New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs, 1917-1918, Vol. I, Part 54

Author: Sackett, William Edgar, 1848- ed; Scannell, John James, 1884- ed
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Patterson, N.J. : J.J. Scannell
Number of Pages: 594


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JAY TEN EYCK-Newark, (404 Mt. Prospect Ave.)-Lawyer. Born at Cohoes, N. Y., on Nov. 18th, 1864; son of Abram and Han- nah G. ( Dodge) Ten Eyck ; married in Newark, on June 26th, 1894, to Henrietta Muller, daughter of the Rev. L. C. Muller, of Newark.


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Children : Margaret, born September, 1896; Barent. born June, 1903.


Jay Ten Eyck was the Presiding Judge of the County Courts in Essex. He is now Associate Counsel of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com- pany, of Newark.


Mr. Ten Eyck's parents went from Cohoes when he was five years old to New Albany, Ind., and two years later to Waterford, N. Y., the schools of which he attended from 1871 to 1881. He came to Newark when he was seventeen years old and two years later began the study of the law in the office of Coult & Howell. He passed the examination for admission to the bar in 18SS, and has since engaged in the practice of the law in Newark, be- coming a member of the firm of Coult, Howell & Ten Eyck.


The New Jersey Supreme Court appointed him an Examiner to examine applicants for admission to the bar; and in December, 1905, Gov. Stokes selected him to act as Judge of the Common Pleas of Essex County, to com- plete the term of Judge A. F. Skinner, who had resigned. In April, 1906, he was reappointed for the full term and he served until April, 1911. Later in the year, Chancellor Mahlon Pitney appointed him an Advisory Master of the Court of Chancery. In June, 1912, he was selected to act as Associ- ate Counsel of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. He is also a member of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel.


Ex-Judge Ten Eyck is a member of the Lawyers Club of Essex Coun- ty and the Essex Club. Mrs. Ten Eyck has a wide reputation as a singer, and is frequently heard at society and church functions.


HENRY S. TERHUNE-Long Branch. (176 Broadway.)-Law- ver. Born at Matawan, June S, 1860 ; son of William L. Terhune.


Henry S. Terhune is a Judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. His mother was a sister of Henry Stafford Little, who for a quarter of a century was one of the dominant forces in the politics of New Jersey. Mr. Little was a democrat and one of three or four state leaders who practically named every Governor and every United States Senator for more than twenty years. He was Clerk of the Court of Chancery from 1881 to 1886, and a large donor to the equipment of Princeton University. Henry S. Terhune was a favored nephew and became his heir.


Mr. Terhune is a graduate of Princeton University and made himself proficient in law at the Columbia College Law School. He studied the practice in the office of John S. Applegate at Red Bank, and was admitted. to the Bar as an attorney in 1885 and made a counselor in 1890. Opening an office in Long Branch he has since been engaged in the practice there.


Mr. Terhune served for many years as chairman of the Democratic Committee of Monmouth county. In 1890 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1913 Gov. Wilson appointed him a Judge of the State Court of Errors and Appeals. His term of six years will expire in 1919.


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G. WISNER THORNE-Newark. (10 James Street.)-Editor and Publisher. Born at Newark, on September 16. 1849; son of Lewis A. and Louisa (Mills) Thorne.


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The name of G. Wisner Thorne, who is widely known for his interest in the newspaper, church and benevolent life of Newark, is redolent of Revolutionary memories. Henry Wisner, a member of the Continental Con- gress in 1874-'75-'76, and Gabriel Wisner, who was killed in the fighting at Minisink in '79, were of his lineal ancestors. Timothy Mills, a "minute man" in Morristown, was also of his line: and Major Richard Thorne, an- other, was a Revolutionary patriot on Long Island. The Thorne family, coming from England early in the seven- teenth century, settled first in Massachusetts and about 1650 at Great-Neck, L. I. It was in Long Island also that the Wis- ner family had its beginnings in America. Johannis Wies- ner, a soldier under Marl- borough, was awarded a grant of land on Long Island by Queen Anne of England and came hither to settle on it. Henry and Gabriel Wisner, his descendants, had their home in Orange county. N. Y.


G. Wisner Thorne was edu- cated in the Newark Academy, and at the age of seventeen, found employment with the "Newark Evening Courier." After serving that paper, the "Newark Journal" and the "New York Sun" as a reporter, he joined the staff of the "Sunday Call" of Newark, and to- day is the chief editor of the paper and the President and Treasurer of the company which publishes it.


He is a member of the Episcopal Church and for eight years has been a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Newark and a Trus- tee of St. Barnabas Hospital. Newark, for a dozen years. He is also a Trustee of the Young Women's Christian Association, was for eleven years President of the New Jersey S. P. C. A. and is now one of its managers.


Mr. Thorne's club memberships are with the Essex and Union of New- ark, and the Baltusrol Golf Club. He is also a member of The Washington Association.


EUGENE THWING-Englewood .- Author, Publisher. Born in Quincy, Mass., January 17, 1866; son of Edward Payson and Susan Maria (Waite) Thwing ; married on June 26, 1890, to Mary Eva Steinmetz, daughter of Conrad F. and Catherine E. Steinmetz, of New York.


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Children : Grace Eva, born May 24, 1892; Walter Eugene, born March 28, 1895; Gertrude Dorothy, born June 2, 1899.


Eugene Thwing was educated first in the public schools and after- wards at Adelphi College in Brooklyn. When he was eighteen years of age, he became connected with the Funk & Wagnalls Company of New York and under its auspices founded "The Circle Magazine" in 1906. A year later he bought the magazine; and, founding The Thwing Company, Publishers, in 1910, consolidated it with the magazine, "Success" and "National Post" in 1912 and issued them under the combined title of "The Circle and Success Magazine."


Interested in the pure food movement, he organized the Purity Products Company in 1913 and became its President and Treasurer. For several years past he has been giving courses of lectures to men at the West Side Y. M. C. A. on busines correspondence, advertising, salesmanship, etc.


Mr. Thwing's father was a Congregational clergyman ; Mr. Thwing him- self is of the Methodist faith. In politics he has been in sympathy with the Progressive movement. His books are: "The Red Keggers" (1903), "The Man From Red-Keg" (1905), and "Thwing's Business Letters" (1911). He has in preparation a ten-volume set of his writings on business and practical philosophy under the title, "Work and Mastery."


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EZRA SQUIER TIPPLE-Madison .- Seminary President. Born in Camden, N. Y., January 23, 1861; son of Martin and Sarah E. (Squier ) Tipple ; married June 24, 1897, to Edna E. White, daughter of Al- bert E. F. and Nellie A. White, of Detroit, Mich.


Ezra S. Tipple has been President of Drew Theological Seminary since 1912 and is the author of several books on theological subjects.


Dr. Tipple graduated from Syracuse University in 1884 with the A. B. degree and from Drew Seminary in 1SS7. In 1SS5 Syracuse University con- ferred the A. M., in 1886 the Ph. D., in 1899 the D. D. and in 1913 the LL. D. degrees up- on him.


Upon taking orders in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became pastor of the St. Luke's Church in New York in 1887, of Grace Church in 1893 and of Saint James Church in 1897.


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From 1901 he was the Executive Secretary at New York of the Metropolitan Thank-Offering Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church until 1904 when he became Pastor again of Grace Church.


Dr. Tipple was appointed Professor of Practical Theology in Drew Theological Seminary in 1905 and held that chair till he was made Presi- dent of the Seminary. He is a Trustee of the Board of Education of the Methodist Church, a Trustee of Syracuse University and the Carmel School for Girls, member of the Board of Managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Secretary of the Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Delta Upsilon Fraternities.


Besides contributing to the religious press, Dr. Tipple is the author of "Heart of Asbury's Journal" (1905), "The Minister of God" (1906), "Drew Sermons"-first series (1906), second series (1907), "Drew Sermons on the Golden Texts" (1908, 1909, 1910), "Life of Freeborn Garrettson" (1910), "Some Famous Country Parishes" (1911) and "Life of Francis Asbury" (1916).


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EDWARD WATERMAN TOWNSEND-Montclair. (246 Upper Mountain Avenue. )-Author. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 10, 1855 ; son of Horace Gilbert and Anna Eliza ( Thornton) Town- send ; married on April 16, 1884, to Annie Lake, daughter of Judge Delos and Myra (Clarke) Lake, of San Francisco, Cal.


Edward W. Townsend's best known books are collec- tions of his "Chimmie Fad- den" stories, though he is the author of other works. Since he came to New Jersey he has interested himself in the poli- tics of the state on the demo- cratic side and represented the 7th New Jersey District in the 62nd Congress and the 10th New Jersey District in the 63rd Congress. Upon the com- pletion of his second congres- sional term, President Wilson appointed him Postmaster of Montclair and he is still hold- ing that position.


Congressman Townsend was educated in the public and private schools of Cleveland and, moving to New York City, became attached to the editorial department of the "New York Sun." He was still in that relation when he achieved his great success with


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"Chimmie Fadden." Other works of which Mr. Townsend is anthor are "Major Max" (1895), "A Daughter of the Tenements" (1896), "Near a Whole Cityful" (1897), "Days Like These" (1901), "Lees and Leaven" (1903), "A Summer in New York" (1903), "Reuben Larkmead" (1905), "Our Constitution-Why and How It Was Made, Who Made It, and What It Is" (1906), "Beaver Creek Farm" (1907) and "The Climbing Conrvatells" (1909).


THOMAS WHITAKER TRENCHARD-Trenton, (810 Riverside Avenue.)-Jurist. Born at Centreton, Salem Co., December 13, 1863; son of Wm. B. and Anna M. Golder Trenchard; married at Red Bank, on November 9, 1891, to Harriet M., daughter of Rev. Dr. Joseph K. and Beulah Young Manning.


Thomas Whitaker Trenchard acquired his education in the public schools of Bridgeton and at the South Jersey Institute. Bridgeton is the county seat, and Justice Trenchard's father, who was the Clerk of the County for many years, made his home there. Meanwhile Justice Trench- ard finished his school years at the South Jersey Institute, graduating with the class of 1882. Selecting the law for his profession, he went into the office of Potter & Nixon as a student. and at the November term of 1886- was admitted as an attorney and seven years later took his certificate as a counselor.


Practising his profession in Bridgeton, he was made Solici- tor of the City by the Bridge- ton Council in 1892, and he continued in that relation un- til 1899, when he was appoint- ed Common Pleas Judge. From 1893 to 1899 he was counsel also to the Board of Health of the City of Bridgeton. During these years he represented as: counsel many of the smaller imunicipalities of Cumberland county.


He was elected in 1888 to a seat in the House of Assembly of 1889, and seven years later he was named by the Republican State Convention as a candidate for Presidential Elector. The Republicans carried the state at the poll, and he was one of them whose votes made William McKinley President and Garret A. Hobart, of Paterson, Vice President of the United States.


Justice Trenchard's connection with the Bench began in 1899. when Gov. Voorhees appointed him Law Judge of Cumberland county. Gov. Murphy reappointed him in 1904, but before the expiration of his term ou


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the County Bench, Gov. Stokes sent his name to the Senate for Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The death of Justice Jonathan Dixon had made a vacancy on the Bench of that court. After he had filled Justice Dixon's unexpired term, Gov. Stokes re-named him for the full term of seven years. Gov. Fielder reappointed him for a third term in 1914.


For some years he presided in the First Judicial Circuit, but in 1911 a vacancy occurring in the Third Circuit, he selected that Circuit, embracing the counties of Mercer, Hunterdon and Warren, and has since presided there.


Justice Trenchard was one of the organizers of the Cumberland County Bar Association and is connected with the Sons of the Revolution and with the Trenton Country Club.


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ROBERT JOHNS TREVORROW-Hackettstown .- Clergyman. Born at St. Ives, England, May 21, 1877; son of Anthony and Dorcas Quick (Johns) Trevorrow ; married on October 25, 1905, to Editha Carpenter, daughter of L. Everett and Mary Meatlake Carpenter, of Newburgh, N. Y.


Children : Robert Johns, Jr., born August 27. 1908.


Robert Johns Trevorrow was, in 1917, elected President of the faculty of Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown and ceremoniously in- stalled as the head of the Institute in May of that year. The chairman at the installation function was Egbert J. Tamblyn, President of the Board of Trustees. Al- ma Mater greetings were ex- tended by President E. S. Tip- ple, of Drew Theological Sem- inary, for the Board of Edu- cation, by Dr. J. Ackerman Coles for the Newark M. E. Conference and by Dr. James R. Joy for the Methodist Epis- copal Church. The Rev., Dr. Ralph B. Urmy read letters of congratulation from Presi- dents Hibben of Princeton Un- iversity, Pendleton of Welles- ley, and Guth of Goucher Col- lege and from Bishops Hender- son, Nicholson and others.


Dr. Trevorrow came to these shores very early in life. He graduated in 1898 from the University of the Pacific at San Jose, Cal., with the A. B. degree, three years later received the A. M. degree and in 1913 the D. D. degree from the College. In 1903 the Drew Theological Seminary at Madi-


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son conferred the B. D. degree. Ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1898, he became pastor of the Methodist Church at Stockton, Cal. In 1900, he became Associate in St. Paul's Church, New York City, re- maining in the pastorate there until 1905. Thence till 1913 he officiated in churches at Elmhurst, (L. I.), Carmel, Modena, Central Valley and Wood- lawn Heights, N. Y. Meanwhile, in 1911 and '12, he was a student in the Union Theological Seminary.


In 1913, Dr. Trevorrow became President of Drew Seminary for Young Women at Carmel, N. Y. His work there directed attention to him when the death of President Meeker created the vacancy at Centenary Collegiate Institute and his election as President of the Institute followed. Centenary Institute has been, since 1910, a school for girls only.


Dr. Trevorrow's clubs are the Wykagyl Country, the Kishawana Country, the Inter-Church Clergy and the Adelphi.


V JOSEPH P. TUMULTY-Jersey City .- Secretary to the Presi- dent. Born at Jersey City, May 5, 1870; son of Philip and Alicia Tumulty, of Jersey City ; married in 1904, to Mary Byrne, of Jersey City.


Mr. Tumulty comes of a family that has been active for two genera- tions in the public affairs of Hudson county. His father was conspicuous in Democratic politics and served in the State Assembly 1886-'87; and was later a member of the Jersey City Board of Works.


Secretary Tumulty was educated at St. Bridget's Parochial school and St. Peters College in Jersey City. He was graduated in 1899, with the degree of B. A. With the purpose of entering upon the profession of the law, he studied in the offices of Flavel McGee and Gilbert Collins in Jersey City and was admitted to the Bar of New Jersey in 1892.


Even while he was studying law Mr. Tumulty took an active interest in politics, and in 1906 he was nominated by the Democrats of Hudson county for the House of Assembly at Trenton. In his legislative career, Mr. Tumulty had to a degree imbibed the "progressive" atmosphere that was then beginning to envelop both parties; and Woodrow Wilson, President of the Faculty of Princeton University, who, in 1910, was elected to the Gov- ernorship on a progressive platform, tendered him the Private Secretary's desk in the Executive Department. Mr. Tumulty accepted and served in that capacity till Gov. Wilson's election to the Presidency of the United States.


Meanwhile in recognition of his services to the State, Gov. Wilson had also named him to fill the vacancy in the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mr. Tumulty's nomination was quickly confirmed by the Senate and he served in both capacities till Gov. Wilson resigned his office as Chief Executive of New Jersey, on the eve of his inauguration as President of the United States.


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On the day of his inauguration, March 4, 1913, President Wilson ten- dered to Mr. Tumulty the office of Secretary to the President, which he ac- cepted and he moved with his family to Washington.


As Secretary to the President, in all the trying times of President Wil- son's administration, he has been the President's trusted adviser and con- fidante.


WILLIAM EDGAR TUTTLE, Jr .- Westfield .- Merchant. Born at Horseheads, N. Y., on December 10, 1870; son of William E. and Frances M. (Bonham) Tuttle.


William E. Tuttle, Jr., came into the public life of New Jersey when in 1907 as a candidate for the Assembly from Union county he polled the largest vote ever given to a democrat in that county. In the following year he was a delegate to the National Convention at Denver, and eight years later in 1916 represented his district at the convention in St. Louis which renominated Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency.


Mr. Tuttle was elected to the House of Representatives from the Fifth Congressional District in 1910, re-elected in 1912. and. although leading his ticket by large margins, was the unsuccessful candidate of his party in the campaigns of 1914 and 1916. In 1915 he was appointed by President Wilson as the sole Commissioner of the United States to the National Expo- sition of Panama.


Congressman Tuttle was ed- ucated at the Elmira Free Academy and Cornell Univers- ity. He is engaged in the lum- ber business at Westfield, and his standing among business men is evidenced by the fact that he is now serving his third term as President of the New Jersey Lumbermen's As- sociation.


He has always found time to devote to public affairs, and for many terms served as Chairman of the Union County Democratic Committee. He was for several years Presi- dent of the Westfield Board of Trade and is a Director of the Mutual Build-


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ing and Loan Association and of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company of Westfield. He is a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington.


BENJAMIN A. VAIL-Rahway .- Lawyer. Born in Woodbridge, on August 15, 1844; son of Benjamin Franklin and Martha C. (Parker) Vail.


Benjamin A. Vail, ex-State Senator and ex-Judge is of Quaker origin, his grandfather, Benjamin Vail, an early settler upon a farm between Rah- way and Plainfield having been of the Society of Friends. The family had come from England to Massachusetts in 1637, and Edward Fitz Randolph, of Colonial memory, was one of his direct ancestors.


Senator Vail began his early schooling in the public schools of Wood- bridge and graduated from Haverford College in 1865. He studied law in the offices of Parker & Keasby, was admitted to the Bar in 1868 and be- came a counselor in 1871. He opened an office in Rahway for the practice of his profession and meanwhile engaged in public affairs. He was a member of the Rahway Council, in 1875 was elected to a seat in the New Jersey Assembly of 1876 and re-elected a year later to that of 1877. He served later for two terms for Union county in the State Senate and in 1884 pre- sided over that body. In 1898 Gov. Griggs appointed him Law Judge of the county and Gov. Murphy reappointed him in 1903. While he was sitting on that bench Gov. Stokes nominated him to the Senate for a Circuit Judge and he served until 1914.


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HENRY van DYKE- Princeton, ("Avalon") - Clergyman, Author, Diplomat. Born at Germantown, Pa., November 10, 1852; son of Henry Jackson and Henrietta (Ashmead) Van Dyke; mar- ried on December 13, 1881, to Ellen Reid, of Baltimore, Md.


Henry van Dyke was, until the time of his resignation in 1917, United States Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. He had been in 1902 and 1903 Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.


Dr. van Dyke graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn in 1869, and, entering Princeton, received his diploma with the A. B. degree in 1873. The University conferred the A. M. degree three years later, and in 1884 the D. D. degree. In preparation for his work in the pulpit. he entered Princeton Theological Seminary and graduating from there in 1877 took a course for two years at the University of Berlin. He was ordained in 1876, and three years later became pastor of the United Congregational Church at Newport, R. I. In 1883 he accepted a call to the Brick Presby- terian Church in New York City. He ministered in that pulpit until 1900. resuming his work in 1902 and 1911, without salary.


In 1900 he became Professor of English Literature in Princeton Univers- ity. The appointment as United States Minister at The Hague, was ten- dered to him by President Wilson in 1913. He served there during the great War of the Nations that broke out between the German-Austrian Alliance and the French-English-Russian Alliance in 1914. In September, 1916, he asked to be relieved of his post in order that he might have more


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freedom to speak and write his mind. At the request of the President he continued his official duties until early in 1917.


Dr. van Dyke's literary work and work in the Church as well have attracted wide attention ; and many of the colleges have honored him with scholarship degrees. Harvard conferred the D. D. degree in 1894 and Yale in 1896. Union in 189S, Washington and Jefferson in 1902, Wesleyan in 1903, Pennsylvania in 1906 and Geneva, Switzerland, in 1909 conferred the LL. D. degree. The University of Oxford conferred upon him its highest degree, D. C. L., in 1917.


Dr. van Dyke has been a Trustee of Princeton University, Preacher to Harvard, Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale, and in 1908 was American Lec- turer at the University of Paris. He was President of the Holland Socie- ty in 1900 and 1901 and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1909 and 1910. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorable Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ,and of the French Societe des Gens de Lettres.


Dr. van Dyke has contribut- ed much to the literature of the day. He is the author of "The Reality of Religion" (1884). "The Story of the Psalms" (1887). "The Nation- al Sin of Literary Piracy" (1SSS), "The Poetry of Ten- nyson" (1889). "Sermons to Young Men" (1893), "The Christ Child in Art" (1894), "Little Rivers" (1895), "The Other Wise Man" (1896), "The Gospel for an Age of Doubt" (1896), "The First Christmas Tree" (1897), "The Builders and Other Poems" (1897), "Ships and Havens" (1897), "The Lost Word" (1898), "The Gospel for a World of Sin" (1899), "Fisherman's Luck" (1899), "The Toiling of Felix and Other Poems" (1900), "The Poetry of the Psalms" (1900), "The Ruling Passion" (1901), "The Blue Flower" (1902), "The Open Door" (1903), "Music and Other Poems" (1904), "The School of Life" (1905), "Essays in Application" (1905), "The Spirit of Christmas" (1905), "Americanism of Washington" (1906), "Days Off" (1907), "The House of Rimmon" (190S), "Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land" (1908), "The Spirit of America" (1909), "The White Bees and Other Poems" (1909), "Collected Poems" (1911), "The Sad Shepherd" (1911), "The Mansion" (1911), "The Unknown Quantity" (1912), "The Lost Boy" (1914), "The Grand Canyon and Other Poems" (1914), and is editor of "The Gateway Series of English Texts," "Select Poems of Tennyson" and "Little Masterpieces of English Poetry" (6 vols.)


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Dr. van Dyke's club memberships are with the Century, University, Players, Authors, National Arts, Princeton, Franklin Inn, Ste. Marguerite, Salmon, San Francisco Fly-Fishers and Santa Catalina Juna.


JOHN CHARLES VAN DYKE-New Brunswick, (George St.) -University Professor. Born at New Brunswick, on April 21, 1856; son of John and Mary Dix (Strong) Van Dyke.


John C. Van Dyke has written the story of his ancestry, with all the color of a romance, in a brouchure issued in December, 1915, for private circulation. The first of the line of whom there is any record here is "Thomas Janse, the Immigrant," who came from Holland to the shores of Long Island toward the close of the sixteenth century-the first far-adven- turer in the family for several centuries. He was an old man at the time, and he brought his large family of sons and daughters with him. He landed at New Amsterdam, which at that time, in its oscillating rule between the Dutch and the English, was in control of the Dutch ; but he soon moved to the heights of Broekelene (Brooklyn). There he and his wife Sytie are duly recorded in 1661 as members of the First Reformed Church. Their son, Jan the Second, went to the locality known as New Utrecht and was among the first of the settlers there, became the "Sergeant of the Town"- a position which was probably in those days the equivalent of the Mayor of these days-and was also conspicuous in church work. His heirs sold his farm there in 1675 for 2500 guilders.




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