Ten Eyck family

[1] The patriarch of the American branch of the family was Coenraedt Ten Eyck, who was originally from Moers.

Several family members gained land, wealth and positions of power in Albany, New York City and New Jersey.

Many streets in the eastern United States, and especially the greater New York City metropolitan area, are named after the family.

He also served as a constable and Chief Fire Officer and, in 1734, was elected to the city council, first as an assistant and later in 1741 as an alderman for the first ward.

[4] Other responsibilities he took on while working in politics include acting as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (November 1752-June 1754) and as judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

[9] In 1920, he acted as a delegate the Democratic National Convention, and was reelected to the sixty-seventh Congress in March 1921.

[4] Peter was active in many groups, including the Insurance Federation of the State of New York,[4] as well as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association, the Railway Signal Association, the Albany Institute and History and Art society and the Second Dutch Reformed Church.

[11] The Ten Eyck was a seventeen-story building that catered to the capital's elite and held a restaurant and oyster bar.

[14] The forty foot bar from the hotel was saved before demolition and relocated to The Depot Grille in Staunton, Virginia.

The Group is one of the oldest insurance firms in upstate New York and has changed both leadership and locations many times since its establishment.

[4] Peter G.D.'s son John became president in 1974 and then passed the leadership to a non-Ten Eyck upon his retirement in 2002.