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]