Quackenbush

Quackenbush is a surname of Dutch origin that is an Americanized form of the Dutch Quackenbosch. It is a toponymic surname from the Dutch kwak ‘night heron’ + bosch ‘woodland wilderness’. The surname Quackenbosch is no longer found in the Netherlands. The family descends from 17th century immigrant to New Netherland Pieter Pieterzoon Quackenbosch.

Name

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alvin J. Quackenbush, American merchant and politician from New York
• Bill Quackenbush, Canadian professional hockey player
• Chuck Quackenbush, American politician from California; state insurance commissioner and state assemblyman
• Dave Quackenbush, American punk rock singer
• Henry Quackenbush, American industrialist
• John A. Quackenbush, American politician from New York; U.S. representative 1888–1893
• John Quackenbush, American computational biologist and genome scientist
• Justin Lowe Quackenbush, American jurist
• Kevin Quackenbush, American baseball player
• Max Quackenbush, Canadian professional hockey player
• Mike Quackenbush, American professional wrestler
• Robert Quackenbush, American children's author
• Robert Quackenbush (politician), American politician from Wisconsin
• Sandra Quackenbush, American virologist
• Professor Quackenbush, a fictional adult character by Sloan Fischer in Kidsongs: Very Silly Songs

Products

• Quackenbush rifle

See also

• Herman I. Quackenboss, New York politician