Anthony Thomas Van Bergen (January 7, 1827 – February 18, 1912) was a prominent and wealthy American businessman who lived in Paris.
[1] He was the youngest son of ten children born to Clarine (née Peck) Van Bergen (1785–1872) and Anthony Van Bergen, a judge and Democrat who represented Greene County in the New York State Assembly and served as the first president of the New York State Agricultural Society.
[1] His father, "an intimate friend of ex-president Martin Van Buren,"[4] was the only child of New York State Senator Peter A.
He was also the foreign representative for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, a large American insurance company,[4] for which he served on the board of directors for many years.
[6][10] On July 21, 1864, Van Bergen was married to Julia Augusta Peirson (1843–1897) in Isleworth, London.
[20] Through his daughter Alice,[26][29][30] he was a grandfather of Count Frederick (who married American Rachel Derby Smith),[31] Countess Zia, and Countess Antoinette Julia Grote (1902–1988), who married Prince Dietrich of Wied (1901–1976), a son of William Frederick, 6th Prince of Wied and Princess Pauline of Württemberg (the elder daughter of King William II of Württemberg), in 1928.