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Henri Marie de Vries (1836-1910), whose father was not a Mennonite, but whose mother was a Mennonite, a daughter of Jeronimo de Vries (1808-1880) of [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]], lived from 1871 at The Hague, where he was a director of the Dutch State Bank and a member of the city council. When he came to The Hague there was no Mennonite congregation there. De Vries was the chief promoter in the founding of a congregation in The Hague. For many years he was a trustee and moderator of this new congregation and in 1887-1905 he was a trustee of the [[Algemene Doopsgezinde Societeit|Algemeene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit]].
= Bibliography =
<em>Doopsgezinde Bijdragen </em>(1910): 219-29.

<em>De Zondagsbode</em> XXIII (1909-10): No. 19.
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