THE courtly president of the Holland Society of New York, needs no introduction to University men nor to the New York bar. Sprung from one of the oldest of our Dutch families, his interest in their settlement of this country and their progress since has been deep and marked. No meeting of Knickerbockers or celebration of interest to the descendants of the original settlers of New York has ever been complete without his presence.
He was born in New York City, and after due preparation entered the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in the class of 1852, having participated actively in most of the undergraduate organizations of prominence. He has been the president of its Alumni association since.
He studied law at the State and National Law School, then located at Poughkeepsie, and during a portion of his time there, was an instructor on subjects of Pleadings and Evidence.
Going to Davenport, Iowa, shortly after, he began the practice of law there and so continued until the breaking out of the war in 1861 when, forming a company of which he was made Captain, he was attached to the 13th Iowa Infantry. Serving under General Grant in Missouri and ascending the Tennessee River with him, in 1862, he was promoted to the rank of Major for gallantry at the Battle of Shiloh, and took part in the subsequent capture of Vicksburg. At one time he was Provost Marshal of the armies in the field for the department of the Mississippi. At the close of the war Major Van Hoesen resumed the practice of law in New York City. His success was marked. In 1875 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in New York, serving the full term of fourteen years. No greater compliment could have been paid to him, a pronounced Democrat, than the general regret which was expressed by the prominent Republican journals of this city in their leading editorials, "that a man of his, talents, kindly feeling and dignified courtesy, could not have received a re-nomination."
Having resumed the practice of law at the expiration of his term of office, he was elected a trustee of the Holland Trust Company, Chairman of the Memorial Committee of the Grand Army, of which he has long been a comrade in Lafayette Post No. 140, and was one of the founders of the Holland Society.
If the writer is not mistaken he was a Trustee and now a member of the St. Nicholas Club. He is a member of the St. Nicholas Society, and the Union, Manhattan, New Amsterdam, and Zeta Psi Clubs.
At the organization of the latter Club in 1882, he was by [acclamation] tended its presidency. He is perhaps the most popular man in that Fraternity, which has given him its highest office.
After many years acquaintance with him, the writer thinks it no exaggeration to say, that no more polished gentleman ever sat upon the bench of the city or state than Judge Van Hoesen.
SOURCE: The University Magazine, Vol. 5, December 1891, p. 1221
He was born in New York City, and after due preparation entered the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in the class of 1852, having participated actively in most of the undergraduate organizations of prominence. He has been the president of its Alumni association since.
He studied law at the State and National Law School, then located at Poughkeepsie, and during a portion of his time there, was an instructor on subjects of Pleadings and Evidence.
Going to Davenport, Iowa, shortly after, he began the practice of law there and so continued until the breaking out of the war in 1861 when, forming a company of which he was made Captain, he was attached to the 13th Iowa Infantry. Serving under General Grant in Missouri and ascending the Tennessee River with him, in 1862, he was promoted to the rank of Major for gallantry at the Battle of Shiloh, and took part in the subsequent capture of Vicksburg. At one time he was Provost Marshal of the armies in the field for the department of the Mississippi. At the close of the war Major Van Hoesen resumed the practice of law in New York City. His success was marked. In 1875 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in New York, serving the full term of fourteen years. No greater compliment could have been paid to him, a pronounced Democrat, than the general regret which was expressed by the prominent Republican journals of this city in their leading editorials, "that a man of his, talents, kindly feeling and dignified courtesy, could not have received a re-nomination."
Having resumed the practice of law at the expiration of his term of office, he was elected a trustee of the Holland Trust Company, Chairman of the Memorial Committee of the Grand Army, of which he has long been a comrade in Lafayette Post No. 140, and was one of the founders of the Holland Society.
If the writer is not mistaken he was a Trustee and now a member of the St. Nicholas Club. He is a member of the St. Nicholas Society, and the Union, Manhattan, New Amsterdam, and Zeta Psi Clubs.
At the organization of the latter Club in 1882, he was by [acclamation] tended its presidency. He is perhaps the most popular man in that Fraternity, which has given him its highest office.
After many years acquaintance with him, the writer thinks it no exaggeration to say, that no more polished gentleman ever sat upon the bench of the city or state than Judge Van Hoesen.
SOURCE: The University Magazine, Vol. 5, December 1891, p. 1221
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He served as Judge in the Billings and Company Bankruptcy in 1885. When the piano firm was in trouble.
Billings and Company
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