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8th Patroon of Rennselaerswyck.
Lieutenant-Governer for the state of New York 1795.
Congress 1823.
War of 1812.
Patroon, Leader, Founder
1764-1839
Fifth in direct descent from Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first Patroon, Stephen Van Rensselaer inherited a vast landed estate in Rensselaer and Albany counties at age 5.
his father died in 1769, when van Rensselaer was only five, and the heir to his father's estate.
He was raised by his mother and his stepfather, the Rev. Eilardus Westerlo, whom his mother married in 1775. His uncle, Abraham Ten Broeck, administered the van Rensselaer estate after van Rensselaer II's untimely death.
At an early age, van Rensselaer III was raised to succeed his father as lord of the manor.
On his 21st birthday, van Rensselaer took possession of his family's prestigious estate, close to 1,200 square miles (31,000 km²) in size, named Rensselaerswyck, and began a long tenure as lord of his family's manor.
He graduated from Harvard and spent time in state government and as a member of the U.S. Congress (1822-29). His chief services to the state, however, were economic and educational. He was a member of the Erie Canal commissions and president of the state's first board of agriculture. He was a lenient landlord for 3,000 tenants. He was founder and supporter of a wide variety of social, educational, business, and governmental institutions.
In 1824 it was his vision and support that enabled Amos Eaton to establish the Rensselaer School “for the purpose of instructing persons, who may choose to apply themselves, in the application of science to the common purposes of life.”
was Lieutenant Governor of New York as well as a statesman, soldier, and land-owner, the heir to one of the greatest estates in the New York region at the time, which made him the tenth richest American of all time, based on the ratio of his fortune to contemporary GDP.[2] He founded the institution which became Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was the father of Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, who was a politician and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
van Rensselaer was a Freemason, and twice served as Grand Master of Masons for New York.
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