BENSON, Arthur Davis

Date of Birth: March 26, 1873. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated at Trinity School from which he was graduated in 1888 and then went to work for the American Tobacco Company. Profession: He worked for the American Tobacco Company for eighteen years, becoming a statistical supervisor of production before his retirement from that business to become an independent Real estate broker. He retired from the real estate business several years before his death because of his health, remaining inactive until his death. Clubs and Organizations:

He was active in many New York Historical and patriotic societies. He was Secretary of the Holland Society in 1937. Formerly a steward of St. Nicholas Society of New York City. Member of the Society of Colonial Wars. Member of the Huguenot Society of America, the order of the Founders and Patriots of America, the Society of American Wars, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the New York Historical Society, the New York State Historical Society, the Society of the War of 1812, the Colonial Order of the Acorn, the Pilgrims and the Metropolitan Opera Club. Marital Status: Unmarried. Place of Residence: He lived at the Royalton Hotel, 44 West 44th Street, New York, for nearly forty years and died at the age of 67.

BENSON, Frederic Close

Date of Birth: October 12, 1871. Parents: (request lineage). Education: Mr. Benson was a graduate of Trinity School in New York City, and a veteran of Company I, of the Seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard. Profession: He was a professional accountant for many years, in New York City, and died in St. Luke's Hospital, Amsterdam Avenue and 113th street, on July 25, 1941 at the age of seventy. Clubs and Organizations: (none listed). Marital Status: He married Julietta Van Praag of Framingham, Massachusetts, on September 3, 1903. He died July 25, 1941 without descendants.

BISSELL, Pelham St. George

Date of birth: April 11, 1887. Parents: He is a son of the Rev. Pelham St. George Bissell, A.M., A.K.C. and Helen Alsop French. Education: He was graduated at Columbia College in 1909. He earned the M.A. degree in 1910, and the L.L.B. degree of Columbia Law School in 1912. Profession: He was admitted to the practice of Law, in 1912, was for many years in private practice and served as special attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, 1921-1924. He was elected Justice Municipal Court, City of New York, 1930, and again in 1940; designated President Justice in 1934; re-designated in 1939 and 1941. 

In 1940 Columbia University awarded him the University Medal for Excellence with citation, "President Justice of the Municipal Court, New York, who has achieved a fine and well-recognized record at the bar and on the bench." Clubs and Organizations: Union League, Columbia University, Church, Army and Navy, etc. Marital Status: He married Mary Valentine Yale Bissell at Columbia, S.C., November 10, 1910. Their residence is 270 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. Children: Helen Alsop Bissell (now Mrs. Charles H. Stout); Pelham St. George, 3rd: Mary Sackett Bissell (now Mrs. James J. Christie); Nancy Wemple Bissell (now Mrs. David Lawrence); Ruth Mason Bissell (now Mrs. Joseph M. Schwartz); Ophelia Louise Bissell; George Henry Bissell and Elizabeth Goodwin Bissell (deceased).

BURGHER, Clarence Livingston

Date of Birth: March 15, 1866. Parents: (request lineage). Education: After attending grade schools he was graduated at Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute in the class of 1881. Four years later he received the degree of C.E. from Princeton University. Profession: He was President of the Sub-surface Torpedo Boat Co. from 1899 to 1910. With Clinton H. Crane he designed the Subsurface Torpedo Boat for which the United States Congress appropriated many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Later he became head of the Patent Law firms of Burgher and Philip and Burgher and Clark of 2 Rector Street in New York City. 

He was President of the first Princeton University Engineering Society and also President of the Duct Electric Heater Corporation. Clubs and Organizations: St. Nicholas Society of New York; University; Racquet and Tennis; American Yacht Club; Knoll wood Country Club, etc. Marital Status: He married Edith Fairfax Carter of New York City on January 17th, 1895. Residence: 424 East 57th st., New York, New York. Children: There is one son, Fairfax Carter Burgher, born in Pelham Manor, New York.


CARDOZO, David Abraham Jessurun

A Rabbi worthy of note of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel, New York. Date of Birth: He was born in Amsterdam, Province of North Holland, in the Netherlands on March 29, 1896. Parents: Abraham Jessurun Cardozo and Marie Serlui. Education: He was educated at the Portuguese Jewish Seminary in Amsterdam and studied classics at the University of Amsterdam. He continued his studies at Jews' College, London, and the London University, where he received a B.A.in Semitics (1924) and gained the Hollier Scholarship in Hebrew.

 Later he studied Arabic at the School of Oriental Studies, London, and won the Ouseley Memorial Scholarship in Arabic (1925). Profession: He was the founder (1923) and Secretary (23-30) of the Sephardi Literary Society, London, President of the Jews' College Union Society (26-26), a founder (27) and President (29-30) of the School of Oriental Studies Union Society (29-30). Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel, New York. Clubs and Organizations: B'nai B'rith; N.Y. Board of Jewish Ministers; Zionist Organization of America; Netherlands-America Foundation; F.& A. Masons. Marital Status: unmarried.

DEBEVOISE, Thomas McElrath

Date of Birth: April 2, 1874 Parents: George W. Debevoise and Katherine Price McElrath. Education: He received his education at Yale University, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1895; and at the New York Law School (LL.B., 1897). Profession: He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1897 and was a member of the firms of Rounds, Hatch, Dillingham & Debevoise. He is a director of the Debevoise Company, the Spingler Van Beuren Estates, Inc. and other corporations. Clubs and Organizations: American, New York State, New York County Bar Associations, and the Bar Association of the City of New York; New York Chamber of Commerce; the St. Nicholas Society, Loyal Legion; the Holland Society; the University, Union, Century, Yale, Down Town, Morristown, and Morris County Golf Clubs, and the Rockefeller Center Lunch Club. Marital Status: He married Anne Farnam Whitney on December 6, 1898, at New Have,
Connecticut. There are two children: Eli Whitney and Katherine Price Debevoise.

DE FREMERY, Leon Florent

Date of Birth: November 16, 1889. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was graduated at the University of California with the class of 1911 and received his law degree from the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1914.Profession: Attorney-at-Law in San Francisco, California. Clubs and Organizations: University Club of San Francisco; St. Francis Yacht Club of San Francisco. Marital Status: He married Edith Goodfellow of Oakland, California, on December 7, 1915. There is one daughter, Edith de Fremery Beach born in 1918. Their residence: 54757 Country Club Drive, Oakland, California.

DE KAY, Joseph Rodman Drake

Date of Birth: February 1, 1898. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated in Trinity Chapel School in New York City and was graduated at the United States Naval Academy in June 1918. Profession: He entered Bell Laboratories in New York City in December, 1922. From 1922 to 1941 he served as a member of the technical staff becoming head of a group engaged in the development of power apparatus. He became a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a Licensed Engineer in the State of New York. Marital Status: He married Ann Wickes Craven of Washington, D.C. on June 10, 1922. Children: There are two children, Rodman Drake de Kay, Jr., born on June 22, 1923 and Ann Wickes Craven de Kay, born on October 27, 1925.

DEMOREST , William Jennings

Date of Birth: April 18, 1890. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He attended Trinity School, 1904-1907 and was graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Columbia University in 1913. His first assignment was with the International Gas Development Co., in that year, then with Whitney Co., building construction in 1914. Profession: In 1915 he became vice-President and General Manager of the Park Avenue Operating Co. There he remained until 1919, when he became Secretary and Vice-President in Charge of Management of Cushman and Wakefield, Inc. In 1930, he became Vice-President of William A. White and Sons and is now Exec. Vice-President and Director. 

Mr. Demorest is President, Director and Treasurer of the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange of New York, and vice-Pres, and Director of the N.M. Holding Corporation. He is a former President, Vice-President, Secretary and Governor of the Real Estate Board of New York and still serves on several committees and a member of the New York State Board of Commerce. Clubs and Organizations: Bankers; Columbia University; university; S.A.R.; Psi Upsilon; etc. Marital Status, He married Wealthy Albro Lewis, also of New York on June 29, 1918. Their residence is at: Upper Dogwood Lane, Rye, New York. Children: There are four children; Dilys, Annie L., Carolyn A. and William Jennings Demorest, Jr.

GOULD, Carl Frelinghuysen

Date of Birth: November 24, 1873. Died: January 4, 1939 Seattle, Wash. Parents: Charles Judson Gould, retired merchant and financier, and Annie Laurie Westbrook, a patron of the arts and owner of a fine collection of paintings by living American artists. Lineage: (request lineage), Education: Carl was graduated at Harvard in 1898 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, 1898-1903. Profession: He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, was Professor in charge for 10 years, and designed the Campus Plan and buildings called the most beautiful in America. 

He was the architect for the Seatlle Art Museum, chosen by the A.I.A. one of a hundred outstanding buildings in America in 1938, and was many times President of the Seattle Fine Arts Society, a past-President and founder of the Northwest Academy of Arts; author, lecturer, painter. Clubs and Organizations: American Institute of Architects (Fellow); University Club; Riding Club; College Club; Harvard Club; etc.

Marital Status: Married Dorothy Wheaton Fay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Purinton Fay of Massachusetts, at Seattle, Washington, June 22, 1915. Mrs. Gould's addresses: 1058 East Lynn Street, Seattle, Washington. Topsfield, Bainbridge Island, Washington and 34 East 50th Street, New York City. Children: Carl Frelinghuysen Gould, Jr., born 1916, architect (Yale '39); Anne Westbrook Gould, born 1917 (Vassar '41), married in 1941 to John Henry Hauberg, Jr. (Princeton '39), and John Bradford Van Wyck Fay Gould, (Groton), born 1925.

HAAS, George Christian Otto

Date of Birth: March 28, 1883 NYC. Parents: Mr. Haas is a son of George Christian Frederick Haas and Anna Sophia Hansen. Education: He was educated in private schools in New York City, and was graduated at Columbia University in the class of 1902. There he also received the Master's and the Ph.D. degrees in 1903 and 1909 respectively. and during 1905-1906, he held a Fellowship in Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University.

Profession: Dr. Haas taught at the College of the City of New York from 1904 to 1916, becoming an instructor in German in 1911, a post he held until 1916. In 1917 he was appointed Translator at the Department of Justice, in Washington, but was soon transferred as Censor for this Department at Ellis Island, New York 1917 to 1920. During 1921 to 1935 he served as a technical translator for patent attorneys. In 1927, Dr. Haas was ordained to the ministry of the Universal Spiritual Church, and he has been an officer of its governing body, the High Council, since that year. He had been organist and choirmaster of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New York from 1906 to 1908. Clubs and Organizations: Kane Lodge, No. 454, New York and other Masonic bodies; Phi Beta Kappa; American Oriental Society. Marital Status: He married Beulah E. Thompson of Binghamton, New York, on November 26, 1930. There are no children.

HEGEMAN, J. Niven

Date of Birth: September 21, 1871, Parents: Johnston Niven Hegeman and Jeannette Fenton, the daughter of the late Governor (N.Y.) and U.S. Senator Reuben E. Fenton. Lineage: (request lineage). Profession: Johnston Niven Hegeman had been in the business of investment securities and mortgages and is now retired. He served in the Spanish-American War and with the French Army in the first World War. Clubs and Organizations: The Holland Society; the Society of the Cincinnati. Marital Status: He married Mary Edith Hunt, of Victoria on Chautauqua on September 2, 1921. Children: Johnston Niven Hegeman, Jr., born October 12, 1924, and Elise Hegeman, born March 6, 1926.

ISAACS, Stanley M.

Date of Birth: Born in NYC on Sept. 27, 1882. Parents: He is the son of Myer S. Isaacs and Maria Solomon. Lineage: (request lineage). Education: He attended Sachs Collegiate Institute and was graduated at Columbia University in the class of 1903. In the following year he received his Master's degree and studied at Columbia Law School. He was awarded the Ll.B. degree from New York Law School in 1905.

Profession: He has practiced law as a member of the firm of M.S. and I.S. Isaacs from 1905 to 1919, but since that date has been associated with Edgar A. Levy, as real estate investor and builder. He is also connected with various real estate Corporations. Mr. Isaacs has been active in social and philanthropic organizations. He is President of the United Neighborhood Houses, on the Executive Committee of the Welfare Council, Trustee and member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, a member of the American Jewish Committee, a Trustee of the Education Alliance, Vice President of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, Vice Chairman of the Jewish Vacation Association, etc.

He was Chairman of Local Draft Board No. 164. Clubs and Organizations: City Club; Town Hall; City Athletic; National Republican; Adirondack Mountain Club; Phi Beta Kappa Alumni. Marital Status: He married Edith Somborn, also of New York City on may 18, 1910. Their residence is at 14 East 96th Street, New York, N.Y. Children: There are two children: Myron Samuel Isaacs, and Helen, who is married to Michael Joseph Wurzburger.

ISRAELS II, Josef

Date of Birth: April 25, 1906 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated in New York City Public schools, and later went to the Speyer School. He was graduated from the Radio Institute of America in 1923. Profession/Occupation: His first assignment was at the age of seventeen, when he became a marine radio operator in 1923, a post he held until 1927. He then began to work as a journalist for the "New York World," but in 1928 he went over to the "New Associates, Inc., in which capacity he is still working. He has been foreign correspondent in East Africa, Spain, China, etc., at various times from 1929 to the present. Clubs and Organizations: Overseas Press Club; Veterans Wireless Operators of America. Marital Status: He married Aileen Platt of New York City on May 23, 1933. There are no children. His office address: 30 Fifth Avenue, NYC.

JONES, Catesby ap Thomas

Date of Birth: December 30, 1912 NYC. Parents: The son of Thomas Catesby and Olga Hasbrouck Jones. Lineage: (request lineage) lengthy. Education: He was graduated at the University of Chicago in 1938 with the degree of A.B. Profession/Occupation: He is now engaged in newspaper work in Daytona Beach, Florida. Clubs and Organizations: Chi Psi Fraternity. Marital Status: unmarried

POOL, DAVID DE SOLA ( A Rabbi worthy of Note)

Date of Birth: May 16, 1885. London, England. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated at Jews' College of London and received his B.A. with first class honors from the University of London in 1903. He then studied at the Rabbiner Seminar and the University of Berlin and received the Ph.D., summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg in 1905. 

Profession: In 1907 he arrived in New York and became minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel, which was founded by Netherlands Jews in New Amsterdam in 1655. Dr. Pool, who is one of the outstanding leaders of American Jewry, served on Herbert Hoover's Food Conservation Staff in 1917, and was Jewish Field Organizer of Army Welfare Work, 1917-1918. In 1940 he was appointed U.S. Government Representative of the Jews in America in Army and Navy Chaplain matters. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Youth Administration since 1935.

Other Accomplishments: In 1919, he was one of the three American Representatives on the Zionist Commission to Palestine and Regional Director for Palestine and Syria of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for War Sufferers, 1920-21. In 1922 he served as Executive Director of the Jewish Education Assn., New York City, President Young Judaea of America 1915-19, President Synagogue Council of America, 1938-40. He is on the New York Board of Jewish Ministers (President 1916-17), on the Executive Board of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, etc., Marital Status: He married Tamar Hirschenson of New ;York City on February 6, 1917. Place of residence: 99 Central Park West, New York, N.Y. Children: Ithiel de Sola Pool and Naomi de Sola Pool.

POST, Charles Kintzing

Date of Birth: January 11, 1897 NYC. Parents: He is the son of Waldron Kintzing and Mary Lawrence (Perkins) Post. Lineage: (request lineage). Education: Charles Kintzing Post received his education at St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass., and at the United States Naval Academy. He is now in the United States Naval Reserve. Clubs and Organizations: Union Club, New York; Loyal Legion; Saint Nicholas Society; Holland Lodge No. 8, F. & A. M.; Cruising Club of America; Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C. Marital Status: unmarried. 

PROVOST, JR., Andrew J.

Date of Birth: November 7, 1867. Parents: His father was Andrew Provost, Sr. and his mother was Harriet Titus. Education: He studied at the Columbia University, School of Mines from 1885-1889 where he received his diploma in Civil Engineering. In 1889, he traveled and studied hydraulic and sanitary engineering in Europe. Profession: From 1889-1898, he was engaged in engineering work for the City of Brooklyn, in 1899 as engineer to the Comptroller of New York and in 1900, President of the Bacterial Sewage Purification Company.

From 1904 to 1906, he served as Consulting Engineer to the President of the Borough of Brooklyn. Clubs and Organizations:. American Society of Civil Engineers: American Water Works Association; New York State Sewage Works Association; Brooklyn Engineers Club, Holland Society of New York; Columbia University Club; Wee Burn Golf Club. Marital Status: He married Ada Balston of Brooklyn, N.Y. on October 7, 1891. Children: Ethel, born 1892, now Mrs. Galbreath; Andrew Jay Provost III, born 1894, Corporal, 2nd. Bat. Inf., 78th Div., A.E.F., wounded in battle before Grand Pre. France, November 1, 1918 died November 6, 1918; Balston N. Provost, born 1900, and Harriet, now Mrs. Smith, born in 1907.


ROOSEVELT, George Emlen

Date of Birth: October 13, 1887 NYC. Parents: He is a son of W. Emlen Roosevelt and Christine Griffin Kean and a direct descendant of Claes Martenszen Van Rosenvelt, who came from the Province of Zeeland in the Netherlands and emigrated to New Netherland in 1649. Education: He was graduated at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Massachusetts, in the class of 1905 and graduated at Harvard in the class of 1909, cum laude in mathematics. Profession: He is a partner of Roosevelt and Son, Director of the Guaranty Trust Co. and
the French-American Banking Corporation and First Vice-President and Trustee for the Bank for Savings in New York. 

Mr. Roosevelt is President and Director of the Chapin School, Vice-President of the Roosevelt Hospital, the New York Dispensary and New York University. Clubs and Organizations: Phi Beta Kappa; American Mathematical Society; Downtown Association: Harvard Clubs of Boston and New York; Royal Western Yacht Club of England; Racing Union; New York Yacht Club Commodore: Union Club. etc. Marital Status: He married Julia Morris Addison of Stamford, Conn. on October 24, 1914, who died on July 26th, 1937. Mr. Roosevelt married his second wife, Mrs. Mildred Cobb Rich, of Norfolk, Virginia, on January 14th, 1939. Children: Margaret Roosevelt, born in 1915, married to Alessandro Pallavicini: Medora Thayer Roosevelt, born in 1917, married to Herbert Whiting; Geemlen Roosevelt, 2nd, born in 1918, and Julian Kean Roosevelt born in 1924.

ROOSEVELT, Philip James

Date of Birth: May 15, 1892 NYC. Parents: Mr. Roosevelt is a son of W. Emlen Roosevelt and Christine Griffin Kean, a direct descendant of John Kean of South Carolina, who was Secretary of the Continental Congress. Education: Philip James attended St. Mark's School in Southboro, Massachusetts, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1912, as of the class of 1913. 

Profession: Mr. Roosevelt was a Director or Trustee of the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, the Continental Insurance Co., the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co., and the Union Square Savings Bank; President and Director of the Investors Management Co. and Fundamental Investors, Inc.; General partner of Roosevelt and Son, 30 Pine street, NYC. Clubs and Organizations: Commodore, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club; North American Yacht Racing Union (Pres.); Knickerbocker;. Marital Status: He married Jean S. Roosevelt, his second cousin, on May 9 1925. They lived at "Dolonor," Cove Neck, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Children: There is one daughter, Philippa Roosevelt and two sons, Philip James Roosevelt Jr., and John Ellis Roosevelt.

SANGER, Louis Phipps

Date of Birth: June 24, 1885 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: Louis Phipps Sanger was educated at the Berkeley School, New York City (1894-1898), the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania (1899-1902); St. Paul's School, Garden City, Long Island (1902-1906) and New York University (Class of 1909). Clubs and Organizations: Sons of the Revolution; the Huguenot Society; Society of Colonial Wars; Military Order of Foreign Wars; the St. Nicholas Society; and the Racquet and Tennis Club. Marital Status: He married Mrs. Grace Ostrander Signor, of Albany, New York on February 14, 1928.

SCHENCK, Stewart C.

Date of Birth: September 26, 1870 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Profession: Real estate business for the past fifty years. Marital Status: He married Alixe Mataran of New York City on September 26, 1901. There are no children.


SCHUYLER, Robert Livingston

Date of Birth: February 26, 1883. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated at Boyce School in New York City, and then went to Columbia College, where he graduated in the class of 1903. He received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1904 and 1909, respectively. Profession: His first first teaching assignment was as Instructor in History at Yale University in 1906. In 1910 he became lecturer in History at Columbia University, Assistant Professor in 1911, Associate Professor in 1919. etc. Clubs & Organizations: Century Association; American Historical Association; New York State Historical Association; Royal Historical Society (Fellow); American Political Science Assn.; Colum Alumni Assn.; Phi Beta Kappa. Marital Status: He married Sara V.D. Brooks of Kansas City, Missouri, on October 19, 1907. Children: There is one daughter, Virginia Schuyler, born in 1915.

SIMONSON, Charles Edgar

Date of Birth: July 7, 1871 Richmond, S.I. Parents: John William Simonson and Charlotte Stephens. Education: He was educated under private tutors and also at Trinity School, West New Brighton, where he was graduated. Later he received instruction from Rev. Alfred Demarest, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Richmond. Profession: Insurance and real estate. Marital Status: He was married on January 19, 1899 in New York City to May, daughter of William Libbey and Mary Ladd Sexton. Children: There is a son, Cortelyou Ladd Simonson, born December 15, 1902, in West New Brighton, Staten Island.


SLOAN, Benson Bennett

Date of Birth: March 29, 1867 NYC. Parents: He is the son of Samuel Sloan 2nd and Margaret Elmendorf, a daughter of Peter Zabriskie Elmendorf and Maria La Grange. Education: Mr. Sloan attended New York Latin School, Churchill's School in New York and Holbrook's Military Academy. He was graduated at Columbia University with the class of 1888. Profession: After receiving an A.B. degree, he worked with the Trust Department of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company from 1888 to 1899. In that year he became a member of the firm of Post & Flagg, until its dissolution, April 1941. Clubs & Organizations: Friendly Sons of St. Patrick; Young Men's Christian Association: American Association for the Advancement of Science; New York Academy of Science; Columbia Alumni Association; Union; University; Racquet: St. Anthony; Rockaway Hunting Club; etc. Marital Status: He married Margaret Milligan Sloane of Princeton, New Jersey in Munich, Germany on June 4, 1913. Children: There are three sons: Benson Bennett Sloan, Jr., born in 1915; William Milligan Sloan, born in 1916, and Samuel Sloan III, born in 1919.


SMIDT, Frank Bishop

Date of Birth: February 20, 1860 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: After attending grade and high schools in New York City, he graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1882 with a B.A. and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. Profession:
In 1886 he entered the Central Trust Company of New York, from which he retired as a Vice-President in 1938, after fifty-two years of service, at the age of seventy-eight. Clubs & Organizations: Holland Society of New York, St. Nicholas Society of New York. Marital Status: unmarried

SMITH, Herman Armour

Date of Birth: January 12, 1883 NYC. Parents: He is the son of Cornelius Smith and Emma Jean Collins. Education: Not mentioned in article. Profession: Director of the Hudson River Museum at Yonkers, N.Y. Mr. Smith is President of the Yonkers Art Association and member of the Art Commission of the City of Yonkers. Clubs & Organizations: Holland Society; Hudson River Conservation Society; Automobile Oldtimers, etc. Marital Status: He married Iduna Wilke of Yonkers, New York on August 31, 1918. There are no children. Their address was: 11 Halcyon Place, Yonkers, New York.


STAATS, Richard Henry

Date of Birth: September 12, 1882. Parents: (request lineage). Education: Not mentioned in article. Profession: Retired businessman. Clubs & Organizations: Holland Society, Sons of the Revolution; American Legion (106th Inf. Post); Pyramid Lodge F. and A.M. 490; Wiccopee Grange. Marital Status: unmarried


VAN BENTHUYSEN, Alvin Seaward

Date of Birth: November 30, 1884. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated at New York Public and High schools and also studied with private tutors. Profession: In 1910 he began working with the advertising firm of George L. Dyer Co. In 1912 he transferred to Barrow, Wade, Guthrie and Co., public accountants where he remained, except for a short interruption in 1915-16 when he served as general Controller for the Frank A. Sayles Interests in textiles, importing, utilities and war industries. Clubs and Organizations: Holland Society of New York; Sons of the American Revolution; Controllers Institute of America: 32 Mason and Mystic Shriner. Marital Status: On December 24, 1905 he married Gertrude May Taylor of New York. His second marriage to Helen Georgene Legel of Buffalo, New York, took place on October 19, 1925. Children: There is a son by the first marriage, Everett Seaward Van Benthuysen, born in 1906.


VANDERBILT, William H.

Date of Birth: November 24, 1901 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated at St. George's School of Newport, Rhode Island and studied at Princeton University. Profession: Mr. Vanderbilt has been a member of the Rhode Island State Senate from 1928 to 1934 and was chosen Governor of Rhode Island in Nobember, 1938, for the term 1939-1941. Clubs & Organizations: American Museum of Natural History; Knickerbocker Club; Army and Navy Club; Racquet and Tennis; Coaching Club; Brook Club; New York Yacht Club. Marital Status: He first married Emily Davis of New York City on November 1, 1923, from whom he was divorced. His second marriage to Anne Colby of Orange, New Jersey took place on December 27, 1929. Children: There is one daughter of the first marriage, Emily Vanderbilt. Of his second marriage there are twin daughters, Anne and Elsie.


VANDERHOEF, Nathaniel Wyckoff

Date of Birth: December 5, 1865 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: not mentioned in article. Profession: He started his business career by entering the firm of Vanderhoef & Co. at the age of 18 in 1884 and remained there until he retired in 1914. Clubs & Organizations: Holland Society of New York; Seventh Regiment Veterans Association, etc. Marital Status: He married Kate Irwin Martin of Brooklyn, New York on November 7, 1888 at Church of the Messiah. Children: There were three children: William Irwin Vanderhoef, born September 20, 1889, who died on August 24, 1926; he was in the Naval Reserve in the first World War. Marion Wyckoff Vanderhoef, born in New York City on December 6, 1894 and married to Harry Franklin Morse on April 6, 1917 and N.S. Wyckoff Vanderhoef, born in New York City on March 12, 1897, who married Eunice Taylor of Boston on September 22, 1934, he was a First Lieutenant in the Field Artillery during the first World War.

VAN DYKE, Tertius

Date of Birth: January 18, 1886 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: Tertius Van Dyke attended Lawrenceville School and was graduated at Princeton University in the class of 1908. He then studied at Magdalen College, Oxford University, England, where he earned a B.A. degree in 1910, an M.A. degree in 1917. He also holds a B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary since 1913. Profession: Mr. van Dyke is now Headmaster of the Gunnery School at Washington, Connecticut. He has held pastorates in New York City and Washington, Conn. and during World War I worked with his father in Europe and also in Washington, D.C. Clubs and Organizations: Century Association; Princeton Club of New York; University Club. Marital Status: He married Mary Elizabeth Cannon of New Haven, Connecticut in 1924. Children: There are three children: Dorothea Atherton van Dyke; Henry van Dyke and Paul Cannon van Dyke.


VAN LOON, Lawrence Gwyn

Date of Birth: September 18, 1903 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He attended grammar school and high school and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1927, after which he attended the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1931. In the summer of 1930, he studied in the clinic of Prof. Van Rooy at the Wilhelminagasthuis in Amsterdam, and again in 1932. Clubs & Organizations: Holland Society; Dutch Settlers Society of Albany: Blauvelt Descendants. etc., Marital Status: He married Grietje Prins of Aalsmeer, Province of North Holland, in the Netherlands, in 1932. Children: There is a daughter, Grietje Jantina Van Loon born in 1937.

VAN STEENBERGH, Elizabeth

Date of Birth: April 14, 1908. Parents: (request lineage). Education: She attended grade schools and was graduated at the High School of Newburgh, New York. She then graduated from the Training School for Nurses of the Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1930. Profession: She is a Registered Nurse. Clubs & Organizations: Fifth Avenue Hospital Nurses Alumni Association, the New York State Nurses Association and the American Nurses Association. Marital Status: unmarried


VAN VEEN, Stuyvesant

Date of Birth: September 12, 1910 NYC. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated at Townsend Harris Hall and the College of the City of New York. He studied privately for eight years, also at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Daniel Garber, at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, with Thomas Benton, and at the New York School of Industrial Art. Profession: His work includes teaching for 8 years, Illustration, Cartooning, Textile Designing, Surgical Illustration, Research Assoc. in the Department of Anthropology, a cartoonist for Nation Magazine and Saturday Review of Literature. Clubs & Organizations: Mural Artists Guild; National Society Mural Painters; American Artists Congress; Townsend Harris Alumni Association (President); MacDowell Club, etc. Marital Status: unmarried.

WRIGHT, Irving Sherwood

Date of Birth: October 27, 1901 NYC. Parents: He is the son of Harry J. Wright and Cora Ann Hassett. Education: He was educated at public and high schools and graduated from Cornell University in the class of 1923. He received the M.D. degree at Cornell Medical School in 1926. Profession: He is Director of the Department of Medicine of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital and Medical School . Consulting Physician at Mount Vernon Hospital, Monmouth Memorial Hospital, Orange Memorial Hospital and the Hackensack Hospital. etc. Clubs & Organizations: University Club; St. Nicholas Society of New York; Sportsman's Club of Chicago; American College of Physicians (Fellow); American Society for Clinical Investigation: Soc. for Experimental Biology and Medicine; New York Academy of Sciences; New York Academy of Medicine; American Heart Association; Marital Status: He married Grace Mansfield Demarest, also born in New York City on October 15, 1927. Children: There are two children: Barbara Mansfield Wright, born in 1931 and Allison Sherwood Wright, born in 1935.

WYATT, Euphemia Van Rensselaer

Date of Birth: April 1, 1884 NYC. Parents: She is the daughter of George Waddington and Elisabeth Van Rensselaer. Education: She was educated in private schools, graduated from the New York School of Social Service and attended Columbia University in New York. Profession: She had an assignment as organizer and Director of the Caritas Club for Working Girls from 1900 to 1910, as a lecturer in American History for the Board of Education in New York City from 1910-1912. She is a librarian of the Colonial Dames of America. Clubs & Organizations: Colonial Dames of America; Carroll Club. Marital Status: She married Christopher Billopp Wyatt II at San Marco in Venice, Italy on August 28, 1906. Children: There are four children: Elisabeth, married to William A. Russell of North Andover, Mass, in 1920, Jane, married to Edgar Bethune Ward in 1935, Christopher Billopp Wyatt III, and Monica Wyatt.