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SANDFORD BOGERT
Originally published in 1900 |
SANDFORD BOGERT starts his American ancestry with Cornelis Jans
Bougaert, the emigrant (see sketch on page 132), from whom he is of the
ninth generation. He is the son of David A. Bogert and Phebe Ann Osborn
and a grandson of Albert Bogert and Rachel Blawvelt. He was born
at Pearl River, Rockland County, N. Y., November 21, 1841. There he received
a public school education. He left school at the age of thirteen and
went to work in a tannery, and continued in that business for thirteen
years, mastering the tanner's trade in every branch. He then engaged in
farming in Hillsdale, Bergen County, N. J., where he still resides.
Mr. Bogert is a public spirited citizen, and has served two terms each on the School Committee and Township Committee of his town. He is a public spirited citizen and thoroughly identified with the best interests of the community. He married Catharine M. Van Riper, a member of one of the community. He married Catharine M. Van Riper, a member of one of the old families in New Jersey.
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