Kernochan, Frederic

Kernochan, Frederic

Male 1876 - 1937  (60 years)

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  • Name Kernochan, Frederic  [1, 2, 3
    Born 12 Aug 1876  Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Jan 1937  Tuxedo Park, Orange County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6
    Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I68695  Sackett | Descendants of Rev. John Moore, Descendants of Thomas Sacket the Elder, Descendants of Simon Sackett the Colonist
    Last Modified 11 Oct 2021 

    Father Kernochan, Joseph Frederic,   b. 8 Dec 1842, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Aug 1929, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Whitney, Mary Stuart,   b. 27 May 1849, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Aug 1922, Bernardsville, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 15 Apr 1869  New York City, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8
    Children 5 children 
     1. Kernochan, Eweretta,   b. 14 Mar 1870, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 May 1954  (Age 84 years)
     2. Kernochan, William,   b. 16 Jun 1873,   d. 19 Aug 1875  (Age 2 years)
    +3. Kernochan, Frederic,   b. 12 Aug 1876, Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Jan 1937, Tuxedo Park, Orange County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
     4. Kernochan, Mary Stuart Whitney,   b. 2 Jun 1880, New York City, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Nov 1967  (Age 87 years)
     5. Kernochan, Whitney,   b. 29 Dec 1884, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Apr 1969, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     
    Family ID F27375  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Howland, Elizabeth Laurence,   b. 6 Jan 1885, Bayside, Queens Borough, New York City, Queens County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Sep 1973  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 18 Jan 1910  Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10
    Children 
     1. Kernochan, Virginia,   b. 13 Aug 1912,   d. Unknown
     2. Kernochan, Mary,   b. 9 Jun 1914,   d. Unknown
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2021 
    Family ID F27463  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 12 Aug 1876 - Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 18 Jan 1910 - Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 9 Jan 1937 - Tuxedo Park, Orange County, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S2663] McVickar Family Tree from 1700 to 1906, Edward McVickar & William Constable Breed, (Rootsweb) (Reliability: 1), 27 Sep 2021.
      80. (sic) Mary Stuart Whitney, m. April 15, 1869, Frederic Kernochan, b. ____

      Had issue:

      . . .

      161. Frederic Kernochan, b. Aug. 12, 1876.

      162. Mary Stuart Whitney Kernochan, b. June 22, 1880.

      163. Whitney Kernochan, b Dec. 29, 1884.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    2. [S1619] Newspapers.com (Reliability: 3), 6 Oct 2021.
      New York Tribune (New York, New York), 9 May 1910, Page 7

      MISS EWERETTA C. WHITNEY.

      Miss Eweretta Constable Whitney, an aunt of Magistrate Frederic Kernochan, died yesterday at her home, No. 11 East 25th street, after a brief illness from pneumonia. She was sixty-five years old, and was the daughter of William Whitney and granddaughter of Stephen Whitney. For the last twenty-five years she had been a director of the New York Orthopedic Society. She attended Grace Church, where her funeral will be held on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    3. [S2662] The Duyckinck and allied families : being a record of the descendants of Evert Duyckink who settled in New Amsterdam, now New York, in 1638, Whitehead Cornell Duyckinck & John Cornell, (Tobias A. Wright), 84-85 (Reliability: 2), 10 Oct 2021.
      892 Mary Stuart9 Whitney, of Mary,8 Eweretta,7 Ann,6 Ann,5 Belitje,4 Anna,3 Belitje,2 Evert,1 m. April 15, 1869, Joseph Frederick Kernochan. Children (Kernochan):

      . . .

      1208 Frederick.

      . . .

      Transcribed by Ted Smith

    4. [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 2), 6 Oct 2021.
      Memorial ID 109891549
      https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109891549

      Frederic Kernochan
      Birth 12 Aug 1876
      Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
      Death 9 Jan 1937 (aged 60)
      Tuxedo Park, Orange County, New York, USA
      Burial
      Green-Wood Cemetery
      Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
      Plot 9, 98

      Enlisted, May 25, 1898, at Camp Hasting, PA, in Battery A Pennsylvania Light Artillery ( formerly the Keystone Battery ). Battery A was assigned to guard the shipyards at Newport News, VA. The Battery shipped out from Newport for Puerto Rico, August 5, 1898, aboard the transport Manitoba, landing at Ponce, PR, August 10, 1898. Battery A was assigned a position 2 miles north of Ponce till ordered home, aboard the transport Mississippi, docking at Jersey City, NJ, September 10, 1898.

      Battery A, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, was part of the Philadelphia Peace Jubilee, October 25 - 28, 1898. He was mustered out of volunteer service November 20, 1898.

      Enlisted, May 25, 1899, in Troop 1, Squadron A, New York City. He saw field service with Squadron A during the Croton Dam Strike, August 1900. Discharged from Squadron A, May 27, 1904.

      His brother Whitney and cousins Walton O. Kernochan and Stephen Suydam Whitney also served in Squadron A.

      Commissioned, 1st Lieutenant, August 23, 1904, assigned to the 12th NY Infantry Regiment, New York City, as Battalion Quartermaster. Served in the 12th NY Regiment till December 1908.

      Yale University, class 1898; New York Law School, 1901

      Career, lawyer/ magistrate

      Researched by Ted Smith

    5. [S1619] Newspapers.com (Reliability: 3), 6 Oct 2021.
      St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), 10 Jan 1937, Page 2

      JUSTICE KERNOCHAN DIES OF PNEUMONIA IN NEW YORK

      Head of Court of Special Sessions Succumb at 60, After Brief Illness.

      TUXEDO, N. Y., Jan. 9.--Frederic Kernochan, Chief Justice of New York's Court of Special Sessions, died tonight at 11:35 o'clock in Tuxedo Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient since last Sun day, suffering with pneumonia.

      He was 60 years old.

      His widow and two daughters, Mrs. Crawford Blagden Jr., and Miss Virginia Kernochan, were at his bedside. He had been Chief Justice of the Court since 1916 when Mayer John Purroy Mitchel, appointed him.

      Justice Kernochan was a close friend of President Roosevelt, was with him on a Southern tour after his election, and was seated beside him when Guiseppe Zangara attempted to shoot the President in Miami, Fla.

      Transcribed by Ted Smith

    6. [S1879] New York, U.S., Death Index, 1852-1956, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3), 6 Oct 2021.
      Name: Frederic Kernochan
      Death Date: 9 Jan 1937
      Death Place: Tuxedo, New York, USA
      Certificate Number: 6216

      Researched by Ted Smith

    7. [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 2), 6 Oct 2021.
      Memorial ID 109891558
      https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109891558

      Joseph Frederic Kernochan
      Birth 8 Dec 1842
      New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
      Death 17 Aug 1929 (aged 86)
      Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
      Burial
      Green-Wood Cemetery
      Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
      Plot 9, 98

      A Yale Man

      Joseph Frederic Kernochan, B.A. 1863.
      Born December 8, 1842, in New York City.
      Died August 17, 1929, in New York City.

      Father, Joseph Kernochan, a dry goods merchant; born in Scotland and came to America in 1790; son of William and Esther Kernochan.

      Mother, Margaret (Seymour) Kernochan; daughter of William Seymour. Nephew: Edward L. Kernochan, '91.

      Prepared for college at the school of Aaron N. Skinner in New Haven and by private tutors, Addison VanName, '58, and Cyrus Northrop, '57. Third prize in English composition Sophomore year; dissertation appointment Junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; member Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, and Phi Beta Kappa. LL.B Columbia 1865; admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York County in May, 1865; then traveled abroad for a year and a half; in law office of Abraham R. Lawrence in New York City 1867-69; in partnership with his brother, Francis E. Kernochan, '61, under firm name of F. E. & J. F* Kernochan in New York 1869-1873; had since practiced independently, making a specialty of testamentary law.

      President of Arminius Chemical Company 1898-1918; director of Lawyers' Title Company and of the Stephen Whitney Estate Company 1909-1929; president of New York Free Circulating Library (now absorbed by New York Public Library) 1893-1901; charter member of Association of the Bar of the City of New York 1869; warden of All Saints Memorial Church, Navesink, N. J , 18 84-1904; member of vestry of Grace Episcopal Church, New York City, since 1887 and senior warden since 1905; secretary of Class of 1863 since 1923 and also Class agent for the Alumni Fund.

      Married April 15, 1869, in New York City, Mary Stuart, daughter of William and Mary Stuart (McVickar) Whitney.

      Children Eweretta; William (died in childhood); Frederic, '98; Mary Stuart Whitney (Mrs. Courtland Smith); and Whitney, '07

      Mrs. Kernochan died August 11, 1922. Death due to a stroke of paralysis. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by two sons, two daughters, and two grandchildren.

      Researched by Ted Smith

    8. [S2662] The Duyckinck and allied families : being a record of the descendants of Evert Duyckink who settled in New Amsterdam, now New York, in 1638, Whitehead Cornell Duyckinck & John Cornell, (Tobias A. Wright), 61, 84-85 (Reliability: 2), 10 Oct 2021.
      473 Mary Stuart8 McVickar, of Eweretta,7 Ann,6 Ann,5 Belitje,4 Anna,3 Belitje,2 Evert,1 b. Jan. 6, 1817; m. Nov. 8, 1843, William Whitney. Children (Whitney):

      . . .

      892 Mary Stuart, b. May 27, 1849; m. April 15, 1869, Joseph Frederick Kernochan.

      . . .

      892 Mary Stuart9 Whitney, of Mary,8 Eweretta,7 Ann,6 Ann,5 Belitje,4 Anna,3 Belitje,2 Evert,1 m. April 15, 1869, Joseph Frederick Kernochan. Children (Kernochan):

      1207 Eweretta.

      1208 Frederick.

      1209 Mary S. W.

      1210 Whitney.



      Transcribed by Ted Smith

    9. [S2068] New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3), 6 Oct 2021.
      Name: Elizabeth L Howland
      Gender: Female
      Marriage License Date: 18 Jan 1910
      Marriage License Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
      Spouse:
      Frederic Kernochan
      License Number: 1677

      Researched by Ted Smith

    10. [S524] New York, New York, Index to Marriage Licenses, 1908-1910, 1938-1940, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3), 6 Oct 2021.
      Name: Frederic Remochan
      [Frederic Kanochan]
      Gender: Male
      Marriage Date: 26 Jan 1910
      Marriage Place: New York, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
      Residence Street Address: 11 E 26 St
      Spouse: Elizabeth Laurence Howland
      Certificate Number: 1677
      Witness 1: Whitrey Kersacher
      Witness 2: Nathalie Herlard

      Researched by Ted Smith


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