English: Robert Anderson Van Wyck
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Title: Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934
Subjects: New York (State) -- Genealogy Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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iate institutions and hos-pitals, and a leading lay member of the stand-ing committee of the Diocese of Pong Islandof the Episcopal Church. He has been president of the New YorkHolland Society, the Southern Society, thehNorth Carolina Society, the South Caroliniansand the New York Alumni Association ofNorth Carolina University, as well as grandmaster of Zeta Psi fraternity of NorthAmerica, a Greek letter society of the colleges,and trustee of the New England Society oPBrooklyn. He is a member of the Lincoln,Oxford, Brooklyn, Crescent Athletic, Hamil-ton and Montauk clubs of Brooklyn, and ofthe Pawyers, Manhattan, and National Demo-cratic clubs of Manhattan. He married Peila G. Wilkins, of Richmond,iVirginia. They have two children: WilliamVan Wyck, of Brooklyn, formerly assistantdistrict attorney of Kings county, and Mrs.James W. Osborne, of New York City, wifeof James W. Osborne, formerly assistant dis-trict attorney of New York county. Hisonly living brother is Judge Robert Anderson
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wvHlouu. /MA , SOUTHERN NEW YORK 735 : Van Wyck, first mayor of Greater City ofNew York; and his only living sister is thewife of General Robert F. Hoke, of Raleigh,North Carolina. Judge Van Wyck has a mostextensive acquaintance in all parts of thecountry. Robert Anderson Van Wyck was born inthe City of New York, son of William andLydia A. (Maverick) Van Wyck. He wasprepared for college at the celebrated WilsonAcademy in North Carolina and later gradu-ated from Columbia College and was vale-dictorian of his class. He then passed anumber of years in banking and mercantilelife, after which he became an able lawyerand enjoyed a large practice for many years.He was active in politics and took a very im-portant part therein, attending many conven-tions, state and national. He and a few otherwarm and admiring friends of General Win-field Scott Hancock, without political-organ-;ized backing, succeeded in nominating GeneralHancock for President by taking advantageof a division in the forces o
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