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

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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,

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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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:iminlci my tllllct t wht Wilm- If :Ma 'lillwi SI hm, ms. Uaf llllli 0l mi 3 . 5 Helllll. hsllllllll. twill- Hi: 'input A ll! nys a tltrlu, IS me oi the amem- z7,1887,died s, Neljmel M He was H315 . me roi ull ill' QI served either as deacon, elder, or tl- Dutch Reformed Church of Bergen.eaS1lfIi3rd?iCi his ancestral home in Bergen, which has been the family residence for six generations. I-Ie leaves a son, VVilliam Knickerbocker Sur- geon-General of the Navy, a member of theil-101- land Society, and two married daughters, HARMAN WORTMAN VEEDER died October 15, I oo. 9 At a meeting of the Schenectady Branch of the Holland Society of New York held Wednesda October 17, Igoo, to take suitable action respecting the death of Harman W. Veeder, the following resolutions of respect were unanimously adopted :QQ Y, Whereas the Schenectady Branch of the Holland Society of New York has again suffered loss in the removal by death of an esteemed member, Harman W. Veeder, one of the youngest in our group, Resolved, That we express our deep sorrow at the untimeli- ness of his death, when he was upon the very threshold of man- hood and surrounded by all that lends attractiveness to life,- that we extend our profound sympathy to the home from which he has been withdrawn so soon after its establishment, and that we also bear testimony to his marked ability as a man of busi- ness, his enterprise as a citizen, and particularly to the kindli- ness and geniality of his nature, by which we became attached to him as a comrade, and to that charitableness which made so many of the needy his debtors. U Res0Zvea1 That these Resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Society, and that acopy of them be sent to the family of the deceased, and to the parent Society, also that they be printed in the city papers. JAMES R. TRUAX, . H JAMES A. VAN VoAs'r, Cammzliee. JACOB W. CLUTE, Adjutant-General WILLIAM SCUDDI-313 STRYKER died at his home in West State Street in TYCIHOH N. J., October 29, Igoo. He had been 1ll for four days. His health was affected by overwork. The Organizing of the New Jersey soldiers for the Spanish-American War fell heavily on him, and his .4'!l3!'