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

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in the business, which had, under his administra ' , grown to be one of the largest in the city. He was also largely interested In real estate. He was a member of the New York Produce Exchange, Colonial Club, and Blooming Grove Park Associa- tion, a life member of the Museum of Natural His- tory, and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. HENRY VEIGHT YVILLIAMSON was assistant super- intendent of foreign mails in the New York Post- Oflice, and died suddenly in his office, November 18, I oo. I . 91-Tor thirty-six years Major Williamson was an employee of the local post-ofHce. He resigned when Postmaster Dayton took the office, but was reinstated after a brief absence. He was at differ- ent times superintendent of Highbridge Station and of Station H. He entered the service on july I, 1864, when twenty-four years old. He had just returned from the war, where through heroic con- duct in battle he had been raised from a private, to the rank of major of his regiment, the Eighth New York. V f I He was also a member of the Loyal Legion, Heights Club, 'Lafayette Post G. A. R., and of the Sterling Republican Club. He was awarm friend of the Boers. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON STRYKER died at the Flower Hospital, New York, November 26, 1900, whither he had gone for an operation for cancer. He was born at Gravesend, Long Island, Gcto- ber 26, I84I. He was a relative of' the late Adjutant-General Stryker, of the New jersey National Guard. When a young man he was Employed as a clerk in a furnishing store in Brooklyn. When the war broke out he enlisted 111 Company H, 14th Brooklyn National Guard regiment, becoming in the United States ser- vice the 84th Regiment of New York Volunteers. At Falls Church, Va., he was shot through the tion 1

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94 homestead, at the Penny Bridge, Brooklyn, on March 18 6 and prepared for college at Jonesville Acad- 2inyjiS,aratoga County, N.Y. He entered Rutgers College, in New Brunswick, N. J., and was gradu- ated there as an honor man 1866, receiving the gold medal for proficiency in classical languages. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary in 1869, and was installed pastor of the South Bush- wick Reformed Church on july 4, 1869. Since that time he has remained without change the pastor of this church. I . He had always been much 1nterested in en- tomology and botany, and had been regarded as an authority upon these subjects. ln entomol- ogy he did much original work, and published, in various journals, the results of his investigations. He was at one period Professor of Entomology in Rutgers College, and was also for a time State Entomologist of New jersey. He was offered a professorship in Rutgers about ten years ago, but declined, preferring to remain with his Brooklyn congregation. - He was a member of the Department of Bot- any ofthe Brooklyn Institute, and was president of this branch of the Institute work at the time of his death. He was elected a member of the Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Science in I88O, and a fellow in 1888. He was given the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Rutgers College in ISQI. He leaves a wife, two daughters, and one son. JOHN SCHUREMAN SUTPHEN died of pneumonia, N0VCmbC1' 17, IQOO, at his residence, 160 West Seventy-second Street. He was born at Bedmin- stef. S0mCI'SQt County, N. J., December 13, 1825. He engaged in the grain, Hour, and feed business in 1343, being connected with the Hrm of Young 8: Bonnell. Later he started business for himself at 53 Whitehall Street. In 1879 he retired from its active management, but always retained an interest

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96 lung and was sent home on account of his critical wound. He went to Paterson after the war and se- cured a place in the Erie's office at jersey City. h l entered the employ of A. T. Stewart. l-hrO1r816t7 li? wits married to Miss Nellie Garrison, d h f ohn Garrison. For the past twelve yielgii tlilep iliad been in the employ of the Edison Company, until compelled by his disease to give up work. , He was one of the organizers of Farragut Post, No. 28, Grand Army of the Republic, and was second commander of the post. Upon the organiza- tion of the Paterson Light Guard, he was elected second lieutenant of Company A. Heuwas a very active member of the Second Presbyterian Church, and a Sunday-school worker. He was a manager and for a number of years the Secretary of the Paterson Grphan Asylum Association, in whose interests he was one ofthe most devoted of workers. He was secretary fora long term of the Mechanics' Building and Loan Association. JAMES RoosEvELT died in New York, December 8, IQOO. He was born at Hyde Park, N. Y., july 16, 1828. He was graduated in 1852, as an honor man ' at Harvard. He inherited great wealth, and early in his business life became prominent in railroad circles. For many years he had been one of the Board of Managers of the Delaware Sz Hudson Canal Company, and its vice-president since 1896. He was president of the Champlain Transporta- tion Company, a trustee and one of the incorpor- ators of the City Trust Company and a trustee of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company. He was also chairman of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. On Gctober 4, 1878, he was appointed commissioner of the State Board of Charities, and later on was a manager of the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, at Poughkeepsie. He was appointed state commissioner from New York to the World's Fair at Chicago. 7 F. half R00 Mou durir gffall Demi of thi boaro Venfif party. friend helpef interes Mr. wife W and sl R. Ro Delano him Wii a stude The 1'CClfO1' It is of affecti Roosevel 1900. N who in su to doing g his life, Born of a constitute 102g resid Combi all who C Strength of yFafr 01' 1110 511115 ener o uflmally tm e Was 'fflV0Catio For mo limes' Chu Convention,