. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. incident to pioneer life in asavage wilderness, their lives being often in peril amid the Indianhostilities which frequently devastated the country. Theirenergy, courage, and endurance enabled them, however, to holdtheir ground, and to aid in developing what is now the EmpireState of New York. Jacob Van Wormer, the great-great-grand-father of the subject of this sketch, was noted for his woodcraft,and was one of the ablest scouts and Indian-fighters of his : the War of the Revolution he was a lieutenant in DeGarmas company of Van Rens
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. incident to pioneer life in asavage wilderness, their lives being often in peril amid the Indianhostilities which frequently devastated the country. Theirenergy, courage, and endurance enabled them, however, to holdtheir ground, and to aid in developing what is now the EmpireState of New York. Jacob Van Wormer, the great-great-grand-father of the subject of this sketch, was noted for his woodcraft,and was one of the ablest scouts and Indian-fighters of his : the War of the Revolution he was a lieutenant in DeGarmas company of Van Rensselaers Fourteenth Albany CountyRegiment, the Hoosick and Schaghticoke Division. His son,Abram Van Wormer, who was bom at Sandy Hill, SaratogaCounty, New York, joined a regiment from his part of the Stateearly in the War of 1812, and marched with it from Greenbushto Sacket Harbor, participating in various engagements withthe British. John Rufus Van Wormer was born on Mai-ch 14, 1849, atAdams, Jefferson County, New York, and was educated in an 352. ^¥^iC>-K,yA^{iyo^t^^C()t^hT^^^^ JOHN EUFUS VAN WORMER 353 academy and military school at that place. In his boyhood heacquired a taste and aptitude for political affairs, which becamestrongly developed in mature years. His first business was thatof a telegiaph operator, which he followed for a nmnber of the year 1872 he ranked as an expert operator. At that timehe lived in Oswego, New York, and he served there, and else-where in that part of the State, as a political coiTespondent ofthe New York Times in the exciting Presidential campaignof that year. Such was his success as a correspondent that in 1873 heremoved to Albany and devoted himself entirely to newspaperwork. After four years of it, through the influence of George , Speaker of the New York Assembly, he was appointedprivate secretary to Roscoe Conkling, United States Senator fiomNew York, and also clerk of the committee on commerce of theUnited States Sena
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