Lawyer
Centurion, 1891–1898
Born 20 February 1846 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 26 September 1898 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Edgar S. Auchincloss and George W. McLanahan
Elected 4 April 1891 at age forty-five
Archivist’s Note: Son of Aaron Van der Poel; cousin of Aaron J. Van der Poel and S. Oakley Van der Poel
Century Memorial
A. Ernest Vanderpoel was a lawyer, never engaged in active practice but belonging to a family of the best legal traditions. He was a son of the late Aaron Vanderpoel, who forty-five years ago was a judge of the Superior Court of the City of New York. He was a graduate of Columbia College, and was afterwards a trustee of that institution. Possessed of an ample competence he passed his life in more congenial pursuits than the strifes and struggles of the Bar, taking an interest, but not engaging in the exciting questions of the day, and living a life of scholarly leisure, for which his disposition and tastes eminently qualified him.
Henry E. Howland
1899 Century Association Yearbook