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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Is This Preacher from Bloomsbury, NJ?
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:28:10 EDT


Hi,

From:
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and
John Fiske. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889

<A HREF="http://www.famousamericans.net/josephsmithvandyke/">http://www.famousamericans.net/josephsmithvandyke/</A>;
http://www.famousamericans.net/josephsmithvandyke/

Joseph Smith Van Dyke

VAN DYKE, Joseph Smith, clergyman, born in Bound Brook, New Jersey, 2
November, 1832. He was graduated at Princeton in 1857, and at the theological
seminary there in 1861, was tutor in Greek while studying theology, pastor of
the 1st Presbyterian church in Bloomsbury, New Jersey, in 1861-'9, and since
the latter year has held a charge in Cranbury, New Jersey In 1859-'60 he
lectured on education. Princeton gave him the degree of D.D. in 1884. He has
published "Popery the Foe of the Church " (Philadelphia, 1871) ; "Prohibition
of the Liquor Traffic" (New York, 1879): "Through the Prison to the Throne,
Illustrations of Life from the Biography of Joseph" (1881) ; "From Gloom to
Gladness, Illustrations of Life from the Biography of Esther" (1883) ;
"Giving or Entertainment : Which ?" (1883); and "Theism or Evolution" (1886).

Gene Bradfield







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