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

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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