Early Settlers -V-

Van Hoose, A. W., Professor, was born in 1862 and came to Georgia when he was seventeen years of age, in 1879, and began teaching a country school in Hall Co. in order to secure money to defray his expenses at college. This country school was begun with only five pupils. After three years, he resigned his position as teacher in this school when he had 175 pupils.He then became a sudent in the University of Georgia, graduating in 1882 with distinction. He was elected a professor in the South Georgia College at Thomasville, Ga., teaching there one year with Hooper Alexander (a school later named for Alexander in Decatur, Ga.) Van Hoose then accepted a position in Howard College at Marion, Alabama , for one year, then a position with the University of Georgia, and finally went to Gainesville assuming charge of what was then the Gainesville College. After one year at Gainesville Van Hoose bought the Georgia Baptist Seminary, an institution owne d by the Baptists of Georgia. Its president, Dr. Wilkes, had died a year before and the school had been closed. He was notably assisted in resurrecting this school by his mother, wife, sister, and mother-in-law. Ref: Atlanta Georgian, 12/23/1909.

Vanwinckle, John. LG 200 acres, Indian Creek. Oglethorpe Co. Deed Book D, page 510.

Veasey, William lived on Soap Creek in Lincoln County in 1787; headright grant.