2. Frelixghuysen, Rev. Theodore, eldest son of the above-named, came to this country in 1745 an or- dained minister, and was settled over tlie Reformed Dutch Church in Albany, N. Y. He is represented to have been an ardent, frank, and popular man ; earnest, eloquent, tender, and warm-hearted as a preacher; of spotless life, and of eminent piety — "tlie apostolic and much-beloved Frejlinghuysen," as the name was for- merly written. After a ministr}' of fifteen years in Albanj', he returned to Holland in 1760, ])artly be- cause of ministerial discouragements from the exces- sive worldliness of tlie city, partly to visit his native land, and, according to some accounts, to procure funds for founding a literaiy and theological institu- tion. But he never returned, having been lost at sea on the voj'age. It is remarkable that his two broth- ers. Jacobus and Ferdinandus, both of whom had been educated and ordained as ministers in Holland, also died at sea in 1753, of small-pox ; and that the youngest brother, Henricus, pastor of the churches in Wawarsing and Rochester, Ulster County, N. Y., died of the same disease soon after his settlement in 1756. (W. J. R. T.)
3. Frelinghuy'sen. John, second son of T. J. Fre- linghiiysen, was educated and ordained in Holland, and succeeded liis father as pastor at Raritan. N. J., in 1750. He " was a man of greater suavity than his father, but was equally firiii in upholding the claims of spiritual Christianitj'. He was distinguished for his gifts in the pulpit, for his assiduity in the religious training of the young, and for his zealous endeavors to raise up
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vrorthy candidates for the sacred office." He died, greatly lamented, in 1754, in the twenty-eighth year of his age. His wife, who afterwards married the Eev. Dr. JacoUiis liutea Hardenbergh, and who sur- vived her first husband more than fifty years, is rep- resented to have been "as eminent in her daj' for in- telligent piety as any of the female saints of the Old Testament or of the New" (see Chambers, Memoir of lion. Tkeo. Frdinghwjsen, Harpers, 1863). (W. J. K. T.)
4. Frelinghdysen, Theodore, an c^minent Chris- tian lawyer, statesman, orator, and educator of youth, ■was great-grandson of the Rev. Theodoras Jacobus Frelinghuysen, and the son of major-general Frederick Frelinghuysen, of the Eevolutionary armj% member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey' and of the Continental Congress, and senator of the United States from his native state (New Jerss}-). He was born at Millstone, Somerset County, N. J., IMarch 28, 1787, ed- ucated in schools at New Brunswick and at Basking Eidge, and graduated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, in 1804, with the highest honors of the institution. After studying law in the offices of his brother John at Mill- stone and of the Hon. Richard Stockton at Princeton, he was admitted to the bar in 1808, at the age of twenty-one. His eminent qualities as a lawyer led to his appointment in 1817 as attorney general of the state, which office he held until, in 1829, he was elect- ed to the Senate of the United States. At the end of his term in the Senate he resumed the profession of the law, but soon accepted the chancellorship of the Uni- versity of the City of New York. From 1839 to 1850 he occupied this high place, and then became presi- dent of Rutgers College at New Brunswick, N. J., where he died, April 12, 18G1, after a protracted illness. During his residence in New York ho was a candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States, on the same ticket with Henry Clay for president, in 1844. Mr. Frelinghuj'sen's civil, forensic, and political emi- nence was eclipsed by the lustre of his Christian and philanthropic career. His pietj' was humble, devout, genial, simple, and most cai'efull}^ cultivated. His religious life was felt with unusual power at the bar, in the Senate, in society, and in the Church. He was a Sunday-school teacher almost until his death. His efforts for the salvation of public men — presidents, governors, senators, judges, and others — were most remarkable and blessed. Especially was he in the place of father, pastor, and adviser to the young men over whom he presided in the universitj' and college. He was one of the foremost Temperance advocates and laborers in his generation. His eloquent tongue was ever ready to plead for every good Christian or humane cause. The American Sunday-school Union, the American Colonization Society, and other benev- olent enterprises, often shared in these efforts. At one time, and for years together, he was the president of those three greatest of our Christian voluntary as- sociations— the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society, and the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions. Necessarilj^ he was a Christian patriot of the first order. His eloquent speech in the United States Senate on the Indian Bill, andjiis course on the Sunday-mail Question, told with electric force upon the whole country. And when the civil war broke out in ISGl, he was among the first, the most decided, pronounced, and enthusiastic of all the eminent defenders of the Union. The completeness of his elevated character and record is remarkable, and his name will ever be illustrious for its goodness and greatness. A memoir of his life and services by Eev. T. W. Chambers, D.D., was issued by Harper and Brothers, N. Y., 18G3, 12mo. (AY. J. E. T.)