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# Compiled from a sketch by Professor George II. Taylor.
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electing a board of trustees, composed of Dr. Henry L. Van Dyck, president; Peter Van Schaack, Jr., secretary and treasurer ; Peter I. Hoes, John I. Prnyn, James Clark, John L. Van Alen, John G. Philip, Francis Silvester, and John P. Beekman.
Professor John Glezen, formerly principal of Lenox (Massachusetts) Academy, was installed principal of the new institution, and remained connected with it four years. He was succeeded by his assistant, Silas Metcalf, a graduate of Williams College, who watched over the school with the greatest fidelity for twenty years. During his régime a female department was added to the school, and also a de- partment for normal instruction. In 1836 the school ont- grew its quarters, and a new academy building, the one now in use, was erected. The records give an account of quite an extended programme of its dedication, including an oration by Hon. Francis Silvester.
In 1847 Mr. Metcalf resigned his position, and Mr. Alexander Watson, a graduate of Edinborough University, assumed the charge of the school, and this, traditionally, is the highest point which the academy reached in its past history. Mr. Watson was a man of ripe scholarship, of rare literary attainments, remarkable skill in inspiring his pupils with his own enthusiasm, and, in addition, a peculiar ability in managing a school. He retained the charge of the institution until 1852, when he resigned, and was suc- ceeded by Mr. Poucher, who remained but three years, when Mr. Watson returned, and continued his connection until 1857. Since then the history of the academy has been checkered. The succeeding principals have been Messrs. Edgar H. Perkins, - Bisbee, J. S. Fancher, - Cal- kins, John B. Steele, Walter Scott, M. Van Schaack, and George F. Cole.
The present principal, George H. Taylor, A.M., has been for many years a teacher of classics at Phillips Academy, and proposes and expects to place the school again in the enviable position which it held more than twenty years ago. He has a full corps of efficient assistants, and is already fitting several pupils for college. The academy has a library and philosophical apparatus. The number of pupils for the present year numbered over sixty, and the prospects are very much brighter the coming year.
The academy building is very pleasantly situated on a spacious lot on Albany avenue ; is a two-story frame build- ing, with a good basement, well furnished with recitation- rooms and chapel and hall. It commands a fine prospect of the Catskills, and is well adapted for the purposes for which it was erected.
Among the more noted of the long roll of alumni, we find the names of Hon. Samuel J. Tilden ; Rev. Dr. C. V. A. Van Dyck, the most prominent living Arabic scholar ; Hon. H. N. Van Dyek, his brother, the late United States sub-treasurer at New York city, and superintendent of pub- lic instruction for the State of New York ; William Allen Butler, Esq., of New York city (author of " Nothing to Wear"); Hon. George Van Santvoord (author of " Equity Jurisprudence"); Aaron J. Vanderpoel, Esq., one of the foremost practitioners at the New York bar; Dr. S. O. Vanderpoel (for many years health officer of the port of New York); Judge Verplanck ; Hon. P. H. Sylvester,
M.C. ; Hon. Guy V. Pelton, M.C .; Hon. Francis Silvester, and many others who cannot be mentioned in this limited space.
We cannot close this account without one word in regard to the trustees who have so carefully watched over the in- terests of this institution. Until May 15 there had been but three presidents : Dr. Van Dyck, Dr. Beckman, and Hon. W. H. Tobey, who passed to his rest so lately. To the last named the present existence of the academy is due. For its interests he labored at all times, and those best acquainted with the history of the school give to him the credit of preserving this ancient school; and so long as it stands, so long will his name in connection therewith be remembered with the greatest honor.
The present board of trustees is as follows :
President, Peter V. S. Pruyn, A.M., M.D .; Secretary and Treasurer, Aug. W. Wynkoop ; C. H. Wendover, W. R. Mesick, W. H. Rainey, John Bray, Charles Palmer, B. Van Alstyne, F. Silvester, H. Van Alstyne, C. Wild, and J. A. Reynolds.
KINDERHOOK RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
The early settlers of the town were under the religious supervision of the Dutch church at Albany. In 1677 that body applied to the council for an order to secure the pun- ishment of evil-doers, " and to prevent and punish severely the shameful violation of the Sabbath, especially committed by the inhabitants of Kinderhook ;" and asked that Jochem Lambertse, deputy sheriff, strictly attend to the order and bring the offenders to justice.
Again, in 1702, the church, or some of its members, came to grief by reason of it having been reported to his excellency, the governor, that they had without authority employed one Paulus Van Vleck to preach to them. Four of the recusants were sternly summoned to New York to answer, and were compelled to do so, although it was mid- winter. They said, in defense, that they had not em- ployed him as minister, but had merely accepted him as precentor and schoolmaster. After giving the best expla- nation they could, and making the most humble apologies, they were severely reprimanded and allowed to return as best they might, through the snow and ice, to Kinderhook.
These facts show, beyond reasonable doubt, that at some time during the last twenty years of the seventeenth cen- tury there was established at Kinderhook, under the auspices of the Albany church, a preaching station, which was the germ of the present
REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH,*
which was formally organized in 1712, by Dominie Petrus Van Driessen, of that ( Albany) church, although the con- gregation had been supplied with preaching before this period by Rev. Van Driessen and his predecessor, Rev. Johannes Lydius. The first preserved records are dated May 27, 1716, and contain the first consistory of the church here named : Stephanus Van Alen and Abram Van Alstyne, elders ; Burger Huyck and Dirck Goes, deacons. Other male members, so far as can be ascertained now,
* From a sketch by the pastor, Rev. E. A. Collier.
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D. W. GARDENIER.
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RESIDENCE OF DAVID W. GARDENIER, KINDERHOOK NY.
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were J. L. Van Valkenburgh, Peter Vosburgh, Lawrence Van Schaack, Peter Van Buren, Bartholomew Van Valk- enburgh, Jan. Goes, Peter Van Alen, Johannes Van Dusen, Johannes Van Alen, Joachim Lamberson, Thomas Van Alstyne, Isaae Vosburgh, Peter Van Slyek, Lambert Huyck, Barent Van Buren, Matthew Goes, Cornelius Schermerhorn, John Van Alstyne, Lucas Van Alen, Tobias Van Buren, Jacob Van Alen, Hendrick Gardenier, Abram V. Van Valkenburgh, Leender Counyn, Jacobus Van Alen, Aendries Prosie, Thenis Van Slyek, Thomas Wieler, Melchert Vander poel, and Abram Yausen.
Preaching was supplied in connection with the Albany church, and by other supplies, among them Rev. John Jacob Ehle, until 1727, when the Rev. Johannes Van Driessen, brother of the Albany dominie, who was ordained to the holy office by the faenlty of Yale College, commenced a pastorate which continued eight years. One-third of his time was devoted to the churches in Claverack and the Livingston manor. During his ministry the first church edifice was built. It stood very near the present residence of Mrs. John H. Reynolds. Its site was at one time a burial-plat. Some still living remember it as a plain wooden structure, with its lofty wine-glass shaped pulpit ; with its little high stand, where the chorister stood and read the Commandments and the Psalm ; with its bell-rope coming down into the centre of the middle aisle. Forty- nine were added to the church metubership during Mr. Van Driessen's ministry, of which number only two were received by certificate. He records one hundred heads of families as members of his congregation. After Mr. Van Driessen's removal to New Jersey (where he is supposed to have died and been buried), the church was destitute of a pastor for about twenty years, and was again dependent upon such occasional ministrations as could be obtained from Albany and elsewhere. Services were evidently held with considerable regularity ; and in each year, except four, there were more or less aeeessions to the membership. The average was about three each year.
The second pastor was Rev. Johannes Casparus Freyen- moet. Ile was edneated in Ilolland, and settled in Mini- sink, in New Jersey. In 1756 he accepted the call of the united congregations of Kinderhook, Claverack, and the Livingston manor. His ministry of about twenty-one years was apparently blessed with several seasons of revival. He received one hundred and fifty-eight into the member- ship of the church ; all but twenty-two of these by con- fession. He was buried under the old church ; but when the present edifice was built his remains were reinterred beneath it.
The third pastor was Rev. Johannes Ritzema. He also was educated in Holland, and had been settled in New York, as pastor of the Collegiate church. His ministry here commenced when he was sixty-eight years of age, and continued ten years. During this period forty-two were added to the church. His remains are in the cemetery at- tached to the church.
Rev. Isaae Labagh, the fourth pastor, also labored ten years, and received one hundred and thirty-five into church fellowship. Until his time the preaching had been wholly in the Dutch language. He introdneed the practice of
having a part of the services in English. Up to nearly the elose of his ministry, in 1799, the records of the church, covering a period of more than eighty years, are all written in Dutch.
The fifth pastorate, that of Rev. Jacob Siekles, D.D., was longer than any two others. It began with the pres- ent eentury, and continued thirty-four years. It was marked by many signal tokens of God's favor. The years 1807, 1821-22, and 1831, were times of peculiar mercy. As the result of the great revival of 1821 three hundred and two were received upon confession of faith in one year. And during his entire ministry it was his privilege to wel- come eight hundred and eight to the communion of this chureb, six hundred and cighty-six of these being received on confession. The old church edifice having been in use some eighty or ninety years, and being considerably the worse for its age, it was resolved to build a new house of worship on the lot at present occupied by the church.
The second building, a plain but neat and substantial brick structure, was erected in the years 1813-15. It was dedicated Ang. 13, 1815, the sermon being preached by Rev. Gilbert R. Livingston, then of Coxsackie. This building, abont fifty by sixty-five feet, as first built, was enlarged by the addition of about twenty-five feet in 1851. In December, 1867, it was destroyed by fire, the walls alone remaining.
The present edifice was erected on the same site, and has in part the same walls. Its dimensions are abont fifty by ninety, with a chapel forty-five by fifty-five, forming a re- versed L. Its cost was about forty-two thousand dollars. In elegance and completeness of appointments it is sur- passed by few country churches anywhere. It was dedi- cated May 19, 1869. The sermon was by Rev. H. D. Ganse, then of New York ; the dedieatory prayer by the Rev. Edward A. Collier, the pastor of the church when it was rebuilt.
The long and most successful pastorate of Dr. Sickles was terminated by his resignation, on account of the multi- plying infirmities of advanced age. He was assisted a year by the Rev. Cushing ; and the Rev. E. Van Aken, the sixth pastor, was his colleague about the same length of time. During the latter's ministry twenty-six were added to the church. Rev. Sickles closed his earthly life among the people he so long served Jan. 19, 1846.
The seventh pastor, Rev. Henry Heermance, labored zealousły and most successfully for about one year. Owing to failing health he was then compelled to resign his charge. Forty-seven professed their faith in Christ during his brief ministry. His body rests among his people.
The eighth pastorate, that of Rev. John C. Vandervoort, continued five years. During his ministry one hundred and twenty were received into the church, all but twenty by confession. His sepulchre also is in the church cemetery.
The ninth pastorate, that of Rev. B. Van Zandt, began in the year 1842 and continued ten years. Forty-nine were received by confession and seventy-six by letter. During his ministry, and largely through his exertions, the church edifice was repaired and enlarged to its present size. The titles to the pews were at the same time placed upon a new and more satisfactory basis.
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The ministry of Rev. O. Bronson, the tenth pastor, was one of signal ability. Although his stay in the church was brief, his gentleness of spirit and his devotion to his Master's work will not soon be forgotten. He labored in the church about three years ; received sixty-one to church fellowship ; resigned on account of poor health.
In 1857 the Rev. J. Romeyn Berry became the eleventh pastor, and continued the spiritual leader of the church until 1863. He received ninety-nine members on pro- fession and fifty by certificate. In 1858, after the great revival, he received sixty-nine members on profession.
The pastorate of the Rev. Edward A. Collier began in 1864, and, with two exceptions, has continued longer than any of his predecessors. One hundred and fifty-eight com- municants have been received on confession and eighty-four by letter. The aggregate membership of the church has been about two thousand, and at present (1878) numbers three hundred and thirty-five, belonging to one hundred and eighty families.
The church has contributed liberally to the formation of other societies, and is the parent of half a dozen churches of the Reformed denomination. Not a few baptized by her pastors have occupied positions of honor and usefulness in the varied walks of life. Martin Van Buren was an habitual attendant upon her services. Within her walls he was baptized, and thence was borne to burial. Among sev- eral sons given to the ministry, the most widely known is Dr. C. V. A. Van Dyck, the honored missionary in Syria, and one of the translators of the Arabic Bible.
It is not known when the first Sabbath-school was organ- ized, but it was many years ago. There was also an effi- cient missionary society here, but its members have nearly all passed away and its records have been scattered.
The village Sabbath-school numbers at present about one hundred and thirty, with a library of three hundred and fifty volumes. It has for years supported a catechist in India.
Officers of the church : Pastor, Edward A. Collier ; Elders, Christopher H. Wendover, Nicholas W. Harder, Jacob F. Platner, Manson Van Schaack ; Deacons, Peter S. Hoes, James Mix, John H. Van Valkenburgh, William V. S. Beekman ; Treasurer, William H. Rainey ; Sunday- school Superintendent, J. S. Hosford. Several of these are descendants of the first recorded officers of the church in 1716-17.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF KINDERHOOK
became a legal body July 24, 1843. The following trus- tecs were chosen to attend to the temporal affairs of the church : J. B. Jenkins, John N. Stickles, Jesse Merwin, Franeis W. Bradley, Henry Snyder, Andrew H. Kittle, and William Thomas. These appointed a building com- mittee, composed of F. W. Bradley, J. N. Stickles, and J. B. Jenkins, who erected a small meeting-house in the east- ern part of the village of Kinderhook, in 1844. In 1871 this house was enlarged to afford accommodations for three hundred persons, and it is now an inviting house of wor- ship, whose estimated value is four thousand five hundred dollars.
The services of the Methodist church were held in the town prior to 1843, but that year it became a separate
charge, having Rev. Elijah Crawford as pastor. Since that period the pastors, in the order of their connection, have been Revs. James N. Shaffer, Thomas Ellis, Hiram Chase, J. Leonard, P. R. Stover, Oren Gregg, Thomas A. Griffin, Seymour Coleman, G. Ward, Richard F. Wade, J. G. Phil- lips, Alvin C. Rose, Hiram Chase, J. W. Belknap, William Clark, Henry Smith, S. S. Ford, J. W. Quinlan, Wm. Ryan, Elam Marsh, and (since 1876) J. P. Haller.
The church has at present seventy-five members, and maintains a flourishing Sunday-school of eighty-five mem- bers, which is superintended by Robert Loman. It sup- ports a library of one hundred and twenty volumes.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHI OF KINDERHOOK
became a corporate body Jan. 28, 1834, when Horace Bid- well, Zepheniah E. Reynolds, and Fred. D. Tucker were clected trustees. A meeting-house had been erected in the western part of the village the year previous, in which the worship of the society was maintained a number of years. The removal of members and other circumstances caused a suspension of services. The society disbanded, and the house has been converted to other uses.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH (EPISCOPAL) OF KINDERIIOOK.
The services of the Episcopal church were first regularly held in Kinderhook in the fall of 1850. These resulted in the organization of the present society, Jan. 18, 1851. An attractive house of worship was soon after commenced in the village of Kinderhook, which was consecrated June 22, 1852, by Rev. Carlton Chase. The rector, Rev. Fred. T. Tiffany, preached the first sermon after the consecration, June 27, 1852, and remained with the church until July 2, 1856.
Since that period the rectors and officiating ministers of the parish have been as follows : Rev. Rolla O. Page, 1856- 58; Rev. Porter Thomas, 1859-62 ; Rev. George Z. Gray, 1862-65 ; Rev. John Rutherford, 1866-67; Rev. Edward Hale, officiating minister, 1870, died March 17, 1871 ; Rev. William Henry Capers, 1871-72; Rev. Newton Dex- ter, 1876-78; Rev. S. Hanson Coxe, 1878.
In 1872 the chapel was rebuilt and very much beautified. It has sittings for one hundred and fifty persons, and is valued, with the rectory adjoining, at six thousand dollars. The parish has fifty-five members.
THE AFRICAN BETHEL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF KINDERHOOK VILLAGE
was organized in 1855, and in 1858 a legal organization was effected by electing John H. Smith, Ephraim J. Simp- son, and Peter Burgert trustees, under the church laws of the State. The first pastor was Rev. Lewis L. Lewis, and there were sixteen members. At present the number is seventy, and the pastor is Rev. D. K. Jackson. The Sab- bath-school has forty members, superintended by George Post. The chapel owned by the society has sittings for one hundred and fifty persons, and has an estimated value of one thousand dollars.
THE ST. LUKE'S LUTHERAN CHURCH OF KINDERHOOK, at Valatie, was organized with twenty-four members, in 1826, by the Rev. Jacob Berger. The first official board
PHOTO BY J. R. ALLIS. CHATHAMVILLAGE.
NATHAN WILD.
NATHAN WILD
was born at Manchester, England, in the year 1790. He and his brother James came to this country early in the present century, and were identified with the history of cotton manufacturing for nearly fifty years. His first em- ployment was with the Slaters of Rhode Island, and then with his brother at Columbiaville, in this county. In 1817 he settled at Valatie, forming, with his associates,-Benja- min Baldwin and James Wardle,-the Kinderhook Manu- facturing Company, and began the spinning of cotton yarn and weaving cotton shirting by hand-looms in the mill now known as the Davis paper-mill. This process was continued till about the year 1825, when the power-loom was intro- duced.
Mr. Wild started the first power-loom that was run in this State. Under his energetic management the Kinder- hook Manufacturing Company became the owners of the
mills and water-power on the Valatie creek, where, in 1828, they built a brick factory for sixty looms (a large mill at that time). In 1833 the Kinderhook Manufactur- ing Company was dissolved, Mr. Wild taking the property on the Valatie creek. In 1845 he visited England, and soon after his return he erected a factory for ten thousand spindles and two hundred looms. He continued in busi- ness till 1858.
Mr. Wild was one of the most enterprising men of his time. His prompt and honorable dealing, his public spirit in promoting all improvements for the general wel- fare, his active sympathy for, and just dealings with, his employees through his long business career, were very prominent traits of his character, and won for him the respect and esteem of all who knew him.
He died in 1867, at the age of seventy-seven years.
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was composed of Peter T. Van Slyck, John I. Van Buren, and John M. Pultz, trustees; Jacob Goodemort, Adam Trimper, and Tunis Sour, elders ; and George Tator, John P. Marquart, and George M. Pultz, deacons.
A meeting-house was erected about the time the church was organized, which was remodeled in 1854. It is a sub- stantial edifice, having accommodations for three hundred and fifty persons, and is valued at nine thousand dollars.
The clergy connected with the church, as pastors and stated supplies, have been Revs. Jacob Berger, Reuben Deidrich, J. F. Smith, Wm. D. Strobel, M. Sheleich, W. W. Gulick, Irving Magee, T. W. Bird, John C. S. Weils, J. L. Harkey, J. Zimmerman, and (1878) P. F. Sutphen.
The church has about one hundred and fifty members, and the following officers : Trustees, E. H. Silvernail, James H. Kingman, W. II. Silvernail; Elders, John Huyck, James Van Slyck, Fred. W. Miller; Deacons, Stephen I. Pultz, William J. White, Benjamin Baldwin.
A Sunday-school, having eighty members, under the superintendence of the pastor, is maintained.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF VALATIE
was organized, Sept. 6, 1833, as the " Second Reformed Church of Kinderhook." In January, 1835, it became a Presbyterian body, having as elders George Brown, George P. Horton, John G. Schoemaker ; deacons, Jacob D. Hoff- man, Anthony J. Pulver, and Henry G. Scism.
The first church edifice was erected in 1834, at a cost of three thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars. It is a frame, forty-five by sixty-six feet, and was used by the society until June, 1878, when it became the property of the village for a public hall.
The present edifice is one of the handsomest in the county. It stands on a large and beautifully-located lot in the northern part of the village, and was begun in the fall of 1877, the corner-stone being laid October 18; and the house was ready for consecration June 11, 1878. It is a brick structure, trimmed with blue limestone, and was designed after an old German cathedral. It consists of a main building forty-one by sixty-five feet, and a chapel at its eastern end twenty-five by fifty-three feet, and so arranged that it may be used in connection with the main room. The roofs are steep, and covered with variegated slate. In front of the building is a massive brick tower, through which is the main entrance to the church, and at the north end of the main vestibule is a covered driveway for the use of occupants of carriages in unpleasant weather. The windows are finely shaped, and contain beautiful stained glass. The ceiling of the church and the waiu- scoting are of plain spruce wood, and other wood-work is finely finished in natural colors.
The house is lighted by gas manufactured on the prem- ises, and is in all its arrangements complete and conveni- ent, having accommodations for seven hundred persons. It was erected under the direction of Charles H. Housman, D. Strain, and H. L. Miller, as a building committee, at a cost of thirteen thousand dollars.
The present officers of the church are: Trustees, Charles Wild, A. Magee, M. M. Miller, P. Blollier, James Van Al- styne, and J. B. Richmond ; Elders, J. W. Peterson, C. F.
Davis, F. Van Ness, and L. Lant ; Deacons, L. Phelps and William Alston.
The pastors of the church have been Revs. David Cush- ing, Washington Roosevelt, J. Slocum, J. E. Rockwell, S. R. Dimmock, William Whittaker, C. T. Berry, George O. Phelps, J. C. Boyd, and (in 1878) Samuel Carlile.
In 1871, during the pastorate of Rev. George O. Phelps, a great revival occurred, resulting in more than one hundred and eight additions to the church membership.
A flourishing Sunday-school, having two hundred and thirteen members, is maintained by the church. Alexander Abbott is the superintendent. It has a library of more than three hundred volumes.
THE VALATIE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI
was incorporated March 9, 1835, having as trustees John Penoyer, Stephen Moorehouse, David Lant, Francis Scher- merhorn, Jolin B. Steeves, Joseph Lawrence, and William M. Wilcox. A meeting-house, erected in 1844, has been remodeled, and has sittings for two hundred and forty per- sons ; it is worth five thousand dollars, and the parsonage adjoining two thousand dollars. The present trustees are Peter P. Van Slyck, Isaac Miller, Thomas Mesick, Lucas Shaver, and J. W. Merwin. The church has ninety-eight members, under the pastoral care of the Rev. C. A. S. Heath. Other pastors of the church have been Elijah Crawford, J. N. Schaffer, P. R. Stover, R. T. Wade, C. C. Bedell, A. A. Farr, J. W. Beiknap, William Clark, J. W. Quinlan, M. D. Jump, and J. C. Fenton.
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