ELMENDORF, Joachim, born in Rochester, Ulster County, New York, 26 March 1827. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1850, and at the New Brunswick, theological seminary in 1853. He was licensed to preach by the Dutch Reformed Church in Poughkeepsie in the same year, and had pastorates in Syracuse, Albany, and other places, till 1872, when he was called to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he remained until he removed to New York City in 1886. He was elected a trustee of Rutgers College in 1869. He is the author of several discourses, memoirs of Richard Variek De Witt and Alice Justina De Peyster (1872), and many addresses and contributions to periodical literature. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Union.