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The name Hasbrouck is well known in Westchester county, and we are pleased to be able to present Xo our readers a short history of the family dating back to the year 1675, when a member of the family landed on American soil. They were of French Huguenot origin, and resided in Calais. During the religious persecution they moved to the Palatinate, in Germany, where they lived several years. During the year 1675 Abraham Hasbrouck, together with several of his neighbors, the descendants of Peter Waldus, set sail for this country, and landed in Boston in July of that year. He at once made his way to Esopus, where he joined his brother Jean, who had come here two years before. In 1676 he married Marie, daughter of Christian Duyou, whose lover he was in the Palatinate. She died March 27, 1741, at the age of eighty-eight. In 1677 he, with twelve others, obtained from Governor Andross a patent for a large tract of land in Ulster county. New York, at New Paltz, where he and his brother made their home until their death. He was a very prominent citizen, and for many years a member of the provincial assembly. He was an earnest Christian, and one of the founders of the Walloon Protestant church at New Paltz. On Sunday, March 17, 1717, he was suddenly stricken with apoplexy, expiring in a short time. He died in the ripeness of age and with the consciousness of a well spent life. He left five children, viz.; Joseph, who died January 28, 1723, aged forty years and three months; Solomon, who died April 3, 1753; Daniel, who departed this life January 25, 1759, at the age of sixty-seven; Benjamin; and Rachel, wife of Louis Dubois. The dates of the death of the two last named have not been recorded.

Joseph Hasbrouck, the eldest son, was married in 1706, to Elsie, daughter of Captain Joachim Schoonmaker and a granddaughter of Hendricks Joachim Schoonmaker, a native of Hanse Towns, Germany. She died July 27, 1764, aged seventy-eight years, eight months and three days, and was placed beside her husband in the New Paltz burying-ground. She left a large number of children, whose lives were an honor to her training. They were Abraham; Isaac D. ; Rachel, who was born in 1715 and died forty-one years later: she was the wife of J. Eltinge; Mary, wife of Abraham Hardenberg, born January 10, 1714, and died in 1774; Sarah, wife of William Osterhoudt, born February 21, 1709, and died in 1780; Benjamin; Jacob, who married Mary Hoornbeck; and Colonel Jonathan Hasbrouck.

Abraham, the eldest of this interesting family, was born on the old family homestead at Guilford, Ulster county, New York, August 21, 1707. January 5, 1738, he married Catherine Bruyn, a cousin and daughter of Jacob and Tryntie Bruyn. She was born June 24, 1720, and died August 10, 1793. Her maternal grandfather was Captain Joachim Schoonmaker, and her mother, Tryntie Schoonmaker Bruyn, died August 27, 1763. The paternal grandfather was Jacobus Bruyn, a native of Norway, who came here about the time the Dutch made their settlement, and married Gertrude Esselstein. He died November 21, 1744, at the age of sixty-four years. One of his sisters, Esther, married Zachariah Hoffman. Abraham Hasbrouck was one of the most prominent and influential men of Ulster county, and for thirty years was a representative of the people in the legislature. He moved to Kingston in 1735, and lived there until his death on November 10, 1791. He was buried with the honors of war. He left the following children: Elsie, wife of Abraham Salisbury; Catherine, wife of Abram Houghtaling; Mary, wife of David Bevier; Jonathan, who married Catherine, daughter of Cornelius and Catherine Wynkoop; Joseph, who married Elizabeth Bevier; Jacobus, who married Maria, daughter of Charles DeWitt; and Daniel, who married his cousin Rachel, daughter of Colonel Jonathan Hasbrouck, of Newburg. Colonel Jonathan, the youngest child, was born April 12, 1722, married Tryntie, a daughter of Cornelius Dubois, and settled in Newburg. He died July 31, 1780, and was buried on his own land, between his house and the North river, by two of his sons. He had five children, — Cornelius, Isaac, Jonathan, Rachel and Mary. He was a very powerful man, measuring six feet four. His old homestead is now owned by the state of New York, and is the noted Washington's headquarters at Newburg.

Another son of Joseph and Elsie Hasbrouck, the second oldest of the family, was Isaac, who was born March 12, 1712, and is the great grandfather of our subject. He was married in 1766, to Antie Low, the widow of John Van Gaasbeck, by whom he had three children,— Joseph, Elsie and Jane,— the last named becoming the wife of John Grispell. He died April 6, 1778, and was buried in the Shawangunk church-yard, near the burial place of Jacobus Bruyn's family. His wife died October 2, 1784.

Joseph Hasbrouck, the grandfather of our subject, married Cornelia, daughter of Edmond Schoonmaker, who bore him nine children: Stephen; Sarah, wife of David Tuttle; Maria, wife of Thomas Ostrander; Jane, wife of Cornelius DeWitt; Katy, wife of Samuel Johnson; Levi, George, Abel and Augustus.

Augustus Hasbrouck was the father of the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. He was united in marriage to Miss Jane Eltings, a daughter of Rev. Willhelmus Eltings, and reared a large number of children who grew to adult years and are honored and useful citizens of the communities in which they reside. They are Wilhelmus; Abram; Joseph; Cornelius; Stephen; James H. ; Richard; Charles Dudley; Cornelia Schoonmaker; Augustus; Aaron; David; Herman and Edward.

Dr. Stephen Hasbrouck, the fifth of the family, was born in Bergen county. New Jersey, January 29, 1842; and is at present a practicing physician at Haarlem, New York, where he is held in the highest esteem. At the age of fourteen he went to Great Falls, Massachusetts, where he secured employment as a clerk, remaining there three years. He then returned to his home and attended the normal school at Trenton, afterward embarking in the commission business in New York. He was a great student and decided upon making medicine his especial study, and with -this aim entered the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1866. Soon after the close of the civil war a colony from New Orleans, composed of persons who had been disloyal to the Union, resolved to seek a new home in Brazil, and engaged the services of Dr. Hasbrouck as surgeon to the expedition. This colony was composed of about three hundred persons, and the experiences through which they went during the few years spent in Brazil convinced them that they had not improved their condition by leaving their native country. Through the influence of Dr. Hasbrouck, the captains of some of the United States war vessels were induced to bring back to this country what remained of the colony and they returned much better satisfied with the existing government than when they went away. While in Brazil he wrote a treatise on Homeopathy, as practiced in that country, which was published in the New England Medical Gazette. He was a surgeon in the Brazilian army during the war with Paraguay, and while in South America passed through several epidemics of small-pox and cholera. He was in St. Thomas during a violent epidemic of yellow fever, and the good results attendant upon his treatment of the disease proved the efficacy of his method. He was on the island of St. Thomas during the hurricane and earthquake which devastated it, and published the first description of that fearful scene of destruction. Returning from this trip, he graduated at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and located at Dobbs Ferry, where he was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession for three years. He then located in New York, where he remained seven years, until 1881, when he made an extensive tour of Europe and the East, visiting Egypt, Palestine, and most of the countries of the Old World. Returning in 1883, he has since made his home in Yonkers, where he is esteemed a worthy citizen and a skillful physician. He married Miss Anna M., daughter of Captain John Still well, and has two children, Augustus and Mabel. He has an extended practice and holds an enviable position among the members of the Homeopathic medical profession.

Dr. Joseph Hasbrouck was also born in Bergen county. New Jersey, and remained in his native village until he was fifteen, when he taught school for two years. The New Jersey Normal School was established about that time and he was enrolled as a pupil of that institution, graduating there in due time. He then resumed his work of teaching until he was twenty-nine, in the meantime devoting his spare time to the study of medicine, and in 1869 graduated in the medical department of the University of New York. He is a practitioner of the Homeopathic school, and began his career at Goshen, Orange county. New York, later opening an office at Newton, Sussex county. New Jersey, and was the first Homeopathic physician to practice in the county. In 1875 he came to Dobbs Ferry, which has since been his home. He has a large and lucrative- practice, which is not confined to his immediate neighborhood, but reaches out over a large territory where his skill and success is well known.

Dr. Joseph Hasbrouck has been five times married, Sarah and Anna D. Dayton, daughters of Elias Dayton, being his first and second wives. He then married Emma, daughter of Stephen Archer, and at her death he wedded Ellen M., daughter of Reverend D. L. Marks, of the New York conference. She died in 1888, and in June, 1890, he married Mrs. Mary B. Roberts. Of the children of Dr. Hasbrouck, Dayton, the eldest son, died January 13, 1885, at the age of twenty-four years, being at the time of his death a member of the senior class in the New York Homeopathic College. His surviving children are Mabel E. and Edith S. , twin daughters, and a son, David Marks, fourteen years of age. He is a member of the Westchester County Homeopathic Medical Society, and for two years its president, and is a member of the Homeopathic State Society. He has for several years been connected with the board of education of Dobbs Ferry. He is president of the savings bank, is the health officer of the village and was president of the village from 1894 to 1898. He is deeply interested in all that pertains to the welfare of the community, and has been connected with the Republican party since its organization, taking an intelligent interest in its success, although he has not been an aspirant to office. Socially, he is a member of the Holland Society of New York. His residence is one of the historical landmarks of Westchester county. It was in this house that General Washington, Governor Clinton and General Sir Guy Tarleton met on the suspension of hostilities, May 3, 1783, to arrange for the evacuation of New York. It was during the Revolution a part of the Phillip Phillips estate, and it later became the Livingston mansion, formerly the home of Van Brugh Livingston, and sold by him to Steven Archer in 1836. It was the residence of Mr. Archer until his death in 1877, and was purchased from his heirs by Dr. Hasbrouck in 1882. The mansion, which is a well preserved relic of olden times, stands on the east side of the old Albany post road, a short distance below Livingston avenue. In 1894 Dr. Hasbrouck presented to the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution a site for a monument, which was erected June 14, 1894.

Before closing these memoirs, a brief mention must be made of the maternal grandfather of the Doctor, Wilhelmus Elting. He was of Huguenot stock, and traces his ancestry back to Henry IV, of France. He devoted his life to the improvement of mankind, and served as pastor of the Dutch Reformed church at Paramus for fifty years, and he and Dr. Dewitt, of New York, were the last ministers of the Dutch Reformed church who preached in either the Holland or English language.

Concerning Dobbs Ferry, we may add, as a postscript, that General Washington made his headquarters here July 6, 1781, when the French allies under Rochambeau joined the American army. August 14, that year, Washington planned the Yorktown campaign, which brought to a triumphant termination the war for American independence. May 6, 1783, Washington and Sir Guy Carleton arranged here for the British evacuation of American soil; and opposite this point, two days afterward, a British sloop of war fired seventeen guns in honor of the American commander in chief, — the first salute by Great Britain to the United States of America.