Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....VanSlyke, D. C. 
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Author: George Anson Hardin and Frank Hallet Willard

Van Slyke, D.C., is a native of Little Falls, and has been a resident farmer 
all  his life.  His father, James Van Slyke, is still living and resides with 
him.  The family is descended from the old Mohawk Dutch, and they were among 
the earliest settler in that part of the State.  D. C. Van Slyke is a 
prominent and successful Prohibition worker, and is county deputy of the Good 
Templars.  He also belongs to the Royal Arcanum, the People's Benefit Society 
and the Grange.  He married Anna A. Border.  He works 176 acres of land and 
has forty cows.  He formerly dealt extensively in hay and supplied the Seventh 
and Eighth Avenue Railway Company of New York for seven years.  He brought to 
the town the first hay press used this side of Albany.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of 
many of its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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