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DE WITT, John, clergyman, born in Catskill, New York, in August 1789 ; died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 11 October 1831. He studied for a time at Union, but was graduated at Princeton in 1809, studied theology with Dr. Porter in Catskill, was licensed to preach in 1811, and held pastorates in the Reformed Dutch Church at Lanesborough, Massachusetts, and Albany, New York, till 1823, when he became professor of ecclesiastical history in the theological seminary at New Brunswick, N.J. In 1825 Dr. De Witt assumed also the professorship of belles-lettres', criticism, and logic in Rutgers College. The three chairs he filled until his death. His publications were confined to occasional discourses.
His son, John, born in Albany, N. Y.. 19 October 1821, was graduated at Rutgers in 1838, and at the New Brunswick seminary in 1842. He was ordained in the Reformed Church and was pastor at Ridgeway, New York, in 1842'4, at Ghent in 1845'8, at Canajoharie in 1848'9, and at Millstone, New Jersey, from 1850 till 1863, when he became professor of sacred literature in the theological seminary at New Brunswick. He was a member of the Bible revision committee, and is the author of "The Sure Foundation and How to Build on it" (New York, 1860), and a new translation of the Psalms (1885).
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