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and to the department of public parks of New York city; a member of the consolidation inquiry commission of Greater New York; of the Na- tional Sculpture association; a fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of art, and connected with various art and other organizations. Of his children, Downing Vaux became a landscape architect of note in New York city. Calvert Vaux was accidontly drowned at Bensonhurst, L.I.. N.Y.. Nov. 19, 1895.

VAUX, Richard, penologist, was born in Phil- adelplna. Pa., Dec. 19, 1816; sou of Judge Roberts and Margaret (AVistar) Vaux; grandson of Richard and Ann (Roberts) Vaux, and of Thomas and 3Iary (Wain) Wistar, and a great-grandson of George Vaux of Reigate, Sussex, England. Roberts Vaux (17S6-1S3C) became judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelpliia, 1835; was was a founder of the state public school system and of several benevolent local organizations; a penologist of note, and author of memoirs of Benjamin R. Smith, Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sand- iford and Anthony Benezet; also "Notices of the Original and successive Efforts to improve the Discii)line of the Prison at Philadelphia " (18'26). He was of Quaker descent. Richard Vaux studied under private tutors, and was ad- mitted to the bar, 1837. He was sent by President Van Buren to London as bearer of dispatches to U.S. Minister Andrew Stevenson in 1838; became secretary of legation, refusing a similar offer in the St. Petersburgh legation; assisted in re-or- ganizing the U.S. embassy at Brussels, and was subsequently private secretary to Minister Steven- son, returning to Philadelphia in 1839. He was marriei], March 12, 1840, to Mary Morris, daughter of Jacob S. and Sarah (Morris) Wain; granddaugh- ter of Richard and Elizabeth ( Armett) Wain. He was a delegate to the Democratic national con- vention, 1840; recorder of Philadelpliia, 1843- 49, and after running four times as Democratic candidate for mayor was elected in 1856, in which capacity lie effected several important municipal reforms. He was actively influen- tial in framing and securing the present char- ter of the city of Philadelphia in 1885, and was elected an Independent Democratic represen- tative from the third Pennsylvania district to the 51st congress to complete the unexpired term of Samuel J. Randall, deceased, serving, May 20, 1890-March 3. 1S91. He .succeeded his father in 1841 as comptroller of jmblic schools and was for forty-seven years president of the board of in- spectors of the state penitentiary for the ea.stern district of Pennsylvania and inspector fifty-one years, publishing forty-five volumes of reports (\8-l2 et seq). He introduced a course of tech- nology into the curriculum of Girard college, of which college he served as a director, 1859-(6,

and as president of the board, 1868-65. In 1884 he was appointed director of the board of the city trusts (including Girard college), and served until his deatli. He was a member of the Amer- ican Philosophical society, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several publications on penology. He died in Philadelphia, Pa.. March 22, 1895^

VEATCH, James Clifford, soldier, was born in Elizabethtown, InJ., Dec. 19, 1819. He studied law and practised at Elizabethtown, 1840-61; was auditor of Spencer county, 1841-55; a representa- tive in the state legislature, 1861-G3, and on Aug. 9, 1861, was commissioned colonel, 25th Indiana volunteers. He was promoted brigadier-general, U.S. v., April 28, 1862, and took part in the battle of Fort Donelson as ranking colonel, 4th brigade, 2d division. Grant's army, and at Shiloh, where he commanded the 2d brigade, 4th division. Grant's army, and supported Sherman's left at the " Hornet's Nest", when driven back by the baggage wagons and artillery of the right in its retreat. In the Atlanta campaign, he com- manded the 4th division, Dodge's 16th corps, and was prominent in the battle of Resaca. Ga., May 14, 1864. His division in Granger's 13th corps took part in the investment of Mobile, under Canby, and held the left of the Federal line at Spanish Fort, Mobile, March 27-30, 1865. He re- signed his commission and was brevetted major- general in August, 1865; was adjutant-general of Indiana, 1869-70, and collector of internal revenue, 1870-83. He died in Rockport, Ind., Dec. 22, 1895.

VEAZEY, Thomas Ward, governor of Mary- land, was born in Veazey's Neck, Cecil county, Md., Jan. 31, 1774; son of Edward and Elizabeth (De Coursey) Veazey, and a descendant of John Veazey, who immigrated from Norway prior to 1670, and settled in Kent county, Md., where he received a grant of land on the Elk and Bohemia rivers, subsequently known as Veazey's Neck. Edward V^eazey was captain in the 7tli regiment of the Maryland line, and was killed at the battle of Long Island. Thomas Ward Veazey was ap- pointed colonel of state militia, and took part in the war of 1812, defending Fredericktown against Admiral Cockburn. He was a re[)resentative in the Maryland legislature; presidential elector in 1807 and 1815; Avas elected governor of Maryland in 1835, serving till 1838, and was the last gov- ernor elected by the senate. He wa^i three times married: first to Sarah Worrell of Kent; secondly to Mary Veazey, and thirdly, in 1812, to Mary, daughter of Jo.seph and Elizabeth (Black) Wal- lace. He died in Cecil county. Md., June 30, 1848.

VEAZEY, Wheelock Graves, soldier, was born in Bn-ntwood. N.H., Dec. 5, 1835; son of Jonathan and Anne (Stevens) Veazey. His an-