Bio of VAN DERLIP, John R., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 219-220
JOHN R. VAN DERLIP
John R. Van Derlip, who for forty years has been a member of the bar of this
city, has, since 1912 withdrawn from litigated practice, and has limited his
professional activities almost wholly to acting as consultant in corporation,
income tax and mineral land matters.
John R. Van Derlip was born in Dansville, New York, the son of John Adams and
Anna (Day) Van Derlip. As the name indicates, the Van Derlips were of Holland
ancestry, but the paternal grandmother (Sarah Adams) was of the Massachusetts
Adams family. His mother's people, through both paternal and maternal lines,
were of English descent, the first ancestors in both branches coming from
England in 1630 and 1632, respectively. John Adams Van Derlip was a lawyer of
large ability ami of distinction in the circuit which, according to the custom
of his day, he traveled extensively, comprising what was called Western New
York. After completing his more specifically literary course in the Dansville
Academy, the son studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to
practice in New York state in 1881. He remained at Dansville in association with
his father until October, 1883, when he sought the opportunities of the growing
west and came to Minneapolis. Here he practiced alone until 1888, in which year
he entered into a partnership with George P. Wilson, under the firm style of
Wilson & Van Derlip, a connection which was maintained until 1902 In that year
he established his present offices in the Metropolitan Life building, and in
1906 Burt F. Lum became associated with him in the firm of Van Derlip & Lum.
Since Mr. Lum's removal to San Francisco in 1916, Mr. Van Derlip has continued
his professional work alone.
In the course of his career at the bar Mr. Van Derlip has engaged in an
extensive and widely varied practice and has been connected with much litigation
of large importance. He still acts as counsel for numerous corporations, in many
of which he is a director. His knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence is
comprehensive and exact; his analysis of facts is thorough and accurate; his
reasoning is keen and cogent, and his deductions are logical. His ability as an
advocate and as counsel has placed him in the front rank among the members of
the Minneapolis bar.
On the 18th of January. 1898, Mr. Van Derlip was married to Ethel Morrison,
daughter of the late Clinton Morrison of this city. Her death occurred November
21, 1921.
Mr. Van Derlip has been more or less active in other fields besides the law. He
is a director of the First National Bank in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Trust
Com­pany, and the Minneapolis-Trust Joint Stock Farm Land Bank, of which he was
one of the incorporators. He is trustee of several estates. He assisted in the
organization and promotion of the Equitable Loan Association, a remedial loan
company designed to protect the needy borrower, and is still a director and the
vice president of the company. He was one of the organizers and is a trustee and
vice president of the Minneapolis Foundation, an institution for the reception
and administration of char­itable, educational and philanthropic trusts.
A member of St. Mark's Episcopal church, he has served during many years on its
vestry. He is interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association,
in both its domestic and foreign activities, and is one of the advisory
directors of the local body. For more than twenty-five years he has been an
active trustee of St. Mary's Hall, a church school for girls at Faribault,
Minnesota, founded by Bishop Whipple to provide a means of education for the
daughters of the missionary clergy who were willing to undertake the privations
of frontier life. Mr. Van Derlip is also a director of the Orchestral
Association of Minneapolis.
A man of liberal culture, well descended and well bred, Mr. Van Derlip's
interest, outside of his profession, is probably most closely centered upon the
development of The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, the growth and success of
which are attributable in large measure to his efforts. It is this Society which
established and directs the destinies of the museum, known as the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, and the Minneap­olis School of Art, both of which have become
factors of great influence in the life of the community and of the state. Mr.
Van Derlip has been a trustee of this society for more than thirty years, and
its president since 1915, and devotes a very consid­erable portion of his time
to its interests. Mr. Van Derlip is also a vice president of the American
Federation of Arts, and a member of the Societe" des Amis du Louvre of Paris,
and of the National Art Collection Fund of London. In politics Mr. Van Derlip
maintains an independent course.