Henry Evelyn Pierrepont

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II (December 9, 1845 – November 4, 1911) was a Brooklyn businessman and merchant.

Early life

Pierrepont was born on December 9, 1845, in Brooklyn, New York into a prominent Brooklyn family. He was the eldest son of Anna Maria ( Jay) Pierrepont (1819–1902), and Henry Evelyn Pierrepont (1808–1888), who laid out Green-Wood Cemetery. His younger brother was John Jay Pierrepont, and his sister, Mary Pierrepont, married Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. His father, together with Jacob R. Leroy organized Union Ferry Company.

His paternal grandparents were the merchant, farmer, landowner and land developer Hezekiah Pierrepont and Anna Maria Constable (a daughter of Anna White and William Constable of Philadelphia). His maternal grandparents were Peter Augustus Jay (eldest son of Gov. John Jay) and Mary Rutherford Clarkson (a daughter of General Matthew Clarkson).

Career He was a member of the firm of Pierrepont Brothers & Co., serving as the sole manager of the Pierrepont stores for 25 years. and New York Mayor Seth Low. Before her death in 1884, they were the parents of six children: Ellen Low Pierrepont (1872–1960), who married Reuben Burnham Moffat in 1895. Henry Evelyn Pierrepont III (1873–1903), who died unmarried. Robert Low Pierrepont (1876–1945), who married Kathryn Isabel Reed, a daughter of Josiah Reed and niece of Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, in 1900. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Pierrepont (1882–1950), who married Nathalie Leon de Castro, a great-granddaughter of William Cullen Bryant, in 1911. Seth Low Pierrepont (1884–1956), who married Nathalie Elizabeth Chauncey, a daughter of Elihu Chauncey and Mary Jane ( Potter) Chauncey (a daughter of Bishop Horatio Potter).

Pierrepont died at his home, 216 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, on November 4, 1911. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery.

Through his daughter Ellen, he was a grandfather of Elizabeth Barclay Moffat, who married Ambassador John Campbell White (a nephew of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant); Jay Pierrepont Moffat, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada; and Abbot Low Moffat, a member of the New York State Assembly.

Through his son Rutherfurd, who went by his middle name Stuyvesant, he was a grandfather of Mary Rutherfurd Pierrepont, who married Fentress Hill Kuhn; R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont Jr., who married Ford Agency model Mary Owings "Molly" Shriver, a daughter of Joseph Nicholas Shriver of Baltimore; and John Pierrepont.