Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Demarest, D. D. 1824 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

    D. D. DEMAREST, proprietor of the Altaville Foundry and Machine Shops,
Angel's, California, was born in Bergen, New Jersey, September 15, 1824. His
parents were David S. and Margaret (Durie) Demarest, and of their eleven
children he was the third. The original Demarest family settled on Manhattan
Island in 1852 with the French Huguenots.

   The subject of our sketch left school at the age of eleven years, and went to
work in the field, plowing. In 1842 he learned the trade of blacksmith, and
worked at it till 1849, when he set out for California. He arrived in San Diego,
this State, December, 1849; thence by steamer to San Francisco. On his trip to
California he experienced many hardships and privations.

   Mr. Demarest followed mining till 1859, when he took charge of a water ditch.
In 1861 he bought the foundry property, which he has enlarged and improved, and
is now able to make castings in brass and iron up to 1,200 pounds. He also has a
blacksmith and horse-shoeing shop and a hardware store, the whole plant having
cost him some $10,000. Recently, however, he let the shops to his son and Tom
Fullen. His business has so increased lately that he has built a new machine
shop, 30 x 60 feet, which will cast as high as four tons, and do machine work on
a proportionately grander scale.

    He was married in 1861, to Salina Ward, a native of Indiana and a daughter
of John Ward, a pioneer of California. Their children are David, Clarence and
Lillie.

    Socially, Mr. Demarest is an Odd Fellow and a Mason.



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Memorial and Biographical History
Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties California

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. 1892


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