William Ruloff Kip

1876 - 1935  (59 years)

• Name	William Ruloff Kip
  Birth	18 Mar 1876	New York City, NY   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Apr 1935	Greenport, Suffolk County, NY   [1]
  	William Ruloff Kip, a Supporter and Life Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society died at his country home at Greenport, L. I. on April 6, 1935. Funeral Services were held at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City. The interment took place at Rhinebeck, N. Y. William Ruloff Kip was born in New York City, March 18, 1876, son of William Berg Kip and his wife Sarah Ann Spies. He was descended from Hendrick Hendrciksen Kip who married Tryntie Lubberts in Amsterdam, April 20, 1624, arrived in New Amsterdam in 1637, and was prominent in the affairs of that settlement. The line of descent is as follows: Hendrick Hendricksen1, Isaac2, Jacob3, Roeloff4, John Baptist5, Gerrit6, Henry James7, William Berg8, William Ruloff9 Kip. He graduated from Westminster School in 1894. He studied for one term at the Yale Scientific School, and then entered the Art School conducted in the Metropolitan Museum. He became interested in Egyptology and archeology and spent ten winters on the Nile. He was also an authority on the Kip family genealogy. Mr. Kip was a life member of the New York Historical Society, the Dutchess County Society, the Dutchess County Historical Society and a member of the American Museum of natural history, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Botanical Gardens, the New York Zoological Society, the New York Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, Piping Rock, Explorers and Yale Clubs. He married January 21, 1914, Mildred Corwin, daughter of George H. Corwin and Elizabeth Edson Smith. She was a descendant of Matthias Corwin who settled in Southold, L. I. in 1639. Mr. Kip is survived by his widow and his daughter Miss Elizabeth C. Kip.
  Burial	9 Apr 1935	Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY   [1]
  Person ID	I6474	Crane Genealogy
  Last Modified	24 May 2023

  
  

  Father	William Berg Kip
  Mother	Sarah Ann Spies
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F2083	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mildred Corwin
  Marriage	21 Jan 1914  [1]
  Children	1. Elizabeth C. Kip
  Family ID	F2084	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S602] Obituary, Kip, William R., (New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Record, Volume 67, Page 171, ©1936), 5047.