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LEFT VANDERGRIFT 161 VAN DYCK VANDERGRIFT, a borough of Penn- sylvania, in Westmoreland co., about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, on the Penn- sylvania railroad. One of the largest sheet steel plants in the world is located here. Pop. (1910) 3,878; (1920) 9,531. VANDERLIP, FRANK ARTHUR, an American banker and financier, born in Aurora, 111., in 1864. He was reared in a pioneer environment, attended a country school only until fifteen, though later he studied at the University of Chicago. As a lad he worked in a ma- chine shop, then became a newspaper reporter and, in 1890, financial editor of the Chicago "Tribune." In 1894, he became associate editor of the Chicago "Economist." Three years later Lyman Gage, then Secretary of the United States Treasury, made him his private secretary; but so conspicuous was his ability that President McKinley ap- pointed him Assistant Treasurer of the United States. From this position he resigned in 1901 to become vice-presi- dent of the National City Bank of New York, of which institution he was presi- dent 1909-1919. He was a director in many corporation and a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation, New York Uni- versity, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, etc. During the participation of the United States in the World War he was chairman of the War Savings' Com- mission and personally conducted the sale of the War Savings' Certificates. He traveled extensively in Europe and the Far East since the war and was con- sidered one of the greatest experts on world finance. He was the author of "The American Commercial Invasion of Europe" (1907) ; "Business and Educa- tion" (1907) ; and "Business and Poli- tics" (1915) ; "Political Problems of Europe" (1920), besides many articles in financial and economic publications. VANDERVELDE. WILLEM, called The Elder a Dutch painter; born in Leyden, in 1610; excelled in marine sub- jects. In the great naval fight between the Duke of York and the Dutch ad- miral Opdam, Vandervelde sailed be- tween the hostile fleets in a light skiff to mark their positions and observe their operations; and in this manner he is said to have also been a spectator of the memorable three days' engagement be- tween Monk and De Ruyter. He died in 1693. His son, William Vandervelde, called The Younger, born in 1633, was himself an admirable marine painter. He died in London, in 1707. VAN DEVANTER, WILLIS, an American jurist, born in Marion, Ind., in 1859. He graduated from DePauw University and from the Cincinnati Law School. For several years he prac- ticed law in Marion, Ind., and then re- moved to Cheyenne, Wyo. He acted as city attorney for that city and as a member of the Territorial Legislature. In 1889-90 he was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, and from 1897 to 1903 was assistant attorney general of the United States. He was appointed United States circuit judge in 1903, serving until 1910, when he was appointed associate justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. See TAS- MANIA. VAN DORN, EARL, an American mil- itary officer; born near Port Gibson, Miss., Sept. 17, 1820; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1842; became a captain in 1855, and re- signed his commission on the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861; joined the Confederate army; took an active part in the battle of Pea Ridge, March 7 and 8, 1862; attacked General Rosecrans at Corinth, Oct. 3-4, 1862, and was defeated with gi-eat loss. He was killed in a pri- vate quarrel in Maury co., Tenn., May 8, 1863. VAN DYCK, SIR ANTHONY, a Flemish portrait and historical painter; born in Antwerp, Belgium, March 22, 1599. He was the seventh child of Frana Van Dyck, a silk and woolen manufac- turer, and his second wife, Maria Cuy- pers, a lady celebrated for her skill in embroidery. In 1609 he entered the studio of Hendrik Van Balen, a capable painter of the place; in his 15th year he began to study under Rubens, and in 1618 he was admitted a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. He soon came to be recognized as the most prom- ising of the pupils of Rubens. In the contract, dated 1620, for the decoration of the Jesuit Church of Antwerp it was stipulated that he was to assist his mas- ter in the production of 39 pictures; and the "Christ Bearing the Cross," in the church of the Dominicans, may be re- ferred to as a work of this period. In 1620 Van Dyck made a brief visit to England, when he appears to have exe- cuted the full-length of James I. at Windsor. In 1623, by the advice of Rubens, he started to study in Italy; and, on his way, he is said to have fallen in love with a beautiful country girl of the little village of Saventhem, near Brussels, and to have delayed there, painting his famous "St. Martin Divid- ing His Cloak," still in the parish church, and a "Holy Family," since lost. Arriving in Venice, he devoted himself