Humboldt County, CA and Trinity County, CA Biographies

Pioneer days in California: (1891)
By: Carr, John, 1827-1896
Humboldt County (Calif.) - Biography; Trinity County (Calif.) - Biography
Publisher: Eureka, Cal., Times publishing company

CHAPTER XLVII. BIOGRAPHY. 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 


VAN DYKE, WALTER� Native of New York; studied law in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, and admitted to practice in the courts of that State; arrived 
in California, via Tehuantepec, in 1850, and was among the first explorers 
of the lower Klamath River; belonged to the Whig party, but was elected 
District Attorney of Klamath county upon its organization in 1851; re- 
moved to Areata in 1852 and engaged in practice of his profession; mar- 
ried Miss Rowena Cooper in 1854; part owner and editor of the Humboldt 
Times several years, and served the county as District Attorney; became 
a resident of Eureka in 1858 ; elected to State Senate in 1861, and was 
prominent in the formation of the Union party; he now resides in Los 
Angeles, and is one of the Superior Judges of that county.