Frances (Brown) Demarest was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Stephen C. Brown, registrar of the Smithsonian Museum, and step-granddaughter of Amanda Brown, who worked in the Treasury Department, 1880-1910, and was the leading authority on mutilated money. FBD had two siblings, Marjorie (Brown) Rush (died July 1982) and Harry J. Brown, a Washington journalist. FBD married Reginald E. Demarest, who was of Huguenot descent, and they had four children: Frederick Demarest (died July 14, 1983), Robert Demarest (a pilot during World War II), Virginia (Demarest) Singer (Smith College, class of 1932), and Frances (Demarest) Nichols, who attended Wellesley College with the class of 1940. FBD was a "gray lady" for the Red Cross during World War II. She died in September 1978; RED died in July 1971.
From the guide to the Papers, 1921-1949, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
