Frederic Theodore van Beuren, (USA)

~• outlived all his many siblings by many years.

A man who is somewhat enigmatic to me as his 2nd great grandson. Frederick's genealogical heritage is nearly 1/2 Dutch. It helps that his paternal grandparents were first cousins, seemingly a result of the family's outcast-Loyalist refugee status.

I understand that he was the last of his Spingler/vB line that, as a profession, occupied himself primarily with the management of the West 14th St., NY estate though the family's domicile was now split with Morristown NJ.
These Manhattan properties between Union Sq. and 6th ave. were primarily long term lease properties held in trust for numerous descendants of Henry Spingler, a German immigrant who came to the colony of NY when he was but five. After his generation, the number of players (read: family heirs) in the real estate empire had become very large resulting in the urge for many to want to sell the remaining underlying assets for cash.
The real estate assets lingered under family management until the 1950s ~{MMvB written in 2015}

• From Yale University publications, (his son Michael having matriculated a the New Haven institution): Frederick Theodore, born May 11, 1845, d. March 21, 1926;
  

Elizabeth Ann Potter d. February 21, 1923.

Civil War duty

53rd Infantry Regiment
New York Volunteers

His time spent in this regiment was not long and did not involve participation in any battlefield hostilities. Raised in NYC, his unit shipped out up the Chesapeake Bay to Annapolis where many became sick; many then deserted. Seen as more of a liability than an asset, the regiment was almost entirely disbanded by commanders of the Union Army.

see: http://warof1812archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/

& https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/53rdInf/53rdInf...

"The D'Epineuil Zouaves. (Wash, Cor. Phila. Inquirer.) Ever since the formation of this regiment there has been considerable trouble amongst them. After their unsuccessful attempt to join Burnside's Expedition, they went to Fortress Monroe, and from there to Annapolis. At this point many deserted. When they left New York they had nine hundred men--now they cannot muster five hundred men. At Annapolis, they became demoralized, and the commanding officer of the post disarmed them. Orders then demanded their presence at Washington, where they are now quartered at the Soldiers' Rest. For the last two days inducements have been thrown out to them to volunteer in other New York regiments. They decline to do so, and say that they want to be mustered out of the service and paid off, and then they will re-enter regiments of their own choice. The Philadelphians want to go into Baxter's Zouave Regiment, so as to receive the State bounty. The Provost Guard are hunting them up like a flock of sheep without a master, for the purpose of keeping them together until a final decision is made in relation to them by the Secretary of War. A great many colonels are anxious to get squads of them to fill up, as they are a very fine set of men, although now in a very dilapadated (sic) condition."

"The De Epineuil Zouaves--The Fifty-third New York regiment (De Epineuil Zouaves), which arrived at Annapolis last week from Hatteras Inlet, having been unable to cross the bar in the bark (the John Trucks) on which they were disembarked on Wednesday afternoon and went into camp near Fort Severn, opposite the Naval School. Many of the men are suffering from sickness occasioned by the close quarters on board the bark, and probably as soon as they are recruited in health they will be ordered to join the expedition."

married

Aug. 26th, 1869, at San Francisco, Cal., where the bride's parents had business and a residence. Freedeick probably had known his bride Elizabeth when she was a girl back East. Indeed, Elizabeth's uncle had died during the Civil War in Frederick's father's regiment and her own grandfather had lived on 14th st. quite near the van Beuren mansion.

children

five children, two boys and three girls

A: Mary Spingler born July 9, 1870; m. Willard V. King. King children:

• i. Willard Van Beuren King.
• ii. Mary Spingler King,
• iii. Vinton King,
• iv. Gordon Van Beuren King.
  • Mary died in 1931
    
    • travelled in the West as a teen in the wake of her Uncle Henry's business ties to Arizona ††

B. Michael Murray, born March 31, 1872; m. Mary Archbold of a Standard Oil fortune, September 25, 1895. They had one child who was assigned a surname for his given name. (This naming pattern perpetuated in subsequent generations):

• i. Archbold.
  • Michael died in 1951
    

C. Elizabeth Josephine, born June 25, 1873; m. Homer T. Joy and d. March 21, 1926. Their children were:

• i. Homer Van Beuren Joy.
• ii. Frederick Van Beuren Joy.
  • "Bess" died in 1926
    
    • travelled in the West as a teen in the wake of her Uncle Henry's business ties to Arizona

D. Frederick Theodore, born February 10, 1876; m. May 26, 1906, Jessica T. Mohlman. Their children were:

• i. Frederick Theodore Mohlman Van Beuren.
• ii. Jessica Mohlman Van Beuren.
• iii. Michael Murray Mohlman Van Beuren.
• iv. John Mohlman Van Beuren.
  • Dr. Fred died in 1943

E. Louise Davis., m. January 18, 1910, Howard Bayne. Their children are:

• i. Elizabeth Van Beuren Bayne.
• ii. Daphne Van Beuren Bayne.
  • Louise Died about 1972
    
    • travelled in the West as a teen in the wake of her Uncle Henry's business ties to Arizona

Land owned near family estate in Morristown

• In 1910: [http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/168828/Plate+014+++Morristow... Plate 014 - Morristown Right From Morris County 1910, New Jersey Published by A. H. Mueller in 1910
  • or, this may have been his son's property (?)

†† note: travels in the West of the vB sister-siblings had to do with topics covered under the https://www.geni.com/projects/Walnut-Grove-Dam-Failure/57045. Fredrick himself seems to have remained absent in these ventures but his daughter went West to AZT, several becoming enthralled with the SouthWest