David D. Demarest Letters

David D. Demarest was born near Hackensack, N.J., of Dutch and Huguenot ancestry, on July 30, 1819. A member of the Rutgers College Class of 1837, he 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 of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric in New Brunswick Theological Seminary from 1865-98, and a Rutgers trustee from 1858-98, serving as Secretary from 1866-98. He died on June 21, 1898. Among his seven children was William Henry Steele Demarest, later President of Rutgers College, 1906-1924.

The principal letter writer, Joseph Philo Bradley, Rutgers College Class of 1836, became a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1870-1892). He was born at Berne, N.Y. 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 College in 1859. He died on January 22, 1892.