Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer (October 12, 1836 – July 3, 1920),[1] was a prominent member of New York Society during the Gilded Age.[2]
Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Louisa Barnewall October 12, 1836 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 3, 1920 (aged 83) Woodmere, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Alexander Van Rensselaer
(m. 1864; died 1878) |
| Children | Louisa Van Renssealer Mabel Van Rensselaer Alice Van Rensselaer |
| Parent(s) | William Barnewall Clementina Rutgers |
| Relatives | See Van Rensselaer family |
Early life
editLouisa was born on October 12, 1836, in New York City. She was the daughter of William Barnewall (1792–1874), an attorney, and Clementina (née Rutgers) Barnewall (1800–1838), who married in 1818.[3] After her mother's death when Louisa was only 2 years old, her father remarried to Anne Coles (1808–1885). Among her siblings was Elizabeth Barnewall (1825–1867), who married Alfred Schermerhorn; Morris Barnewall (1834–1895), who married Eliza Antoinette Hall.[a][4]
Her maternal grandparents were Nicholas Gouverneur Rutgers, an attorney,[3][b] and Cornelia (née Livingston) Rutgers.[6][c]
Society life
editIn 1892, Louisa (who at that point was a widow following her husband's death in 1878) along with her two unmarried daughters Mabel and Alice, and her married daughter Louisa and her husband Edmund, were all included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[8] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[9][10]
Personal life
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On June 30, 1864, Louisa married Alexander Van Renssalaer (1814–1878).[12] Alexander was the youngest surviving son born to Stephen Van Rensselaer, the patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck and Cornelia (née Paterson) Van Renssalaer,[13] the daughter of William Paterson, the 2nd Governor of New Jersey, and later, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.[14] Alexander was the widower of Mary Howland (d. 1855), daughter of Samuel Shaw Howland, whom he married in 1851.[15] She lived at 12 East 37th Street in Manhattan[16] and at "Gortmore" in Southampton, New York.[17] Together, Alexander and Louisa were the parents of three children:[15]
- Louisa Van Renssealer (1865–1945),[18][19] who married lawyer Edmund Lincoln Baylies, Jr. (1857–1932)[20] in 1887.[21] In 1917, she received the Legion of Honour in recognition of her work for France during the Great War.[22]
- Mabel Van Rensselaer (1868–1959), who married the Rev. James Le Baron Johnson (b. 1870),[23] assistant rector of Grace Church and chaplain of the New York Fire Department, in 1899.[24][16] Johnson was the son of Rev. Dr. George D. Johnson, the Archdeacon of Christ Church New Brighton.[25]
- Alice Van Rensselaer (1872–1963),[13] a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Colony Club who did not marry.[26]
Her husband died on May 8, 1878. She died at Woodmere on Long Island on July 3, 1920,[1] and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
References
edit- Notes
- ^ Louisa's niece, Elizabeth Barnewall (1867–1940) (her brother Morris Barnewall's daughter) was married to Alfred M. Coats (1869–1942), the second son of Sir James Coats, 1st Baronet and Lady Sarah Auchincloss (the aunt of Hugh Auchincloss). Alfred's brother was Sir Stuart Coats, 2nd Baronet and his sister was Alice Dudley Coats who married Theodore Frelinghuysen.[4]
- ^ Nicholas Gouverneur Rutgers (1771–1857) was the son of Gertrude Gouverneur and Anthony Rutgers, a brother of Rutgers University namesake Henry Rutgers. After his father's death, his mother married Dr. William Burnet (1730–1791). Nicholas' grandparents were Nicholas Gouverneur and Maria Winkler.[5]
- ^ Cornelia Livingston Rutgers (1776–1825) was the daughter of John Livingston (1750–1822) and Maria Ann Leroy (1759–1797). Her grandfather, Robert Livingston was the 3rd and final Lord of Livingston Manor.[7]
- Sources
- ^ a b "Obituary Notes. | Mrs. LOUISA VAN RENSSELAER". The New York Times. 4 July 1920. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Patterson, Jerry E. (2000). The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age. Random House, Incorporated. ISBN 9780847822089. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ a b Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. 1917. p. 55. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ a b Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: Including All the Titled Classes. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1923. p. 193. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Schneider, Jim (2013). Burnet - Ferguson - Schneider. pp. 99–100. ISBN 9781300853060. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell; Cornell, John (1908). The Duyckinck and Allied Families: Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckink Who Settled in New Amsterdam, Now New York, in 1638. Tobias A. Wright. p. 136. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Livingston, Edwin Brockholst (1901). The Livingstons of Livingston manor; being the history of that branch of the Scottish house of Callendar which settled in the English province of New York during the reign of Charles the Second; and also including an account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The nephew," a settler in the same province and his principal descendants. New York: The Knickerbocker Press. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED | WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Keister, Lisa A. (2005). Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way. Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780521536677. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ^ Homberger, Eric (2004). Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age. Yale University Press. pp. 199, 289n.99. ISBN 0300105150. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Caldwell, John; Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez; Johnson, Dale T. (1994). American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 572. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "MARRIED. VAN RENSSELAER -- BARNEWALL". The New York Times. 1 July 1864. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ a b Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York, Volume 3. New York: Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 1166, 1341.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cabell, Isa Carrington (1889). . In Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J. (eds.). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ a b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1887). Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1886. W.H. Young. p. 77. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ a b "WEDDINGS OF A DAY. | Johnson -- Van Rensselaer". The New York Times. 27 April 1899. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Social Register, Summer. Social Register Association. 1912. p. 304. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Mrs. Edmund Lincoln Baylies (Louisa Van Rensselaer, 1865-1945)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "MRS. BAYLIES DEAD; HELPED CATHEDRAL". The New York Times. 2 December 1945. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "E.L. BAYLIES IS DEAD; WAS LEADER IN BAR; Socially Prominent Attorney Helped to Create Cathedral of St. John the Divine. SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE HEAD Was Its President for 19 Years | Handled Many Large Estates Member of Old Family". The New York Times. 30 April 1932. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "THE BAYLIES--RENSSELAER WEDDING". The New York Times. January 19, 1887. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "France Honors Mrs. E.L. Baylies". The New York Times. 1 November 1917. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Dickerman, George Sherwood (1897). Families of Dickerman Ancestry: Descendants of Thomas Dickerman, an Early Settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press. p. 552. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Mabel Van Rensselaer (1868-1959)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families. Higginson Book Company. 1899. p. 503. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Deaths. VAN RENSSELAER -- Alice". The New York Times. 3 July 1963. Retrieved 6 March 2018.