Albertus van Raalte

This article is about the Dutch American minister. For the Dutch conductor, see Albert van Raalte.

Albertus van Raalte
Albertus van Raalte in 1847
Born
Albertus Christiaan van Raalte

(1811-10-17)17 October 1811
Wanneperveen, Netherlands
Died27 July 1876(1876-07-27) (aged 64)
Holland, Michigan, U.S.A.
OccupationReformed minister
SpouseChristina De Moen
Children10, including Dirk Van Raalte

Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (17 October 1811 – 27 July 1876) was a 19th-century Dutch Reformed clergyman.[1]

Early life and education

Van Raalte did not set out to follow in his father's footsteps and become a clergyman. He was initially attracted to medicine, but he enrolled in the theological school at the University of Leiden to please his father.[1][2] After being spared by cholera, which ravaged the Netherlands, van Raalte was inspired to devote his life to preaching.[2]

Emigration to America

Van Raalte was first ordained in the Secession Church in 1836 before he moved to the United States and was eventually ordained in the Reformed Church in America. When he visited the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, he met with the Grand Haven founder William Montague Ferry. Ferry encouraged van Raalte to settle in the Holland area.[3] He found the area to be what he believed to be ideal for farming, the occupation of many in the Netherlands who were being burdened by high taxes and very little land that was so little that farmers could no longer divide their land between their sons as an inheritance. Van Raalte sent home a handbill with such glowing descriptions of the area that many farmers' sons emigrated, cleared the heavily wooded land and found the farming to be fruitful.

Van Raalte himself was the spiritual leader for the Protestant Reformed Dutch immigrants who founded the city of Holland, Michigan in 1846 and played an important role in establishing the school that would become Hope College. In 1857, van Raalte disputed a number of issues with another reformed minister, Roelof Smit, which lead to the secession of Smit's congregation.[1]

In addition to settling Holland, Van Raalte also later started a Dutch colony in Amelia Court House, Virginia.[2]

Personal life

Christina Johanna de Moen

Van Raalte married Christina De Moen in 1836. He was the father of ten total children; seven of those ten children survived into adulthood: three boys and four girls. One of these children was future Union soldier and politician Dirk Van Raalte.[2]

Legacy

Van Raalte's personal papers are housed at the Heritage Hall Archives of Calvin University.

References

  1. ^ a b c Douma, Michael (Fall 2010). "Memory and the Myth of Albertus C. Van Raalte: How Holland, Michigan, Remembers Its Founding Father". Michigan Historical Review. 36 (2): 41 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ a b c d Jacobson, Jeanne (1996). Albertus C. Van Raalte: Dutch leader and American patriot. Holland, Michigan: Hope College. p. 13. ISBN 0-9634061-1-6.
  3. ^ Seibold, David H. (2007). Grand Haven in the path of destiny: a history of Grand Haven, Spring Lake, Ferrysburg and adjoining townships (1st ed.). Grand Haven, MI: Grand Haven Historical Museum. ISBN 9781424319008. OCLC 183327308.

Further reading

  • "Memory and the Myth of Albertus C. Van Raalte: How Holland, Michigan, Remembers Its Founding Father". Michigan Historical Review. 36 (2): 37–61. 2010. doi:10.1353/mhr.2010.0039. ISSN 2327-9672.

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