LOCAL PASTOR REV. HERMAN E. VAN SCHUYVER OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DROWNS BY OCEAN DRIVE - ACADIA, 1949

Deaths In Acadia National Park;

LOCAL PASTOT DROWNS
Bar Harbor Times
June 16,  1949

Services Held For Local Minister Believed Drowned
Memorial services were held at the Baptist Church on Wednesday afternoon for Rev. Herman E. Van Schuyver who is thought by police to have drowned in the waters off Ocean Drive last Saturday.
Following a report of Van Schuyver's disappearance Chief of Police George Abbott initiated a search in which the police Reserves, Park Rangers, Fire Department and Coast Guard took part.  His car was discovered in a parking lot off the Ocean Drive and according to police a bloodhound picked up Van Schuyver's trail three times which led to the water's edge each time, "therefore it is presumed that Mr. Van Schuyver drowned."
Rev. Van Schuyver assumed his duties here as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bar Harbor and the Eden Baptist Church at Salisbury Cove, on April 1.  He was a native of Maysville, Oklahoma, a graduate of Gordon College of Theology, Boston and previous to coming to Bar Harbor was leader of the Hudson Baptist Church and assisted at the Columbia Street Baptist Church in Bangor.  Mrs. Van Schuyver was the former Marjorie Ames of Bangor.