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his son, Maj. Gabriel Villere, effected his escape and apprised General Jackson at New Orleans of the landing of the British. The latter made a night attack by land and river, Dec. 23, 1814, and withdrew after severe fighting, having gained a minor success. Philip Villere partici- pated with distinction in the battle New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815, as major-general of state militia. He was the unsuccessful candidate for governor of Ohio in 1812; elected the first Creole governor of Louisiana, to succeed William C. C. Claiborne, in 1816, and under his administration the pros- perity of the state greatly increased, and a Second Bank of the United States was incorporated. Gov- ernor Villere died on his plantation, March 7, 1830.

VINCENT, Boyd, biskop coadjutor of southern Ohio, and 148th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Erie, Pa., May 18, 1845. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1873, and from the Berkeley Divinity school, B.D., 1871. He was admitted to the diaconate in 1871, and advanced to the priesthood in 1873; was as- sistant rector of St. Paul's Erie, Pa., 1873-74; rector of Calvary church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1874-89; was elected bishop of Delaware in 1887, but de- clinod. He was elected bishop coadjutor of southern Ohio, in October, 1888, and consecrated, Jan. 25, 1889, by Bishops Spalding, Dudley, Penick, Whitehead and Knickerbacker. Bishop Vincent received the honorary degree of D.D. from Trinity and from Kenyon in 1889. He is the author of: Can God Hear Prayer?

VINCENT, Frank, traveler and author, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 3, 1848; son of Frank and Harriet (Barns) Vincent; grandson of William and Joanna (Frink) Vincent and of Acors and Hannah (Dickenson) Barns. He at- tended Yale college, 1866; and was the first to make a systematic tour of the entire world, civi- lized and uncivilized, covering 365,000 miles in the years, 1869-94. He presented his collection of Indo-Chinese antiquities to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York city, 1884; received decorations from various foreign sovereigns and governments, and was elected to membership in numerous scientific and literary societies in the United States and abroad. He is the author of: The Land of the Mhite Elej^hant {\87i); Through and Through the Tropics (1876); Norsk, Lapp and Finn (1881); Around and About South Amer- ica (1888); hi and Out of Central America (1890); Tlie Lady of Caivnpore (1891); Actual Africa (1895), and edited: The Plant World (1896), and The Animal World (1898).

VINCENT, John Heyl, M.E. bishop, was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 23, 1833; son of John Hiinrod and Mary (Raser) Vincent; grandson of Bethuel and Martha (Himrod) Vincent and of Capt. Bernard and Mary (Heyl) Raser, and a de-

scendant of Levi Vincent, a Huguenot, who em- igrated from France to the United States in 1676. He removed with his family to his father's birth- place on Montour Ridge, near Milton, Pa., 1838; studied under private instruction; attended the academies at Milton and Lewisburg, Pa., mean- while teaching school, and registered at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., but decided to enter im- mediately upon a ministerial career. He was licensed to exhort, 1850; attended Wesleyan in- stitute, Newark, N.J., and served as junior preacher on the Newark City mission, 1853; joined the New Jersey conference in 1853; was ordained deacon, 1855, and elder, 1857, serving in North Belleville and Irvington, N.J., until trans- ferred to the Rock River conference. He was pastor at Joliet, 111., 1857-58, where he organized a normal training class for Sunday-school teach- ers, and was married, Nov, 10, 1858, to Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Caroline (Butler) Dusen- bury of Portville, N.Y. He held the following pastorates in Illinois; at Mt. Morris, 1859; Gal- ena, 1859; of the Court Street church, Rockford, 1861-64, visiting Europe, Egypt and Palestine, 1862-63, and of Trinity church, Chicago, 1864-65. He founded and edited the Northwest Sunday School Quarterly, 1865; The Sunday-School Teacher, 1866, devising the plan of lessons which subsequently developed into the International Lesson System; was general agent of the M.E. Sunday-school union, 1866. and corresponding sec- retary and editor of the Union, 1868-84. removing in the former year to Plainfield, N.J. With Lewis Miller, he was one of the founders of the Chautauqua assembly, 1874, Dr. Miller serving as president of the organization, and Mr. Vincent as superintendent of instruction; organized the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific circle in 1878, and from that date officiated as its chancellor. He was elected bishop of the M. E. church by the general conference in 1888, and in 1900 made resident bishop in charge of the Eui'opean work of the church. Bishop Vincent was residing in Zurich, Switzerland in 1903. His son, George E. Vincent, A.B., Yale, 1885, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1896, became vice-president of the Chau- tauqua system in 1888, and in 1900 was appointed associate professor of sociology in the University of Chicago. Bishop Vincent received the hon- orary degree of D.D. from Ohio Wesleyan uni- versity, 1870, and from Harvard, 1896, and that of LL.D. from Washington and Jefferson college, 1885. He served as preacher to Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Wellesley and other colleges, and is the author of: Little Footprints in Bible Lands (1861); The Chautauqua Movement (1886); The Home Book (1886); The Modern Sunday School (1887); Better Not (1887); The Cliurch School and Sunday School Institutes; Earthly Footsteps of