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Rensselaer County Biographies This page was last updated 2 February 2009. |
Most of the biographies presented here come from Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester's History of Rensselaer County, New York, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of the Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880). Not all of the biographies in this book have been typed, however, so if you find on the list below the name of someone you're interested in but the name hasn't been linked, send an email to Debby Masterson requesting a copy of the biography, along with your snail-mail address, and either she'll scan it and email it to you or she'll photocopy it and snail-mail it to you for the cost of photocopying and postage.
For a list of prominent citizens of Troy and Rensselaer County prior to 1925, click here.
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| DAVIS, Kenneth M. | DENISON, Patience | DERRICK, Richard C. |
| DICKERMAN, Jarius | DOTY, Samuel | DOUGLAS, Stephen Arnold |
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| EATON, Amos |
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| INGALLS, Judge Charles R. | INGALLS, Charles Russell |
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| MACARTHUR, Charles L. | MAMBERT, Mrs. James | MANN, Francis Norton |
| MARCY, William Learned | MASON, Jared D. | MASTERS, Mehitable |
| MATTISON, Allen J. | MAXON, Austin C. | MCCARTHY, Peter |
| MCCHESNEY, Edward | MCCHESNEY, Sylvester | MCCLELLAN, George |
| MCCLELLAN, Hon. Hugh Wilson | MCCLELLAN, Robert Henry | MCCLELLAN, Dr. Samuel |
| MCCONIHE, Isaac | MCCONIHE, Hon. Isaac, LL. D. (1787-1867) | MCCONIHE, Gen. John |
| MCCONIHE, Gen. Samuel | MCCONIHE, Mrs. Sarah Strong | MCCOY, Walter Irving |
| MCELROY, Mary | MCLEAN, Dr. LeRoy | MILLER, Justus |
| MILLER, Col. N. S. | MOFFITT, Hosea | MOSES, Anna ("Grandma Moses") |
| MOSHER, George A. | MOSHER family | MURPHY, Hon. Edward, Jr. |
| MURPHY, Hon. Edward, Jr. | MYERS, Stephen | . |
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| NALLE, Charles | NOBLE family | NORTH, John Wesley |
| NORTON, John Thomas | . | . |
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| OGDEN, Rev. Isaac Gray | OLIN, Abraham Baldwin |
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| PALMER, George William | PALMER, John | PARMELE, Dr. Francis B. |
| PARMENTER, Franklin J. | PARMENTER, Jerome B. | PARSONS, Andrew |
| PAWLING, Col. Albert | PECK, Eleazer A. | PECK, Joel B. |
| PENNIMAN, Ebenezer Jenckes | PLUMB, Henry H. | PRESCOTT, Ebenezer |
| PRUYN family | . | . |
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| QUACKENBUSH, Cebra | QUACKENBUSH, Peter |
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| REED, George L. | REYNOLDS, E. C. | REYNOLDS, Elijah |
| REYNOLDS, Gideon | REYNOLDS, Dr. H. M. | REYNOLDS, Moses |
| REYNOLDS, Rodin C. | REYNOLDS, Captain S. E. | REYNOLDS, William W. |
| RILEY, C. W. | RIPLEY, Thomas C. | RISING, Charles H. |
| ROBBINS, Amatus, M. D. | ROBERTS, James L. | ROBERTSON, Anna Mary ("Grandma Moses") |
| ROBERTSON, Gilbert, Jr. | ROGERS, Harper | ROUSSEAU, Dr. Alexander |
| ROUSSEAU, Henry | . | . |
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| SABIN, Lucy | SCRIVEN, Clinton W. | SCRIVEN, William H. |
| SEYMOUR, David Lowery | SEYMOUR, William P. | SHARPE, Buddington |
| SHEPARD, Henry Vail | SHERWOOD, John Emory | SHIRLAND, William H. |
| SILLIMAN, Robert Davis | SINGER, Isaac Merritt | SKILTON, Dr. Avery J. |
| SLADE family | SMITH, Harvey | SMITH, Levi |
| SMITH, Z. Z. | SNYDER, William J. | SPAFFORD, Horatio Gates |
| SPALDING, Rev. Nathan G., A. M. | SQUIRE, Dr. John | STEVENS, Ebenezer |
| STEWART, Philo P. | STILES, Robert B. | STONE, Charles |
| STONE, George Albert | STRAIT, E. Smith | STRAIT, Dr. George W. |
| STRONG, Henry Wright | STRONG, Col. Latham C. | . |
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| TAYLOR, Dean Park | THOMAS, Burton E. | THOMPSON, George S. |
| THOMPSON, Isaac G. | THOMPSON family | THORN, Dr. James |
| THURMAN, Richardson H. | TIBBITS, George | TIBBITS, George M. |
| TIBBITS, William B. | TILLINGHAST, Charles W. | TOWNSEND, Martin I. |
| TOWNSEND, Rufus M. | TWINING, Frank B. | TWOGOOD, John E. |
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| VAIL, George | VAIL, Henry | VAN ALSTYNE family |
| VANDERCOOK, Simon | VAN RENSSELAER, Stephen | VAN SCHOONHOVEN, Jacob L. |
| VERITY, Oliver B. | VIRGIL, Captain Ebenezer H. | . |
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| YOUNG, William H. |