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the Massachusetts board of education and is the author of : Sermons (ISo.j) ; Lectures on Evidences of Christianity (1855) ; and Sermons (1867) ; be- sides many articles in reviews and magazines. Having gone to Philadelphia to preach at the consecration of the Church of the Holy Trinity, he was stricken with a fatal disease and died at Philadelphia. Pa.. April 26, 1881.

VINTON, Arthur Dudley, lawyer, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.. Dec. 23, 1852; son of Francis (q.v.) and Elizabeth Mason (Perry) Vinton. His mother was the only daughter of Com. O. H. Perry, U.S.N. He attended the rectory school at Hampden, Conn., and was graduated from Co- lumbia college, LL.B., 1873. He entered the law office of Evarts, Southmayd and Choate, New York city, in 1873, and in 1879 formed a partner- ship with Perry Belmont and George G. Freling- huysen. This firm continued in business until 1884, when Mr. Belmont was elected to congress and Mr. Frelingliuj-sen having withdrawn in 1881, Mr. Vinton retired, having amassed a for- tune. Unfortunate railroad investments reduced this, however, and he returned to the practice of law in New York city, about tlie same time be- coming assistant editor of the North American Eevieiv. He is the author of : The Pomfret Mys- tery (1886) ; The Unpardonahle Sin (1888) ; Look- ing Further Backward (1898),

VINTON, Francis, clergyman and author, was born in Providence, R.I., Aug. 29, 1809 : .son of David and Mary (Atwell) Vinton. He was grad- uated from the U.S. Military academy, 1830 ; was promoted 2d lieutenant, July 1, 1830 ; served on garrison, topographical and engineer duty, 1830- 36, and resigned, Aug. 31, 1836. He studied law at Harvard, 1830-32, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1834, but abandoned the law and entered the General Theological seminary. New York city, where he was graduated in 1838, and was ordered deacon, Sept. 30, 1838, and ordained priest in March, 1839, at St. John's church. Provi- dence, by Bishop Griswold. He was twice mar- ried : first, Oct. 8, 1838, to Maria Bowen, daugh- ter ot John Whipple of Providence, R.I., and secondly, Nov. 3, 1841, to Elizabeth Mason, only daughter of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Newport, R.I. He was rector of St. Stephen's, Prov- idence, 1840-42; Trinity church, Newport, R.I., 1842-44 ; Emanuel and Grace churches, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1844-46 ; and Trinity church. New York city, 1855-72. During the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island in 1842, he took an active interest and on its suppression he held a thanksgiving service at Trinity ciiurch. He declined the bishopric of Indiana in 1848, and was defeated for provisional bishop of New York in 1852. He was professor of ecclesiastical polity and law at the General Theological seminary, N.Y., 1869-72. The hon-

orary degree of S.T.D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1848, and that of D.C.L. by William and Mary college in 1869. He is the author of : Arthur Treeniaine, or Annals of Cadet Life (1830) ; Evidences of Christianity (1855) ; Oration on the Aimals of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1863) ; Manuel Commentary on the General Canon Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1870). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1872.

VINTON, Frederic Porter, portrait painter, was born in Bangor, Maine, Jan. 29, 1846 ; son of William Henry and Sarah Ward (Goodhue) Vin- ton ; grandson of Oliver Mills and Nancy (Legge) Vinton, and of Nathaniel and Polly (Ward) Goodhue, and a descendant of John Vinton, who immigrated to America previous to 1643 and set- tled in Lynn, Mass. He removed with his par- ents to Chicago in 1856 ; attended the public schools there, and obtained employment as a clerk and bookkeeper in Boston, Mass., 1861-75. He began his art studies about 1863, by the ad- vice of William M. Hunt, and after spending some time at the Lowell Institute and under Dr. William Rimmer, he went abroad in 1875. study- ing under Leon Bonnat and Jean Paul Laurens at Paris and under Ferdinand Wagner and Wil- helm Diez in Munich. He exhibited Little Gypsy at the Paris Salon of 1878, and in that year re- turned to the United States and established a studio in Boston. He was married, June 27, 1883, to Annie Mary, daughter of George and Mary (Bates) Pierce of Newport, R.I. He was made a member of the Society of American Artists ; an original member of the St. Botolph club ; an associate member of the National Acad- emy of Design in 1888, and Academician in 1891. He received honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 ; a gold medal at the World's Columbian exposition in 1893 ; a silver medal at the Paris exposition of 1900, and a gold medal at the Pan American exposition, 1901. Among his most prominent paintings are Italian Girl and por- traits of Alexander H. Vinton (1880), Wendell Phillips, Faneuil Hall, Boston (1881), William Warren, Art Museum. Boston (1882), Andrew P. Peabody (1884), Gen. Charles Devens for the De- partment of Justice, Washington, D.C. (1884). Samuel A. Green for the Groton public library ; George F. Hoar for the Worcester Law library (1885) ; Admiral Charles E. Clark for the state of Vermont (1902), Commodore George Hamilton Perkins (1903), and many others.

VINTON, Frederick, bibliographer, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 9, 1817; son of Josiah and Betsy Snow (Giles) Vinton ; grandson of Josiah and Anne (Adams) Vinton. He was graduated from Amherst, A.B., 1837, A.M., 1840, and from the Andover Theological seminary, 1843, and at-