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Small paperback with beautiful letters from the Rev. Albertus Christiaan Van Raalte to his wife, Christina Johanna Van Raalte - De Moen, 1836-1847.
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Van Raalte was born on October 17, 1811, at Wanneperveen near Zwartsluis, in the Netherlands.
His father, the Rev. Albertus van Raalte, and his mother, Christina Caterina Harking, were the parents of sixteen other children.
Christiaan was a favored son, and in June 1829 he matriculated at the University of Leyden, where he studied medicine and then theology.
At the University he met Anthony Brummelkamp, who profoundly affected his whole career by inspiring him to religious fervor.
When Van Raalte had completed the theological course, he received a license to preach in the Reformed Church, but he was not formally admitted to the ministry because he refused to subscribe to all the regulations of the Dutch Reformed Church. On November 1, 1834, a new church had been founded, which was named the Gereformeerde, instead of the Hervormde, Church, and Van Raalte's sympathies were strongly with the seceders because he thought that the established church needed a second reformation.
For a time, he served as a minister in the new church, and in 1844, he removed to Arnhem in order to assist Brummelkamp in training candidates for the ministry in the newly formed denomination. The next year, owing to unfavorable economic conditions prevailing in the Netherlands, a small number of Van Raalte's acquaintances made preparations to emigrate to North America. During a severe illness in the summer of 1846, the thought occurred to him that he should, like a modern Moses, lead his comrades through the wilderness in a foreign country. Prompt action followed this thought.
In November 1846, he arrived in New York, and about one week later he was cordially received in Albany by Dr. I. N. Wyckoff, who gave him great encouragement. In December, he arrived at Detroit, and in the following month, he and his companions formulated a plan to found a settlement in western Michigan. On February 9, 1847, accompanied by his wife, and several men, he arrived at a place that he decided to name Holland, in honor of his native country.
Two years later the settlement was visited by Wyckoff, who published a description in The Christian Intelligencer, September 20, 1849. Rapidly the number of Dutch settlers increased. Van Raalte was their preacher as well as their physician. In 1867, however, he resigned his position as minister, claiming that, since he had never been ordained, the congregation needed a real minister.
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(Small paperback with beautiful letters from the Rev. Albe...)
Van Raalte was a born leader, ambitious, industrious, aggressive, broad-minded, patient, undaunted by danger and hardship but he was afflicted after 1855 by financial worries and bodily disease.
Van Raalte married Christina Johanna De Moen on March 11, 1836. They had two sons and five daughters.
30 January 1815 - 30 June 1871
27 July 1856 - 23 February 1914
30 March 1846 - 1933
19 October 1838 - January 1897
14 September 1850 - 16 March 1905
1 March 1844 - 10 February 1910
8 May 1840 - 14 August 1917
