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Albert Albertse (2) married (first) Will- emtze Stevense Van Voorhees, by whom he had no children, and (second) Weyntje Brick- ers, by whom he had twelve children, and (third) Maritie De Garrison, widow of An-
*Throughout the Terhune narratives there are various spellings of certain proper names, different branches of the family preserving different forms.
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drew Tarbot, and by her he had three children. Children by second wife were: I. John (q. v.), born 1676. 2. Willemtze, baptized April 2, 1677 ; died young. 3. Annett, died in infancy. 4. Stephen, born April 4, 1680; married Lydia D. Marie. 5. Antje, born 1681 ; married Jacob Zabriskii. 6. Gerebrecht, born August 13, 1682; married Abram Houseman. 7. Will- emtje, born August 7, 1684; married Jacobus (James) Boughart. 8. Rachel, born August 20, 1690; married John H. Hoppe. 9. Goertjie, born November 6, 1694; married Hendrick Hendrese Banta. 10. Albert, born August 10, 1695; married Ann Maria Ackerman. II. Johans, born June 21, 1700; married Gesjen Westervelt. 12. Richard (Dirck), see for- ward. By his third wife he had: 13. Weyntje, born April 1, 1705; married Garret Lydecker and Lydecker married as his second wife Jo- hanna Waldrom, of Haarlem, New York. 14. Annetje, born December 15, 1706. 15. Mar- retti, born August 31, 1707 ; married Hendrick Barthold.
(III) Richard (Dirck), fifth son and twelfth child of Albert (2) and Weyntje ( Brickers) Albertse (Terhune), was born in Polifly, Ber- gen county, East New Jersey, November 15, 1702. He married, October 3, 1727, Cath- erine, daughter of Nicholas and Ann ( Breyant ) Kip, of Hackensack .. He was a member of the Dutch church at Hackensack in 1728. Chil- dren, born in Hackensack: 1. Albert, August 14, 1728. 2. Annetje, November 1, 1730. 3. Nicholas, see forward. 4. Weyntje, 1737; mar- ried Casper Westervelt. 5. Jacob, July 22, 1739 ; married Elizabeth Nagle. 6. Elizabeth, July 22, 1739. 7. Johannes, August 3, 1742. 8. Geertje, January 16, 1745. 9. Peiter, January 31, 1748.
(IV) Captain Nicholas (Nicasius), second son and third child of Richard and Catherine (Kip) Terhune, was born in Hackensack, Ber- gen county, New Jersey, January 15, 1736; died in Polifly, December 18, 1807. He was a farmer in the period of the American revolu- tion and was commissioned captain of the Polifly Camp, connected with the Bergen coun- ty regiment, commanded by Col. Teunes Dey. His commission as captain is dated February 28, 1776, and he served as such in the war of the American revolution and took an important part in establishing American independence. (See New Jersey records at Trenton and offi- cial certificate of R. Heber Brimptnall, ad- jutant-general, and Stryker's "Officers and Men in the War of the Revolution," p. 414). He married (first) Leah Porter, December 15,
1762; (second) Rysie Haring. Children of second marriage, born in Polifly, now Has- brouck Heights, Bergen county, New Jersey : I. Richard Nicholas, October 21, 1763 ; see for- ward. 2. Regel, September 20, 1767. 3. Paulus, March 19, 1771 ; married Sarah Paulison, and died in 1850. 4. Peterus, October 30, 1774. 5. Leah, October 16, 1782.
(V) Richard Nicholas, eldest son of Cap- tain Nicholas and Rysie (Haring) Terhune, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, October 21, 1763; died August 5, 1824. He married, December 19, 1790, Hannah, daughter of Nich- olas, and granddaughter of Lucas Van Voor- hees. She was born May 12, 1769, died April 24, 1855. Children, born in Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey : I. Nicholas (Nicausa), January 14, 1792 ; married Aryana Marsellise, and their only son was John Nicholas Terhune, judge of the county court of Passaic county. 2. Albert, September 20, 1794; married Nelly Post. 3. Paul, see forward. 4. Dr. Garrit, October 9, 1801 ; see sketch. 5. Peter Richard, July 9, 1803, on the homestead in Lodi ; mar- ried, September 1, 1824, Maria Brinckerhoff, born February 18, 1806, daughter of Ralph and granddaughter of Richard Brinckerhoff (1747-1838), of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey ; children : Richard Paul, Margaret and Albert . Brinckerhoff. He died January 18, 1879.
(VI) Paul (Paulus), third son of Richard Nicholas and Hannah (Van Voorhees) Ter- hune, was born in Lodi, Bergen county, New Jersey, April 13, 1799. He married, May 19, 1821, Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah (Van Voorheese) Zabriskie, and they had one son Richard, see forward. Paul Terhune died in Lodi, New Jersey, July 2, 1826, and his widow married John Van Dien.
(VII) Richard, only son of Paul and Han- nah (Zabriskie) Terhune, was born in Lodi, New Jersey, April 20, 1822 ; died there, Febru- ary 12, 1889. He married Ann Maria, daugh- ter of James H. and Sarah (Van Giesen) Brinckerhoff, December 9, 1841. She was born December 6, 1820, died March 22, 1906. Chil- dren, born in Bergen county, New Jersey, their residence being near Lodi in that county: I. Albert R., December 7, 1843; married Alice Jane Clark, October 3, 1871; had no issue ; died August 19, 1876. 2. Rachel Romeyn, Au- gust 13, 1846; died October 8, 1872; married H. P. Doremus, March 12, 1867 ; had two chil- dren : Annie S. Doremus, married Alfred Burrows, and had two children: Allen and Henry P. Burrows ; and Richard T. Doremus, married Gertrude Mesillus, and had no issue.
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3. John, August 8, 1847; died December 9, 1874; never married. 4. Anneta, December 29, 1849; died October, 1879; married H. P. Doremus, September 9, 1874, being his second wife; she had no issue. Her husband died November 22, 1907. 5. Sarah Elizabeth, June I, 1852; died November 22, 1889; married William S. Anderson, November 7, 1877, she being his second wife; two children: Richard T. and Sarah E. Anderson. 6. James Henry, February 7, 1855 ; died October 19, 1875 ; un- married. 7. Aletta Van Dien, September 4, 1857; died November 10, 1858. 8. Herman Van Dien, see forward. 9. Paul, September 25, 1861 ; died unmarried, November 22, 1884. IO. Aletta Van Dien, June 15, 1864 ; died May 28, 1887 ; married Edmund H. Simonton, Sep- tember 1, 1885; they had one child, Alice Pauline Simonton, born November 18, 1886. Edmund H. Simonton died June 25, 1893.
(VIII) Herman Van Dien, fourth son and eighth child of Richard and Ann Maria (Brinckerhoff) Terhune, was born in Bergen county, New Jersey, at his parents' home, near Lodi, September 29, 1859. He received his secondary education in Bergen county and took a full course in Packard's Business Col- lege, New York City. He procured a clerk- ship in the office of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in their New York office, where by regular promotion he is now occupying a re- sponsible position. He changed his residence to Passaic, New Jersey, in 1889, where he be- came a member of the First Reformed Church, known by his ancestors as their church home for seven generations, but first known as the Dutch Reformed Church, the first church erected on Manhattan Island and in which his immigrant ancestor, Albert Albertsen, had his children baptized. He was also a member of the Order of American Mechanics. He is un- married.
TERHUNE (II) Jan Albertse Terhune, eldest son of Albert Albertse (q. v.) and Geertje Terhune, was born in Flatlands, Long Island, or more probably in New Amsterdam, but no record of the date of his birth appears to have been preserved. He was a farmer in Flatlands and his name is recorded among the members of the Dutch Reformed Church of that place in 1677; as a deacon in 1687. He took the oath of allegiance to the English crown in 1687 as a native, and he was lieutenant of mili- tia, 1691, and captain of the militia in 1700. In 1690 he and others obtained a tract of land
near Duck creek at St. Johns on the Delaware (vol. iii., "Documents of Colonial History"). According to the records of the Dutch church at Flatlands he paid November 1, 1686, 16 gl. for a grave for his son; on March 25, 1688, 19 gl. 10 st. for a grave for his wife; April 15, 1693, 20 gl. for a grave for his mother ; De- cember 1, 1703, 12 gl. 10 st. for a grave and the use of a pall; and November 5, 1704, 22 gl. for graves for two of his children. His will is dated February 20, 1696. He died, it is supposed, in 1705.
He married, June 6, 1691, Margreetje Van Sychellen, of Flatlands, and their children were: I. Roelof, married, May 5, 1706, Mar- rietie or Maryke, daughter of Gerret Pieterse Wyckoff, of Flatlands, and they had eight chil- dren. 2. Albert, see forward. 3. Anche, of whom there is no further trace. The grave purchased by the father, December 1, 1703, "for a grave and the use of the pall" may have been for this child.
(III) Albert, second child of Jan Albertse and Margreetje (Van Sychellen) Terhune, was born in Flatlands, Long Island, and baptized in the Dutch church in that place, April 13, 1684. He was a farmer in Flatlands, and his will was dated April II, 1721, and probated December 18, 1721. He married, December 17, 1708, Aaltje Voorhees, who was baptized at Flatlands, Long Island, October 4, 1785; children : 1. John, see forward. 2. Gerret, of whom we have no further knowledge. 3. Anna, who probably married Cornelius Bulsen, and had a son Albert Bulsen, baptized in New York, May 9, 1742. 4. Willemtje, married, prior to 1730, Jacob Duryee, baptized May 26, 1750, in Kings county. 5. Sarah, who is sup- posed to have married, about 1730, Hermanus Barkeloo, and had children : Maria, Johannes, Hermanus, Willemtje, Sarah and Jaques Barke- loo, born between 1731 and 1747.
(IV) John, eldest child of Albert and Aaltje (Voorhees) Terhune, was born in Flatlands. Long Island, New York, in 1709 or 1710. He was brought up on his father's farm, which he inherited. He was a deacon in the Dutch church there in 1723. He married Nelly Denyse.
(V) Albert (2), son of John and Nelly (Denyse) Terhune, was born in Flatlands, Long Island, New York, in September, 1733. He appears not on the records of Flatlands and evidently removed to Middlesex county, New Jersey, probably with his father and mother, and where he married and had a son Abraham, see forward.
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(VI) Abraham, son of Albert (2) Terhune, was born on his father's farm, near Princeton, Mercer county, New Jersey, August 15, 1760; died there, in 1854. He married Marcia Will- iams and lived on the farm three miles from Princeton in Mercer county, where his chil- dren were born. He was an officer of the American army in the revolutionary war, serv- ing as lieutenant and had command of his com- pany at the battle of Springfield, Union coun- ty, New Jersey, June 23, 1780. He was also with Washington at Valley Forge and at New- burgh, New York. Children of Lieutenant Abraham and Marcia (Williams) Terhune were: I. Albert, born May 4, 1787. 2. Albert, 1790; married Rachel Pittinger. 3. Samuel, April, 1792; married a Miss Skillman. 4. John, see forward.
(VII) John (2), fourth son of Abraham and Marcia (Williams) Terhune, was born in Mercer county, New Jersey, on the Terhune farm near Princeton, May 4, 1793; died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 9, 1886. He was a public-spirited man from disposition and inheritance, and served his county as lay judge and marshall. He married (first) Etta, daughter of John and Christina (Letson) Let- son, of Raritan Landing, New Jersey. They were cousins. John and Etta (Letson) Ter- hune had eleven children, born in New Bruns- wick, New Jersey, three of whom died in in- fancy and so young that they were not named. Their eight children, who were named at bap- tism, were: I. William Letson, married Mar- garet Little, of Mattawan, New Jersey, and they had six children. 2. Mary, married James Parsons Greenleaf, of Brooklyn, New York, and had no issue. 3. Lewis, died unmarried. 4. Anna Louisa, born December 8, 1826; mar- ried Rev. John Gaston. 5. John, married Kate Nevius. 6. Rev. Edward Payson, married, September 2, 1856, Virginia Hawes, of Amelia county, Virginia, popularly known under the name "Marion Harland," and their son, Al- bert Payson Terhune, author, No. 200 West Seventy-eighth street, New York City, and their daughter Christina, became popular and versatile literary writers. 7. Christina, mar- ried Hatfield Frazee. 8. Margaret, died un- married. He married (second) Mary Jane Davidson, a native of Maryland.
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(VIII) Howard Davidson, only child of John and Mary Jane (Davidson) Terhune, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Decem- ber 16, 1859. He received his entire school and college training in that city, being grad- uated at Rutgers College, A. B., 1878. He re-
ceived the degree of LL. B. from Columbia University Law School in 1881 and began the practice of law in Paterson, New Jersey, where he had a law office, 1881-84. He engaged in the banking business in Mattawan, New Jer- sey, 1884, and in 1889, with other financiers, organized the Hackensack National Bank at Hackensack, New Jersey, and was made its cashier, which office he still held in 1909. He became in this way closely identified with the public welfare of Hackensack and he inter- ested himself in its various institutions and enterprises.
He married, December 21, 1881, Jane M., daughter of Cornelius J. and Rachel E. (Ack- erman) Cadmus, of Passaic, New Jersey, and their only son, John Creswell, was born March 21, 1886, and their only daughter, Elizabeth, October 5, 1892. The Cadmus family dates from John Cadmus, who was a soldier in the American revolution and was captured by the British army during their occupation of the city of New York, and confined in the Old Sugar House in Rose street, used at the time as a prison for soldiers captured in the war. His son, Cornelius, married Jane Van Riper, and their son, James, married Mary, daugh- ter of Michael and Mary (Mandeville) De Mott, February 28, 1828, and their son, Cor- nelius J., married Rachel E., daughter of Peter H. and Margaret (Banta) Ackerman, and their daughter, Jane M. Cadmus, became the wife of Howard Davidson Terhune and the mother of John Creswell Terhune, who is a descend- ant in the sixth generation from John Cadmus, the patriot prisoner of the Old Sugar House, 1777, and in the ninth generation from Albert Albertse Terhune, the Huguenot immigrant settler in New Amsterdam before 1654.
TERHUNE (III) John Terhune, eldest child of Albert (q. v.) and Weyntje (Brickers) Terhune, was born in Flatlands, Long Island, 1676. He removed to Bergen county, New Jersey, and settled in Hackensack, where he lived with his wife, Elizabeth Bartholf ; children: I. Hende- syckje, April 2, 1701 ; married Jacob Deickse. 2. Martin, November 15, 1702 ; married Hentje Bartholf. 3. Albert, May 2, 1704; married Sarah Lee. 4. Martinse, May 2, 1706. 5. Sarah, March 4, 1708; married Lorins Van Basherhen. 6. Annetta, May 29, 1710. 7. William, December 20, 1711. 8. Stephanus (Stephen), see forward.
(IV) Stephen, youngest child of John and Elizabeth (Bartholf) Terhune, was born in
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Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, No- vember I, 1713. He married, August 6, 1713, Susanna Alje, and after her death married Maria Bogart. Children of Stephen and Sus- anna (Alje) Terhune, born in Hackensack, New Jersey : 1. Jan (John), August 21, 1738; served in the American revolution in 1776 with the rank of ensign. 2. Peterus, August 31, 1740. 3. Elizabeth, November 28, 1742. 4. Margitje, February 10, 1745. 5. Antje, Octo- ber 7, 1746. 6. Jocobus (James), October 26, 1748. He married Maydela Nogel and served in the American revolutionary war with the rank of captain. 7. Albert, October 28, 1750. 8. Guilliam (William), see forward.
(V) William, youngest child of Stephen and Susanna (Alje) Terhune, was born Janu- ary 21, 1753, in Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey. He married, about 1779, Gaitje or Margaret Terhune, born in 1760. Children, born in Hackensack : I. Albert G., February 6, 1780; died January 19, 1832. 2. Elizabeth, November 4, 1781 ; married a Zabriskie, whose christian name does not appear on the records at hand. 3. Martin G., see forward. 4. Ste- phen G., February 17, 1783; died October 3, 1864. 5. Maria, October 14, 1784; married William Rutan ; she died August 20, 1835. 6. Margurite, January 24, 1790; married John Leighton.
(VI) Martin G., second son and third child of William and Gaitje ( Margaret) (Terhune) Terhune, was born in Hackensack, New Jer- sey, September 8, 1782; died January II, 1857. He married Tynje Berdon ; children: I. John Martin, see forward. 2. William C., born Jan- uary 19, 1827 ; was a surgeon in the civil war, 1861-65, and practiced his profession in Hack- ensack, New Jersey, during his entire life. He married Mary Frances Adams and they had no children.
(VII) John Martin, eldest son of Martin G. and Tynje (Berdon) Terhune, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, October II, 1808. He married Marie De Born, born October 16, 1808. Children, born in Hackensack, New Jersey : I. Martin J., married Martha M. Ack- erman. 2. William, died in infancy. 3. Al- bert J., August 8, 1828 ; married Margaret Hill, and they had three children : William Eret, born August 23, 1859, died young ; John E., married Ellen Vast ; Mary Alida, died unmar- ried. 4. William Henry, see forward.
(VIII) William Henry, fourth son of John Martin and Maria (De Born) Terhune, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, September 14, 1843. He married Euphemia Post; chil-
dren, born in Hackensack, New Jersey: £
I. John Irving, see forward. 2. Walter, born August 28, 1869 ; married Nellie S. Phillips, of Trenton, New Jersey, and they had two chil- dren: Anna Hazelton, born November 16, 1892, and Katheline Phillips, born June 6, 1894.
(IX) John Irving, eldest child of William Henry and Euphemia (Post) Terhune, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, September 6, 1865. He received his primary education in the public schools of Hackensack, graduat- ing from the Hackensack high school. He became an apprentice in a machine shop in Paterson, New Jersey, using his leisure time in studying mechanical engineering and draught- ing under a private instructor. On complet- ing his apprenticeship, he accepted the position of superintendent in another machine shop in Paterson, where he remained up to 1900, when he resigned to establish the business of mechan- ical engineering and building on his own ac- count. This business, as the J. I. Terhune Machine Works, soon assumed large propor- tions and ranked among the first in that city. His knowledge of the business enabled him to act as patent attorney in many cases referred to him that came before the courts. He affili- ated with the Masonic fraternity and in the order was regularly initiated in the various degrees and in 1909 was a member of the Blue Lodge. He was also a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and was past grand of the Hackensack Lodge. By right of descent he became a member of the Holland Society of New York.
He married, September 4, 1888, S. Idenia, daughter of William H. and Sarah Tilt. They made their home in Paterson, New Jersey, where their children were born: I. Hazel I., September 7, 1889. 2. Florence May, January 8, 1892 ; died March 6, 1892. 3. Irving Russel, April 8, 1893. 4. Walter E., April 26, 1896. These children are in the tenth generation front Albert Albertse Terhune, the immigrant, who appeared in New Amsterdam before 1654.
TERHUNE (IV) Albert Terhune, eldest child of Richard (Dirck) (q. v.) and Catherine (Kip) Ter- hune, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, August 14, 1728. He married Mary Demarest and they had children : Catreynje, January 31, 1753; Maragretje, January 22, 1755; Dirck (Richard), November 5, 1756; Jacobus (James), February 2, 1759; Peter, June 22,
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1761; Johannes (John), February 2, 1765; Elizabeth, May 1, 1767 ; Albert, see forward.
(V) Albert, youngest son and eighth child of Albert and Mary ( Demarest) Terhune, was born in Polifly, New Jersey, April 12, 1771. He married his cousin, Rachel Terhune, about 1793, and they lived in Paramus, where his children were born: Martin, see forward; Hester, married Peter A. Ackerman ; Hendrick C., born February 13, 1803, married Maria Banta, died in 1851; Paulus, December II, 1804; Jacob, June 22, 1811; Phoebe, Novem- ber 12, 1815.
(VI) Martin, eldest child of Albert and Rachel (Terhune) Terhune, was born in Pa- ramus, Bergen county, New Jersey, February 9, 1795; died there, May 4, 1839. He was a well-to-do farmer. He married Catherine Ack- erman, born August 18, 1799, died December 13, 1853. They had at least seven children and probably a number more. These children, born in Paramus, were: Peter Blauvelt, see for- ward; John; Abram; David Martin; Rachel, married Jacob Bogart ; two other children who died young.
(VII) Peter Blauvelt, eldest son of Martin and Catherine (Ackerman) Terhune, was born in Paramus, Bergen county, New Jersey, where he was a prosperous farmer and died in 1898. He married Maria, daughter of Stephen and Susan (Rutan) Quackenbush, and they had children: John, see forward, and Peter.
(VIII) John, son of Peter Blauvelt and Maria (Quackenbush) Terhune, was born in Godwinsville, Bergen county, New Jersey, Au- gust 4, probably in 1848, and died in Hacken- sack, New Jersey, May 3, 1905. He was edu- cated in the public schools and later was grad- uated from the New Jersey State Normal Col- lege and from Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He was an author, publicist and inventor. He identified himself with the public schools of New Jersey, having been for many years superintendent of public instruction in Bergen county, which office he held at time of death. He established the first public school libraries in the United States, and was the originator of the teachers' library act. Through his influence many such libraries were established throughout New Jersey, and the idea was later taken up in most of the other states. He associated himself with the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, in encouraging the planting of trees and in making Arbor Day a practical means to this end. Mr. Terhune caused many new and modern school buildings to be erected, and through his efforts the num-
ber of school teachers, together with their average pay, was very greatly increased. Mr. Terhune married Elizabeth Hall. Children, born in Ridgewood, New Jersey: Warren Jay, see forward; Wilbur Blauvelt, born Octo- ber, 1871, married Eva Dawson, has one child, Elizabeth.
(IX) Warren Jay, eldest child of John and Elizabeth (Hall) Terhune, was born in Ridge- wood, New Jersey, May 3, 1869. He attended the public school at Midland Park and the Hackensack high school, and was graduated from the latter in 1885. He was appointed a cadet at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, by Hon. William Walter Phelps, representative in congress from the fifth congressional district, and was graduated past-midshipman with the class of 1889. He served on the United States steamship "At- lanta" up to 1891, when he was commissioned ensign and served on the United States steam- ship "Bennington" in South American and European waters for two years. While in the Mediterranean waters he served on one of the three caravels built by order of the United States government and intended for exhibition at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 ; these were duplicates of the three vessels that made up the fleet under the command of Christopher Columbus when he crossed the At- lantic and discovered America in 1492. Mr. Terhune was present at the national reviews in Genoa, Cadiz, Palos, and later in the inter- national reviews at Hampton Roads and in New York harbor. He subsequently served on board the United States ship "Mononga- hela," and on board the torpedo boat "Cush- ing." His land service was in 1896-97, on duty in the department of the navy at Washington, D. C., in the office of the judge-advocate-gen- eral. He was again afloat in 1898 on board the United States steamship "Yantic," in South American waters. In the Spanish-American war he was assigned to the United States monitor "Terror," on blockade duty on the northern coast of Cuba, and was present at the bombardment of the Spanish fortification of San Juan, Porto Rico, and the various oper- ations of the naval fleet in Cuba and Porto Rico waters. In 1899 he was ordered to the United States steamship "Alliance," serving in West Indian waters up to July, 1899, about which time he received his well-earned com- mission as lieutenant, being honored by skip- ping the intermediate rank of lieutenant-junior. He was on duty at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, from July, 1899, to June,
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1901, when he was ordered to the United States steamship "Buffalo," served on that ship in European and West Indian waters, and subse- quently in the same ship made a voyage from New York to Japan and return. He was then ordered to the, United States steamship "Al- bany," and made a voyage to Cheefoo, China, where he was transferred to the United States steamship "Raleigh," on board of which he was executive officer up to June, 1904, when he was ordered home from China. He re- ceived promotion to lieutenant-commander on July 1, 1905. He was instructor of physics and chemistry. at the United States Naval Acad- emy, 1904-06, and in the latter year was de- tached from the Naval Academy to become executive officer on board the United States steamship "Arkansas." In June, 1906, he was ordered to the United States steamship "Maine," flagship of Rear-Admiral Evans, served as navigator on the admiral's staff for one year, was then made executive officer of the "Maine," and in that battleship made the celebrated voyage with the fleet around the world. In February, 1909, Lieutenant-Com- mander Terhune was assigned to duty on the staff of the admiral commandant of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the Holland Society of New York, New York Yacht Club, Army and Navy Club of New York, Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, Dyker Meadows Golf Club, Fort Monroe Club, and of Pioneer Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Hackensack. The decoration of the order of the Bust of Bolivar was conferred upon him by the president of Venezuela for his services in promoting friendly relations be- tween the United States and that country.
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