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Verren, Antoine

clergyman, educator, was born Feb. 14, 1801, in France. In 1831, by appointment, he revised and corrected the Book of Common Prayer.

He died March 17, 1874, in New York city.

Very, Frank W

educator, astronomer, author, was born Feb. 12, 1852, in Salem, Mass. He was astronomer at the Allegheny observatory for over seventeen years; and is now professor of astronomy in the Brown university of Providence, R. I. He is the author of numerous astronomical works, and has contributed valuable articles to current scientific journals.

Very, Lydia Louisa Anna

educator, author, poet, was born Nov. 2, 1823, in Salem, Mass. She was for many years a teacher in Salem and is the author of Poems and Prose Writings.

Vessels, William Greene

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 27, 1847, in Manton, Ky. He is a successful clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church of Newtown, Ind. He is the author of two books entitled Trowel and Sword, a temperance work; and Trio, a religious work.

Vest, Emmons Rutledge

clergyman, author, was born June 4, 1852, in Holman, Ind. He received his degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the De Pauw university; and for two years was professor of history and English in that institution. In 1883 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has since filled pastorates in the Indiana conference. He is the author of Columbia's Tomorrow; Religion in Civilization; Higher Citizenship; and other works.

Vethake, Henry

educator, author, was born in 1792, in Essequilo county, B.

G. He was a Philadelphia educator who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1836, and provost in 1854. He was the author of Principles of Political Economy. He died Dec. 16, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Vetromile, Eugene

missionary, author, was born Feb. 22, 1819, in Italy.

He was a noted Italian Jesuit missionary long resident among the Penobscot Indians, and the author of Travels in Europe, etc.; The Abenaki and Their History; and several works in the Abenaki language. He died Aug. 21, 1880, in Italy.

Veysey, Arthur Henry

author, was born in 1869 in England. He is a writer of New York city, and the author of A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel.

Vezin, Hermann

actor, was born March 29, 1829, in Philadelphia. He was successful in The Man o' Airlie; The Rightful Heir; Life for Life; and various comedies, new and old, and in 1875 added greatly to his reputation by his rendering of Jacques in As You Like It.

Vibbard, Chauncey

railroad superintendent, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1811, in Galway, N. Y. In 1848 he became the superintendent of the Utica and Schenectady Railway company, and was afterwards called to the same position in the New York Central Railway company, in which capacity he continued until elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress.

Vick, James

horticulturist, was born Nov. 23, 1818, in England. In 1855 he engaged in the novel enterprise of retailing seeds through the medium of the U. S. mails. He developed new varieties of plants by cultivation or cross-fertilization, notably double phlox, white gladiolus, and fringed petunia. He died May 16, 1882, in Rochester, N. Y.

Victor, Orville James

journalist, author, was born Oct. 23, 1827, in Sandusky, Ohio. He is an author and editor of New York city, and the author of History of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents and Anecdotes of the War; and History of American Conspiracies.