Vassar Family Genealogy

Topics included: [Family] [Vassar Brewery] [Matthew Vassar] [John Guy Vassar] [Lydia Booth]

Vassar Family, Genealogy

• Matthew Vassar's Birth
• Parents Emigration
• Settling in Dutchess County
• James Vassar
• John Guy (death)
• Matthew's Marriage
• Lydia Booth
• Letter of Matthew Vassar, discussing family
• Death of Catharine (Valentine) Vassar

Vassar Brewery

• Brewery Beginnings
• Fire Destroys Brewery
• New Brewery (Matthew's)
• Brothers Become Partners in Brewery
• New Building

Matthew Vassar

• Birth
• Emigration
• Running Away from Home
• Return to Poughkeepsie
• First Business Deal
• Opening of Oyster Saloon
• Marriage
• Business with Thomas Purser
• Elected Trustee, village of Poughkeepsie
• Secretary of Dutchess County Colonization Committee
• Entertained Lafayette
• Brothers Become Partners in Brewery
• Incorporator of Poughkeepsie Savings Bank
• Director/Subscriber to Poughkeepsie Whaling Company stocks
• President of Poughkeepsie
• Lydia Booth Fosters Vassar's Interest in Women's Education
• Gift of Land to Baptist Association
• Elected President of Hudson River Rail-Road
• Full-length Silhouette
• Trip to Europe
• Opened Lectures at Poughkeepsie Lyceum of Literature, Science, and the Mechanic Arts
• Idea for Women's College
• Presents Trustees with Funds and Deeds of Conveyance
• Vassar Addresses Trustees, April 13, 1865
• Dug First Spadeful of Dirt for Main Building
• Full-length Portrait Commissioned
• Ideas for Vassar Grounds
• Entertained Peter Cooper
• Wife's Death
• Vassar Exhibits Flowers at Sanitary Fair
• Milo Jewett Expresses Dislike
• Purchases Magoon Art Collection
• Bans Visitors to Vassar
• Records Lincoln's Assassination
• Decorates Lincoln's Coffin
• Students Visit Springside
• Founder's Day Created
• First Founder's Day
• Letter Regarding Tuition
• Letter to Raymond Regarding College Ladies
• Affirmation of Good of Women's Education
• Stands Up for Women's Suffrage
• Vassar's Death
• Last Gift to College
• Matthew Vassar Day Established in Poughkeepsie

John Guy Vassar

• Named after John Guy, founder of hospital Matthew Vassar visited
• Gives Tour of Springside to Students

Lydia Booth

• Move to Poughkeepsie
• Female Seminary in Poughkeepsie
• Death, re-opening of seminary by Milo Jewett

Last updated February 6, 1999, by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.