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

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2 Society of which orgamz t M secretary and treasurer a llcfllanyrwilfsgi-2315551 YES great activity put forward by Mr. Vosbur h ' awakening interest and bringin the 11 g In a successful issue. In the pregaratioicfsijl gag!-E12 meeting MT- VOSb111'gh gave most valuable aid and it WHS largely due to his efforts that the ban: 431119135 Were so uniformly successful. - Of a .naturally genial temperament, -he had many friends. While very outspoken in demm- Ciatlon of. everything which appeared insincere or hypocritical, yet he was unswervingly loyal to those whom he deemed honorable and true, re- gardless of station or wealth. A prominent member writesz, He was pecu- liarly near to me in many ways, for he was a noble fellow, thoroughly reliable, interested in his work and always kept his promises. . Mr. Vosburgh had lived in Albany all his life, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Vos- burgh, being 'among that city's oldest residents. He was educated at the Boys' Academy and grad- uated in the class of '76, receiving one of the medals for proficiency in class work, and entered the class of 1880 in Union College. Shortly after graduation he went into business with his brother, Fletcher Vosburgh, as agents of the various steam- ship companies, succeeding john E. McElroy. Upon the death of his brother, Mr.' Yosburgh carried on the business successfully until impaired health compelled him to retire about two years ago. Mr. Vosburgh was also a member of the COUHJUYY Cl b, f hich he was Club and of the Fort Grangeb u fO tile First Rem sec t . He was a mem er .o g fonlifiesglqfghurch. In the social life of Albanl' Mf- Vosburgh was prominent. He liadTtT-?LV21g?Z ixg tensively, not only throughout the J nite HE-1 1 th u hout Europe. .6 and Canada? fibutfairiiliar Ivgitlgi and interested in W rticu a Y . - .. ' 4, Haosllaigiild, the land of his forefathers, and w as in I i' 45

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i 5 . 4 1 'Ss .vawdlun . . nv-. .4-A-f -i I f 244 the village, friends also being present from New York, Philadelphia and Washington. The ser- vices were conducted by Rev. Lawrence T. Cole, D.D., Warden of St. Stephen's College. His re- mains were placed in the vault of Johnston Livingston, an uncle of the. deceased, adjoining the De Peyster vault. Business was suspended in Tivoli during the time of the funeral. The members of the G. A. R. Post and of the Hose Company were present in a body. U He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Toler De Peyster, and three daughters, Mrs. Garret Bergh Kipp, Estelle and Justine De Peyster. EUGENE VANDERPOOL was elected to the Hol- land Society March 28, 1889. His death occurred at his home in Washington Place, Newark, July 12, 1903, after an operation for appendicitis. He was born in Newark in 1844, was a graduate of Princeton College in the class of 1864, and of the Troy Polytechnic School, being for years one of the best known gas engineering experts in the country. He was president of the Howard Sav- ings Bank of Newark, a director in the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, the National Newark Bank, and other institutions, and was ' also president of the International Gas Light Association and the American Gas Light Association. 4 ' MILES WOODWARD VOSBURGH was elected May 19, 1887, and after an active and honorable career died suddenly, August 30, 1903. .Of a peculiarly energetic disposition, he engaged with great zeal in everything that he undertook 3 and with untiring' effort, frequently at much per- sonal sacriflce, he devoted himself to each .enter- prise in- which he engaged. N Particularly was this energy, devotion and sacrifice displayed in the-formation of the Albany branch of the Holland

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246 stin in the description of his journeyings and 13 g 7 - iicilccizdents attending them. Mr. Vosburgh died unmarried. Dr. ZAREMBA W. WALDRON, a member of the Society since October IO, 1895, died in Jackson, Mich., October 1, IQO 3. He was a descendant of William W. Waldron, who was born in Holland, 1647, and came to this country between that date and 1675, for on the latter date we find his son, Pieter, born at Harlem. After this the family moved to Albany, where they remained. about three-quarters of a century, when they emigrated to Half -Moon, Saratoga County, and from there Dr. Waldron moved to Jackson, Mich., where he achieved an enviable reputation. CORNELIUS VAN BRUNT Cchristened Cornelius Rutgers, but never using the middle namej, was one of the original members of the Holland So- ciety, March 14, 1885. He died at his residence in New York City, 319 East 57th Street, October 1, IQO 3, after a painful illness of nine weeks, nearly seventy-six years old. i He was sixth in a line of direct descent from the first Cornelis Rutgerz, a son of the common an- cestor of the family, Rutgert Joosten, who was an emigrant from the Netherlands and settled on Long Island in 1653. The family later' owned large tracts of land at New Utrecht, Gowanus, Gravesend, etc., and were mostly agriculturists. His father, Cornelis, Qborn March 18, 1795, died September 3, I828,D entered mercantile life in New York City with a well-known shipping firm of that day, and not long after his marriage in I82O to a distant cousin, CSarah, daughter of Theodorus Van Norden and Alletta Langdonj the young husband WQS Obhged by his firm to sail as supercargo to Lima. This was not his first visit to .South Amer- ica, but proved to be his last, as he contracted a fever which clung to him, and of which he died f 1