Descriptive Summary |
|
| Creator: | Demarest, David D., 1819-1898 |
| Title: | Guide to the David D. Demarest Letters |
| Dates: | 1837-1850 |
| Quantity: | 9 items (1 folder) |
| Abstract: | A small collection of letters written to David D. Demarest, eight of which are from Joseph P. Bradley (Rutgers College, Class of 1836), later a Supreme Court Justice, when Demarest was at New Brunswick Seminary, 1837-1839, and one letter from Theodore Frelinghuysen, President of Rutgers College, 1850. |
| Collection No.: | R-MC 029 |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. |
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.
One folder containing eight letters from Joseph P. Bradley, later a Supreme Court Justice, to David Demarest while he was at New Brunswick Seminary, 1837-1839, and one from Theodore Frelinghuysen, President of Rutgers College, 1850.
| Letters of David D. Demarest, 1837-1839 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 1 | Joseph P. Bradley, Newark, N.J. to David D. Demarest, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., June 20, 1837 | ||||||||||
| Lists expectations of David as a Christian. | |||||||||||
| Joseph P. Bradley, Newark to David D. Demarest, Theological Seminary, New Milford, Bergen County, N.J., January 15, 1838 | |||||||||||
| Discusses missions and missionaries. | |||||||||||
| Joseph P. Bradley, Newark to David D. Demarest, Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, N. Jersey, March 29, 1838 | |||||||||||
| Went walking in Newark, saw pretty girls through the windows, thought of Diedrich Knickerbocker's tales of Nieuw Amsterdam. Urges David to complete his theological studies. | |||||||||||
| Joseph P. Bradley, Newark to David D. Demarest, New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 24, 1838 | |||||||||||
| Refers to John T. [Demarest's] new daughter. Discusses the beneficial effects on a religion of fervent piety in its theological schools. | |||||||||||
| Joseph P. Bradley, Newark to David D. Demarest, Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 11, 1838 | |||||||||||
| Humorously describes how John Johnson [1836] came to preach and fell in love with "one of the fairest damsels in the land." | |||||||||||
| Joseph P. Bradley, Newark to David D. Demarest, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 6, 1839 | |||||||||||
| Discusses student protests and his ire when the faculty ruled that students must stand and face them at prayer. Theological ruminations. | |||||||||||
| Joseph P. Bradley, Newark to David D. Demarest, New Milford, Near Hackensack, New Jersey, August 6, 1839 | |||||||||||
| Again exhorts David to remain in the seminary until his studies are completed. | |||||||||||
| Joseph P. Bradley to David D. Demarest, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 6, 1839 | |||||||||||
| Encourages David's expressed interest in traveling to the South after completing his studies, perhaps to travel for two or three years once he has his professional certificate. He can write sermons during this time. | |||||||||||
| Theodore Frelinghuysen, New York to The Rev. Mr. Demarest, April 6, 1850 | |||||||||||
| Short note, difficult to read, may be a letter of introduction for a visit to London. | |||||||||||