Gen. Thomas Brodhead Van Buren (1824-1889)

Officer in the Union Army, New York Assemblyman & U.S. Consul in Japan

He was a Lawyer and Member of the New York State Assembly, and his grandfather - also an Assemblyman - was a first cousin of President Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War he was Colonel of the 102nd New York Volunteers, seeing action at the Battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Battle Mountain. He was brevetted Brigadier General by President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and served as U.S. Consul-General at Kanagawa, Japan (1874-85), authoring "Labor & Porcelain in Japan".

Parents (2)

Peter Van Buren

of Cassadaga, New York

1802-1873

Mary (Brodhead) Van Buren

Mrs. Mary Caroline (Brodhead) Van Buren

1805-1874

Spouse (1)

Harriette (Sheffield) Van Buren

Mrs. Harriette (Sheffield) Van Buren

1830-1901

Children (3)

Harold Sheffield Van Buren

U.S. Consul at Nice on the Côte d'Azur

1856-1907

Edith, Countess di Castelmenardo

Edith (Van Buren), Countess di Castelmenardo

1858-1914

Thomas Brodhead Van Buren

Silk Importer, of 55 West 71st Street, New York City & Kennebunkport, Maine

1866-1915