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Walter Van Dyke (1823–1905) was a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and a justice of the California Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Van Dyke was born on October 8 1823 in Tyre Seneca County New York. He studied law in Cleveland Ohio from 1846 to 1848 and crossed the plains in 1849 remaining a short time in Los Angeles and then moving to Northern California. He settled in Humboldt County in 1853 and was district attorney there in 1854.