Adaline Vanderpoel (1830-1912)
Well-traveled but retiring in personality, Adaline Van Schaack Vanderpoel was born in New York and belonged to the Club for a decade, from 1900-1910. She was a mother of seven children (three of whom died before the age of six) and joined the WLCB in 1900, when she was already seventy years old. Vanderpoel sometimes went entire seasons without appearing on a program; she presented her single published work, “Bermuda Past and Present,” more than once. It may have been at the encouragement of the Club that Vanderpoel had her work privately published in 1902. She died in London while living abroad in 1912.
Relation
Aaron John Vanderpoel
Sources
Genealogies of the State of New York, edited by Tunis Garret Bergen. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915.
“Died.” New York Times, Dec. 16, 1863.
Saratoga. “Adaline Elizabeth Van Schaack Vanderpoel.” FindAGrave.com. Last edited June 1st, 2012.
Contributors
Clara Love