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Mr. Russell remained as president until July 19, 1970, when he resigned and was succeeded by Jansen Hasbrouck, who served until July 28, 1877, when Mr. Augustus H. Bruyn, the present incumbent, became his successor .. Mr .. Trumpbour served as treasurer until his death, July 10, 1863. He was succeeded by Edwin W. Budington, who continued in that office until April, 1867. James E. Os- trander was then appointed, and has held the office for thirteen years, being the present treasurer. With Mr. Ostrander has been associated as assistant treasurer Mr. Matthew T. Trumpbour, son of the first treasurer.
The present board (May, 1880) consists of A. HI. Bruyn, President; William B. Fitch, First Vice-President; James Kiersted, Second Vice-President ; Caleb S. Clay, Secretary ; W. S. Kenyon, Jausen Hasbrouck, George Il. Sharpe, Daniel Johnston, and one vaeaney.
The increase of deposits during the years of expansion and of general prosperity, the highest point reached in 1873, and their subsequent decrease, form an interesting study. The list is as follows: Jan. 1, 1867, 8546.873.14; 1963, 8763.850.90; 1869, 81,091,720.95; 1870, 81,390,- 389.82; 1871, 81.777,026.76; 1872, 82.028,197.30; 1873, 82,196,070.33; 1974, 82,129.979.11; 1875, 82,- 119.887.52; 1876, 82,159,898.69 ; 1877, 82.130,432.37; 1878, 82.114,005.55; 1879, $1,070,841.37; 1880, 81,- 840,377.34. .
During September, 1873, the great panic month of the panic year, this bank paid every man his money when asked for at the desk. May 1, 1830, the deposits amount to $1,867,535.17.
STATE OF NEW YORK NATIONAL BANK.
The men who were especially active in seenring the founding of this institution were Jacob Burhans, Henry HI. Reynolds. Peter Masten, Richard W. Toppen, Jacob D. Hasbrouck, Peter C. Lefevre, and Elijah Du Bois. The preliminary organization was made April 15, 1853. The act of Legislature under which they were incorporated was dated April 19, 1853. The commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock were Jacob Barhans, Richard W. Toppen, Moses Mulks, Henry H. Reynolds, Peter Masten, and Jame. V. Evous was appointed agent to receive the first instalhuent of stock to be paid in. The board of directors named in the act were Jacob Burhans, Henry H. Reynolds, Moses Mulks, Henry Brodhead, Jr., Richard W. Tappen, Peter Masten, Humphrey Jewell, Al. exander II. Burhans, Egbert A. Clark, Severyn Hasbrouck, Samuel North, Ehiakiom Sherrill. The last five, however, did not accept the trust, and the vaenneies were filled by Anthony Benson, William Hathaway, J. Du Bois Has- brouck, Harvey S. Ladu, and Peter C. Lefevre. The first meeting of directors was hell June 8, 1553.
The bank opened for business October 5th of that year. The first banking-house was in Fair Street, the building wow owned and partly occupied by Dr. Ingalls. The bank was moved to Wall Street in 1865, and occupied the build- ing now owned by Reuben Reynolds. The change from a State to a national bank took place in 1865. The original capital was 8125,000. In 1869 the State of New York National Bank purchased the franchise ($200,000 capital)
and the building of the " First National Bank,"* and re- moved their business to the corner of John and Wall Streets.
Officers of the Bank .- 1853-60, Jacob, Burhans, Presi- dent ; II. HI. Reynolds, Vice-President ; B. M. Hasbrouck, Cashier. 1860-67, HI. Brodhead, President; R. W. Tap- pen, Vice-President ; H. H. Reynolds, Cashier. 1867-GS, HI. Brodhead, Jr., President; A. Near, Vice-President ; HI. II. Reynolds, Cashier. 1868-76, Elijah Du Bois, President ; A. Near, Vice-President ; Charles Burhans, Cashier. 1876-80, Elijah Du Bois, President ; A. Near, Vice-President ; F. A. Waters, Cashier.
The present board of directors (May, 1880) includes the following uames : Elijah Du Bois, Andrew Near, A. H. Bruyn, Ira Hetfinan, Josiah Hasbrouck, E. M. Brigham, J. S. Burhans, Daniel Johnson, Wesley Shultis, Peter C. Lefevre, C. P. Ridenour, George II. Sharpe, Cornelius Oliver, Hiram Davis, Jacob II. Davis.
ELIJAH DU BOIS.
(Charles,5 Joshua,' Johannes,3 Matthew, = Louist) is sixth in regular line of descent from Louis Du Bois, who was born in the province of Artois, in Northern Franee, Oct. 27, 1626,-married Catherine Blanshan, daughter of a burgher of the city of Mannheim, Germany, Oct. 10, 1655. In 1660, with his wife and two sons,-Abraham and Isane, both of whom were born in Mannheim, where they lived, --- he sailed for America, fleeing from country and kindred for God and liberty. He was the first Protestant of the name in this country. First established himself in Hurley, where he kept a store and traded with his neighbors and with the Indians until 1663, when Hurley was almost entirely de- stroyed by the Indians and many white people taken pris- oners, among whom were his wife and three children, who were subsequently rescued.
Louis Du Bois was the first elder of the French Re- formed Church, established at New Paltz in 1683. . The descendants of Louis Du Bois in the settlement and history of Ulster County have been numerous and influential. In the struggle for the independence of the colonies during the Revolutionary period, and in the war of the Rebellion, the Da Bois were patriotie, and rendered sympathy and active co-operation in all the plans and efforts made neces- sary in the formation and establishment of the Union and in its preservation ; and whether on the battle-field as private soldiers or military leaders, as legislators to make the laws, as judges, magistrates, attorneys, and jurors to administer them, as agriculturists and tillers of the soil, as merchants and business men, as doctors, as founders of churches and promoters of church and educational interests, their genera- tions have been characterized by resolution, patriotism, in- dustry, morality, Christianity, and virtue. ( A fuller account of this old and prominent family may be found in other parts of the history of Ulster County.)
Joshua, grawlfather of Elijah, born in 1745, married Miss. Schepmous, of Kingston, by which marriage he hat one son,-Joshua. After the death of his first wife he mar.
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ried Miss Masten, of which union were born two children, -Charles and Ann.
He followed farming during his life in Kingston, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; was a man of sound judgment and integrity in all the relations of life. Ile died at about the age of seventy-eight.
Charles, father of Elijah, born in 1785, married Catherine, daughter of Jacob Hendricks, of Flatbush. His children were Harriet, widow of the late John I. Eaman, Tunis (deceased), Elijah, Margaret (deceased), Jacob UI., a lawyer in Kingston for some thirty years, died in February, 1875, and John Gosman (deceased).
Charles Du Bois was an enterprising business man. He was engaged quite extensively in farming, owning consider- able real estate in Kingston, and carried on a tannery and mercantile business in Kingston for about twenty years. Ile was one of the principal contributors and one of the building committee in the construction of the Second Re- formed church in Kingston, and all through life an active and influential church member, and also an elder in the church for many years. He was connected with many local organizations in Kingston, aud was a worthy citizen. Ile died in 1859.
Elijah Du Bois was born June 29, 1816. He received a liberal education during his minority. At the age of twenty he became a partner with the late John H1. Caman in a general mercantile business. After a few months Mr: Eaman went to New York, and Mr. Dubois carried on the business alone for about one year, when Mr. Kaman return- ing, they were in business for three years together, and MIr. Hauran retired from the firm. Mr. Du Bois continued in trade successfully until 1859, when, upon the death of his father, he assumed the duties of settling the estate.
For several years both he and his father had been con- uceted with the banks of Kingston, and in October, 1865, he was elected cashier of the State of New York Bank, and in November of the same year, upon the death of lemy II. Reynolds, the president of the bouk, Mr. Da Bois was chosen president, which position he retains in 1886.
M :. Du Bois has been identified with the various local enterprises of his native town ; was early in life an active member of the First Reformed Church, and a deacon for some time. Upon the organization of the Second Re- formed Church he took an influential and active part, and has for some years been an eller in that church.
He was one of the trustees of the old academy, and has been a member of the Board of Education under the new school regulations. He married, in May, 1810, Loui-a, daughter of Rev. Peter Overbagh, of Saugerties, by whom he had one daughter,-Mary, wife of Henry Abbey, of Kingston. Ilis wife died in October, 1842. He married (second), in January, 1846, Elena V., daughter of John V. 1 .. Overbagh, of Saugerties. Of this union were born Caroline Louisa (deceased) ; Charles V., of the firm of Clay, Merritt & Da Bois, Kingston ; Carrie O., wife of Daniel E. Keyser ; Louis A., a graduate of Rutgers College, in the class of 1878, and a student-at-law in Columbia College, New York ; and Annie F. The mother of these children died Nov. 9, 1877.
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HENRY H. REYNOLDS,
son of Abraham and Sarah Folger Reynolds, was born in New York City, July 21, 1812. He received a liberal education during his boyhood; and at the age of fifteen be- came a clerk in a dry-goods house in the city, where he remained until he reached his majority, when he established business for himself. In the great fire of 1837 he suffered considerable loss, but remained in trade until ISHI, when he came to Kingston, where for some time he was book- keeper in the Kingston Bank. He was chosen cashier of the Rondout Bank upon its organization, and remained in that office until nearly the time of the incorporation of the State of New York Bank, in Kingston, in 1853, when he became its vice-president. Subsequently, he was elected cashier, and upon the decease of the president, Heury Brodhead, he was elected president, which office he filled until his death. Nov. 23, 1863.
Mr. Reynolds was an active, enterprising, and influential citizen, and his efforts for the prosperity of the city and the best interests of its citizens were only commeusurate with his means to carry on to a successful issue whatever he conceived to be right.
At the age of nineteen he became a member of the Old South Reformed Datch Church, in New York, and upon his removal to Kingston he was, until his death, an active member of the First Reformed Church, and zealous and unremitting in his libor in the Sunday-school. It was here that Mr. Reynolds seemed most interested, and where, as an instructor, his natural ability and well-trained mind were powerful levers in the development of Sunday-school work.
II . was one of the prime movers in the establishment of Wiltwyck Chapel, and for many years largely instrumental in its promotion and growth, and since his decease this cherished place of worship has received large support from his family.
He married, in 1834, Mary Jane, daughter of Augustus and Aun Maria (Silvester) Wyukoop, of New York, -- a lady of rare womanly qualities and Christian excellence, who survives in ISSO. The Wynkoops were among the first settlers of Ulster County, and her maternal grandfather, Peter Silvester, was of English birth, practiced law in Al- bany, subsequently in Kinderhook, where he died, highly esteemed as a lawyer and a Christian.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RONDOUT.
This institution was organized in July, 1863. It com- menced doing business September Ist of that year. The first board of directors consisted of Thomas Cornell, Presi- dent ; William C. More, Vice-President ; Henry A. Samp- son, Lorenzo A. Sykes, James Westeott, Henry D. H. Suy- der, Michael J. Madden, James G. Lindsley, James L. Van Dasen ; Charles Bray, Cashier. Mr. Cornell remains as president (May. 1880), after seventeen years of service. William C. More hell the office of vice-president until his death, in 1867, when S. D. Coykendall was chosen to that position, which he now holds, and Mr. Bray is still the cashier of the bank. Of the original directors Messrs. More, Sykes, Sampson, and Westcott are declared.
The present board consists of Thomas Cornell, S. D. Coy- kendall, James G. Lind ley, M. J. Madden, Anthony Ben-
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son, E. K. Perkins, E. M. Brigham, A. S. Staples, James 1 .. Van Dusen. During the intervening period since the or- ganization A. A. Crosby and Robert HI. Atwater have also served in the board. The capital of the bank is $300,000. The present surplus, $100,000. Since its incorporation it has pail in dividends to stockholders $136,000, and has also paid taxes equal to its capital, $300,000.
RONDOUT SAVINGS-BANK.
The act incorporating this bank was passed March 24, 1SGS. The incorporators named in the act were Thomas Cornell, William Kelly,* James G. Lindsley, Henry A. Samson,* Lorenzo A. Sykes,* Walter B. Crane, Roelof El- ting, Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr., John Derrenbacher, John Maxwell, William H. Gedney, Samuel D. Coykendall, Michael J. Madden, Hiram Schoonmaker, $ Robert II. At- water, Nathaniel Booth, Edward Tompkins, Frederick Ste- phan, Jacob Hermance, * Thomas Murray, * Henry D. II. Suyder. Thomas Cornell was chosen President at the or- ganization, and is still occupying that position ; S. D. Coy- kendall, Vice-President, and A. Benson, Secretary. The first deposit was made by Thomas C. Coykendall, and not a dollar of that deposit has been drawn, but the whole re- mains in the bank with its accumulations for twelve years. Forty-three accounts were opened the first day.
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The present board (May, 1880) consists of Thomas Cornell, S. D. Coykendall, James G. Liudsley, Michael J. Madlen, John Derrenbacher, Frederick Stephan, Edward Tompkins, Nathaniel Booth, William Laston, A. S. Sta- ples, 1. 11. Crosby, A. Benson, J. E. Derreubacher. The latter is the present clerk.
THE KINGSTON SAVINGS-BANK
was incorporated by " an act to incorporate the Kingston Savings- Bank," passed April 23, 1874. The trustees named in the act were Robert Loughran. Augustus T. Newton (lied in 1877), Henry C. Connelly, James Van Leuven, James Myer. Jr. (resigneil July, 1575 , William H. Romeyn, George S. Coutant, Lucins Lawson, Michael Hallahan fre- signed July. 1875); Luke Noone, Isane Bernestein, Abraham II. Vandling, John R. Freer, James S. Pine (resigned Au- gust, 1874), Charles S. Clearwater (died in 1877), Fred- erick W. Ingalls, Willion H. Fredenbigh, James H. Van Demart, Benjamin Turner, Jacob Freilewch, Augustus Schoomaker, Jr., Jacob B. Van Deusen. The following trustees were elected to fail vacancies: John S. Buthans (elected January, 1875), Andrew J. Story (elected Jan- uary, 1879), Channecy Stewart (elected January, 1878).
The officers are as follows: President, Henry C. Con- nelly, elected June 4, 1871 ; First Vice-President, Angustus T. Newton, elected Jnne 4, 1874, died December, 1577; Frederick W. Ingalls, clected January 2, 1578; Second Vice- President. Frederick W. Ingalls, elected June 4, 1574 (elected first vice-president Jan. 2, ISTS) ; John S. Bur- hans, elected Jan. 2, 1878; Treasurer, William Henry Finch, elected June 11. 1874, resigned Oct. 31, 1876; M. Peter Schoonmaker, elected Oct. 31, 1876, resigned Aug. 2, 1ST9; Charles Buhans, elected Ang. 2, 1879. Finance Committee, Robert Loughran, appointed June 11, 1574;
Win. II. Fredenburgh, June, 1874, to January, 1875 : Lu- cius Lawson, June, 1874, to January, 1876; Jacob B. Van Deusen, June, 1874, to January, 1830; Charles II. Clear- water, June, 1874, died 1877; Isaac Bernstein, Jannary. 1875, to January, 1878; John S. Burhans, January, 1876 ; Luke Noone, January, 1878; Chauncey Stewart, January. 1878; John R. Freer, January, 1880. Attorney, Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr., appointed June 11, 1874.
XI .- LODGES, SOCIETIES, AND MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.
FREEMASONRY IN KINGSTON.t
THE OLD LODGES.
Tradition informs us that the ancient and honorable order of Free and Accepted Masons was instituted in the village of Kingston several years prior to the Revolutionary war. and from the time of its organization down to the year 1777. when the town was burned by the British army, held regu- lar communications for " work and instruction." It is pre- sumed by the older brethren of the order that the records of that period were destroyed in the general conflagratiou. as nothing concerning their whereabouts has ever been learned. After the Revolutionary struggle had ended, and the people had resumed their legitimate occupations, Free- masonry was among the first of the various institutions to be revived. Kingston Lodge, No. 10, is in possession of the old record book of "Livingston Lodge, No. 23," as early as the year 1790. From it we gather that the first Master installed into office to preside over its deliberations was Mr. John Addison, who served three successive ternis. In 1992. Moms Yeomans was elected Master, who also officiated for three years. In 1796, Moses Cantine was elected Master, and served the lodge so well that the brethren re-elected him again in 1797. In 1798-99, Peter Elmen- dorf, Jr., was Master. Mr. Chnendorf was succeeded by Past Master Moses Cantine in 1800, who was re-elected annually, and zealously presided over affairs, until 1:04. when he was superseded by John Beekman. Mr. Beek- man served a full year. and was re-elected in 1805. On the 26th of December, 1805, by resolution of the lodge, the warrant under which Livingstou Lodge was working wes surrendered to the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, and Masonry in Kingston ceased to exist as an organization. The cause for this summary action on the part of the members does not appear upon the record. The following are the names of the most active members of Livingstou Lodge at the date of its disbanding: John Addison, Moses Yeomaus, Moses Cantine, Peter Elmendorf, Jr., Peter New- kirk, Cornelius Beekman, Jr., Peter Ten Broeck, Arie Vau Vliet, Cornelius Radcliff, Elias Merwin, John Webster, C. E. Ehaendorf, John Livingston, Jacob J. Delamater, Charles Dewitt, James Oliver, Garrett Dewitt, Joseph Chipp, Garrett A. Newkirk, Abm. J. Hardenbergh, Iar Lefever, William N. MeDonald, Jonas Smith, John Beck- man, Ph. Van Keuren, Jr., Philip Newkirk, N. Vanderly# Jr., Joseph Dobson. Abm. Snyder, Solomon Hudler, at i Evart Bogardus. The entire membership of the lodge
t Condensed from a history published by Henry D. Baldwin, in the year 1870.
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was about 125, one-third of whom: resided in adjoining towns. During the years of its workings the lodge was frequently visited by men of note, among whom were the Clintons, Livingstons, Van Burens, and others, who not only stood high in the order of Masonry. but also filled enviable positions in the State and nation. The members observed regularly the 24th of June, -- the anniversary of St. John the Baptist,-and usnally secured from the Con- sistory the Reformed Dutch church of Kingston for their anniversary exercises. On one or two occasions Dominic Dall delivered the anniversary address, and at other times the brotherhood were addressed by distinguished persons from other sections of the State. A sumptuous dinner, got up in first-class Dutch style, generally closed the programme of the day.
From the 26th of December, 1805, to the 28th of Au- gnst, 1808, there was no regularly constituted lodge of Masous in Kingston. On the 29th of the last-named month, several officers from the Grand Lodge of the State assembled at the house of Evart Bogardus, in Kingston, and organized as a grand body for the purpose of insti- tuting " Kingston Lodge, No. 23." At this time the Hon. De Witt Clinton was Grand Master of the State of New York, and he deputized Philo Ruggles, Esq., of Pough- keepsie, to act upon this occasion in his stead. The fol- lowing persons were installed as officers of the new lodge by Deputy Grand Master Ruggles : Moses Cantine, Master ; Conradt E. Elmendorf, Senior Warden; Levi Jansen, Junior Warden ; Philip Van Keuren, Treasurer ; John Sudam, Secretary; John Chipp, Senior Dencon ; Jacob Trumpbour, Junior Deacon ; and John Hasbrouck, Tiler. A room in the old court-house was secured as a place of meeting, and the brethren held their regular communica- tions " every full moon." The lodge worked under a dis- pensation until the 27th of December, 1SOS, when a rogu- lar charter was granted by the Grand Lodge. Thirty menu- bers were initiated from the date of the granting of the dispensation to the date of issuing the charter, and the financial affairs of the institutiou were in a prosperous condition.
Conradt E. Elmendorf was the first Master of the lodge under its new charter. Upon the day of his installation into office, the Hon. John Sudam-who had previously been selected for the purpose-delivered a very able and entertaining address upon the subject of Masonry before the lodge. One hundred copies of Mr. Sudam's speech were printed in pamphlet form by Samuel S. Freer, then the leading printer of Kingston, and paid for from the lodge fund.
The 24th of June-St. John's Day-was celebrated hy this new lodge. The Rev. Dr. John Gosman was invited to deliver the address, which he did, in a very satisfactory manner, in the Reformed Dutch church. This address was published, by order of the lodge, in the Ulster Gazette, and the brethren, at their first regular communication after- words, voted the dominic $15 for his services, $1 to the chorister who led the singing, and $1 to the church sexton who rang the bell. This year, as a whole, was a prosperous one for the lodge, and coustant additions were made to the membership.
Tu 1810, Conradi E. Elmendorf was re-elected Master, and during his term of office the affairs of the institution continued to prosper. The first death which occurred among the brethren was that of David Ilorton, who died on the 28th of April, 1810. He was buried according to the ancient rites and usages of the order. Before the emblems of mourning had been removed from the furniture and jewels of the lodge as tokens of respect for Brother Horton, the brethren were called upon to pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of Past Master Brig .- Gen. Moses Cantine, who died on the 1st day of May, 1810. His funeral was attended by 56 Masons, several of whom were eminent men from other portions of the State. On the 15th of June following, Evart Bogardus died at the age of seventy-nine, and was buried with Masonie honors.
In 1811 Saumel Hawkins was elected Master. His ad- ministration was a ereditable one, and universal harmony prevailed. St. John's day was duly celebrated this year, and the Rev. John Gosman delivered the anniversary ad- dress. Hle was rewarded this time by a donation of $25.
In 1812-13, John Sudam was Master of the lodge. He presided during his two terms with marked ability, and gained the unanimous good-will of his fellow-craftsmen. It was under his administration that Nicholas Vanderlyn, Jr., was employed to paint a beautiful Masonic carpet, which was visible upon the floor of the lodge-room in the court-house for many years.
Conradt E. Ehnendorf was again elected Master in 1814, and served two years. His successor was his immediate predecessor, John Sudam, who was elected agaiu in 1816. At the elose of Mr. Sudam's term in December of this year, the lodge had $336.58 in the treasury and was clear from debt, which was considered, in those days, quite a large amount of money for an institution of this character to be possessed of.
In 1817, John Chipp was chosen Master, and served zca !- ously during his term of one year. On the 20th of June the lodge was honored with the presence of Grand Lodge officers, among whom was R. W. Ebenezer Wadsworth, of Albany. One death occurred while he presided as Master, that of Jacob W. Tremper. He was buried with Masonic honors.
In 1818, Nash Couch was elected Master, and served the brethren so faithfully that they re-elected him again in 1819. Ifis administration was a popular one with the craft generally. It was during his second term of office that the late Dr. Henry Van Hoevenbergh, of Kingston, was inducted into the secrets of Freemasonry, which in- itiation took place on the 10th of February, 1819.
In 1820, Seth Couch, a brother of Nash, was elected Master, and served one year. He was succeeded in 1821 by Abraun Myer, counselor-at-law, who not only possessed every qualification for Master, but was a ready debater on all public occasions. While Mr. Myer was Master, iuitia- tions from Marbletown and other surrounding sections were numerous, and on the Ist of December the lodge granted its consent to establish a lodge at Marbletown. to be knowu as " Rising Sun Lodge, No. 336." This new institution took away many who were enrolled as members of Kingston Lodge. Ou the day appointed for instituting " Rising San
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