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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant

August 31, 2023

Rutherfurd Stuyvesant or Stuyvesant Rutherfurd (September 2, 1843 – July 4, 1909) was an American socialite and land developer from New York, best known as the inheritor of the Stuyvesant fortune.[1]

Rutherfurd Stuyvesant
Born
Stuyvesant Rutherfurd

(1843-09-02)September 2, 1843
DiedJuly 4, 1909(1909-07-04) (aged 65)
Paris, France
Alma materColumbia College (1863)
Spouses
Mary Pierrepont
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(m. 1863; died 1879)​
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(m. 1902)​
ChildrenLewis Rutherfurd Stuyvesant
Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant
Parent(s)Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant
RelativesWinthrop Rutherfurd (brother)
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr. (brother)
John Winthrop Chanler (uncle)
Henry White (brother-in-law)
Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (sister-in-law)

Early life Edit

Rutherfurd was born on September 2, 1843. He was the oldest of seven children born to Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892) and Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant (1820–1890).[2][3] His younger siblings included Louisa Morris Rutherfurd (1855–1892), Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd (1853-1916), who was married to Henry White, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr. (1859–1901), who was married to Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (1861–1940),[4] and Winthrop Rutherfurd (1886-1944),[5] who was married to Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd,[6] a mistress of Franklin D. Roosevelt.[7]

His paternal grandparents were Robert Walter Rutherfurd (1788–1852) and Sabina Morris (1789–1857) of Morrisania. He was the great-grandson of U.S. Senator John Rutherfurd and 2x great-grandson of Lewis Morris, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence.[2] Rutherfurd was a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland before it became New York,[8][9] as well as John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts.[5] His mother's siblings included Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (1824–1904) and John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877). Among his cousins was U.S. Representative William Astor Chanler.[1]

Stuyvesant was an 1863 graduate of Columbia College.[1]

Name change Edit

Further information: Stuyvesant family

In 1847, the six year old Stuyvesant Rutherfurd changed his name to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant to conform with the will of his mother's great-uncle, Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, who died childless, in order to inherit the Stuyvesant fortune. His mother was the niece and adopted daughter of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (1778–1847),[10] the 2x great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, and Helena Rutherfurd Stuyvesant.[11][3]

Career Edit

Stuyvesant was known as a very successful land developer of New York City.

In 1869, Stuyvesant hired Richard Morris Hunt to build the "first true apartment building in New York", located on the present day site of 142 East 18th Street near Gramercy Park.[12] The building was a five story walk up built for middle-class tenants.[12]

Society life Edit

Stuyvesant was a collector of arms and armor,[13] fine china and paintings.[1]

His mansion in New York was located at the corner of Second Avenue and 15th Street, near most of the Stuyvesant and Rutherfurd properties.[1]

He had an estate in the country, known as Tranquility Farms, near Hackettstown, New Jersey that was the original Stuyvesant homestead. He enlarged the home which was located on 7,000 acres and included a park stocked with elk, deer, ponds with beavers, and pheasants.[1]

He was a member of the Union Club of New York, the Century Club, the City Racquet Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Atlantic Yacht Club and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Clubs, The Downtown Association, The Columbia College Alumni Association, New-York Historical Society, and the American Geographical Society. He was a fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and the National Academy of Design, and a patron and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Personal life Edit

 
Photograph of his second wife, the former Countess de Wassanaer, c. 1915-1920.

In 1863, he was married to Mary Pierrepont (1842–1879), a daughter of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont (1808–1888)[14][15] and Anna Maria Jay (1819–1902),[16] and a granddaughter of Peter Augustus Jay.[17] She, along with a son, died at the Stuyvesant mansion during childbirth in 1879.

In 1902, he was married to Countess Mathilde Elizabeth Loewenguth de Wassanaer (1877–1948), the daughter of Joseph Loewenguth, at St. George's Chapel on Albemarle Street in London.[18] She was the widow of a Dutch Count.[1] Together, they were the parents of:

  • Lewis Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1903–1944),[19] who married Rosalie Stuyvesant Pillot in 1925, daughter of Peter Stuyvesant Pillot. The couple had one child, Peter Winthrop Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1935–1970),[20][21] before they divorced in 1930.[22] He later married Elizabeth (née Larocque) Smith in 1934. She was the former wife of Schuyler Knowlton Smith and the daughter of Joseph Laroque.[23]
  • Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1905–1954), who did not marry. He was injured in a car accident in 1934.[24] He died aboard a ship just short of arriving at their destination to France.[25]

Rutherfurd died suddenly while out for his customary morning walk in the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 4, 1909.[1][26] After his death, his widow married Prince Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay, the son of Prince Joseph de Caraman-Chimay and brother of Joseph, Prince de Caraman-Chimay. The Princess Alexandre de Caraman Chimay died in 1948 and was buried in the Stuyvesant family plot at Tranquility Cemetery, New Jersey.[27]

References Edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "R. STUYVESANT DIES SUDDENLY IN PARIS; Stricken on Street -- Though Born Rutherfurd, an Ancestor Was Gov. Peter Stuyvesant. HE WAS 69 YEARS OLD Ambassador White's Brother-in-Law -- First Wife Was Miss Pierrepont -- Second, Countess de Wassenaer, Survives Him". The New York Times. 5 July 1909. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Lewis Morris Rutherfurd" (PDF). New York Times. June 1, 1892. Retrieved 2014-01-09. Lewis Morris Kutherfurd died on Decoration Day at his home, Tranquillity, N.J., in the seventy-sixth [sic] year of his age.
  3. ^ a b Rutherfurd, Livingston (1894). Family Records and Events: Compiled Principally from the Original Manuscripts in the Rutherfurd Collection. De Vinne Press. p. 252. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  4. ^ "W.K. VANDERBILT DIES IN FRANCE IN HIS 71ST YEAR; Was Eldest Male Survivor of Family That Built Fortune in New York Central. CHILDREN AT HIS BEDSIDE Duchess of Marlborough and Her Brothers Present with Financier's Widow. ESTATE NEAR $100,000,000 $300,000,000 Left by His Father in Eight Shares Believed to be Over Billion Total Now". The New York Times. 23 July 1920. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  5. ^ a b "W. RUTHERFURD, 82, LEADER IN SOCIETY; Sportsman, Member of Noted Family, Dies Was Owner of Famous Terrier Kennels". The New York Times. 21 March 1944. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  6. ^ "MRS. W. RUTHERFURD". The New York Times. 1 August 1948. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  7. ^ Persico, Joseph E. (2009). Franklin and Lucy: Mrs. Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in Roosevelt's Life. Random House Trade Paperbacks. p. 299. ISBN 9780812974966. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  8. ^ Vanderbilt, Arthur T. (1991). Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. HarperCollins. p. 152. ISBN 9780688103866.
  9. ^ Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Maynard, Arthur S.; Mann, Conklin (1880). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 160. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  10. ^ Hughes, Stefan (2012). Catchers of the Light: The Forgotten Lives of the Men and Women Who First Photographed the Heavens. ArtDeCiel Publishing. ISBN 9781620509616. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  11. ^ "Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (1778-1847)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  12. ^ a b Pommer, Alfred; Pommer, Joyce (2015). Exploring Gramercy Park and Union Square. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781625853639. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  13. ^ Dean, Bashford (1929). Catalogue of European Daggers: including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs and Reubell collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 195. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  14. ^ "H.E. PIERREPONT'S FUNERAL". The New York Times. 1 April 1888. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  15. ^ "HENRY E. PIERREPONT DEAD.; Retired Merchant Was One of the Brooklyn Family of Pierreponts". The New York Times. 5 November 1911. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  16. ^ "MRS. A. M. PIERREPONT DEAD.; Was a Granddaughter of John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court". The New York Times. 3 January 1902. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  17. ^ Bergen, Tunis Garret (1915). Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 768. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  18. ^ "RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT MARRIED IN LONDON.; He Weds the Comtesse de Warranaer -- Ambassador Choate Present at the Ceremony". The New York Times. 17 June 1902. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  19. ^ "LEWIS STUVYSANT DIES IN CLUB HERE; Sportsman, War. Veteran Was Consul in India -- Descendant of Peter Stuyvesant". The New York Times. 8 September 1944. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  20. ^ "Son to Mrs. L. R. Stuyvesant". The New York Times. 18 December 1935. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  21. ^ "REMEMBRANCES OF A WAR'S END; A GOVERNOR'S DESCENDANTS". The New York Times. 13 August 1995. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  22. ^ "RENO DIVORCE GRANTED MRS. L.R. STUYVESANT; Mental Cruelty Is Reported as Grounds--Husband American Consul General of Calcutta". The New York Times. 7 August 1930. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  23. ^ Times, Special To The New York (13 July 1934). "MRS. E. L. SMITH NEW JERSEY BRIDE; Simple Ceremony Unites Her to Lewis R. Stuyvesant, a Prominent Sportsman. HE IS PRINCETON ALUMNUS Bridegroom, a Well-Known .Big Game Hunter, Is Son of Queen Astrid's Lady-in-Waiting". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  24. ^ Times, Special To The New York (19 June 1934). "O'RYAN SECRETARY HURT.; A.R. Stuyvesant Victim of Auto Crash at Princeton, N.J." The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  25. ^ Times, Special To The New York (10 February 1954). "ALAN STUYVESANT DIES IN LINER FALL; Descendant of Dutch Governor Succumbs in France -- Found Hurt on the United States". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  26. ^ Times, Special To The New York (10 October 1909). "BEQUEST OF $20,000 FOR THE ART MUSEUM; Metropolitan Benefits from the Estate of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, Valued at Millions. MONEY GIFTS FOR RELATIVES Use of Tranquility, His Country Estate, for His Widow During Her Life, Who Gets City Residence Also". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  27. ^ "PRIHCESS CHIMAY DIES IN HOME HERE; The Former Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Aided Charity Drive in 1st World War". The New York Times. 11 July 1948. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant or Stuyvesant Rutherfurd September 2 1843 July 4 1909 was an American socialite and land developer from New York best known as the inheritor of the Stuyvesant fortune 1 Rutherfurd StuyvesantBornStuyvesant Rutherfurd 1843 09 02 September 2 1843DiedJuly 4 1909 1909 07 04 aged 65 Paris FranceAlma materColumbia College 1863 SpousesMary Pierrepont m 1863 died 1879 wbr Mathilde Countess de Wassanaer m 1902 wbr ChildrenLewis Rutherfurd StuyvesantAlan Rutherfurd StuyvesantParent s Lewis Morris RutherfurdMargaret Chanler StuyvesantRelativesWinthrop Rutherfurd brother Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr brother John Winthrop Chanler uncle Henry White brother in law Anne Harriman Vanderbilt sister in law Contents 1 Early life 1 1 Name change 2 Career 2 1 Society life 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External linksEarly life EditRutherfurd was born on September 2 1843 He was the oldest of seven children born to Lewis Morris Rutherfurd 1816 1892 and Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant 1820 1890 2 3 His younger siblings included Louisa Morris Rutherfurd 1855 1892 Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd 1853 1916 who was married to Henry White Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr 1859 1901 who was married to Anne Harriman Vanderbilt 1861 1940 4 and Winthrop Rutherfurd 1886 1944 5 who was married to Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd 6 a mistress of Franklin D Roosevelt 7 His paternal grandparents were Robert Walter Rutherfurd 1788 1852 and Sabina Morris 1789 1857 of Morrisania He was the great grandson of U S Senator John Rutherfurd and 2x great grandson of Lewis Morris the Signer of the Declaration of Independence 2 Rutherfurd was a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant the last Dutch Director General of New Netherland before it became New York 8 9 as well as John Winthrop the first Governor of Massachusetts 5 His mother s siblings included Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler 1824 1904 and John Winthrop Chanler 1826 1877 Among his cousins was U S Representative William Astor Chanler 1 Stuyvesant was an 1863 graduate of Columbia College 1 Name change Edit Further information Stuyvesant family In 1847 the six year old Stuyvesant Rutherfurd changed his name to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant to conform with the will of his mother s great uncle Peter Gerard Stuyvesant who died childless in order to inherit the Stuyvesant fortune His mother was the niece and adopted daughter of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant 1778 1847 10 the 2x great grandson of Peter Stuyvesant and Helena Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 11 3 Career EditStuyvesant was known as a very successful land developer of New York City In 1869 Stuyvesant hired Richard Morris Hunt to build the first true apartment building in New York located on the present day site of 142 East 18th Street near Gramercy Park 12 The building was a five story walk up built for middle class tenants 12 Society life Edit Stuyvesant was a collector of arms and armor 13 fine china and paintings 1 His mansion in New York was located at the corner of Second Avenue and 15th Street near most of the Stuyvesant and Rutherfurd properties 1 He had an estate in the country known as Tranquility Farms near Hackettstown New Jersey that was the original Stuyvesant homestead He enlarged the home which was located on 7 000 acres and included a park stocked with elk deer ponds with beavers and pheasants 1 He was a member of the Union Club of New York the Century Club the City Racquet Club the New York Yacht Club the Atlantic Yacht Club and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Clubs The Downtown Association The Columbia College Alumni Association New York Historical Society and the American Geographical Society He was a fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and the National Academy of Design and a patron and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1 Personal life Edit Photograph of his second wife the former Countess de Wassanaer c 1915 1920 In 1863 he was married to Mary Pierrepont 1842 1879 a daughter of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont 1808 1888 14 15 and Anna Maria Jay 1819 1902 16 and a granddaughter of Peter Augustus Jay 17 She along with a son died at the Stuyvesant mansion during childbirth in 1879 In 1902 he was married to Countess Mathilde Elizabeth Loewenguth de Wassanaer 1877 1948 the daughter of Joseph Loewenguth at St George s Chapel on Albemarle Street in London 18 She was the widow of a Dutch Count 1 Together they were the parents of Lewis Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1903 1944 19 who married Rosalie Stuyvesant Pillot in 1925 daughter of Peter Stuyvesant Pillot The couple had one child Peter Winthrop Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1935 1970 20 21 before they divorced in 1930 22 He later married Elizabeth nee Larocque Smith in 1934 She was the former wife of Schuyler Knowlton Smith and the daughter of Joseph Laroque 23 Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1905 1954 who did not marry He was injured in a car accident in 1934 24 He died aboard a ship just short of arriving at their destination to France 25 Rutherfurd died suddenly while out for his customary morning walk in the Champs Elysees in Paris on July 4 1909 1 26 After his death his widow married Prince Alexandre de Caraman Chimay the son of Prince Joseph de Caraman Chimay and brother of Joseph Prince de Caraman Chimay The Princess Alexandre de Caraman Chimay died in 1948 and was buried in the Stuyvesant family plot at Tranquility Cemetery New Jersey 27 References Edit a b c d e f g h i R STUYVESANT DIES SUDDENLY IN PARIS Stricken on Street Though Born Rutherfurd an Ancestor Was Gov Peter Stuyvesant HE WAS 69 YEARS OLD Ambassador White s Brother in Law First Wife Was Miss Pierrepont Second Countess de Wassenaer Survives Him The New York Times 5 July 1909 Retrieved 19 July 2017 a b Lewis Morris Rutherfurd PDF New York Times June 1 1892 Retrieved 2014 01 09 Lewis Morris Kutherfurd died on Decoration Day at his home Tranquillity N J in the seventy sixth sic year of his age a b Rutherfurd Livingston 1894 Family Records and Events Compiled Principally from the Original Manuscripts in the Rutherfurd Collection De Vinne Press p 252 Retrieved 18 July 2017 W K VANDERBILT DIES IN FRANCE IN HIS 71ST YEAR Was Eldest Male Survivor of Family That Built Fortune in New York Central CHILDREN AT HIS BEDSIDE Duchess of Marlborough and Her Brothers Present with Financier s Widow ESTATE NEAR 100 000 000 300 000 000 Left by His Father in Eight Shares Believed to be Over Billion Total Now The New York Times 23 July 1920 Retrieved 18 July 2017 a b W RUTHERFURD 82 LEADER IN SOCIETY Sportsman Member of Noted Family Dies Was Owner of Famous Terrier Kennels The New York Times 21 March 1944 Retrieved 18 July 2017 MRS W RUTHERFURD The New York Times 1 August 1948 Retrieved 18 July 2017 Persico Joseph E 2009 Franklin and Lucy Mrs Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in Roosevelt s Life Random House Trade Paperbacks p 299 ISBN 9780812974966 Retrieved 18 July 2017 Vanderbilt Arthur T 1991 Fortune s Children The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt HarperCollins p 152 ISBN 9780688103866 Greene Richard Henry Stiles Henry Reed Dwight Melatiah Everett Morrison George Austin Mott Hopper Striker Totten John Reynolds Pitman Harold Minot Ditmas Charles Andrew Forest Louis Effingham De Maynard Arthur S Mann Conklin 1880 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record New York Genealogical and Biographical Society p 160 Retrieved 18 July 2017 Hughes Stefan 2012 Catchers of the Light The Forgotten Lives of the Men and Women Who First Photographed the Heavens ArtDeCiel Publishing ISBN 9781620509616 Retrieved 18 July 2017 Peter Gerard Stuyvesant 1778 1847 www nyhistory org New York Historical Society Retrieved 18 July 2017 a b Pommer Alfred Pommer Joyce 2015 Exploring Gramercy Park and Union Square Arcadia Publishing ISBN 9781625853639 Retrieved 19 July 2017 Dean Bashford 1929 Catalogue of European Daggers including the Ellis De Dino Riggs and Reubell collections Metropolitan Museum of Art p 195 Retrieved 19 July 2017 H E PIERREPONT S FUNERAL The New York Times 1 April 1888 Retrieved 14 July 2017 HENRY E PIERREPONT DEAD Retired Merchant Was One of the Brooklyn Family of Pierreponts The New York Times 5 November 1911 Retrieved 14 July 2017 MRS A M PIERREPONT DEAD Was a Granddaughter of John Jay First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court The New York Times 3 January 1902 Retrieved 14 July 2017 Bergen Tunis Garret 1915 Genealogies of the State of New York A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation Lewis Historical Publishing Company p 768 Retrieved 14 July 2017 RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT MARRIED IN LONDON He Weds the Comtesse de Warranaer Ambassador Choate Present at the Ceremony The New York Times 17 June 1902 Retrieved 19 July 2017 LEWIS STUVYSANT DIES IN CLUB HERE Sportsman War Veteran Was Consul in India Descendant of Peter Stuyvesant The New York Times 8 September 1944 Retrieved 19 July 2017 Son to Mrs L R Stuyvesant The New York Times 18 December 1935 Retrieved 19 July 2017 REMEMBRANCES OF A WAR S END A GOVERNOR S DESCENDANTS The New York Times 13 August 1995 Retrieved 19 July 2017 RENO DIVORCE GRANTED MRS L R STUYVESANT Mental Cruelty Is Reported as Grounds Husband American Consul General of Calcutta The New York Times 7 August 1930 Retrieved 19 July 2017 Times Special To The New York 13 July 1934 MRS E L SMITH NEW JERSEY BRIDE Simple Ceremony Unites Her to Lewis R Stuyvesant a Prominent Sportsman HE IS PRINCETON ALUMNUS Bridegroom a Well Known Big Game Hunter Is Son of Queen Astrid s Lady in Waiting The New York Times Retrieved 19 July 2017 Times Special To The New York 19 June 1934 O RYAN SECRETARY HURT A R Stuyvesant Victim of Auto Crash at Princeton N J The New York Times Retrieved 19 July 2017 Times Special To The New York 10 February 1954 ALAN STUYVESANT DIES IN LINER FALL Descendant of Dutch Governor Succumbs in France Found Hurt on the United States The New York Times Retrieved 19 July 2017 Times Special To The New York 10 October 1909 BEQUEST OF 20 000 FOR THE ART MUSEUM Metropolitan Benefits from the Estate of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Valued at Millions MONEY GIFTS FOR RELATIVES Use of Tranquility His Country Estate for His Widow During Her Life Who Gets City Residence Also The New York Times Retrieved 19 July 2017 PRIHCESS CHIMAY DIES IN HOME HERE The Former Mrs Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Aided Charity Drive in 1st World War The New York Times 11 July 1948 Retrieved 19 July 2017 External links EditRutherfurd Stuyvesant at Find a Grave Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rutherfurd Stuyvesant amp oldid 1113463021, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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