Martin Richard VanDuyne

NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

The life of Martin Richard VAN DUYNE shows combined in a high degree those qualities of business acumen and the student’s application which, conjoined, always spell success. In conformity with this dual capacity, his enterprises are at once commercial and professional and upon both fortune seems to smile.

Mr. VAN DUYNE was born in Lower Mountville, New Jersey, May 7, 1882, a son of Lewis and Mary (JACOBUS) VAN DUYNE, and a grandson of Martin Richard VAN DUYNE. His parents, who were both natives of Morris county, are now dead and lie buried in Greenwood cemetery in Boonton. Mr. VAN DUYNE Sr. was a civil engineer and promoter. He married (first) Bessie E. RENSHAW. He married (second) Mary M. JACOBUS, their children being, Leah E., wife of Henry F. MOLLER; Martin Richard, our subject; William M.; Mary F. and Margaret VAN DUYNE, the two last named being twins of whom Margaret is dead. He married (third) Mrs. Margaret BLANCHARD and of this union there is no issue.

Martin Richard VAN DUYNE obtained his elementary education in the common schools of Morris county and afterwards he attended the Boonton High School, from which he graduated. He was an excellent mathematician and generally capable and he soon secured the position of superintendent of the United Water Supply Company which he held for three years. At the expiration of this period, however, he gave up his work and entered Lafayette College to complete his mathematical education. Having accomplished his purpose, he went to Boonton and started in business as civil engineer with his father and in this he still continues, adding to his private practice the position of resident engineer for the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, New Jersey. He is also in business as a general contractor in line with his professional work and employs a force of forty-five men. Besides these interests, he is also engaged in real estate operations, being president of the LEWIS and M. R. VAN DUYNE Real Estate Company and a director of the Scranton Land Company.

Mr. VAN DUYNE married, September 29, 1903, Mary Esther MANDEVILLE, a native of Boonton, daughter of Henry Rand and Fannie S. (TYBALLS) MANDEVILLE, of Morris county. Mr. and Mrs. MANDEVILLE had two children; the wife of our subject and Francis T. MANDERVILLE. Mr. and Mrs. VAN DUYNE have had three children: Elizabeth, Esther, Lewis. Mr. VAN DUYNE is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons of Boonton. He and his family attend the Presbyterian church.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)