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S. Oakley Van der Poel

Full Name: Samuel Oakley Van der Poel

Physician

Centurion, 1875–1886

Proposed by
Frederick A. P. Barnard and Charles F. Chandler
born February 22, 1824
Kinderhook, New York
died March 12, 1886
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected February 6, 1875
Age fifty
buried Albany Rural Cemetery,
Menands, New York
proposer of
seconder of
Member portrait of S. Oakley Van der Poel
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 3, Leaf 112
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Archivist’s Notes

Brother of Aaron J. Van der Poel; father of John Van der Poel and S. Oakley Van der Poel Jr.; nephew of Aaron Van der Poel; cousin of A. Ernest Vanderpoel

Century Memorial

[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.

Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports

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