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Escanaba Morning Press
Tuesday, March 25, 1913


                          PIONEER IS SUMMONED
                          
              HENRY VAN DYKE, one of the pioneer residents
            of this portion of the peninsula, passed away
            at his home at 236 Michigan avenue on Sunday
            morning, after an illness of several weeks.
            Mr. VAN DYKE suffered from a complication of
            diseases caused by advanced years and he 
            steadily lost strength, the end coming early
            on Sunday morning.
              Funeral services will be conducted over the
            body at the family home at 2:30 o'clock this
            afternoon. Rev. P. B. Ferris, pastor of the
            First Presbyterian church, will officiate at
            the service. Interment will be at Lakeview
            cemetery.
              Mr. VAN DYKE was born at Lewiston, Ill.,
            Jan. 27, 1838. As a young man he enlisted in
            the 132nd regiment of the Illinois volunteers
            and served through the civil war. After being
            honorably discharged he came to the peninsula
            and followed the occupation of a trapper, his
            trap line running from Grand Island through
            what is now the site of Escanaba and where
            then but one house stood on the north shore,
            to Marinette where he made his headquarters.
            Later he entered the employ of the North-
            western road and remained an employe of that
            company for 25 years. He left the employ of
            the company to engage in the furniture busi-
            ness in which he remained until 1894 when he
            retired from active business.
              He is survived by his wife, one son and two
            daughters. The surviving son and daughters are:
            CAPT. WALLACE VAN DYKE of Pentwater; MRS.
            THEODORE FARRELL and MISS FLORA VAN DYKE of
            this city. He is also survived by two brothers
            and one sister, GEO. N. VAN DYKE of Ponce
            Lonita, La.; JOHN G. VAN DYKE of Troy, Mont.,
            and MRS. ALVINA JOHNSON of Iowa.
            
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