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

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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.

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I l 3 U . ' I I I as 5 275 yi I F 2 readotbleildlre 510 Cgusii Statedlyto be P1'ePa1'CCl and . . C , Oclety' PaPe1'S, essays, etc., on I quest1ons in the history or genealogy of the Dutch , in America. FIFTH To cau t b I . ' . . Se 0. C Prepared and published when the requisite materials have been discovered and procured, collections for a memorial history of the Dutch 1n America, wherein shall be particularly , set forth the part belonging to that element in the ' , is grovvth' and development of American character, 1nst1tut1ons, and progress. - Ml? ARTICLE III. A Members. 1 . Q l . I I I li SECTION 1. No one shall be eligible as a mem- i ber unless he be of full age, of respectable standing in society, of good moral character, and the descend- f 1 l ant in the direct male line of a Dutchman who was a I if native or resident of New York or of the American colonies prior to the year 1675. This shall include those of other former nationalities who found in Holland a refuge or a home, and Whose descend- ants in the male line came to this country as Dutch settlers, speaking Dutch as their native tongue. This shall also include descendants in the male line , of Dutch settlers who were born within the limits of Dutch settlements, and the deSCeI1d2111fS in the i 1 male line of persons who possessed the rights fif ' Dutch Citizenship within Dutch settlements in America, prior to the year I5753 3130 Oli any W descendant in the direct male line of a .Dutc man, f A rof this one of Whose descendants became a membe Society prior to June 16, 1886-