A Position of Prominence

Added: Dec 17, 2017
From Northwestern New Jersey: A History of Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex Counties. Honeyman, A. Van Doren. 1927. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company:

Occupying a position of prominence in the legal fraternity of New Jersey, Andrew Van Blarcom is one of this State's outstanding attorneys and a member of the well-known legal firm of Riker & Riker, having offices in the Federal Trust Building at 24 Commerce Street, Newark. Mr. Van Blarcom is descended from some of New Jersey's pioneer settlers, and the history of this section is replete with accounts of the important and constructive part which the members of this family have taken in the development and upbuilding of the State through successive generations. He known as an attorney of great ability and achievements, while he is also a counsellor-at-law of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey.

Mr. Van Blarcom was born in Newton, November 12, 1881, son of Captain Lewis and Mary (Thomson) Van Blarcom (see preceding biography). Captain Lewis Van Blarcom was a prominent attorney and counsellor-at-law, and an active factor in State politics, also a veteran of the Civil War.

Andrew Van Blarcom was educated in the public schools of Newton and later prepared for the legal profession, being admitted to the bar of New Jersey as a practicing attorney at the February term, 1902, and as a counsellor during the February term, 1905.