Visscher, William L – Vrooman, Harry Chase
Visscher, William L
author, poet, was born Nov. 25, 1842, in Owingsviile, Ky. He has written more than a thousand poems, and his masterpiece entitled Black Mammy, a song of the sunny south, appeared in book-form in 1886, together with other miscellaneous poems from his pen.
Vittum, Edmund March
clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 24, 1855, in Sandwich, N. H. This eminent congregational clergyman has published three books entitled Church Festival in the Meeting House; Faith on the Frontier; and Head of the Firm. He is a noted clergyman of Grinnell, Iowa; and a valuable contributor to religious publications. His poems have been a valuable acquisition to literature, and have been incorporated into several standard collections.
Vogdes, William
lawyer, educator, author, was born Dec. 29, 1802, in Philadelphia. He was a lawyer and educator of Philadelphia; and the author of United States Arithmetic; and Elementary Treatise on Mensuration. He died Jan. 28, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.
VOGELGESANG, JACOB GEORGE, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 3, 1853, near Canton, Ohio. He has held several public positions in Tazewell county, Ill.; and is now a successful lawyer of Russell, Kan. He has been judge of the probate court for five terms; and served with distinction as a representative in the Kansas state legislature.
Voight, Edward William
brewer, capitalist, was born April 5, 1844, in Saxony. He retains the general management of the Voight Brewing company, and is now president of the Michigan Sulphite Fibre company; vice-president of the Edison Illuminating company of Detroit; and the Edison Light company of Grand Rapids.
Volk, Leonard Wells
sculptor, was born Nov. 7, 1828, in Wellstown (now Wells), N. Y. In 1857 he settled in Chicago. His first sitter for a portrait-bustthe first that was ever modeled in that city-was his patron, and he subsequently, in 1858, made a life-size statue of Mr. Douglas in marble.
Volk, Stephen Arnold Doug- Las
artist, was born Feb. 23, 1856, in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1875 he exhibited at the salon In Brittany, and his Vanity was at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition of 1876. His other important works are In the Studio; The Puritan Maiden; The Puritan Captives; Accused of Witchcraft; and The Bride.
Vollmering, Joseph
artist, was born Aug. 27, 1810, in Westphalia. He opened a studio in New York and was elected an associate member of the National academy in 1853. Among his works are Indian Falls, near Cold Spring, N. Y.; View on the Hudson; Holy Shrine at Sunset; and Study of Trees. He died Sept. 24, 1887, in New York city.
Voorhees, Charles Stewart
lawyer, congressman, was born June 4, 1853, in Covington, Ind. He is a successful lawyer of Colfax, Wash. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Whitman county in 1882, and served until 1885; and was elected to the forty-ninth, and reelected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 26, 1827, in Butler county, Ohio. He was appointed United States district attorney for Indiana in 1858, and held that office until he entered congress in 1861. He was elected to the thirtyseventh, thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth, forty-first, and fortysecond congresses.
He was appointed United States sena- 2 tor to fill a vacancy, and took his seat Nov. 12, 1877. Soon after entering the senate he addressed that body in favor of free coinage of silver and the preservation of the greenback currency as full legal-tender money; and in this speech he laid down the principles on which as a direct issue the state of Indiana was carried by the democratic party the following year. He was re-elected in 1885, and was re-elected in 1891.
Voorhees, Jacob
farmer, legislator, was born May 25, 1841, in Glen, N. Y.
He has been regent for Oregon State Normal school and for the State Agricultural college. He has served as a member of the Oregon state senate.
Voorhies, John Stevens
publisher, was born May 9, 1809, in New York city. He projected and published Sedgwick on Damages; Voorhies's Code of Civil Procedure; Burrill's Voluntary Assignments; Greenleaf's Overruled Cases; Burrill's Circumstantial Evidence; Abbott's Digest; Cleveland's Banking Laws; and many other works. He died Nov. 19, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Voorhis, Charles Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born March 3, 1833, in Spring Valley, N. J. He graduated at Rutgers college, New Jersey, in 1853; and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1856 and as counsellor at law in 1859.
He was appointed in 1868 presiding judge for Bergen county, N. J., by Governor Ward; and was elected to the forty-sixth congress as a republican. For fifty years he was a member of the bar of New Jersey; was a pleasing and popular speaker; manifested superior literary ability, and contributed valuable historical data of Bergen and Hudson counties, N. J. He died April 15, 1896.
Vos, Geerhardus
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1862 in Holland. He is a Dutch clergyman, professor of biblical theology at Princeton seminary from 1894; and the author of The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes; Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den Banu Umajja und den Banu Haschim; The Doctrine of the Covenants in Reformed Theology; and Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Discipline.
Vose, George Leonard
civil engineer, educator, author, was born April 19, 1831, in Augusta, Maine. He is a civil engineer, professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1881-86; and the author of Orographic Geology; Manual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Disasters in America; A Graphic Method for Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary Course of Geometric Drawing; and Life of G. W. Whistler, Civil Engineer.
Vose, John
educator, author, was born in 1766 in New Hampshire. He was an educator of Atkinson, N. H., prominent in his day; and the author of System of Astronomy; and Compendium of Astronomy. He died in 1840.
Vose, Roger
lawyer, jurist, congressman. He was for many years chief justice of the court of common pleas in New Hampshire; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1817. He died April 17, 1842.
Votaw, Elihu Hilles
clergyman, lecturer, author, poet, was born June 21, 1839, in Salem, Ohio. He received his education at the Amherst college; then engaged in teaching in Yonkers, N. Y.; and Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he was ordained a clergyman of the congregational church; and has since filled pastorates in Cleveland, Ohio; St. Paul, Minn.; Geneva, Ohio; Princeton, Ill.; and is now filling a pastorate in Anita, Iowa. He is the author of Pillars and Perils of the Republic, and other works. He is also a brilliant lecturer, and a poet of acknowledged excellence.
Vought, Harry Dyer
journalist, was born Aug. 14, 1849, in Buffalo, N. Y.
For three years he was president of the Buffalo Press club; and has been secretary, governor and president of the International League Press clubs. For over twenty-one years he was connected with the Buffalo Courier.
Vredenburgh, Peter
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 31, 1805, in Readington, N. J. In 1837-52 he was prosecuting attorney of Monmouth county, N. J.; and in 1855-69 he was associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. He died March 24, 1873, in St. Augustine, Fla.
Vroom, Adelaide
educator, poet.
She has attained prominence as a successful educator of Missouri; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in western publications and several standard collections.
Vroom, Garret Dorset Wall
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1843, in Trenton, N. J., and is the son of the late Governor Vroom of New Jersey. Since 1865 he has practiced law in his native city; was city solicitor in 1866-70, and again in 1874-76. In 1870 he was prosecutor of the pleas of Mercer county, and in 1873 was appointed reporter of the supreme court. During 1881-83 he was mayor of Trenton; and became president of the board of public works. He was coeditor of the Revision of the Statutes of New Jersey, and also of the General Statutes of New Jersey.
Vroom, Peter Dumont
congressman, governor, was born Dec. 12, 1791, in Hillsborough township, N. J. He was governor of New Jersey from 1829 to 1836; and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1839 to 1841. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1844; in 1852 was a presidential elector; in 1853 was appointed minister to Prussia; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He died Nov. 18, 1873, in Trenton, N. J.
Vroom, Peter Dumont
soldier, was born April 18, 1842, in Trenton, N. J.
He served in the civil war, was promoted major of the second New Jersey cavalry in 1863, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel of volunteers for meritorious services during the war. He became first lieutenant in the third United States cavalry in 1866.
Vrooman, Harry Chase
clergyman, lecturer, was born April 13, 1864, in Port Huron, Mich. He received his education at the Washburn college of Topeka, Kan., and graduated from the Harvard college. For four years he taught school; and for several years was a reporter on the Topeka Daily Journal. He has attained eminence as a clergyman of the congregational church; has lectured from Maine to California, and from the lakes to the gulf on sociological topics. He is one of six brothers, all noted as sociological or progressive theological clergymen and lecturers; and sons of Judge H. P. Vrooman of Kansas City.