The Biographical Dictionary of America/Demarest, David D.

​Demarest, David D., educator, was born in Harrington township, Bergen county, N.J., July 30, 1819; son of Daniel P. and Leah (Bogert) Demarest; grandson of Peter P. and Leah Demarest; and a descendant of David des Marest, born in Picardy about 1620. The family came to America in 1663. He received a common school education and was prepared for college at New Brunswick, N.J. He was graduated from Rutgers in 1837, and from the Theological seminary of the Reformed Dutch church, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1840. He was licensed to preach by the classis of New Brunswick; was assistant pastor at Catskill, N. Y., in 1841; pastor of the Reformed Dutch church at Flatbush, N.Y., 1841–43; pastor at New Brunswick, N.J., 1843–52; and at Hudson, N.Y., 1852–65. In 1865 he was elected professor of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric in the Theological seminary at New Brunswick. He was clerk of the general synod of the Reformed Dutch church from 1862 to 1869; was elected a trustee of Rutgers college in 1858, and became secretary of its board of trustees in 1866. He received from the College of New Jersey the degree of D.D. in 1857, and from Rutgers that of LL.D. in 1892. He is the author of: Religion in Politics (1856); The Reformed Church in America: Its Origin, Development and Characteristics (1856, 4th ed., 1889); History of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick (1884); The Huguenots on the Hackensack (1886); Dort and Westminster (1890); and numerous sermons, addresses and articles. He died at New Brunswick, N.J., June 21, 1898.

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