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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT EDDYVILLE.
This society executed a certificate of incorporation Aug. 25, 1836. Notice of the meeting was given by Rev. Loren Clark, the officiating minister. Andrew Deming and Jacob Shaw were the inspectors of the elcetion, and the trustees chosen were Thomas Requa, Joseph Weldey, and James A. Desbrow.
The following additional facts are furnished by the pastor :
" There has been preaching by the ministers of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church in this place somewhat continu- ously since 1825,-at first, and for some years, not oftener than once in two or three weeks. In 1835 a church was organized by the election of Thomas Requa, Joel Tyler, and Obadiah Coleman as trustees, and a house of worship was secured. The society was connected with Kingston and Rondout, one or both, and supplied with preaching by the pastors of those churches until 1855.
" The following are the names of the pastors from 1855 to the present date: IT. W. Wildridge, 1855; F. Donnelly, 1856; D. C. Hughes. 1957; J. A. Elmonds, 1858; Je- soph Curry, 1-50; George Clark, 1509; E. S. Osbon, 1861-62; O. Wilson, 1203; J. G. Oakley, 1864; A. N. Mulois, 1865; W. R. Roberts, 1866-67; George Daniels, 1868-69; Joel Croft, 1870-72; E. B. Pierce, 1873-75 ; David Phillips, 1876-79 ; J. Millard, 1880.
" In 1871 the present church edifice was erected, and soon after the parsonage. Both are of brick. The cost of erec- tion was about $18,000. The present valuation is $12,000. " The present board of trustees are C. B. Shafer, Presi- dent; Home II. C. Connelly, Treasurer; John S. Roosa, Clerk ; H. L. Manning, Ira Lambert, James Hines, Josiah Lefever, Stewards; li. L. Manning, Eugene Hill, Ira Lambert, C. B. Shafer, Samuel Rickard, Josiah Lefever, George W. Banks, James Hines, Jonathan Van Akin. The Sunday-school superintenlent is H. L. Manning. Church membership about 120.
" A year ago the society was about $6000 in debt. It has already been reduced to $4000, and enon; h is on subscrip- tion to mect the latter sum."
VIII .- BURIAL-PLACES.
PINE BUSH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
This organization was formed Oct. 22, 1858. Stephen Osterhoudt was chairman of the meeting, and T. D. W. Whitaker secretary. The trustees chosen were Cornelius Snyder, John C. Legg, James Low, Edgar Legg, Thomas V. S. Whitaker, and Jacob Brink. The proceedings were recorded Nov. 6, 1858.
THE BRABANT RURAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
This organization was perfected Jan. 20, 1865. John II. Du Bois was chairman of the meeting, and William 1. Hall secretary. The trustees chosen were Abraham P. Osterhoudt, Elias Osterhoudt, Isaiah Myer, Leonard M. Myer, Abner Chase, John II. Da Bois. The certificate was recorded June 23, 1865. In the vicinity of Eddyville there is also a burial-place. In the northwest part, near the Hudson River, is located the Burhans private cemetery.
JX .- SOCIETIES.
The peculiar situation of this town, lying around the city of Kingston, renders the latter place the headquarters of lodges and miscellaneous societies for this outlying territory, and citizens of Ulster belonging to any of these various as- sociations have their membership with the Kingston organi- zations. Occasional temperance societies have existed at Eddyville, and various societies for the promotion of church, missionary, or benevolent work.
X .- PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST.
Very many ef the carly incidents of Indian occupancy recorded in this volume, the stories of border warfare, and the trials of pioneer settlement belong, undoubtedly, to this territory of Ulster. It is difficult, however, to give them a precise location.
The residence of the late Christopher L. Kiersted, just within this town, near the city line, is a phee of consider- able antiquity. Col. Kiersted, about two weeks before his death, related to the writer of this paragraph many things concerning the early construction of the house discovered when he repaired the same, clearly proving it to have been strongly built, and perhaps specially fortified for defense. Many relics have been gathered from time to time on the grounds around it. Unless the manorial residence of Col. Thomas Chambers is decis ively shown to have been at some other point, the writer, judging from the explanation of Col. Kiersted, is inclined to suppose that this was the actual seat of his baronial court.
The town of Ulster has also a section of the great In- dian trail, used perhaps for centuries preceding the alvent of the white man. That trail, starting from the mouth of the Neversink or Muhakemack, at Port Jervis, and passhrs by the ancient l'eenpack and through Mamaketing He How. struck the Rowdont at Napanoch. Thence following that noble stream through Wawaring an! Rochester, it passed over in Marbletown to the Exopus, and skirted the latter to it's mouth at Saugerties. Along this historic valley cime the dusky tribes of the olden time, hurrying forward to the. chase, or panting with the excitement of war and caser for
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the coming battle. Up this satne valley came the founders of Kingston at a later date, having, as tradition asserts, landed at Saugerties, and not at Rondout.
XI .- INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS.
The citizens of Ulster are largely engaged in agriculture. Many fine farins are found within the limits of the town. No statisties are available at the present time to show the extent and variety of the productions. The first harvest since the formation of the town has not yet ripened in the fields, nor have the seythe or the reaper yet gathered any trophies of conquest upon the soil of Ulster.
The ice business along the river is an important and profitable industry. Three companies have extensive houses for storage, -- the " Knickerbocker Ice Company," the " Newark Ice Company," and the " Flatbush Ice Com- pany." This industry secures employment for a large number of hands when the season is favorable.
Just north of the city line, near Whisky Point, consid- erable lime and cement business has been carried on. A horse-railroad conncets by a short line the Flatbush road with the docks at the river.
The principal mills in the town are those of J. O. Legg, consisting of a grist-mill, a saw-mill, and a spoke-mill. There is a saw-mill near the Burhans cemetery, on a small stream flowing into the Indson. Near Eddyville is a grist- mill, spoken of in the notice of that village.
Near the Rondout, a short distance above Eddyville, are the extensive cement-works of Connelly & Shaffer.
At and wear Eddyville the Lawrence Cement Company manufacture " Hoffman Rosendale Cement." The quarries are at Ilickory Bush, and also the kilus. The burnt stone is delivered by horse-ears to the mills at Eddyville, there ground and shipped. George S. Coutant superintends the work at Hickory Bash, and Peter Gumear at Eddyville. The New York office of the company is at 67 William Street.
The cement business is so fully written elsewhere as to - render any further description at this point unnecessary.
XII .- QUILITARY.
No wars have occurred since the formation of the town of Ulster, and the energies of the people have not been aroused in a military direction. The muster-rolls of an- cient times, given in this volume either in the general his- tory or iu the history of Kingston, must be studied by the people of Ulster to learn how their ancestors shared in the military operations of those times. And the Kingston rolls of 1861-65 will disclose the names of the soldiers who went forth from what is now the town of Ulster to join in the patriotic work of suppressing the Rebellion and maintaining unsullied the honor of the flag.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
EGBERT JANSEN.
The Jansen family is one of the oldest in the county, having located here at the opening of the last century.
Family tradition says that the pioneers of the line in this country consisted of three brothers who cune over from Holland at a very early period, one settling in New Jersey, one in the town of Shawaagunk, this county, and one in Kingston. The New Jersey branch of the firmnily subse. quently changed the name to Rappelyea; and the original name of one branch of the Osterhoudt family is said to have been Jansen.
Hendrikus Jansen, the Kingston progenitor of the family, is recorded as having married, on Nov. 19, 1724, Anneke Schoonmaker. He occupied the land now owned by James Kiersted, Esq., and which formerly belonged to the Thenrw Chambers patent. His children were Johannis, Anneke,1 Egbert, Hendrikus, Anneke,? Magdalena, Thomas, and Catharina. On the site designated Mr. Jansen erected a substantial dwelling-house about the time of his marriage, a portion of which now formuis part of Mr. Kiersted's resi- denee. He was a farmer through life, and died February, 1749, aged nearly seventy years; his wife died Aug. 3, 1780, in her eighty-seveuth year. Upon the death of Mr. Jansen the property passed to his widow, Anneke, and on May 6, 1761, was conveyed by her to her four surviving children, Johannis, Heury, Thomas, and Catharina. Jo- hanuis and Thomas settled in the town of Shawangunk, where the descendants of the former still live; Catharinat married into the Ellison family at New Windsor, Orange Co.
HIendrikus? was born on April 26, 1735, on the old Jansen homestead. On Dec, 12, 1700, he married Helena Sleight, the ceremony being performed by Dominie Mancius. The children of the union were Sara, Henry ( who died suddenly while a member of the State Legislature), Auneke, Helena (who married Abraham Hasbrouck), John H., Egbert, and Thomas. Hendrikus purchased the interest of his brothers and sister Catharina in the home property, and there passed a long and useful life engaged in agricul- tural pursuits. He died Aug. 18, 1794, and his wife, Helena, March 28, 1819, aged seventy-nine years and nine months. Descendants of Thomas reside in the town of Ulster.
Egbert Jansen, whose likeress appears in this work, was born on Feb. 21, 1775. His earlier years were passed on the old farm, and in attendance upon sucht schools at KSings- ton as the disturbed condition of the times afford .. l. Attaining manhood he served as a soldier in the war of 1812-15, being stationed on Staten Island in 1814. O the death of his father, he and his brother, John II .. . chased the interest of his brothers and sisters in :. . farm, and occupied it until 1824, when it pani sole possession of Egbert, and was occupied ' until his death, on July 17, 1850, aged ser. and six mouths.
Mr. Jansen passed his entire life ", ;. Possessed of a singularly retiring .n . 1.
he kept alouf from the strifesind cost. v! pero life, and sought his highest .... .. a team of his family, his home fire :1. 0 0r . shrige at which he worshiped. He wes cam! Wat campany, and w.l. comed visitors to has h . i .1. He was a good father, husband, and br : vos moithor and true friend. a
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Junio Posterhands
The Osterhoudt family is one of the oldest in Ulster County, and the name is found on many of its ancient records.
Peter Osterhoudt, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born on Jan. 25, 1736, and was one of the first settlers of the town of. Saugerties. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and died on Jan. 5, 1821, aged eighty-five years. His children were Tunis, William, and Maria. Thuis was born on March 27, 1763, and on June 30, 1781, married Maria Low, of Plattekill, in the town of Saugerties. He had three children, Catharine, Peter T., and Tjerck.
Peter T. was born in Saugerties on Feb. 20, 1784. He married Elizabeth Hendricks on Nov. 6, 1806, and had three children, viz. : Jacob, Tunis P., and Arriet Mary Magdalen.
In the year 1796, Peter Osterhoudt, with his son Tunis, and grandson, Peter T., moved into what is now the town of Ulster (lately Kingston), and located where Tunis P. Osterhoudt now resides. The old stone house in which they established themselves had long been occupied by members of the Osterhoudt family, and is believed to have been erected upwards of two hundred years ago. Its prim- itive modest proportions have since been enlarged by two additions, the latest in 1740. An old brown stone in one end of the house bears this inscription : " W. Ho (the " o" being on the bar of the " HI")-H. S. B., 1740." It is still in a good state of preservation, and the beams in the house are twenty by twelve inches in size. Having located on this ancient family site, the Osterhoudts set themselves diligently at work tilling the soil.
Tunis P. Osterhoudt was born on Jan. 7, 1814, in the house in which he now resides. His carlier years were passed upon the old farm and in attendance upon the dis- triet school of the locality. On Sept. 22, 1835, he was united in marriage to Catharine Legg, of Red Hook (now
Tivoli), Dutchess Co., N. Y., and after this event entered into partnership with his father and grandfather in the cultivation of the old farm. This business arrangement eon- tinued until the death of his grandfather, on May 30, 1836. He then conducted the farm, in connection with his father, until the death of the latter, on Oct. 26, 1863. After that period he carried it on alone for a time, and has now asso- ciated with him his son, James Francis Osterhoudt, ju tilling the ancestral glebes.
Mr. Osterhoudt has devoted the greater part of his time and all of his energies to his chosen voeation of a farmer, and though aetively identified with the Democratic party has never been a socker after office. In 1846 he was elected a commissioner of highways for the old town of Kingston, and served twenty-three years; he bas filled the office of elerk of that town for two years, and is at present the railroad commissioner for the town of Kingston of the Walll:ill Valley Railroad. He was for sixteen years captain of the Ulster Grays, a military organization of high grade, which flourished in the county half a century ago.
In church matters Mr. Osterhoudt is identified with the Dutch Reformed body of Christians, and is a member of the First Church of Kingston, where he has filled the office of deacon two terms, and of elder one term. He has long been an active and earnest mover in the benevolent, philanthropie, and Christian enterprises of the day.
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Osterbon.It. and the latter is still the loving helpmeet of his home. Their names were Elvina, Helen E., Peter, Mary, Albert, Henrietta, and James F. Four only are now living. viz. : Elvina, wife of Jacob Roosa, of the town of Hurley ; Mary, wife of James (. Van Keuren, of Kingston ; Hen- ricetta, wife of William J. Brink, of the town of Ulster ; and James F., who married Julia W., daughter of Rev. W. L. James, of Kingston.
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Chas Osterhande
ELIAS OSTERHOUDT is a grandson of a gentleman of the same name who was an early resident of San- gerties, and was a carpenter by trade. He subso- quently lived in Delaware County. His wife was Catharine Carl, and the children of the union Eswere Zachariah, Peter E., Matthew, John, Solomon, and Jane. Meses . Jest . a
Peter E. Osterhoudt was born in the town of Sau- gerties, on Feb. 1, 1784. He married Margaret, daughter of Peter Myer, of Kingston, and had chil- dren : Levi M., born May 20, 1808, and who resides in Illinois; Barbara C., born Ang. 25, 1829, and who is the widow of Jacob Fett, of Saugerties; Elias, the subject of this notice; Mary Ann, wife of Peter Hendricks, of Uister, born Aug. 14, 1814; Eliza, wife of Abraham France, of Ulster, born Nov. 26, 1819; Leah, born March 15, 1822, and who married Cornelius Van Steenberg; Henry, born June 21, 1824, and who lives in Greene County ; and Peter B., born June 5, 1829, and who resides in Delaware. Peter E. Osterhoudt died June 6, 1835, aged fifty-one years, four months, and six days, and his wife Margaret, Jan. 21, 1863, aged seventy-four years, six months, and twenty-one days.
Elias, the third child of Peter E. Osterhondt, was born in the town of Kingston, on July 26, 1811.
He passed the years of his boyhood at work among the farmers of his locality, and when about twenty years of age began the service of an apprenticeship, as a carpenter. Acquiring his trade, he worked steadily at it until a few years ago, and is now quietly settled on his farin in Ulster, amid that rest and freedom from labor which a life of toil, indus- try, and economy so well entitle him to enjoy. Mr. Osterhoudt has never participated in political affairs, but is known as an independent voter, generally affiliating with the Republican party.
He has filled the office of school trustee of the town of Kingston for a number of terms. He has been connected with the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Plattekill for over a quarter of a century, filling the offices of both deacon and elder, and being an incumbent of the latter office at this writing. He has been a strict temperance man, identified with all movements of an elevating character, and is recognized as a nseful and valuable citizen.
On July 17, 1847, Mr. Osterhoudt was united in marriage to Sarah Catharine, daughter of Zachariah C'unyes, of Sangerties, and who was born Oct. 17, 1822. His children have been Peter C., born Aug. 26, 1848; John, born July 28, 1851; Amelia E., born Jan. 30, 1855; and Mary E., born Sept. 17, 1853 ; all of whom are living.
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Jacob Brink
DR. JACOB BRINK was a grandson of Dr. Jacob Brink,. who was one of the early settlers of the town of Kingston, and who was familiarly known as the " old doctor." While not a member of what is known as the " regular school" of physicians, he was possessed of valuable healing qualities, which be exercised by manual application, and by which he is said to have effected many wonderful eures. He was in New York when taken possession of by the British during the Revolutionary war, engaged principally in farming, re- siding where Andrew Brink now lives in Ulster, and died about 1843. Ilis children were James, Christopher, Wil- liata, Andrew, and Lazarus.
Andrew Brink, the father of the subject of this sketch, located where Erastus Brink now resides, in the town of Ulster, where he passed his life in agricultural pursuits. lle married Maria Brink, and had children,-Solomon, Jacob, Helen E., and Christina M. Solomon resides in Flatbush ; Helen E. is the wife of David Carle, of Pine Bush ; and Christina M., the wife of Benjamin Joy, who resides near IIonesdale, l'a.
Dr. Jacob Brink (2d) was born on Sept. 29, 1808, and passed his carlier years on the paternal farm. His educa- tional training was confined to that of the district school. Growing to years of maturity, he found himself possessed of the healing qualities of his grandfather, and these he ex- ercised to a large extent during the remainder of his life, often rendering his services gratuitously, and successfully alleviating the physical ailments of large numbers of his fellow-citizens. The exercise of these faculties interfered little with his regular occupation of a farmer.
On April 5, 1832, he was united in marriage to Jane'
E., daughter of Jacobus Carle, of Saugerties. Of his four children two attained to years of maturity. His son, Eres- tus, is farming on the home farm; has served as super- visor of the old town of Kingston, and filled the position of inspector of elections eight years. He married Anna Brink. Hiram, the other son of the doctor, is a success- ful merchant in Kingston, and formerly traded at Flat- bush. Ile has confined himself to the regular channel of trade, avoided public trusts, and lives a quiet and ur- pretentious life. He is connected with the Flatbush He- formed Protestant Dutch Church, where he holils the offer of deacon. He married Rachel A., daughter of Bengates. Burhans, of Flatbush, and has one child,-Harry Verbes Brink.
Dr. Brink was a large, portly gentleman, having a fall open countenance, and possessed of a mature so genid .c ! magnetie as to make him a man of great influence :.! popularity in his native town. Never a seeker after office he was frequently placed by his fellow-townsmen in posit : - of trust and responsibility. For fourteen years he Sund the office of assessor of the town of Kingston with aver: 1. ance, being first elected in 1858, and resigning in the fifteenth year. He was supervisor of the town two war was inspector of elections a long time, and at the fint ; his death, on March 8, 1879, was president of the line B : ) Rural Cemetery Association. He was connected with Flatbush Reformed Church, where he filled the ufos ! both deacon and elder. He was universally request esteemed in the community in which he pa-sel li. and the news of his demise was heard with pain by ts.) friends. His widow survives him.
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HIRAM WHITNEY.
Hiram Whitney, third son and fifth child of Eli and Catherine (Longyear) Whitney, was born in the town of Shandaken, in 1828. His father was a native of Connecticut, but came to Shandaken in early life, where he resided until his death. His mother survives in 1880.
His early educational opportunities were limited, and his life has been spent in farming and lumber- ing, in which he is now partially engaged. In 1870 he commenced the manufacture of cane and wood- seat chairs at Shandaken Centre, employing some twenty men, and turning out six hundred chairs per week. His business rapidly increased, until in 1880 he employs one thousand men and women, and mannfactures ready for market some six thousand chairs per week. His products are in demand not only at home but in foreign markets.
He owns six thousand aeres of land in the towns
of Shandaken, Ulster Co., and Lexington, Greene Co., keeps two steam saw-mills in constant operation, and uses the entire production of five others. In May, 1873, he suffered the loss of one of his facto- ries by fire. His present manufactory is three hun- dred by thirty-two feet.
Mr. Whitney was never solicitous of political pre- ferment, and never held office. He is a member of the Republican party.
Ile married, Oet. 15, 1848, Anna Maria, daughter of Isaac Fredenbergh, of Shandaken. They have five. children : Jerry S., bookkeeper for his father ; Josephine D., wife of N. L. De Groff, a shipper in his father-in-law's factory; Marion, an employee; Eliakim S., in charge of his father's general store; Addie, wife of Frank W. Lament, a station-agent at Shandaken Centre, on the Ulster and Delaware Rail- road.
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