Henry van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman. Henry van Dyke was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
He was the son of Henry Jackson van Dyke Sr. (1822–1891), a prominent Brooklyn Presbyterian clergyman known in the antebellum years for his anti-abolitionist views. The family traced its roots to Jan Thomasse van Dijk, who emigrated from Holland to the North America in 1652.
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