Henry Evelyn Pierrepont

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II (December 9, 1845 – November 4, 1911) was a Brooklyn businessman and merchant.

Early life

Pierrepont was born on December 9, 1845, in Brooklyn, New York into a prominent Brooklyn family. He was the eldest son of Anna Maria (née Jay) Pierrepont (1819–1902),[1] and Henry Evelyn Pierrepont (1808–1888), who laid out Green-Wood Cemetery.[2] His younger brother was John Jay Pierrepont,[3] and his sister, Mary Pierrepont, married Rutherfurd Stuyvesant.[4] His father, together with Jacob R. Leroy organized Union Ferry Company.[5]

His paternal grandparents were the merchant, farmer, landowner and land developer Hezekiah Pierrepont and Anna Maria Constable (a daughter of Anna White and William Constable of Philadelphia).[5][6] His maternal grandparents were Peter Augustus Jay (eldest son of Gov. John Jay) and Mary Rutherford Clarkson (a daughter of General Matthew Clarkson).[7][8]

Pierrepont studied at Columbia College, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1867.[9]

Career

He was a member of the firm of Pierrepont Brothers & Co., serving as the sole manager of the Pierrepont stores for 25 years.[4] Following his father's retirement, Henry and his younger brother John took over Pierrepont Stores, the family import-export and warehouse business. Following the death of their father in 1888, the company was leased to the Empire Warehouse Company. In 1895, the brothers sold Pierrepont Stores to Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company.[5]

He served as a trustee of the Home Life Insurance Company, the Fidelity and Casualty Company, the Franklin Trust Company, the Brooklyn Savings Bank, the Brooklyn Hospital, and the City Dispensary, and a member of the Hamilton Club.[4]

He was one of the most "prominent Protestant Episcopal laymen" in New York and served as a Warden of Grace Church in Brooklyn Heights.[4]

Personal life

In 1869, he married Ellen Almira Low (1846–1884), a daughter of merchant Abiel Abbot Low and sister to Abbot Augustus Low,[10] and New York Mayor Seth Low.[11] Before her death in 1884, they were the parents of six children:[4]

  • Anne Low Pierrepont (1870–1948), who married Lea McIlvaine Luquer, a professor of mineralogy at Columbia University.[12]
  • Ellen Low Pierrepont (1872–1960), who married Reuben Burnham Moffat in 1895.[13]
  • Henry Evelyn Pierrepont III (1873–1903), who died unmarried.[14]
  • Robert Low Pierrepont (1876–1945),[15] who married Kathryn Isabel Reed, a daughter of Josiah Reed and niece of Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, in 1900.[8]
  • Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Pierrepont (1882–1950),[16] who married Nathalie Leon de Castro, a great-granddaughter of William Cullen Bryant,[17] in 1911.[18]
  • Seth Low Pierrepont (1884–1956), who married Nathalie Elizabeth Chauncey, a daughter of Elihu Chauncey and Mary Jane (née Potter) Chauncey (a daughter of Bishop Horatio Potter).[19]

Pierrepont died at his home, 216 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, on November 4, 1911. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery.[4]

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter Anne,[12] he was a grandfather of Lea Shippen Luquer, Evelyn Pierrepont Luquer, and Thatcher Payne Luquer.[20]

Through his daughter Ellen, he was a grandfather of Elizabeth Barclay Moffat, who married Ambassador John Campbell White (a nephew of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant);[21] Jay Pierrepont Moffat, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada; and Abbot Low Moffat, a member of the New York State Assembly.[22]

Through his son Rutherfurd, who went by his middle name Stuyvesant, he was a grandfather of Mary Rutherfurd Pierrepont, who married Fentress Hill Kuhn;[23][24] R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont Jr., who married Ford Agency model Mary Owings "Molly" Shriver,[25] a daughter of Joseph Nicholas Shriver of Baltimore; and John Pierrepont.[16]

Through his son Robert, he was a grandfather of naval officer John Jay Pierrepont II.[26]

References

  1. ^ "MRS. A. M. PIERREPONT DEAD.; Was a Granddaughter of John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court". The New York Times. January 3, 1902. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  2. ^ "H.E. PIERREPONT'S FUNERAL". The New York Times. April 1, 1888. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  3. ^ "PIERREPONT". The New York Times. 27 September 1923. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "HENRY E. PIERREPONT DEAD.; Retired Merchant Was One of the Brooklyn Family of Pierreponts". The New York Times. November 5, 1911. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  5. ^ a b c "Pierrepont, John Jay, 1849-1923". snaccooperative.org. Social Networks and Archival Context. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  6. ^ Spofford, Ernest (1929). Armorial Families of America. Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company. p. 30. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  7. ^ Bergen, Tunis Garret (1915). Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 768. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  8. ^ a b Craine, J. Robert T. (1971). The Ancestry and Posterity of Matthew Clarkson (1664-1702). J.R.T. Craine. p. 204. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  9. ^ "Pierrepont family papers:". findingaids.library.nyu.edu. NYU Special Collections Finding Aids. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  10. ^ "ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW DIES.; Brother of ex-Mayor Seth Low and Director in Many Corporations". The New York Times. September 26, 1912. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  11. ^ "ABIEL ABBOT LOW IS DEAD; A MERCHANT PRINCE OF THIS CITY PASSES AWAY. FOR MANY YEARS A LEADER IN THE TRADE WITH CHINA -- HIS STANCH LOYALTY AND MANY SERVICES DUR- ING THE WAR -- PHILANTHROPIST, FINANCIER, AND ORATOR". The New York Times. January 8, 1893. p. 16. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  12. ^ a b "MRS. LEA Mcl. LUQUER". The New York Times. June 9, 1948. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  13. ^ "MRS. R. B. MOFFAT DEAD; Wheeler Nursery Co-Founder Was Mother of I.C.A. Aide". The New York Times. Jan 4, 1960. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  14. ^ "Obituary --PIERREPONT". The New York Times. March 5, 1903. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  15. ^ "R.L. PIERREPONT, 68, RETIRED EXECUTIVE; Descendant of Noted Family in Brooklyn Dies--Kin of John Jay and Mayor Seth Low". The New York Times. Jan 19, 1945. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  16. ^ a b "R. S. PIERREPONT, 68, A COAL EXECUTIVE; Director of Two Firms, Former Bank Official Dies-Active in Society and Sports". The New York Times. Dec 16, 1950. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  17. ^ "Mrs. Stuyvesant Pierrepont, Civic Leader, Is Dead at 87". The New York Times. May 21, 1973. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  18. ^ "MISS DE CASTRO A BRIDE.; Married to R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont at Home of Her Uncle in Roslyn". The New York Times. Dec 6, 1911. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  19. ^ "SETH PIERREPONT, U.S. EX-AIDE, DIES; Former Assistant in State Department's Division in Latin America Was 71". The New York Times. April 1, 1956. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  20. ^ "Deaths". The New York Times. Aug 7, 1976. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  21. ^ "MISS MOFFAT BRIDE OF JOHN C. WHITE; Daughter of Mrs. R.B. Moffat Marries Ex-Ambassador's Son in St. James's Church". The New York Times. 10 April 1921. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  22. ^ "Elizabeth White, 94, An Environmentalist". The New York Times. 22 June 1993. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  23. ^ "Mary Rutherford Pierrepont Is Married To F. H. Kuhn in Colorful Church Bridal". The New York Times. Oct 27, 1934. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  24. ^ "Kuhn, Fentress Hill, 1967". archives.yale.edu. Yale University. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  25. ^ "MOLLY SHRIVER'S PLANS; She Will Become Bride of R. S. Pierrepont Jr. on May 28". The New York Times. April 25, 1937. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  26. ^ "MISS PIERREPONT KANSAS CITY BRIDE; Descendant of John Jay Wed to Yale Dwight Hills Jr., in a Secret Ceremony". The New York Times. Aug 6, 1950. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
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