Very, Frank W – Villepigue, John Bordenave
Very, Frank W
educator, astronomer, author, was born Feb. 12, 1852, in Salem, Mass. He was astronomer at the Allegheny observatory for over seventeen years; and is now professor of astronomy in the Brown university of Providence, R. I. He is the author of numerous astronomical works, and has contributed valuable articles to current scientific journals.
Very, Jones
clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 28, 1813, in Salem, Mass.
He was a unitarian clergyman living in Salem, Mass., who must be accounted as one of the most purely spiritual of American poets. His Essays and Poems appeared in 1839, the poems including fifty sonnets on the Shakespearean model remarkable for their extreme delicacy and purity of conception. A fuller edition of the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a complete and revised edition of Poems and Essays in 1886. He died May 8, 1880, in Salem, Mass.
Very, Lydia Louisa Anna
educator, author, poet, was born Nov. 2, 1823, in Salem, Mass. She was for many years a teacher in Salem and is the author of Poems and Prose Writings.
Vessels, William Greene
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 27, 1847, in Manton, Ky. He is a successful clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church of Newtown, Ind. He is the author of two books entitled Trowel and Sword, a temperance work; and Trio, a religious work.
Vest, Emmons Rutledge
clergyman, author, was born June 4, 1852, in Holman, Ind. He received his degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the De Pauw university; and for two years was professor of history and English in that institution. In 1883 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has since filled pastorates in the Indiana conference. He is the author of Columbia's Tomorrow; Religion in Civilization; Higher Citizenship; and other works.
Vest, George Graham
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 6, 1830, in Frankfort, Ky. In 1853 he removed to Missouri and began the practice of law in Central Missouri.
He was a presidential elector on the democratic ticket in 1860; and was a member of the Missouri house of representatives in 1860-61. He was a member of the house of representatives of the Confederate congress for two years and a member of the Confederate senate for one year. He was elected to the United States senate as a democrat to fill a vacancy and took his seat March 18, 1879. He was re-elected in 1885, 1890, and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
Vethake, Henry
educator, author, was born in 1792, in Essequilo county, B.
G. He was a Philadelphia educator who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1836, and provost in 1854. He was the author of Principles of Political Economy. He died Dec. 16, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Vetromile, Eugene
missionary, author, was born Feb. 22, 1819, in Italy.
He was a noted Italian Jesuit missionary long resident among the Penobscot Indians, and the author of Travels in Europe, etc.; The Abenaki and Their History; and several works in the Abenaki language. He died Aug. 21, 1880, in Italy.
Veysey, Arthur Henry
author, was born in 1869 in England. He is a writer of New York city, and the author of A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel.
Vezin, Hermann
actor, was born March 29, 1829, in Philadelphia. He was successful in The Man o' Airlie; The Rightful Heir; Life for Life; and various comedies, new and old, and in 1875 added greatly to his reputation by his rendering of Jacques in As You Like It.
Vibbard, Chauncey
railroad superintendent, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1811, in Galway, N. Y. In 1848 he became the superintendent of the Utica and Schenectady Railway company, and was afterwards called to the same position in the New York Central Railway company, in which capacity he continued until elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress.
Vick, James
horticulturist, was born Nov. 23, 1818, in England. In 1855 he engaged in the novel enterprise of retailing seeds through the medium of the U. S. mails. He developed new varieties of plants by cultivation or cross-fertilization, notably double phlox, white gladiolus, and fringed petunia. He died May 16, 1882, in Rochester, N. Y.
Vickers, George
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Nov. 19, 1801, in Chestertown, Md. In 1836 he was an elector of the state senate of Maryland; and in 1864 was a presidential elector.. He was a member of the Maryland state senate in 1866 and 1867, and in 1868 was elected a senator in congress from Maryland, for the term ending in 1873, to fill a vacancy. At the commencement of the rebellion he received the appointment of major-general of the Maryland militia.
He died Oct. 8, 1879, in Chestertown, Md.
Vickers, George M
author, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of a number of works; among his best known are Lost in the Mountains; The Felon's Wife; Roderick Lee; The Pilot Bride; and numerous others. He has also written a number of short comedies as Dorothy Clyde and The Public Worrier.
Victor, Mrs. Frances Auretta
[FULLER] [BARRETT], author, was born May 23, 1826, in Rome, N. Y. She is the author of The River of the West; All Over Oregon; The New Penelope, and Other Stories; and Atlantis Arisen.
Victor, Mrs. Metta Victoria
[FULLER], author, poet, was born March 2, 1831, near Erie, Pa. She was a novelist and poet of New York city, and the author of Fresh Leaves from Western Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan romance; The Senator's Son, a plea for the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; The Gold Hunters; Miss Slimmens' Window, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel; Too True; Alice Wilde; The Backwoods Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess's Client; The Dead Letter; Figure Eight; Passing the Portal; Blunders of a Bashful Man; The Bad Boy's Diary; The Naughty Girl's Diary; and The Rasher Family. Her poem Compound Interest is still quoted. She died in 1885.
Victor, Orville James
journalist, author, was born Oct. 23, 1827, in Sandusky, Ohio. He is an author and editor of New York city, and the author of History of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents and Anecdotes of the War; and History of American Conspiracies.
Videl, Michel
journalist, diplomat, congressman, was born in France. In 1867 he started, in Opelousas, La., a paper called the St. Landry Progress. He was afterwards appointed a registrar for the city of New Orleans. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the fortieth congress, and was subsequently appointed consul at Tripoli.
Viele, Egbert Ludovickus
military engineer, congressman, author, was born June 17, 1825, in Waterford, N. Y.
He is a military engineer who served in the civil war, and became park commissioner of New York city in 1883. He was elected a representative to the fortyninth congress. He is the author of Handbook for Active Service; Topographical Atlas of New York City. Besides his published works he has been a regular contributor to various magazines and scientific papers of the United States.
Vignaud, Jean Henry
journalist, author, was born Nov. 27, 1830, in New Orleans, La. In 1863 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Confederate diplomatic commission in Paris. He is the author of a History of the Formation of the American Union; and a History of the Discovery and Occupation of the Territory of the United States.
Vilas, William Freeman
soldier, lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born July 9, 1840, in Chelsea, Mass.
He removed with his father's family to Wisconsin and settled at Madison June 4, 1851. He was graduated at the State University in 1858, and from the law department of the University of Albany, N. Y., in 1860. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of New York and by the supreme court of Wisconsin in the same year, and began the practice of law at Madison in 1860. He was captain of company A, twenty-third regiment Wisconsin infantry volunteers, and afterwards major and lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. He has been one of the professors of law of the law department of the state university since 1868, omitting four years, 1885 to 1889, and was one of the regents of the university from 1880 to 1885. He was one of three revisers appointed by the supreme court of Wisconsin in 1875 who prepared the existing revised body of the statute law adopted in 1878; and was a member of assembly in the Wisconsin legislature in 1885. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1884, and permanent chairman of the latter. He was postmaster-general from 1885 to 1888, and secretary of the interior from the latter date to 1889. He received the unanimous nomination of the democratic legislative caucus and was elected United States senator Jan. 28, 1891, and took his seat March 4, 1891.
Villard, Henry
journalist, financier, was born April 11, 1835, in Germany. He subsequently became the European correspondent of the New York Tribune.
In 1870 he engaged in Germany in the negotiation of American railway securities. Representing clients, he gained control of the Oregon Steamship company and other transportation routes of which he was made president in 1875.
Villepigue, John Bordenave
soldier, was born July 2, 1830, in Camden, S. C. He joined the Confederate army, and attained the rank of major-general.
He died Nov. 9, 1862, in Port Hudson, La.