Ustick, John T – Vallandigham, Clement Laird
Ustick, John T
printer, paper merchant, was born Nov. 20, 1842, near St. Louis, Mo., and is the son of Thomas Watts Ustick. For a quarter of a century he has been prominently identified with some of the foremost wholesale paper establishments of Chicago as secretary, manager and president. In 1897 he founded the Central Paper company of Chicago, and was its first president.
Ustick, Thomas
clergyman, philanthropist, was born Aug. 30, 1753, in New York city. He was educated at the Rhode Island college, now the Brown university, where he graduated in 1771. In 1777 he was ordained to the ministry, and in 1782 became pastor of the First Baptist church of Philadelphia. During the yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 he was of great service to his fellowmen. He died April 18, 1803, and was buried in the cemetery at the rear of the First Baptist church, of which he had been pastor for twentyone years.
Ustick, Thomas Watts
printer, publisher, was born Aug. 22, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa., and was a grandson of the Rev. Thomas Ustick, a noted baptist divine. He learned the printing business in Virginia, and became a successful printer and publisher of Washington, Chicago and St. Louis. In 1828 he was the publisher of the Washington City Chronicle. He was a devout member of the Third Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo., of which church he was deacon. He died Aug. 15, 1866, in St. Louis, Mo., leaving a rich legacy to his children in a name untarnished and an influence which will ever live.
Ustick, William Watts
printer, genealogist, was born Feb. 22, 1816. For many years he was a printer and publisher of Dubuque, Iowa; and is the author of genealogical work entitled Ustick Family Register. a UTTER, MRS. REBECCA [PALFREY], poet. She is the author of The King's Daughter, and Other Poems.
Uttley, Howell Mosher
lawyer, was born March 12, 1851, in South Bristol, N. Y. He has attained success as one of the leading lawyers of Nebraska at O'Neill, where he takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Vachell, Horace Annesley
author, was born in 1861 in England. He is a novelist now resident in California, but in 1883 an English lieutenant in the rifle brigade. He is the author of The Romance of Judge Ketchum; The Model of Christian Gay; The Quicksands of Pactolus; and An Impending Sword.
Vail, Alfred
scientist, inventor, author, was born Sept. 25, 1807, in Morristown, N. J. He was a scientist who was one of the inventors of the telegraph. He published a work on The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. He died Jan. 18, 1859, in Morristown, N. J.
Vail, Edward P
lawyer, jurist, was born July 30, 1849, in Frederick, Ill. For four years he was state's attorney of his native county; and for nearly four years filled the same position in Macon county. For the past ten years he has been judge of the fourth judicial circuit court of Illinois.
Vail, George
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 21, 1809, in Morristown, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1853 to 1857; and was appointed consul to Glasgow. He was also a judge of the court of He died May 23, 1875, in Morristown, N. J. errors.
Vail, Henry
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839. He died June 25, 1843.
Vail, Stephen Montford
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 10, 1818, in Union Dale, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman, at one time tried by his church for advocating an educated ministry. He was the author of Outlines of Hebrew Grammar; Education in the Methodist Church; and The Bible Against Slavery.
He died Nov. 26, 1880, in Jersey City, N. J.
Vail, Theodore Newton
public official, was born July 16, 1845, in Carroll county, Ohio. He was assigned to duty as assistant general superintendent in the United States government postoffice; and in 1876 was appointed general superintendent in the city of New York. He had thus reached the highest grade in this branch of the federal employment. Mr. Vail was the youngest of the officers of the railway mail service, both in years and terms of service.
Vail, Thomas Hubbard
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1812, in Richmond, Va. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Kansas, consecrated bishop in 1864; and the author of Hannah, a Sacred Drama; and The Comprehensive Church. He died Oct. 6, 1889, in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Vaile, Edwin Orlando
educator, journalist, was born Nov. 21, 1843, in Piqua, Ohio. During the war he served as a private in the one hundred and thirty-first Ohio. He is the editor and owner of The Intelligence, and The Week's Current, which are published in Oak Park, Ill.
Vaill, Joseph
clergyman, author, poet, was born July 3, 1750, in Litchfield, Conn. He made two missionary tours, one in 1792 to Vermont, and another in 1807 to the Black river country in New York. After 1832 he was given a colleague. He contributed to the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, under the pennames of Senex and Jethro, wrote for other periodicals, and, besides sermons published narrative poem entitled Noah's Flood, with some minor poetical pieces. He died Nov. 21, 1838, in Killingworth, Conn. a
Vale, Gilbert
author, was born in 1788 in England. He was a Brooklyn writer prominent as a free-thinker; and was the author of Fanaticism; and Life of Thomas Paine. He died Aug. 17, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Valentine, Daniel Mulford
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born June 18, 1830, in Shelby county, Ohio. He has been county surveyor and county attorney in Iowa and is now one of the foremost lawyers of the west at Topeka, Kan., to which state he moved in 1859. In 1862 he served as a member of the house of representatives of the Kansas state legislature; and as state senator in 1863-64.
During 1865-69 he was judge of the district court; and during 1869-93 served with distinction as judge of the supreme court, a position which he filled with honor for twenty-four consecutive years.
Valentine, David Thomas
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 15, 1801, in East Chester, N. Y. He was the clerk of the New York common council in 1831-69, and author of a Manual of the Corporation of New York City; and History of New York City. He died Feb. 25, 1869, in New York city.
Valentine, Edward K
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 1, 1843, in Keosauqua, Iowa. He served as an officer in the union army throughout the war of the rebellion. He located in Nebraska in 1866; and in 1869 was appointed register of the United States land office at Omaha, Neb. He was judge of the sixth judicial district from 1875 to 1878. He was elected a representative from Nebraska to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.
Valentine, Edward Virginius
sculptor, was born Nov. 12, 1838, in Richmond, Va. He opened a studio in Richmond. He was given the commission to execute the marble figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee in the mausoleum attached to the chapel of Washington and Lee university at Lexington, Va. This is among the finest pieces of sculpture of the kind in the United States.
Valentine, Ezra Gates
lawyer,. banker, was born Aug. 9, 1847, in Wyoming county, N. Y. He graduated with the full classical course in 1869 from the Beloit college, Wisconsin. He has attained distinction as an eminent lawyer of Breckenridge, Minn.; was a delegate to the national republican convention in 1896; and takes a prominent part in public affairs. He has been president of the state drainage board of Minnesota; vicepresident and director of the First National bank of Breckenridge, and director of other banks. He has been mayor of his city; is a thirty-two degree Mason, and stands high in several fraternal orders.
Valentine, Milton
clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 1, 1825, near Uniontown, Md. He is a lutheran clergyman, and professor of systematic theology at Gettysburg Theological seminary from 1884. He is the author of Natural Theology, or Rational Theism; The Relations of the Family to the Church; The Dynamics of Success; Knowledge by Service; Absolute Christianity; and Truth's Testimony to Its Servants: Is the Lord's Day only a Human Institution?
Valk, William W
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He removed to New York; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.
Vallandigham, Clement Laird
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio.
He was elected to the Ohio state legislature in 1845 and 1846; and was the editor of the Dayton Empire from 1847 to 1849. He was elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses; and was reelected to the thirtyseventh congress. In 1863 he was arrested, by military authority, for expressing his opinions against the war, and was banished to the southern states, and, by way of Bermuda, went to Canada. During his exile he was nominated for governor of Ohio, and was defeated. He died June 17, 1871, in Lebanon, Ohio.