Vries, Henri Marie de (1836-1910)
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, 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 Algemeene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1910): 219-29.
De Zondagsbode XXIII (1909-10): No. 19.
Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
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Date Published | 1959 |
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Vries, Henri Marie de (1836-1910)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 23 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vries,_Henri_Marie_de_(1836-1910)&oldid=109672.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 863. All rights reserved.
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