Kenneth E. Hasbrouck

Background

Mr. Hasbrouck was born in Gardiner, New York, United States, on June 30, 1916. He grew up so steeped in family history that before he was a teenager he could rattle off the names of the 12 New Paltz founders, among them LeFevre, Deyo, Dubois, Bevier and Elting. They were known locally as the patentees because of the royal patent they obtained from the English colonial governor after buying 40,000 acres from the Esopus Indians.

Education

Kenneth Hasbrouck graduated from the state college at New Paltz.

Career

While a teacher of social studies in New York state, Mr. Hasbrouck traced his ancestry back to 1678 to one of the founding fathers of New Paltz, New York. In the 1950s, Kenneth Hasbrouck with the help of other Huguenot descendants, raised enough money to preserve five of the original Huguenot houses on Potato Street in New Paltz and preserved them as an outdoor museum. Mr. Hasbrouck also penned several works about Huguenot heritage in the United States, as well as contributing articles to local newspapers and trade journals.

He died on Sunday, May 26, 1996 at the New Paltz Nursing Home. He was 79.

Achievements

• Kenneth Hasbrouck is remembered as the man who turned a street in New Paltz, New York, into a Huguenot museum.

Works

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  • Kaatsbaan church records, Ulster county, N.Y: Marriages 1735-1838
  • Montgomery Dutch Reformed Church, Orange County, New York
  • The Street of the Huguenots
  • A Guide To Hugueot Street And Preservation Efforts Of The Huguenot Historical Society New Paltz N.Y.
  • The Hasbrouck family in America, with European background
  • The Huguenot with Emphasis Upon the Huguenots of New Paltz
  • Earliest records of the Hasbrouck family in America: With European background

Connections

Kenneth Hasbrouck was married. He has tow sons, Charles and Kenneth Jr. of New Paltz, and two grandchildren. His son Charles died in 1987.

Son:

Charles Hasbrouck