Kings County, New York
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) was an American newspaper publisher, financier and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Dr. Henry Lawrence (or Hendrick Lourens) Van Dyck (1773–1840) and Catherine (Van Alen) Van Dyck (1775–1863). He became a printer, and in 1830 the editor of the ''Goshen Independent Republican'', a Jacksonian newspaper. In 1832, he bought the newspaper, and sold it after his election to the State Senate.
He married Eliza A. Clark (c. 1810–c. 1862), and they had a son, Henry H. Van Dyck (1839–1859) who was killed in an accident.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate
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(2nd D.) from 1837 to 1840, sitting in the 60th, 61st, 62nd and
63rd New York State Legislature
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Background
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From 1840 to 1842, he was co-owner of the ''Albany Argus'', and from 1842 to 1856 of the ''Albany Atlas'', a Soft Democratic newspaper. In 1856, he joined the
Republican Party
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John C. Frémont
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and
William L. Dayton
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.
He was Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1857 to 1861, and Superintendent of the Banking Department from 1861 to 1865. In 1864, he married Frances Augusta Kelly (c. 1840–1916), and they had six children.
In 1865, he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as Assistant
United States Treasurer
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in New York. He was re-appointed by
Andrew Johnson
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and held office until 1869.
In 1869, he became President of the New York and Boston Railroad, and in 1883 of the American Safe Deposit Company.
He died from kidney disease at his residence at 5 Spencer Place, in Brooklyn, and was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.
Missionary
Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck
Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, M.D. (August 13, 1818 – November 13, 1895) was an American missionary physician, teacher and translator of the Protestant Bible into Arabic.''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 40, 131f, 146, 323 and 332; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) ''DEATH OF HENRY H. VAN DYCK'' in NYT on January 24, 1888 at Family Tree Make at Albany Rural Cemetery