. Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ing in Og-den, Utah, he was set apart as a mis-sionary to Holland, where he arrivedAug. 5, 1861, with his companion, PaulA. Schettler. He baptized the firstconverts in the Netherlands Oct. 1,1861, at Broek-Akkerwoude, Friesland,where an attractive marker was erect-ed in the fall of 1936. In 1862, whenPres. Schettler was transferred toSwitzerland, Elder van der Woude suc-ceeded him. He returned to Utah in1863 and later moved to Idah
. Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ing in Og-den, Utah, he was set apart as a mis-sionary to Holland, where he arrivedAug. 5, 1861, with his companion, PaulA. Schettler. He baptized the firstconverts in the Netherlands Oct. 1,1861, at Broek-Akkerwoude, Friesland,where an attractive marker was erect-ed in the fall of 1936. In 1862, whenPres. Schettler was transferred toSwitzerland, Elder van der Woude suc-ceeded him. He returned to Utah in1863 and later moved to Idaho, Amer-icanizing his surname into Vander-wood. He died in August, 1890, atMalad, Idaho. VAN DYK, Sybren, president of theNetherlands Mission from 1871 to1874, and again from 1880 to 1882, wasborn May 22, 1827, at Leeuwarden, inthe Netherlands, a son of Roelof vanDijk and Sjieuwke Westra. He wasbaptized May 19, 1862, by A. W. vander Woude, and soon was found as-sisting the Elders in their in 1866 the first Dutch or Neth-erlands edition of Parley P. PrattsVoice of Warning was published,brother Van Dyks translation was BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 359. used, which he had made from theGerman. He also translated othermissionary literature. He left Hollandfor Utah in 1869,accompanied by hiswife and two chil-dren. In the fall of1871 he was backin his native land,as a missionary,having been setapart to presideover the mission,succeeding Jan , whohad had temporary charge since collaboration with Johannes he translated John JaquesCatechism for Children, which hepublished. During his second mis-sion he wrote several circulatingletters, calculated to instruct andedify the scattered saints. Returningto Utah in 1882, he tuined the affairsof the mission over to Zwier W. Kolde-wyn, a local member. Elder Van Dyk,whose name is sometimes written VanDyke (in Dutch van Dijk), died , 1899, at Loa, Utah. (the first edition in the Dutch lan-guage,) being pu
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