Isaac Van Horne Isaac Van Horne ( January 13 , 1754 , Solebury Township , Pennsylvania - February 2 , 1834 , Zanesville , Ohio ) was a member of the U . S . House of Representatives from Pennsylvania . Ancestry . He is the eldest son of Bernard Van Horne and his first wife Sarah Van Pelt Van Horne . He is descended of several Dutch families who came to America when New York was a Colony of the Netherlands . ( His father ' s family the Vanhoorns have been often , and debatably , identified with the European Noble Family of that name . ) His paternal immigrant ancestor Christian Barentsen van Hoorn had a house lot at Wall Street and Broadway ( now part of Trinity Churchyard ) and was Fire Marshal of Manhattan in the 1650s before moving to the area of Wilmington Delaware . His grandmother Alice Sleght Van Horn may have been descended of Catherine Trico Rapalgie one of whose daughters was reputed to be the first white child born in New Netherland . He is also reputed to be the great great great grand nephew of Peter Styvesant . Military career . American Revolution . He was elected ensign of a company of militia in 1775 , and appointed ensign in the Continental Army by the in January 1776 , assigned to Capt . John Beatty ’ s Company in Col . Magaw ' s Regiment . He was taken prisoner at the fall of Fort Washington and held as a prisoner of war from November 1776 to May 1778 when he was exchanged . He served as first lieutenant , captain lieutenant , and captain until the close of the American Revolutionary War . He was a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati . War of 1812 . He was Lt Col Commanding 1st Reg 2d Brig Ohio Militia from 1808 - 1810 . He was Adjutant General of the Ohio Militia during the War of 1812 serving in that post from 1810 - 1819 . Family . Father of Lt Isaac Van Horne Jr . ( Fort Mackinac , War of 1812 ) and Maj Joseph Jefferson Van Horne ( U . S . - Mexican War ) , and father - in - law of Dr . John E . Hamm Col USA ( War of 1812 ) Politics and Business . He apprenticed as a carpenter and cabinetmaker . He was justice of the peace for Solebury Township Bucks Co . PA for several years , and served as coroner of Bucks County four years . He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1796 and 1797 . Immediately following his term in the Pennsylvania House he was elected as a Republican ( aka Democratic - Republican , Jeffersonian , or " old Republican " ) to the Seventh and Eighth Congresses . He moved to Zanesville , Ohio , in 1805 after Pres . Thomas Jefferson appointed him receiver of the land office at Zanesville . He held that office until December 1826 when he resigned in favor of his son Bernard . He and his son in law Dr . John E . Hamm founded the White Glass Co . of Zanesville Ohio in 1815 , of which he was President . He was President of The Second Federal Bank of Zanesville . He was involved in a number of early Zanesville businesses , and was a large landholder . He was head of a political faction in the 2d Capital of Ohio . Miscellaneous . After he moved to Zanesville his first residence was a white Clapboard house on Pine St . , built for him by his nephew , which was locally known as " the White House . " Although originally interred in the family plot at Pine St . Cemetery , still occupied by the grave of his son Lt . Isaac Vanhorne , the will of his daughter Sarah provided for the movement of the bodies of her father and mother to a plot next to his son Maj . Joseph Jefferson Vanhorne in the then newly opened , larger , and more fashionable Woodlawn Cemetery . One of the bequests in his will was a donation to the American Colonization Society .