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'''Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh''' (February 22, 1736 &ndash; October 30, 1790) was a [[Dutch Reformed]] [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]] and the first President of Queen's College (now [[Rutgers University]]) from 1785 to his death in 1790.<ref name=ru>{{cite web |url=http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/hardenbergh.shtml |title=Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, 1785-1790 |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736-1790), was eighteen years old when he first stepped foot in the Raritan Valley, arriving at the home of John Frelinghuysen for religious instruction. Born at Rosendale, in Ulster County, New York, Hardenbergh was a member of a prominent Dutch-speaking family who had settled in "New Amsterdam" in the middle of the seventeenth century. |publisher=[[Rutgers University]] }}</ref>
'''Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh''' (February 22, 1735/6{{efn|In the [[Julian calendar]], then in use in England, the year began on 25 March. To avoid confusion with dates in the [[Gregorian calendar]], then in use in other parts of Europe, dates between January and March were often written with both years. Dates in this article before 1752 are in the Julian calendar unless otherwise noted. See: [[Old Style and New Style dates]]}} &ndash; October 30, 1790) was a [[Dutch Reformed]] [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]] and the first President of Queen's College (now [[Rutgers University]]) from 1785 to his death in 1790.<ref name=ru>{{cite web |url=http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/hardenbergh.shtml |title=Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, 1785-1790 |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736-1790), was eighteen years old when he first stepped foot in the Raritan Valley, arriving at the home of John Frelinghuysen for religious instruction. Born at Rosendale, in Ulster County, New York, Hardenbergh was a member of a prominent Dutch-speaking family who had settled in "New Amsterdam" in the middle of the seventeenth century. |publisher=[[Rutgers University]] }}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 18:41, 27 December 2013

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh
Born(1736-02-22)February 22, 1736
Rosendale, New York
DiedOctober 30, 1790(1790-10-30) (aged 54)
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Cause of deathTuberculosis
Resting placeFirst Reformed Church Cemetery, New Brunswick
OccupationMinister
EmployerRutgers University
TitlePresident of Rutgers University
Term1785–1790
SuccessorWilliam Linn
Spouse
Dinah Van Bergh
​
(m. 1756)​
RelativesJohannes Hardenbergh, grandfather

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (February 22, 1735/6[a] – October 30, 1790) was a Dutch Reformed minister and the first President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University) from 1785 to his death in 1790.[1]

Biography

Early life

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh was born on 22 February 1735/36 at Rosendale near Kingston, Ulster County, New York in the Hudson River valley. He was the son of Colonel Johannes Hardenberg, Jr. (1706–1786) and Maria DuBois (1705/06–1790). His parents had married in Kingston on 6 December 1728 and seven children were born to the marriage of which Jacob was the fourth. His father, later served with distinction as a field officer under Washington in the Continental Army, served in New York's Colonial Assembly.[2]

He became a preacher in the Dutch Reformed faith and was active in establishing a college in New Jersey that would be affiliated with the Dutch church. He lived in the Old Dutch Parsonage in Somerville, New Jersey. In 1763, he traveled to Europe and appealed to King George III of England on behalf of the proposal. On 10 November 1766, Royal Governor William Franklin chartered Queen's College. Hardenbergh served as an early Trustee of the college.[1]

Hardenbergh married Dinah Van Bergh, widow of his mentor, John Frelinghuysen on March 18, 1756 at Raritan, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Louis Van Bergh. Her diary[1], dating from February 1746 to late 1747, is held by Special Collections and University Archives, at the Archibald S. Alexander Library of Rutgers University.[1]

He served as a delegate to New Jersey's last Provincial Congress, which met in Burlington, New Jersey in 1776 to ratify the Declaration of Independence and to frame the first Constitution of the State of New Jersey (1776). He served several one-year terms in New Jersey's General Assembly. After a brief return to the ministry he was selected by the Trustees of Queen's College to be the institution's first President in 1785—a post in which he served until his death.[1]

In 1789, ten students graduated from Queen's College.

Death and legacy

Hardenbergh died on 30 October 1790 of tuberculosis in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was interred in the churchyard of the First Reformed Church, New Brunswick in New Brunswick.[1]

Hardenbergh's great-great-grandson, architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was hired by the trustees Rutgers College to design three buildings for the campus—Geology Hall (1871–72), Kirkpatrick Chapel (1873), an addition to the grammar school (now Alexander Johnston Hall)—and to design Suydam Hall (demolished) on the former campus of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, before a career designing large hotels and buildings in New York City.[3]

References

Notes

  1. ^ In the Julian calendar, then in use in England, the year began on 25 March. To avoid confusion with dates in the Gregorian calendar, then in use in other parts of Europe, dates between January and March were often written with both years. Dates in this article before 1752 are in the Julian calendar unless otherwise noted. See: Old Style and New Style dates

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e "Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, 1785-1790". Rutgers University. Retrieved August 26, 2007. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736-1790), was eighteen years old when he first stepped foot in the Raritan Valley, arriving at the home of John Frelinghuysen for religious instruction. Born at Rosendale, in Ulster County, New York, Hardenbergh was a member of a prominent Dutch-speaking family who had settled in "New Amsterdam" in the middle of the seventeenth century.
  2. ^ http://www.hardenbergh.org/irene/harde006.htm#id374
  3. ^ Staff. "H. J. Hardenbergh, Architect, Is Dead", The New York Times, 14 March 1918. Retrieved 27 December 2013.

Further reading

  • Studdiford, Peter. A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Reverend Jacob R. Hardenbergh, D.D., President of Queens College and Pastor of the Dutch Church in new Brunswick. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: s.n., 1791), pamphlet.

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