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

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89 Cruelty to Animals, the American Association forthe Advancement of Sc1ence,. the New York Geographical Society, the American Geographi- Ca1Society, the local State and American Medical Societies, the Amer1can Academy of Political and Social Science, and of the Sons of the American Rev- olution. He was also a vestryman in the Church of Sf, john the Evangelist. - I-Ie was the author of numerous papers on scien- tific and literary subjects, of which may be men- tionedz. The Maslodoh Gzlgemlezesf' W001fa1fz', Ihslzhel amel Animal fhlellzQgehee, U Physiology meal Chemzlvlffy M Plame Lie, The Passeef D0- meslziusf' S6Z7ZZ.lLZlZb7'L he the Czly of New Bafzms- wighf' Slmlzes he Baez'e1fzbl0gy, f1'zlvl01fy of lhe New Bvfmeswzkh Hzklorzkal Club, The Lyfe asml Seffvzkes of Captain Hayley, and a sketch of Cap- tain Peter Voorhees, of the Continental Army, killed by the Queen's Rangers under Lieutenant- Colonel Sincoe, October 29, 1789. - Dr. Voorhees had travelled extensively, and was one of the members of the Holland Society who was received with a grand ovation in Holland.- Until age and inf1rmities prevented, he was an ardent sportsman, a good horseman, and a crack shot with fowling piece and pistol. EBENEZER LANE C00PER, who united with the Society in january, 1890, died at Stamford, Conn., May 27, 1900. He was born in New York, Nov- frmber, 9, 1821, and entered the hardware business in his youth continuing therein until 1878. In that year he received from Washington the appointment Of government inspector andexaminer of supplies furnished on contracts with the Indian Department. His long training in the hardware business fitted him Specially for the requirements of this position. He was of incorruptible integrity, undeviating in his Convictions of right and wrong. ' In all the seventeen years of his official connec- tions with the government not one of his deciSiO11S

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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

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QO was reversed. When in 1895, from failing health, he resigned, the authorities at Washington 'in ac- cepting his resignation made mention of this fact and referred to his inflexible honesty and trust- worthiness in language of the highest encomium. p PETER LE FEVER VAN WAGENEN died at his home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sunday june Io, 19oo. Death resulted from a congestive chill and heart failure. He was one of Poughkeepsie's best known busi- ness men. He went there from Ulster County and had- been engaged in various kinds of busi- ness there for thirty years. He was best known as a dealer in meat, and later in ice. He was a man of rugged health and vigorous industry. He was a prominent free mason and took great pride in that order. The news of his death shocked the business community, as he was always a cheerful, robust man. In his home he was one of the kindest husbands and fathers. CORNELIUS C. VAN RUYPEN, who became a mem- ber of the Holland Society October 27, 1887, died at his home in jersey City Heights, New jersey, june 17, IQOO, in his eighty-eighth year. He was born in Bergen, New Jersey, April 8, 1813. He was a descendant of Juriaen Tomassen from Reypen, who came to America from Holland in the Spoifed Cow in April, 1663. His grandfather, Daniel Van Reypen, was a lieutenant inthe New jersey Militia during the Revolution, was taken pris- oner by. the Tories and locked 'up in the old Sugar House in. New York. lVIr. Van Ruypen never held any pOl1t1C3.lOfHCC, but he was the first Whig candi- date for sheriff when Hudson County was organized In 1349, and was beaten byonly one vote. He was 9g representative man in the community in which he l1VCd, and was universally esteemed for his upright- ness and integrity. He was much interested in church work, and, for the greater part of his life,