Ten Eyck family

• Coenraedt Ten Eyck (1617–1686), who moved from the United Provinces to New Amsterdam about 1651. He was a shoemaker and a tanner and owned property in New Amsterdam. • Jacob Coenraedtsen Ten Eyck (1647–1693), who moved from New York City to settle in Albany, son of Coenraedt. • Egbert Ten Eyck (1779–1844), U.S. Representative from New York. • Coenraad Anthony Ten Eyck (1789–1845), Sheriff of Albany county and county clerk. Son of Anthony Ten Eyck Jacob was elected mayor of Albany in 1748 and appointed by Colonial Governor George Clinton. He served as mayor for two years, from October 1748 to October 1750. In 1750, he was again elected alderman for the second ward and served as such until 1762. He later went on to work for the Mohawk division of the New York Central Railroad, first as an inspector of signals and later becoming the supervisor of signals. In 1920, he acted as a delegate the Democratic National Convention, and was reelected to the sixty-seventh Congress in March 1921. He declined the nomination to run for a second term in 1922. Peter was active in many groups, including the Insurance Federation of the State of New York, as well as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association, the Railway Signal Association, the Albany Institute and History and Art society and the Second Dutch Reformed Church. He founded the Ten Eyck Group Insurance Agency in 1905. Peter married Bertha Dederick in 1903 and they had one child, Peter Gansevoort Dederick Ten Eyck, who took over as president of the firm after his father's death on September 2, 1944. ==Businesses==

The Ten Eyck Hotel (1917–1971) The construction of the Ten Eyck Hotel began in 1917 and the building was opened for business in 1918. The hotel was built at 83 State Street, on the corner of State and Pearl Street, in the place that used to be known as The Elm Tree Corner, a central crossroad in Albany. The Ten Eyck was a seventeen-story building that catered to the capital's elite and held a restaurant and oyster bar. In 1933, the hotel was operated by Niagara Falls businessman Frank A. Dudley and the United Hotels Company. The hotel was bought and remodeled by Sheraton in the 1950s and lasted as a business until the late 1960s. The building was torn down in 1971, and later in that same decade, Ten Eyck Plaza was built in its place. The forty foot bar from the hotel was saved before demolition and relocated to The Depot Grille in Staunton, Virginia. Ten Eyck Group The Ten Eyck Group was established by Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck in 1905. The Group is one of the oldest insurance firms in upstate New York and has changed both leadership and locations many times since its establishment. == References ==