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He was graduated at West Point in 1859 ; 

 v&s assigned to the 9th Infantry, and took part in 



ic Indian wars till the civil war broke out. In 

 1861-'62 he served in the defense of Washington as 

 a captain in the 6th Infantry. He participated in 

 the Peninsula campaign and the battle of Gettys- 

 burg. For gallant and meritorious conduct he was 

 brevetted major in 1853. He was appointed execu- 

 tive officer of the infantry and cavalry school in 

 Leavenworth, Kan., and then was put in command 

 of Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. In 187G he was 

 ordered into the field in the Department of the Platte. 

 lie was with the Little Big Horn and Yellowstone ex- 

 peditions. After the Indian campaigns he served at 

 several Northwestern posts, and then was sent by 

 the United States to witness the war between Rus- 

 sia and Turkey. In 1887 he witnessed the manoeuvres 

 of the French army. After being made a colonel 

 in 1892, he was retired at his own request, having 

 served in the army for more than thirty years. 



Van Horn, James J., soldier, born in Mount 

 Gilead, Ohio, Feb. G, 1835 ; died in Fort Russell, 

 Wyo., Aug. 30, 1898. He was graduated at the 

 United States Military Academy in 1858, and 

 joined the 1st Infantry in garrison at Fort Colum- 

 bus, N. Y., as 2d lieutenant. When the civil war 

 broke out he was on duty at San Antonio, where he 

 was detained as a prisoner for a year. He then be- 

 came aid-de-camp in the Army of the Potomac, 

 and was engaged in the battles of South Mountain, 

 Antietam, and Bethesda Church. He was brevetted 

 major in 1864 for gallant services at Cold Harbor. 

 From 1865 to 1867 he was recorder of the Board of 

 Tactics at West Point, after which he served with 

 his regiment in several posts at the South till 1870. 

 After that date he commanded posts in Arizona, 

 New Mexico, Montana, and Wyoming. He was 

 with the Yellowstone expeditions of 1872-'73. He 

 was promoted major of the 13th Infantry, 1879 ; 

 lieutenant colonel, 25th Infantry, 1885 ; and colonel, 

 8th Infantry, 1891. He commanded the latter regi- 

 ment before Santiago, Cuba, in 1898. 



Tan lugen, Henry, art educator, born in Hol- 

 land, Nov. 12, 1833 ; died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 Nov. 17, 1898. He was educated at the Academy 

 of Design at the Hague, and studied under J. B. 

 Tom and Van de lande Backhuysen. He came to 

 the United States about 1861, and for a time taught 

 in Rochester, N. Y. At the opening of Vassar 

 College, in 1865, he became the head of its art de- 

 partment and he was continuously identified with 

 its arrow th. Mr. Van Ingen was a member of the 

 Tulchri Studio, the Hague, and of the American 

 Water-Color Society, to whose exhibits, as well as 

 others, he often contributed. 



Veazey, Wheelock Graves, lawyer and soldier, 

 born in Brentwood, N. H., Dec. 5, 1835; died in 

 Washington, D. C., March 22, 1898. He was grad- 

 uated at Dartmouth College in 1859, and at the 

 ' Albany Law School in I860, and admitted to the 

 bar of Vermont in December, 1860. He began 

 practice in Springfield, Vt., but when the civil war 

 broke out he enlisted as a private in Company A, 

 3d Vermont Volunteers. He was elected captain 

 of the company in May, 1861 ; promoted major, 

 August, 1861 ; shortly afterward was made lieuten- 

 ant colonel : and in October, 1862, was promoted 

 colonel of the 16th Vermont Volunteers. His regi- 

 ment formed a part of Stannard's brigade in the 

 famous flank attack upon Pickett's division at 

 Gettysburg. He was mustered out with the regi- 

 ment in August, 1863, and returned to his law prac- 

 tice. He was reporter of the Supreme Court of 

 Vermont from 1864 till 1872. publishing 9 volumes 

 of decisions; served as register in bankruptcy a 

 short time; was elected State Senator in 1872 : ap- 



ainted a member of a commission to revise the laws 



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of Vermont in 1878 ; and was made a judge of the 

 Supreme Court of the State in 1879, serving till 

 1889. In 1889 he was appointed a member of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, but he resigned 

 the office in 1897, because of failing health. He 

 was one of the founders of the Grand Army of the 

 Republic in Vermont ; was department commander, 

 1871-'73 ; on the staff of the commander in chief in 

 1877 and 1888 ; and in 1890 was elected commander 

 in chief of the national organization. He was a 

 trustee of Dartmouth College for many years, and 

 received the degree of LL. D. from it. 



Verbeck, Guido F., missionary, born in Zeist, 

 Holland, in 1830; died in Tokio, Japan, March 9, 

 1898. He was educated at the Moravian Seminary, 

 Zeist, came to the United States in 1852, and was 

 graduated at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1859. 

 He was sent as a missionary to Nagasaki. Japan, 

 remained till 1868, and then went to Tokio. He 

 spent eleven years of work for the Japanese Govern- 

 ment in connection with education, and as trans- 

 lator of judicial works. He rejoined the mission in 



1879, took part in the translation of the Bible into 

 Japanese, and taught in the theological department 

 of the Meiji Gakuin. He received the decoration 

 of the Rising Sun from the Japanese Government 

 in 1877, and a special passport in 1891. 



Wagner, Jacob, artist, born in Bavaria, Jan. 27, 

 1852; died in New York city, Nov. 5, 1898. He 

 came to the United States when four years of age, 

 worked from the age of twelve at picture-frame 

 making, and learned the art of restoring pictures. 

 In 1874 he began to study art in the evening classes 

 at Lowell Institute ; later went to work in the art 

 store of J. Eastman Chase, taking charge of the 

 manufacturing department and the restoring of 

 paintings ; and in 1883 devoted himself to art, first 

 painting landscapes and later portraits. He ex- 

 hibited three pictures at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition. He was a member of the Boston Art 

 Club and the Boston Water-Color Society. 



Walcutt, Charles Carroll, soldier, born in Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1838 ; died in Omaha, Neb., 

 May 2, 1898. He was graduated at the Kentucky 

 Military Institute in 1858, and became a civil en- 

 gineer. When the war broke out he raised a com- 

 pany ; was made major in June, 1861 ; became 

 colonel in 1862 ; and promoted brigadier general 

 July 30, 1864, for gallantry at Atlanta. He took 

 part in the inarch to the sea. He was wounded at 

 Shiloh, at Kenesaw Mountain, and again at Gris- 

 woldville. For bravery at the last place he was 

 brevetted major general. He was mustered out of 

 the service in February, 1866 : became warden of 

 the Ohio Penitentiary ; was a presidential elector in 

 1868 ; and was appointed internal-revenue collector 

 in May, 1869, serving three years. He was elected 

 mayor of Columbus in April, 1883, and re-elected in 

 1885. He served as a member of the School Board 

 of Columbus several years, and as its president 

 seven years. 



Walthall, Edward Cary, lawyer, born in Rich- 

 mond, Va., April 4, 1831 ; died in Washington, 

 D. C., April 21, 1898. He studied law in Holly 

 Springs, Miss. ; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and 

 began to practice in Coffeeville, Miss. He was 

 elected district attorney in 1856, and re-elect fd 

 in 1869. He resigned to enter the Confederate 

 army as lieutenant in the 15th Mississippi Regi- 

 ment. He was promoted brigadier general Dec. 

 13, 1862, and major general June 6, 1864, serv- 

 ing through the war. He resumed his law prac- 

 tice in Coffeeville. and in 1871 removed to Gre- 

 nada. Mr. Walthall was a delegate at large to the 

 DLMiiocratic National Conventions of 1868, 1876, 



1880, and 1884. He was appointed United States 

 Senator in 1885 to succeed Senator L. Q. C. Lamar, 



