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Matthew Vassar
Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792 – June 23, 1868) was an English-born American brewer, merchant and philanthropist. He founded the eponymous Vassar College in 1861.
He was a cousin of John Ellison Vassar.〔New International Encyclopedia〕 The city of Vassar, Michigan is named after him.
==Early life==
Matthew Vassar was born in April 29, 1792 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England to James and Ann Bennett Vassar. His parents were farmers. James's ancestors were French Huguenots (Vasseur) who emigrated to England. In 1796, they emigrated to New York and settled on a farm along Wappinger's Creek near Manchester Bridge in Dutchess County. While the farmhouse was being built, the family lived on the Filkintown Road, at what is now the intersection of Main and Church Streets. In 1801 James Vassar brewed ale with barley grown from seeds his brother Thomas brought from Norfolk. Demand for the ale was such that in 1801 James Vassar sold the farm and bought a lot between Main and Mill Streets in the village of Poughkeepsie from Baltus Van Kleeck to build a brewery. (James's John Guy son would later marry Margaret Van Kleeck, great-granddaughter of Baltus Van Kleeck.) When Vassar was 14 years old, his parents had him apprenticed to a tanner.〔("Matthew Vassar", Vassar Encyclopedia )〕
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