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Family of David^7 Storm Van Wicklen

David^7 Storm Van Wicklen (Jacob^6 Lott, Derrick^5, Gerrit^4, Evert^3, Gerrit^2, Jentie^1 Jeppes), b. 11 September 1843, New Lots, NY (According to both Cemetery inscription and 1920 US Census data, David S. appears to be born in 1849.)

Married: Ida M. Seaman (b. abt. 1850 [1880 Census], but 1900 Census says b. 11 June 1852) before 1881, Jamaica, NY

Children:
1. Daisy^8 E. Van Wicklen, b. 22 August 1880 (1900 Census)

Parents:
David's parents are Jacob Lott and Cynthia (Storm) Van Wicklen
Ida's parents are John and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Seaman (Hennenlotter Collection)

Background information:

David^7 Storm Van Wicklen (Jacob^6 Lott, Derrick^5, Gerrit^4, Evert^3, Gerrit^2, Jentie^1 Jeppes), b. 11 September 1843, New Lots, NY. He is bur. Cypress Hills Cemetery in father's plot ("1849 [sic]-1927"). He m. Ida M. Seaman (b. abt. 1850; d. 1926) before 1881 in Jamaica, NY. In the 1920 US Census, David S. Van Wicklen, age 71 (b. abt 1849) resides in Hempstead, Nassau, NY

"Dick and Dave" (i.e. this David and his brother, Richard VW) are referred to in association with the description of Jacob Lott Van Wicklen's Mill. For example, they are described as coming to own the Van Wicklen mill and they chartered their boat, the Cornelia, for fishing excursions.

Children: Daisy^8 E. Van Wicklen was b. 22 August 1880 (1900 Census) and m. Winfield S. Palmer (b. 1881) of S. 39 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY on 22 August 1919 (Hennenlotter Collection and Brooklyn Standard Union--22 August 1919). 1900 Census of Brooklyn, 760 Crescent St., enum. dist 477, sheet 17, shows David S., Ida M., and Daisy E. as above, census taker being nice enough 
to include exact dates of birth.

Source:

Brooklyn Standard Union--22 August 1919 (for marriage of Daisy VW to Winifred Palmer)

Email correspondence with Michael^10 Wolfe (13 June 2000)--details on burial dates and tombstone inscriptions.

Harry Macy, Jr. The Van Wicklen/Van Wickle Family: Including its Frisian Origin and Connections to Minnerly and Kranchheyt; The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1997); p. 246-8.

Harry Macy, Jr. ltr (15 July 2000) which included much of this information and all the references above.

Brooklyn Eagle, 23 December 1989, page 6. Shot by a saloon keeper. A fence rail used to batter down a door. Joseph Cassaver, a French Canadian, aged 30 years, employed as a painter by William Gregory of Richmond Hill, has for some time boarded with David Van Wicklen, who rents rooms on the top floor of Jacob Houseman's hotel, on the corner of Hoffman Boulevard and White Pot road, Jamaica. Van Wicklen's apartments are reached from the hallway opening on the White Pot road. Cassaver claims that betwen 12 and 1 o'clock Sunday morning when he returned hom he found the front door bolted and when he knocked for admission, Houseman came downstairs and, without inquiring who he was, shot him. He managed to reach the home of a friend named Knight, at Hayestown, who took him to Jamaica, where the wound was dressed by Dr. William D. Wood. The wound is in the left breast. The pistol, which was held close to his body, was loaded with coarse shot. The entire charge entered his breast, the powder blackening the flesh. The wound is not believed to be fatal. This morning Housemann applied to Justice Hendrickson for a warrant for the arrest of Cassaver for disorderly conduct in breaking down the front door of his house. In his statement to the justice, Houseman says that between 12 and 1 o'clock he was awakened by the noise of some person trying to open his bedroom window and asked who was there, but received no reply. A few moments later he again heard a noise at the door on the north side of the house and believing that burglars were around, dressed, and, taking his pistol, went downstairs. Just as he approached the hall the street door was burst open with a fence rail, the panel of the upper part of the door being shattered. Cassaver walked into the hall. Houseman said to him, "What are you doing out so late and breaking in my door?" and put the pistol against his breast to shove him out, when it accidentally went off. Neither Cassaver nor Houseman have been arrested. 

Brooklyn Eagle, 29 Jan 1890, page 8. The man that Houseworth shot. Jacob Houseworth keeps a saloon at Richmond Hill, in a building the upper part of which he leases for tenement purposes to David Van Wicklen, who keeps boarders. James Caservan, a painter, boarded there. Caservan and Houseworth were bad friends and on several occasions the landlord locked the boarder out at night. Last December, on a Saturday night, Caservan arrived home about midnight and found the door to his apartment barred tighter than usual. He used a fence rail to batter down the door. Houseworth came out armed with a revolver and after reprimanding Caservan shot him in the shoulder. He claimed that the shooting was an accident. Caservan has just recovered from his wound. Yesterday he began suit against Houseworth to recover $10,000 damages. (Houseworth and Caservan are referred to as Houseman and Cassaver in the preceding article, closer to the time of the actual incident.) 

Brooklyn Eagle 25 January 1891, page 1. Did not return. Two young men who went our eel spearing. They started in a boat from the Old Mill on Saturday and have not been seen since--may have been lost in the storm. Captain David S. Van Wicklen is the owner of the Old Mill house, a hostlery which has stood for a century at the head of the Old Mill creek, an arm of Jamaica bay. The place is known on the map as Forbell's Landing and is a resort for amateur fishermen and gunners throughout the year. Both sides of the creek are lined with boat houses and in the water can be seen every conceivable kind of craft from a rowboat to a schooner. Davy, as he is familiarly called, keeps a large number of boats for the use of amateur fishermen. Just now is the season for eel spearing and at about noon on Saturday, two young men called on Van Wicklen and hired a small boat. They were strangers to Davy, but he gave them a boat and spears. They did not return and have not been seen since. The theory is that being strangers to Jamaica bay they ran on a bar and did not get off until the storm broke on Saturday night when the high water and wind carried them out to sea where they were undoubtedly lost. Captain Van Wicklen cannot give a good description of the men further than that they were young looking and fairly well dressed. They were evidently from some other ward than the Twenty-sixth, and no one had been reported missing at the Seventeenth precinct police station. The men probably reached East New York by car and then walked to Forbell's Landing, a distance of over three miles. 

Brooklyn Eagle, 27 July 1893, Page 2. Capsizing of a Yacht at East Rockaway--rescues by Captain Van Wicklen. East Rockaway, July 27 - The squall which struck this place at 4 o'clock yesterday played havoc with all sorts of vessels and endangered the lives of their occupants. The worst accident was the capsizing of the yacht Mabel Emma, Captain Jack Simonson, in the inlet. A bluefishing party of fifteen men were on board and they were all thrown out. Fortunately the flood tide was settling in and a number of the party were rescued by the crew of the steam launch Oliver. Captain Van Wicklen of the life saving crew saved several others. Nearly all of the East Rockaway fleet were off to the leeward of the inlet when the storm came on and experienced the greatest difficulty in reaching it. A number of yachts were seen to upset off Far Rockaway. It is supposed that they were Canarsie boats.  

Brooklyn Eagle, 19 Sept 1894, page 10. A squatter's hard luck. The courts went against him. He landed in Queens, but he was no sooner comfortably settled than the same old fight was renewed by a new owner--an unparalleled case. Tells the story of Jim Daly who squatted on land around the "Old Mill" in Kings county and then build a house and saloon there, only to be informed in the course of time that it was owned by Captain John W. Kaiser (land he had acquired a deed to that had once been property owned and descended from "Dutch father to son." (probably Van Wicklen ancestors). Captain Kaiser offered to sell the property to Jim Daly. Captain Kaiser asked $2,000 for the land and Jim Daly found this outrageous. He also discovered that Captain Kaiser's land was allegedly in King's county yet Jim claimed his saloon operated in Queen's county...therefore could not legally be on property owned by Kaiser. After litigation that Jim Daly lost, he moved his saloon across the creek and was barely situated when he was given an ultimatum by David Van Wicklen whose land he had just squatted on. David's ultimatum was to either pay rent or buy the land. So...the article simply leaves it that Jim Daly would probably now have to go through another lengthy court battle contesting David Van Wicklen's ownership of the property.

1900 US Census for Brooklyn Ward 26, Kings, NY (not very legible) lists David Van Wicklen, head, 52 (b. 1848) with Ida M Van Wicklen, wife, 48 (b. 1852) and Daisy E. Van Wicklen, dau., 18, b. NY

Brooklyn Eagle, Fri., Jul 23, 1909 excerpt from article on p. 20 ... "Another point well worth remembering is that any cup which is not a challenge trophy should go to a yachtsman and not a club. David Van Wicklen who won the last prize, certainly deserves something more than congratulations for his three wins. To encourage building or the buying of new boats, the deed of gift should stipulate that an owner need not win each year in the same boat. Such is the plan followed in the giving of the majority of cups similar to the Still trophy. The Thompson Cub on Gravesend Bay has a good deed of gift that might be studied by Jamaica Bay Corinthians before they announce the conditions for the new Still Cup.

1910 US Census for Ward 26, Brooklyn, Kings, NY lists David S. Van Wicklen, head, 60, M1-35, b. NY (NY, NY), hotel keeper, with wife, Ida, 53, M1-35, b. NY (NY, NY) and dau., Daisy, 25, single, b. NY (NY, NY)