Bleecker


Bleecker


Bleecker is a Dutch-language occupational surname. Bleecker is an old spelling of (linnen)bleker ("linen bleacher"). Most if not all people listed below are descendants of Jan Jansen Bleecker/Bleeker, who came to New Amsterdam in 1658. In the Netherlands, only the spelling Bleeker is extant as a family name.

People

  • Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783), American poet
  • Anthony Bleecker (1770–1827), American author and lawyer
  • Anthony Lispenard Bleecker (1741–1816), American banker and merchant
  • Harmanus Bleecker (1779–1849), US congressman from New York, ambassador to the Netherlands
  • Jan Jansen Bleecker (1641/42–1732), Dutch settler in New Netherland, mayor of New York
  • Julian Bleecker (born ca. 1967), American mobile artist and technologist
  • Katherine Russell Bleecker (1893–1996), American filmmaker in silent era
  • Leon Bleecker (c. 1881–1933), New York assemblyman
  • Maitland B. Bleecker (1903–2002), American inventor, instrumental in modern helicopter design
Adopted as first name
  • A. Bleecker Banks (1835–1910), American book publisher and mayor of Albany

Places

  • Bleecker, New York, named after Barent Bleecker, 18th century landowner of the region
  • Bleecker Park, Albany, New York
  • Bleecker Street, New York City, named after Anthony Lispenard Bleecker
  • Bleecker Stadium, Albany, New York, named after Albany businessman James Edward Bleecker
  • Harmanus Bleecker Library, Albany, New York

See also

Bleecker (Bleeker), Alabama

  • Bleaker
  • Bleecker Street (disambiguation)
  • Bleeker (disambiguation)

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Bleecker by Wikipedia (Historical)



 


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