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Harmon Van Woert. Harmon Van Woert was elected a member of the Holland Society December 28, 1893, and died at Athens, N.Y., May 31, 1908. His ancestry was as follows: first, Teunis Jacobse Van Schoenderwoert, who came to this country from Holland in the ship Rensselaerwick, about 1636. Teunis Jacob Van Woert married Sarah Derryse [sic], in New Amsterdam; second, Jacob, married Cateyntie Classje; third, Rutger, married Elizabeth --; fourth, Jacob married Mary --; fifth, Nicholas, marrried Mary Staats; sixth, Isaac, married Hannah Bunt; seventh, Nicholas, married Rebecca Warner, in 1829; eighth, Harmon Van Woert was born in Athens, N.Y., October 15, 1834, the subject of this memorial. He was a farmer and fruit grower, and his home farm, of several hundred acres on the west bank of the Hudson River, was one of the show places of the county. He retained his interest and fondness for the old homestead until the last, and was especially fond of his fine horses. He had been President of the Greene Co. Agricultural Society, was elected supervisor of his native town eleven times, and served as president and trustee of the village repeatedly. He was a member of the Board of Education, and a trustee of the Lutheran Church at the time of his death. He leaves a widow, Catherine, and one daughter, Mrs. Frank D. Hallenbeck. --The Yearbook of the Holland Society, 1909, p. 165

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