Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck

Infobox Person
name = Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck


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birth_date = 29 November 1791
birth_place = Kingston, New York
death_date = 23 February 1879
death_place = Kingston, New York
occupation = President of Rutgers University
spouse = Julia Frances Ludlum (1795-1869)
parents = Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763-1846)
Catherine Wynkoop (1765-?)
children = Jonathan Howard Bruyn Hasbrouck (1820-1899)

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (29 November 1791 – 23 February 1879) was a United States Congressman from New York and the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1840 to 1850. cite web |url=http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/hasbrouck.shtml |title=Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck was born in Kingston, New York, studied at Kingston Academy before entering Yale College where he graduated in 1810. Hasbrouck attended the private law school in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he received instruction in the common law from Tapping Reeve and James Gould. He returned to Kingston and in 1814 began his law practice. Hasbrouck served as President of the Ulster County Bank from its inception in 1831. In 1824 he was elected to Congress where he supported Henry Clay's policy of internal improvements. |publisher=Rutgers University ]

Biography

He was born in 1791 in Kingston, New York to Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763-1846) and Catherine Wynkoop (1765-?).

He studied at the Kingston Academy in New York before entering Yale College where he graduated in 1810. Studying the law under Tapping Reeve, Elisha Williams, and James Gould, he returned to Kingston, New York in 1814 to practice law. In 1817 he started a law practice with Charles H. Ruggles.

He married on 12 September, 1819 to Julia Frances Ludlum (1795-1869), the sister of Judge Gabriel W. Ludlum. Together they had eight children, including a son: Jonathan Howard Bruyn Hasbrouck (1820-1899).

Hasbrouck was elected to the Nineteenth United States Congress in 1824 serving from 1825 to 1827 as an Adams candidate. [cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000312 |title=Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, 1791-1879 |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, (1791-1879) (cousin of Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck), a Representative from New York; born in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., on November 29, 1791; graduated from Kingston Academy in 1806 and from Yale College, in 1810; studied law in Hudson, N.Y., and in Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the bar in 1813 and commenced law practice in Kingston, N.Y., in 1814; elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); became president of Ulster County Bank in 1831; resided in New Brunswick, N.J., while president of Rutgers College, 1840-1850; moved to Kingston, N.Y., in 1850; president of the Kingston Bank; founded the Ulster County Historical Society; died in Kingston, N.Y., on February 24, 1879; interment in Pine Street Cemetery. |publisher=United States Congress ] In 1840, he was appointed by the Trustees of Rutgers College as the sixth president, and the first layman to hold the office. During his tenure as President, he taught Rhetoric, Constitutional Law, and Political Economy. He strove to establish independence from the Dutch Reformed Church and added modern languages, and expanded scientific instruction to the curriculum. He resigned in 1849, remaining in office until 1850 when Theodore Frelinghuysen was appointed his successor.

Hasbrouck retired to Kingston, New York, of pneumonia on 23 February 1879.

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck was a descendant of the Hasbroucks who founded New Paltz in 1678. The Hasbroucks were Huguenots, Protestant followers of John Calvin who fled what is today Northern France and South Belgium who fled persecution by the ruling Catholics. The original settlement of their ancestors survives today as Historic Huguenot Street, a National Historic Landmark District.

Legacy

A street named after him in Newburgh, New York.

References

External links

* [http://www.huguenotstreet.org/ Historic Huguenot Street]
* [http://www.hasbrouckfamily.org/ Hasbrouck Family Association]
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* [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ldygen&id=I50973 Hasbrouck children]