Rensselaer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rensselaer, a surname, may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People

[edit] Places

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a university in Troy, New York
• Rensselaer County, New York
• Rensselaer, Indiana
• Rensselaer, Missouri
• Rensselaer, New York
• Rensselaer Falls, New York, farther north than the other Rensselaers in New York.

[edit] People

• The Rensselaer Family of New York, an early United States political family of Dutch extraction
• Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1585–1643), Dutch founder of the only successful patroonship in the New Netherland colony, Rensselaerwyck
• Jeremias Van Rensselaer (1632-1674), son of Kiliaen
• Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1738–1810), a United States Representative and New York politician (father of Solomon, great-great-grandson of Kiliaen).
• Killian Van Rensselaer (1763–1845), a lawyer and U.S. Representative from New York (cousin to Jeremiah, uncle of Solomon, great-great-grandson of Kiliaen)
• Solomon Van Rensselaer (1774–1852), a U.S. Representative from New York and lieutenant colonel during the War of 1812 (son of Jeremiah, nephew of Killian)
• Stephen Van Rensselaer III (1764–1839), founder of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a U.S. Representative from New York (great-great-great-grandson of Kiliaen).
• Henry Van Rensselaer (1810–1864), a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and a U.S. Representative from the state of New York (son of Stephen)