Genealogie Burgers » Willem Rijken (1831-1904)

Persoonlijke gegevens Willem Rijken 

• Hij is geboren op 27 januari 1831 in Zierikzee.
• Beroep: Grutter.
• Woonachtig:
• vanaf 1856: Grand Island (N.Y. USA).
• vanaf 1864: Buffalo, N.Y. USA.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1904 in Erie County N.Y., U.S.A, hij was toen 72 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Lakeside Memorial Park Cemetary, Hamburg, N.Y. U.S.A., Section A.
• Een kind van Dirk Willems Rijken en Jacoba Godefrida Bodde
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 1 oktober 2021.

Gezin van Willem Rijken

Hij is getrouwd met Suzanna Geertruida Arlandina Steinigeweg.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 5 juni 1852 te Beesd, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Cornelia Alida Anna Rijken  1853-1853
2. Jacoba Godefrida Rijken  1854-1940 

Notities over Willem Rijken

William Ryken, Grand Island, p. o. Sheenwater, one of the old and prominent residents of Grand Island, was born in Zeeland, Holland, in 1831, one of two children born to Dirick and Jacoba (Bodde) Ryken. Dirick was born and raised on a farm; he was an only son and received a liberal education and became a head teacher in the select schools, which profession he followed all his life. William Ryken attended the Holland schools until fifteen, when his parents moved to South Holland, where he spent two years studying French. When seventeen years of age his father started him in the mercantile business, which he conducted until he was twenty-five, and in 1856 sold his business and came to America, coming direct to Grand Island, where he lived for a time with his brother-in-law Cornelis A.A. Steinigeweg and assisted him in cutting wood and clearing land. In 1864 he purchased a farm of sixty-three acres, on which he has resided ever since, doing a general and successful farming. He early manifested an active interest in the political affairs of his town, affiliating with the Republican party, and in 1865 was elected to the office of town clerk, and with the exception of two years has filled that office successively ever since, making thirty years' service, a distinction which undoubtedly has not been paralleled by another man in Erie county. Mr. Ryken is a member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife was Susan Stoneway, daughter of Rev. Jan Emanuel Steinigeweg of Holland, to whom he was married in 1852, and they have one child, Jacoba, wife of Nelson Bagley of Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs. Ryken are members of the Congregational church, in which Mr. Ryken is deacon and superintendent of the Sunday school.

Source:
Our County and its people
A descriptive work on Erie County, New York
Edited by: Truman C. White
The Boston History Company, Publishes 1898

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