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 VALENTINE

VALLANDIGHAM

(183><); ILiunah, a Sacred Drama (IB.'JSt); The Com- prehensive Church (1S41): e»lucational reports, addresses ami letters. Bisliop Vail died at Bryn Mawr. Ta.. Oct. C. ISS^O.

VALENTINE, Edward Virginius, sculptor, was born in Richmond. Va., Nov. 12, 1838; son of Mann Satterwhite and Elizabeth (Mosby) Valentine; grandson of Batchelder and Ann (Satterwhite) Valentine, and of Benjamin and Anne (Winston) Mosby, and great-grandson of Jacob and Sarah (Batchelder) Valentine, and of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Bacon) Mosby. He was educated in private schools and by private tutors; studied anatomy two sessions at the Medical College of Virginia, and drawing in Paris under Couture. He subsequently studied under Jouffroy in Paris; Bonaiuti in Florence, and Kiss in Berlin, where he also attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and was a member of the "Kunstverein." Upon his return, in 18G5, he opened a studio in Richmond. He was married, Nov. 12, 1873. to Alice Churchill, daughter of William and Octavia (Jennings) Robinson of Benville, King and Queen county, Va. He was made president of the Richmond Art club, vice- president of the Virginia Historical society, member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, and an honorary member of the Lee Camp Confederate Veterans. His works include bronze busts of Com. Matthew F. Maury; Prof. John B. Minor; J. Randolph Tucker; Henry Timrod; Generals John S. Mosby and Albert Sidney Johnston; Col. William Preston Johnston; William Wirt Henry; the bronze figures of John C. Breckinridge, Lexington, Ky. (1887); Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. Lexington. Va., unveiled, July 24, 1891; Gen, W. T. Wickham, at Richmond, Va., un- veiled. Oct. 29. 1891; and the following marble figures: recumbent figure of Gen. Robert Lee, Memorial chapel, Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va., unveiled, June 28, 1883; Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson hotel, Richmond, Va. (1S9.5); the classic group of Androviache and Astyanax. The Blind Girl, Judas, Grief, The Penitent Thief and The Woman of Samaia.

VALENTINE, Milton, educator and author, was born near Uniontown, Md., Jan. 1, 1825; son of Jac(jb and R«.-becca (Picking) Valentine; grandson of Jacob and Mary (Freese) Valentine, and a descendant of George Valentine, who came from Germany in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was graduated from Pennsylvania college. Gettysburg, Pa., A.B., IS.'jO, and from the Lutheran Tin-ological seminary at Gettys- burg. 18")2, serving as tutor in Pennsylvania col- lege. 18.")0-.")2. He was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in October, 1852; preached at Win- chester. Va., 1«.52; at Allegheny, Pa., 1S53-54; at Greensburg. Pa., 1851-55, and was ])rinci]ial of

Emaus institute, Middletown, Pa., 1855-.59. He was married, Dec. 18, 1855, to Margaret Grayson, daughter of Sterling and Margaret (Grayson) Gait of Taneytown. Md. He was pastor of St. Matthew's churcli, Reading. Pa.. 1859-66; profes- sor of ecclesiastical history, Lutiieran Tiieologi- cal seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., 1866-68; presi- dent of Pennsylvania college, 1868-84. and professor of systematic theology and chairman of the faculty of the Lutheran seminary, from September. 1884, to Sept. 1, 1903, when he re- signed. He received the honorarj' degree of D.D. from Pennsylvania college. 1866. and tlnit of LL.D. from Wittenberg college, Springfield, Ohio, 1886. He was joint editor of the Lutheran Quarterly, 1871-76, 1880-85. and from 1898, and is the author of: Natural Theology, or national Theism {\S8o); Theoretical Ethics (1897); Chris- tian Truth and Life (1898), and many pampiilets and contributions to reviews and leading peri- odicals.

VALLANDIGHAM, Clement Laird, represen- tative, was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, July 29, 1820; son of the Rev. Clement (1778-1839), and Rebecca (Laird) Vallandigham; grandson of Col. George (an officer in the American Revolu- tion) and Elizabeth (Noble) Vallandigiiam and of James (1748-1808), and Margaret Jane (Sproat) Laird, and a descendant of Micliael and Jane Van Landeghem. Huguenots, who emigrated from France to Stafford county, in 1690, and subse- quently removed to Northumberland county, Va. His father (Jefferson college, A.B., 1804), was pastor of a Presbj'terian church in New Lisbon, Ohio, 1807-39. Clement L. Vallandigham at- tended a classical school conducted by his father, and subsequently by his brother, James (q.v.), and was a student at Jefferson college, Canonsburg, Pa., 1837-38, leaving to become principal of Union academy at Snow Hill, Md., where he re- mained until 1840. He re-entered Jefferson col- lege for a sliort time in 1840; studied law in New Lisbon, 1841-42; was admitted to practice in the supreme and other courts of the .state, Dec. 5, 1842, and entered into partnership with his elder brotlier in New Lisbon. He was a member of the state legislature. 1845-46. Ho was married. Aug. 27, 1846. to Louisa Anna, daugliter of William and Sar.aii McMalion of Cumberland. Md.. and in August. 1847, removed to Dayton, Ohio, where lie contiimed his law practice, and was part owner and editor of the Western Empire until 1849. He was the defeated candidate for judge of the court of common pleas in 1849; for lieutenant-gover- nor in 1851. and for Democratic representative in congress in 1852 and 18.54. He w.is a member of the Democratic national convention of Cincinnati, Oliio, 1856. and a Democratic representative from Oliio in the 35th congress, having successfully