Henry Bowditch van Loon (1907 - 1994)

Born 22 Jun 1907 in Warsaw, Poland

Ancestors

Husband of Janet (Hall) van Loon — married 11 Sep 1930 (to 16 Sep 1971) in Dorset, Bennington, Vermont, United States

Died 11 Sep 1994 at age 87 in Dorset, Bennington, Vermont, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Christopher Childs [send private message]

Biography

Architect Hank van Loon was born in 1907 to popular historian and journalist Hendrik Willem van Loon and his first wife, Eliza "Lily" Ingersoll (Bowditch) van Loon. In September, 1930, he married Janet Hall at Dorset, Vermont, where they ultimately made their home after periods of residency in New York and Connecticut.

The marriage ended with Janet's passing in 1971; van Loon remained at Dorset, where in his later years he was the partner of artist Lea (Weaver) Ehrich – each lived in their own dwelling on the same property, van Loon's home being a unique, cantilevered house, above a beaver pond, that he had designed himself. He died at Dorset in 1994, followed three years later by Lea Ehrich.

Research Notes

Marriage record of son Hendrik Willem "Piet" van Loon (1962; with residences and parentage for bride & groom): New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services; Concord, NH, USA; New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1700-1969; https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/105611056:61836 (by subscription); free sharing link [1].

Sources

• Birth and marriage: The Story of Hendrik Willem van Loon, by Gerard Willem van Loon, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1972; accessible online via openlibrary.org: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7017483W/The_story_of_Hendrik_Willem_van_Loon (free subscription)

• Birth (Poland) 22 June 1907: "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDX-L46K : 16 March 2018), Henry Bowditch Van Loon, 1923; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #313850, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 2313, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Marriage 11 Sept. 1930: "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFYN-SXH : 6 December 2014), Henry Bowditch Van Loon and Janet Hall, Marriage, 11 Sep 1930, Dorset, Bennington, Vermont, United States; from "Vermont, Birth Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Death Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Marriage Records, 1909-2008," and "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908." Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2010); citing Vital Records Office, Vermont Department of Health, Burlington and New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

• Residence (Greenwich CT) and family, 1940: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7B5-1LY : 1 March 2020), Henry B Van Loon, Greenwich, Greenwich Town, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-61, sheet 11B, line 58, family 250, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 496.

• Birth, spouse, residence (Dorset VT), 1940: National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For Vermont, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 77; https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/21516084:2238 (by subscription); free sharing link [2].

• Residence (Wilton CT) and family, 1950: "United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FMD-QJSR : Sun Jul 30 06:53:39 UTC 2023), Entry for Henry B Van Loon and Janet Van Loon, 10 April 1950.

• Birth and death: "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KNMR-PJW : 7 December 2020), Henry Van Loon, 1994.

• General biographical: personal knowledge of next-generation cousin Christopher Childs.

See also:

• Mention in biographical sketch of father: Hendrik Willem van Loon Papers, 1884-1972. Collection Number: 3292, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library; https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM03292.html