Johannes Dietrich Dyck was born 5 December 1826 in the German village of Poppau in West Prussia. He died 11 November 1898 in the Volga German Mennonite colony of Fresenheim.
After apprenticing in the grocery and dry-goods business, he immigrated to the United States in August 1848. He went first to Chicago and Wisconsin, and joined the California gold rush in 1850.
In 1858, he went back to Prussia where he married Helene Janzen.
They immigrated to Russia in 1859 to join her relatives who were already there.
They settled in the Volga German Mennonite colony of Fresenheim. He served as the mayor (Oberschulze) of the Am Trakt settlement from 1865 to 1883.
- Dyck, Cornelius J. "In the California Gold Rush." Mennonite Life 11 (January 1956): 25-28; (April 1956): 88.
- Dyck, Cornelius J. "Dyck, Johannes Dietrich (1826-1898)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. [Online]
- Dyck, Johannes J. "Einiges aus einem Lebenslauf." Der Herold (14 and 21 October 1937).
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