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JAMES TEN EYCK, 33 o Proceedings, by Scottish Rite, Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction, 1910. page 333. http://books.google.com/books?id=doJLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=%22james+te n+eyck%22+%22scottish+rite%22&source=bl&ots=- tmjvj8xpN&sig=oU1QFKljVtURz9IEl4mSr4ic7mc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WSY- UKgwqcvrAfeNgOAF&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22james%20ten%20eyck%22%2 0%22scottish%20rite%22&f=false ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE DEPUTY GRAND MASTER: "At Albany on Thursday, the 28th day of July, 1910, of our highly esteemed and well-beloved brother, the M.’. W.’. JAMES TEN EYCK, Past Grand Master, passed away. "A long and useful life is ended. Rich in honors and ripe in years, secure in the affection of all, a leader of men has passed away. "JAMES TEN EYCK was no ordinary man. In him were blended all the qualities of true manhood. With him honor was the only nobility. The gentleness of his nature appeared in all his transactions. He was just; but merciful, an unwavering friend, a constant benefactor, to his fellows and front among the foremost in every good work. In this commercial age he represented a chivalry which knew neither fear nor reproach, and felt a stain on honor like a wound. He illustrated to the world of business the crowd of virtues and of charities that cluster around the heart of a manly man—a gentleman. "His obsequies where held in the Temple at Albany, on Sunday, July 31, 1910. Masters Lodge, No. 5. whose membership he graced all the years of his Masonic life, performing the funeral rites of the Fraternity." FROM A TRIBUTE BY HON. MARTIN H. GLYNN: "Of the social amenities he was a living example of the best which Lord Chesterfield taught in his famous letters. It was a man like him whom Cowper described when he wrote "An Honest Man, Close-Buttoned to the Chin, Broadcloth Without, and a Warm Heart Within." In him the cardinal virtues found a personification, art a patron, and literature a lover. A reader of history, he ransacked the world for curios and relics which teach the tale of humanity better than the lettered page. His public spirit knew only the impossibilities of waking hours and the limitation of human nature. He was a man who cared for himself only to lavish the fruit of that care with a bountiful hand upon the projects he approved and the purposes he applauded. Various and multifarious were these. More than the public imagine; for JAMES TEN EYCK believed in the biblical injunction: 'Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.' "Mere mention of the high honors showered upon him in the Masonic world bear witness to his lofty character; for no man, save a man of traits that are noble, instincts that are admirable and acts that are kindly could possibly win the distinctions or occupy the place so prominent in the career of JAMES TEN EYCK." MASONIC DATA: Born, Albany, New York, February 16, 1840. Master Mason, January 29, 1864, in Masters Lodge, No. 5. Master of the Lodge 1873-7, inclusive. Royal Arch Mason, February 8, 1866, in Temple Chapter, No. 5. Royal and Select Master April 13, 1866, in DeWitt Council, No. 22. Knight Templar, November 15, 1867, in Temple Commandery, No. 2. Prince of the Royal Secret (and preceding degrees) April 7, 1866, in bodies at Albany, New York. Thrice Potent Master, 1869-1873, inclusive. In Grand Lodge of New York, Junior Grand Warden, two years; Senior Grand Warden six years; Deputy Grand Master, 1891; Grand Master, 1892. Received the Thirty-third degree September 19, 1877. ----- 120
http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/teneyck-1.html Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck, son of Abraham Cuyler ten Eyck and Margaret Matilda Haswell, was born in Whitehall Place, Albany, 7 Nov 1873. He was the last person born in the old, historic mansion, Gansevoort Home, built a century before Mr. Ten Eyck's birth, and known as "Whitehall," located in the town of Bethlehem, Albany, NY. His earliest education was received at the Albany Boys' Academy, which prepared him for entrance to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, where he studied engineering. Following his profession, he has advanced along these lines, civil engineer in charge of the work of laying out Beaver Park in Albany, under the superintendent of parks; inspector of signals on the Mohawk division of the New York Central line, and then supervisor of signals for the same; engineer of signals, in charge of both the construction and maintenance of all signals on the New York Central line; engineer of signals of the Federal Railway Signal Company, and vice-president and general manager of the last named company; also frequently acting as consulting railway engineer. He is a Democrat in politics. Was a member of the Third Signal Corps of the Third Brigade, National Guard, State of New York. He joined the Delta Phi fraternity and is a member of Master's Lodge [No. 5], F&AM. He is connected with the following clubs; Transportation, New York City; Fort Orange, Albany; University, as trustee; also a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association, Railway Signal Association, Albeny Institute and Historical and Art Socieity. He is a member of the Second Dutch Reformed Church, of Albany. Mr. Ten Eyck married, in Albany, 15 Apr 1903, Bertha Floretta Dederick, born in Albany, 31 Jul 1875, daughter of Peter Kells Dederick, of Albany, inventor and wholesale manufacturer of agricultural implements, and at one time was said to have received the third greatest number of patents issued in the United States to any one person. He was born in Claverack, Columbia, NY, 1 Feb 1838, son of Philip W. Dederick, b. in Claverack, 24 Jan 1806, died in Albany, and Anna Maria Kells, b. in Claverack, 24 Feb 1810; died in Albany, who were married in Claverack, 28 Dec 1833. Her mother's maiden name was Marietta Michael. She was born in Claverack, 24 Dec 1843, daughter of John Lewis Michael, born in Claverack, 12 Dec 1815, died in Claverack in autumn of 1872, and Elizabeth Miller, born 5 May 1818, at Humphreyville, died in Claverack, 9 Oct 1906, who were married in Claverack, 22 Apr 1834. Child: Peter Gansevoort Dederick, born in Yonkers, New York, 3 Apr 1905. He was the son of Abraham Cuyler, son of Coenraad Anthony and Hester Gansevoort (Ten Eyck) Ten Eyck, was born October 1, 1830, on Montgomery street, in Albany, which locality was then the "court part of the town" and later was converted into a site for the handsome new union railway station for all the roads entering Albany. He was educated at the Albany Boys' Academy. His elder brother, Jacob, being a "Forty-niner," of California gold field craze, persuaded him to make the trip to the West, which he did, and on arrival he became a successful contractor, but on account of the death of his brother Anthony, who had been deputy attorney-general of New York state, 1852, he was called East. When returning, the ship on which he sailed was shipwrecked in a severe storm in Golden Gate Harbor, and he was one of the nineteen saved out of a list of one hundred and twenty-five passengers aboard. An incident connected with his escape is still told in the family, that he carried with him, according to the custom of the place and those days, a bowie knife, which he used to good effect in cutting loose his belt, weighted with gold, and thus freed over five thousand dollars to sink to the bottom of the sea. It was a most fortunate display of alertness and had there been no sharp knife so conveniently at hand, doubtless his fate would have been similar to the scores of the gold-seekers whose fortune carried them to death. Following his marriage, which occurred within a few years of his return, he resided at No. 199 State street, which became the site of the new capitol, and after that he removed with his large and growing family to Whitehall Place, the old historical home of General John Bradstreet, of the British forces, used as his headquarters during the campaigns against the Indians and French. This house was built about 1750 by General Bradstreet; located about one hundred and fifty yards to the west of what became Delaware avenue, and the highway near it was long known as Whitehall road; its household furniture was the envy of all the neighbors; many interesting oil portraits hung upon its walls, and at the large receptions the family silver figured prominently; one room had been used by General Bradstreet as his office, and another had been dedicated as the "death chamber." After the war the house was purchased from General Bradstreet by Leonard Gansevoort, brother of General Peter Gansevoort; it was remodeled and enlarged in 1776 or 1780, becoming a mansion, one hundred and ten feet in front and seventy-five feet deep. The property contained some two thousand acres and came into the Ten Eyck family by the marriage of Magdalena, daughter of Leonard Gansevoort, to Jacob Ten Eyck, eldest son of Abraham Ten Eyck. Jacob Ten Eyck was a man of prominence, being judge of Albany county, assemblyman, and held other minor offices. The main building was located at the confluence of today's Whitehall Road, Delaware Avenue, and Ten Eyck Avenue. The Whitehall shown here was painted on a brick and depicted the structure eleven years before it burned in 1882. The destruction of this house by fire in 1883 was the greatest misfortune in the life of Mr. Ten Eyck; the place was known as Ten Eyck Park. In politics Mr. Ten Eyck was a Democrat. He was a member of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, a man of strong convictions, a staunch friend to all who were favored with his intimacy and possessed of hosts of friends. Everyone realized that he was unusually generous, even to the extent of a fault, and while not a lawyer, in later years his advice was sought on many questions by his acquaintances. Abraham Cuyler Ten Eyck married, Albany, November 27, 1855, Margaret Matilda, born in Albany, April 14, 1837, daughter of Henry Burhans Haswell, born in Kingston, New York, June 1, 1803, son of John and Margaret (Burhans) Haswell, married at Sing Sing (Ossining, New York), June, 1836. Henry B. Haswell was an attorney of prominence, country [county?] clerk for six years, alderman, school commissioner and secretary to the board of education for over twenty-five years. He had been private secretary to Hon. William H. Seward when secretary of state, and he died in Albany, August 10, 1869. Her mother was Elizabeth Trowbridge, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Mabie) Trowbridge, born in Sing Sing (Ossining), New York, March 9, 1809, died in Albany, May, 1882. A. Cuyler Ten Eyck died in Albany, March 23, 1900, and was buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery. His widow, in 1910, was residing with her son, Hon. Jacob Lansing Ten Eyck, at his home, No. 226 Lark street. By 121
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