Author talk:Joseph Walworth Sutphen
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From Chronicles of the Class of 1873, Rutgers College. (digital scan):
"JOSEPH WALWORTH SUTPHEN. Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 2, 1902.
His father, Ten Eyck Sutphen, a merchant of New York City, was a descendant of Dirck Janse Van Zutphen, who left Zutphen in Gelderland, The Netherlands, and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y., in 1651. His mother, Harriet White, was of New England stock, English ancestry. A brother, Rev. Paul Frederick Sutphen, is a graduate of Rutgers, A.B. 1876, A.M. 1879, D.D. 1893.
Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 26, 1853, he resided in that borough of New York City all of his life. After preparing in Columbia Grammar and Rutgers Prep schools, he entered Rutgers in 1869; joined Chi Phi; was an orator at Sophomore and Junior exhibitions and at graduation; was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Senior year; graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; graduated at Columbia Law School LL.B. 1876; was admitted to the New York bar the same year; formed the firm of Sutphen and Lefferts and practiced law in Brooklyn continuously thereafter.
He was a member of the Society of the Church of the Pilgrims of Brooklyn, of the Congregational Club, the Holland Society and the Long Island Historical Society. A Republican, he served as secretary of the Brooklyn Civil Service Commission, 1883-85; and was political secretary for Seth Low during that gentleman's campaign for the first mayoralty of Greater New York.
He married in Evanston, 111., September 21, 1893, Isabella Van Arsdale. Their only child, Frederick Ten Eyck, was born in 1898. "He published no books or pamphlets, but articles and very graceful poems in Popular Science Monthly, the Sunday School Times, and elsewhere. In a book of collected verse called 'Musical Moments' there is a peculiarly graceful poem from his pen, entitled 'Euterpe.' He left at his death a collection of poems which he had prepared for publication in book form, but they have never been submitted to a publisher. His literary taste was delicate and refined. He was a man of the highest ideals of honor and integrity, unswerving in loyalty to his friends, generous almost to a fault, and he halted at no sacrifice in the performance of what he believed to be his duty." " P. F. S. '76."