Naming of Rutgers [WAS: Re: [Genealib] still more free to good home, for postage]

[Jenny Lichtenwalner]

As a Rutgers graduate, (and a genealogy librarian!) I would be interested in knowing your source for Rutsen/Rutgersen being the origination point for the name of Rutgers University.   Documentation from Rutgers University states that the original Queens College was named after Colonel Henry Rutgers in 1825, long after Hardenbergh died.  

A short version: 
http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/timeline/1800a1.htm

And a longer version: 
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/milledoler.shtml 

Thanks,
Jenny


Jenny Binaghi Lichtenwalner, MLS
Scotch Plains Public Library
1927 Bartle Avenue
Scotch Plains, New Jersey 07076
908-322-5007 x204

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  From: linda tantillo 
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  Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:56 PM
  Subject: RE: [Genealib] still more free to good home, for postage


        If the Magazine of the Reformed Dutch Church in Rutgers is still available, we would be very interested in it for our collection.  A member of one of our oldest families, Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, was minister of this church and the first president of Rutgers University which he named after his father's family patrinymic name Rutsen, or Rutgersen.  He also had a very accomplished and influential wife, Diana Van Bergh which I am hoping to learn more about.  Sorry to digress in these detail!  You know how local history people can get!
         We will, of course, be very happy to pay the postage.
    Linda
    Rosendale Library Local History Collection
    Rosendale, NY
    
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