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Frederick B. Van Vorst

Lawyer

Centurion, 1882–1919

Full Name Frederick Boyd Van Vorst

Born 19 January 1855 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 27 September 1919 in Hackensack, New Jersey

Buried Hackensack Cemetery, Hackensack, New Jersey

Proposed by Gilbert M. Speir (may refer to Gilbert M. Speir or Gilbert M. Speir Jr.) and Francis F. Marbury

Elected 6 May 1882 at age twenty-seven

Archivist’s Note: Son of Hooper C. Van Vorst

Century Memorial

Frederick B. Van Vorst had been a member of this Club for thirty-seven years. Son of the late Judge Hooper Van Vorst, he followed his father’s footsteps into the law, and was engaged throughout his lifetime in corporation practice in New York. Mr. Van Vorst was a man of quiet and genial manner, and a loyal Centurion.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1920 Century Association Yearbook