Individual Details

Mary Ann Kirkpatrick

( - )


Mary Ann, wife of the Rev. Samuel B. Howe, D.D., for some time pastor of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, New Brunswick.

Andrew, their father, was elected a member of the House of Assembly of New Jersey, in 1797, and sat with that body during the first session; but on the 17th of January, 1798, he resigned his seat, having accepted the office of Chief Justice of the state, as successor to the Hon. James Kinsey. Chief Justice Kirkpatrick was for twenty years a member of the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey. He was one of the original Trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary; is the first person named in the Charter granted by the Legislature of New Jersey, November 15, 1822; and was the first President of the Board, holding that office until his death, which occurred in 1831.

Families

SpouseSamuel B. Howe ( - )
FatherAndrew Kirkpatrick (1756 - 1831)
MotherJane Bayard (1772 - 1851)
SiblingLittleton Kirkpatrick (1787 - 1859)
SiblingJohn Bayard Kirkpatrick ( - )
SiblingJane Kirkpatrick ( - )