cestors on both sides were Revolutionary soldiers. He removed with his parents to Exeter, N.H., in 1842; attended Phillips Exeter academy; was graduated from Dartmouth college, 1859, and from Albany Law school, 1860; was admitted to the bar in December, 1860, and began practice in Springfield, Vt. He enlisted and was made captain in company A, 3d Vermont volunteers, May, 1861; was promoted major in August, 1861,and soon after, lieutenant-colonel. He was married, June 22, 1861, to Julia A., daughter of Albin and Juiia A. Beard of Nashua, N.H. He was commissioned colonel of the 16th regiment, Vermont volunteers, Sept. 27, 1862, also serving as a member of the staff of Gen. W. F. Smith. In the seven days' battle before Richmond, 1862, he commanded his regiment, and on the third day at Gettysburg, his regiment, in Stannard's brigade, 3d division, 1st army corps, under General Doubleday, together with the 13th Vermont, succeeded in crushing Pickett's right flank. Colonel Veazey next charged and crushed the flank of the approaching brigades under Perry and Wilcox, capturing many prisoners and two stands of colors. For his "distinguished gallantry" he was awarded a congressional medal of honor. He returned to Rutland, and was mustered out of service, Aug. 10, 1863, declining an appointment as brigadier-general on account of ill-health. He was reporter of the supreme court, 186–72; a state senator, 1872–73: was register in bankruptcy, 1874–78: a delegate-at-large from Vermont to the Republican national convention, 1876, and with C. W. Willard served by appointment from Governor Proctor as commissioner to revise the laws of the state, 1878–80. He succeeded Judge Dunton, resigned, as judge of the supreme court of Vermont, serving, 1879–89, and was a member of the interstate commerce commission, 1889–97. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth, 1887; was a trustee of the college, 1880–91, and also of Norwich university, 1875–84, and of the Gettysburg Battle-field association. He was a founder of the Grand Army post in Rutland, Vermont, and served as commander-in-chief of the national organization, 1890, and as president of the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers. He is the author of: Vermont Beports (9 vols., 1864–73), and of a report concerning court expenses. He also delivered several addresses. He died in Washington, D.C., March 22, 1898.
VEDDER, Elihu, artist, was born in New York city, Feb. 26, 1836; son of Elihu and Elizabeth (Vedder) Vedder; grandson of Johannis and Sara Vedder and of Alexander Vedder, and a descendant of Harmen Albertse Vedder (born, 1637, died in Schenectady about 1715), who came from Holland before 1657, as, in this year, he sold a house and lot in Beverwyck. Elihu Vedder, the artist, attended Brinkerhoff school, Brooklyn, N.Y.; painted with Mathison at Sherburne, N.Y.; in the atelier of Picot, Paris, France, 1856, and in Italy, 1857–61. During his brief return to the United States, he was made an Associate of the National Academy of Design, 1863, and an Academician, 1865. He spent the winter of 1865–66 in Paris and in January, 1867, made his permanent residence in Rome, becoming especially well-known for his symbolic interpretation of mysticism. He was married, July 13, 1869, to Caroline, daughter of Enoch Huntington and Caroline (Beach) Rosekrans of Glens Falls, N.Y. He became a member of the Society of American Artists; the American Society of Mural Decorators, and the Century association, New York city. His works include: Dominican Friars (1860); A Questioner of the Sphinx (1863); Fisherman and Djin (1863); Lair of the Sea-Serpent (1864); The Monk upon the Gloomy Path (1865); The Lost Mind (1865); The Roc's Egg (1868); Death of Abel (1869); A Scene on the Mediterranean (1874); Greek Actor's Daughter (1876); Greek Girls Bathing (1876); Old Madonna (1878); Cumean Sibyl, at Wellesley college, Mass. (1878); Young Marsyas (1878); A Pastoral (1878); A Venetian Model (1879); Waves off Pier Head (1882); Le Mistral (1884); illustrations for Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1884); The Last Man (1891); Lazarus (1894); Enemy Sowing Tares (1898). His work includes the mosaic Minerva and a series of five decorative panels, whose subject is Government, in the Congressional library at Washington, D.C.
VENABLE, Abraham B., senator, was born in Prince Edward county, Va., in 1760. His ancestors received a grant of land on the James River from Charles II., and his grandfather, a surgeon, accompanied the first regiment of troops sent into Jamestown under Sir John Harvie. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B.. 1780, A.M., 1791; engaged as a planter in Prince Edward county, and was a representative in the 2d–5th congresses, 1791–99. He was elected U.S. senator from Virginia in place of Stevens T. Mason, deceased (John Taylor having served by appointment from Oct. 17, 1803), and took his seat Dec. 13, 1803, and served till March 27, 1804,
