Vining, John
congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 23, 1758, in Dover, Del. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1784 to 1786; was a representative in congress, from Delaware, from 1789 to 1792; and was a senator in congress from 1795 to 1798, when he resigned. He died in February, 1802, in Dover, Del.
VINJE, A. J., lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 10, 1857, in Norway. In 1891 he moved to West Superior, Wis.; and since 1895 has been judge of the eleventh judicial circuit of Wisconsin. of VINTON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, clergyman, author, was born May 2, 1807, in Providence, R. I. He was an episcopal clergyman Boston, prominent as a low churchman, and the author of Bohlen Lectures for 1877; Sermons. He declined the office of bishop of Texas in 1857; was voted for in the Pennsylvania convention in 1862; and was nearly elected by that of Massachusetts in 1873. He died April 28, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.