Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer

Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer (October 12, 1836 – July 3, 1920),[1] was a prominent member of New York Society during the Gilded Age.

[3] After her mother's death when Louisa was only 2 years old, her father remarried to Anne Coles (1808–1885).

[6][c] In 1892, Louisa (who at that point was a widow following her husband's death in 1878) along with her two unmarried daughters Mabel and Alice, and her married daughter Louisa and her husband Edmund, were all included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.

[12] Alexander was the youngest surviving son born to Stephen Van Rensselaer, the patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck and Cornelia (née Paterson) Van Renssalaer,[13] the daughter of William Paterson, the 2nd Governor of New Jersey, and later, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

She died at Woodmere on Long Island on July 3, 1920,[1] and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.