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Vedder, Elihu

artist, was born Feb. 26, 1836, in New York city. One of the best known of his paintings is the Lair of the Sea-Serpent, now in the Boston museum of Fine Arts, where are also The Roc's Egg; Fisherman and Djin; Dominican Friars; and An Italian Woman.

Vedder, Henry Clay

educator, journalist, author, was born in 1853 in New York. He is a journalist for many years, and subsequently professor of church history at Crozer Theological seminary, Upland, Pa. He is the author of American Writers of To-Day; and A Short History of the Baptists.

Vedder, Peter Van Dyck

clergyman, was born Dec. 29, 1854, in Schen ectady, N. Y. He is a graduate of the Union Classical institute; and since 1880 has been united with the Des Moines methodist episcopal conference. Great revivals of religion have followed his labors at each pastorate; and he is considered one of the foremost clergymen in the methodist episcopal church of Iowa. now fills a pastorate in Clarinda.

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Veeder, William D

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 19, 1835, in Guilderland, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1865 and 1866; and surrogate of Kings county from 1867 to 1877. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortyfifth congress as a democrat.

Venable, Charles Scott

soldier, educator, author, was born April 19, 1827, in Prince Edward county, Va. He is a Confederate army officer, professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia from 1865, and author of a series of popular mathematical text-books.

Venable, Frank Preston

educator, author, was born Nov. 17, 1856, in Longwood, Va. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1880, and the author of A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis; and The Development of the Periodic Law.

Venable, William Henry

educator, author, poet, was born April 29, 1836, in Warren county, Ohio. He is an educator and littérateur of Cincinnati, and the author of School History of the United States; Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley; Let Him First be a Man, a collection of essays on education. His writings in verse include, June on the Miami, and Other Poems; and The Melodies of the Heart.

Verdi, Tullio Suzzara

physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1829, in Italy.

He is a homœopathic physician practicing in Washington from 1857, and the author of Maternity; Mothers and Daughters; The Infant Philosopher; and Special Diagnosis for Popular Use.

Vere, Maximilian

scholar, author, was born Nov. 1, 1820, in Sweden. He has published Outlines of Comparative Philology; Grammar of the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature; Studies in English: First French Reader; Grammar in French (1867); The Great Empress, a novel; Wonders of the Deep; Introduction to the Study of French; Romance of American History; Americanisms, or the English of the New World; and other works.

Verplanck, Isaac A

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 16, 1812, in Coeymans, N.

Y. He went to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1847, was elected a judge of the superior court of that city in 1854, and twice re-elected, and by the choice of his associates was made chief. He died April 16, 1873, in Buffalo, N. Y.

Verree, John P

manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1819 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the Philadelphia select council for six years; and four years the presiding officer of that body. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.