Isaac V. Vanderpoel (1814 – March 25, 1871) was an American lawyer and politician. Vanderpoel was a Democratic party mainstay and from 1866 to 1869, had a law partnership with the eventual U.S. PresidentGrover Cleveland.
Life
He was born in 1814 in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York, the son of Benjamin Vanderpoel. The Vanderpoel family was one of the oldest families in the state. Isaac's great-grandfather emigrated from Holland as early as 1609 and settled on Long Island, becoming one of the earliest residents of what is now the State of New York.[1]
Vanderpoel studied law at the office of J. & A. Vanderpoel in Kinderhook. After four years, he went to New York City to complete his legal studies and was admitted to the office of Price & Sears, a well known firm at the time. In 1834, during the October term of the Supreme Court, he was admitted to the bar. Immediately, he moved to the town of Aurora, New York in Erie county where he became a partner of P. M. Vosburgh, who later became Erie County Clerk. After practicing in Aurora for two years, he went to Buffalo and formed a law partnership with Frederick P. Stevens,[1] who later became the Mayor of Buffalo from 1856 to 1857.[2]
^"Frederick P. Stevens". Through The Mayor's Eyes, The Only Complete History of the Mayor's of Buffalo, New York, Compiled by Michael Rizzo. The Buffalonian is produced by The Peoples History Union. 2009-05-27.
[1]The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 35f; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
[2] His law firm, in Grover Cleveland by Henry H. Metcalf in The Bay State Monthly (Vol. II, Nov. 1884, No. 2) (wrong middle initial "K." given)
[3]Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature in the State of New York in 1859 by Wm. D. Murphy (pages 22ff; C. Van Benthuysen, Albany NY, 1859)
