Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — His Only Son. [ARTICLE]

His Only Son.

Schuller Van Rensselaer, grandson of tfie founder and sponsor of this town, and only surviving son of J. C. Van Rensselaer, died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Maich sth, 1884, in the 39th year of his age. He was a graduate of Harvard college and also of the famous Frieberg School of Mines, in Gei many, where he studied for three years and graduated with high honors. He followed his profession in New York with great success and at the time of his death and for several years previous, had tilled the responsible and lucrative position of metallurgist for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad system. He was a man of many . accomplishments and the highest culture and at the same time a splendid specimen of physical manhood, but a severe cold, contracted through exposure in his professional duties, and neglected until too late, carried him off in the full prime of his manhood. He leaves a wife and one child. The former, a most estimable and accomplished lady, has achieved a national reputation as a writer for the leading periodicals of the day; especially for Harper's and the Century Magazines, over the name of M. G. Van Rensselaer.