User:Pegspenc/A.K. Van Deventer

Andrew Kinney Van Deventer, known as A. K. Van Deventer, was born on 6 November 1854 in Flemington, Hunterdon Co., NJ and died on 22 October 1922 at the age of 76 in Haverford, PA. He was the son of William K. Van Deventer and second wife, Eliza Kinney. He was a descendant of Jacobus Van Deventer.

He married Ella H. Riker, daughter of James B. & Harriet Riker on 16 November 1880 in Hunterdon Co., NJ. They had one child, Harry B. Van Deventer, born in 1881 in NJ.

Andrew K. Van Deventer was a clerk and, later, an accountant in his early years, and worked for a number of railroads, including the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. He was elected as treasurer of Southern Pacific Railroad Company numerous time. He was the Director of Wells Fargo from 1909-1910.

He was an extensive reader and had a very large private library.