New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . e Chadvvick, of New YorkCity, a niece of his late friend and benefactor Dr. Burdick. HENRY W. BOOKSTAVER. Henry W. Bookstaver, one of the judges of the Court ofCommon Pleas, was born in Orange County, New York State,in 1835. He is descended from Jacobus Buchstabe, or Booch-staber, as it was si)elled by the Dutch, who, early in the eight-eenth century, came with his wife from Germany and settlednear Montgomery. We find it recorded in 1735 ll^^tJacobus, in copartnershij) with Frederic Linsl)augh andJohanes Yang Bloet (subseciu
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . e Chadvvick, of New YorkCity, a niece of his late friend and benefactor Dr. Burdick. HENRY W. BOOKSTAVER. Henry W. Bookstaver, one of the judges of the Court ofCommon Pleas, was born in Orange County, New York State,in 1835. He is descended from Jacobus Buchstabe, or Booch-staber, as it was si)elled by the Dutch, who, early in the eight-eenth century, came with his wife from Germany and settlednear Montgomery. We find it recorded in 1735 ll^^tJacobus, in copartnershij) with Frederic Linsl)augh andJohanes Yang Bloet (subseciuently modified to Young-blood), purchased a considerable tract of land in thatneighborhood. They must, however, have been settled onthe land for some years before they bought it, for JacobusBuchstaber was first Deacon of the Dutch Church in Mont-gomery, which was organized in 1732. In that year also(1735) he was naturalized by an act of the Provincial As-sembly, as the journals of that body go to show. While itis evident that the Bookstavers came to New York direct. HENRY \V. BOOKSTAVER. from Germany the family is undoubtedly of Swiss origin,and, as the name would indicate, were early interested inprinting or the making of the wooden letters first used inthat art. The literal meaning of buchstabe is book staffor stick, id est, a letter, as movable type was first cut onsuch sticks. There is in the Canton of Glarus a towncalled Buchs, situated on the Rhine, where the VoralsboughRailroad crosses that river. In the famous disputationordered by the magistrates of Berne in 1558 to determinewhether the Catholic or the Reformed religion should beadopted by the state, Johannes Buchstabe, then the school-master of Zofinger, a dependence of Berne, took a promi-nent part with the Bishop of St. Gall and Dr. Capito indefence of the Catholic religion against the attacks ofZwingle, Elcompadius, Bucer and others. Some time laterthis John Buchstabe was Choirmaster at Freiberg and a 172 NEW YORK,
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