Veeder, Emily Elizabeth – Vertin, John
Veeder, Emily Elizabeth
author, poet, was born in the valley of Lake Champlain, N. Y. She was a student in the Packer institute of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and has traveled extensively in the United States and foreign countries.
She belongs to a talented family, and is the granddaughter of Judge McOmber.
She is the author of Her Brother Donnard; In the Garden, and Other Poems; and has arranged several of her poems to music of her own composition.
During the author's congress of the World's Columbian exposition, Mrs. Veeder originated the idea of an author's institute. She has contributed extensively to current literature, and her most popular poems are Twilight Hours; In My Dreams; and A Voice.
Veeder, William D
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 19, 1835, in Guilderland, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1865 and 1866; and surrogate of Kings county from 1867 to 1877. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortyfifth congress as a democrat.
Vehslage, John H. G
soldier, business man, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1842, in New York city. In 1863 he joined the third cavalry, national guard, state of New York, and was commissioned captain by Governor Seymour in 1864. In 1876 he was appointed inspector of rifle practice with the rank of captain, and continued in service until 1880, when the regiment was mustered out of service by Governor Cornell; remained as supernumerary until 1883. He was elected and served as member of assembly from the first assembly district, New York city, in the year 1894; was at the democratic state convention held at Buffalo; was appointed a presidential elector, but resigned on account of receiving the nomination for congress. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Venable, Abraham B
congressman, United States senator, was born in 1760 in Prince Edward county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1791 to 1799, and was a senator of the United States from 1803 to 1804. He died Dec. 26, 1811, in Richmond, Va.
Venable, Abraham Woodson
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1799, in Prince Edward county, Va. He was a presidential elector in 1832 and 1836, and was a representative in congress from North Carolina, from 1847 to 1853. He took part in the rebellion of 1861, as a member of the socalled confederate congress, having previously been elected a presidential elector. He died Feb. 28, 1876, in Oxford, N. C.
Venable, Charles Scott
soldier, educator, author, was born April 19, 1827, in Prince Edward county, Va. He is a Confederate army officer, professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia from 1865, and author of a series of popular mathematical text-books.
Venable, Frank Preston
educator, author, was born Nov. 17, 1856, in Longwood, Va. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1880, and the author of A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis; and The Development of the Periodic Law.
Venable, William Henry
educator, author, poet, was born April 29, 1836, in Warren county, Ohio. He is an educator and littérateur of Cincinnati, and the author of School History of the United States; Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley; Let Him First be a Man, a collection of essays on education. His writings in verse include, June on the Miami, and Other Poems; and The Melodies of the Heart.
Venting, Richard
clergyman, author, lecturer, was born May 19, 1863, in Wellington, England. This eminent clergyman of the baptist church now fills a pastorate in Denison, Iowa. At the age of fifteen he engaged in evangelistic work, and has ever since been devoted to Christian labor in England and in the United States. He is the author of several books, the most noted of which are Fragrant Flowers of Truth; Ancient Emblem of Beauty; and The Different Aspects of the Christian Life. He is also a successful lecturer, and known as one of Iowa's brightest young divines and zealous workers.
Ver Bryck, Cornelius
artist, was born Jan. 1, 1813, in Yaugh Paugh, N. J.
The New York Historical society owns his The Old Dutch Bible. Among his portraits is one of William Cullen Bryant. He died May 31, 1844, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Verdi, Tullio Suzzara
physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1829, in Italy.
He is a homœopathic physician practicing in Washington from 1857, and the author of Maternity; Mothers and Daughters; The Infant Philosopher; and Special Diagnosis for Popular Use.
Vere, Maximilian
scholar, author, was born Nov. 1, 1820, in Sweden. He has published Outlines of Comparative Philology; Grammar of the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature; Studies in English: First French Reader; Grammar in French (1867); The Great Empress, a novel; Wonders of the Deep; Introduction to the Study of French; Romance of American History; Americanisms, or the English of the New World; and other works.
Vermilye, Ashbel Green
clergyman, author, was born in 1822 in Princeton, N. J. Having been appointed chaplain of the Marine hospital Antwerp, Belgium, he went to that country in March, 1879. Among other sermons he published Historical Sermon at Centennial of First Presbyterian Church, Newburyport.
Vernon, Jane Marchant Fisher
actress, was born in 1796 in England.
She became attached to the Old Chatham theater, and in 1830 to the Park, where she remained till 1847, and gained great popularity. She was long connected with Wallack's company, making her last appearance as Mrs. Sutcliffe in School in 1869. She died June 4, 1869, in New York city.
Verplanck, Daniel Crommelin
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1761 in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1802 to 1809; and subsequently served for many years as judge of the county court of Dutchess county, N. Y., resigning in 1828. He died March 29, 1834, near Fishkill, N. Y.
Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin
state legislator, educator, author, was born Aug. 6, 1786, in New York city. In 1820 he was a prominent member of the New York legislature. He soon after became professor of the evidences of Christianity in the Theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church in New York.
From 1825 to 1833 he was a member of congress from the city of New York; and was afterwards, for several years, a member of the New York senate. He was a Shakespearean scholar whose carefully edited Shakespeare appeared in 1846. He was the author of Essays on Revealed Religion; Discourses on American History, Art and Literature; Discourses and Addresses; Essay on the Doctrine of Contrasts; and The Bucktail Bards. He died March 18, 1870, in New York city.
Verplanck, Isaac A
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 16, 1812, in Coeymans, N.
Y. He went to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1847, was elected a judge of the superior court of that city in 1854, and twice re-elected, and by the choice of his associates was made chief. He died April 16, 1873, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Verree, John P
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1819 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the Philadelphia select council for six years; and four years the presiding officer of that body. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.
Verren, Antoine
clergyman, educator, was born Feb. 14, 1801, in France. In 1831, by appointment, he revised and corrected the Book of Common Prayer.
He died March 17, 1874, in New York city.
Verrill, Addison Emory
educator, scientist, author, was born Feb. 9, 1839, in Greenwood, Maine. In 1862 he graduated from the Lawrence Scientific school and received the degree of A. M. from Yale college. For two years he remained at Cambridge as an assistant of Louis Agassiz; and since 1864 has been professor of zoölogy in Yale university, and an instructor in geology for twenty-three years. Since its foundation in 1875 he has also been curator of the zoölogical department of the Peabody museum. He was special assistant on United States fish commission in charge of scientific explorations and marine invertebrates from 1871 to 1888. a
Vertin, John
bishop, was born July 17, 1844, in Austria. In 1863 he emigrated to the United States, and two years later was ordained priest, and was placed in charge of the Mission church of Houghton, Michigan. After five years spent there he labored for eight years among the Catholics of Negaunee. In 1879 he was consecrated bishop of Marquette and Sault de Ste. Marie, and has sixty priests under his care. He has built St. Peter's cathedral of Marquette, which is one of the finest cathedrals in America; and established numerous churches.