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

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272 ship in the Holland Society December 9, 1397, and died suddenly, March 24, IQO4, in his thirty-first year. His death was caused 'by double pneu- monia and heart failure. U Claiming descent from William Peterse Van Slyke, who emigrated to this country from Am- sterdam in 1655, Mr. Van Slyke was a worthy scion of that substantial stock which lends so large a part to the strength of the metropolis and was very loyal to his good old Dutch traditions. He had travelled rather widely in Europe and was an interested and intelligent observer. In 1899 he married Adelaide D. Plume, of Newark, New Jersey, and resided at 79 South Maple Avenue, East Orange. - He first embarked in the real estate business in the firm of Hopkins Sc Van Slyke, having offices at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Subse- quently he became secretary and treasurer of the Paul System Company, heating, in which he was largely interested, but had given up this position and had prepared to travel for his health when the end came. He was also a member of the St. Nicholas So- ciety and, by his attractive personality, had won many friends to mourn his early decease. CALEB CoLEs DUSENBURY was elected to mem- bership june 13, IQGVI, and died March 24, 1904. He was a wholesale woollen merchant of the old school, and was the senior member of C. Coles Dusenbury Sz Son, the largest importers of carriage linings and trimmings in the United States. Mr. Dusenbury was born in New York City, February 16, 1830: In 1849 he entered the store of Stephen A. Martine, in which he later became a partner, following out the same business in 1863, when he established the firm of Dusenbury Sz Ackerman, to which the present firm is successor. He was a member of the Carriage Builders' National Asso- ciation, National Association of Manufacturers of 1

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271 Vedder Paymaster 0 7 .V I1 A t Sli-113115 Ylfgrgv thedregnimentl haviigs retffciiled Clio 31115: , as isc ar f ' - bY a Special order of thee or explmtlon Qf term general commanding the ggpgfljsmeni Of the Gulf, continuing in the Pay P men UUU1 APT11, 1866, when he returned to Schglectdy- 011 April 3oth he entered the Cambridge Law School, leaving it on july I2, 1867, to enter the law office of Alexa d 85 - Th son, Schenectady. The following Olcitdlbher he 3,35 examined before the general term at Canton, St. Lawrence County, and was admitted to the New York bar as attorney and counsellor-at-law. The next month found him in New York i C ty, where he soon entered the office of Alexander 8a Green, and from that time remained in active practice in this city, his office being at 1 5 Wall Street. In July, 1877, he married Emily Adams, at New York, moving to Bayonne in April, 1885, his resi- dence being atf 67 West 44th Street. In April, 1887, he was elected to the Board of Education of Bayonne for three years. In November, ISQ4, he was appointed Health Commissioner from the Third Ward by Mayor Farr, and in September, 1898, was reappointed by Mayor Seymour for a further term of four years. C He was elected to the Holland Society June 1 1, IQO3, and died at his home in -Bayonne March Q4, 1904, his term of membership in the 300161337 hams one ear. lesgliglafl-Lmilyywas identified with Schenectady from the earliest times, the first ancestor being Hendrick Van Dyck, born at Utrecht, Holi!-11191, who came to this country about 16331 Settling m 1 ar Albany. . . - A or LIE Van Dyck left a widow and three children, Elealiol., Wife of JQh-I1 F, Gribbong Omon Law- renee, and Vedder, Ir. i 1 son of Rev. HS?5JfIfcZNIYSi?PiJgSKgeE1i217 to

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2 the Umted SJUEUZSS National Association of A t u o 13201323 lg'-?D111:11if8SL'CL11'6brJs-I and Merchants Association Y e had alwav b religious and charitable work, arid egltl fhlentiznle of his death, was an elder, as w ll f trustee of the. Mahopac Falls Prisbifteliiilgrsiugleihgdlid He had a residence at Lake Maho d ' at 1 West 8ISt Street this cit pac an another , . T E' .early identified with Westchesterhziigty Long glsland, being descended from Hendrick Hendrickson Van Doesburg, who was bgfn in Holland and came to this country before 1661. He- leaves a widow, three sons, Edwin Coles, Louis, and Arthur Newcomb, and a daughter, Elizabeth Newcomb, wife of Joseph S. Whiteside, 73 GEORGE HOWARD VANDER BEEK was elected March 27, I8QO, and died March 31, IQO4, at his home in Allentown, N. I., ,in his seventy-fourth year. For most of his life he had been a farmer, and for nearly eighteen years he had been president of the Farmers' National Bank at Allen- town, to which he was elected upon its organiza- tion. His family was of good old HollandDutch stock, his first ancestor in this country being Remsen Jansen Vander Beek, registered in Albany in 16 32 and subsequently living in New York. In later years the family also spelled the name Vander Beck. Mr. 1 Vander Beek was stricken with apoplexy a few years ago and the attack was very severe, so that he lay unconscious for weeks, hovering between life and death., Although .he finally recovered and rode daily to the bank with the same cheerful and undisturbed appea1'a11C6, he was never the same as before. The funeral was held from his late home and the interment was in the Presbyterian Cemetery' George How- ard Vander Beck, of Philadelphia, is a Hrst COUS111 of his deceased namesake.