Peter Vredenburgh (judge) explained
Peter Vredenburgh (1805–1873) was an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1854 to 1868.[1] [2]
Vredenburgh lived in Freehold Township, New Jersey.[3] [4]
A prominent and successful lawyer of Freehold, Vredenburgh "took an active and leading part in politics, and held positions of trust", serving for fifteen years as Prosecutor of the Pleas, and for a term represented Monmouth county in the Senate of New Jersey. For fourteen years he served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.[5]
He is the father of Peter Vredenburgh Jr., lawyer and Union Army Major in the American Civil War, and William H. Vredenburgh, judge on New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals 1897–1916.[5]
Camp Vredenburgh, home to 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, during the American Civil War, was named in his honor.
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Notes and References
- Web site: The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Voorheis to Vyzral. Lawrence. Kestenbaum. 11 July 2016.
- https://sites.google.com/site/bergencogenweb/home/biographies/vredenburgh-james-b born at Somerville, N. J., October 31, 1805, entered Rutgers College and was graduated therefrom in 1821. He read law at Somerville and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1829. Soon afterward he removed to Freehold, N. J., where he commenced the practice of his profession. In due time he was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Monmouth County, and soon after was elected to the State Legislature as a member of the Council. Subsequently he was made an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which position he held for fourteen years from 1854. Many of the opinions which he rendered were beautifully expressed and are continually quoted as precedents. He married April 19, 1836, Eleanor, daughter of Abraham and Catherine (Remsen) Brinckerhoff, born July 1, 1815, died March 29, 1884. Judge Vredenburgh died at Freehold, N. J., March 24, 1873. His children were Peter, William H., and James B.
- Book: Pepe, Barbara. Freehold: A Hometown History. 1 January 2003. Arcadia Publishing. 9780738524184. 11 July 2016. Google Books.
- Book: Salter, Edwin. Salter's History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties New Jersey, Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants. 1 January 1997. Heritage Books. 9781585494385. 11 July 2016. Google Books.
- Edward Quinton Keasbey, The Courts and Lawyers of New Jersey, 1661-1912, Volume 3 (1912), p. 258-59.
