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Rutgers, in 1864. He was mayor of New Brvins- wick, a member of the assembly of New Jersey, and president of the Bank of New Brunswick. He received from Rutgers the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1852. He was married tirst, April 19, 1313, to Catharine, daughter of James and Sarah (Wieser) Richmond; secondly, Aug. 24, 1820, to Helen Mary, daughter of John and Cornelia (Liv- ingston) Crooke; thirdly, Feb. 15, 1826. to Mary, daughter of John G. and Ann (Kearnj^) Warren, and fourthly, Jan. 12, 1854, to Marcella V., daughter of William V. and Marcella Graves; and had sons: James Richmond, born 1814; Jacob Rutsen, born July 11, 1824; Warren, born April 23, 1827; Augustus A., born May 18, 1830, and Cornelius Low, born July 29, 1834. He died in New Brunswick, N.J., July 14, 1860.

HARDENBERGH, Henry Janeway, architect, was born in New Brunswick, N.J., Feb. 6, 1847; son of John Pool and Frances Eliza (Eddy) Hardenbergh; grandson of Jacob Rutsen (b. 1792, d. 1829) and Mary (Pool) Hardenbergh; great grandson of the Hon. Jacob Rutsen (b. 1767, d. 1841) and Mary Margaret (Lowe) Hardenbergh and of John and Mary (Voorhies) Pool; great ^ grandson of the Rev. Dr. Jacob Rutsen and Dina (Van Bergh) Frelinghuysen Hardenbergh. His father was secretary of the board of trustees of Rutgers college, 1844-49, and president of the board of Domestic missions in 1874; and his great grandfather, the Hon. Jacob Rutsen Harden- bergh, was a trustee of Rutgers college, 1792- 1841, and secretary of the board, 1793-1800. He studied architecture under Detlef Lienan of New York, 1863-70, and from that time was estab- lished in active pi'actice in New York. The Dakota, Waldorf Astoria and Manhattan hotels and other structures of that class were erected from his designs. He was one of the founders of the American fine arts society and of the Munici- pal art society, and was elected a member of the American institute of architects.

HARDENBERGH, Jacob Rutsen, educator, was born in Rosendale, N. Y., and was baptized at King.ston, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1736; son of Col. Joannes and Maria (DuBois), grandson of Maj. Johannes and Catherine (Rutsen), great-grandson of Cap- tain Gerrit Janse and Jalpie (Schepmoes), and great- grandson of Jan van Hardenbergh, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam previous to 1644, and died there previous to 1659. Maj. Johannes Hardenbergh became owner of the Hardenbergh land patent purchased from the In- dians in 1706, confirmed by royal grant, April 23, 1708, and originally containing 2,000,000 acres of land lying in five contiguous counties on the west bank of the Hudson river in the state of New York. Col. Johannes Hardenbergh was an original member of the Coetus party formed to

establish an organic union of the Dutch Reformed churches in America independent of the care of the classis of Amsterdam, Holland, and when Kings ( Columbia) college was established in New York and placed vmder the care of the Episcopal church, he advocated a similar college to be known as Queens, to be under the care of the Dutch Reformed church, and he was an orig- inal trustee from the state of New York of Queens (Rutgers) college, 1770-86. He was born in Kingston, N.Y., June 1, 1706, and died in Rosendale, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1786. He was a mem- ber of the colonial assembly, 1743-50; of the state legislature, 1781-82; a member of the first pro- vincial congi-ess in New York, Maj^ 23, 1775 ; was commissioned colonel in the regular army Oct. 25, 1775, and was a friend of Washington, who with Mrs. Washington visited him at Rosendale, N.Y., in June 1783. Jacob Rutsen was edu- cated at Kingston academy, studied theology with the Rev. John Frelinghuysen in Raritan, N. J., and was the first minister in America in the Dutch Reformed church to complete his educa- tion and be licensed to preach, without going to Holland for examination. He was licensed by the American classis or Coetus in 1758. In Sep- tember, 1757, the Rev. John Frelinghuysen, his instructor in theology, died, and Mr. Harden- bergh married his widow, Dina (Van Bergh) Fre- linghuysen, in 1758 and succeeded him in the pastorate of the five associated churches centered in Raritan, N. J., where he labored, 1758-81. He visited Holland and made a tour of Europe in. 1762, bringing back to America the widowed mother of his wife. He became prominent as a Revolutionary patriot and gained the enmity of his Tory neighbors. He was a delegate to the provincial congress of New Jei'sey, 1776; of the convention of 1776 that framed and adopted a state constitution; and a member of the genei-al assembly. He was the especial object of annoy- ance to the British and a price of £100 was offered for his arrest. He thereupon armed himself and became accustomed to sleeping with a loaded musket by his bedside. On Oct. 26, 1779, a com- panj' of the Queen's rangers under Colonel Simcoe burned his church to the ground. While Wash- ington's army was at Bound Brook, Millstone and Princeton, Dominie Hardenbergh was a frequent visitor at headquarters and was visited at his home in Raritan by the American commander-in- chief. In 1781 he removed to Rosendale, N. Y., and became pastor of the church there, and also of the churches of Marbletown, Rochester and Warwarsing adjoining, serving there churches for five years. As early as 1770 he began the agita- tion of the establishment of a university or col- lege to be connected with the Dutch Reformed church and took a leading part in applying for