Andrew Van Blarcom: Rising Attorney
Added: Dec 17, 2017From A History of the City of Newark. Volume III. 1913. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company:
Andrew Van Blarcom, one of the rising lawyers of Newark, New Jersey, is a representative in the seventh generation of an old Dutch family which came to American from Blarcom or Blerkum, Holland, from which town the family name is derived. He is a son of Lewis and Mary (Thomson) Van Blarcom, the former, also an attorney, having served with distinction in the Civil War, in the course of which he lost a leg by amputation.
Mr. Van Blarcom was born in Newton, Sussex county, New Jersey, November 12, 1881. He was educated at the collegiate institute in his native town, read law with Coult & Howell, was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in 1902, and as a counsellor in 1905. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Newark, New Jersey, in 1902. The firm of Raymond, Mountain & Van Blarcom was formed September 1, 1908. January 1, 1910, Mr. Van Blarcom was appointed assistant prosecutor of Essex county.
His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and his religious with the Presbyterian church. He holds memberships in the Essex, Lawyers' and Wednesday clubs of Newark.
Mr. Van Blarcom married, May 9, 1906, Sara Streit, daughter of Joseph M. Riker, and they have children: Andrew J., Sarah Hunter and Mary Thomson.