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BIOGRAPHY OF
WARNER W. WESTERVELT
WARNER W. WESTERVELT, a prominent member of the New York bar
and a leading citizen of Woodcliff, Bergen County, N. J., is
of the seventh generation from Lubbert Lubbertsen, the emigrant
(see sketch on page 99), and was born in Spring Valley, Rockland
County, N. Y., on the 13th of July, 1847. He is descended from
a long line of worthy and distinguished Holland ancestors, his
parents being Sylvester Westervelt and Margaret Blauvelt, his
grandparents James and Hanna (Ten Eyck) Westervelt and Joseph
C. and Rebecca (Remsen) Blauvelt, and his great-grandparents
Albert Westervelt and Cornelius and Bridget (Talman) Blauvelt.
James Westervelt, his grandfather, was a private in the War
of 1812. These names represent some of the oldest and most prominent
families in Rockland County, New York, those who have borne them
having been conspicuous in civil, military, professionals, and
business life.
Mr. Westervelt acquired his educational training at the New
York State Normal School in Albany, from which he was graduated
in July, 1867. At the age of twenty he began teaching, first
in the Union Academy at Belleville, N. Y., later at Union Hall
Academy in Jamaica, L. I., and then at the Polytechnic Institute
in Brooklyn, N. Y. Subsequently he taught in the Ashland Public
School at East Orange, N. J., and finally in the schools at Plainfield,
N. J. These various positions gave him a broad and a valuable
experience as well as a high reputation for scholarship and ability
as a teacher.
But teaching was not to be his life work, though he had been
eminently successful. His tastes, his ambition, and his efforts
were for the law as a profession. Having pursued the regular
course of legal study, he was admitted to the New York bar in
May, 1880, and since then has practiced in New York City with
marked success. He has built up a large and successful clientage,
and as a lawyer and advocate has gained a wide reputation.
Mr. Westervelt is a prominent citizen and a member of the
Reformed Church of Pascack at Park Ridge, Bergen County, near
where he resides
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 108-109.
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