AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OP

THE HOLLAND SOCIETY.

By Judge Geoege M. Van Hoeesen.
 

EORGE WEST VAU SICLEN was the
first to propose the formation, and the
most active in promoting the organ¬
ization, of The HoUand Society. In
the year 1880, Mr. Van Siclen ap¬
peared as counsel for one party,
and Mr. Lucas L. Van Allen, as counsel for the other
party, in a series of Utigations, one branch of which
was in the Supreme Court, while another branch was
in the Court of Common Pleas for the City and
County of New York. In the Supreme Court Mr.
Aaron J. Vanderpoel was called in as associate
counsel with Mr. Van Siclen, the hearing came on
before Judge Hooper C. Van Vorst, an able and a
just judge. In the Court of Common Pleas the
hearing was before another judge of Batavian
descent. The conjunction of Dutch lawyers and
Dutch judges suggested to Mr. Van Siclen the
thought that the cataclysm of immigration had not
entirely submerged the founders of the State, and