Van Brunt, Rutgers

Van Brunt, Rutgers a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, was born in New York in 1820. He graduated at Hobart College in 1840, and at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1848, when he was licensed by the classis of that institution. He preached at Albany, N.Y., 1848-49; Newark, N.J., 1849; Smithtown and Carmel, N. Y. (Presbyterian), 1851-57; Waterford, N.Y., 1857-61. He died April 28, 1863. He was a man of broad and liberal culture, a thorough student, a pious and faithful minister. His labors were blessed by a revival at Newark. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Ch. in America, s.v.