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,2 39 poor health all throu h .the :wir 4 . 1 ' the most pressing gusiness aginigg tg Saturday evening apparently as well as usual be t shortly before midnight called for his son , BE fore the son could reach the bedside his katheg was dead. He had lived an active life his chosen profession, the law, and his terrri of prac- tice covered thirty-six years.' His views were broad and his mind open, and it was no obstacle to him that a precedent was lacking. S' He was one of those who organized the Title Guarantee and Trust Company of New York and took a lead- ing part in founding the' Holland Society, of which he was secretary and treasurer for the first year of its existence. T The duties of a fiscal oilicer were separated and placed elsewhere, when the growth of the Society had made them too arduous to be retained by him, but he continued to act as secre- tary until May 19, 1891, and was a trustee until April 6, 1892. The Year Book took form and achieved success under his care and diligence, and those issued before 1892 form his monument in the libraries of all early members. The trip of the Society to ,Holland is still the subject of agreeable reminiscence among those who- par- ticipated and excites the envy of those who were unable to adopt Mr. Van Siclen's suggestion and visit the Fatherland. During the English-Boer war he collected thousands of dollars for the Boers, and he suffered 'no opportunity tO QSC-HPS, duflflg that trying period, in which he might, by VOICC and pen, set forth the righteousness of the Boer cause. Many other suggestions for. the upbuild- ing of the Society and the promotion Of 1705 Qbf jects, fostering the pride and enthusiasm Of its members, continually emanated f1iOTH 1115 1 feftl C brain. At the annual meeting Ilfl MHY1 1895 the Holland Society learned that his work for lt - e had come to an end and his successor must b Chosen, whereupon Mr. Martin Hegfmaglg-C9113 Rhinebeck, offered the fOllOW1ng Pfeam 6 3
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238 was a member of the Constitutional Convention of I8OI, a member of the legislature for Saratoga in 1808-1810, and District Attorney for the counties of Albany, Schenectady, Saratoga, Montgomery and Schoharie, being appointed March 9, 1811, by Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins. . Q When Albany was erected into a separate district, April 21, 1818, he was reappointed by Gov. DeWitt Clinton, his commission in each case being unlimited, but continuous during the pleasure of the Governor and Council. He was Brigade Quartermaster in the War of 1812, a member of the legislature for Schenectady in 1818, and was judge of the Court of justices in 1820. His son, William Van Antwerp, 1799-1829, was a prominent lawyer in Albany, married Sarah Meadon and had 'four children, jlohn Henry, William Meadon, Daniel Lewis, and a daughter, deceased. A friend, since deceased, Writes asfollows: All of these three brothers were members of the Hol- land Society, and john Henry and Daniel Lewis still survive. , These boys developed into industrious, capable .and successful business men, truthful, honest and exemplars of good citizenship, each being an active and earnest worker in all the enterprises of the church of which he was a member 3-john Henry, as a Unitarian, William Meadon and Daniel Lewis as Baptists. William Meadon's regard for the 'sacredness of the Sabbath and its proper observ- ance, restricting all secular occupations, pursuits, games and parades, was intense, and the sorrowof his later years was the evident trend in thought' and conduct of the people, as a whole, -in the reverse directiong opening wide the gates to frivolous and boisterous pastimes, the legiti- mate issue of what he esteemed such wanton disregard of God's Day. . . 2 . Q .. The Calvary Baptist Church of Albany, in the death of Bro. Van Antwerp, have sustained a most serious loss, a loss that will not be compensated in many years by new admissions to its membership. C GEORGEWEST VAN SICLEN, to whose tireless energy, unfaltering enthusiasm and effective labors the Holland Society owes its existence and success, far more than to any other, died at his home, CO1fnWall-on-the-Hudson, on Sunday, April 19, 1903, in his sixty-third year. He had been in
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