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While in college he joined the Chi Psi fraternity; he was also a member of the
'Technian Literary Society and the Greylock Baseball Club.
At the close of Sophomore year, Van Slyck left college and entered the army, where
he served for about the period of three years in the 128th New York Volunteers, having
organized Company E of this regiment, and he attained the rank of major at the time of his
resignation from the army, after the fall of Richmond, in 1865.
Immediately after leaving the army our classmate entered upon the study of law with
Hon. John H. Reynolds, of Albany, New York, a judge of the State courts, and after his
admission to the bar, in 1866, began the practice of the law in New York City; has been
constantly engaged in active practice and has prospered in his profession. Van Slyck has
taken great interest and also some part in public affairs, but he has never held public office
of any kind. After the Civil War he served for a time on the staff of General
Shaler, of the
National Guard of the State of New York. He has never married. In 1900, Van Slyck
received the degree of B.A., in recognition of the fact that he left the Class before
graduation to take part in the defense of the country during the Civil War.
This is the short annals of a busy man.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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