Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson1
b. 1817, d. 1872
- Family Background:
- Fairfield and Allied Families
Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson was born in 1817 in New Jersey.2 He married Emily Sophia King, daughter of Charles King and Eliza Gracie.1 He died in 1872 in New Jersey.2
Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson was a poet of New Jersey, whose version of "The Moss Rose" from the German of Krummacher is his best-known poem. He was the author of Poems of Twin Graduates of the College of New Jersey.2
Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson was a poet of New Jersey, whose version of "The Moss Rose" from the German of Krummacher is his best-known poem. He was the author of Poems of Twin Graduates of the College of New Jersey.2
Citations
- [S707] John King of Boston MA, online http://members.tripod.com/~loupero/famous1.htm
- [S710] Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, IL: American Publishers' Association, 1902), 722.
