HARDENBERGH
HARDEXBERGH
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
