Rutherfurd Stuyvesant

He was the oldest of seven children born to Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892) and Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant (1820–1890).

[2] Rutherfurd was a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland before it became New York,[8][9] as well as John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts.

[1] His mansion in New York was located at the corner of Second Avenue and 15th Street, near most of the Stuyvesant and Rutherfurd properties.

He enlarged the home which was located on 7,000 acres and included a park stocked with elk, deer, ponds with beavers, and pheasants.

[1] Together, they were the parents of: Rutherfurd died suddenly while out for his customary morning walk in the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 4, 1909.

The Princess Alexandre de Caraman Chimay died in 1948 and was buried in the Stuyvesant family plot at Tranquility Cemetery, New Jersey.