Lewis Morris Rutherfurd

Lewis Morris Rutherfurd studied at Williams College. The field of work recorded is astronomy. Work by Lewis Morris Rutherfurd is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Photography Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum. Distinctions recorded are Rumford Prize.

• Name — Lewis Morris Rutherfurd • Born — November 25, 1816 • Birthplace — Morrisania, New York, US • Died — 30 May 1892 • Place of death — Tranquility, New Jersey, US • Field — Astronomy • Education — Williams College • Known for — Astrophotography • Children — 7, including Stuyvesant, Lewis Jr., Winthrop

Rutherfurd was born in Morrisania, New York, to Robert Walter Rutherfurd (1788–1852) and Sabina Morris (1789–1857) of Morrisania. He was the grandson of John Rutherfurd, U.S. Senator from 1791 to 1798, and great-grandson of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Major General William Alexander, the Earl of Stirling, was the uncle of his grandfather. He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1834.

• Illustration — Moon, New York, 6 March 1865 – Lewis M. Rutherfurd (misspelled as Rutherford in this frontispiece of the 1873 book by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel) Soon after graduating from Williams, he began practicing law after being admitted to the bar in 1837 with William H. Seward, who eventually served as the United States Secretary of State, in Auburn, New York. In practicing, he associated with Peter A. Jay, the eldest son of the first United States Chief Justice, John Jay, until his death in 1843. At that point, he began working with Hamilton Fish, who also became a U.S. Senator and the U.S. Secretary of State.

• Illustration — Coat of Arms of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd • Illustration — Rutherfurd's home in Manhattan • Illustration — Portrait of his daughter, Margaret, by John Singer Sargent, 1883 On July 22, 1841, he married Margaret Stuyvesant Chanler (1820–1890), the daughter of the Rev. Dr. John White Chanler, an Episcopalian clergyman, and Elizabeth Shirreff Winthrop. Margaret's brother John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877) was a U.S. Representative, and her mother was a 2x great-granddaughter of Wait Winthrop and Joseph Dudley, both prominent colonial American figures. She was also the niece, and adopted daughter, of Helena (nee Rutherfurd) Stuyvesant and Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (1778–1847), the 2x great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland before it became New York, Together, they were the parents of: • Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1843–1909), who was married to Mary Rutherfurd Pierrepont (1842–1879). a granddaughter of Peter Augustus Jay. After her death, he married Countess Mathilde Elizabeth Loewenguth de Wassanaer (1877–1948) the widow of a Dutch Count. • Helen Rutherfurd (1844–1845), who died young. • Elizabeth Winthrop Rutherfurd (1847–1847), who died young. • Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd (1853–1916), who was married to Henry White (1850–1927), the U.S. Ambassador to France and Italy. • Louisa Morris Rutherfurd (1855–1892) • Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr. (1859–1901), who was married to Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (1861–1940). • Winthrop Chanler Rutherfurd (1862–1944), who married Alice Morton (1879–1917), a daughter of former U.S. Vice President Levi Parsons Morton and Anna Livingston Reade Street. After her death, he married Lucy Mercer, a mistress of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1887, his health began to fail. Rutherfurd died on May 30, 1892, at his home, Tranquility, New Jersey.

The authorities additionally record the headings Lewis M. Rutherfurd and Lewis Rutherfurd. He was the child of Robert Walter Rutherfurd and Sabina Morris Rutherfurd. He married Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant Rutherfurd. 4 children are recorded: Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, Jr. And Winthrop Rutherfurd.