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Holland, to Margeretlia Rudolpha, daughter of Pieter and Maria (Vermande) Westerman Holstyn of Amsterdam. He received a gold medal at the International exhibition at Amsterdam ; was awarded medals in Boston, Philadelphia and New York, and was decorated with the order of the Netherlands Lion, by the King of Holland. He was elected an academician of the National Academy of Design, a member of the Royal Academies of Amsterdam and Rotterdam ; was an honorary member of the Brussels Water Color society ; a member of the American Water Color society, and of several foreign art societies. Among his paintings, are : Sunday Morning ; Horning in the Woods; Lake Molionk ; Spring Morning ; Evening at tht Pool ; Straggling Brook ; Sjjring in the Woods ; Heathfield in Holland ; and Late Autumn.

VAN HISE, Charles Richard, educator and geologist, was born in Fulton, Wis., May 29, 1857 ; son of William Henry and Mary (Goodrich) Van Hise ; grandson of Richard and Ruth (Dean) Van Hise, and of Oilman Goodrich and Lydia (Harvey) Goodrich, and a descendant of Abra- ham Van Hise. He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, B.M.E. 1879; B.S., 1880; M.S., 1882: Ph. D., 1892; was instructor in cliemistry and metallurgy there, 1879-83 ; assist- ant professor of metallurgy, 1883-86 ; professor of metallurgy, 1886-88 ; of mineralogy and petro- graphy, 1888-90 ; professor of archean and applied geologj% 1890-92 ; and professor of geology, 1892- 1903 ; non-resident professor of structural geol- ogy at the University of Chicago, 1891-1903, and in 1903 was elected president of the University of Wisconsin. He was assistant geologist in the Wisconsin Geological survey, 1881-82, and of the Lake Superior division of the U.S. Geological survey, 1883-88 ; geologist in charge of the Lake Superior division, 1888-1901, and in 1901 was ap- pointed geologist in charge of the division of pre- Cambrian and metamorphic geology for the U.S. Geological survey, which position he still held in 1903. He was also consulting geologist for the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History survey from 1897. He was president of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters ; vice-pres- ident of section E, geology and geography, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Scientific Society of Krisitania, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Geological Society of America, and various other societies. He was one of the editors of the Journal of Geol- ogy from its foundation in 1892. His principal works are : Correlation Papers, Archean and Algonkian (1892); T7ie Penokee-Gogebic Iron- bearing Series of Michigan and Wisco7isin with R. D, Irving (1892) ; Pinnciples of North Amer-

ican pre-Camhrian Geology (1896) ; The Mar- quette L'on-bearing District of Michigan, with W. S. Bayley and H. L. Smith (1897)"; Tlie Me- nominee Iron-bearing District of Michigan, with W. S. Bayley ; Some Principles Controlling the Deposition of Ores; a Treatise on Metamorphism. He is also the author of many other papers on geological subjects.

VAN HORN, Robert Thompson, journalist and representative, was born in East Mahoning, Indiana county, Pa., May 19, 1824 ; son of Henry and Elizabeth (Tliompson) Van Horn ; grandson of Isaiah and Dorcas (Logan) Van Horn and of Robert and Mary (Cannon) Thompson, who em- igrated from county Londonderry, Ireland, in 1789 ; and a descendant of Jan Cornelissen (John, the son of Cornelius) who came from Hoorn, Holland, and settled in New Amsterdam (New York), 1645. He was apprenticed to a printer in the office of the Indiana (Pa.) Register in 1839 ; removed to Ohio in 1844 ; was married, Dec. 2, 1848, to Adela H., daughter of Caleb and Matilda (Buckingham) Cooley of Athens county, Ohio. He settled in Kansas City, Mo., in 1855, and in the same year established the Kansas City Journal, which he edited, 1855-96. He was elected mayor of Kansas City in 1861, but re- signed to become lieutenant-colonel of the 25th Missouri volunteers. He was wounded at the battle and seige of Lexington, Mo., September, 1861 ; took part in the battle of vShiloh and other engagements, 1861-62, and was honorably dis- charged in 1864. He was a state senator, 1862-64,* being elected in 1864 representative from the eighth Missouri district to the 39th congress. He served in the 39th, 40th and 41st congresses, 1865- 71, and in the 47th and 54th congresses, 1881-83, and 1895-97, officiating while in congress as chair- man of the house committee of the joint com- mittee on printing. He was collector of internal revenue of the sixth district of Missouri, 1875- 81 ; delegate to the Republican national conven- tions of 1864, 1868, 1872, 1876 and 1880. and retired from journalism in 1896, continuing to make his home in Kansas City, Mo.

VAN LAER, Alexander T., artist, was born in Auburn, N.Y., Feb. 9, 1857 ; son of Peter C. and Minna (Verbeek) Van Laer, who came from Hol- land to the United States in 1848. He attended the Auburn high school ; the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students' league, subse- quently continuing his art studies under R. S%vain Gifford. He conducted an art school in Jackson- ville, 111., 1880-84 ; studied under George Poggen- beck of Amsterdam, Holland, 1883-84 ; conducted an art school at Akron, Ohio. 1885-90. and opened a studio in New York city in 1890. He was mar- ried in November, 1886, to Stella, daughter of Joseph and Aseneth (White) Stickney of Somers-