VINCENT 



VINCI 



The city is the seat of Vincennes University, 

 the oldest institution of higher learning in the 

 state, and has a $75,000 Federal building; a 

 Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a cost of $115,- 

 000; a public library, a courthouse, a city hall, 

 the homes of several fraternal orders, two hos- 

 pitals, two orphans' homes and a county poor 

 asylum. There are a number of parks and 

 playgrounds; the largest, Lincoln Park, con- 

 tains forty-five acres. Of historic interest are 

 the old territorial legislative hall, the first in 

 Indiana; the home of William Henry Harrison 

 while he was territorial governor; Fort Knox 

 and Fort Sackville, and Indian mounds. There 

 are oil, gas and coal fields in the vicinity. In 

 addition to the enterprises connected with these 

 resources, Vincennes has foundries and machine 

 shops, an iron rolling mill, a canning factory and 

 manufactories of structural steel for bridges, 

 window glass, farm implements, furniture and 

 buttons. 



About 1732 the French established a fort 

 near what had been the site of a Piankashaw 

 Indian village. The settlement which gradu- 

 ally grew up about the fort was first known as 

 "The Post," and later as "Post Vinsenne," in 

 memory of its historic founder, Francois Mor- 

 gan de Vinsenne. In 1763 it was taken by the 

 British, but in 1779 was captured by Col. George 

 Rogers Clark in the name of Virginia, and was 

 ceded to the United States in 1783. From 1801 

 to 1816 Vincennes was the capital of the Ter- 

 ritory of Indiana. It became a city in 1856. 

 Alice oj Old Vincennes, a novel by Maurice 

 Thompson, relates an appealing romance of the 

 early days. C.B.C. 



Consult Powell's Historic Towns of the West- 

 ern States. 



VIN'CENT, GEORGE EDGAR (1864- ), an 

 American educator and university president, 

 the son of John H. Vincent, founder of the 

 Chautauqua idea and Bishop of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church (see VINCENT, JOHN HEYL). 

 He was born at Rockford, 111., was graduated 

 from Yale University in 1885, and for a year 

 was engaged in editorial work. After traveling 

 for a time in Europe and the Orient, he became 

 editor of the Chautauqua Press, and in 1888 

 was made vice-president of the Chautauqua 

 Literary and Scientific Circle, of which he was 

 elected president in 1907. 



Meanwhile, in 1894, he had become a mem- 

 ber of the faculty of the University of Chi- 

 cago, and by 1904 had risen to the rank of full 

 professor of sociology. From 1900 to 1907 he 

 was dean of the junior colleges, and from 1907 



GEORGE E. VINOENT 



to 1911 dean of the faculties of arts, literature 

 and science. Professor Vincent was unusually 

 successful in his classroom work, and won a wide 

 reputation as lec- 

 turer and occa- 

 sional speaker. 

 In 1911 he suc- 

 ceeded Cyrus 

 North r up as 

 president of the 

 University of 

 Minnesota, and 

 in 1917 left Min- 

 nesota to accept 

 the presidency of 

 the Rockefeller 

 Founda t i o n 

 (which see). He 

 has published 

 Social Mind and Education, and, with Albion 

 W. Small, An Introduction to the Study oj 

 Society. 



VINCENT, JOHN HEYL (1832- ), a 

 Methodist Episcopal bishop, best known as 

 one of the founders of the Chautauqua Assem- 

 bly movement, which developed the Chautau- 

 qua Literary and Scientific Circle. He was 

 born at Tuscaloosa, Ala., began to preach at 

 the age of eighteen, and to fit himself for his 

 chosen work studied at Wesleyan Institute, 

 Newark, N. J. After holding various pastor- 

 ates in the East he was transferred to Rock 

 River Conference, in Northern Illinois, and 

 preached in and near Chicago. In 1865 he es- 

 tablished the Sunday School Quarterly, in the 

 next year the Sunday School Teacher, and from 

 1868 to 1884 was corresponding secretary of the 

 Methodist Sunday School Union and editor of 

 its publications. 



Meanwhile, in 1874, he helped to found the 

 Chautauqua Assembly, and was chancellor from 

 1878 until 1900 of the greater Chautauqua 

 movement which he helped to inspire. He was 

 chosen bishop in 1888, with headquarters at 

 Topeka, Kansas, and in 1900 was made resi- 

 dent bishop in charge of the European work, 

 retiring in 1904 from the active work of the 

 episcopate. A son of Bishop Vincent is George 

 E. Vincent, since 1917 president of the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation. His publications include 

 Little Footprints in Bible Lands, Earthly Foot- 

 steps oj the Man oj Galilee, The Chautauqua 

 Movement and Family Worship for Every 

 Day in the Year. See CHAUTAUQUA. 



VINCI, veen'che, LEONARDO DA (1452-1519), 

 an Italian artist of the High Renaissance, 



