Carl Van Doren was an American literary critic, historian, and professor at Columbia University. He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for his biography Benjamin Franklin and was an influential editor, scholar, and writer on American literature.

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Mark Van Doren was an American poet, critic, and professor at Columbia University. He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems and was a respected teacher and literary scholar who wrote widely on poetry, literature, and Shakespeare.

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Adriaen van der Donck was an early Dutch colonial leader in New Netherland and one of the colony’s best-educated settlers. A lawyer trained at Leiden University, he advocated for colonists’ rights and established an estate that later gave the city of Yonkers its name.

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Gerrit Diekema was a Dutch American lawyer and politician from Michigan. He served as mayor of Holland, a U.S. Representative, and later United States ambassador to the Netherlands, where his Dutch heritage and language proved valuable.

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John Lesesne DeWitt was a United States Army officer who served nearly fifty years, reaching the rank of lieutenant general. During World War II he commanded the Western Defense Command and recommended the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

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