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{{Short description|American political dynasty}}

{{Infobox Family

| name = Fish family

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| crest = Coat of Arms of Jonathan Fish.svg

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| region = New York, New Jersey

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| origin = England

| members =

| founder = Jonathan Fish

| otherfamilies = Stuyvesant family
Morris family
Kean family
Vanderbilt family

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| traditions =

| heirlooms =

| estate = Hamilton Fish House

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The Fish family is a prominent American family, members of which became influential in politics, diplomacy, and business. The family is of English origin and is descended from Jonathan Fish (1615–1663), who was born in East Farndon, Northamptonshire, England, and ultimately settled in the Province of New York.

Notable members

File:Nicholas Fish (1758-1833).jpg]]

  • Nicholas Fish (1758–1833), soldier, politician.
  • Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), politician, U.S. Secretary of State.
  • Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1843–1928), medical doctor.{{cite news |title=Dr. Stuyvesant F. Morris. Physician Who Practiced for Four Decades Dies in 85th Year |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/05/11/archives/dr-stuyvesant-f-morris-physician-who-practiced-for-four-decades.html |quote=Dr. Stuyvesant Fish Morris, who retired in 1913 after practicing medicine here for more than forty years, died yesterday at his residence, ... |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 11, 1928 |accessdate=2011-12-15 }}
  • Nicholas Fish II (1846–1902), the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Switzerland from 1877 to 1881, the U.S. minister to Belgium from 1882 to 1885.{{Cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#RBJ09S7PP|title = The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Fischetti to Fishelson}}
  • Hamilton Fish II (1849–1936), politician, U.S. Representative from New York.{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000139|title = Bioguide Search}}{{cite book|title=Who's who in New York City and State|date=1909|publisher=L.R. Hamersly Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klcDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480|accessdate=9 June 2017|language=en}}
  • Stuyvesant Fish (1851–1923), businessman, president of the Illinois Central Railroad.
  • Hamilton Fish III (1888–1991), politician, U.S. Representative from New York.{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000142|title = Bioguide Search}}
  • Hamilton Fish Armstrong (1893–1973), U.S. diplomat; an editor of Foreign Affairs.{{Cite web|url=http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=MC002&kw=#bioghist|title=Error | Princeton University Library}}{{cite news|last1=Fowler|first1=Glenn|title=Hamilton Fish Armstrong Dies at 80; Foreign Affairs Quarterly Ex-Editor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/25/archives/hamilton-fish-armstrong-dies-at-80-foreign-affairs-quarterly.html|accessdate=9 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=25 April 1973}}
  • Hamilton Fish IV (1926–1996), politician, U.S. Representative from New York.{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000141|title = Bioguide Search}}
  • Hamilton Fish V (born 1952), publisher of The Nation magazine and The Washington Spectator.

Family tree

File:Hamilton Fish Brady Edited.jpg, a career statesman who served as Governor of New York, U.S. Senator of New York and U.S. Secretary of State.]]

File:Nicholas Fish II.jpg, a diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Switzerland.]]

File:StuyvesantFish.jpg, American socialite and longtime president of the Illinois Central Railroad.]]

{{Tree list}}

  • Nicholas Fish (1758–1833) ∞ Elizabeth Stuyvesant (1775–1854)
  • Margaret Ann Fish (1807–1877) ∞ John Neilson (1799–1851)
  • Elizabeth Stuyvesant Neilson (1828–1902) ∞ Ezra Williams Howard (1818–1869)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Thomas Howard (1862-1904) ∞ Rose Anthony Post (d. 1949)
  • Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard (1897–1988){{cite news|title=Elizabeth S. Kean, 90, Mother of Governor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/29/nyregion/elizabeth-s-kean-90-mother-of-governor.html|accessdate=11 January 2015|work=The New York Times|date=29 January 1988}} ∞ Robert Winthrop Kean (1893–1980).{{cite news|last1=Cook|first1=Joan|title=Robert W. Kean, 86; Formerly in House; Jersey Republican Won Reputation as Expert on Social Security|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 September 1980|accessdate=11 January 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/24/archives/robert-w-kean-86-formerly-in-house-jersey-republican-won-reputation.html |quote=Robert Winthrop Kean, a former United States Representative and for years a leading figure in Republican politics in New Jersey, died Sunday in St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J., from a heart attack. He was 86 years old and lived in Livingston.}}
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Thomas Howard Howard (b. 1899)
  • Mary Noel Neilson (1830–1908)
  • Nicholas Fish Neilson (1832–1855)
  • Margaret A. Neilson (1835–1905)
  • John Neilson (1838–1903)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Helen Neilson (1845–1927) ∞ David Maitland Armstrong (1836–1918)
  • Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944)
  • Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869–1948)
  • Edward Maitland Armstrong (1874–1915)
  • Marion Howard Armstrong (1880-1957) ∞ Alfred Edey
  • Noel Maitland Armstrong (1882-1938)
  • Bayard Armstrong (1887–1890)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Hamilton Fish Armstrong (1893–1973) ∞ (1) 1918: (div. 1938) Helen MacGregor Byrne ∞ (2) 1945: (div. 1951) Carman Barnes (1912–1980) ∞ (3) 1951: Christa von Tippelskirch
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Helen MacGregor Armstrong (b. 1923) ∞ Edwin Gamble
  • Susan Elizabeth Fish (1808–1892) ∞ Daniel LeRoy (1799–1885)
  • Mary Augusta LeRoy (1829–1905) ∞ Edward King (1816–1875) (brother of George Gordon King)
  • Edward Augustus King (1852–1878)
  • Elizabeth Stuyvesant King (1855–1878)
  • LeRoy King (1857–1895) ∞ Ethel Ledyard Rhinelander (1857–1925)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} Frederic Rhinelander King (1887–1972) ∞ Edith Percy Morgan (1891–1968)
  • George Gordon King (1859–1922) ∞ Annie Mackenzie Coats (1860–1939)
  • Mary LeRoy King (1862–1904)
  • Edith Edgar King (1864–1942) ∞ Louis Butler McCagg
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Alexander Mercer King (1870–1885)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Elizabeth Stuyvesant LeRoy (1834–1883) ∞ George Warren Dresser (1837–1883)
  • Daniel LeRoy Dresser (1862–1915) ∞ Emma Louise Burnham (b. 1870)
  • Suzanne Leroy Dresser (1864–1960) ∞ Vicomte Romain D'Osmoy
  • Natalie Bayard Dresser (1869–1950) ∞ John Nicholas Brown I (1861–1900)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}John Nicholas Brown II (1900-1979) ∞ 1930: Anne Seddon Kinsolving (1906-1985)
  • Nicholas Brown (b. 1933) ∞ Diane Verne
  • John Carter Brown III (1934-2002) ∞ (1) Constance Mellon Byers (1942-1983), daughter of Richard King Mellon; ∞ (2) Pamela Braga Drexel
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Angela Bayard Brown (b. 1938) ∞ Edwin Garvin Fischer (b. 1937), grandson of Edwin Louis Garvin
  • Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958) ∞ (1) 1898: George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914); ∞ (2) 1925: Peter Goelet Gerry (1879–1957)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt ∞ John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954)
  • George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Pauline Georgina Dresser (b. 1876) ∞ Rev. George D. Merrill
  • Hamilton Fish (1808–1893) ∞ Julia Ursin Niemcewiez Kean (1816–1887), sister of John Kean and granddaughter of John Kean and Susan Livingston (Susan married Count Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz after Kean's death)
  • Sarah Morris Fish (1838–1925) ∞ Sidney Webster (1828–1910)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Hamilton Fish Webster (1861–1939)
  • Julia Kean Fish (1841–1908) ∞ Samuel Nicholl Benjamin (1839–1886)
  • Elizabeth d'Hauteville Benjamin (1871–1884)
  • William Massena Benjamin (1874–1928)
  • Hamilton Fish Benjamin (1877–1938)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Julian Arnold Benjamin (1877–1953)
  • Susan LeRoy Fish (1844–1909) ∞ William Evans Rogers (1846–1913)
  • Nicholas Fish II (1846–1902) ∞ 1869: Clemence Smith Bryce (1847–1908), sister of Lloyd Bryce
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Hamilton Fish II (1873–1898)
  • Hamilton Fish II (1849–1936) ∞ (1) Emily Maria Mann (1854–1899); ∞ (2) Florence Delaplaine Amsinck (1849–1926)
  • Janet Fish (1883–1970)
  • Julia Kean Fish (1884–1960) ∞ William Lawrence Breese (1883–1915)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Hamilton Fish Breese (1910–1920)
  • Emily Rosalind Fish (1886–1975) ∞ John Wilson Cutler (1887–1950)
  • Hamilton Fish III (1888–1991) ∞ Grace Chapin Rogers (1885–1960), daughter of Alfred Clark Chapin; ∞ Marie Choubaroff (1905–1974); ∞ (4) 1988: Lydia Ambrogio (1932–2015)
  • Lillian Veronica Fish ∞ David Whitmire Hearst (1915–1986), son of William Randolph Hearst
  • Elizabeth Fish (1922-2015) ∞ Venkatesan Perry (1932-2016)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Hamilton Fish IV (1926–1996) ∞ (1) 1951: Julia MacKenzie (1927–1969); ∞ (2) 1971: Billy Laster Cline (1924–1985); ∞ (3) 1989: Mary Ann Tinklepaugh Knauss (b. 1930){{cite news|title=Mary Ann Knauss Is Wed To Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/01/style/mary-ann-knauss-is-wed-to-rep-hamilton-fish-jr.html|accessdate=9 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=1 January 1989}}
  • Hamilton Fish V (b. 1952) ∞ Sandra Harper
  • Julia Alexandra Fish (b. 1953) ∞ Thomas Ward
  • Nicholas Stuyvesant Fish (1958–2020)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Peter Livingston Fish (b. 1959)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Helena Livingston Fish (1893–1970) ∞ Henry Forster (1889–1989)
  • Henry H. Forster (1921–2000)
  • Bayard Stuyvesant Forster (1924–2001) ∞ Clare Chanler (1927–1992), granddaughter of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Sheila Emily Forster (1928–2011) ∞ J. Anthony G. Morris
  • Stuyvesant Fish (1851–1923) ∞ 1876: Marion Graves Anthon (1853–1915)
  • Livingston Fish (1879–1880)
  • Marian Anthon Fish (1880–1944) ∞ 1907: (div. 1934) Albert Zabriskie Gray (1881–1964), son of John Clinton Gray
  • Stuyvesant Fish, Jr. (1883–1952) ∞ Isabelle Mildred Dick (1884–1972)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Sidney Webster Fish (1885–1950) ∞ (1) 1915: Olga Martha Wiborg (1890–1937), daughter of Frank Bestow Wiborg; ∞ (2) 1929: Esther Foss, daughter of Eugene Noble Foss
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Edith Livingston Fish (1856–1887) ∞ 1883 Hon. Oliver Northcote (1854–1900), young son of Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Elizabeth Sarah Fish (1810–1881) ∞ Richard Lewis Morris (1816–1880)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1843–1928) ∞ Ellen James Van Buren (1844–1929), granddaughter of Martin Van Buren
  • Elizabeth Marshall Morris (1869–1919) ∞ B. Woolsey Rogers
  • Ellen Van Buren Morris (1873–1954) ∞ Francis Livingston Pell (1873–1945)
  • Richard Lewis Morris III (b. 1875) ∞ Carolyn Whitney Fellowes (b. 1882)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Stuyvesant Fish Morris, Jr. (1877–1925)

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=Kean family=

The Fish family is related to the Kean family through Hamilton Fish's wife, Julia Ursin Niemcewiez Kean.

;Notable members

  • Hamilton Fish Kean (1862–1941), New Jersey Republican Committeeman 1905–1919, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1916, Republican National Committeeman 1919–1928, candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey 1924, U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1929–1935.{{Cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#R9M0ISAID|title = The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Chandless to Chapline}}
  • Robert W. Kean (1893–1980), delegate to the Republican National Convention 1936, U.S. Representative from New Jersey 1939–1959, candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey 1958.{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000029|title = Bioguide Search}}
  • Thomas Kean (born 1935), New Jersey Assemblyman 1968–1977, Governor of New Jersey 1982–1990.
  • Thomas Kean Jr. (born 1968), New Jersey state senator 2003-2022 and U.S. Representative from 2023.

;Family tree

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  • John Kean (1814–1895) m. Lucinetta "Lucy" Halsted (1825–1912), daughter of Caleb O. Halsted{{cite book |last1=Wheeler |first1=William Ogden |last2=Halsey |first2=Edmund Drake |title=Descendants of Rebecca Ogden, 1729-1806, and Caleb Halsted, 1721-1784 |date=1896 |publisher=Walsh & Griffen, printers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkSwmgEACAAJ |access-date=15 June 2023 |language=en}}
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Hamilton Fish Kean (1862–1941) m. Katharine Taylor Winthrop (1866–1943), daughter Robert Winthrop
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Robert W. Kean (1893–1980) m. Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to the New York |title=Elizabeth S. Kean, 90, Mother of Governor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/29/nyregion/elizabeth-s-kean-90-mother-of-governor.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=29 January 1988}}
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Thomas Kean (b. 1935) m. Deborah Bye{{cite news |title=Delaware Nuptials For Deborah E. Bye |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/04/archives/delaware-nuptials-for-deborah-e-bye.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=4 June 1967}}
  • {{Tree list/final branch}}Thomas Kean, Jr. (b. 1968) m. Rhonda Lee Norton{{cite news |title=WEDDINGS; Rhonda Norton, Thomas Kean Jr. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/style/weddings-rhonda-norton-thomas-kean-jr.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=13 November 1994}}

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NOTE: Hamilton Fish Kean was also great-grandson of Continental Congressional Delegate John Kean{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000027|title = Bioguide Search}} and brother of U.S. Senator John Kean.{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000028|title = Bioguide Search}}

References

;Notes

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;Sources

  • Wing, Lester Fish. The Fish Family in England and America. Tuttle, 1948. 530pp.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080908004323/http://www.dallas.net/~mcmanus/book.htm]

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