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president of the board 1901-08. On going on the bench he resigned his duties on the Board of Education, as he did not wish to serve with- out giving the amount of time he had been accustomed to devote to the interests of that organization for fourteen years. He also served as town counsellor for seven years, 1897-1904, and in 1906 the law firm of Dema- rest & De Baun took up the duties of that office.
Judge Demarest married, December 15, 1880, Carrie W., daughter of Jonathan S. and Charlotte (Beemer) Christie, of Hackensack ; children, born in Hackensack, New Jersey : Charlotte, May 3, 1888; Carrie I., June IO, 1890 ; Edith, November 14, 1891. The mother of these children died, and Judge Demarest married (second) Adeline, widow of Walter Christie Bogart. No children were born of this marriage.
(For ancestry see David des Marets 1).
(IV) Daniel (2), tenth
DEMAREST child and fifth son of Daniel (I) and Rebecca (DeGroot) Demarest, was born in Hacken- sack, New Jersey, and baptized July 20, 1728. His will is dated 1802. August 26, 1753, he was admitted with his wife to membership in the church at Schraalenburgh, but ten years later he seems to have removed back to Hack- ensack, where June 17, 1764, he forms one of the consistory of the Hackensack church. He, however, removed once more to Schraalen- burgh where he was a deacon in 1784, an elder in 1785, and overseer of the poor in 1788. June 9, 1752, Daniel Demarest married (first ) Cornelia, daughter of Reyk and Marytje ( Benson) Lydecker, baptized May 10, 1724. Their children were: I. Rebecca, born August I, 1753, died March 10, 1802 ; married Douws R. Westervelt. 2. Gerret, referred to below. 3. Weyntje, baptized May 6, 1759. 4. Daniel, baptized February 22, 1761. Jacobus, bap- tized April 3, 1763. 6. Margrietje, baptized March 31, 1765. 7. Wyntje. 8. Roelof, bap- tized June 4, 1769, married Catharine Van Voorhees. 9. Belitje, born May 28, 1772, mar- ried John D. Durie. April 20, 1791, Daniel Demarest married (second) Wilma Van Voor- isen, the widow of John Hoppe.
(V) Gerret or Garret, second child and eldest son of Daniel and Cornelia (Lydecker ) Dema- rest, was born in Schraalenburgh and baptized there February 13, 1757. He lived in Schraal- enburgh, where in 1790 he is recorded as being with his wife among the members of the
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Schraalenburgh church since 1786. In 1792- 93-98-99 he was one of the deacons of the church there, and in the last named year was also one of the consistory. July 2, 1800, he was succeeded as deacon at Hackensack by Pieter Isaacse Demarest. Gerret Demarest married Angenietje, daughter of David and Margrietje (Van Hoorn) Durie. Their chil- dren were: I. Daniel, referred to below. 2. David, born October 14, 1787. 3. David, June 22, 1791. 4. Cornelia, November 21, 1793. 5. Margrietje, March 24, 1797.
(VI) Daniel (3), eldest child of Gerret and Angenietje (Durie) Demarest, was born at Schraalenburgh, in 1780, and baptized there April 21, 1782. He married Elizabeth Ben- son, and among their children was John, re- ferred to below.
(VII) John, son of Daniel (3) and Eliza- beth (Benson) Demarest, was born near Pat- erson, Passaic county, New Jersey, in 1810. He married Anne Van Buskirk and among their children was Daniel, referred to below.
(VIII) Daniel (4), son of John and Anne (Van Buskirk) Demarest, was born near Pat- erson, February 22, 1833, and is now living in Montclair, New Jersey. He married Mary C. Garrison, born April 29, 1838, and their chil- dren are: I. Cornelius, born June 11, 1854, died September, 1899; married Belle Christie, and left three children: Daniel, Hilda, who married Sherman Demarest, and Frederick Van Buskirk. 2. Laura Meta, February 25, 1860, married George H. Ackerman and has one child, Irma Mae, who married G. Freder- ick Johnson, of Glen Ridge. 3. Benjamin Garrison, referred to below. 4. George Mc- Lean, December 4, 1874, who married Vivian Compton and is now living in Newark.
(IX) Benjamin Garrison, third child and second son of Daniel (4) and Mary C. (Gar- rison) Demarest, was born in Passaic, New Jersey, June 26, 1867, and is now living in Montclair. He was educated in the Passaic high school, and New York University, re- ceiving his degree of LL. M. in 1891, B. S. in 1905, M. A. in 1907 and of Ph. D. in 1908. He had previously received from Columbia University his degree of LL. B. in 1888. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1888 and to the New York bar in 1890, and is now practicing his profession in Newark. Mr. Demarest is a Republican. He is a member of the Graduates' Club of New York, of the Holland Society of New York, of the Wed- nesday Club, New Jersey Historical Society, and the Lawyers' Club of Newark. He is a
member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Montclair, and a member of the Presbyterian Church Extension Committee of the Presby- tery of Newark on June 26, 1908; Benjamin Garrison Demarest married in Montclair, Cor- nelia Van Tilburg, daughter of William Wal- lace and Mary (Young) Hullfish, whose chil- dren were : 1. Lillian, who married Frank Earl, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has one child, Harry Geib. 2. Cornelia, referred to above. 3. Alice, who married Harry De An- geles Hutt, of Berkeley, California, and has one child, Norman.
(For ancestry see preceding sketches).
(VI) Samuel, eldest son of DEMAREST Simon Davids (q. v.) and Hannah ( Banta ) Demarest, was born in Schraalenburgh, Bergen county, New Jersey, in 1791. He was brought up on his father's farm and followed that vocation during his earlier life, but as his years in- creased he engaged in the coal business and be- came a well known and successful dealer in wood and coal in Demarest, New Jersey. He married Elizabeth Zabriskie; children, born in Demarest, New Jersey : Ralph S., John, Maria, Margaret, Samuel S., Ann Eliza, Garret Za- briskie, Catherine.
(VII) Garret Zabriskie, fourth son and sev- enth child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Zabris- kie) Demarest, was born in Demarest, Bergen county, New Jersey, June 6, 1829. He was brought up on his father's farm, and after his marriage continued that vocation at Demarest, New Jersey, adding to it the business of dis- tilling. He married Margaret, daughter of Judge John H. and Ann (Winner) Zabriskie, of Hackensack, New Jersey ; children, born in Hackensack, New Jersey: John H. Z., Will- iam E. Garret Zabriskie Demarest died in Demarest, New Jersey, October 3, 1907.
(VIII) John H. Z., eldest child of Garret Zabriskie and Margaret (Zabriskie) Demarest, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, August, 1850. He attended the public school of Hack- ensack, and was graduated at the Union Busi- ness College in New York City. On leaving the business school he became a clerk in the Hudson County National Bank, Jersey City, and in 1884, when the firm of Unz & Com- pany was established at 24 Broadway, New York, he became one of the active partners of that concern, and the firm built up a large and lucrative business as printers and sta- tioners for commercial houses. He lived in Demarest, New Jersey, during his early mar-
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ried life, and was an active participant in the civic affairs of the town without being allied to either of the great national parties in a way to interfere with the independent action he held as expedient in the conduct of town af- fairs. He served as mayor of Demarest, 1903-09, and in 1908 removed his family to Summit, New Jersey, which place was there- after his home. He married, October 1, 1873, Elizabeth V., daughter of Peter V. and Eliz- abeth (Voorhis) Moore, of New York City; children, born in Demarest, New Jersey: I. J. Westerfield, 1877, died unmarried, Novem- ber 20, 1902. 2. Gretta, April 1, 1881.
(VIII) William E., second son and young- est child of Garret Zabriskie and Margaret (Zabriskie) Demarest, was born in Demarest, New Jersey, 1861. He was a pupil in the pub- lic schools of Demarest and the high school of Jersey City, and while at school took up the business of telegraphy. On leaving school he became connected with the Western Union Telegraph Company as an operator, in which capacity he continued for several years. He then established the Closter Chronicle, a weekly newspaper published in Closter, New Jersey, which he edited and published for three years, when he retired from journalism and from active business. He married (first) February 2, 1880, Sarah F., daughter of John D. and Clara (Gecox) Ferdon, of Alpine, New Jersey ; children, born in Demarest, New Jer- sey: I. Margretta Zabriskie, September 23, 1882. 2. Garret Zabriskie, September 26, 1884, see forward. 3. Elizabeth M., October 16, 1893. Sarah F. (Ferdon) Demarest, the mother of these children, died at her home in Demarest, New Jersey, December 5, 1899, aged thirty-seven years. He married (sec- ond) August, 1904, Annie L. Davies, a native of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
(IX) Garret Zabriskie, only son and second child of William E. and Sarah F. (Ferdon) Demarest. was born in Demarest, Bergen county, New Jersey, September 26, 1884. He received his early school training at the public school and Closter high school, where he was prepared for matriculation at New York Uni- versity, where he was graduated A. B., 1906. He then entered the law office of Wakelee. Thornall & Wright, 50 Church street, New York City, as a law student under the especial patronage of Senator Wakelee, and was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar, March 11, 1908, and continued his association with this firm in his newer capacity of an attorney and coun- sellor at law. He continued his home in Dem-
arest, New Jersey, where his fraternal affilia- tion was made with the Masonic order through membership in Alpine Lodge, No. 77, Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons, of Clos- ter, New Jersey.
(For preceding generations see David des Marets 1). (III) David (3), eldest son
DEMOREST* and child of David (2) and Rachel (Cresson) Demar-
est, was baptized in New York, February 19, 1676. He had come from Holland at the in- stance of the Classis of Amsterdam in the ca- pacity of catechizer voorlesser and school- master for the Dutch settlers. His work was appreciated, and the community of Hacken- sack, having no church organization, desired to make him their dominie, as well as to fill other useful offices, and they at once set about to raise a sufficient sum to send him back to Holland to complete his studies in theology and receive ordination for the ministry. He spent one year in Holland for this purpose and re- turned in 1694, fully authorized by the Classis of Holland to form and take charge of a church and perform all the functions of his offices. This process made him the first regu- larly ordained minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Jersey, and he was licensed by the Classis of Middlebury to preach for the churches at Hackensack and Acquockanok, September 16, 1693, just before he left Hol- land. He died, after a ministry of seventy- three years, in Hackensack, New Jersey, 1768. He married, April 24, 1697, Sara, daughter of Rev. Guillaume (William) Bertholf, and among their children was David, see forward.
(IV) David, (4), son of David (3) and Sara (Bertholf) Demorest, was born in Hack- ensack. Bergen county, New Jersey, 1702, died in 1768. He married, in 1729, Katrina Van Houton.
(V) David (5), son of David (4) and Ka- trina (Van Houton) Demorest, was born in Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, 1731, died there in 1800. He married, in 1760, Lena Van Voorhees.
(VI) Cornelius, son of David (5) and Lena (Van Voorhtes) Demorest, was born in Hack- ensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, September 6. 1761, died in Brighton, Monroe county, New York, June 7, 1845. He was a soldier in the American revolution, enlisting as a pri- vate in the Bergen county militia before he was eighteen years of age, and after the war
*This branch of the family preserves the Demo- rest form of the family name.
Menings Demmed.
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removed to New York City, where he was a citizen for more than twenty-five years before removing to Brighton, New York. As early as May 1, 1801, he was licensed by the mayor of New York City to keep a cart, which indi- cates his business to have been a cartman for stores along the wharf and employed by any merchant in need of such service. The last date on which a license was granted is May 4, 1826, and all these licenses are in the pos- session of his great-grandson, William C. Demorest. His name sometimes appears as Cornelius N. Demorest. He married Ann, whose surname does not appear on record.
(VII) Peter, son of Cornelius and Ann Demorest, was born in Schraalenburg, New Jersey, 1790, and lost his life by being burned in a fire at Brighton, Monroe county, New York, April 27, 1833, to which place he had removed with his father about 1816. He mar- ried, in 1812, Jane Brouwer, who bore him several children.
(VIII) William Jennings, son of Peter and Jane (Brouwer) Demorest, was born in Brighton, Monroe county, New York, June IO, 1822, died April 9, 1859, buried in Ken- sico cemetery, Westchester county, New York. He received an excellent education, and be- came a journalist and publisher of illustrated news and fashion papers. He was the pioneer in the business of furnishing cut-paper fash- ions by mail, and his name became a house- hold word in the American homes where his magazine and its attendant fashionable pat- terns became welcome visitors and dictators of just what the Paris and New York leaders in style were to wear the coming season. He became extensively interested in the develop- ment of values in New York real estate, and also became a business partner with J. J. Little, a foremost printer and binder in New York City, and the firm of J. J. Little & Company, by this partnership, greatly enlarged and im- proved the art of printing in large editions by modern machinery. He became possessed of a very large fortune gained through his ex- traordinary business ability, and while in the prime of life surrendered his various business cares to his sons and devoted himself to philan- thropic work. He was an early advocate of temperance and of the abolition of slavery, and his great aim and purpose in life became the creation of a political party pledged to the abolition of the use of intoxicating liquor by law. In this purpose he accepted the nomin- ation of lieutenant-governor of New York, and his large personal following, independent
of party pledge, made his vote far larger than that of the temperance ticket on which he was named. He later was nominated for mayor of New York City. Mr. Demorest married (first) in 1846, Margaret Willimina Pool, daughter of Joseph and Jeanette (Drennen) Pool, the former of whom died in February, 1849, and the latter in January, 1878. Chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Demorest: I. Willi- mina Vienna J., born August 31, 1847 ; mar- ried James M. Gano; one child, Walter Demo- rest Gano. 2. Henry Clay, born July 22, 1850; married Annie Lawrie; children: i. Marie Marguerite, married Cephas B. Rogers and has one child, Nathaniel Demorest Rogers ; ii. William Jennings Demorest. Mr. Demo- rest married (second) 1857, Ellen Louise Cur- tis, daughter of Henry D. and Electa (Abel) Curtis, of Saratoga, New York, a leading fam- ily of that part of the state. Children, born in New York City: 3. William Curtis, see for- ward. 4. Evelyn Louise, married Alexander G. Rea, of Philadelphia.
(IX) William Curtis, son of William Jen- nings and Ellen Louise (Curtis) Demorest, was born in New York City, August 2, 1859. He was prepared for college in his native city, and was graduated at Columbia University, A. B. 1881, LL. B. 1883. He then became a law student in the office of Norwood & Coggeshall, in order to gain a thorough knowledge of the law pertaining to titles and mortgages. He practiced real estate law for a time, but the management of his father's large real estate investments and his own operations along the same line soon crowded out a possibility of outside business in every line except real es- tate, and he became an acknowledged special- ist and organizer of large real estate trusts. In 1896 he became the president of the Realty Trust, on its organization, and his expert knowledge of values both real and prospect- ive in and outside the city limits gave imme- diate success to the enterprise. In addition to serving as president and director of the Realty Trust, he is a director and treasurer of the State Realty and Mortgage Company ; sec- retary, treasurer and general manager of the Demorest & Little Company, incorporated, (real estate) ; director and member of the ex- ecutive committee of the Fidelity Trust Com- pany ; trustee and member of finance com- mittee of the Irving Savings Institution; di- rector of the Market & Fulton National Bank ; director of the Royal Baking Powder Com- pany ; president and director of the Cleveland Baking Powder Company; director of the
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Price Baking Powder Company ; and director of the Tartar Chemical Company. He is a member of the New York State Bar Associa- tion, Bar Association of New York, New York Chamber of Commerce and the Allied Real Estate Interests, also honorary secretary of the Realty League. He is a member of the Holland Society of New York, the Empire State Sons of the American Revolution, St. Nicholas Society, Society of Colonial Wars, Pilgrims of the United States (and its treas- urer), Genealogical and Biographical Society, Peace Society of New York, American Mu- seum of Natural History, New York Academy of Science, Natural Academy of Sciences, New York Zoological Society, National Geographic Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Munic- ipal Art Society, American Free Art League, Economic Club, New York Tax Reform As- sociation, National Child Labor Committee, Immigration Restriction League, American Civic Association, Civic Forum, Civil Service Reform Association, and the American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science. He has taken great interest in Columbia University, and while an undergraduate joined the Lambda Chapter of Psi Upsilon fraternity, and is now president of the Lambda Associa- tion, its graduate organization. He is a mem- ber of Columbia University Club, and presi- dent of the Columbia College Alumni Asso- ciation, also a member of the Columbia Law School Association, the Peithologican Society, a Columbia association, and of the executive committee of the "Eighty-Eighties." Among his social and charitable interests are member- ship in the American National Red Cross So- ciety. Men's League of St. Thomas' Church, People's Institute, Hospital Guild and St. John's Guild, and the Public Schools Athletic Associa- tion. He is a governor of the Lawyers' Club. and a member of the Union League Club, Met- ropolitan Club, Fulton Club, Knollwood Club. Auto Club of America, Long Island Automobile Club, St. Bernard Fish and Game Club, Camp Fire Club of Quebec, Montagnais Fish and Game Club, Camp Fire Club of America and several others. His active association with the foregoing societies and clubs is evidence of the interest he displays in all that pertains to busi- ness, patriotism, genealogical research, science, art, civic and economic reform, college asso- ciations, and in recreation and amusement.
Mr. Demorest was married, at the Church of the Divine Paternity, in New York City, Feb- ruary 6, 1884, to Alice Estelle, daughter of Charles Leslie and Alice Emory (Ogier) Gil-
bert. She was born in Camden, Maine, May 22, 1863; educated in the public schools and Normal College of the City of New York. She is a trustee of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, the Diet Kitchen, and of St. Luke's Home ; also a mem- ber of the Society of Colonial Dames, Daugh- - ters of the American Revolution, and chairman of the executive committee of Sorosis. Their children, born in New York City, are as fol- lows : I. Alice Louise, born February II, 1885. 2. Gilbert Curtis, September 15, 1895. 3. Charlotte Katharine, July 1, 1902. These children are in the tenth generation from the Huguenot immigrant, David des Morest, born 1620, and Marie Sohier, his wife, through their fourth son, David, of Hackensack, New Jer- sey. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Demo- rest in New York City is at No. 68 East Sixty- sixth street, and their summer home is Huk- weem Lodge, Loon Lake, Adirondack Moun- tains.
The name of Gifford is of GIFFORD French or Huguenot extrac- tion. According to family tra- dition, ( Baron) Walter, son of Osborne Bolle, was given the sobriquet of Gifford, Giffard or Gyffard, signifying liberality or generosity, which was accorded to him. According to the best information concerning the early an- cestors of this family, Archer Gifford, Giffard. or Gyffard, of Normandy, married Katherine de Blois, or Le Bonn, a descendant of a noted family of Normandy, and who were of the nobility of that country. Archer Gifford, above mentioned, came from Wales to Can- ada with his wife Katherine about the year 1756. He took up arms with the English and fought against the French. He died in Can- ada.
The Giffords of Essex county are a Welsh family, and although they are among the later comers to this country and "our Town upon Passaick River," John Gifford and his brother having emigrated shortly before the revolu- tionary war, they have so proved their worth, and have so linked themselves not only by in- termarriage with Newark's best blood but also by their achievements in the interest and be- half of both city and state that to-day they stand among the front ranks of those who represent that section of the state.
(I) John Gifford, born in Wales, appears for the first time on the records of New Jer- sey as a private in Captain Craig's company of state troops during the revolutionary war. Just
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how he fared in that momentous struggle we are not told, for the next record we have of him is a marriage license in the office of the secretary of state at Trenton stating that April 7, 1779, he obtained permission to marry Hannah Crane, which he seems to have done a little later in the same month. After this he appears to have made his permanent abode in Newark, where he built for himself a house, on what is now the southwest corner of Broad and Academy streets, having on his right hand William Rodger's house and saddlery and on his left hand the old Newark Academy, while facing him on the opposite side of Broad street was the mansion of Dr. Uzal Johnson. This house later on passed into the possession of William Tuttle, but this was after the Cap- tain, as John Gifford was called from his rev- olutionary service, had passed away. Between Dr. Johnson and the Captain, on the roadside, was one of the town pumps, which as late as 1812 was used for one of the official public bulletin boards as the Newark town meeting of April 12, in that year, passed a resolution that all hogs running at large were to be sub- ject to a poundage of fifty cents which if not paid in four days was to be collected by selling the hogs and that notices of such sales were to be posted "at three different places, viz. at Moses Roff's, at the pump opposite Capt. Gif- ford's in Broad Way and at Jacob Plum's store in the north part of the town." Here with one exception our records cease, as Cap- tain John Gifford died intestate in 1821, leav- ing his widow and seven children: I. Kather- ine, married Dr. Enion Sketton, of Virginia. 2. Mary, died single. 3. Patience, married Robert Johnson. 4. Sarah, married (first) Benjamin Whittaker; (second) Robert John- son, who was the husband of her deceased sis- ter, Patience. 5. Anna, married William Mil- ler, of Morristown, New Jersey. 6. Susan, married Thomas Chapman, an attorney of Camden, New Jersey. 7. Archer, see for- ward.
Hannah Crane, wife of Captain John Gif- ford, was the second daughter of Joseph, great-grandson of Jasper Crane, one of the original settlers in Newark from Branford. Her own great-grandfather, Jasper (2), be- sides holding half a dozen offices in the town and being deputy to the provincial council from 1697 to 1702, married Joanna, youngest sister of Elizabeth Swaine, who it is said had the honor of being chosen to be the first to land on the banks of the Passaic when the settlers arrived. Her grandfather, Lieutenant
David Crane, was the town's tax collector in 1742, and for a number of years after .1746 one of the committee having charge of the par- sonage lands; while her father, Joseph, was town constable in 1778, the year before her marriage.
(II) Archer, only son of Captain John and Hannah (Crane) Gifford, was born in New- ark in 1796. After attending the Newark Academy, he graduated from the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, in 1814, and later received from that institution his Master's degree. Soon after this he began studying law in the office of Elias Van Ars- dale, Esquire, where he remained until he was admitted to the bar in 1818. For the next twelve or thirteen years he practised in New- ark steadily, winning for himself a reputation as one of the rising constitutional lawyers, and among other things laying the foundations for his valuable contribution to the legal literature of New Jersey, which he published afterwards under the title of "Digest of the Statutory and Constitutional Constructions, etc., with an In- dex to the Statutes at Large." He was not an office seeker, but in 1832, when the town had become so populous that the lecture room of the Third Presbyterian Church, the largest hall in Newark and in use since 1830 as a town hall, would no longer accommodate the meeting, together with Isaac Andruss, Joseph C. Hornblower, Stephen Dod, and William H. Earle, Archer Gifford was appointed as a committee "to digest a plan for the division of the township into two or more wards, with a system for the transaction of the township business upon equitable principles," and when the report of the committee had been discussed and a revised plan finally adopted, James Van- derpool and Archer Gifford were appointed to represent the north ward of the town on the committee that prepared the bill for presenta- tion to the legislature. This bill became a law, and the ward system so organized was carried into effect, April, 1833, and operated success- fully for three years when the town received its charter as a city, April, 1836. In this year Arthur Gifford was appointed by President Andrew Jackson collector of customs for the port of Newark, an office he continued to hold for twelve years, in 1843 adding to it a mem- bership in the common council of the city to which he had been elected in 1843. He was also for many years an active and enthusiastic member of the New Jersey Historical Society and many valuable contributions to its col- lections were the results of his efforts. As a
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