a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in New York city, Sept. 14,1852; was left motherless when an infant; received a fair academic education and a good commercial training; married in early manhood; received license to preach in 1873, and united with the Florida Conference, and was appointed to the Cuban work where he worked faithfully and beyond his endurance until his death, by typho-malarial fever, June 7,1875. Mr. Van Duzer was a man of great energy and remarkable consecration. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 187b, p. 179.