Served as Richmond County Borough President from 1915-1921.
Van Name, the son of an oyster planter who became a real estate attorney before his 21st birthday, was elected borough president -- the first native Islander to hold the post -- in 1915 following the death of Charles J. McCormack.
"I am gratified because of the development of the borough," Van Name wrote to Mayor John F. Hylan in 1919 in a State of the Borough-type document. "As an instance, and one of many, allow me to state that when I was first elected Borough President...the cars of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad were lighted by kerosene lamps."
During his six-year tenure in Borough Hall, the first concrete roads were built to handle truck traffic, he led a protest over a garbage plant long before Fresh Kills became a household name, a building boom ensued, water
from the Catskills arrived at the new Silver Lake Reservoir and the County Courthouse in St. George was constructed as were the piers in Tompkinsville and Stapleton.
After leaving Borough Hall in 1922, the Democrat was appointed a land appraiser for condemnation proceedings for the Department of Finance. He held that job until his death on Sept. 14, 1924. He was 67 when he died in his Van Pelt Avenue home in Mariners Harbor, the community where he lived his entire life.
(SI Advance, Stephanie Slepian, 2007)
Van Name, the son of an oyster planter who became a real estate attorney before his 21st birthday, was elected borough president -- the first native Islander to hold the post -- in 1915 following the death of Charles J. McCormack.
"I am gratified because of the development of the borough," Van Name wrote to Mayor John F. Hylan in 1919 in a State of the Borough-type document. "As an instance, and one of many, allow me to state that when I was first elected Borough President...the cars of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad were lighted by kerosene lamps."
During his six-year tenure in Borough Hall, the first concrete roads were built to handle truck traffic, he led a protest over a garbage plant long before Fresh Kills became a household name, a building boom ensued, water
from the Catskills arrived at the new Silver Lake Reservoir and the County Courthouse in St. George was constructed as were the piers in Tompkinsville and Stapleton.
After leaving Borough Hall in 1922, the Democrat was appointed a land appraiser for condemnation proceedings for the Department of Finance. He held that job until his death on Sept. 14, 1924. He was 67 when he died in his Van Pelt Avenue home in Mariners Harbor, the community where he lived his entire life.
(SI Advance, Stephanie Slepian, 2007)
Served as Richmond County Borough President from 1915-1921.
Van Name, the son of an oyster planter who became a real estate attorney before his 21st birthday, was elected borough president -- the first native Islander to hold the post -- in 1915 following the death of Charles J. McCormack.
"I am gratified because of the development of the borough," Van Name wrote to Mayor John F. Hylan in 1919 in a State of the Borough-type document. "As an instance, and one of many, allow me to state that when I was first elected Borough President...the cars of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad were lighted by kerosene lamps."
During his six-year tenure in Borough Hall, the first concrete roads were built to handle truck traffic, he led a protest over a garbage plant long before Fresh Kills became a household name, a building boom ensued, water
from the Catskills arrived at the new Silver Lake Reservoir and the County Courthouse in St. George was constructed as were the piers in Tompkinsville and Stapleton.
After leaving Borough Hall in 1922, the Democrat was appointed a land appraiser for condemnation proceedings for the Department of Finance. He held that job until his death on Sept. 14, 1924. He was 67 when he died in his Van Pelt Avenue home in Mariners Harbor, the community where he lived his entire life.
(SI Advance, Stephanie Slepian, 2007)
Van Name, the son of an oyster planter who became a real estate attorney before his 21st birthday, was elected borough president -- the first native Islander to hold the post -- in 1915 following the death of Charles J. McCormack.
"I am gratified because of the development of the borough," Van Name wrote to Mayor John F. Hylan in 1919 in a State of the Borough-type document. "As an instance, and one of many, allow me to state that when I was first elected Borough President...the cars of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad were lighted by kerosene lamps."
During his six-year tenure in Borough Hall, the first concrete roads were built to handle truck traffic, he led a protest over a garbage plant long before Fresh Kills became a household name, a building boom ensued, water
from the Catskills arrived at the new Silver Lake Reservoir and the County Courthouse in St. George was constructed as were the piers in Tompkinsville and Stapleton.
After leaving Borough Hall in 1922, the Democrat was appointed a land appraiser for condemnation proceedings for the Department of Finance. He held that job until his death on Sept. 14, 1924. He was 67 when he died in his Van Pelt Avenue home in Mariners Harbor, the community where he lived his entire life.
(SI Advance, Stephanie Slepian, 2007)
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3rd Borough president of Staten Island. Served during WW1 1915-1921.
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