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

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IO2 f h firm of Vandervoort, McClelland Sz partner o t e Scrucf s which later was changed to the CO1'pO1'a- g B Dr Goods tion if Scruggs, Vandervoort 81: arney y- ' Company. After a few years he left St. Louis re- ' to New York City Where he represented up to the time of his death, on December 31, IQOO. , ', He was a member of the Union, Union League, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Suburban and otlgir glubs of . ' S New York City, also of the St. Louis U u , o t. Louis and the Maryland Club of Baltimore. He was a member of Holland Lodge, No. 8. F. 81 A. M. He was a great traveller and was cosmopolitan in his tastes. He was unmarried. RALPH SAXTON LANSING died in New York jan- uary 5, IQOI. He was the son of James Lansing, our fellow-member, former Surrogate of Rensselaer County, and of Sarah A. Richardson, and was born in Troy, N. Y., April 11, 1872. He was educated in the Troy schools, was grad- uated from the Troy Academy in 1891, and entered Williams College where he studied for some time. After a period in the Public Stores of the Port of New York, where he became chief clerk of a division in the Appraisers office, he studied law in the New York University Law School, and was graduated therefrom in june, IQOO. ' He was an enthusiastic member of the Delta Chi fraternity, and was made its Chief justice. In April, IQOO, he was appointed an assistant to the Counsel for the Government before the Board of General Appraisers, where he showed great ability and efficiency. - N JOHN VooRHEEs VAN WOERT, an early member of the Society, died at his residence in New York, Sunday January, 6, IQOI, after a painful illness of some months duration. He was born in New York July 4, 184.2 and educated in private schools. He was a resident of this city all his life, and was bU1'1C' foul' 1 tastes most 'of H2 mark' An C1 the I Canal He Socie ant 3: assoc Chull and . New Cf day 1 ham His i minis granc early M1 tates, ham law i pract Cour Cour socia Lodi one 4 havir Presi G1 dent denc Marc

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al ess l has 'Jew sol s to able moe i UCC Nlllt Ent of ake unt r m fhe l on Y, 7 IOI UlsterCo NY Dec 27 18 ..,.., .,31,I-Ib hh , of law in 1853 and was admitted to Sh eiiiant C Studi e ar in 1855. In the following year he settlellit llhlgaalilli gerties and began the practice of his profession which he continued till his death, beinor Connected with most of the important litigations iii the county during the past thirty years. He s was surrogate of Ulster County for s1x years, from January 1, 1872, The pastor of the Reformed Church t h' hh b - longed said of him : OW IC e e He . g o y. He had remarkable powers of observation and memory, analysis and judgment, acquisition and ready use. He was conscientious in counsel, exact in knowledge of law. He had the high respect and confidence of the bar and th b . e ench, and what signified much, the cordial regard and best wishes of his communit H . . . Y- C was amanofumque characteristics frank generous h 0 . . , , , onorable, and h1s memory will be widely cherished for generations. At a meeting of the Ulster County Bar the fol- lowing memorandum was adopted and ordered t o be presented at the next term of the Supreme C . . ourt with a request that It be entered upon the minutes :. was a man of strong mind in a stron b d The death of Peter Bar and to the profession. Cast in a large mould, his notions of professional conduct were of so high a character as to make him an exemplar to a generation which at times manifests a tendency towards the cultivation of baser methods. ndly by nature, with a strong intellectual Cantine is a distinct loss to the Ulster Generous and ki grasp upon the fundamental principles underlying the adminis- tration of justice, he was an able lawyer and a just man. WILLIAM LEDYARD VAN DER VooRT was born in Baltimore, Md., March 18, I83O. He was the son of Robert Bruce Vander Voort, of New York City and a grandnephew of Peter L. Vandervoort, .who in 1798 kept a dry-goods store next to old Trinity Church. He left Baltimore at an early age and WHS fOI' many years in the employ of A. T. Stewart 85 Co. He went to St. Louis in 1860 Where he became 3

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- 31 ara. Ods re. ted .ber IUC, S ol St. He ill. ltan lan- mg, laer worn rad- ered ime. it of sion Nlew ited Chi it to yard 'feat nbef 'Ofkr 55 of fork He WHS IO3 buried from the home he had four ears. H Occupiid for thirty' y . e was a man of domestic hab't tastes and it was in the home life h' ' H I S and U is in uence , most felt and his personality best known A lollas 'of nature and out-of-door life, he was f l 'l' Ver U ami lar to a marked degree with everythin ' ' g pertaining thereto, An expert with the rod, each season fouhbd him ' the north woods, the Maine wilds In . , or on the Cal-nladian streams, seeking health and recreation e was a loyal and energetic member of the Society, active 1n its interests and a re ula t - . . g ra tend ant at 1ts meetings and banquets. He was closel associated with the Rev. Dr. Henry Mott t f hy 15 Church of the Holy Communion at Sixth eAilenuE and Twentieth Street and with the Y. M. C. A., of New York. CHARLES HENRY ROOSEVELT died early on Sun- day morning, March 24, IQOI, at his home, on Pel- ham Road, Pelham Manor. He was born in 1832. His father was the Rev. Washington Roosevelt, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and a grandson of Elbert Roosevelt, who was one of the early settlers of the manor of Pelham-on-the-Sound. Mr. Roosevelt was the manager of manylarge es- tates, and owned valuable real estate himself in Pel- ham Manor and in New Rochelle. He studied law in Poughkeepsie and after admission to the bar practised in New York City and Westchester County. He was a member of the State and County Bar Association, the Westchester Bar As- sociation, the St. Nicholas Society and Huguenot Lodge, F. 81 A. M., of New Rochelle. He.was one of the oldest members of the Holland Society having been elected in 1885. He served as Vice- President for Vlfestchester County in 1892. GENERAL STEWART VAN VLIET, our Vice-Presr dent for the United States Army, died at his resi- dence, 819 Fifteenth St., Wash1ngtOH, D- Cv OH March 28, IQOI.