opposite Old St. Peter's
Church. He was a brother of Major Peter Vreden-
burgh, commander of the 14th Regiment, N. J. Vol-
unteers, 1864, and James B. Vredenburgh, a noted
lawyer of Jersey City. Mr. Vredenburgh, in 1859,
was graduated from Rutgers College, which in later

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years conferred upon him the degree of L.L.D. At
the time of his death, he was Rutgers' oldest graduate.
He studied law under Joseph D. Bedle, who was
afterwards governor of New Jersey, was graduated
from Harvard Law School, and was admitted to prac-
tice as an attorney in 1862 and as counsellor in 1865,
at which time he formed a partnership with Philip J.
Ryall, which continued for five years. In 1882,
he formed a partnership with the late Frederick
Parker. During his long practice he was engaged
in many important cases. In 1897, he was appointed
one of the special Commission to revise the railroad
taxation laws. That same year he was appointed
by Governor Griggs to the Bench of the State Court
of Errors and Appeals, succeeding Judge Dayton,
who died in November, and served in that capacity
until 1916. He was president of the First National
Bank of Freehold, a Trustee of Rutgers College,
president of the Monmouth County Bar Association,
member of New Jersey and Monmouth County
Historical Societies, Vice-President for Monmouth
County of The Holland Society of New York and a
member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Among
the members of the Bar who were law students in
his office were: H. H. Wainwright, C. H. Butcher,
S. C. Cowart, W. S. Throckmorton, B. B. Dorrance,
George S. Hobart, and E. G. Forman. Judge Vreden-
burgh's paternal ancestry was Holland Dutch. The
first progenitor of his family in this country was
Willem Van Vredenbergh, who came to New Nether-
lands from the Hague in May, 1658 in the ship "The
Gilded Beaver." The family went to New Jersey
before the Revolutionary War, and the old records
show that Peter Vredenburgh resided at New Bruns-
wick, and was county treasurer for forty-two years.
His son was Dr. Peter Vredenburgh of Somerville.
His son was Judge Peter Vredenburgh, who went to
Monmouth County and started to practice law at
Eatontown, later going to Freehold, where he resided
'^ during the remainder of his life.

Q GEORGE

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GEORGE VAN HOUTEN BLAUVELT

Born — January 17, 1870.
Died — ^May 30, 1920.

George Van Houten Blauvelt was born in Nyack,
N. Y., on January 17, 1870. He was the son of
James H. Blauvelt and Julia Gilchrist. On June 8,
1916, he joined The Holland Society of New York.
From boyhood, he was a member of the First Presby-
terian Church of Nyack, and for more than ten years
served as a member of its Board of Trustees, He was
a faithful member of Company D, New York Guard,
with the rank of Corporal. He was a graduate oJF
Packard's Business College, and, up to the time of
his death, held a secretarial position in the Inter-
national Mercantile Marine Company, having been
connected with that Company for more than twenty-
five years. He was survived by his mother, two
sisters and one brother. Funeral services were held
at his late residence, 234 North Broadway, Nyack,
N. Y. on Wednesday, June 2, 1920, at three-thirty,
p. m.

ADRIAN ONDERDONK SCHOONMAKER

Born — ^August 4, 1851.
Died — ^June 23, 1920.

Adrian Onderdonk Schoonmaker, the only son
of Nicholas Schoonmaker and Gertrude Onderdonk,
was born in the city of Brooklyn, August 4, 1851,
living in the old homestead, in which his mother
was born, until the year 1891, when the family moved
to Montclair, N. J. His early education was in the
public school. From there he entered the Poly-
technic Institute, from which he was graduated in
June, 1866, remaining another year to take a post-
graduate course. From there he entered the drug
house of S. B. Schieffelin & Company, remaining for
several years. He left there to start in a chemical
business, which so affected his health that he was
forced to give it up. He then went into the mica

business

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business and its products, and established a successful
business — the A. O. Schoonmaker Company — in
which he continued up to the time of his death. Mr.
Schoonmaker was unmarried. He lived with his
mother. He was a member of the Sons of the Amer-
ican Revolution and of The Holland Society of New
York, having joined the latter on October 25, 1886.
He was connected with various churches during
the course of his life, serving at different times as
Sabbath School Teacher, Superintendent, Deacon, El-
der and Clerk of Session. Funeral services were held
at his late home, 81 Porter Place, Montclair, N. J.,
on June 25, 1920, at 4:45 p. m.

WILLIAM RUSSELL BOGERT

Born — ^November 11, 1859.
Died — ^August 13, 1920.

William Russell Bogert was born at Boston,
Mass., on November 11, 1859. He was the son of
Theodore Peacock Bogert and Eliza Turner Howe.
Mr. Bogert married Antoinette Richards North and
had two children, Helen North Bogert and William
Russell Bogert, Jr. Mr. Bogert was connected with
the American Exchange National Bank of New
York City. He was a Mason, being a member of
St. Alban's Lodge, No. 6, at Bristol, Rhode Island.

ROBERT PARKER STAATS

Born — ^August 23, 1853.
Died — ^August 18, 1920.

Robert Parker Staats was born in New York
City on August 23 rd, 1853. He died at his country-
home, "Folly Farm," at Great Barrington, Mass.,
on August 1 8th, 1920. He was the son of John
Tobias Staats and Jane Hegeman Mapes. His first
wife was Mary A. Remer, of Goshen, N. Y. After
her death he married Mary Hallenbeck of New York
City, who survived him. Mrs. Robert McNaughton
Barker, of Syracuse, N. Y., a daughter by his first

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wife; Henry Philip Staats, of New York City, a son
by his second wife; a sister, Laura B. Staats, and a
brother, John H. Staats, survived him. Mr. Staats
was educated at Grammar School No. 35 and the
College of the City of New York. Before graduation,
however, he left college and took up the study and
practice of Civil Engineering in the office of General
Chas. K. Graham, New York City. He was Assistant
Engineer in the New York Dock Department, the
State Canal and the Erie Railroad. In 1888, he formed
a partnership with his brother, John H. Staats, as
designing and constructing engineers. The firm be-
came a corporation in 1892, and Mr. Robert P. Staats
continued as President until the dissolution of the
corporation in 191 5. The building and contracting
firm of R. P. and J. H. Staats was the builder of the
Chelsea and other piers in New York Harbor. He
was a life member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, a member of the American Geographical
Society, the Union League Club, the Seventh Regi-
ment and The Holland Society, having joined the
latter in 1903. Mr. Staats' city home was at 340
Park Avenue, New York City.

ALFRED HASBROUCK

Born — ^November i, 1858.
Died — ^August 18, 1920.

Colonel Alfred Hasbrouck, U. S. A., retired,
formerly of the Infantry, died on August 18, 1920,
at San Francisco, Calif. He was born in Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., on November i, 1858, and was a member of
the well known Hasbrouck family of Poughkeepsie.
He was the son of Dr. Alfred Hasbrouck and Mar-
garet Ann Manning, and a brother of Mrs. J. H.
Mandeville, Mrs. David K. Jackman, former Judge
Frank Hasbrouck, Manning Hasbrouck and Louis P.
Hasbrouck, all of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and of Mrs.
Louisa H. Hulme who had accompanied him on his
tours in the army for many years. All of his brothers
and sisters survived him. His youth was spent in

Poughkeepsie

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Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Colonel Hasbrouck was gradu-
ated from the United States Military Academy in
the class of 1883 and, as Second Lieutenant, was
assigned to the 14th Infantry, as an officer of which
he spent most of his time on the active list. His
first duty after graduation was on the frontier at
Fort Fred Steele, Wyoming, in the Indian country,
where he remained during 1883-4, He was promoted
First Lieutenant, 13th Infantry, February 24, 1891;
was transferred to the 14th Infantry the following
July; was promoted Captain of Infantry July 2, 1898,
and was assigned to the 14th Infantry, January i,
1899. Colonel Hasbrouck was promoted Major, 29th
Infantry, July 2, 1906; was transferred to 14th In-
fantry the following August and was promoted Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, 1 8th Infantry November 27, 191 1
and was promoted Colonel, October 24, 1915. At
the outbreak of the war with Spain, he was on duty
at Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeepsie, as
professor of military science and tactics, and at his
own request was relieved from duty there in order to
join his regiment, the 14th Infantry, which was ordered
to the Philippines for duty in the field. He served
with this command in Philippine campaigns and
also in an expedition to China under Major General
ChaiFee, against the Boxers in 1900, and took part
in the fighting incident to the relief of the besieged
legations at Peking. During the World War he
served in the Philippines and in Texas. He was
retired from active service November 30, 19 19 at
his own request, after more than forty years' service.
Colonel Hasbrouck was a very popular officer in his
command, and on leaving Fort McKinley, P. I.,
in September, 1919, his last post of duty before his
retirement, and where he was in command of the
Third Philippine Regiment, he was given a great
reception. Before the assembled regiment and all
persons at the post he was presented by the enlisted
men with a gold-mounted golf bag containing a com-
plete set of clubs and balls; also a cribbage board
made of native narra wood, and was given three

rousing

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rousing cheers. In the evening all the officers and
ladies gathered at Schofield Hall, where a dinner was
served. All responded and in the most affectionate
terms expressed deep love and admiration for the
Colonel. The officers presented the Colonel with
a gold wrist watch and the officers and ladies gave
to Mrs. Hulme, the Colonel's sister, an exquisitely
enameled traveling watch. Col. Hasbrouck was bur-
ied in the Military Academy Cemetery at West Point,
N. Y., with full military honors on August 26, 1920,
in pursuance of Special Orders issued by Brigadier
General MacArthur. Col. Hasbrouck was for many
years Vice-President of The Holland Society of New
York for the U. S. Army. He was descended from
Abraham Hasbrouck,^ one of the twelve Patentees
of New Paltz, N. Y., who sailed from Amsterdam
in 1675 and landed at Boston, shortly thereafter
joining his brother Jean at Esopus.

WILLIAM F. SUYDAM

Born —

Died — September 11, 1920.

William F. Suydam died suddenly on September 11,
1920, at his home at Orleans, Cape Cod, Mass. He
formerly resided at Honesdale, Pa., subsequently
removing to Montclair, N. J., and later to Orleans.
Mr. Suydam was at one time manager of the Florence
Silk Mill at Honesdale. He was married twice, his
first wife being Florence Lambert, after whom the
Honesdale Silk Mill was named. His second wife
was Mary Dorflinger, daughter of the late Christian
Dorflinger of White Mills. His second wife survived
Mr. Suydam together with his daughter, Mrs. George
Keyser, formerly Florence Suydam, and Farrington
W. Suydam of Hawley, Pa., children by his first wife.
He was also survived by Frederick D. Suydam of
New York, a son by his second wife, and one sister,
Margaret Suydam of Paris. During his residence at

Honesdale,

iSee Year Book of The Holland Society of New York, 1919, page 228, and ref-
erences there cited.

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Honesdale, Mr. Suydam was popularly known and
always showed great liberality and interest in all
forms of athletics. He was a patron of arts; was
a member of the Lambs Club, as well as of other
organizations in New York, and a member of The
Holland Society of New York from 1888.

MATTHIAS VAN DYKE CRUSER

Born — October 3, 1833.
Died — September 20, 1920.

Matthias Van Dyke Cruser was born at Blawen-
burg, New Jersey, October 3, 1833. He was the son
of Matthias Van Dyke Cruser who was educated at
Princeton College, was an excellent orator and much
sought after by politicians. He made the speech
which nominated Andrew Jackson for the Presidency.
The mother of Matthias Van Dyke Cruser, Jr., was
Sarah Ann Ten Broeck, named Sarah Ann after
Fenimore Cooper's mother or sister, the Coopers
being next door neighbors. Mr. Cruser came to
New York as a young man, and entered the office of
Piatt & Co., assayers and refiners at 4 Liberty Place,
later removed to 29 and 31 Gold Street. He was
associated with this firm for over sixty years, until he
retired in 1915. On October 9, 1862, he married
Mary Catharine Tilden, and six children were born
of this marriage, viz. : Margaret, who died in infancy,
Mary Virginia, Carolyn, J. Tilden, Bessie H., and
Frederick Van Dyke Cruser. Mary Virginia married
Geo. CliiFord Travis, and they had a daughter, Mar-
garet CliiFord. Mary died in 1905. Bessie died in
1907. Frederick married Maud A. Hutchinson in
October, 1907. In 1889, Mr. Cruser bought the farm
at Blawenburg which was his birthplace, also an
adjoining farm, so that for twenty-six years he had a
large country place which he thoroughly enjoyed.
He was an enthusiastic sportsman, fond of gunning
and fishing. In the fall of 1919, Mr. Cruser con-
tracted a severe cold which confined him to his bed
for a few weeks, and, being in his eighty-seventh

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year, he was never able to recover his strength. He
passed peacefully away on September 20, 1920. Mr.
Cruser joined The Holland Society of New York in
1890, by right of descent from Gerret Dircksen Croesen
or Crousen^ from Wynsohoort, Wynschoten, or Nim
Schoten in Groningen, who married on October 30,
1661, Neeltje Jans (who married secondly Volkert
Hendrickse Bries or Breets); and died March 7, 1680.
He was a member of the Reformed Dutch church
of Brooklyn in 1661 ; owned land in Brooklyn between
that of Jacob Brouwer and that of Volkert Hendrickse
Bries or Breets, and was on the assessment rolls of
Brooklyn of 1675 and 1676. In 1677 he obtained a
patent for one hundred and sixty acres on Staten
Island, to which he removed.

JACOB SOUTHART VAN WYCK

Born — February 9, 1836.
Died — ^December 13, 1920.

Jacob Southart Van Wyck, 84 years old, a promi-
nent lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., for many years and
former Deputy Tax Commissioner of the old City
of Brooklyn, died on December 13, 1920, of heart
trouble at his residence, 161 Taylor Street, Eastern
District, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he had lived for the
past fifty-five years. His funeral services were con-
ducted by the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, pastor
of the Central Congregational Church, of which Mr.
Van Wyck was a member, and the interment was at
Claverack, N. Y. Mr. Van Wyck was a direct des-
cendant of Cornelius Van Wyck, who settled in Flat-
bush in 1660. He was a member of The Holland
Society of New York, having joined it in 1887, and
formerly a member of the St. Nicholas Society of
Nassau Island and the Sons of the Revolution. Mr.
Van Wyck was survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine
E. Green Van Wyck; two daughters, Mrs. Eliza
Van Wyck Butler and Miss Margaret Van Wyck,

and

I See "Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island. N. Y."
by Teunis G. Bergen, i88i. page 82.

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and a brother, F, Miller Van Wyck of New Haven,
Conn. Jacob S. Van Wyck was born in Claverack,
N. Y., February 9, 1836, the son of Stephen Miller
Van Wyck, who was in business there until his death,
and his wife, Eliza Skinkle. Mr. Van Wyck attended
school at the Hudson River Institute of Claverack,
N. Y., and was a graduate of Williams College in 1861.
He studied law with Judge Theodore Miller and
Robert E. Andrews of Hudson, N. Y. When admitted
to the bar, he became a partner of the late Robert
B. Monnell. In 1864, Mr. Van Wyck came to New
York City. He argued many leading cases before
the Court of Appeals and other courts. He was a
life-long Democrat, and during the Tilden, Cleveland,
Palmer and Buckner campaigns, played a leading
part. Many of his speeches during these campaigns
were distributed in leaflet form by the National
Democratic Committee. He was considered an auth-
ority on currency.

ALFRED VAN DERWERKEN

Born — ^January 7, 1843.
Died — ^December 22, 1920.

Alfred Van Derwerken was born January 7,
1843, at Waterford, N. Y., being one of several brothers
and sisters, children of Lawrence Van Derwerken
and his wife, Catherine Van Den Bergh. He left
home when about twenty years of age, going to New
York City, and studying at the New York Law School
from which he was graduated. He practised law
for a number of years. He was survived by his wife
who was, before her marriage, Adelaide E. Bushnell.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Derwerken had resided for nearly
forty years at 205 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
They were both members of the old First Dutch
Reformed Church, corner of Seventh Avenue and
Carroll Street. Besides his wife, he left a brother,
Myron Van Derwerken, of Waterford, N. Y.; a son,
Victor E. Van Derwerken, of Freeport, N. Y., and a
daughter, Mrs. Daniel M. Post, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Mr. Van Derwerken was a member of the St. Nicholas
Society of Nassau Island, and a man of large ac-
quaintance. Mr. Van Derwerken was descended from
RoelofF Gerritse Van Derwerken* who came to this
country from Holland prior to 1675. He had a farm
on "Cahoos Island/' above the fourth fork of the
Mohawk River, as early as 1677; in 1680 he bought
seven morgens adjoining his land on the west, and
north of the fourth fork, also two morgens on Haver
island, of Annetie Lievens, widow of Goosen Gerritse
Van Schaick.

OGDEN F. WINNE

Born — ^July6, 1856.

Died — February 27, 192 1.

Ogden F. Winne, of the hardware firm of L. S.
Winne & Company, of 328 Wall Street, Kingston,
N. Y., died Sunday morning, February 27, 1921,
at his home, 185 Albany Avenue, Kingston, N. Y.
in his sixty-fifth year. Death followed a stroke of
paralysis which he sustained on the previous Thursday
evening as he was about to leave his store. He had
been in poor health for several months. Mr. Winne
for many years had been one of the best known and
most popular business men of Ulster County. For
nearly half a century he was connected with the
hardware business, during most of the time as a mem-
ber of the firm of L. S. Winne & Company, of which
his brother, Levan S. Winne, also was a member.
For a number of years Mr. Winne traveled through
Ulster and adjoining Counties for the firm, and made
many acquaintances. His jovial disposition and strict
adherence to business principles made many warm
friends for him, and he was universally liked. Ogden
F. Winne was a son of the late Benjamin J. Winne,
of Kingston and Sarah Simpson, his wife, of the town
of Shandaken, Ulster County, N. Y. His father for
many years conducted the Eagle Hotel in Kingston,
and was one of the best known hotel men in that
section of New York State. Ogden F. Winne was
born

I See Collections on the History of Albany (1871} by Munsell. Vol. IV. p. 182.

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born in Jackson, Michigan, where his parents had
moved some time after their marriage, but came to
Kingston with them when a boy and spent practically
his entire life in Kingston. He was interested in the
development of Kingston and for many years was a
member of the Board of Trade and subsequently of
the Chamber of Commerce. A number of years
before his death, he was elected a trustee of the Ulster
County Savings Institution of Kingston, which posi-
tion he held at the time of his death. He was deeply
interested in the Fire Department and for many
years was a member of Wiltwyck Hose Company, in
whose affairs he took an active interest. He was one
of the oldest members in point of years of the Kingston
Club. Mr. Winne was survived by his wife, who was
Miss Jennie Deyo of New Paltz, N. Y. ; one daughter,
Bessie, wife of Frederick Sutro of Basking Ridge, N. J. ;
one brother, Levan S. Winne, and one sister, Mrs.
Ella Freer. The late James S. Winne, of the Eagle
Hotel and later of the Stuyvesant Hotel in Kingston,
was also a brother. The funeral took place from his
late residence, 185 Albany Avenue, on Tuesday
afternoon, March ist, at three o'clock.

CORNELIUS DU BOIS

Born — ^March 27, 185 1.
Died — ^May 22, 1921.

Cornelius Du Bois was born at 770 Broadway,
New York City, on March 27, 1851, the son of Cor-
nelius Du Bois, then of New York City, but previously
of Fishkill, N. Y., and Mary Anne Delafield, his wife,
daughter of John Delafield, of New York. Soon
after the birth of Mr. Du Bois, his father bought a
large tract of real property known as Manor Farm,
near the Four Corners, on Staten Island, and Mr.
Du Bois's boyhood was spent there. His father,
Cornelius Du Bois, was a wholesale tobacco merchant,
of good standing in the community. When he was
very young, Mr. Du Bois was sent to boarding school
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He was a backward student and used to say that
he had what was called an arrested development.
He was always at the foot of his class. After a few
years at Churchill's Academy he went to Columbia
Grammar School in New York where he was again
at the foot of his class, until at about the age of seven-
teen he suddenly found himself and when it was
announced that Cornelius Du Bois stood at the head
of his class the whole school broke into cheers. He
was fond of telling the story. He was graduated from
Columbia Grammar School at the head of his class.
His family then took him to Europe and for a few
months he attended the University at Leipzig. He
used to say that the only thing he learned at Leipzig
was how to fight a duel. He fought one with an over-
bearing German. With his long arm and powerful
physique, Mr. Du Bois was an easy victor, but his
opponent suffered no serious injury. Mr. Du Bois
returned to this country and entered the employ of
his father's firm, Du Bois & Vandervoort. He saw
an opportunity of engaging in a new type of business
in this country. Insurance Brokerage, and about
1873 he formed a partnership with Sutherland Irving,
under the firm name of Du Bois & Irving, and was
an insurance broker continuously until the time of
his death. On April 22, 1874, he married Katharine
Barclay Reading, of Staten Island, N. Y. They
bought a little house on Trinity Place, West New
Brighton, N. Y. On May i, 1874, ^^^ ^rm of Du Bois
& Irving consolidated with the firm of Irving & Frank,
composed of A. Duer Irving and Emil H. Frank.
The new firm was called Irving, Frank & Du Bois
until Sutherland Irving died and A. Duer Irving
resigned to become an underwriter rather than a
broker. Mr. Du Bois and Mr. Frank continued
under the name of Frank & Du Bois. Mr. Du Bois
was the senior partner in that firm when he died.
His oldest child, Frederic, and his third child. Bertha,
died as infants; his second son, Cornelius, when
eleven years old. The remaining children, Floyd
Reading Du Bois, Delafield Du Bois, Mildred Du Bois,

Eleanor

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Eleanor Du Bois and Katharine Du Bois Emmons,
survived him. About 1877, Mr. Du Bois moved
from Trinity Place, Staten Island, to a new house
which he built at 940 Castleton Avenue, West New
Brighton, Staten Island. Later, he began spending
his winters in New York and finally bought as a per-
manent home his dwelling at 47 West 76th Street,
New York. He prospered in business. His son and
partner has said that he never knew him, in the mak-
ing of a business decision, to be influenced in the
slightest degree by what profit or loss there might
be in the transaction. He died at his home, 47 West
76th Street, early in the morning, Sunday, May 22,
192 1, of pneumonia, having completed his seventieth
year on Easter Day. The notice of his funeral, on
the insurance page in the Journal of Commerce^pi
May 24th, 192 1, was written by Sumner Ballard,
a former insurance editor of the Journal of Commerce^
who had been a business friend of Mr. Du Bois for
many years. One paragraph read:

"Mr. Du Bois is the third member of
the firm of Frank & Du Bois to die in the
past six years. The firm has always stood
among the highest in the business, being
particularly noted for its straight-forward
dealing, and this principle of honorable
relation between the brokerage firm and
the companies was established from the
beginning of its career. Mr. Du Bois
was largely responsible for the attitude
of his firm. THie result has been that
the fire company managers have always
regarded the house as one whose business
could be accepted without question."

He was a man of many quiet private charities.
No needy and deserving cause ever appealed to him
in vain. Mr. Du Bois was a member of Kane Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Downtown
Association, both of the City of New York.

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GEORGE WHITFIELD VAN SLYCK

Born — ^July 10, 1842.
Died — ^January 26, 192 1.

George Whitfield Van Slyck, son of Hugh and
Orminta Matilda Pulver, was born in Kinderhook,
N. Y., July 10, 1842. He attended Kinderhook
Academy and Williams College, where he was a
member of Chi Psi fraternity. He left college in 1862,
recruited the 4th Company of the 128th Regiment,
U. S. Volunteers, and with such Company as its Cap-
tain, entered the Civil War. After the war he studied
law with Hon. John H. Reynolds in Albany, N. Y.
and, after completing his course, was admitted to
the bar and went to New York City where he prac-
tised law until 1895 or 1896, a period of about forty-
four years. He was a trustee of the Chi Psi fraternity;
a member of long standing of the University Club
of New York; one of the original members of The
Holland Society of New York, having joined in 1885,
and a member of the first Board of Trustees ; a member
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American
Geographical Society, New York Historical Society
and was at one time a member of the Manhattan
Club of New York. He was unmarried at the time
of his death. He died suddenly on January 26, 192 1,
of pneumonia at his apartment in the Hotel Bucking-
ham, New York City, where he had lived since 1880.

PETER LANGRAVE SUITS

Born — ^March 9, 1845.
Died — ^April 21, 192 1.

Dr. Peter Langrave Suits of Tribes Hill, N. Y.,
died of injuries received in an automobile accident
at Tribes Hill on January 19th, 192 1. Dr. Suits
was born at East Stone Arabia, in the town of Palatine,
N. Y., March 9, 1845, and was the son of Joseph N.
Suits and Lucinda Van De Warker. His education
was obtained at the common schools and Fairfield
Academy. Later he taught school for ten years.

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He took three courses at the Albany Medical College,
and was graduated in the spring of 1879. He located
at Tribes Hill the same year, where he had since
practiced. For three years he was the physician at
the Montgomery County Home. He was a Democrat
in politics, in which he took an active part, and several
times was his party's nominee for coroner. In 1872,
he married Lydia A. Rogers of St. Johnsville. Some
years following her death he married in 1895, Miss
Anna Putman of Tribes Hill, who survived him.
He was a member of the state and county medical
societies, and was president of the Medical Society
of the County of Montgomery. He was also a mem-
ber of The Holland Society of New York. Dr. Suits
was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of
Artisan Lodge, No. 84, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Amsterdam, N. Y., Amsterdam Chapter, No. 81,
R.A.M., Albany Sovereign Consistory and Cypress
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Albany. Dr.
Suits was a member of the Methodist Church of
Tribes Hill and was long Secretary and Treasurer
of Pine Grove Cemetery Association of that village.
Dr. Suits was well known and respected not only
among the medical profession, but also among the
laity. His practice in the community was large,
his constituency feeling confidence in his skill and
judgment. Besides his wife. Dr. Suits was survived
by two brothers, John Jacob and Willis Suits of Fonda,
two nephews and a niece. The funeral was held
^ Sunday afternoon, April 24th, at two o'clock at his
home in Tribes Hill, and at two-thirty at the Tribes
Hill Methodist Church, the Rev. M. J. Overholser
officiating. The service was very largely attended,
about one hundred members of the Masonic order
of Amsterdam and fifty members of Schoharie Tribe,
I.O.R.M. of Fort Hunter being present. A Masonic
quartet, composed of Floyd R. Burns, Arthur Reid,
Fred Pawling and James S. Riggs, assisted by E. O.
Stowitts, sang. The honorary bearers were Drs.
Canna, Dwyer, Pierce, Murphy, Woodhead and Tom-
linson, and the active bearers were Drs. Wilson,

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Stover, Hicks, Conant, Timmerman, and Phillips.
Masonic funeral rites were conducted at the grave
by Artisan Lodge, No. 84. Interment was in Pine
Grove cemetery.

FREDERICK LATTAN VAN NESS

Born — ^August 23, 1855.
Died — January 10, 192 1.

Frederick Lattan Van Ness was born in Newark,
N. J., on August 23rd, 1855. He was the son of
Nicholas Van Ness and Katharine Ryerson Doremus.
Mr. Van Ness was educated in the public schools of
Newark, and entered the employ of the Dennison
Manufacturing Company in 1874. He was con-
nected with that concern until April i, 1912, being
at the time of his retirement to private life one of
the five directors of the company. He was fond of
athletics. He married in 1890, Louise Jessup of
Newark, N. J., who survived him. He left no chil-
dren. He died January 10, 1921, in Orange, N. J.
Funeral services were held at his home, 100 Cleveland
Street, Orange, N. J., on January 13, 1921, at 2:30
p. m.

WALING WALINGSON VAN WINKLE

Born — ^November 19, 1845.
Died — ^April 15, 1921.

Waling Walingson Van Winkle, the fourth son
of Adolphus W. Van Winkle and Petrina Van Winkle,
was born at Lodi, Bergen County, N. J., on November
19th, 1845. He was educated in the schools of Jersey
City, N. J., and finished in New York University in
October, 1864. After having studied law, he located
in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he completed
his legal studies under the guidance of his uncle,
the late Peter G. Van Winkle, who was one of the
first United States Senators from West Virginia,
and was one of the seven Republican Senators who
voted for the acquittal of President Johnson in the

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celebrated impeachment proceedings. On October 21,
1868, he married Miss Hannah Cook, daughter of
Paul Cook, who died August 26, 1902. Their only
daughter, Mrs. C. T. Hiteshew, survived Mr. Van
Winkle. Mr. Van Winkle was admitted to the prac-
tice of the law on December i, 1866. On June i,
1875, a partnership was formed by him with B. Mason
Ambler, under the name of Van Winkle & Ambler,
which continued until Mr. Van Winkle's death, and
was probably the oldest law partnership in the state.
In 1904 Mason G. Ambler became a member of this
partnership. Mr. Van Winkle early identified him-
self with the advancement and well-being of his
adopted state, and became active in the industries
and up-building of Parkersburg. Until May, 1865,
he was acting secretary of the North Western Virginia
Railroad Company, which at that time was organized
under the name of the Parkersburg Branch Railroad
Company. Mr. Van Winkle continued as secretary
until 1899, when he became a director. He subse-
quently held the same office in the Ohio River Rail-
road Company, the Huntington & Big Sandy Rail-
road Company, The Ripley & Mill Creek Valley
Railroad Company, and the Ravenswood, Spencer
& Glenville Railway Company. He was the first
secretary of the Little Kanawha Navigation Company,
and was prominent in its organization in 1886. He
was also one of the projectors of what became later
the Kanawha Traction & Electric Company, beginning
on a small capital when the electrical science was in
its infancy. He was the secretary of this original
company, and served on its executive committee
and as director from its organization. He was in
the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany in different capacities, and associated with the
legal department from 1870. Mr. Van Winkle was
a trustee of the Sinking Funds of the City of Parkers-
burg from 1 88 1. He was long a director in the First
National Bank, and became its President upon the
death of C. C. Martin. He was president of the
Peerless Milling Company and a director of the

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Parkersburg Industrial Company, the ShaflFer Oil &
Refining Company of Chicago, and was a member
of the American Bar Association, and long served
on its committee on uniform state laws. He was
also a member of the West Virginia Bar Association
and the Wood County Bar Association. He was a
member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and of the
Union League Club of Chicago, and for a number
of years was a member and president of the Blenner-
hassett Club and of the Parkersburg Country Club.
Mr. Van Winkle took great interest in the Masonic
Fraternity and was a thirty-third degree Mason.
This was the only fraternal organization with which
he was affiliated. He was also a member of The
Holland Society of New York. Mr. Van Winkle,
while never taking any active part in politics, was
well informed and exercised a strong influence in the
Republican party. He never sought political office,
but twice consented and served as a member of the
Council of the City of Parkersburg. His chief char-
acteristics were his indomitable courage, his un-
swerving loyalty to his friends and clients, an even,
unruffled temper which no stress or storm of con-
troversy could disturb; a kindliness and courtesy
which often won his opponents to his views. He
possessed unusual ability as an executive, and his
learning and clear common sense had much to do
with his success in corporate matters. Stricken more
than a year before his death with a malady which he
knew was fatal, his iron courage never faltered; but
with a cheerful, optimistic spirit he fought his troubles
with every aid that science could employ, and mean-
time attended to large interests, as though no grave
danger threatened the very citadel of his life. Soon
after a serious operation he made a trip to Mexico
City for a friend and client, and was cut oflF from
all communication with this country by the sudden
revolution which occurred there. He was unperturbed
by conditions, and successfully carried out negotiations
before he considered returning to safer quarters.
This incident was typical of his whole career. He

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died on April iSth, 1921, at his family residence,
112 Thirteenth Street, Parkersburg.

WILLIAM VANDERVOORT KIP

Born — ^November 14, 1892.
Died — ^April 5, 192 1.

William Vandervoort Kip was the son of Clarence
V. Kip, President of the Kip Brush Company, 447
Greenwich Street, New York, N. Y., who is a member
of The Holland Society and Annie Louise Servoss,
a descendant of John Pintard, a founder of the New
York Historical Sdciety, and also James Chesterman,
an old New Yorker. William Vandervoort Kip was
graduated from Hobart College, and at the outbreak
of the World War rejoined the Seventh Regiment,
N.G., N. Y., with which he had served on the Mexican
border in 1916-17, as a Lieutenant. At Spartanburg,
S. C, he was detached from the Seventh Regiment
to a quartermaster corps with which he went overseas.
His military record as it appears on the Honor Roll
of this Society in the 1919 Year Book is as follows:

WILLIAM VANDERVOORT KIP

Son of Clarence Van S. Kip

Rank: Second Lieutenant.

Branch of service: Supply Company 325, Quartermaster

Corps.
Date of enlistment: August 5, 1917.
Details of service: With 7th Regiment, Infantry, New York,

N. G., now 107th Regiment, Infantry, U. S. A.; Sergeant,

Machine Gun Company; Secx>n(l Lieutenant, Quartermaster

Corps.

Mr. Kip was unmarried. In addition to The Hol-
land Society of New York, he was a member of the
Atlantic Yacht Club and the American Legion. He
died on April 5, 1921, at his home, 170 West 73rd
Street, New York, N. Y., as a result of an attack of
pneumonia.

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FRANCIS HENDRICKS

Born — November 23, 1834.
Died — June 9, 1920.

Francis Hendricks, veteran Republican political
leader of Central New York, Syracuse financier and
business man and president of the Board of Trustees
of Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y., died on
June 9th, 1920, at his home, No. 644 West Onondaga
Street, Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Hendricks was eighty-
five years old. His long life was filled with activity.
As his political influence grew during middle life he
was constantly in the councils of the Republican
party, both in the state and in the nation. He was
born in Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., on November
23rd, 1834, the son of Jacob Edmundus Hendricks
and Ann Van Gaasbeck, and was educated at Albany
Academy. When he was a young man he went to
Rochester. For a time he worked in a grocery store,
and also sold fruit trees and nursery stock. He was
married while in Rochester and came to Syracuse
in 1861, beginning business as a dealer in photographic
supplies, picture frames and similar articles. Becom-
ing a force in the community, Mr. Hendricks became
trustee of the Syracuse Savings Bank in 1886 and a
Vice-President in 1895. He became President and
Trustee of the First Trust and Deposit Company
of Onondaga in 1888, retiring as President in 1913
to become Chairman of the Board. He also became
President of the State Bank of Syracuse in 1888, a
Vice-President in 1900, continuing with this bank
until it was consolidated with the Trust and Deposit
Company in 1913. He retired from active banking
five years before his death. Mr. Hendricks' career
as a political power began in 1883 during the Hiscock-
Belden controversy, when he was elected member of
assembly. He had previously been a member of the
Board of Fire Commissioners in 1877, and was elected
for two terms as Mayor of Syracuse in 1 880-1. Mr.
Hendricks was reelected to the Assembly in 1884, and
then in 1885 sent to the State Senate. He was reelected

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for two more terms. When he left the Senate in 1890,
his political power was reaching its zenith. He was
a friend of Presidents, and the biggest men of the
party sought his astute political advice. In 1891,
President Harrison named Mr. Hendricks collector
of the port of New York. He retired two years later.
Not long after the late Colonel Roosevelt began to
be a figure in state political life, he and Mr. Hendricks
became warm friends. In 1900, Governor Roosevelt
appointed him State Superintendent of insurance,
and he served for two terms, until 1906. Close friend
of Colonel Roosevelt as Senator Hendricks was,
his party regularity threw his support to President
Taft in the memorable Convention of 1912 in Chicago.
Senator Hendricks was the strong man in Onondaga
County politics for thirty years. For twenty-eight
years Mr. Hendricks represented his congressional
district in Republican conventions. He was at the
several conventions which nominated Harrison in
1892, McKinley in 1896 and 1900, Roosevelt in 1904
and Taft in 1908 and 191 2, and Hughes in 1916.
From 1894 to 191 3, Mr. Hendricks represented the
senatorial district on the Republican State Committee.
He retired that year when the law went into effect
by which State Committeemen are chosen by as-
sembly districts for all political parties. During
this period he attended every Republican State
Convention and was present at practically all con-
ferences called by state leaders. In the national
councils of the party, Mr. Hendricks was held in
high regard, but generally cooperated with his as-
sociates from New York State in whose decisions he
was an important factor. It is well known to those
acquainted with conditions that on at least two
occasions he could have taken the nomination for
Governor at Republican conventions. For fifty years
Francis Hendricks was a leader in Syracuse business,
banking and political life. He founded his life on a
success in business, following it with success in bank-
ing and then topped it all with as great and unbroken
success in politics. In all these lines, in every activity,

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240 The Holland Society

his integrity was never challenged. He won the
respect of men and never lost it; whatever differences
in judgment he may have had with his associates,
he held their confidence in his honesty. After nearly
fifty years in public life no one could say that he had
dealt unfairly by any man, that he had been untrue
to the high principles that actuated him to serve a
temporary or a private interest, that he ever had any
aim other than to serve as best he knew how, to the
full of his ability, the best interests of the city, the
state and the nation he loved. Mr. Hendricks' mem-
bership in The Holland Society was based on descent
from Frans Hendrickszen who came to this country
from Brevoort, Holland, and was married in New
Netherland in the year 1670 to Belitie Jacobs or Joris.

WILLIAM G. SCHERMERHORN

Born — July i, 1851.
Died — March 25, 192 1.

William G. Schermerhorn, one of Schenectady^s
leading men and President of the Citizens Trust
Company of that city, died at his home, 11 North
Church Street, Schenectady, N. Y., on March 25,
192 1. He was the son of Nicholas I. Schermerhorn
and Susan Chisam, and was a native of Schenectady,
where he was born on July ist, 185 1. He received
his education in the schools of Schenectady and was
graduated from Folsom's Academy, Albany, N. Y.,
having there completed a full course in banking and
accountancy. He was an example of the young man
who wrought a successful career in his own home
town. Deciding to enter a business career, he early
was associated with his father in an enterprise on Dock
Street, where a business in coal, hay and straw was
carried on for a number of years. By a twist of fate,
both cashier and teller of the old Schenectady Bank
resigned one day in November, 1885. The elder
Schermerhorn was one of the directors of the bank,
and the young man, Willam G. Schermerhorn, was
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a new cashier and a new teller should be appointed.
Mr, Schermerhorn was instrumental in locating in
Schenectady the General Electric Company. He was
one of the men who visioned the possibilities that lay
in the two brick buildings which had been erected
for a locomotive plant and which were for sale. In
later years, about 1895, Schenectady was threatened
with the loss of its great industry when it was unable
to secure possession of some land required for its
expansion. Mr. Schermerhorn, with W. T. Hanson,
President of the Union National Bank, and Charles
F. Veeder, of the Reeves-LufFman Company, the
predecessor of the Wallace Company, by their efforts
raised sufficient funds to procure the needed land for
the "G. E.", closed the thoroughfare known as Kruesi
Avenue, and thereby kept the great works in Schenec-
tady. In the business expansion which followed
the establishing of the General Electric shops, the old
Schenectady Bank, of which he was then President,
became the Schenectady Trust Company. That was
in 1902. Mr. Schermerhorn remained as Vice-Presi-
dent and the power of his personality was one of
the factors which brought success to the institution.
It was about February, 1905, that Mr. Schermerhorn
resigned from the Schenectady Trust Company. In
April of the same year, the idea of a new bank ap-
pealing to a number of substantial business men,
Mr. Schermerhorn set about to secure the organiza-
tion of the Citizens Trust Company. A charter
was secured. The first floor of the then new Parker
Building was leased, and on September 26, 1906,
the new banking house opened for business. There
for fourteen years he applied himself assiduously to
the upbuilding of the new institution. There again
the power of a winning personality, coupled with rare
business acumen, brought large success. The bank
prospered from the first. Its depositors multiplied.
The crowning achievement became a reality. Busi-
ness was continued in the Parker Building until
November, 1920, when the new bank building, which
expansion of business demanded, was opened. Thus

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242 The Holland Society

William G. Schermerhorn was enabled to see the
fruition of his life work. Mr. Schermerhorn, per-
sonally, was one of the most affable and companion-
able of men. His friendships were limited only by
the number of persons who knew him. He had a
remarkable memory for faces and names, and could
call by name scores and hundreds of those who came
in contact with him in business. He was fond of the
companionship of men. He was a member of The
Holland Society, since he traced his ancestry through
one of the oldest families in Schenectady directly
back to the Schermerhorns of Holland, and was at
the time of his death Vice-President of the Society
for Schenectady County. Mr. Schermerhorn was
also a member of the Mohawk Club and the Mohawk
Golf Club. He was President of the Vale Cemetery
Association, a member of the Board of Trustees and
President of the Old Ladies' Home, the Childrens'
Home and the Young Women's Christian Association.
He was active in the affairs of the First Reformed
Church. Mr. Schermerhorn was always interested
in charitable work, and friends of benevolent and
humanitarian movements always found him a wise
counsellor and a willing contributor. His sterling
integrity and business capacity, his attentive applica-
tion to business, his discriminating perception, his
quiet and persistent management, all gained him
appreciative recognition, and these qualities together
with his clear judgment, especially on matters of
finance, made him greatly sought after for positions
of trust. Like his father before him, he was widely
identified with the business life of the city, and his
death was mourned as a public calamity. In 1870,
Mr. Schermerhorn married Sarah L. Swart of Schen-
ectady. Mrs. Schermerhorn died about eight years
before Mr. Schermerhorn. One son, Nicholas Irving
Schermerhorn, survived.

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ALFRED DE GRAFF

Born— July 30, 1835.
Died — July 18, 192 1.

The death of Alfred De Graff occurred at his
home in Fulton ville, N. Y., on July i8th, 192 1, in
the eighty-sixth year of his age. Mr. De Graff for
more than half a century had been one of the most
prominent figures, not only in his home community,
but in Montgomery County, having been largely
identified with financial, business and realty interests,
and was widely known in the various circles of activi-
ties in that section of the State. He was held in
the highest regard, respected and revered as a man
and citizen; a model man in his home circle, kindly,
sympathetic, valuing the good opinions of his neighbors
and other friends and holding them in the same regard.
Generous, courteous and always gracious, he was a
man of gentle and tender emotions. Quietly and
unostentatiously he went about his daily work among
those who had known him a full lifetime, and very
modestly, invariably preferring that someone else
should be honored, so unselfish and unaspiring was
his nature. He was born July 30, 1835, at the Danos-
cara Homestead, about two miles east of Fonda,
N. Y., which had been in possession of his family
since early Colonial days, he being the sixth genera-
tion to own and live on the beautiful estate which,
for a quarter of a century, he had used as a summer
residence, living in his home in Fultonville during
the winter seasons. He was the son of Hon. Jesse De
Graff and Gazena Catharine Vischer. His father
was a graduate of Union College, a prominent lawyer
and, for several years, held the important ofiice of
Judge of County Court of Common Pleas. On his
mother's side, he descended from the famous Col.
Frederic Vischer, Commander of the Tryon County
regiment of militia during the Revolutionary War,
who was scalped and left for dead at the time of
Sir John Johnson's raid on the valley in May, 1780,
finally recovering and becoming County Judge. At

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the time of the raid the old homestead was set on fire,
which was finally extinguished by neighbors, and the
mother of Col. Vischer was carried on a chair to a
place of safety, the chair having since been a cherished
family heirloom. At this time, two of Col. Vischer's
brothers were killed. During Alfred' De Graff's occu-
pancy of the homestead, he modernized it, and it is
now one of the pretentious residences of the valley,
having a beautiful situation and, with its historic
past, holds a deep interest for those who delve in the
thrilling events of our early times. Mr. De GraflF
received his education at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and
while still a young man, through the death of his
father, assumed large and responsible business interests
which he worthily bore during his long life. For
twenty-five years he was a director of the Schenec-
tady Bank of Schenectady, N. Y. and when the bank
was reorganized and became the Schenectady Trust
Company, about fifteen years before he died, he was
elected one of its Board of Trustees, remaining as
such up to the time of his death, serving the organiza-
tions for over forty years. Upon the establishment
of the Starin Silk Fabric Co., of Fultonville in the
early eighties which was one of the first silk manu-
facturing plants in the country he was elected presi-
dent of the Company and remained at the head of
the concern until it was sold. In 1883, when the
Fultonville National Bank was organized, he became
one of its first Board of Directors and had continued
on the Board since that time. Upon the death of
John H. Starin, he was elected President of the Board,
thus serving the bank for thirty-eight years. He
had, for a half century, been prominently identified
with the Fonda Reformed Church, of which he was
a member, also an elder, and for many years President
of the Board of Trustees. His guiding hand during
this long period had manifested itself in a strong
organization. He was a member and at one time
one of the Vice-Presidents of The Holland Society
of New York for Montgomery County. He was also
a charter member of the Montgomery County Histor-
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ical Society. On October 14, 1869, he married Miss
Anna Phillips, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius
Phillips, her father being a prominent business man
of the town of Florida. She passed away February 4,
1921, after a happy married life of over fifty-one
years. Her death was a great shock to Mr. De Graff,
who never recovered from its effects. He was sur-
vived by two daughters, Mrs. Fred S. Haslett of
Fort' Plain, and Miss Florence De Graff of Fonda;
one son Howard A. De Graff, of Fonda; also three
grandchildren, Alfred De Graff, Jr., Anna De Graff
and Howard A. De Graff, Jr.

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