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Visscher, William L – Vroom, Peter Dumont

Visscher, William L

author, poet, was born Nov. 25, 1842, in Owingsviile, Ky. He has written more than a thousand poems, and his masterpiece entitled Black Mammy, a song of the sunny south, appeared in book-form in 1886, together with other miscellaneous poems from his pen.

Vittum, Edmund March

clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 24, 1855, in Sandwich, N. H. This eminent congregational clergyman has published three books entitled Church Festival in the Meeting House; Faith on the Frontier; and Head of the Firm. He is a noted clergyman of Grinnell, Iowa; and a valuable contributor to religious publications. His poems have been a valuable acquisition to literature, and have been incorporated into several standard collections.

Voight, Edward William

brewer, capitalist, was born April 5, 1844, in Saxony. He retains the general management of the Voight Brewing company, and is now president of the Michigan Sulphite Fibre company; vice-president of the Edison Illuminating company of Detroit; and the Edison Light company of Grand Rapids.

Voorhees, Jacob

farmer, legislator, was born May 25, 1841, in Glen, N. Y.

He has been regent for Oregon State Normal school and for the State Agricultural college. He has served as a member of the Oregon state senate.

Voorhies, John Stevens

publisher, was born May 9, 1809, in New York city. He projected and published Sedgwick on Damages; Voorhies's Code of Civil Procedure; Burrill's Voluntary Assignments; Greenleaf's Overruled Cases; Burrill's Circumstantial Evidence; Abbott's Digest; Cleveland's Banking Laws; and many other works. He died Nov. 19, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Vos, Geerhardus

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1862 in Holland. He is a Dutch clergyman, professor of biblical theology at Princeton seminary from 1894; and the author of The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes; Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den Banu Umajja und den Banu Haschim; The Doctrine of the Covenants in Reformed Theology; and Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Discipline.

Vose, George Leonard

civil engineer, educator, author, was born April 19, 1831, in Augusta, Maine. He is a civil engineer, professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1881-86; and the author of Orographic Geology; Manual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Disasters in America; A Graphic Method for Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary Course of Geometric Drawing; and Life of G. W. Whistler, Civil Engineer.

Vose, John

educator, author, was born in 1766 in New Hampshire. He was an educator of Atkinson, N. H., prominent in his day; and the author of System of Astronomy; and Compendium of Astronomy. He died in 1840.

Vose, Roger

lawyer, jurist, congressman. He was for many years chief justice of the court of common pleas in New Hampshire; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1817. He died April 17, 1842.

Vought, Harry Dyer

journalist, was born Aug. 14, 1849, in Buffalo, N. Y.

For three years he was president of the Buffalo Press club; and has been secretary, governor and president of the International League Press clubs. For over twenty-one years he was connected with the Buffalo Courier.

Vredenburgh, Peter

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 31, 1805, in Readington, N. J. In 1837-52 he was prosecuting attorney of Monmouth county, N. J.; and in 1855-69 he was associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. He died March 24, 1873, in St. Augustine, Fla.

Vroom, Peter Dumont

congressman, governor, was born Dec. 12, 1791, in Hillsborough township, N. J. He was governor of New Jersey from 1829 to 1836; and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1839 to 1841. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1844; in 1852 was a presidential elector; in 1853 was appointed minister to Prussia; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He died Nov. 18, 1873, in Trenton, N. J.