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Dr. Hasbrouck married Miss Elizabeth Heuser, of New York City. They have no children.
GILBERT D. B. HASBROUCK, ex-Justice of the Supreme Court, is a native of Ulster County, and has been a resident of Kingston for many years. He comes of Huguenot ancestry and traces his lineage to Jan Hasbrouck, who in 1660 fled
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from Calais, France, to America to escape persecution, and settled in Ulster County, where he was made one of the New Paltz patentees.
Judge Hasbrouck was born at Port Ewen, Ulster County, February 19, 1860, and is a son of Dr. Josiah and Ellen J. (Blauvelt) Hasbrouck. He attended the New Paltz Academy, from which he graduated in 1876. He then entered Rutgers College, graduating therefrom in 1880, with the degree of Master of Arts. He began the study of law in the office of the late Hon. W. S. Kenyon, and in 1881 entered Columbia Law School. On May 28, 1882, he was admitted to the Bar and entered the office of Judge A. T. Clearwater. In 1883 he was elected to the Assembly of the State from the Second District, and was again elected to that office the year following.
Following his retirement from the Legislature, he opened a law office in Rondout, and on November 19, 1887, was appointed Corporation Counsel of the City of Kingston. On January 1, 1894, he received the appointment of Second Deputy Attorney-General of the State, under Attorney-General Theodore E. Hancock, who was nominated to that office largely through the efforts of Judge Hasbrouck. He served one year as second deputy and then became first deputy, which office he retained during Hancock's incumbency. In 1894, Judge Hasbrouck formed a law partnership with W. N. Gill and the firm was known as Hasbrouck & Gill until dis- solved in 1899. Mr. Hasbrouck was appointed Judge of the Court of Claims of New York State in December, 1901, and in December, 1903, upon the death of Hon. Charles Saxton, was designated Presiding Judge of that Court and served in that capacity until his appointment to the Supreme Court, December 20, 1904.
On January 13, 1886, he was married to Julia M. Munn, a daughter of the late Rev. Anson F. Munn of Coxsackie, and they have three children, Anne, Elise and Ellen.
JACOB M. HASBROUCK was born in New Paltz in 1834, where he attended select and public schools and New Paltz Academy. He engaged in farming until twenty-six years of age, and in 1860 embarked in the mercantile business, which he continued until 1872, when he was elected Treasurer of Ulster County. He has been Secretary and Treasurer of the New Paltz Savings Bank for some thirty- five years, and President of the Village of New Paltz for many years.
He was united in marriage to Sarah E. Penniman, and his son, Howard, who resides in New York, is the only surviving child. Maurice P. died November 28, 1905. Our subject is one of the most prominent and useful citizens of New Paltz, and is a son of Maurice Hasbrouck, who died in 1876.
JOSIAH HASBROUCK, M. D .- On the twenty-seventh day of April, eighteen hundred sixty-four, Port Ewen in the town of Esopus became the birthplace of one of our most honored and distinguished citizens, Dr. Josiah HasBrouck.
Dr. HasBrouck is of Huguenot ancestry, being a lineal descendant of Jan Has- Brouck, who in 1660, in order to escape religious persecution, fled from Calais, France, to America. He settled in Ulster County, where he was made one of the patentees of New Paltz.
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The Doctor's elementary education was obtained in the schools of his native town; later he attended Kingston Academy and Williston Seminary, Mass. At the conclusion of his curriculum in these institutions, and after a brief preparation under the preceptorship of his father, Dr. Josiah HasBrouck, Sr., he entered the Albany Medical College, from which he graduated in 1885. After his graduation he entered the Post-Graduate Hospital, New York City, and also served on the out- patient department of Bellevue Hospital.
He began the practice of his profession at Somerville, N. J., but, as his father required assistance in his large and lucrative practice, Dr. HasBrouck returned to Port Ewen, where he has built up for himself a large clientele and earned an enviable reputation as a skilful physician and surgeon, and an honored and highly valued citizen. Dr. HasBrouck, Sr., died March 25, 1889, and the mantle of a learned and beloved father fell upon the shoulders of a worthy son, well qualified to follow in his footsteps.
Always a staunch Republican, Dr. HasBrouck has ever had the welfare of his party at heart. He served one year on the Ulster County Board of Supervisors, and in 1900 was a candidate for nomination for Sheriff against Philip Schantz and Zadoc P. Boice. In the convention, Dr. HasBrouck received forty-eight out of a possible seventy-five votes. The Democrats that year nominated William T. Brodhead, but Dr. Hasbrouck was elected by the greatest majority (1,827) ever given in the county.
Dr. HasBrouck is prominently connected with Lodge 343, F. and A. M., of Rondout, also Hope Lodge No. 65, of Port Ewen. He is an ex-president of the Ulster County Medical Society, and has served on important committees in the State Medical Society. He has been a member of the Rondout Club since its organization; for years he was a director of the National Bank of Rondout; and, when the Rondout Canoe Club was at the height of its glory, Dr. HasBrouck was its Commodore.
Being interested in his native village, he has at various times endeavored to advance the interests of his friends and neighbors, and as he was at one time President of the Port Ewen Improvement Association, he has been active in intro- ducing improvements into the town, the latest of which is the electric light.
On retiring from the Sheriff's office in 1903, in partnership with Capt. J. S. Voight, Dr. HasBrouck bought the Sleight property, including the ferry, at Sleights- burg. Four months later he purchased Capt. Voight's interest in the property and became sole owner. Since then there has been a marked improvement in the ferry service. On parts of the Sleight farm there are valuable deposits of sand and clay. On January 25, 1906, he sold a part of the farm, lying east of Newburgh turnpike, to Alonzo Rose, which will be used during the coming season for brick manufacturing.
Dr. HasBrouck is a member of an illustrious family. Of his father, the late Dr. Josiah HasBrouck, nothing further need be said, as he was well-known throughout the county for his skill, integrity and uprightness. His brothers, the Hon. G. D. B. HasBrouck, ex-Judge of the Supreme Court, and Dr. Walter HasBrouck of Kingston, are well known here both for their professional and social eminence, as
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is also Dr. John M. Hasbrouck, Editor of the Rockland County News, in Nyack, N. Y.
During his incumbency of the Sheriff's office, Dr. HasBrouck accompanied by his brother, Judge HasBrouck, toured Europe, visiting all the principal cities on the Continent. His attention, however, was centered on Old Holland, the home of his mother's ancestors, where he greatly admired the thrift of the people.
GEORGE HAUCK was born in Germany in 1832. He obtained his education in the schools of that country and in 1850 emigrated to America, where he soon secured employment in the brewing business. In 1861 he located in Rondout as foreman of a brewery, where he remained until 1864, when he established the George Hauck Brewing Co. The daily output was then 30 barrels, and it has increased steadily to 140 barrels per day. Mr. Hauck is a member of the K. of P. and the Odd Fellows. Politically he is a Democrat. In 1856 he was married to Barbara Welker and they have five children, the sons John and Adam being associated with their father in the brewery business.
Adam Hauck, the father of our subject, was born in Germany in 1797 and died in 1870. He also was a brewer by occupation. The George Hauck Brewing Co. holds a place among the prominent industries of Ulster County and Mr. Hauck is recognized as one of Kingston's successful business men.
CLARENCE P. HENDRICKS, of the Hendricks Brick Company, resides in the old colonial homestead built by his ancestors over one hundred and fifty years ago. This house is one of Ulster's landmarks and stands on the banks of the Hudson three miles north of the city of Kingston. Mr. Hendricks began the manufacture of brick in 1890 in partnership with Charles M. Streeter; in 1900 he purchased Mr. Streeter's interest and has since conducted the business alone. He employs about one hundred and thirty hands on the place, and produces fifteen million brick of a superior quality annually.
He is a member of the National Brick Makers' Association, the I. O. G. T. and the Holland Society. He married Maria Luther, daughter of Henry B. Luther of Kingston, and they have one son, Clarence Abram, who is identified with his father in the brick business. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks are members of the First Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, and for many years the former was Secre- tary of the Union Sunday School at East Kingston. Mr. Hendricks traces his ancestry to Franz Hendricksen, who was born in Brevoort, Holland, and settled in New York about 1670, later removing to Dutchess County, and some years thereafter the family came to Ulster and located on the land now owned by our subject.
Martin E. Hendricks was born in the house now occupied by his son Clarence, May 28, 1822. He married Harriet Ann Wynkoop in 1850, and Clarence was their only child. He lived an unostentatious life, devoting his time mainly to the cultivation of his farm. In politics he was a Democrat, liberal in his views and decided in his convictions. He filled the office of School Trustee for many years, and was Overseer of the Poor in 1872-3. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks were
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members of the First Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, and Mr. Hendricks served the East Kingston Sunday School as its Superintendent for a long period. His death occurred in June, 1905, at the age of eighty-three years, and his loss has been keenly felt by the community in which he passed a long and useful life.
HOWARD HENDRICKS .- Born on the old Hendricks farm, South Flatbush, west bank of the Hudson, October 27, 1840; son of Philip Van Keuren Hendricks, who died in 1847. Dutch ancestry both sides. Franz Hendricksen came to America from Brevoort, in the Netherlands, about 1670. Howard remained on the farm, got his education at the district school, Kingston Academy, Hudson River Insti- tute, and at Bryant, Stratton & Packard's Business College, New York City, from which he graduated in 1861; studied phonography, which he practiced and taught at the phrenological publishing house of Fowler & Wells, New York, in 1863, having charge of a large class. Returned to the farm; experimented with new fruits, grains and vegetables; introduced the Early Rose potato in Ulster County in 1869, also new varieties of wheat and corn, which he sent out to nearly every State in the Union at fancy prices. Member of the American Pomological So- ciety. Married in 1869; moved to Kingston, 1878, where he sold pianos and organs for several years. Musically inclined; secretary of the Kingston Philharmonic Society five years. Engaged in journalism since 1878; reporter, correspondent, Associated Press representative and editorial writer. Special correspondent of New York Tribune at New Orleans Cotton Exposition, 1885; and the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Now proprietor of Hendricks's Advertising Agency, Kings- ton, N. Y. Was twice beaten for political office in the old town of Kingston, where Republicans were always counted out. Was among the first to advocate good roads, when nobody listened, proposing radical changes in the entire system of road improvement, both in the press and before the Ulster County Board of Super- visors, over twenty years ago, including the money system and State aid. Always an enthusiastic lover of nature in all her varying moods and aspects.
JOHN F. HERBERT, proprietor of the Herbert Brush Factory, was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1848. He attended the public schools of his native place and at the age of eighteen came to America and completed his education at The Peter Cooper Institute in New York. He has been actively engaged in the manufacture of brushes for thirty years, with plants in Brooklyn and Kingston.
In 1896 he took up his residence in Kingston, and his energy has added much to the industrial development of the city. Mr. Herbert is a staunch Republican, a member of the Kingston Club and Royal Arcanum. His four sons, John M., Alfred A., John F., Jr., and Leo F. are associated with him in his business.
DR. EBER H. HESTON, of Clintondale, Ulster County, was born at New Castle County, State of Delaware, October 3, 1854. He attended the schools of Highland and private school in Poughkeepsie. He then entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in March, 1877. He practiced
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two years in Clintondale and five years in Gardiner. In 1886, owing to failing health, he went West and located in Nebraska, where he remained nine years. Upon his re- turn East in 1895, he again located in Clintondale, where he has since remained. In 1901 he opened a drug store which he conducts in connection with his practice.
Dr. Heston is a member of the American Medical Association and the State and County Medical Societies, also the I. O. O. F., the National Protective Legion, and has served the town as health officer since 1895. His father, Dr. Abiah P. Heston, was also a graduate of Jefferson Medical College and received his diploma in 1850. He was born in Pennsylvania, and at the outbreak of the Civil War was located in Fredericksburg, Va. He was a member of the State Militia and the authorities demanded that he join the Rebel Army, but his sympathies were all with the North. He managed to escape in the night and succeeded in joining the Union Army, as surgeon, under Burnside. He served through the period of his enlistment, then came North and located at Highland, Ulster County, where he practiced until his death in 1874, at the age of fifty years. During his practice there for some five or six years he, with H. B. Deyo, conducted a drug store. He was also postmaster at Highland for several years.
HIGHMOUNT .- A cottage settlement upon the high summit between Pine Hill and Griffin's Corners, including the great northern slope of Belle Ayr Mountain and the smaller eastern side of the Summit Mountain (commonly called "Monkey Hill") was founded in 1883 by Dr. J. Glentworth Butler, a Presbyterian minister of Brooklyn, N. Y. A few years later the name of Highmount, selected by him as both appropriate and unknown to the Post-Office Directory, was given to the post- office and the adjacent region. At this time of writing, beside the Grand Hotel on the southern side of Summit Mountain, Highmount contains five boarding-houses, a large summer school and about thirty large and small cottages, mainly owned and occupied by summer residents.
WILLIAM A. HILDEBRANT, proprietor of the Irvington, Woodstock, N. Y., is numbered among the prominent hotel men of the Catskills. Prior to taking this hotel, he was identified with the "Frontenac" in the Thousand Islands and the "Royal Palace" of Miami, Florida, two of the leading resorts in America.
The Irvington is at the foot of Overlook Mountain, ten miles from Kingston and Saugerties. The location is one of the most beautiful and healthful in the State. The hotel has accommodations for seventy-five guests, its rooms are large and airy and wide piazzas and shady lawns add greatly to the comfort and pleasure of the guests. It is reached by the West Shore and Ulster and Delaware railways and the Hudson River steamboats by way of Kingston.
R. W. HILL, of Pine Hill, N. Y., is a native of Middletown, Delaware County. His parents moved into Ulster County in 1856, locating first at Shandaken. Mr. Hill spent one year there. He had fitted himself for the profession of school- teaching for a time in both Delaware and Ulster Counties, but desiring a more active business career, he went to Gouldsboro, Pa., and engaged in the mercantile
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business; two years later he opened a mercantile establishment at Pine Hill, which has grown to be the most important enterprise in the village, and is now under the management of his son, Andrew D. Hill. The business consists of general mer- chandise, lumber, coal and furniture.
Mr. Hill was born May 29, 1835. He has a family of two sons and two daughters, Effie, Andrew D., Fred and Mildred. He has been a most enterprising and indus- trious business man and has served one term as Supervisor.
CONRAD HILTEBRANT, of Kingston, was born in Germany in 1838 and emi- grated to America with his parents in 1844, locating at Rondout, where he attended the public schools and grew to manhood. In 1868 he embarked in the business of building barges and steamboats, which has expanded steadily and today his ship- yards are among the largest in this section, giving employment to one hundred and thirty men.
Mr. Hiltebrant is a director of the Rondout Savings Bank; trustee of Mount Re- pose Cemetery and the Industrial Home, and a member of the Board of Education. Politically he is a Republican. He has been twice married, his first wife being Caroline Seitz of Rondout, and his second, Elizabeth Steinheauser of Rochester. He has seven children living. His father, John Hiltebrant, who was for many years in the employ of the D. & H. Canal Co., died in 1884, in his seventy-sixth year.
FRANK B. HOORNBEEK, Cashier of the First National Bank of Ellenville, was born in Napanoch, N. Y., May 1, 1860. A few years after his birth, his parents removed to Ellenville, and in the schools of that village he received his education. In 1892 he entered the First National Bank, as bookkeeper, and in 1898 became its cashier.
Mr. Hoornbeek is thoroughly alive to the interests of his town, and is the leading spirit in its public enterprises. He is chairman of the Masonic Building Association and of the Executive Board of the Fantinekill Cemetery Association. He is also identified with various commercial and industrial enterprises, such as the Ellenville Zinc Company, of which he is Treasurer. He is President of a hardware concern in Belton, Texas, and a director in a cotton mill at Florence, Alabama. He was the prime mover in the organization of the Ellenville Public Library. He raised the money for the erection of the handsome monument commemorating the Fantinekill Massacre of the Bevier and Sax families by the Indians, in 1779. This monument stands at the outskirts of the village of Ellenville on the road to Napanoch, and marks the spot where the victims of the massacre were buried. Mr. Hoornbeek was recently appointed, by Governor Higgins, as one of the managers of New York State Reformatories, a deserving compliment to his well-known thoroughness and exactness in public as well as private affairs.
On his mother's side Mr. Hoornbeek is a lineal descendant of Sebastian Bauman, a member of the Society of Cincinnati, the first society organized in America, and the certificate of membership is in Mr. Hoornbeek's possession, signed Geo. Wash-
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ington, Pres., H. Knox, Sec. This society was organized at the close of the Revo- lutionary War to perpetuate the friendship of the officers and commemorate the independence of America. His father, Methusalem Hoornbeek, was a native of the town of Wawarsing, and for years was a member of the firm of Hermance & Co. in Ellenville. He was prominent in politics and held the office of Supervisor of his town several terms. His death occurred. in 1882.
HENRY F. HOORNBEEK, treasurer of the Ellenville Savings Bank, is a native of the town of Wawarsing, having been born at Napanoch, July 10, 1874. He obtained his education at Ellenville Academy and Eastman's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, of which he is a graduate. The first eight years of his business life he spent with his father who conducted a store at Napanoch. In 1900 he came to Ellenville and took the position of teller in the Ellenville Savings Bank and held that position until May 8, 1906, when he was elected to his present office. He mar- ried Mary C. Pillsbury of Napanoch, October II, 1905.
His father, L. D. B. Hoornbeek, a leading merchant of Napanoch, married Catherine D. B. Freer, a daughter of Henry D. B. Freer, a descendant of Hugo Freer, one of the New Paltz patentees. Mr. Hoornbeek is of Holland descent, and the family was among the very early settlers in the vicinity and have always been a prominent factor in the business and social life of southern Ulster.
JOHN C. HOORNBEEK, of Wawarsing, a self-made man, and numbered among the substantial citizens of Ulster County, is a descendant of the old and highly respected Hoornbeek family, which came from Holland to America before the Revo- lutionary War. He also traces his descent from the DuBois family of Gardiner, and the DuPuys of Rochester. Mr. Hoornbeek's father, grandfather and great- grandfather, were all born at Wawarsing and have resided there upon lands which have been in possession of the Hoornbeeks since colonial days. His grandfather was the first Supervisor of the town, holding the office from 1806 to 1810, and was twice chosen after that, 1816-17, and 1829-31.
John C. Hoornbeek attended the public schools at Wawarsing until the age of thirteen, then after two years, at Napanoch, finished his education in Kingston Academy. Shortly after leaving school he decided to go into business for himself, and proceeding to Port Hixon, on the canal, he opened a grocery store, which he carried on for six years. He then embarked in tanning and mercantile business, forming a partnership with William H. De Garmo, which continued until 1870, when he bought out his partner and continued the business alone for six years. In 1873 he began the manufacture of excelsior. This proved profitable and in 1880 he built another factory at Boiceville, in Olive township. In 1900 he erected a mill at Napanoch for the manufacture of dry pulp for dynamite, which gives employment to many hands.
In January, 1859, Mr. Hoornbeek married Miss Amelia VanLuven, of Rochester. Four children have been born to them, Louis A., Elias D., Clarence and Arthur, all living with the exception of Clarence. Mr. Hoornbeek has held various public
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offices; is a member of the Masonic fraternity and one of the most liberal-minded and public-spirited citizens in the county.
LOUIS A. HOORNBEEK, of Wawarsing, was born in that town, October 31st, 1864. He is a son of John C. and Amelia ( Van Luven) Hoornbeek. His ancestors have owned lands and passed their lives in Wawarsing since Revolutionary days. His great-grandfather was the first Supervisor of the town.
Louis A. Hoornbeek attended the Ellenville Public Schools and the Rhinebeck High School, and has, since leaving school, been engaged in farming and in the manufacture of dry wood pulp in Napanoch. He was married in 1885 to Miss Francis Estelle Brundage, and to them have been born three children, Ethel B., Clarence A. and John C., Jr. Mr. Hoornbeek is an energetic and able business man and is very highly esteemed wherever known.
REV. HOUGH HOUSTON, pastor of St. James M. E. Church of Kingston, was born in West Virginia in 1867. After graduating from the University of West Virginia with the degree of A. B., he entered the Drew Theological Seminary, and at the conclusion of a three-years' course received the degree of B. D. He was ordained Deacon at Kingston in 1895, by Bishop John P. Newman, and Elder, in 1899, at Newburgh, by Bishop I. W. Joyce.
He has been in charge successively of the M. E. Church at Pine Bush, Pleasant- ville, Mount Kisco, N. Y., and the Centary Church, New York City. In 1905 he became pastor of St. James Methodist Episcopal Church of Kingston. Mr. Houston is identified with the Masonic order and a member of Phi Kappa Psi College fra- ternity. He was united in marriage to Zorah Belle McIntyre, and three children have blessed this union.
FREDERICK A. HUNT, M. D., of Napanoch, was born in Manlius, Onondaga County, N. Y., July 21, 1875. He was educated in the public and high schools of Syracuse and graduated from the Syracuse University with the degree of M. D., Class 1898. The doctor then served as Interne in the St. Lawrence State Hospital for one year, and at the Elmira State Reformatory for a like period of time. In 1901 he was appointed physician to the Eastern New York Reformatory and re- moved to Napanoch, a position which he is still most acceptably serving. He also enjoys a general practice in the vicinity of Napanoch. Dr. Hunt was married in June, 1901. to Georgia May Clarke, a daughter of George R. and Mary E. Clark of Syracuse, and to them were born two children, Mary Elizabeth, born June 14, 1903, in Syracuse, and Lucy Clark, born June 1, 1905, in Napanoch.
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