| Notes | SAMUEL C. VAN BLARCOM, merchant, of Paterson, was born at Goffle Hill (now the Borough of Hawthorne) , Manchester Township, Passaic County, N. J., April 2, 1854, son of John A. and Elizabeth (Bookstaver) Van Blarcom.
Mr. Van Blarcom's father, John A. Van Blarcom (son of Albert and Eva Van Blarcom) , was born July 20, 1816. He is still living (1904), his home being at Saddle River, N. J. Although much of his life has been devoted to farming, he has been engaged in various business pursuits in New York City and New Jersey, including the fish trade, the commission business, and wholesale and retail butchering. To John A. Van Blarcom and his wife six children were born: Albert (deceased, married Helena Ackerman) ; Charles H. (married Margaret L. Terhune) ; Mary C. (wife of James Tracey, residing in Hackensack, N. J.) ; John O. (married Kate Reid) ; Samuel C, the subject of this sketch, and Alanson F. (deceased, married Margaretta Coe).
Samuel C. Van Blarcom received a public school education at his native place. At the age of eighteen he entered the business establishment of his father in Paterson, continuing there until the latter's retirement from active life. For the past twenty-nine years he has been transacting a wholesale commission trade in
Paterson, with a substantial degree of prosperity. He is one of the leading men of Paterson in his department of business.
In 1894 Mr. Van Blarcom purchased twenty-four acres of land at Midland Park, where he now resides.
He is a member of the Borough Council of Midland Park, and in all respects a progressive and useful citizen.
He was married at Paterson, October 18, 1875, to Maggie Vreeland.New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen, 1904 |
