Peter Philip James Kean

[5] After his father's early death in 1795, his mother hired Count Julian Niemcewicz as his tutor.

[12] After his graduation, Kean assumed a prominent role in the military affairs of the State of New Jersey.

[11] In 1824, when the Marquis de Lafayette returned to the United States for his grand tour, Isaac Halstead Williamson, the 8th New Jersey Governor, appointed Kean to the reception committee to welcome him due to Kean's prominence and fluency in French.

[1] At the time of his death, Kean was colonel of the Fourth Regiment of the State of New Jersey.

Ambassador to Switzerland and Belgium;[21][22] Hamilton Fish II (1849–1936), a U.S. Representative and Speaker of the New York State Assembly;[23][24] and Stuyvesant Fish (1851–1923),[25] a president of the Illinois Central Railroad who married Marion Graves Anthon (1853–1915), a leader of New York Society during the Gilded Age.

Liberty Hall , the Kean family mansion purchased by Peter in 1811 for his mother, built by his great-uncle William Livingston in 1772. [ 11 ]