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 years he was editor of the Northwestern Advertiser. In 1851 he removed to Dubuque and was employed in the office of the Surveyor-General. He afterwards became a partner of Ben M. Samuels in the practice of law. In 1856 he was a delegate to the convention which organized the Republican party of Iowa. In 1858 he was nominated for Representative in Congress in the Second District and elected over his former law partner, B. M. Samuels. He was reëlected in 1860 but resigned his seat in 1861 to enter the military service and was appointed colonel of the Ninth Iowa Infantry. Mr. Vandever commanded a brigade at the Battle of Pea Ridge and won promotion to Brigadier-General. He served through the war with distinction in the armies of Grant and Sherman and was brevetted Major-General. Some years after the close of the war he removed to California where he was again elected to Congress. He died on the 23d of July, 1893. GEORGE VAN HORNE, journalist and lecturer, was born in Massachusetts, October 12, 1833. After a thorough academic education he began the study of law, and came to Iowa in 1855, locating at Muscatine where he entered into partnership with D. C. Cloud in the practice of his profession. Upon the election of Abraham Lincoln President, he appointed Mr. Van Horne consul to Marseilles, France, where he served until 1866. In 1870 he established the Muscatine Tribune. He entered the lecture field in which he was engaged for some time; and for several years was an editorial writer on the Muscatine Journal. When the Daily News was established, Mr. Van Horne became the editor in chief. In 1889 the Tribune and News were consolidated under the editorial management of Mr. Van Horne. In 1893 he was appointed postmaster of Muscatine, retaining his management of the paper. He was a student and an accomplished writer; among his productions were “Storied Scenes in Europe,” “Old London Town,” “Picturesque France,” “Men and Women I Have Seen,” and “Farmer Whitney's Letters.” Mr. Van Horne died in Muscatine February 8, 1895. FRANCIS VARGA, a Hungarian noble and patriot of the Revolution of 1849, was for more than fifty years a resident and citizen of Iowa. When the Hungarian provisional government under Louis Kossuth was established Mr. Varga was Judge Advocate-General, serving until that government was overthrown by the combined armies of Austria and Russia. Then he with other patriots came to America and forty of them under the lead of Louis Ujhazy, a distinguished officer under Kossuth, came to Iowa and founded a colony in Decatur County which was named New Buda. Other Hungarian patriots who were compelled to leave their own country joined the colony and became citizens of Iowa. Here Mr. Varga and his companions made their permanent home and took a deep