Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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122 CLASS OF ISQI S., YALE COLLEGE. liams, Yale '84, Immigration Commissioner at New York. Selected by Mr. Williaiiis as his counsel, Mr. Van Ingen entered upon his new work with great zeal, and only those having knowledge of the complicated questions to be solved, both in applying the laws and in ferreting out and securing the dismissal and punishment of the gratters in the service, can appreciate the extent and value of his labors at that time to both the people and the immigrants. I-Ie devoted himself to these tasks for fifteen months, when the demands of his law practice compelled him to resign, but not, how- ever, until he had so systematized his work that an intel- ligent successor was able to carry it on with relative ease. At its last session it became evident that the New York Legislature was likely to pass a mortgage tax bill, which aroused an unusual amount of hostile criticism. There- upon Mr. Van Ingen became president of the Allied Real Estate Interests, and presented arguments to the legislature and the governor against the bill. Although it subsequently became a law, it is generally recognized that his arguments were exceedingly effective. Indeed they were so ably presented that a large number of members of the new legis- lature have given assurance that they will vote to repeal this obnoxious measure. Although a member of several clubs, Mr. Van Ingen's greatest interest was in the University club, and he was a member of its council from March, 1904. In all matters pertaining to the work of the house committee, of which he was chairman for three years prior to his death, he gave unstinted time and careful attention, and the results bore witness to his efforts in years of exceptional prosperity. I-Ie was greatly esteemed by members and employes alike, and his loss is deeply felt in the daily life of the club. The funeral was held in St. Bartholomewls church, on Monday, October 30, and the throng of men and women of every rank of life who filled the church bore conclusive testimony to the place he held in a multitude of hearts. The interment was at VVashington, Connf,

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BIOGRAPHIES. I 2 I same delight in clean mirth and sweet humor. Nothing could bear finer testimony of his purity and sweetness of character than that instinctive way in which the shyest of little children sought his companionship .... As boy and man he held opinions strong and true, he hated cant and hypocrisy with a bitter hatred 5 he loved and lived the clean, sincere and Godward life, he was both a hearer and a doer of the VVord 3-in the world, but not of it, he loved not the world nor the things of the world-he loved the folk of the world .... ' Leaving the Hill School in the spring of 1892, Mr. Van Ingen spent some months in preparation, and entered the Columbia Law School, from which he received his degree in 1893. Passing his bar examinations in 1894, he entered the law office of Logan, Clark 81 Demond. In 1896 he accepted a proposal from Masten 81 Nichols, gaining marked success, until 1902, when he became the senior member of the f1rm of V an Ingen, Siebert gl Paddock. His record at the bar left no doubt of the professional distinction that awaited him had he lived. I-Ie was a skillful, persuasive. forcible speaker, and he combined with other valuable endowments the faculty of application, the spirit of industry, and remarkable energy. For several years prior to the time of his death Mr. Van Ingen had taken a deep interest in, andexhibited a natural talent for public affairs, and there is good reason to believe that had he lived, he would have been called to important public stations. lrVhile always a strong Republican, he was the positive and practical foe of party offenses. In 1902 Mayor Low appointed him a member of the City Board of Education, but no sooner had he become a useful member of that important board than another opportunity presented itself for more valuable public service. For years the abuses at Ellis Island, New York, the chief immigrant sta- tion of America, had been notorious. To put an end to these abuses, President Roosevelt appointed Williain Wil-

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BIOGRAPHIES. 123 CLARK GREENWOOD VOORHEES was born May 29, 1871, in Old Lyme, Conn. Chapin's Collegiate School of New York City prepared him, and he entered college at the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing the Chemistry course. His father, Charles Henry Voorhees, was born April 14, 1831, in New York City. He is a descendant on his father's side from Steven Coert Van Voorhees, who came from Heeze in Holland in 1660, and settled at New Amersfort, L. I. Cn his motherls side from the Vlfeld, Willsloxv and Weiiclell families of Boston. Before his death, which occurred in New York City, March 8, 1893, he was a stock broker in New York. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Greenwood, was born in New Y orkCity. She was a granddaughter of John Greenwood, surgeon to George VVashington and others, who fought at Bunker Hill, Bennington, Trenton, and was later Captain of a privateersman. He has four sisters: Eliza Van Namee, Clara Meeker, Jane Daniels and Margaret Dorland. He married Maud Christine Folsom, daughter of George Wfinthrop Folsom, a graduate of Columbia, August 10, 1904, in Lenox, Mass. In 1896 Voorhees started in to become an artist, having received the degree of M.A., in Columbia in 1894. He wrote two subjects, one Proteids of VVheat Kernel, being published by the Academy of Science in 1893, and the other, '4Proteids of 'Cotton Seed, published by Thomas Osborne, Ph.D., under whom he worked at the time of publication. He had a Fellowship in Chemistry at Columbia in 1893. He received a bronze medal from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, for a picture entitled Lyme church, and was also given the Hallgarten prize at the exhibition of the National Academy of Design, in New York, 1905, on a picture entitled Spring afternoonf' He says he is a hereditary Republican. He is a member of the Yale, Century, Salamagunde and Badminton clubs of New York. x