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BIOGRAPHY OF
SAMUEL WESTERVELT
SAMUEL WESTERVELT is of the seventh generation from Lubbert
Lubbertsen, the first emigrant, and was born at Tenafly, Bergen
County, N. J., on the 16th of August, 1853, being the son of
David L. Westervelt and Sophia Parsels, and a grandson of John
R. Westervelt and Samuel Parsels. He received his education
in the Bergen County public schools, and at the age of seventeen
associated himself with the well known firm of Lord & Taylor,
of New York City, with which he has remained for twenty-eight
years, and where he now holds a responsible position. This house
is widely known as one of the leading dry goods establishments
in the East, and has few equals in the quality or kind of its
business. As an attaché of this great establishment Mr.
Westervelt has displayed the highest business abilities, great
executive energy, and superior judgment. He is a public spirited,
patriotic, and progressive citizen, and as a resident of Tenafly,
Bergen County, has taken an active interest in local public affairs.
He has served two years as President of the Board of Education
and still holds that office, and is also Trustee and Treasurer,
as well as a member of the Presbyterian Church of Tenafly.
Mr. Westervelt married Miss Charlotte E. Bolden, and they
have four children: Florence E., born I 1880; Ralph E., born
in 1884; James B., born in 1887; and Martha B., born in 1891.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 100.
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