Bert Hoar Terwilliger

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Bert H. Terwilliger
For more then sixty years the insurance business founded in Ellenville by the Late Uriah E. Terwilliger has been on of the most flourishing commercial establishment of this section of the State. Associated with the founder and at this writing carrying on where the elder had begun, is his son, Bert h. Terwilliger. Upstanding citizens both, the son is a most worthy successor to the man whose name was synonymous with progress and substantial business enterprise. Bert H. Terwilliger was born in Ellenville, May 21, 1874, son of Uriah E. and Alice A. (Hoar) Terwilliger, Uriah was also born in Ellenville, in 1850, and was educated at the Claverack Military Academy. For upward of thirty years he owned and conducted the resort of Mount Meenagha, a beautiful and popular vacation place of five square miles in the mountains near Ellenville. At the same time he managed his real estate and insurance business in Ellenville and assumed a commanding position in the community for his sturdy citizenship and inviting personality. For the last twenty years of his life he had partially retired. His death occurred in 1923. He had been offered and declined the vice-presidency of the Continental fire Insurance Company of New York, as well as the management of the North British & Mercantile Insurance Company, his other interest demanding as much of his time as he cared to devote to business affairs, outside of Mount Meenagha, in which he had some $300,000 invested. He came of Dutch stock and many of his ancestors fought in the patriotic army in the War of the Revolution. Alice A. (Hoar) Terwilliger, his wife, was a daughter of George A. Hoar, of Ellenville, a builder of canal boats and a very successful citizen, of English ancestry.
Bert H. Terwilliger was educated in the schools of Ellenville, and at Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1895. He at once began his life-work as assistant to this father in the management of the Mount Meenagha estate. This property was sold in 1922 and the son afterward devoted himself solely to the insurance and real estate offices in Ellenville. He is a director of the First national Bank of Ellenville and a trustee of the Ellenville Savings Bank. He holds membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Kingston, and in Wawarsing Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of the Shawangunk County Club, and attends the Dutch Reformed Church in Ellenville.
Mr. Terwilliger married, at Bergen, New York, October 26, 1900, Tone, daughter of Thomas J. and (Mrs.) Spafford tone, her father having been principal of the schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, who retired and removed to Bergen. Their children are: 1. Robert S., a graduate of Worcester Academy and of Amherst college, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 2. Katherine Tone, a graduate of Hillside School, Norwalk, Connecticut, and now a student at Wellesley College.

Bert married Florence Tone. [Group Sheet]

1. Robert S. Terwilliger
2. Katharine T. Terwilliger

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Uriah E., son of Jonathan C. and Elizabeth R. (Wilber) Terwilliger, was born in the village of Ellenville, Ulster county, New York, December 10, 1849. His educa- tion was begun in the public schools of his na- tive town and continued at the Ellenville High School, conducted for long years by Professor S. A. Law Post, which was then an institution of considerable prominence. Later Mr. Ter- williger attended Waring's Military Institute, at Poughkeepsie, and the Hudson River Insti- tute, at Claverack, New York. At an early age comparatively he was compelled, because of impaired health, to abandon plans for extended study, and for three years engaged with his father, thus acquiring a practical knowledge of carpentry. A little later on, at nineteen years of age, he established a real estate and insurance agency. With characteristic enthusiasm Mr. Terwilliger quickly developed the business, and eventually, with partners, built up one of the largest general insurance agencies in the state. The firm's style for a number of years was Neafie & Terwilliger, then Neafie, Terwilliger & Post. For many years after Mr. Terwilliger's brother, Edward N., was his only associate in the firm which was familiarly known as U. E. and E. N. Terwilliger, and three years since, upon the admission of Bert H , only son of Mr. Terwilliger, the business became known and is now conducted as The Terwilliger Agency. In connection with this particular business Mr. Terwilliger was con- spicuously entrusted with many fiduciary interests as the executor and administrator of estates, and as the representative of various financial institutions throughout the county and elsewhere, until he became widely known for his business sagacity and unswerving hon- esty. Always deeply interested in local affairs, Mr. Terwilliger has given generously of time and money to matters of local weal. It was during his presidency of the board of educa- tion that the school system was advanced, a superintendent first employed, and the old high school property acquired for the use of the higher departments. A local Young Men's Christian Association and Board of Trade, both in active useful existence for many years owed their beginning to his enthusiasm. From early manhood he has been an active member of the Reformed church, with which he has long been officially connected, and for twelve years superintendent of its Sunday school. In politics Mr. Terwilliger has always been a Re- publican, until the advent of the Progressive party, with which he is now affiliated. He has invariably declined political honors, though frequently urged to accept nominations, from supervisor of the town to state senator. But it is perhaps in the development of his estate at Mount Meenahga, now famous as a summer resort, that Mr. Terwilliger has be- come most widely known. After some years of close application to business, necessity for rest manifested itself, and in 1877 Mr. Terwilliger and a party of friends formed a camp on the westerly side of the Shawangunks, two miles from EUenville. Impressed with the natural advantages and beauty of the location he made a lease of the property the following year, and three years later bought a tract of one hundred acres. With a view to making a permanent summer home, a comfortable cot- tage and barns were erected, and from time to time other cottages were built for the accom- modation of friends who sought more comfort- able quarters than a simple camp life afforded. Additional acres were bought from year to year, until finally the erection of a small boarding house, in t88i, marked the beginning of the present Mount Meenahga as a resort, now second in importance only to one other in the county. Lake Mohonk. The property now comnrises upwards of six hundred acres, controlling the bold face of the mountain for nearly two miles. On the north and south are tracts owned by the village of Ellenville, as a water preserve, numbering some five thousand acres, and assuring to Mount Meenahga for all time the advantages of a large forest domain. The work of development at Mount Meenahga has been along the lines of nature's plan, and rare genius has been displayed in the building of many miles of paths and roads that lead over the beautiful hilltops or through deep gorges, disclosing a wealth of beauty and grandeur at every turn. The hotel property is thoroughly modern in its equipment, and means for healthful recreation have been gen- erously provided. Mr. Terwilliger is one of the trustees of the EUenville Savings Bank and has been such for twenty-seven years, a wit- ness and abettor of its growth from $481,000 to over $2,000,000 in deposits. Mr. Terwilliger married Alice A. Hoar, daughter of George Hoar, prominent as a boat builder of Ellenville, New York. They have two children: i. Bert H., who married Florence Tone, of Bergen, New York; children: Robert S. and Katharine T. 2. Alice Louise, married Harold B. Raymond, son of President P. B. Raymond, of the Wesleyan University, of Middletown, Connecticut.

Uriah married Alice Hoar. Alice (daughter of George Hoar and Harriet Mason) was born about 1849 in New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Census: ~1850 1860

Jonathan married Elizabeth Wilbur. [Group Sheet]

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• Census: EEE 1850 1860 1880 1900

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England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906
Name:George Hoar
Gender:Male
Christening Date:3 Jul 1825
Christening Place:Gillingham, Kent, England
Father's Name:John Bolton Hoar
Mother's name:Amy

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Dorothy Mason (age 65) and Ephraim Mason (age 19) living in the household in the 1850 census.

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Mr. Terwilliger married Alice A. Hoar, daughter of George Hoar, prominent as a boat builder of Ellenville, New York.

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George, son of John B. Hoar, was born at Bronkton, county Kent, England. May 20, 1825, died December 21, 1900, at Ellenville, New York. He came to this country with his parents and brothers and sisters when he was about nine years of age, on the sailing vessel "Montreal." He attended the district schools of Ellenville, and early in life he went to Alligerville, New York, and worked alongside of his brother-in-law in his shipyard. Later, in company with one of his brothers, he went to Hawley, Pennsylvania, where both of them engaged in boat building and repairing. This continued for some time, when finally the two brothers separated and George Hoar came to Ellenville. In that town he purchased a boatyard and drydock where he built boats for the Albany and Honesdale line, the Merchants' and Tanners' line, and the D. & H. Canal Company. In course of time his concern attained considerable proportions ; he executed a great deal of work in the repairing line, and his general business in both directions along the Hudson was very great. When the D. and H. canal was abandoned he built a plant for the manufacture of sand from ground granite, to be employed in the manufacture of glass, and in this business he continued till his death. Throughout his busy life he engaged in many and various ventures, all of which showed his unusual practical ability and his business skill. His ship and boatyard was long an interesting object from the river, and the amount of work executed in it gave it always an appearance of a great hive of industry. Mr. Hoar was well able to adapt himself to changing business conditions, and when it became necessary for him to engage in a new line of industry his varied experience in vari- ous capacities from youth to age served him in good stead. He was the organizer, leader and a member of the first Ellenville brass band. He was a member of the Reformed church and in politics was a Republican. In the course of his adult life he held various public positions of prominence, was trustee of the village, and was a member of the board of education. He was always greatly interested in the public afifairs and progress of Ellenville, and was regarded as one of its pioneers during the period of its more im- portant development. From the time of his settlement in the neighborhood he was a highly respected member of the community, and had a large circle of acquaintances. He married Harriet Mason. Children : Alice A., married U. E. Terwilliger; Mary E., married A. P. Dubois; William A., mentioned below; Sarah C, unmarried ; Amelia F., married C. B. N. Hull ; Harriet I., married John A. Tice.

George married Harriet Mason. Harriet was born about 1822 in New York, USA; died in in . [Group Sheet]

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• Census: 1850

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England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name:John Bolton Hoar
Gender:Male
Baptism Date:10 May 1782
Baptism Place:St. Peter-the- Great, Chichester, Sussex, England
Father: Joseph Hoar
Mother: Christian
FHL Film Number:1468999
Reference ID:item 1

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
Name:John Boulton Hoar
Spouse: Amey Startup
Record Type:Marriage
Event Date:13 May 1810
Parish:St George Hanover Square
Borough:Westminster
Register Type:Bishop's Transcript

New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name:James Haar [James Hoar]
Arrival Date:10 Aug 1833
Birth Date:abt 1821
Age:12
Gender:Male
Port of Departure:London, England
Port of Arrival:New York, New York
Ship Name:Montreal

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John B. Hoar was born at Bronkton, in the county of Kent, England, about 1790, died at Ellenville, Ulster county, New York, when about eighty years of age. He belonged to a family that had long been seated in the southern part of England, and it is not impossible that this family and the older American Massachusetts family of the same name may have been branches of the same parent stem. John B. Hoar came to this country with his family, consisting of his wife, eight sons, and two daughters, and settled at Point Benjamin, Ulster county. His occupation in England was that of a baker, but he did not continue at that work when he came to this country. He worked for many years for the D. & H. Canal Company, and later for the Ellenville Glass Company.

1850 Census: Rochester, Ulster Co, New York
Name Age Born
George Harding 39Englandabt 1811
Cate Harding 28England
Ann Harding 18England
William Harding 14 NY
Joseph Harding 12 "
Emma Harding 10 "
Frances Harding 6 "
George Harding 3 "
Harriet Harding 2 "
Edwin Harding 0 "
William A Hoar 18England
Thomas Cabet 24England
*John B Hoar 67England

John married Amy Startup on 13 May 1810 in Saint George Hanover Square, Westminster, London, England. Amy was born about 1787 in England; died on 20 Feb 1848 in , Ulster Co, New York, USA; was buried in Ellenville, Ulster Co, New York, USA (Old Ellenville Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
Name:John Boulton Hoar
Spouse: Amey Startup
Record Type:Marriage
Event Date:13 May 1810
Parish:St George Hanover Square
Borough:Westminster
Register Type:Bishop's Transcript

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