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251 His funeral was at the Madison A D , . venue Re- fdclnlggd Churph and his remains were interred in , h hlfm Y P Ot. at Fishkill. 0 Sketches of his life, Wlt 15 Poftfalt, appeared in Toweya, Vol. HI., No. 12, for December IQOS and in The Ph t , graphic Times Bulletin: December IQOSIE 0 0 He leaves a Widow but no children. Rev. DAVID COLE, D.D., of Yonkers, was one of the earliest members of the Holland Society being elected Gctober 2 5, 1886, He died Qctobeli 2o, IQO3, in the eighty-second year of his age. He was born in 1822 and attended Rutgers Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1842, returning in 186 3 to occupy thechair of Greek until 1866. A call to be the fifth pastor of the First Reformed Church in Yonkers Was accepted and he Was installed November 9, 1866. Here he remained for thirty years, until his resignation, six years before his death. Although he had intended to spend the rest of his life in retirement, he con- tinued active labors in his chosen profession, act- ing as substitute for almost every Protestant minister in Yonkers and its neighborhood. and filling their pulpits With marked acceptability. On the Sunday before his death, when eighty-one years of age, he preached at both morningand evening services in the Westnlinster Presbyterian Church, ofliciated at a funeral in the afternoon, and took part in the Y. M. A. Se1'V1CCS the Same day. At the bicentennial in 1882 he Was chosen to be the orator of the day,'and gave an elaboratg history of Yonkers in his address. HG 11311lCg5Si1f'3 many Works, including a translation of tfe tQGll?Y Hollow records, and Wrote a number o ar 1 S for the new history of Westchester CountY- ,ls history of Rockland County contained the baptis' mal records of the Tappan Church ellis tlfkogvggg f th t hborhood, and S 1 6 gligiighgescspy O? 31592516 ancient records .of mar- ll riages in the county and an alphabemcal index 0
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25o he called The Birth of a Butterfly, and in it every phase from the egg to the worm, through the several transformations of larva and pupa to the fully expanded butterfly, was beautifully shown. Mr. Van Brunt was an enthusiastic sportsman, and until the summer of 1902 he had never failed to have at least one week of trout fishing in the Upper Beaverkill for more than fifty years. He was the founder and first president of a beau- tiful fishing preserve in the Ulster County Catskills, known as the Balsam Lake Club. For many years he had owned Balsam Lake and much of the land surrounding it, but, finding it impossible to pro- tect the property and preserve the wild beauty of the woods and stream, he organized the club above mentioned. He was a zealous champion for the preservation of our forests, and Watched the trees of the club and state preserves with a most jealous eye, never losing an opportunity to inveigh against the man who ruthlessly or ignorantly cut one down. He was also a member of the New York Acad- emy of Sciences, New York Botanical Garden, Qof which he was Honorary Floral Photographerj New Nork Microscopical Society, New York Hor- ticultural Society, Torrey Botanical Club, Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Science, American Museum of Natural History, American Institute, Brooklyn Institute, Forestry Associa- tion, Camera Club, Holland Society, American Geographical Society, Union League Club, and several foreign organizations., . Of a genial, kindly disposition, always look- ing on the bright side ofthings, possessing a fund of delightful anecdote and information on natural history and allied subjects, he made a charming companion, but he was too much absorbed in his own. pursuits to have a liking for social inter- course 1n the usual sense of the word. He was a loyal friend, a most devoted son, and a model husband. e .
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