Sabine County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Bokhoven, J Van October 8, 1885 - 
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Source: A History of Louisiana, v.3, p. 9
Author: Henry E. Chambers

REV. J. VAN BOKHOVEN is the Catholic priest in charge of St. Joseph’s Church at 
Zwolle in Sabine Parish. This is a historic old locality, and there were 
spanish speaking missionaries who gave their priestly services to this locality 
a century or more ago. Zwolle was on the famous King Highway between the 
settlements of Louisiana and the Mexican Southwest.

	Father Van Bokhoven was born at Hensden, province of Nord Brabant, 
Holland, October 8, 1885 and Comes from a family of Holland merchants. 



He is the only one in America. He received his early education in his native 
land, attended classical schools in Vienna, Austria, and in 1910 came to the 
United States and finished his theological course in St. Mary’s Seminary at 
Baltimore. He was ordained a priest by Cardinal Gibbons in 1912. His first 
duties were as assistant to Father Mahe in St. Francis Xavier Church at 
Alexandria, Louisiana.

	Eighteen months later, in November 1913, he was transferred to St. 
Joseph’s Church at Zwolle. He is well equipped for his duties as a priest and a 
missionary. Since boyhood he has been very fond of the Spanish language and 
Spanish history, though his knowledge of history is by no means confined to any 
one locality or nation. He speaks Spanish, French, German and English as well 
as his own Holland tongue. He has been a constructive leader of his people. In 
1915 he built a convent, and he also maintains the mission of Las Hormigas in 
the Mexican settlement in Sabine Parish, and is building a church for the 
benefit of these people. He established a parochial school at Zwolle and 
conducts it all the year round.

Additional Comments:
Rev. J. Van Bokhoven

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