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Pieter Simon Bakels ([[Deventer (Overijssel, Netherlands)|Deventer]], 1844-Haarlem, 1921), educated at the [[Amsterdam Mennonite Theological Seminary (Kweekschool)|Amsterdam Mennonite seminary]], was a pastor at [[Hoorn (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Hoorn]] on the island of Texel 1869-1876, [[Burg, Den (Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Burg]] on [[Texel (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Texel]] 1876-1889, and [[Koog aan de Zaan (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Koog]]-Zaandijk 1889-1907, in which year he retired. He was a trustee of the [[Algemene Doopsgezinde Societeit|Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit]] 1889-1908. [[Bakels, Herman (1871-1952)|Herman Bakels]] was his son. Another son was Reinier Sybrand Bakels (b. den Hoorn, 1873), a well-known painter of portraits and landscapes.
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