About the Author

David Miller DeWitt was born November 25, 1837 in Paterson, New Jersey, and settled with his parents in Brooklyn, New York in 1845. He attended the public schools of Brooklyn, and later graduated from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Obtaining his law degree, he was admitted to the New York bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Kingston. He served as district attorney of Ulster County from 1863 to 1870 and was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Third Congress where he served from 1873 to 1875. He died in Kingston on June 23, 1912 at the age of 74 and was buried in Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery.