Jacob Hardenbergh (May 1823 New Paltz,

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– April 29, 1872

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) was an American lawyer and politician from

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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

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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

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. On April 3, 1850, he married Anna Elisabeth Holmes. He was a delegate to the

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of 1867–68; and a member of the

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(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.

Family

Hardenbergh descends from six of the twelve Patentees, or founders, of New Paltz, New York, including Louis DuBois and Abraham Hasbrouck of the Hasbrouck family. He is the third great-grandson of

Johannes Hardenbergh Major Johannes Hardenbergh (1670–1745), also known as Sir Johannes Hardenbergh, was the owner of the Hardenbergh patent of land in the Catskill Mountains. Biography He was born in Albany, New York, in 1670. His father's name was Gerrit, and he ...

, and great-great-nephew of Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh. He had at least five siblings: Lewis Hardenburgh (1816-1901), Asenath Hardenbergh Schoonmaker (1821-1900), Catharine Maria Hardenburgh McKinstry (1823-1917), Leah Hardenburgh (1825-1898) and Cornelia Hardenburgh Hendricks (1831-1906). His brother-in-law, Daniel Schoonmaker (1821-1877) served a term in the New York State Assembly in 1855.

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) ives erroneously surname "Hardenburgh"
Hardenbergh genealogy

''ALBANY; Death of Senator Hardenbergh''
in NYT on April 30, 1872

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hardenbergh, Jacob 1823 births 1872 deaths Democratic Party New York (state) state senators Politicians from Kingston, New York Rutgers University alumni 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature