R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont
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Captain Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Pierrepont (July 5, 1882 – December 14, 1950) was an American society leader, coal company executive and banker.
Pierrepont was born on July 5, 1882 at Lake Luzerne, New York. He was a son of Brooklyn merchant Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II (1845–1911),[1] and Ellen Almira Low (1846–1884). Among his siblings was the diplomat and politician Seth Low Pierrepont.[2]
His paternal grandparents were Anna Maria (née Jay) Pierrepont (a granddaughter of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States)[3] and Henry Evelyn Pierrepont (a descendant of the Rev. James Pierrepont, a founder of Yale College).[4] His uncle was the financier John Jay Pierrepont[5] and his aunt, Mary Pierrepont, was the wife of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant.[1] His maternal grandparents were merchant Abiel Abbot Low and, his first wife, Ellen Almira. His maternal uncles included Abbot Augustus Low, an inventor, and Seth Low, who was the Mayor of New York from 1902 and 1903.[6] Through his sister Ellen,[7] he was an uncle of Elizabeth Barclay Moffat, who married Ambassador John Campbell White (a nephew of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant);[8] Jay Pierrepont Moffat, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada; and Abbot Low Moffat, a member of the New York State Assembly.[9]
Pierrepont was educated at St. Mark's School and Columbia University, where he graduated in 1905.[10] He was on the college's freshman and varsity four and eight oared crews and belonged to the Delta Psi fraternity (also known as St. Anthony Hall).[11]