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

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258 We mourn with his family in this great bereavement, and tender to them this expression of our sincere and heartfelt sympathy. ALBERT VANDER VEER, A Chairman. A. V. BENSEN, Secretary. G, A. VAN ALLEN, b . JASPER VAN WORMER, Committee. WILLIAM PRALL, The funeral services were conducted at the family residence and the Emmanuel Baptist Church by Rev. Thomas D. Anderson. The floral tributes were profuse and hid the casket from view. The remains were taken to the Rural Ceme- tery for interment. JOHN HENRY VAN ANTWERP, one of the early members of the Holland Society, died at hishome, No. 27o State Street, Albany, on Monday, Decem- ber 14, IQO3, in the eighty-first year of his age. He was a descendant of Daniel janse Van Ant- werpen, who was born in 1 6 3 5 and came to Bever- wyck in 16 56. At the settlement of Schenectady, he became one of the Proprietors and owned the W Third Flat and a house or village lot inside the stockade. He was a prominent citizen and a banker, having been one of the founders and for many years pres- ident of the National Savings Bank, and a direc- tor and vice-president of the New York State National Bank. He was born at Albany, October 12, 182 3, was educated at private schools and entered into business as a clerk, from whence he made his way upward with unwavering diligence and Success. For eighteen years he served with- out compensation as a member of the State Board of Charities, and was one of the first to call the attention of the government to the dangers and evils of -unrestricted and unsupervised immigra- tion. He became a member of the Holland

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25 7 pride in ancestry, and it hed bee t. h, . . . to good hvmg. n o 1m an incentive f' His public life Caued him to ad - - ' - f . d n minister the high office ceoglurgseg Z1 gill: the honorable position of representative in g , 11 o execute the law d - of 'the people in the chief magistfagcly ocfacifisf gilt the Wlshes In these varied Wo k h ' . Y . interested. He enjoygdsihi vlgiiglzlthffl, honest and dls- . , Y 0 oun er eo le, WSIS SC1'L1Q111Q11S 1n. doing. the Work which fiell tg hi? lo? in any association with which he was Q01-meeted and he was helpful, considerate, and full of suggestion in ,the work for Which this chapter is organized. He was one of our Oldest members and most respected. ' L . We. sincerely regret his death, which was by reason of his active and vigorous personality entirely unexpected. Let a copy of these resolutions be sent to the members of his family and spread in full upon -our record. WILLIAM P. RUDD, ' ALBERT E. HoYT, , Committee. K ' ALBERT N. HUSTED, . The local members of the Holland Society Were summoned by their former Vice-President, Dr. Albert Vander Veer, and on Gctober' 28th adopted the following resolutions: Judge Van Alstyne Was a typical Dutchman in appear- ance, manner, disposition and habits of life, all of which contributed to his successful and popular performance of the varying duties of the different public offices held by him. He was judicial in the constitution of his mind, keenly and almost spontaneously discriminating between the true and the false, but a man of broad and tender sympathies and loyal in his friendships. . U , He Was an honest man in its most comprehensive sense and not only in his money dealings With his fellow men. 1 He took a deep and abiding interest in all his associa- tions and when he became a member of this society, he showed the ancestral pride thus stimulated and was 'at once recognized as a leader by his associates' and scpflerdlil' chose Vice-President for Albany , bl' the S0C1etY a 3 3 Hle has been taken from us so sudde15Y1l2hathge Zigi not full realized our great 1OSS, but Sha mlss ' g Y . companionship as time rolls by. 77

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259 Society April 6, 1886 and ' iastic member until the tinigndzflhisil cfveatilnthtffe Xp? also a member of the Fort Orange Club at C1 Sny, and of the St. Nicholas and Manhattan AIEGEEQHNEW Yofkhglbf, snd was a Fellow of the eograp ica ' t Sons of the Revolution. Ocle Y and one of the His funeral took Episcopal Church, Lancast St t Alb Wednesday, December 16, fgogfee , any, on .T wo daughters survive him: Henrietta W., widow of Major J. W. MacMurray, of the United States Army, .and Kate Josephine, wife of Pay- Inspector Qret1redD I. R. Stanton, of the United States Navy. His brother, William Meadon Van Antwerp, died April 9, IQO3. CSee his obituary sketch, p. 2347. place at St. Paul's Protestant SELAH REEVE VAN DUZER was elected at the regular meeting of the Holland S.ociety's trustees on June 2 5, 1885, shortly following its organiza- tion, and after a membership of more than eighteen years he died at his residence in Newburgh, N. Y., December 27, 190 3. He had been Vice-President of the Holland Society for Orange County in the fiscal year 1896-7. Mr. Van Duzer was a son of Selah Van Duzer, at one time president of the New York National Exchange Bank, and grand- son of Christopher Van Duzer, of Orange County. His mother was Margaret Van Alstyli, Of New Jersey. He was born at the corner of Dey and Church Streets, New York City, Defiembef 9, 182 3. At eighteen he. became Clefk With the drug firm of Bush Sc Hillier. Later he f01'1T1ed 9' co-partnership with S. W. Cummings GLS .CUYHE mings 85 Van Duzer, After the dissolution. o this firm, Mr. Van Duzer conducted an extensive wholesale drug business until fifteen Yffs ag? when he retired. O11 M357 15' 1850, he gimme Miss Catharine M. sayre, of HOfSSheadS,g imglgg County, after which they went to New OT Y 1 il -s 6' 'ue F' ,. if -a il 1 ,l 'iii ii it lk + 1 l at le, -x l ggi. 'iff Q A .M MS .1 'J