18 Facts About Stuyvesant Fish

Stuyvesant Fish was an American businessman and member of the Fish family who served as president of the Illinois Central Railroad.

Stuyvesant Fish owned grand residences in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island, entertained lavishly and, along with his wife "Mamie", became prominent in American high society during the Gilded Age.

Stuyvesant Fish was born on June 24,1851, in New York City.

Stuyvesant Fish was the third son of Hamilton Fish, the 16th Governor of New York, a United States senator and United States Secretary of State who is recognized as the "pillar" of the Grant Administration and considered one of the best US Secretaries of State by scholars.

Stuyvesant Fish's mother was Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean, a descendant of New Jersey governor William Livingston.

Stuyvesant Fish's father was named after his grandfather's friend, Alexander Hamilton.

Nicholas Stuyvesant Fish was a leading Federalist politician and notable figure of the American Revolutionary War who was active in the Yorktown Campaign that resulted in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.

Peter Stuyvesant Fish was a prominent founder of New York, then a Dutch Colony, and his family owned much property in Manhattan.

Stuyvesant Fish graduated from Columbia College in Manhattan where he was a member of St Anthony Hall.

Stuyvesant Fish served as its president from 1887 to 1906, overseeing its period of greatest expansion.

Stuyvesant Fish served on the board of directors of the National Park Bank.

Stuyvesant Fish's wife, Marion, known as "Mamie", was a leader in New York and Newport society.

About 200 guests had assembled in the hall at Crossways, and when the hour for dinner approached and there was no sign of the Duke, Mrs Stuyvesant Fish announced that the Duke was unable to come, but the Czar of Russia had agreed to be her guest.

Stuyvesant Fish had no great interest in the doings of high society, and he bore great patience with his wife's peculiar parties.

Stuyvesant Fish was a vestryman at Trinity Church, New York, and a member of the Republican Party.

Fish and his wife maintained his grandmother's Federal-style house at 21 Stuyvesant Street, but after 1898, their New York residence was a brick and limestone Italianate mansion at 25 East 78th Street, at the corner of Madison Avenue.

The Stuyvesant Fish family built a grand Colonial Revival home named "Crossways" in Newport, Rhode Island, where they entertained during the summer social season.

Stuyvesant Fish had an estate named "Glenclyffe" in Philipstown, New York, which had belonged to his father.