| Notes | CORNELIUS H. VAN BLARCOM, lawyer, of Paterson, was born in that
place, September 7, 1846, son of Abraham C. and Catherine (Garrison)
Van Blarcom. He is a descendant of Captain Johannes Van Blarcom, from Holland, who was a settler at Hoboken in the very earliest period of
the colonization of what is now New Jersey by the Dutch. The father of Mr. Van Blarcom was an architect and builder in Paterson.
Cornelius H. Van Blarcom was educated in private schools in Paterson. In early life he was engaged for some twenty years in mercantile pursuits, from which he retired to live on a farm. Deciding, however, to devote the remainder of his career to a professional occupation, he studied law, and in November, 1895, was admitted to the bar of New Jersey. Owing to ill health he removed to New York State, where also (May, 1898) he received admission to the bar. Returning to Paterson he engaged in professional practice there, which he still continues. He also has a law office at Montgomery, Orange County, N. Y. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Van Blarcom was married, June 10, 1868, to
Fannie J. Ward, of Montgomery, N. Y. Children of this union: Katie (died in childhood), Wessels (paying teller in the Second National Bank of Paterson), Frederick W. (see below), Mary D. (wife of D. Henry Bonner of Boston, Mass.), and Harold.New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen, 1904 |
