Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard Kean (1897–1988)
1897–1988
Wife of Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean; mother of Governor Thomas Kean
Biography
Daughter of Ezra William Howard (1818–1869) and a Stuyvesant descendant, carrying the Stuyvesant name back into the Kean family. Married Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean in 1920. Mother of Governor Thomas Howard Kean of New Jersey, Congressman Hamilton Fish Kean (b. 1925), and four other children. Her Stuyvesant lineage echoed her husband's great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish, reinforcing the interwoven Kean-Fish-Stuyvesant-Livingston aristocratic network.