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WARNER W. WESTERVELT
Originally published in 1900 |
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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, 1817. 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
1S12. 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, professional, 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 valuable experience as well. These various positions gave him a broad and 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. He is thoroughly identified with the affairs of the community. His attention, however, has been devoted to his professional labors to the exclusion of public trusts and responsibilities, which have often been urged upon him. He married Miss Mary A. Beach, of Orange, N. J., and they have six children: Jennie E., born in 1870; Burton B., born in 1872; Mary A., born in 1876; Margaret, born in 1878; Warner AV., Jr., born in 1883; and Stuart C., born in 1891.
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