The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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73 DR. CHARLES DE LA MoNTANv1-3, son of Franklin de la Montanye and Blandina Ten Eyck, was born at Marbletown, N. Y., january 14, 1866, and died after a brief illness at Port Ewen, N. Y., July 23, 18 .. when a mere boy it was his ambition to become a physician, and he followed this with a persistence and perseverance which nothing could daunt until, entirely unaided, he reached the goal for which he started. Dr. de la Montanye graduated from the Albany Medical College in the Class of 1890, and was the Orator of the Class at the graduating exercises. Almost immediately afterward he found a favorable opening at Port Ewen, N. Y., where he gained the conhdence and respect of his fellow townsmen and speedily established a good practice. ' He was at one time President of the Ulster County Medical Society, and so highly was he esteemed by his brother practitioners in that So- ciety that they subsequently, elected him to repre- sent them at the New York State Medical Society, to serve for three years. He lived to attend but one meeting of the State Society, that of February 1, 1899, on which occasion he read a paper en- titled Medical Education, its Relations to Classi- cal Literature, which was published in the Albany .Mbdzkal Annals of July, 1899. His death was hastened by his devotion to duty. - His closest friends, who thought they saw signs of weakness caused by overwork, urged him to relinquish, his practice for a time, and go away for a change of air and rest. With indomit- able pluck he remained at his post until a sudden cold developed fatalresults, and his promising career was broughtto an untimely close. A Dr. de la Montanye was descended on themater- nal side from the best and oldest Dutch fam1l1es of Ulster County. Amongthose from whom he could trace descent were the Ten Eyck, Keator,

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75 jersey Assembly, and in 1874 and 1875 was a mem- ber of the Jersey City Board of Finance. Mr, Van Reipen was a director in the Hudson County Na- tional Bank for a number of years. He became also a member of the American Institute, a mem- ber of the Holland Society, December 7, 1888, and was Vice-President thereof in 1894, a member of the County Board for Equalization of Taxes, and Hlled that position ever since its organization. He filled almost every position of trust and honor in the locality, and commanded the universal re- spect of the entire community. , On November 25, 1845, he married Miss Caro- line Westervelt, of Hackensack, N. He resided at the old home of his boyhood days, 553 Summit Avenue, jersey City. He was a member of the old Bergen Reformed Church, and a deacon and an elder in that congre- gation for a number of years. He died August 1, 1899. ' DR. TEUNIS SCHENCK was born in the town of Flatbush, Kings Co., N. Y., March Io, 1841. He received his early education at Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, and later graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., Class of 1859, and also at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, Class of 1865. Three years after' gra- duation from Union College he began the study of medicine with Dr. Thomas Turner, and later with Dr. R. Cresson Stiles, during these years hav- ing the advantages of the clinical study afforded by the wards of the Kings-County Hospital and in the course of Microscopy given by Dr. Stiles. In September, 1865, he was appointed Resident Physician of the Kings County Hospital, and so continued until 1872, when he resigned in order to begin the private practice of his profession in the town of New Utrecht, N. Y., now in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, where he resided at