These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Van Hise, Van Horne, Van Rensselaer.
Henry (1852-), an American clergyman and author. He was born at Germantown. He was graduated from Princeton in 1873 and from the University of Berlin in 1878. He is known favorably as a preacher and lecturer, and has written a number of volumes on a variety of subjects. Among them are The Poetry of Tennyson, Little Rivers, The Builders and Other Poems, Ships and Havens, and Fisherman's Luck.
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CHAS. R., an American geologist; born in Fulton, Wis., May 29, 1857; was graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1879, and was instructor there in metallurgy till 1883, when he was made assistant professor, becoming full professor in 1886. Two years later he accepted accepted the chair of geology in the same institution, and in 1892 was made non-resident Professor of Structural Geology at the University of Chicago. He became director of the Lake Superior division of the United States Geological Survey. He was elected president of the University of Wisconsin in 1903, serving until 1918. He was the joint author of the memoirs "On Secondary Enlargements of Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks" (1884); "The Penokee-Gogebic Iron-bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin" (1892); "Correlation Papers, Archean and Algonkian" (1892); "Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology" (1896); "Concentration and Control" (1912). He died Nov. 19, 1918.
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SIR WILLIAM COR- NELIUS, a Canadian railroad official; born in Joliet, Ill., Feb. 3, 1843; began his career as an office boy in a railroad station; was rapidly promoted till he was made general superintendent of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern railway.in 1872. Later he successively held the same post on the Southern Minnesota, the Chicago and Alton, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads. In 1880 he was made general manager, and in 1888, president of the Canadian Pacific railway. He was created an honorary K. C. M. G. by Queen Victoria in May, 1894, in recognition of his eminent public services. He died in 1915. genus of epiphytal
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HENRY KIL- IAN, an American patriot of Dutch descent; born in Albany, N. Y., in 1744; commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War; distinguished himself on several occasions; and in October, 1777, aided in the actions which led to the surrender of Burgoyne. After the peace a famous mutiny broke out among his troops. He died in Greenbush, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1816.
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MRS. MARI- ANA (Griswold), an American art critic; born in New York City, Feb. 23, 1851. She contributed largely to current periodicals on art and architecture, and published the valuable books: "Art Out of Doors"; "English Cathedrals"; "American Etchers" (1886); "Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works" (1888); and "One Man Who Was Content, and Other Stories." She died in 1914.
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STEPHEN, an American military officer; born in New York, Nov. 1, 1764; was graduated at Harvard College in 1782; elected to the New York Assembly as a Federalist in 1789; was a State Senator in 1791-1796; lieutenant-governor in 1795; and a mem- 1891-1893). Among his other important ber of the State Assembly in 1798 and works are: 1808-1810. He became major of militia in 1786, was promoted colonel in 1788, and major-general in 1801; and in 1812 was assigned to the command of the Northern frontier, in which capacity he commanded at the battle of Queenstown Heights, Oct. 13-14, 1812. On Oct. 24, he resigned his commission because of public dissatisfaction with his conduct in that engagement. He was chosen chairman of the Erie Canal Commission; became a regent of the University of New York; made a geological survey along the line of the Albany and Buffalo canal in 1821-1823; founded the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y.; and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1821, and of Congress in 1823-1829. He died in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1839.
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PETER, an American jurist; born in Kinderhook, N. Y., in March, 1747; was graduated at Columbia College in 1768. In 1773 he was appointed a commissioner to revise the colonial statutes. During the Revolutionary War he sympathized with the British. In June, 1777, he was called before the Committee on Conspiracies and asked to take the oath of allegiance to the Continental Congress. Declining to do so, he was sent to Boston, where he was kept under constant surveillance, and in October, 1778, was exiled from the country. try. He returned to the United States in 1785, and soon became eminent in his profession. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Columbia College in 1778. His publications include: "Laws of the Colony of New York" (2 vols. 1773); and "Conductor Generalis, or the Duty and Authority of Justices, Sheriffs, Constables, etc. Revised and Adapted to the United States." He died in Kinderhook, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1832.
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a city and county-seat of Van Wert co., O.; on the Pennsylvania and the Cincinnati Northern railroads; 27 miles W. N. W. of Lima. It contains a number of churches, a court house, National and other banks, and several newspapers. It has planing mills, and manufactures of stoves, wagons, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,157; (1920) 8,100.
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in chemistry, a metallic pentad element, discovered by Sefstrom in 1830, in the refinery slag of the iron ores of Taberg, in Sweden; symbol, V; at. wt. 51.2. It is extracted from the finely pulverized slag by defiagrating with niter and sodic carbonate, digesting the fused mass with a saturated solution of sal-ammoniac, and igniting the product in an open vessel. On heating the mass with potassium sium, and washing with water, pure vanadium is obtained as a brilliant metallic powder, having a silver-white luster. It is non-volatile, does not tarnish in the air, burns vividly when heated in oxygen, is insoluble in hydrochloric acid, dissolves slowly in hydrofluoric acid, but very rapidly in nitric acid, forming a blue solution. It forms five oxides, analogous to the oxides of nitrogen, and three chlorides, viz., the dichloride, the trichloride, and the tetrachloride. The addition of metallic vanadium in very small quantities to chromium steel and other steels imparts to them a superior degree of tensile strength and elasticity .
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