BERGEN, Ira Wesley

Date of Birth: November 16, 1896. (Hempstead, L.I.,N.Y.). Parents: Frank Bergen and Anna Sprague. They emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States in 1854 and settled in the town of Hempstead, on Long Island, New York, where they came to own their farm. Education: After attending grade and high schools, Mr. Bergen attended Columbia University in the class of 1922. Religion: 1904-1917 he attended the oldest Dutch Church in Brooklyn, the Bushwick Dutch Reformed Church, which used to be on Bushwick Avenue and Humboldt and Conselyea Streets. 

Profession/Occupation: He was employed from May, 1925 to 1938 by the Consolidated Edison Company of New York City as Senior Draftsman. While with that company he attended their school on Business and Engineering subjects, for several years, at evening sessions. United States Government employed at Fort Rosecrans at San Diego, California. Clubs and Organizations: Mr. Bergen is an active member of all Masonic organizations, including Ridgewood Lodge #710 F. and A.M., Brooklyn, New York, Ridgewood Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Richmond, Hill, Long Island, New York and Pilgrim Commandery #71, Knights Templar, Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York and Al Bahr Shrine Temple of San Diego, California. He is also a member of the Elks of this city. Illuminating Engineers Society. Marital Status: Unmarried.

BOGERT, Henry Lawrence

Date of Birth: May 7, 1883 (Flushing, L.I.). Education: He attended Cutler School in New York City and attended Columbia College with the class of 1904. Parents: (request lineage). Profession: He was connected with the firm of Lee, Higginson and Co. for ten years. From April, 1922, to the present, he has been a partner of the firm of Eastman, Dillon and Co., investment bankers, at 15 Broad St., New York City. Director and Voting Trustee of the Rochester Ice and Cold Storage Utilities, Inc. Clubs and organizations: Union Club; St. Nicholas Society; National Republican Club; Broad Street Club; Edgartown Yacht Club; Delti Phi. Marital Status: He married Elizabeth Blodget Sanford of Lawrence, New York, on June 18, 1910. They lived at 160 East 72nd Street, New York, N.Y. Children: Henry Lawrence Bogert, Jr., born 1911; Cardine Elizabeth, Married to Thomas Hildt, Jr., born 1916; Caroline Virginia Bogert, born 1921, and Lucretia Leland Bogert, born 1932.

BOGERT, Marston Taylor

Date of Birth: April 18, 1868 (Flushing, L.I.). Parents: Henry A. Bogert (a well known lawyer of New York, and Mary Bowne Lawrence.). Education: He was graduated from Columbia University, A.B. in 1890, and received a Ph.B. degree in 1894 and Sc.D. in 1928. He also holds an LL.D. from Clark University (1909) and an R.N.D. of the Charles University of Prague, (1929). Profession: He is one of America's outstanding chemists . He has been President of the American Chemical Society (1907-1909). International Union of Chemistry (1938-1942), He is an honorable Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Directors of the N.Y. Botanical Garden. Clubs and Organizations: Chemists', Century, Columbia Men's Faculty, Megantic Fish and Game, Holland Society of N.Y., Belgrade Lakes (Maine Association). Marital Status: He married Charlotte Elizabeth Hoogland. Residence: 1158 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Children: Annette, married to Frank B. Tallman, and Elise, married to Frederick K. Huber.

COWENHOVEN, George Mitchell

Date of Birth: March 25, 1881 (New Ultrecht, Long Island, New York). Parents: (request lineage). Education: Graduate of the Polytechnic Preparatory School, Brooklyn and of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. Profession: He is now engaged in the manufacture of industrial instruments in Brooklyn. Clubs and Organizations: The Holland Society of New York; Beta theta Pi Fraternity. Marital Status: He married Helen Glover Slaney of Fort Wayne, Indiana, on June 16, 1907. 

ELLIMAN, Lawrence Bogert

Date of Birth: September 11, 1876 (Flushing, N.Y.) Parents: (request lineage). Education: Educated at Flushing Institute, 1890-1891, and Berkeley School, 1891-1894, New York City. Profession: From 1895 to 1897 he worked at the NYC Board of Health bacteriology laboratory. September 11, 1897 formed the firm of Pease and Elliman. Real Estate business. They have largely been responsible for the development of Park Avenue as one of the finest residence thoroughfares in the city and have also been responsible for the erection of many of the fine apartment houses on Fifth Avenue. Clubs and Organizations: Chamber of Commerce; St. Nicholas Society; Society of Colonial Wars; N.Y. Historical Society; N.Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society, (Vice-Pres. and Trustee); Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rockaway Hunting Club; Uptown Club; Director of the Fifth Avenue Assn. and Director of the First Avenue Assn. Marital Status: He married Edyth Coppell of New York on November 18, 1902. She passed away on August 13, 1941. Residence: 122 East 56 Street, New York, New York. Children: Edyth Coppell Elliman (now Mrs. Prentice Talmage), born May 28, 1906, and Lawrence B. Elliman, Jr., born August 11, 1908.


REMSEN, Richard

Date of Birth: June June 22, 1889 Morris Park, L.I., N.Y.). Parents: I. Cornell Remsen and Georgianna Ditmis. Education: He was educated in common and high schools, Polytech Preparatory School in Brooklyn, and was graduated at Dartmouth in the class of 1912. He received the LL.B. degree from the Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1917. Profession: He practices law in New York City at 165 Broadway. He is a member of the firm of Bernard Remsen Nobiletti & Millham. He is Vice-President of the Dartmouth College Club, and member of the Vestry Committee of the Garden City (Episcopalian) Cathedral. He was a director of the Long Island Finance Corporation through the years 1925 to 1929, and President of the Cherry Valley Golf Club for the five years from 1934 to 1939. Clubs and Organizations: Garden City Golf Club; Cherry Valley Golf Club; Lawyers Club; Nassau County Bar Association; New York State Bar Association; Downtown Athletic Club; Dartmouth College Club. Marital Status: He married Gladys Bergen Story of Freeport, Long Island, New York, on April 27, 1918. Residence: 64 Second Street, Garden City, Long Island, New York. Children:
Richard Remsen, Jr., born March 25, 1920., William C.S. Remsen, born November 22, 1921, and Frederick Ditmis Remsen, born January 9, 1928.

STOUTENBURGH, Gilbert

Date of Birth: January 8, 1879, (Jamaica, Long Island, New York). Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated in common schools and graduated from Jamaica (N.Y.) High School in the class of 1897. Profession: He is in the banking business since 1915 and is connected with the Long Island City Savings Bank of Long Island City, N.Y. He is a veteran of the 14th regiment of Brooklyn, President of the Stoutenburgh Family Association, and Warden of All Saints Church of Great Neck, L.I., N.Y. Clubs and Organizations: Holland Society of New York; St. Nicholas Society of Nassau Island. Marital Status: He married Alice Mabel Payne of Stoney Point, Rockland County, New York, on October 12, 1901. Residence: 41-16 Glenwood Street, Little Neck, N.Y. Children: Gilbert Payne Stoutenburgh, born 1902 and married to Nerine Mason of Norwood, N.Y., Ruth Adams Stoutenburgh, born 1904, and married to Forbes Albert Walker of Douglson, N.Y., and Natalie Stoutenburgh, born 1910 and married to James Wesley Coote of Great Neck, N.Y.

VAN SICLEN, James Cornell

Date of Birth: He was born October 15, 1869 at Jamaica, New York. Parents: (request lineage). Education: He was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Law School of Columbia University, graduating at the latter in 1892. Profession: He engaged in the general practice of the law until 1911, when he became Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, continuing as such until 1926. He was Trial and Appeal Counsel, 1926-1930; Bush Terminal Receiver in Equity and Trustee, 1933-1936; and Official Referee of the Supreme Court, 1930, to the present time. Clubs and Organizations: Queens County and New York State Bar Associations: Oakland Golf Club. Marital Status: He married Lena Childs of West Shelby, N.Y., on July 8, 1908. Residence: 166-15 Highland Avenue, Jamaica, New York. Children: Robert D and a daughter, Virginia (Van Siclen) Goodbody.

VAN SICLEN, John Wyckoff

Date of Birth: He was born at Jamaica, New York on July 29, 1907. Parents: Wyckoff Van Siclen and Sarah Linington Rapelje. Education: He received his education at the Choate School, graduating in 1896, and at Yale University, receiving the degree of B.A. in 1930. Profession: He is a Real Estate Broker in Jamaica. Clubs and Organizations: Trustee, Jamaica Hospital; member of the Board of Managers, Central Queens Y.M.C.A.; secretary, Hollis Park Gardens Association; deacon, First Reformed Church of Jamaica; member of The Holland Society, St. Nicholas Society of Nassau Island; Young Men's Board of Trade, N.Y. Marital Status: unmarried. Place of Residence: 8865-193rd Street, Hollis, N.Y.