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

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VSQ eh, tttteh ,while llhiher is th no ly lltoen, P. heheh, 51 allll hae iftth hom ehhehh. let Pltthhg for nearly ll tht lie. thhl-1 ittyg theh tn North irst Sara- hneapohis, he for six rthStreet, ty the sea, le results. hhispulpit n his per- tstor with eurchesht eivingtl of whom nverhtht ey exeep' ,derohhtt in COItSt'e metethtl It seemt 'arlfll' 5 pfhfhh' e h toll chttll' there Mgstth tht et dettl pastel' 37 tionall fruitful, and to procure him many unsou ht ZES0iZ,ceEI'he dhygree of Doctor of Divinity was given ,ham in 1866 by the Univers1ty.of New York. The Synods of the Presbyterian Church, 1n whose bounds he- served, made him.M0derator, and in 1895 his own mother church elected him President of its General Synod. ' ' Dr. Stryker withal was a ready and ever acceptable writer, and Contributions from his facrle pen have enriched the col- umns of Tlze Ifziellzgemer and of other periodicals, all through the years. Hrs verse was as graceful and pleasing as his prose, and a book of poems, Words of Comfori, has carried cheer to many hearts. Some of his' hymns have found a place in the church hymnaries, and will serve to keep him, in remembrance. S . 4 . He was an earnest and efiiclent laborer 1n the temperance reform, and gave of his time, speech and pen freely for this and cognate causes. He toiled on cheerfully, trustingly and use- fully to the very end, and was permitted to round out a pecul- iarly extended and fruitful ministry with a death which in its suddenness and slightness of preliminary pain was a happy translation from earth to heaven. . CHARLES HOLBERT VOORHEES, M. D., died May 13, IQOO, in New Brunswick, N. He 'was Vice- President for Middlesex County in 1891. He was born in New Brunswick August 3, 1824, and was a ,grandson of David-Voorhees, a soldier of the Rev- olution. He was graduated from the Rutgers Col- lege Grammar School in 1842, studied medicine in the office of Dr. William Van Deursen, and after- wards entered the jefferson Medical College and was graduated from that institution in the spring Of 1850, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. He practised his profession first at Spots- Wopd, afterwards at Plainfield N. J., and Philadel- Phla, Pa., and finally, since 1855, in New Brunswick. Dr. Voorhees was a member of the Middlesex C0ltHty. Medical Society, was president of that or- gantzation in 1870 and an annual representative Of lt 1n the conventions of the New jersey State Medical Society from 1868 to 1878. From the State Medical Society he had been a dele- gate to the State Societies of Vermont and Pelhnsylvania and to the American Medical As- SOCIHUOH, of which he was a member. He' was

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86 d'd not complain of feeling any worse than 2331.1 About midnight he awoke and complained h' wife of feeling badly and asked her to give to is I , . him some medicine. 'He continued to grow weaker d medical aid was summoned, but it was of no Zgail and he died about one o'clock Sunday morn- h d' ing. The cause of death was eart isease. . u The following sketch 1S from the Ciwfzsizaoz fntellzlgemeof. Dr. Stryker was the son of Rev. Herman B. Stryker and was born at Fairfield, N. I., April 8, 1826. He graduated from Rutgers College in, 1845 and from the. New Brunswick Semin- ary in 1848, and served continuously 1n the pastorate, passing 'h t intermission from one charge to another for nearly t fifty-lliivo years. The succession of charges were in the Re- formed. Church : the Third Raritan, N. I. ', Rhinebeok, N. Y. , Broome Street and Thirty-fourth Street, New York City , then for twenty-one years in the Presbyterian Church, in North Broad Street, Philadelphia, First Rome, N. Y. , First Sara- N Y and Andrew Presbyterian, Minneapolis, toga Springs, . ., u Minn. Returning to the Reformed Church in 1889, he for six years served the church he had built, the Thirty-fourth Street, of this city, and thence in 1896 went to the church by the sea, in whose pastorate he died. Wherever he served he accomplished memorable results. Blessed with health, in fifty years he was kept out of his pulpit only four Sundays by illness, genial and winning in his per- sonality, faithful and Scriptural in his preaching, a pastor with unusual tact, ever watching for souls, he, in all the churches he served was continually adding to the membership, receiving in the half century over zzoo persons, more than half of whom were by confession of their faith. This average of over forty per year, or twenty per year on confession, is a very excep- tional record. More than this, Dr. Stryker was a leader of his people, inciting them to worthy undertakings, and in conse- quence left in nearly every one of his charges some material improvement, a monument to his inspiring energy. It seems most fitting that in his last charge-that of Asbury Park-be- fore going hence he should have been permitted to see practi- cally completed the new chapel which adds so much to. the comfort and commodiousness of the church. . Yltality, alertness, whole-hearted consecration were charac- ter1st1c traits, and Dr. Stryker never grew old, for him there was no 'dead 1ine,' until the call came from the Master, Come up h1gher.' He possessed an unusual combination of g1fts'and they served to win, for him the love and confidence of his brother ministers and of his people, to make his pastor- fonalll ,tes excel?-lie d in Igfgsglejan 1 lie Moderator' ' . 5 . l'iiiiestrrk?' W' . t ns tndcolgflbgtij A 11111115 . through thaenileirlio his pr05er hear cheer T0 many h ,I in the Church Y mbfallce. refgilewas an ear: reform, and gave O cognate causes. fully to the very 004 iarly extended and. suddenness and sh translation from can CHARLES H or 13, 1900, in New President for M ic born in New Bru ,grandson of Davi elution. He was lege Grammar S the oftice of Dr. wards entered the was graduated fro ll 1350, receiving tme. He pract- WQ0d, afterwards . Pm, and snail ft oo ferr Mellen? QQ aiiontf' '37o Slate COD! he State MedS0Clt gate to the 'QI Pe'lnSYlvania State tration, of walgdhl IC

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88 a member of the Ninth International Medi- cal Congress, which met at Washington in September, 1887, and was elected Vice-President of Section III., on Military and Naval Surgery and ' ' 'h h read a paper, Are Medicine, before whic C wounds from explosive balls of such a character as to justify International laws against their use P D Voorhees had always been interested in mil- r. itary matters. In his early manhood he was First ' t of the Neilson Guards Qartilleryj in Lieutenan , 1845, and afterwards on General Sanderson s staff, with the title of major. . . In I862 he entered the service of his country as a medical officer and served during the War of the Rebellion. He was present at the battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, and Savage Station, at the latter place he was taken prisoner and confined in Libby Prison and on Belle Isle until -exchanged, He was also present at Cold Harbor, and in the engagements before Richmond. In local medical circles Dr. Voorhees has always enjoyed prominence. He was County Physician for sixteen years, a member of the Board of Health for many years, and was a member of the staff of the Catholic Hospital and of the John Wells Memorial Hospital. Dr. Voorhees was a member, also, of many so- cieties of a scientific, literary, and social character. He was one of the oldest living members of Union Lodge, NO..IQ, F. 8: A. M., and a member of the Piethessophian Society of Rutgers College, the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Rutgers College, in which he filled every office from secretary to presi- dent, the New jersey State Microscopical Society, of which he had been vice-president, the New Brunswick Historical Club, of which he was SeCf'et3fY fffl' ten years, the New Jersey His- torlcal S0C1CtY, the New Jersey Sanitary As- Emciation, the Charity Organization Society of hew Brunswick and one of its Board of Managers, t e New ICFSCY Society for the Prevention of 110 giuil? od Gevgfafhw eaI50F'ety1Q Socieflestt Social 50152 oluflon' 1 0151- lvl , He Was 'f I 'H and lltf fl C u 7 tiofledf I ul71,5'fZ7ZL'f Q7 Mg, Wgsizkuspr ul wzkkyn as Sim Now Bran? Sefozkes of A tain Peter If killed by the Colonel Since Dr. Voorho one of the m was received Until age a .ardent sports shot with fow EBENEZER -Society in ja Mai' 27, 1900. Fmbfff, 9, 1821, imh1S youth C year he receiv of gwernmen furnished on C Hfslonsfraini Specially f0r t was of incorru 4 C0I1victi0 HS p I of . 11 all th tions with :hge