Demarest, David D., 1819-1898

David D. Demarest was born near Hackensack, NJ on July 30, 1819. He earned his A.B. degree from Rutgers College in 1837. He also received an A.M from New Brunswick Seminary in 1840, a D.D. from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1857, and an LL.D. from Rutgers in 1892. A clergyman with the Reformed Church of America, he was a professor in New Brunswick Seminary from 1865-98, and a Rutgers Trustee from 1858-98, serving as Secretary from 1866-98. He died on June 21, 1898.

The writer of the bulk of these letters, Joseph P. Bradley (A.B. Rutgers College, 1836), was to become a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870-92. He was born at Berne, NY on March 14, 1813, and was a Rutgers Trustee from 1858-92. He received an A.M. from Rutgers in 1839, and an LL.D. from Lafayette in 1859. He died on January 22, 1892. The other writer, Theodore Frelinghuysen, was President of Rutgers College from 1850 until his death in 1862.

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