He served in the Civil War as a Captain in the Thirty-ninth New York Volunteers and fought in fourteen engagements during his tenure in the war. He was the husband of Olivia Atterbury. Together they had three sons and two daughters.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a former member of the New York Geneaogical Biographical Society, was born in Albany, N. Y., February 14, 1845, and died after a short illness of heart disease, at his residence, 155 East Seventy-Second Street, New York City, November 26, 1905. Three days later, his funeral services were held in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of which he was a member, and his burial was in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
The deceased was a descendant of Kiliaen van Rensselaer who in 1630 obtained from the Dutch West India Company a grant of twenty four square miles on the upper Hudson, embracing a large portion of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer. Here he, and his successors, ruled as patroons until 1830, when the Van Rensselaer Manor was divided among the numerous heirs. On his last visit to Holland, the present writer had the privilege of examining the original Indian deed of the Property, which was sent to the first patroon in Amsterdam, and there it remains to this day, in the possession of the Dutch branch of the family. Mr. Van Rensselaer's father was William Paterson Van Rensselaer, and his mother the beautiful Sarah Rogers, daughter of Benjamin Woolsey Rogers and his accomplished wife, who was a New York Bayard.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a former member of the New York Geneaogical Biographical Society, was born in Albany, N. Y., February 14, 1845, and died after a short illness of heart disease, at his residence, 155 East Seventy-Second Street, New York City, November 26, 1905. Three days later, his funeral services were held in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of which he was a member, and his burial was in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
The deceased was a descendant of Kiliaen van Rensselaer who in 1630 obtained from the Dutch West India Company a grant of twenty four square miles on the upper Hudson, embracing a large portion of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer. Here he, and his successors, ruled as patroons until 1830, when the Van Rensselaer Manor was divided among the numerous heirs. On his last visit to Holland, the present writer had the privilege of examining the original Indian deed of the Property, which was sent to the first patroon in Amsterdam, and there it remains to this day, in the possession of the Dutch branch of the family. Mr. Van Rensselaer's father was William Paterson Van Rensselaer, and his mother the beautiful Sarah Rogers, daughter of Benjamin Woolsey Rogers and his accomplished wife, who was a New York Bayard.
He served in the Civil War as a Captain in the Thirty-ninth New York Volunteers and fought in fourteen engagements during his tenure in the war. He was the husband of Olivia Atterbury. Together they had three sons and two daughters.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a former member of the New York Geneaogical Biographical Society, was born in Albany, N. Y., February 14, 1845, and died after a short illness of heart disease, at his residence, 155 East Seventy-Second Street, New York City, November 26, 1905. Three days later, his funeral services were held in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of which he was a member, and his burial was in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
The deceased was a descendant of Kiliaen van Rensselaer who in 1630 obtained from the Dutch West India Company a grant of twenty four square miles on the upper Hudson, embracing a large portion of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer. Here he, and his successors, ruled as patroons until 1830, when the Van Rensselaer Manor was divided among the numerous heirs. On his last visit to Holland, the present writer had the privilege of examining the original Indian deed of the Property, which was sent to the first patroon in Amsterdam, and there it remains to this day, in the possession of the Dutch branch of the family. Mr. Van Rensselaer's father was William Paterson Van Rensselaer, and his mother the beautiful Sarah Rogers, daughter of Benjamin Woolsey Rogers and his accomplished wife, who was a New York Bayard.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a former member of the New York Geneaogical Biographical Society, was born in Albany, N. Y., February 14, 1845, and died after a short illness of heart disease, at his residence, 155 East Seventy-Second Street, New York City, November 26, 1905. Three days later, his funeral services were held in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of which he was a member, and his burial was in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
The deceased was a descendant of Kiliaen van Rensselaer who in 1630 obtained from the Dutch West India Company a grant of twenty four square miles on the upper Hudson, embracing a large portion of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer. Here he, and his successors, ruled as patroons until 1830, when the Van Rensselaer Manor was divided among the numerous heirs. On his last visit to Holland, the present writer had the privilege of examining the original Indian deed of the Property, which was sent to the first patroon in Amsterdam, and there it remains to this day, in the possession of the Dutch branch of the family. Mr. Van Rensselaer's father was William Paterson Van Rensselaer, and his mother the beautiful Sarah Rogers, daughter of Benjamin Woolsey Rogers and his accomplished wife, who was a New York Bayard.
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