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Rev Cortlandt Van Rensselaer

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Rev Cortlandt Van Rensselaer

Birth
Albany, Albany County, New York, USA
Death
25 Jul 1860 (aged 52)
Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
Menands, Albany County, New York, USA
Plot
Sec. 41 Lot 40
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Graduate Yale, class of 1827.

He studied theology in the Seminaries of New Haven and Princeton. After entering upon the ministry, he undertook a voluntary agency for the College of New Jersey, and raised $100,000 for its endowment. He was elected Secretary of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, and discharged the duties of the place with great zeal and eminent ability and usefulness.

He founded the Presbyterian Magazine and was a large contributor to its pages. Every year he compiled and published a volume on the Church, the Ministry, and the School, which he distributed with a liberal hand.

He received the degree of D.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1845.

A volume of his miscellaneous Sermons, Essays, and Addreses, edited by his son, has recently been published in Philadelphia, (1861).

Source - Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College Deceased During the Year Ending, July 1861.
Find a Grave member, 48382957, added the following information:

Graduate Yale, class of 1827.

He studied theology in the Seminaries of New Haven and Princeton. After entering upon the ministry, he undertook a voluntary agency for the College of New Jersey, and raised $100,000 for its endowment. He was elected Secretary of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, and discharged the duties of the place with great zeal and eminent ability and usefulness.

He founded the Presbyterian Magazine and was a large contributor to its pages. Every year he compiled and published a volume on the Church, the Ministry, and the School, which he distributed with a liberal hand.

He received the degree of D.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1845.

A volume of his miscellaneous Sermons, Essays, and Addreses, edited by his son, has recently been published in Philadelphia, (1861).

Source - Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College Deceased During the Year Ending, July 1861.

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In memory of The Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer of Burlington, N.J.

Son of Stephen & Cornelia V.R.

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