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Notes for Jay TEN EYCK

Jurist, Cohoes Native, Dies In New York

Jay Ten Eyck, 78, native of Cohoes and former President Judge of the Essex County, N. J. Court of Common Pleas at Newark, died Thursday in Memorial Hospital, New York, after a short illness. He is the father of Barent Ten Eyck, New York lawyer and former assistant district attorney under Governor Dewey.

Funeral services for Mr. Ten Eyck will be held privately from his residence, 50 Central Park South, New York. He also maintained a residence in Maplewood, N. J.

Mr. Ten Eyck, descendant of Coenraedt Ten Eyck who went from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to New Amsterdam in 1651, was a son of the late Abram Tey Eyck and Hannar G. dodge Ten Eyck of Choes. When he was a child, the family moved to Waterford where he attended school. At the age of 17 he went to Newark and, after working in a New York store, began to study law. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1888 and became a partner in the firm of Coult & Howell in Newark.

He formed a law partnership with the late Alfred F. Skinner in 1896, but rejoined Coult & Howell four years afterward, Mr. Skinner was appointed Common Pleas judge in Essex county. When Mr. Skinner resigned from the bench Mr. Ten Eyck was appointed in 1905 to fill his un-expired term. Mr. Ten Eyck was named in 1906 for a full term, serving until 1911. For part of that time he was President Judge.

After leaving the court he became associate counsel of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. in Newark, holding that post until he retired about ten years ago. He was also formerly Village Counsel of South Orange, N.J., had been at one time Advisory Master in Chancery in New Jersey and was a former member of the New Jersey Board of Bar Examiners.

Mr. Ten Eyck had been a member of the Association Life Insurance Counsel, the Lawyers' Club of Essex County and the Essex Club.

He leaves, besides his son, a widow, Mrs. Henrietta Muller Ten Eyck; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Ten Eyck Breyfogle of New York, and a brother, Maj. Benjamin L. Ten Eyck of New Rochelle.

SOURCE: The Troy Record, Troy, NY October 25, 1943

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