Vollmering, Joseph
artist, was born Aug. 27, 1810, in Westphalia. He opened a studio in New York and was elected an associate member of the National academy in 1853. Among his works are Indian Falls, near Cold Spring, N. Y.; View on the Hudson; Holy Shrine at Sunset; and Study of Trees. He died Sept. 24, 1887, in New York city.
VOORHEES, CHARLES STEWART, lawyer, congressman, was born June 4, 1853, in Covington, Ind. He is a successful lawyer of Colfax, Wash. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Whitman county in 1882, and served until 1885; and was elected to the forty-ninth, and reelected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.