Daniel Van Winkle (March 9, 1816 – January 16, 1886) opened a real estate office at Depot Square (now Station Square) to sell the land of the Rutherfurd Park Association, and laid out the street grid pattern for the town of Rutherford, New Jersey. Daniel also donated land in 1866 for a

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to be built to service the Rutherford area. Daniel Van Winkle also lived in the Kip Homestead for a number of years.
Rutherford Then and Now by Lee Frances Brown

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