Notes for WILLIAM HENRY VAN VELZER:

Son of Daniel and Unknown Wife Van Velsor.
Born: July, 1781 in QUeens, Long Island, New York.
Died: 1866 in DeKalb County, Illinois.
Married: ? Knapp Unknown in Unknown.

The History of Walworth County, Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith (1912)
Mr. VanVelzer was born in the state of New York. He was a son of William Henry VanVelzer, also born in. New York, a descendant of one of two brothers who came from Holland and took up their residence on Long Island in the Colonial period. William H. VanVelzer was a merchant and hotel keeper and he built two large hotels in Lockport, New York. In 1835 he moved from Chautauqua county, New York, to Illinois, locating near Chicken Grove where he bought a large farm, and where his wife died. There were three children in his family, two of whom were Philander Knapp and Cornelius E.