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    William Colford Schermerhorn (June 22, 1821 – January 1, 1903) was an American lawyer, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Schermerhorn was born in...
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    Peter Schermerhorn and Elizabeth (née Bussing) Schermerhorn. Among her extended Schermerhorn family was first cousin, William Colford Schermerhorn, the...
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  • Hone), Peter Augustus Schermerhorn (who married Adaline Emily Coster), and the lawyer and philanthropist William Colford Schermerhorn. His father was a prominent...
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    affairs. He was the father of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, who married William Backhouse Astor Jr. Schermerhorn was born on April 9, 1783, in Hyde Park...
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    City, United States. Schermerhorn was built in 1897 with a $300,000 gift from alumnus and trustee William Colford Schermerhorn. It was designed by McKim...
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    York society at a costume ball with a Louis XV theme given by William Colford Schermerhorn in the early winter of 1854. Here, too, waltzes, mazurkas, fun...
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  • Schermerhorn (October 1, 1749 – January 28, 1826) was an American merchant and landowner in New York City. He was the father of Abraham Schermerhorn and...
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  • York Willem Schermerhorn (1894–1977), Dutch Prime Minister William Colford Schermerhorn (1821–1903), American attorney Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station...
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    Captain William Clark (bronze, 1903-1904), William Clark Memorial, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri Bust of William Colford Schermerhorn (bronze...
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  • in 1939. William Colford Schermerhorn, a first cousin of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (the Mrs. Astor), was a grandson of Peter Schermerhorn and nephew...
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    who married John Jones Schermerhorn (1806–1876), the son of Peter Schermerhorn and brother of William Colford Schermerhorn, in 1832. Hone died in New...
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    December. Two hundred fifty prominent New Yorkers, including William Colford Schermerhorn, John D. Rockefeller, Olivia Sage, and Helen Gould, contributed...
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  • Eleanor Colford Jones (1841–1906), daughter of General James I. Jones (1786–1858) and Elizabeth (1817–1874), the older sister of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor...
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  • States District Court for the Northern District of California William Colford Schermerhorn (1840), lawyer, philanthropist, trustee of Columbia University...
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    the construction of the Schermerhorn Building in 1888 to replace the Schermerhorn mansion, where Mrs. William Colford Schermerhorn had redecorated the interior...
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  • grandfather of Eleanor Colford Morris (1863–1863), who died young; Augustus Newbold Morris (1868–1928) who married Helen Schermerhorn Kingsland (granddaughter...
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  • to William Colford Schermerhorn (1821–1903), a cousin of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor. Through them, he was the first cousin of Annie Schermerhorn, who...
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    York society during the Gilded Age, a group that was led by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the "Mrs. Astor", for many years. After her death, her role in...
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  • York James H. Roosevelt (1819), founder of Roosevelt Hospital William Colford Schermerhorn (1840), lawyer, philanthropist, trustee of Columbia University...
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    Philip Hone. His sister Mary married John Jones Schermerhorn, brother of William Colford Schermerhorn. Anna Rodman Russell (1826–1845), who died unmarried...
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    Hazard Field, Robert E. Livingston, the Rev. Dr. William Ferdinand Morgan, William Colford Schermerhorn, John Jacob Astor III, and J. M. Brown acting as...
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    Newbold Morris (category Schermerhorn family)
    and Eleanor Colford Jones (1841–1906). His grandmother's parents were General James I. Jones (1786–1858) and Elizabeth (née Schermerhorn) Jones (1817–1874)...
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    Walter Lispenard Suydam (category Schermerhorn family)
    Webster Schermerhorn, who married William Backhouse Astor Jr., the middle son of William Backhouse Astor Sr. He was a cousin of Eleanor Colford Jones,...
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