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.