Van der Sloot, Frederick William, a minister of the German Reformed Church, was born in Dessau, Germany, Nov. 11, 1773. His father was a minister. Educated in Europe, he emigrated to the United States in 1801. Licensed and ordained in 1802, he took charge of seven congregations in Lehigh and Northampton counties. Pa. In 1811 he was called to Germantown, near Philadelphia. In 1813 he removed to New (ioshen- hoppen, Montgomery Co. In 1818 he was called to Philadelphia, where he founded Salem's (iernian Re- formed Cluirch. In 1824 he removed to Rockingham County, Va., where he served ten congregations. In 1827 he became pastor of a charge in York and Adams counties. Pa., which he served until his death, Dec. 14, 1831. He was a tine linguist, a good preacher, and also a poet; many of his poems having been published. Two of his sons entered the ministry.
Vanderveer, Cyrus G., a minister of the Re- formed (Dutch) Church, was born in New Hurley, N. Y., in 1835. At the age of seventeen he entered upon a commercial career, which lasted four years; but when he found the Saviour, he gave himself to the work of the ministry. He graduated at the New Brunswick Theological Seminar)' in 1859, when he was licensed to preach; became missionary at Havana in 1859; at Davenport, la., from 1859 to 1861; chaplain in the army from 1861 to 1862 ; and corresponding secre- tary of the Board of Domestic Missions from 1866 to 1868. He died in 1868. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America, 9. v.
Vanderveer, John, D.D., a minister of the Re- formed (Dutch) Church, was born in Hunterdon Coun- ty, N. J., May 5, 1800. He graduated at tiie College of New Jersey in 1817, and at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1822, when he was licensed as a minister. He was missionary to several towns in New York in 1823; pastor at Philipsburg, Pa. (Presby- terian), from 1824 to 1827; and teacher at Easton from 1827 to 18,W. He died in 1878. His school at Easton was famous for more than a (piarter of a century, and his pupils carried with them pleasant memories of their intercourse with their teacher. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America, s. v.
Vandervoort, John C, a minister of the Re- formed (Diitcii) Church, was born at Bound Brook, N. J., in i7!l8. He graduated at Queen's College in 1818, and at the New Brunswick Tiicological Seminary in 1819, wlien he was licensed to preach. He preached at German Valley and Fox llill, N. .1. (Presbyterian), from 1819 to 1826; Basking Ridge (Presbyterian), from 1826 to 1834; First Church, Totowa, from"l834 to 1837; Kinderhook, N. Y., from 1837 to 1842; Mellenville, from 1842 to 1845: New Paltz, from 1845 to 1848; and Sec- ond Churcii. Ghent, from 1848 to 1851. He died June 21, 1851. His piety was fervent, and he contented not himself with merely illustrating historical truth, but carried his appeals directly to the hearts aixl consciences of his hearers. In most of his charges his labors were crowned with success in the salvation of souls. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America, s. v.
Vandervoort, Paul, a Methodist Episcopal min- ister, was born in ^Mongolia County, Va., June 19, 1828. He joined the Church in 1848, and entered the travel- ling comiection in the Western Virginia Coidereiice in 1855. He served the Church faithfully on seven differ- ent circuits, and died at Jollytown, Pa., Aug. 26, 1865. Mr. Vandervoort was courteous and upright in deport- ment, calm and firm in purpose, and practical and fer- vent in preaching. See Minnies of Annual Conferences, 1866, p. 47.
Vandewater, Albertis, a Reformed (Dutch) and Presbyterian minister, was born near Brunswick, L. I., Sept. 21, 1821. He received his education preparatory to college at the school of Dr. J. J. Owen, in Orchard Street, New York city, and united, on profession of his faith, with the Seventh Presbyterian Church of New York city, when about nineteen years of age. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1846, and entered the PrinceUni Theological Seminary in the same year. There he took a full three years' course of studj', and was regularly graduated in 1849. Not long after he became stated su])ply to the Church at Athens, Bradford Co., Pa., where he was ordained as an evangelist by the Susquehamia Presbytery, Nov. 5, 1850, and where he continued to labor until 1854. He then accepted a call to the Reformed Dutch Church of Spotswood, Mid- dlesex Co., N. J., where he was installed Nov. 1, 1854, and continued to labor very acceptably and usefully over thirteen years, imtil he was released by the Classis of Monmouth, Nov. 5, 1867. His next charge was the Lhiited Dutch Reformed churches of Blenheim and Brackabeen, N. Y'., in the Classis of Schoharie, where he was installed Dec. 18, 1868, and was released March 1, 1869. After this he supplied for a short time the Re- formed Dutch Church of Wolcott (now Fair Haven), N. Y., but soon accepted a call to the Reformed Dutch Church of Oakland (otherwise called Pands Church), in Bergen Co., N. J., wliere he was installed ]May 26, 1869, and released April 23, 1872. After this he re- sided about a year at Princeton, N. J., without special employment; then taught school for a short time at Yardville, Mercer Co., N. J., after which he taught school and preached as a missionary near F'armingdale, Monmouth Co. While laboring there, his efforts were blessed with a revival, in which about seventy souls were hopefully converted. He was then induced to remove to Missouri, where he became stated supply to the Church of IVIine La Motte, in the Presbytery of Po- tosi, in the autumn of 1876. Here he was laboring faithfully and zealously when he was summoned away by death. This event occurred Feb. 28, 1879, at Mine La jNIotte, jNIadison Co., Mo. His death was a very calm and happy one, and full of triumphant faith in the Saviour. (\V."P. S.)