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Scholar in the Wilderness: Francis Adrian Van Der Kemp

Scholar in the Wilderness: Francis Adrian Van Der Kemp

Jackson, Harry

Paperback

Series: New York State

Historical FiguresGeneral SociologyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815604408
ISBN13: 9780815604402
Publisher: Syracuse Unbound
Published: Sep 28 2018
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Francis Adrian Van der Kemp was a writer, minister, and political leader of some prominence in his native Holland when he fled from religious and political persecution in 1788 to settle in Oneida County in upstate New York. He became one of the area's prominent citizens during its formative period. His active, inquiring mind ranged far beyond his rural village of Oldenbarneveld. Politics, religion, history, government, scientific agriculture, geology, the Erie Canal, the conduct of the War of 1812, and any threat to political or religious freedom stimulated him to research and writing. Van der Kamp's views were sought and respected not only by his friends and neighbors, but also by state and national leaders. His warm friendship with John and Abigail Adams endured until their deaths, and John Quincy Adams continued the relationship.

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