Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . Newark was incorporated as a city. In thefollowing year Mr. Frelinghuysen was elected itsmayor, and in 1838 he was re-elected to the sameposition. In 1839 he was unanimously chosenchancellor of the University of New York, andwhile in the occupancy of this office was. in May,1844, nominated by the Whig national conventionat Baltimore for the vice-presidency of the UnitedStates on the same ticket with Henry Clay. Hecontinued in the discharge of his duties as chan-cellor of the university until 1850. when he accept-ed the presidency of Rutgers college
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . Newark was incorporated as a city. In thefollowing year Mr. Frelinghuysen was elected itsmayor, and in 1838 he was re-elected to the sameposition. In 1839 he was unanimously chosenchancellor of the University of New York, andwhile in the occupancy of this office was. in May,1844, nominated by the Whig national conventionat Baltimore for the vice-presidency of the UnitedStates on the same ticket with Henry Clay. Hecontinued in the discharge of his duties as chan-cellor of the university until 1850. when he accept-ed the presidency of Rutgers college, and in thesame year was formally inducted into that office,continuing in it until the day of his death. 31 was an earnest advocate of theclaims of organized Christian benevolence, and itis said of him that no American layman was everassociated with so many great national organiza-tions of religion and charity. He was president ofno less than three of these during some period oftheir existence, while his name may be found on. «^/z^ytr1>y^^7yy /^-^-^y/^>^^. su FKELlNGlirVSEX FRELINGHUYSEN the lists of officers of all the vest with scarcely anexception. For sixteen years he was president ofthe American board o\ commissioners for foreign missions. From April, 1840, till his death he waspresident of the American Bible society: fromL842 till 1848, of the American tract society: from1826 till near the close of his life, vice-president ofthe American Sunday-school union: and for manyyears vice-president of the American colonizationsociety. In the work of all these institutions hetook an active part. His remains were buried inthe grounds of the 1st Reformed Dutch church inNew Brunswick, X. J. See a memoir of him byRev. Talbot W. Chambers, D. D. (1803).—Freder-ick Theodore, son of Gen. Fredericks third son,Frederick. Lawyer, b. in Millstone. X. J., 4 Aug.,1817: d. in Newark, X. J., 20 May, 1885, wasbut throe years of age when his father died, andwas at once ad
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