Excerpt from A History of Long Island From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. 3 Mr. Van Anden was never married. For many years his home in Columbia street, Brook lyn. Was also the abode of his mother and widowed sister. He passed his leisure hours in his well stocked library, and in pleasant intercourse with his former business and social associates. He was courteous toward all, and those deserving of his bounty were generously relieved. His death oc curred August 4, 1875, at the residence of his brother at ...
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Excerpt from A History of Long Island From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. 3 Mr. Van Anden was never married. For many years his home in Columbia street, Brook lyn. Was also the abode of his mother and widowed sister. He passed his leisure hours in his well stocked library, and in pleasant intercourse with his former business and social associates. He was courteous toward all, and those deserving of his bounty were generously relieved. His death oc curred August 4, 1875, at the residence of his brother at Poughkeepsie, New York. Alexander E. Orr, for many years prominent in financial and political affairs, is a native of Ire land, of Scotch - Irish parentage. He was educated with a view to his entering upon judicial or mili tary service in the East India Company, but this purpose was defeated through an accident which he met. He visited the United States in 1850, and came back the following year to remain perman ently, taking up his residence in Brooklyn. He was employed successively by Ralph Post, Wallace Wickes, and David Dows Company, of New York City, and in after years he became a member of the latter named firm. He became actively con nected with the New York Produce Exchange in 1859, and was prominent in its reorganization in 1871-2, and in procuring the erection of the pres ent building. At the present time he is the presi dent of the Rapid Transit Commission, and an officer of a great number of railway, banking and insurance corporations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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