Henry Van Derveer or Vanderveer, was born in 1791, in Roycefield, Somerset County, N.J., the son of Lawrence Van Derveer, founder of the Medical Society of New Jersey. Van Derveer graduated from Princeton in 1811, and matriculated at the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1813-1815, but did not graduate. Returning home, Van Derveer set up practice in Roycefield and subsequently in Somerville. He was active in the medical societies of New Jersey, serving on the Board of Censors of the District Medical Society of Somerset County and presiding as President of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1836. Van Derveer married Mary Ann Frelinghuysen, eldest daughter of General John Frelinghuysen. On 13 Feb. 1874, Van Derveer died in Somerset County, N.J.
From the description of Notes from a course of lectures on the Institutes and Practice of Medicine delivered in the University of Pennsylvania by Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., 1814. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122624629
