Andrew DeWitt Bruyn
Andrew DeWitt Bruyn | |
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22nd district | |
| In office March 4, 1837 – July 27, 1838 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen B. Leonard |
| Succeeded by | Cyrus Beers |
| Judge of Court of Common Pleas | |
| In office 1826–1836 | |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from Ulster County | |
| In office 1818–1818 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 18, 1790 Kingston Academy |
| Alma mater | Princeton College |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Andrew DeWitt Bruyn (November 18, 1790 – July 27, 1838) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1837 to 1838.
Early life
Bruyn was born in
née DeWitt) Bruyn and Jacobus S. Bruyn (1749–1823), a New York Assemblymen from Ulster County from 1797 to 1799 and a member of New York State Senate from 1800 to 1805.[1]
He came from a large and politically prominent family that included uncles
Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt).[6]
He attended
Princeton College in 1810. In 1811, Bruyn attend the Litchfield Law School and studied under Tapping Reeve.[7]
Career
He studied law, was
Ithaca and Owego Railroad in 1828. He was also interested in banking.[1] He was a presidential elector in the 1828 presidential election.[8]
Bruyn was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1837, until his death the following year in 1838.[1]
Personal life
Bruyn was married to Abigail Champlin (1802–1892).[9][10] Together, they were the parents of eight children, including:
- Jane J. Bruyn (1820–1906), who married Alexander McCalla Mann (d. 1893).[11]
- William Van Ness Bruyn (1823–1886), who married Sarah McCormick (1828–1855)[12]
- Hannah M. Bruyn (1825–1896), who married Amasa Byron Dana (1819–1887).[13]
- Matilda Bruyn (1827–1832), who died young.
- Dewitt C. Bruyn (1830–1909), a Atlanta architect who designed the William Kehoe House.[14]
- Ann Bruyn (1833–1910), who married Dr. Edward Jay Morgan Sr. (1825–1894)[15]
- Joshua Champlin Bruyn (1835–1901), a Confederate soldier with the prisoner-of-war at Fort Delaware.[16]
Bruyn died in Ithaca on July 27, 1838. He was interred in Ithaca City Cemetery.[1] His widow lived for another 54 years until her death in 1892.
See also
References
- ^ Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ a b Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Bruyn family of New York". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ^ Sahler, Louis Hasbrouck (1895). The Genealogy of the Sahlers, of the United States of America: And of Their Kinsmen, the Gross Family . . L. C. Childs & Son, printers. p. 10. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ Murlin, Edgar L. (1908). The New York Red Book. J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 356–365. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ^ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 1888. p. 29. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ "DeWitt-Clinton-Bruyn-Hasbrouck family of New York". politicalgraveyard.com. The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ "Litchfield Ledger - Andrew DeWitt Bruyn". ledger.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org. Litchfield Historical Society. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ Burns, Thomas W. (1904). Initial Ithacans. Ithaca, N.Y.: Press of The Ithaca Journal. pp. 6–8 – via Google Books.
- ^ Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1919). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 432. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ Worden, Jean D. (1987). Wawarsing Reformed Dutch Church, Ulster County, New York, 1745-1883, New Prospect Reformed Dutch Church, Ulster County, New York, 1816-1886, Bloomington Dutch Reformed Church, Ulster County, New York, 1796-1859, Newburgh Circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1789-1834. Mrs. J.D. Worden. p. 317. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ Beauchamp, William Martin (1908). Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York: From Prehistoric Times to the Beginning of 1908. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 722. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Psi Upsilon Fraternity. 1917. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ISBN 9780608319452. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ "Tour | Architectural Savannah". architecturalsavannah.com. Architectural tours of Savannah. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ Manning's Ithaca, Including Cayuga Heights Village (Tompkins County, New York) Directory. H. A. Manning. 1917. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- The Montgomery Advertiser. 12 July 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
External links
- United States Congress. "Andrew DeWitt Bruyn (id: B000984)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Andrew DeWitt Bruyn at Find a Grave
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