The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-07-09
TRUE SON OF OUR SOIL.
The Jersey Dutch Ancestry Of
GaTrGt A. Hobart.
THE vANDERyEER FAMILY.

An Interesting Genealogical
Study by Rev. DR.. Welles,
of the Second Reformed
Church of Paterson, for
merly Of Marlborough.
For Vice President, Garret A. Ho-
bart of New jersey is the declara-
tion of the st. Louis Convention
which thrilled the heart of every 10y
al Jerseyman and awakened an en-
thusiam which displayed its power
in the grandest non partisan ovation
upon Mr.. Hobart's return to his home
in Paterson, a Vice Presidential
nominee ever received. Under ordi-
nary circumstances the words of the
convention to which we have re-
ferred, mean nothing more than
that the man of whom they speak is
a resident or at most a native of the
designated State In the present
instance they mean great deal
more. Mr.. Hobart is most emphatic
ally ''of New jersey the product
of the social and moral and educa-
tional forces of the State. A Jersey
man by birth, always residing in his
native State, the foundations of his
/ education were laid in the public
schools under its fostering care. He
grew to manhood environed with
the social customs and thought of the
old Dutch families of Monmouth
County. He graduated from Rutgers
College at New Brunswick, which
his forefathers foundt d, the State
College of which he is at present one
of the trustees, and which has re-
Gently conferred upon him the de-
gree Of LII. ID. He learned the mys-
temes of New Jersey law at Paterson,
under the guidance of the Hon.
Socrates Tuttle. who for many years
was one of the foremost attorneys of
the Bar of New Jersey. He has been
drilled in parliamentary tactics in
the New Jersey Legislature, where as
Speaker of the lower House and as
President of the Senate, he dignified
the position he occupied and won the
esteem of those over whose deliber-
ations he presided, Democrats and
Republicans vying to do him honor
In the fullest, broadest sense, Garret
A. Hobart is of New Jersey.
But this is not all. Mr.. Hobart is
the descendant of ancestors who, for
generations reaching back to the
early settlement of East Jersey, have
been identified with the develop
ment and prosperity, and have con-
tributed largely to the growth and
good name of the State. Mr.. Ho-
bart's father, Addison w. Hobart,
was a New England Yankee, who,
early in life, came to Monmouth
County, N. j., as a school teacher.
He subsequently established gener-
al mercantile business at Marlbor-
ough,~ "a small hamlet about four miles
north of the village of Freehold,
where he lived until his death, es-
teemed and respected by his neigh
bors, a man of influence in the com
munity. a staunch Democrat the
greater partsof his life, an elder in
the Reformed church known as the
''Old Brick Church, the fourth
church of the Reformed faith organ
lied in the State; and a delegate in
1884 to the General Synod of the Re
formed Church in America in session
at Grand Rapids Michigan. Mr..
Hobarts mother was Sophia Van
| Deryeer, a woman of many estimable
qualities of disposition and character
ruling her household with patient
tenderness and prar rerfully endeav-
oring to train her family in the fear
of the Lord. For several years previ-
GUS to her death, which occurred in
1881, she was an active member OF
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Monmouth County, and
died lamented not only in her home
but by a very large circle of acquain-
tances and friends.
1t is through his mother, Van
Derveer, that Mr.. Hobart is identi-
fed with the old Dutch families OF
New Jersey. The Van Derveers OF
Holland have held the rank of counts
of the Batavian Republic for the
last four centuries, but the Van Der
veers of America have esteemed 1T
the highest honor to hold the rank
of citizens of the United States, and
have ever been too democratic in
opinion ana sentiment to seek to es-
tablish kinship with the titled aris-
tocracy of the Fatherland. In trac-
Ing MT. 1ODdTbS : DulCu JeQlSIcC VIC
are carried back to the first Van
Derveer that stepped upon Ameri-
can soil, 'and find his ancestry al
most entirely among the sturdy
yeomanry whose labors has made
New Jersey the Garden State.
Cornelis Janse Vanderveer, the
first to bear the name in America,
emigrated early in 1869, from Alkmaar
of North Holland, in the ship Gid
ed Otter and brought with him
sufficient money to purchase a farm
in the town of Flatbush. Kings
County, N. Y. Through the good
will of his neighbors, he was magis-
trate of the town in 167S-80, and his
name appears in the patent granted
the inhabitants of Flatbush by Gov.
Thomas Dongan in 1855. He married
Tryntie DeMandeville, a daughter
of Giles DeMandeville and Elsie
Hendricks, the ancestors of the
Vaudeville families Of Pompton,
N. J.
Doninicus Van Derveer, the third
child but second son of Cornelis
Janse Van Derveer and Tryntie De-
Vaudeville, was born at Flatbush in
1879, and there resided until his
death in 1755. having served the