The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-12
AMANY.SIDEDNEW YORKER
sowr REMINIsoENoBy OF TIE LATE
GULIIR @. YERPLiNCk.

o,s Anected tho Career OF Dewitt CHA
,or-Tbo Dutch stock OF which he Came.
who that has read Washington Irving's tale
~ min Van Wrinkle can forget the pathos of
R,n when he exclaims amid his old ncighbors,
who did not recognize him, How soon VIC arc
! forpot," Nowadays the name OF Gulian G. Yer
plnnck would be apt to evoke only the ques-
ton. And pray, who was her Yet from
Tho close Of Jcferson's term az President to
| tho Grant Administration that namo was q
Knickorbockcr household word. Gulian c.
yorp,anck was n native Now Yorker, q law
| YER. a Judge, n professor, a politician, n candi-
date for Mayor, n Legislative statesman, a man
! nj Europcan rs we'll as domestic travel, a gen
/ tlcman of refined courtesy, full Of artistic taste,
| learned critic, author, orator, man Of business,
a layman. n theoloRian, and a philanthropist.
He was born at his grandfather's house in
Wall street in 1886, and was named Gulian
after his patcrnal granduncle, from whom his
! father had expectations, and who had become
! a wealthy merchant in the Holland trade. Tho
&C. of his name represented the maiden name
| OF his grandmother, Crommclin. She was q
colonial heiress and Of ancient Dutch lineage.
His mother was n daughter Of the third Presi.
dent of Columbia College, and she died when
her son was an infant. The American founder
OF the family was Abraham Isaacson Yer
Planck, who, after emigrating to this country
from his native Amsterdam, welded a Dutch
heiress named Maria Vigne. whose father
owned much farm land in the area now bounded
by Broadway and upper Park row, Grand,
and Reade streets, including tho great Fresh
Water Pond or Collect over which tho
Tombs and Criminal Court building were erect
cd. A Centre street hciress would nowadays
y 70 " f"fo WV 'hu'eu' u Nar" . 'an'No
dowry aided her husband SO that their descend
Il. ieeci,ou II sooo pn.ri.hoh!.
pi%"'n =, INC i"",'s ooush' "h ea,a'o on
,n. i"uso ii,ef' wv o"h US % = II .
ioh', ""u aho'"er .eS'ehuan' uuh' - y"
pisnck colonial mansion AT shkiioh' iuason'
WHICH, oeeaino historical "s 'ne hin."ry ho"o'
a""".'i' u" ''e""'n "hho ""'ni"s.o"
""' "' "'"hho"h h'"'q""r'efe aeios' '"o
river al Ne"ourR. ihese coiohiai 'erpiahchs
"o'. ioi'os' III 'nis 'ac' ""s he'or loiSn.u
patriotc American.
Ancestor Abraham had a fondness for land,
and nurcb.seI In tho mid sixtoon brndrcds n
~" IL 'no III" N'o ="
goodiy slice of what is now Jersey City. The
tract had been named Payonia by its first pro-
-'riotor' director Oh inc Amsterdam Lahu .oih'
pany. who had received the land as n grant to
him as PATRON under the bixb.sounding name
vi inc Lora OF AchtiehhoVen tan thihe own
haven't. Its sale in small tracts further in
creased tho wealth Of the NpTnlancK lnmllV.
Iorsnr c;,r $50, uh. a.,.oh .i,Ia. f.,
Jersey ,ns lawyers VINO search tl'ies oi'en en-
counter the early names of PATRON and OF Yer
planck. Upon this ancestor. Apraham. is laid
49, IL - ,..,n.a psu.a,a
'ne pialio U d massacre u i"oi"ns d. fa'ohih
while they were asleep in their wigwams.
Their cries werc hoard nv De Vrjcs n Durch
naninotan ons hia.or,an than Nv hoa,a 1t. shin
navigator ana historian. then on board MS snip
ut anchor near where now stands the Statue
Of Liberty
..peonIc If s,,ro, ,ros , ,br,s, orrr,nt +,
tUllc u HRuTC was IL DDENSP CuTTcUU Ill
early colonial New York and corresponding to
McAuister's ubrnse Of the 400. and under That
deslgnatloh me Nerpiancks came. by inter
marriage with leading Dutch and English fami-
les, such as inc bayards, LualowS, beekmnns
ana van cortiandts' they Increased In wealth
and social Importance.
Young Cuban was educated at Columbia
.N" -, ~ 80" Wv ~"
Gramma School in College place and subsc'
at Coiumbi College in the first year If the
PpSsandi the iS"ii aEy, and al his f father artici Ssih him Ms to
VA, ~ I5vineston wno suhseouentiv ~ re,,ored W
nnonisiana and ndnDted FOR TINT State tbo
nf STATE in Prcsidcnt Jackson's arst Cnbincf
He was admitted by Chief Justice james Kent
in 1907 to the bar; but was never known to try
Or Or t upEue cas y i hn wa intnros ndn ne one nniiSp'a amd
Tor m months n caused talk in New Sork. Hi.
on ncn q , Mhenp a af tbe h ace my ny "a az h. sa y cIi TO : nS' g
Tonrtb of Imiv oration beforc The Wnsbinc.
t t"i pon. Snis Sociniv 4; in The nid coi Tii
nmteh Cn,rcb M the ncrthyeat ~ ni E : j.
~ Du nand W;fi,,r ~ otrssta Ihn oratjnn rn. ~, ~
n"njiatalv nrim,ad IN naI,ni,iat Town aud circn,
intod ana ny ,rnm lin, ,.dma ~ .ra hi ~ pn n a"u 'No"
Two Years later this vomnp orator stood Mt tbe
h,r ~ ;ho Sa"or,s n,yrt ip tha Ci,y I'LL oa a
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~ aonnnseota Sno,ea lanes a Stanbnu,
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