Vane, Henry
governor, was born in 1612, in England. From 1636-37 he was governor of Massachusetts. He was the author of A Healing Question; A Needful Corrective; Meditations Concerning Man's Life; Meditation on Death; and The Retired Man's Meditation. He died June 14, 1662.
VAN EATON, HENRY S., soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 14, 1826, in Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1857 he was elected district attorney, and in 1859 was elected a representative in the Mississippi state legislature. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. In 1880 he was appointed chancellor of the tenth district of Mississippi, and served on the bench until elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
VAN GAASBECK, PETER, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1793 to 1795. VAN HORN, BURT, manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1823, in Newfane, N. Y. He was elected to the New York state legislature in 1858, and the two succeeding years.
He was a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1864 was elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He was re-elected to the fortieth congress as a republican.
VAN HORN, GEORGE, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1850, in Otsego county, N. Y. In 1881 he was elected clerk of the county of Otsego, and reelected in 1884; and was twice elected supervisor of the town of Otsego, and several times a member and chairman of the democratic county committee. He was elected to the fiftysecond congress as a democrat. He has attained prominence as a lawyer of Cooperstown, N. Y., and has contributed valuable articles to secular and law publications. VAN HORN, ROBERT THOMPSON, soldier, journalist, legislator, was born May 19, 1824, in East Mahoning, Pa. After receiving a thorough education he became a practical printer. He attended the ordinary schools of that time; at fifteen years of age he entered the office of the Indiana (Pa.) Register, serving four years as an apprentice to the printing business.
He moved to Ohio in 1844, and to his present place of residence in Missouri in 1855, where he established the Kansas City Journal, of which he is still editor.
He was elected mayor of that city in 1861 and again in 1865. He served during the war, first as major of Van Horn's battalion, United States reserve corps, taking part in the battle and siege of Lexington, under Colonel Mulligan, in September, 1861; then as lieutenant-colonel of the twenty-fifth Missouri infantry, commanding the regiment in the battle of Shiloh, and serving in the army of the Tennessee and in the campaigns of southeast Missouri and Arkansas. While in the field he was elected to the Missouri senate in 1862, and to congress in 1864, also in 1866, 1868 and 1880, serving in the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first and forty-seventh congresses. He was collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Missouri from September, 1875, to 1881. He has been a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1864, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880 and 1884, being twice a member of the national republican committee, and chairman of the republican state committee of Missouri; and was one of the 306 voting for General Grant in the convention of 1880. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress.
VAN HORNE, ARCHIBALD, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1807 to 1811. VAN HORNE, ESPY, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. He died June 25, 1829, in Williamsport, Pa.
VAN HORNE, ISAAC, soldier, congressman. He was a captain in the revoluuonary war; was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1805; and was then appointed receiver of public moneys in Zanesville, Ohio.
VAN HORNE, THOMAS B., clergyman, author, was born in 18-. He is a clergyman, chaplain in the federal army during the civil war, and the author of History of the Army of the Cumberland; and Life of Major-General Thomas.
VAN HORNE, WILLIAM C., railroad president, was born in February, 1843, in Will county, Ill. He became general manager of the Canadian Pacific railroad, of which the section through the wheat districts of Manitoba had just been completed. He was elected vice-president of the company in 1884, and in 1888 became its president.
VAN HOUTEN, GEORGE H., soldier, journalist, horticulturist, lecturer, state legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1847, in Missouri, and since 1855 has resided in Taylor county. He served nearly two years in the war as a member of the fourth regiment Missouri caval- He has been a successful nurseryman and journalist; is secretary of the Iowa State Horticultural society, and ry. also of the Southwestern Iowa society. He has lectured on travels and for fraternal societies. He served with distinction as a member of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh general assemblies of the Iowa state legislature.
VAN HOUTON, ISAAC B., congressman, He was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1835.
VAN LENNEP, HENRY JOHN, was born March 8, 1815, in Asia Minor. He was a congregational missionary in Asia Minor in 1839-69, and the author of Ten Days Among Greek Brigands; Bible Lands; Travels in Little Known Parts of Asia Minor; and The Oriental Album.
He died Jan. 11, 1889, in Barrington, Mass.
VAN METRE, JOHN J., congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1843 to 1845.