town, Ind., 17 Aug., 1862. lie was licensed as a Baptist minister in 1804, and in 1807, with his father, removed to the sparsely inhabited territory of Indiana, and settled in Madison, of which he was the first magistrate. He was soon afterward elected sheriff of Jefferson and Clarke counties, and in 1810 was appointed U. S. marshal for the state. He served as a frontier ranger during the Indian campaign of 1811— '13, was elected colonel of militia of Jennings county in 1817, and founded Vernon, the county-seat. He was pastor of the Baptist church in Vernon in 1821-'48, a member of the legislature in 1831-'5, and in 1836 of the senate, where he was instrumental in securing the adop- tion of a policy of internal improvement by the state. He removed to Morgan county in 1848, founded Morgantown, and presented a brick church to the Baptist congregation of that place.
VEATCH, James Clifford (veech), soldier, b.
near Elizabethtown, Harrison co., Ind., 19 Dec,
1819. He was educated in common schools and
under private tutors, was admitted to the bar,
practised for many years, and was auditor of Spen-
cer county, Ind., from 1841 till 1855. He was in
the legislature in 1861-'2, became colonel of the
25th regiment of Indiana volunteers, 9 Aug., 1861,
brigadier-general of volunteers, 28 April, 1862, and
brevet major-general in August, 1865, at which
time he retired from the army. He was engaged
at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, the sieges of Corinth and
Vicksburg, the Atlanta campaign, the siege and
capture of Mobile, and many other actions during
the civil war. He became adjutant-general of In-
diana in 1869, and was collector of internal revenue
from April, 1870. till August. 1883.
VEDDER, Elihu, artist, b. in New York city,
26 Feb., 1836. He had his first instruction in art
in his native city, and later studied with Tompkins
H. Matteson in Sherbourne, N. Y., and Francois
Edouard Picot in Paris. In 1856 he went to Italy,
and subsequently he opened a studio in New York.
He was there elected an associate of the National
academy in 1863, and an associate two years later.
Subsequently he removed to Rome, Italy, where he
still resides. His works, while naturalistic and
vigorous in treatment, are ideal in motive, and
bear witness to the fertility of imagination and
versatility of the artist. In many of his pictures
he aims, as one critic has said, " to give to the un-
real and impossible an air of plausibility and real
existence." One of the best known of his paint-
ings is the " Lair of the Sea-Serpent," now in the
Boston museum of fine arts, where are also " The
Roc's Egg" (two paintings), "Fisherman and
Djin," " Dominican Friars," and " An Italian Wom-
an." His other works include " The Monk upon
the Gloomy Path " ; " The Crucifixion " : " The
Lost Mind " ; " Death of Abel " (1869) ; " A Scene
on the Mediterranean " (1874) ; " Greek Actor's
Daughter," exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876;
" Old Madonna," " Cumean Sibyl," now belonging
to Wellesley college, Mass., and " Young Marsyas,"
the three exhibited at the Paris exposition of 1878 ;
" A Questioner of the Sphinx " ; " Sleeping Girl " ;
" A Venetian Model " ; "A Pastoral," exhibited in
Boston in 1878 ; " Nausicaa and her Companions " ;
"Waves off Pier Head" (1882); and "Le Mistral "
(1884). His ideal works have given rise to much
criticism and discussion as to their conception and
intent. He has also executed an " accompaniment
of drawings" for Edward Fitzgerald's translation of
the " Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam " (Boston, 1884).
VEGA, Feliciano de (vay'-gah), Peruvian R.
C. bishop, b. in Lima in 1580; d. in Mazatlan,
Mexico, in 1640. He was noted for his knowledge
of canon and civil law, held the office of judge in
Peru, and is said to have rendered more than 4,000
decisions, not one of which was rescinded on ap-
peal to the higher courts. He was appointed bishop
of Popayan in 1628, of La Paz in 1638, and arch-
bishop of Mexico in 1639, but fell sick on his ar-
rival at Acapulco in 1640, and was transported to
Mazatlan. where he died of yellow fever He pub-
lished several works on canon and civil law, among
them " De adquirenda haereditate " (Lima, 1605)
and "Relectiones Canonical in Secundum Decre-
talium librum " (1633).
VEGA, Ventura de la, Argentine poet, b. in
Buenos Ayres, 14 July, 1807 ; d. in Madrid, Spain,
in 1865. His father, president of the royal treas-
ury court, remained after the declaration of inde-
pendence in Buenos Ayres, where his wife pos-
sessed large property, but he died in 1812, and
young Vega went to Spain in 1818 for his edu-
cation. His paternal uncle sent him to study
Latin in the Jesuit college of San Isidro, and he
afterward entered the College of San Mateo. He
founded the political society of Numantinos, which
the government dissolved, notwithstanding the
youth of its members, and imprisoned seven of the
leaders from January till June, 1825, when they
were sentenced to three months' seclusion in dif-
ferent convents. After his release Vega finished
his studies with Alberto Lista, and in 1826 pub-
lished some of his poetry. For his support he be-
gan in 1827 to translate French plays, which led
him afterward to become a playwright. In Janu-
ary, 1836, he was appointed chief clerk of the min-
istry of the interior, and he soon afterward became
secretary of Queen Maria Christina. In 1838 he
was the teacher of the young queen and her sister,
and in 1856 he was appointed director of the Royal
conservatory. He is considered one of the best
modern Spanish poets. Although he spent the
greater part of his life in Spain, he is claimed by
the Argentine Republic as a citizen, and it is pro-
posed to erect a statue of him in Buenos Ayres.
He wrote " El Cantar de los Cantares " (Madrid,
1826); "Cantata epitalamica" (1827); "Al Rio
Pusa"(1830); "La Agitation," an ode (1834); "El
18 de Junio " (1837) ; " La Defensa de Sevilla," an
ode (1838); "El Hombre de Mundo," a comedy
(1840) ; and the tragedies " La muerte de Cesar "
(1842) and " Don Fernando de Antequera " (1845).
VEIGL, Franz Xavier, missionary, b. in Gratz,
Austria, 1 Dec, 1723 ; d. in Klagenfurt, in the same
country, 19 April, 1798. He entered the Society
of Jesus at Vienna in 1738, and for several years
was professor in the Jesuit college there. He was
sent to the American missions in 1753, and labored
among the South American Indians until 1777,
when he returned to Europe, and was appointed
professor at Judenburg. He wrote " Reisen einiger
Missionarien der Gesellschaft Jesu in Amerika"
(Nuremberg, 1785) and "Franz Xav. Veigl's vor-
maligen Missionars der Gesellschaft Jesu, grund-
liche Nachrichten fiber die Verfassung der Land-
schaft Maynas in Siid-Amerika bis zum Jahr 1768"
(1798; in Latin, 1792). No. 773 and No. 774 of
Stocklein's " Welt-Bote" (Gratz, 1727 et seq.) con-
tain his "Summa epistolarum duarum ad cognatos
suos in itinere scriptarum 1753 et 1755 quibus
id ipsum et qua? in eo observavit describit " and
"Epistola ad eosdem ex Quito 1 Septembris 1755
qua horribilem terra? in civitate hac, et statum
missionum ad flumen Maragnon describit."
VEINTIMILLA, Ignacio de (vay-een-te-meel-yah), South American dictator, b. in Cuenca, Ecuador, about 1830. He entered the military service,
rose to the rank of general, and as commander of
