Green, Elizabeth Shippen

Henry van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman born on November 10, 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton University in 1873 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. Van Dyke served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923; in addition, he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received many other hono...