Catharine Church Cruger
(1779-1839)
BIRTH
November 4, 1779
PLACE
NAME
Catharine Church
DEATH
1839
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
John Barker Church
(1748-1818)
MOTHER
Angelica Schuyler Church
(1756-1814)
SISTER
Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler
(1734-1803)
BROTHER
Philip Church
(1778-1861)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Catharine “Kitty” Church Cruger (1779–1839) was a daughter of Angelica Schuyler and John Barker Church. She married Bertram Peter Cruger, a merchant associated with London and the West Indies. Their children included John Church Cruger, Elizabeth Pell, Ann Mary Glover and Henrietta Cruger. A Metropolitan Museum catalogue names Catharine and her husband in the possible ownership history of a Houdon bust of Benjamin Franklin; the proposed link remains uncertain.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Catharine Church Cruger’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Catharine Church Cruger is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Catharine Church Cruger died in 1839. Catharine “Kitty” Church Cruger was a daughter of Angelica Schuyler and John Barker Church. She married Bertram Peter Cruger, a merchant associated with London and the West Indies. Their children included John Church Cruger, Elizabeth Pell, Ann Mary Glover and Henrietta Cruger. A Metropolitan Museum catalogue names Catharine and her husband in the possible ownership history of a Houdon bust of Benjamin Franklin; the proposed link remains uncertain. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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