New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ofJ. M. Wentz & Co., second member of the firm, amerchant of large experience and ability. Mr. Tefft is the financial manager of the house and has maintained for it ahigh degree of credit and enviable degree of jjrosperity athome and abroad. The annual sales of the house now exceedfifteen millions. The popularity and business tact of theelder Mr. Tefft has not diminished in the son, but as theyears have rolled by has become more extended and secure. SPENCER D. C. VAN BOKKELEN. S. D. C. Van Pokkelen was born in the city of Br
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ofJ. M. Wentz & Co., second member of the firm, amerchant of large experience and ability. Mr. Tefft is the financial manager of the house and has maintained for it ahigh degree of credit and enviable degree of jjrosperity athome and abroad. The annual sales of the house now exceedfifteen millions. The popularity and business tact of theelder Mr. Tefft has not diminished in the son, but as theyears have rolled by has become more extended and secure. SPENCER D. C. VAN BOKKELEN. S. D. C. Van Pokkelen was born in the city of Brooklyn,N. Y., in 1828. From the year 1849 to 1869 he was engagedin the general commission business in this city, since whichtime he has been practising as a public accountant. Bokkelen has devoted his whole life to the study ofaccounts, and was one of the first professional accountantsin New York. He is engaged by several large corporationsto investigate and report on confidential matters, and isoften called upon to testify in court in regard to disputed. SPENCER D. C. VAN BOKKELEN. matters of account. He makes a specialty of preparingstatements of accounts for executors, administrators andtrustees, and the arrangement of books for manufacturers,merchants and others, adapted to their various require-ments. His office is at No. 71 Broadway, where he hasmany able experts in his employ. His father, Adrian Bokkelen, was born in Holland, and came to this coun-try (with his parents) in the year 1793, and took up his res-idence in the city of New York. WILLIAM FOWLER FOSTER. William Fowler Foster was born near Taunton, England,on October nth, 1841. He came to the United Statesin 1856. The great Chicago fire of 1871 found him asuccessful merchant worth about $50,000, but left himfinanciallv ruined and $30,000 in debt. The fire did notconsume his ambition or pluck, however, and he startedagain. During 1876 he came to New York. Mr. Foster is 2IO NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. the
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