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• Birth	15 Apr 1843	Milford,Ny
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I95135	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Amos VAN ETTEN
  Mother	Lydia Cornelia THRALL, b. 15 Jun 1818, Milford,Ny
  Family ID	F41397	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Frances CRAMBLETT
  Notes	_STATMARRIED
  Family ID	F41402	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Emma LAWRENCE
  Married	1865
  Notes	_STATMARRIED
  Children	1. Nellie VAN ETTEN, b. 1868 > 2. Edna Lawrence VAN ETTEN, b. 1880
  Family ID	F41403	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Edgar, eldest child of Amos and Lydia C. (Thrall) Van Etten, was born April 15,1843, in Milford. He was educated in the country school at Hainesville, New Jersey, and Stillwater Academy, same state, from which he graduated in 1858. At the age of sixteen years he went to Mount Vernon, Indiana, where he was employed two years as a clerk in a general store. Returning to Hainesville, he enlisted in 1861 as a private in Company B, Second New Jersey Volunteers, and was mustered out in August, 1864, with the rank of captain. He participated in allthe battles of the Army of the Potomac for the three years he was in the service. In 1865 he was employed as a brakeman on the Erie Railroad, remaining untilhe became superintendent of the Delaware division, and was later transferred to the Buffalo division. He then became superintendent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Buffalo; later became general superintendent of the New York Central;subsequently became vice-president of that railroad, and had charge of the Boston & Albany for that company for ten years; in 1909 he resigned and is now president of the G. Washington Coffee Refining Company of New York City. He servedas a director of the First National Bank of Albany, of the Empire and CarnegieTrust Companies of New York, and the Beacon Trust Company of Boston, from allof which he has resigned. He has never taken an active part in politics. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum and other fraternal bodies, of the Holland Society of New York, and Sons of the American Revolution.Mr. Van Etten is a member of the Lotus and Railroad Clubs of New York, the Algonquin Club of Boston, California Club of Los Angeles and Eastern Yacht Club. He married, (first), at Port Jervis, New York, in 1865, Emma Lawrence, born April 27, 1845, in Bridgeton, New Jersey, died October, 1894, daughter of Charles M. Lawrence, a physician of Port Jervis, New York, and his wife Margaret (Holmes) Lawrence. He married (second) at Millersburg, Ohio, June 30, 1897, Frances Cramblett, born 1868, daughter of Rev. Ezra Cramblett, a clergyman of Millersburg, and his wife, Mary (Quillen) Cramblett. Children of the first wife: 1.Nellie, born 1868, in Port Jervis, New York, now the wife of Charles Risley, residing in Pasadena, California. 2. Edna, 1880, at Port Jervis, mar- Page262 ried Charles T. Slauson, and resides in Tulane, California. Both wereeducated in seminaries at London, Canada, and Litchfield, Connecticut.