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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.