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Vandiver, Willard Duncan

educator, congressman, was born March 30, 1854, in Hardy county, Va. He was elected professor of natural science in Bellevue institute, and three years later became In 1889 he accepted the its president. chair of science in the State Normal school at Cape Girardeau, and in 1893 became its president. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

VAN DORN, EARL, soldier, was born Sept. 17, 1820, in Port Gibson, Miss. In 1842 he graduated from West Point; and served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars, attaining the rank of brigadier-general. In 1861 he was appointed brigadier-general of the state forces by the Mississippi legislature; and afterward succeeded Jefferson Davis as major-general. After gallant service in the was fatally shot by a 1863, in Springfield, confederate army he Dr. Peters May 8, Tenn.

VAN DUSEN, WASHINGTON, author, poet, was born Feb. 3, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Immortelles, and Other Poems; and has contributed extensively to the Philadelphia daily newspapers, and prominent eastern magazines. His poems have been given a place in Poets of America, and in several other standard collections; and are a valuable acquisition to literature.

VAN DYKE, CORNELIUS VAN AL- LEN, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 13, 1818, in Kinderhook, N. Y. He superintended the publication of a version of the whole Bible in 1864-67 for the American Bible society. He is the author in Arabic of a series of mathematical, chemical, astronomical and hygienic works.

VAN DYKE, HENRY HERBERT, financier, was born in 1809 in Kinderhook, N. Y. He became superintendent of public instruction for the state of New York in 1857, and in 1861 superintendent of the state banking department, holding office till 1865, when he was chosen assistant United States treasurer. He died Jan. 22, 1888, in New York city.

VAN DYKE, HENRY JACKSON, clergyman, author, was born March 2, 1822, in Abingdon, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, and the author of The Lord's Prayer; and The Church: Her Ministry and Sacraments. He died May 26, 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

VAN DYKE, HENRY JACKSON, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pa. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Brick church from 1882, and the author of The Reality of Religion; The Story of the Psalms; The National Sin of Literary Piracy; The Poetry of Tennyson; Historic Presbyterianism; Straight Sermons to Young Men; The Christ Child in Art; Little Rivers; The Story of the Other Wise Man; That Monster-the Higher Critic; God and Little Children; The Gospel for an Age of Doubt; and The Builders, and Other Poems.

VAN DYKE, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 3, 1807, in Lamington, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1847 to 1851.

He afterwards became a judge of the supreme court of the state. He died Dec. 24, 1878, in Wabasha, Minn.

VAN DYKE, JOHN CHARLES, art critic, author, was born April 21, 1856, in New Brunswick, N. J. He is an art critic and librarian of the Sage library at New Brunswick, N. J. He is the author of Books and How to Use Them; Principles of Art; How to Judge a Picture; Serious Art in America; Art for Art's Sake; History of Painting; and Old Dutch and Flemish Masters. VAN DYKE, JOSEPH SMITH, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 2, 1832, in Bound Brook, N. J. He is a presbyterian clergyman, minister at Cranbury, N. J., from 1869, and the author of Popery the Foe of the Church; Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic; Through the Prison to the Throne; From Gloom to Gladness; Giving or Entertainment-Which? and Theism or Evolution.

VAN DYKE, NICHOLAS, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1738, in New Castle county, Del. He was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1777 to 1782, and was a signer of the articles of confederation. He died Feb. 19, 1789, in New Castle county, Del.

VAN DYKE, NICHOLAS, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Dec. 20, 1769, in New Castle, Del. He was elected in 1799 to the legislature of Delaware, and in 1807 to congress, serving until 1811. In 1815 he became a member of the senate of Delaware, and from 1817 till 1826 he was a member of the United States senate. He died May 21, 1826, in New Castle, Del.

STRONG, VAN DYKE, THEODORE was born July 19, 1842, in New Brunswick, N. J. He is a lawyer and sportsman of southern California, and the author of Rifle, Rod and Gun in California; Southern California; The Still Hunter; Game Birds at Home; and Southern California the Italy of America.