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302 in Portland, Me., in 1835, and was made priest by Bishop Griswold on 5 Oct., 1836. His successive Sarishes thereafter were Grace church, Providence, L I. (1836-'42) ; St. Paul's, Boston (1842-'58) ; Holy Trinity, Philadelphia (1858-'61); St. Mark's, New York city (I861- r 9) ; and Emmanuel church, Boston (1869-'77). Returning to Pomfret. where he had retained his home, he continued during the winters to lecture on systematic divinity at the Episcopal divinity-school in Cambridge, Mass. The degree of S. T. D. was conferred on him by the University of the city of New York in 1843, and by Harvard in 1853. Dr. Vinton was a candidate for the bishopric of Pennsylvania in 1845, but was defeated by Alonzo Potter. He was among the most active of the " low church " party of the Protestant Episcopal church. Dr. Vinton was the author of a volume of " Ser- mons" (Philadelphia, 1855); "Lectures on Evi- dences of Christianity" (1855); and "Sermons" (Boston, 1867) ; besides which he published single sermons and contributed to reviews and maga- zines. — Another brother, Francis, soldier and clergvman, b. in Providence, R. I., 29 Aug.. 1809 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 29 Sept., 1872, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1830, and commis- sioned 2d lieutenant in the 3d artillery. Shortly afterward he was placed in charge of a detachment of troops destined to form part of the garrison of Fort Snelling, Minn., near where the city of St. Paul now stands. He served against the Indians in Georgia and Alabama, receiving with other officers the thanks of congress and a grant of land in Indiana. He was next stationed at Fort Inde- pendence, Boston harbor, occupied his leisure in studying at the Cambridge law-school, and was admitted to the bar at Portsmouth, N. II., in 1834. In 1836 he resigned from the army and entered the General theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church. On 30 Sept., 1838, he was or- dained deacon, and on 8 March, 1839, priest, by Bishop Griswold. The chief churches of which he was successively in charge were St. Stephen's, Provi- dence, R. I. (1840-'2); Trinity, Newport, R. I. (1842-'4); Emanuel, and Grace, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1844-'6) ; and Trinity, New York city (1855-'72). (See accompa- nying illustra- tion.) Hewas re- peatedly called to other par- ishes, and in 1848 was elect- ed bishop of In- diana; but to none of these invitations did he yield assent. In 1852 he was a candidate for the provision- al bishopric of New York, but was defeated by one vote. In 1869 he was elected profes- sor of ecclesias- tical law and polity in the General theological seminary. In all the parishes of which he had charge his oratory attracted large congrega- tions. He was also widely known as a lecturer, and during the civil war was a frequent public speaker. He received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia in 1848, that of D. C. L. from William and Mary in 1869. Dr. Vinton published "Ar- thur Tremaine. or Annals of Cadet Life" (New York, 1830); "Evidences of Christianity" (Phila- delphia, 1855); "Oration on the Annals of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation" (New York, 1863) ; " Manual Commentary on the General Can- on Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church " (New York, 1870); and many pamphlets and sermons. — Francis's son, Arthur Dndley, lawyer, b. in Brook- lyn, N. Y., 23 Dec, 1852, was educated at the Brook- lyn polytechnic institute, was graduated at Colum- bia college law-school in 1873, and entered the law- office of Evarts, Southmayd and Choate, where he remained six years. In 1879 he formed a law part- nership with Perry Belmont and George G. Frc- linghuysen, under the firm-name of Vinton, Bel- mont and Frelinghuysen. In 1881 Mr. Freling- huysen withdrew and in 1884 Mr. Belmont was elected to congress, and Mr. Vinton retired with a fortune; but he had become an investor in rail- roads, which proved insolvent, and for which he had indorsed largely. He is now assistant to the editor of the "North American Review," and has published two novels, " The Pomfret Mvsterv " (New York, 1880), and " The Unpardonable Sin " (1888). — John Rogers's son, Francis Laurens, en- gineer, b. in Fort Preble, Me., 1 June, 1835; d. in Leadville, Col., 6 Oct., 1879, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1856, and assigned to the 1st cavalry, but did not join his regiment, and on the expiration of his graduating leave pf absence re- signed on 30 Sept., and entered the Ecole des mines at Paris, where he received the degree of engineer of mines in 1860. He was then an instructor in Cooper union, New York city, and afterward in charge of explorations in Honduras till 5 Aug., 1861, when he was commissioned captain in the 16th infantry. On 31 Oct. he became colonel of the 43d New York regiment, with which he served in the peninsular campaign, and after a month's leave of absence he took command of a brigade on 25 Sept., 1862, having been commissioned brigadier- feneral of volunteers on the 19th, and led it in the laryland and Rappahannock campaigns till the battle of Fredericksburg, 13 Dec, 1862, where, his men being reluctant to advance, he himself headed the charge, and received a disabling wound that forced him to resign from the army on 5 May, 1863. His appointment as brigadier-general had expired on 3 March, 1863, but had been renewed ten days later. On 14 Sept., 1864, on the organization of Columbia school of mines, Gen. Vinton became pro- fessor of mining engineering there, and in 1870 the duties of his chair were extended so as to include civil engineering ; but he was retired on 15 Aug., 1877, and from that time till his death acted as a consulting mining engineer at Denver. Col. He was not only an accomplished mathematician, but a good draughtsman and musician. Many of his contributions to mining journals, notably those to the "Engineering and Mining Journal," of which he was staff correspondent after he went to the west, and his professional reports, were illustrated by his own hand. He was the author of " The Guard- ian," a poem (New York, 1869); also "Lectures on Machines," lithographed from notes (1869) ; and " Theory of the Strength of Materials" (1874).

VINTON, Justus Hatch, missionary, b. in Wellington. Conn., in 1806 ; d. in Kemendine, Burmah, 31 March, 1858. He was graduated in 1833 at Hamilton literary and theological institution (now Madison university), and in July, 1834, sailed as a missionary of the American Baptist board to Burtnah, where he labored among the Karens till his