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wlieii lie resigned, and returned to Prince Edward county. He was president of the Bank of Vir- ginia, under control of Thomas Jefferson. He l)erished with seventy others in the conflagration of the tlioatroat Ric-hniond, Va., Dec. 26, 1811.

VENABLE, Francis Preston, educator, was Ix.rn in LdiiltwooiI. rrim-o Edward county, Va., Nov. 17. is.")0; son of Charles Scott (LL.D.) and Margaret Tantey (McDowell) Venable; grandson of Natlianiei E. and Mary (Scott) Venable, and of James and Susan (Preston) McDowell. His father was pro- fessor at Hanipden- Sidney. the Univer- sit}' of North Caro- lina, and after the war held the profes- sorship of mathe- matics at the Uni- versity of Virginia. Francis Preston Ven- able was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1879; studied chem.istry at the universities of Bonn, 1879-80, Gottingen, 1881, and Berlin, 1889; was professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina, 1880-1900, and elected president of the University in 1900. He was married in 1884 to Sally Charlton, daughter of John and Louise (Hall) Manning of Chapel Hill, N.C. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen, Germany, in 1881, and the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsjl- vania, 190:J; was elected a member of the Ameri- can and German chemical societies, and a fellow of the London Chemical society. He is the author of: Maniitilof Qualitative Analysis (1883); Short Histin-ij nf Chemistry (1894); Development of Periodic Laic (1896); Inorganic Chemistry Ac- cording to Periodic Laic (1898); The Study of the Atonus (1903).

VENABLE, William Henry, author, was l>orn in Warren county, Ohio, Ajjril 29, 1836; son of William and Hannah (Baird) Venable; grandson of William and Rachel (Crossham) Venable, and of Bedent and Sarah (Britton) Baird, and a descendant of Abraham Venable, an Englishman of Norman lineage, who emigrated from Clieshire, England, to Virginia, in 1680. He was graduated from the normal school, Leb- anon, Ohio, in 1^60, and was married, Dec. 30, 1861, in Indianapolis, Ind., to Mary, daughter of Thomas and Elinor (Palmer) Vater of London. He taught in the I>"banon normal school; was principal of Jennings academy, Vernon, Ind.; professor of natural sciences in the Chickerin^

Classical and Scientific institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1862-81; its principal and proprietor, 1881- 86; professor of English literature at Hughes liigh school, 1889-95, and at Walnut Hills high school, Cincinnati, 1895-1901, thereafter devot- ing himself wholly to literature. He organ- ized and was first presi<Ient of the Cincinnati Society of Political Education; founded the Afternoon School of Popular Science and His- tory; was president of the Cincinnati Teachers' club and of the Western Association of Writers; became a member of the Cincinnati Literary club, and of the Historical and Piiilosophical .so- ciety of Ohio. The honorory degree of A.M. was conferred on him by DePauw university in 1864, and that of LL.D. by Ohio university in 1886. He edited tiie "Amateur Actor," a col- lection of plays (1874), and ''Dramatic Scenes from the Best Authors " (1874), and is the author of: Ju7ie on the Miami and other Poems (1871); A School History of the United States (1872); The School Stage (1873); The Teachers Dream (1880); Melodies of the Heart (1884); Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley (1888): Biography of William D. Gallagher (1888); Historical Sketch of Western Periodical Literature (1888); Doicn South Before the War (1889); Beginnings of Lit- erary Culture in the Ohio Valley (1891); John Hancock, Educator (1892); The Last Flight (1894); Life and Poems of General W. H. Lytic (1894); Let Him First Be a Man (1894); Tales from Ohio History (1896); Selections from, Buriis, Byron and Wordsworth (1898); Santa Claus and the Black Cat (1898); A Dream of Empire, or the House of Blennerhasset (1901); Tom Tad; a Novel (1902); The Literature of Ohio; a Centen- nial Sketch (1903); Saga of the Oak, and Other Poe??iS (1903).

VEROT, Jean Marcellus Pierre Auguste, R.C. bishop, was born at Le Piiy, Haute Loire, France. May 23, 1805. He attended a classical school at Le Puy, and the Seminary of St. Sul- pice, Paris; was made a deacon, June 10, 1826, and ordained priest, Sept. 20, 1828, by Archbishop de Quelin in his private chapel in Paris. He be- came a member of the Sulpitian order and in 1830 emigrated to the United States and .settled in Baltimore, Md. He was professor in St. Mary's college, 1830-35; pastor at Ellicott's Mills, Md.; nominated bishop of " Danaba" and vicar apostolic of East Florida, and consecrated as such at Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1858, by Archbishop F. P. Kenrick, assisted by Bishops John McGill and John Barry. He entered npoii his bishopric, June 1, 1858, at St. Augustine and labored there till 1861, building the church of St. Louis at Tampa, Fla; restoring the cathedral at St. Aug- ustine and the chaj>el of Nuestra Seiiora de La Leche. and enlarging the church of St. Mary