Jacob Hardenbergh

For the first President of Rutgers University, see Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh.

Jacob Hardenbergh (May 1823 New Paltz, Ulster County, New York – April 29, 1872 Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Richard Hardenbergh (1791–1870) and Catharine Maria (Crispell) Hardenbergh (1790–1833). The family removed to Shawangunk in 1829. He attended New Paltz Academy, and graduated from Rutgers College in 1844. Then he became a teacher at Fonda Academy, and at the same time studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1849, and commenced practice in Kingston. On April 3, 1850, he married Anna Elisabeth Holmes.

He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68; and a member of the New York State Senate (14th D.) from 1870 until his death, sitting in the 93rd, 94th and 95th New York State Legislatures. He died near the end of the session, after being confined to his room by illness during two months, and was buried at the Wiltwyck Cemetery in Kingston.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444 and 593)
• Life Sketches of Executive Officers, and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, Vol. III by H. H. Boone & Theodore P. Cook (1870; pg. 84ff) [gives erroneously surname "Hardenburgh"]
• Hardenbergh genealogy
• ALBANY; Death of Senator Hardenbergh in NYT on April 30, 1872

External links

• Jacob Hardenbergh at Find a Grave