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Vance, Zebulon Baird

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born May 13, 1830, in Buncombe county, N. C. In 1854 he was elected to the legislature from Buncombe county, N. C.; and in 1858 was elected to the federal house of representatives. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was elected governor of North Carolina in 1862, and re-elected in 1864. He was elected United States senator in 1870, but was refused his seat. He was elected governor in 1876; and was elected a United States senator from North Carolina for the term of six years from March 4, 1879; and in 1885 was re-elected; and again in 1890.

VAN CLEAVE, JAMES ROBERT BURNS, public official, was born Oct. 9, 1853, in Knoxville, Ill. He received his education in the public schools of his native city and at Knox college at Galesburg, Ill. While pursuing his collegiate course he acted as correspondent of the Chicago papers, and afterward was traveling correspondent for the New York Herald and the Chicago Times throughout the south at the period of the Hayes- Tilden electoral contest. He has been enrolling and engrossing clerk of the Illinois state senate; was secretary of the original Blaine club of Chicago; was chief clerk of the custom house at Chicago; deputy city clerk for two terms, and city clerk for turee terms. He has been secretary of every republican state and county convention for many years; and in 1896 was secretary of the state central committee and a member of the executive committee. He is a member of the governor's staff, holding the position of inspector-general of the Illinois national guard. He is also the insurance superintendent of the state of Illinois, and a prominent member of various secret orders and clubs of Chicago, Ill. VAN CLEEF, JAMES HENRY, lawyer, state legislator, was born July 12, 1841, in Branchville, N. J. In 1877-78 he was city attorney for New Brunswick, N. J.; in 1881 was elected to the legislature; and in 1889 was elected mayor of the city of New Brunswick.

VAN CLEVE, HORATIO PHILLIPS, soldier, agriculturist, civil engineer, was born Nov. 23, 1809, in Princeton, N. J.

He served under General George H. Thomas at Mill Springs, for his part in which action he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers on March 21, 1862. He was adjutant-general of Minnesota in 1866-70, and in 1876-82. He died April 24, 1891, in Minneapolis, Minn.

VAN CORTLANDT, PHILIP, soldier, agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1749, in Cortlandt Manor. He served through the revolutionary war as colonel in the New York line. He was a member of the New York assembly from Westchester county in 1788, 1789, and 1790; and was a member of the state senate from 1791 to 1794. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1793 to 1809. He died Nov. 5, 1831, in Cortlandt, N. Y.

VAN CORTLANDT, PIERCE, state legislator, congressman. He was a member of the state assembly of New York in 1777; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1811 to 1813.

VAN CORTLANDT, PIERRE, soldier, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1762, in Cortlandt Manor. He was a leading man in Westchester county, its representative in congress in 1811-12, and major-general of the militia, one of his aides being James Fenimore Cooper. He died in July, 1848, in Cortlandt Manor.

VAN CORTLANDT, STEPHANUS, statesman, was born May 4, 1643, in New York city. He was the first and only lord of the manor, and one of the most eminent men of the province of New York after it became an English colony. He served in various offices and became governor of the colony. He died Nov. 25, 1700, in New York city.

VAN COTT, CORNELIUS, state senator, was born Feb. 12, 1838, in New York city.

From 1888-89 he was a member of the New York senate; and in 1889 was elected postmaster of New York city. VAN COTT, OSCAR, educator, was born Sept. 17, 1863, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He graduated from the university of Utah; has attained success as an educator; and during 1896-98 was the first superintendent of Salt Lake county schools under statehood for Utah.

VANDALE, JOHN A. A., educator, lawyer, was born Sept. 1, 1853, in Boggsville, W. Va. He is a prominent lawyer of Spencer, W. Va.; was principal of schools for several years, and a member of the school board when the high school was built. He has been public prosecutor for eight years; is a member and secretary of the board of directors of the second hospital for the insane; and has filled various other public positions of honor.