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JOHN J. WESTERVELT
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JOHN J. WESTERVELT is descended in the seventh generation from
Lubbert Lubbertsen (Von Westervelt), who with his wife and children left
their home at Mepple, in the Province of Drenthe, Holland, and emigrated
to America on board the ship "Hope" in April, 1662.
John J. Westervelt is the grandson of Peter and Matilda Westervelt, and a son of James P. Westervelt and Margaret Demarest, daughter of John Demarest. He was born at West Woodcliff, N. J., October 14, 1829, and obtained his education in the schools of Bergen County. He left school at the age of thirteen and went to work on his father's farm, where he remained until he attained his majority. He then engaged in the trucking business in New York and so continued until he reached the age of forty-six, when he returned to Bergen County and has since devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He is one of the best farmers in his section, a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and honored and respected by the entire community. He has been twice married, first to Helen Ely, who died in 1878, leaving two children: Margaret and John. In 1884 he married, for his second wife, Margaret Brinkerhoff, a member of an old New Jersey family.
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