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 VETHAKE

VICTOR

Sedalia, Mo., 1865-77, when lie removed to Kan- sas City, Mo. He was elected to the U.S. senate for the term beginning March 4, 1879, and was successively re-elected in 1885, 1890 and 1807, his last term expiring March 3, 190;5, when he de- clined re-election. Upon the deatii of Augustus E. Maxwell (C. S. senator from Florida. 18G2-Gr>), May 5, 1903, Senator Vest became the sole sur- viving m.Mnher of the Confederate States senate.

VETHAKE, Henry, e^lucator. was born in Essequibo (now Demerara), British Guiana, in 1792. He came to the United States with his parents in 1796; was graduated from Columbia college. New York city, A.B.. 1808, A.M., 1811; subsequently studied law, and was instructor in mathematics and geography in Columbia. 1813: professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. Queen's (Rutgers) college, N.J., 1813-17; matiie- matics, natural philosophy and chemistry, Col- lege of Xew Jersey, 1817, and mathematics and mechanical philosophy, 1817-21; natural philoso- phy, Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., 1821-29; mathematics and astronomy, Uni%-ersity of the City of New York, 1832, and natural philosophy, 1833. He was president of Washington college, Lexington, Va., and rector of the board of trus- tees, 1834-36, serving also as professor of moral pbilosophy, 1835, and of mathematics, 1836. He was professor of moral philosophy in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and also of intellectual and moral philosophy, 1836-55, serving as vice- provost of the University, 1846-54, and as pro- vost, 18.54-59, and was professor of higher mathe- matics in the Philadelphia Polytechnic college, 1859-66. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey, 1815. and from Dickinson college, 1827, and that of LL.D. from Columbia, 1836. Dr. Vethake edited Uc- culloch's " Dictionary of Commerce," and a sup- plementary volume to the "Encyclopaedia Americana" (1847), which was largely written by himself, and is the author of: Principles of Politicnl Economy (1838; 2d ed., 1844). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 16, 1866.

VICK, James, horticulturist, was born in Portsmouth, England, Nov. 23, 1818. He at- tended the common schools; subsequently im- migrated to the United States, where he first gave his attention to the cultivation of gardens and flowers, producing many original varieties of the latter; and subsequently developed an ex- tensive seed business, transacted largely by mail. He published the Genesee Farmer, Rochester, N.Y., 1850-^5; the IJorticnlturist, Albany, N.Y., 1853-.55; Vick'a Monthly Mnqnzine, 1878^2, and also the Floicer and Vegetable Garden and the Floral Guide, a.n annual. He was a correspond- ing member of the English Royal Horticultural society, and for many ycard secretary ot tiie

American Pomological convention. He died in Rochester, N.Y., May 16, 1882.

VICKERS, George, senator, was born in Chestertown, Md., Nov. 19, 1801. He attended academies and classical schools in Maryland; and established himself in the practice of law in Chestertown in 1832. He was a delegate to tiie Whig national convention held in Baltimore in 1852, and twice declined the appointment of judge subsequently tendered him. In 1861 he was appointed major-general of state militia by Governor Hicks. He was a presidential elector on the McClellan and Pendleton ticket in 1804; a vice-president of the Union convention held at Pliiladelphia in 1866; state senator, 1866-67, and was elected to the U.S. senate bj' the conservative Democrats to fill the vacancy caused by the re- jection of Philip F. Thomas (q.v.), and took his seat, March 9, 1S68, his term expiring, JIarch 3, 1873. He died in Chestertown. Md., Oct. 8, 1879.

VICTOR, Frances Auretta, author, was born in Rome, N.Y.. May 23, 1826; daughter of Adona- jah and Lucy (Williams) Fuller, butli being de- scendants of New England families and of Eng- lish and Welsh ancestry. She attended the Female seminary in Wooster, Ohio, and engaged in literary work, publishing with her sister, in 1851. Poems of Sejitiment and Imagination, tcith Dramatic Descriptive Pieces. She was first mar- ried, in 1853, to Jackson Barrett of Michigan; and secondly, in 1862, to Henry Clay Victor, first assistant-engineer, U.S.N., and brother of Orville James Victor (q.v.). She removed to California in 1863, and to Oregon in 1865, becoming a fre- quent contributor to the Pacific coast press, and to the Ovei'land Monthly from its establishment in 1868. She is the author of: The River of the West (1870): All Over Oregon and Washington (1873); Atlantis Arisen (1875); TJie New Penelope, a7id other Stories (1877); the volumes on Oregon, California, Nevada and Washington in Hubert H. Bancroft's "History of the Pacific States of North America (1882-90), and a volume of Poems (1900). She died in Portland, Ore., Nov. 13, 1902.

VICTOR, Metta Victoria (Fuller), author, was born near Erie, Pa., March 2, 1831; daughter of Adonajah and Lucy (Williams) Fuller, and sister of Frances Auretta (q.v,). She attended the Female seminary in Wooster, Ohio, and early evinced literary talent, contributing to the Home Journal under the nom-de-plume " Singing Sibyl," and with her sister under that of " The Sisters of the West," 1844-^9. Her first volume, entitled Western Leaves from Western Wilds, waa published in 1853, and in the same year appeared hor first successful effort, The Senator's Son, a Plea for the Maine Law, which had a very large sale. Slie was married, July 2, 1856, to Orville James Victor ((i-v.), and after removing to New