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The Lansing Republican
Tuesday, 15 May, 1855

         Died - 
         
         In Detroit, on the 7th inst., Hon. JAMES A. VAN DYKE,
       in the 42nd year of his age.
       
       ...later ...
       
         We extract from the Democrat & Enquirer, the following
       obituary notice.
       
         JAMES A. VANDYKE was born in December, of the year 1813,
       in the county of Franklin, Pennsylvania. He was educated
       at Madison College, N.Y., where he graduated in July, 1832.
       He studied law at Hagerstown, Md., in the office of Mr.
       Price, and with Mr. Meredith, in Baltimore, and was admitted
       to the bar there. He came to Detroit in 1834, entered the
       office of Hon. A. D. Fraser, and was admitted to the bar.
       
         In December, 1835, he married ELIZABETH, daughter of the
       late PETER J. DESNOYERS, ESQ., by whom he had eleven chil-
       dren, two of the eldest of whom died in infancy, and the
       two youngest of whom were taken away by death, during the
       past three weeks.
       
         Soon after his admission to the bar, he formed a co-
       partnership with Hon. Charles W. Whipple, late Chief Justice,
       and present Justice of the Supreme Court, which continued
       for some years. Soon after that period, Mr. VAN DYKE formed
       a copartnership with Ebenezer Harrington, Esq., which con-
       tinued until the death of that gentleman in June, 1844, when
       he formed a copartnership with Halmar H. Emmons, Esq., which
       existed until failing health took Mr. Emmons south in 1852.
       
         Mr. VAN DYKE filled the office of Prosecuting Attorney
       of the county of Wayne in 1840-41, the duties of which he
       performed with marked ability, and unwearied assiduity,
       and to which, as to those of every station and position in
       life in which he was placed, he gave his whole undivided
       energies.
       
         He filled the office of City Attorney in 1845-36*. (Note:
       these dates are exaclty as they appear in the obituary)
       
         For the past year he has filled the office of Attorney
       for the Michigan Central Railroad Company, but has not
       pursued a general practice.
       
         For the past fifteen years, he was Secretary of the Detroit
       Bar. He was President, for one year, of the Detroit Young
       Men's Society, and three times President of the Fire Depart-
       ment. Mr. VAN DYKE had been ill, and confined for the most
       part to his house for three or four weeks previous to his
       fatal illness, but neither he nor his friends were appre-
       hensive of his immediate dissolution, until inflammation of
       the stomach and bowels, followed by mortification, made it-
       self evident on Sunday, after which time he sunk steadily
       and rapidly until Monday toward night, when he revived in
       some degree, but soon began to sink again, and died peace-
       ably and in full possession of his faculties at midnight
       on Monday the 7th.
       
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