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Webber, Samuel. Ms., 1759-1810. An educator of Cambridge, professor of mathematics in Harvard University, 1789-1806, and president of the same, 1806-10. He published a System of Mathematics that was for a long time the only text-book on that subject in use in New England colleges.

Webber, Samuel. Ms., 1797-1880. Son of S. Webber, supra. A physician of Charlestown, New Hampshire. Zogan, an Indian Tale, in Verse; War, a Poem.

Webster, Albert Falvey. Ms., 1848-1876. A magazinist of New York city the best of whose short stories are, Little Majesty; An Operation in Money; Miss Eunice’s Glove.

Webster, Daniel. N. H., 1782-1852. A distinguished statesman who was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1801. He represented New Hampshire in Congress, 1813-17, and, removing to Massachusetts in 1816, was a representative from that State, 1823-27. He was a member of the Senate, 1827-41 and 1845-50, and secretary of state, 1841-1843 and 1850-52. He died at Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852. He was a master of English style, the best of his orations on especial occasions being those delivered at the second Pilgrim centennial in 1820, on the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument in 1825, and the eulogy of Adams and Jefferson in 1826. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Private Life of, by C. Lanman, supra; Whipple’s Great Speeches of Webster, 1879; Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Lives by Curtis, Lyman, Smucker, Everett, Fletcher Webster, Tefft, Lodge; Appletons’ American Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary; Reminiscences of, by Harvey; Biographical Encyclopædia of Massachusetts. Co. Lit.

Webster, John White. Ms., 1793-1850. A chemist who was professor at Harvard University, 1824-50, and was tried and executed in 1850 for the murder of Dr. Parkman, supra. Description of the Island of St. Michael; Manual of Chemistry. See Reports of Trial by Bemis and Stone.

Webster, Nathan Burnham. N. H., 1821-1900. An educator of Norfolk, Virginia. Outlines of Chemistry.

Webster, Noah. Ct., 1758-1843. A famous lexicographer, best known by his Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). His great dictionary is still published, being revised and enlarged from time to time, and edited according to the principles laid down by its originator. The unabridged edition is now called the International Dictionary. Among his other works are included, A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language; The Prompter, or Common Sayings and Subjects; Rights of Neutrals; Dissertations on the English Language; A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806). See North American Review, April, 1829; Life by H. E. Scudder, 1882; Allibone’s Dictionary.

Webster, Pelatiah. Ct., 1725-1797. A once famous political economist of Philadelphia. Essays on Free Trade and Finance; Essay on Credit; Political Essay on the Nature and Operation of Money, are among his writings.

Webster, Richard. N. Y., 1811-1856. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Mauch Chunk, 1835-56. History of the Presbyterian Church in America till 1760.

Webster, Warren. N. H., 1835-1896. An army surgeon during the Civil War. The Army Medical Staff; Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye, from the German of Mauthner.

Weed, Clarence Moores. O., 1864- ——. A professor of zoölogy and entomology at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Durham, New Hampshire. Ten New England Blossoms and their Insect Visitors; Insects and Insecticides; Fungi and Fungicides; Spraying Crops. Hou. Ju.

Weed, Thurlow. N. Y., 1797-1882. A journalist of note who founded The Albany Evening Journal in 1830. Letters from Europe; Autobiography. See Memoir by Thurlow Weed Barnes. Hou.

Weeden, William Babcock. R. I., 1834- ——. A woollen manufacturer of Providence. The Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws; Social Law of Labor; The Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789. Hou. Rob.

Weeks, Edwin Lord. Ms., 1849-1903. An artist of note. From the Black Sea through Persia and India. Har.

Weeks, John M——. Ct., 1788-1858. An inventor o£ Salisbury, Vermont. Manual on Bees; History of Salisbury.

Weeks, Robert Kelley. N. Y., 1840-1876. A lawyer and verse-writer of New York city whose poems are not without individuality and a very measurable degree of charm. Twenty Poems; Episodes and Lyric Pieces. Ho.

Weeks, Stephen Beauregard. N. C., 1865- ——. An historical writer. Bibliography of the Historical Literature of North Carolina; Church and State in North Carolina; The Press of North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century; Southern Quakers and Slavery. J. H. U.

Weeks, William Raymond. Ct., 1783-1848. A Presbyterian clergyman of Newark, New Jersey. Nine Sermons; Pilgrim’s Progress in the Nineteenth Century; Scripture Catechism.

Weems, Mason Locke. Va., 1759-1825. An Episcopal clergyman, famous as a book agent in his day, but at one time rector of Pohick Church, Mount Vernon, where Washington attended. He was an erratic personage whose regard for truth is far from being the strongest feature of his biographies. His Life of Washington, which as early as 1811 had reached an eleventh edition, is still the most popular life of its subject, as from some points of view it is the most entertaining. He wrote, also, Lives of Marion, Penn, and Franklin, which are as untrustworthy as his more noted performance. Lip.

Weidemeyer, John William. 1819-1896. A writer of New York city. Catalogue of North American Butterflies; Real and Ideal, a volume of verse; Themes and Translations; American Fish and How to Catch Them; From Alpha to Omega.

Weidner, Revere Franklin. Pa., 1851- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Augustana Seminary, Rock Island, 1885-1891, and subsequently at the Lutheran Seminary, Chicago. Commentary on Mark; Exegetical Theology; Historical Theology; System of Dogmatic Theology; Grammar of New Testament Greek; Commentary on the Hebrew Text of Obadiah; Method for Study of New Testament Greek. Scr.

Weir, James. Ky., 1821- ——. A Kentucky romancer. Lonz Powers, or the Regulators; Simon Kenton; Winter Lodge.

Weir, John Ferguson. N. Y., 1841- ——. The director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University from 1869, and professor of painting and design there. The Way: the Nature and Means of Revelation. Hou.

Weiss [wīss], John. Ms., 1818-1879. A Unitarian clergyman of very radical views who was pastor at Watertown, Massachusetts, and was prominent as an abolitionist. Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare; American Religion; The Immortal Life; Life of Theodore Parker. Rob.

Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer [Talley]. Va., 1835- ——. A verse-writer of New York city whose poems were first collected in 1859.

Weisse, John Adam. F., 1810-1888. A philologist, born in Lorraine, who came to America in 1840, and ten years later settled in New York city, where he was president of the New York Philological Society. Key to the French Language; Origin, Progress, and Destiny of the English Language and Literature; The Obelisk and Freemasonry.

Welby, Mrs. Amelia [Coppuck]. Md., 1819-1852. A versifier of Louisville whose sentimental lyrics attained an extraordinary popularity in their author’s lifetime. Poems by Amelia. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Coggeshall’s Poets of the West.

Welch, Adonijah Strong. Ct., 1821-1889. A lawyer and educator of Michigan and Iowa, president of Iowa Agricultural College, 1869-83. Analysis of the English Sentence; Object Lessons; Talks on Psychology; The Teacher’s Psychology.

Welch, John. O., 1805- ——. A jurist of Ohio. Mathematical Curiosities; Index Digest of Ohio Decisions.

Welch, Philip Henry. N. Y., 1849-1889. A journalist and humourist of New York city. The Tailor-made Girl; Said In Fun. Scr.

Welch, Ransom Bethune. N. Y., c. 1825-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of Christian theology at Auburn Seminary. Faith and Modern Thought; Outlines of Christian Theology.

Welch, William Henry. Ct., 1850- ——. A Baltimore physician, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins University from 1884. General Pathology of Fever.

Weld, Mrs. Angelina Emily [Grimke]. S. C., 1805-1879. Wife of T. D. Weld, infra, and daughter of J. F. Grimke, supra. Letters to Catharine Beecher, a review of the slavery question; Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; Sacred Palmlands.

Weld, Horatio Hastings. Ms., 1811-1888. An Episcopal clergyman of Riverton, New Jersey. Corrected Proofs; Life of Christ; Women of the Scriptures.

Weld, Theodore Dwight. Ct., 1803-1895. A reformer of Boston, long prominent as an abolitionist. The Bible Against Slavery; American Slavery As It Is; Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States.

Weller, George. Ms., 1790-1841. An Episcopal clergyman once prominent in Tennessee and Mississippi. Vindication of the Church; The Weller Tracts.

Welles, Charles Stuart. N. Y., 1848- ——. A physician who has published Bohème (verse); Lilian; The New Marriage and Other Uniform Laws.

Welles, Gideon. Ct., 1808-1878. A journalist and politician, secretary of the navy, 1861-69. Lincoln and Seward.

Wellington, Arthur Mellen. Ms., 1847-1895. A civil engineer of distinction. The Computation of Earthwork from Diagrams; The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways; Car-Builders’ Dictionary; Field Work of Railway Location. See Annual Cyclopædia, 1895. Wil.

Wells, Mrs. Catherine Boott [Gannett]. E., 1838- ——. Daughter of E. S. Gannett, supra. A Boston essayist and novelist who has contributed largely to periodicals. In the Clearings; Miss Curtis; Two Modern Women; About People, a collection of essays; several Sunday-school manuals of ethics and normal methods. Hou. Lip.

Wells, David Ames. Ms., 1828-1898. A distinguished writer on economics. Familiar Science; Science of Common Things; Our Merchant Marine; Primer of Tariff Reform; Practical Economics; Local Taxation; Robinson Crusoe’s Money; Study of Mexico; Recent Economic Changes; Relation of the Tariff to Wages; Principles of Taxation; Production and Distribution of Wealth. Ap. Har. Put.

Wells, Henry Parkhurst. R. I., 1842- ——. A lawyer of New York city. City Boys in the Woods; Fly Rods and Fly Tackle; The American Salmon Fisherman. Har.

Wells, J—— C——. 18— - ——. A legal writer of Ohio. Delineation of the Law of Limitation in Illinois; My Uncle Toby: his Table Talks and Reflections; Questions of Law and Fact; Treatise on the Doctrines of Res Adjudicata and Stare Decisis; On the Separate Property of Married Women under the Separate Enabling Acts; E Pluribus Unum; Magna Charta, or the Rise and Progress of Constitutional Civil Liberty in England and America; The Jurisdiction of Courts; Powers and Duties of Ohio County Commissioners.

Wells, Mrs. Kate Gannett. See Wells, Mrs. Catherine.

Wells, Samuel Roberts. Ct., 1820-1875. A phrenologist of New York city, long a member of the publishing house of Fowler & Wells. The New Physiognomy; Wedlock, or the Right Relations of the Sexes.

Wells, William Harvey. Ct., 1812-1885. An educator of Chicago, superintendent of the city public schools, 1856-64. Historical Authorship of English Grammar; several popular text-books on English Grammar.

Wells, William Vincent. Ms., 1826- ——. Great-grandson of S. Adams, supra. Explorations in Honduras; Walker’s Expedition to Nicaragua; Life of Samuel Adams.

Welsh, Alfred Hix. O., 1850-1889. A professor of English in Ohio State University from 1885. Development of English Literature and Language; English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; The Conflict of Ages; Man and His Relations; Plane Trigonometry. Sil. Sc.

Welsh, Herbert. Pa., 1851- ——. A philanthropist of Philadelphia, prominent as a champion of the rights of the Indians. Civilization among the Sioux Indians; Four Weeks among some of the Sioux Tribes; A Visit to the Navajo, Pueblo, and Hualpais Indians.

Wendell, Barrett. Ms., 1855- ——. An assistant professor of English at Harvard University. The Duchess Emilia, a romance; Rankell’s Remains, a novel; Life of Cotton Mather, supra; English Composition; Stelligeri, and Other Essays; William Shakspere, a Study in Elizabethan Literature; Ralegh in Guiana, a play. Do. Scr.

Wesselhoeft, Conrad. G., 1834- ——. A well-known homœopathic physician of Boston, professor of pathology and therapeutics in the Boston University School of Medicine, who has translated Hahnemann’s Organon and contributed extensively to homœopathic journals.

Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster [Pope]. Ms., 1840- ——. Wife of C. Wesselhoeft, supra. A Boston writer of popular juvenile tales. Jerry the Blunderer; Sparrow the Tramp; Flipwing the Spy; Old Rough the Miser; The Winds, the Woods, and the Wanderer; Frowzle, the Runaway. Rob.

West, Andrew Fleming. Pa., 1853- ——. A professor of Latin in Princeton College from 1883. The Philobiblion of Richard de Bury; Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. Scr.

West, Mary Allen. Il., 1837-1892. An Illinois educator who was Knox County superintendent of schools, 1873-1892. Childhood: its Care and Culture.

West, Nathaniel. I., 1794-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Ark of God the Safety of the Nation; Popery the Prop of European Despotism; Babylon the Great; Right and Left Hand Blessings of God; Complete Analysis of the Whole Bible.

West, Stephen. Ct., 1735-1819. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1759-1819. Essay on Moral Agency; Life of Reverend Samuel Hopkins, supra; Evidence of the Divinity of Christ; Duty and Obligation of Christians to Marry Only in the Lord. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Westcott, Thompson. Pa., 1820-1888. A Philadelphia journalist, editor of The Sunday Dispatch, 1848-84. Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steamboat; The Tax-payer’s Guide; Official Guide to Philadelphia; Historic Mansions of Philadelphia. Co.

Weston, Mrs. Mary Catherine [North]. N. Y., 1822-1882. Calvary Catechism; Synopsis of the Bible; Jewish Antiquities; Biography of Old and New Testament Characters. Dut.

Weston, Roxana. 1800-1891. A verse-writer of Skowhegan, Maine, whose poems were published in 1889.

Wetherell, Elizabeth. See Warner, Susan.

Wetherill, Charles Mayer. Pa., 1825-1871. A professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, 1866-71; The Manufacture of Vinegar.

Wetherill, Julie K. See Baker, Mrs. J.

Wetmore, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bisland]. Ts., 1863- ——. A journalist of New York city. A Flying Trip Around the World. Har.

Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery. Ct., 1798-1876. A once prominent citizen of New York city. Lexington, and Other Fugitive Poems; Observations on the War with Mexico.

Wharey, James. N. C., 1789-1842. A Presbyterian clergyman of Goochland County, Virginia. Baptism; Sketches of Church History. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth. Pa., 1845- ——. A Philadelphia writer. The Wharton Family; Virgilia; St. Bartholomew’s Eve; Colonial Days and Dames; Through Colonial Doorways; A Last Century Maid, and Other Stories for Children; Martha Washington, a biography. Lip. Scr.

Wharton, Charles Henry. Md., 1748-1833. An Episcopal clergyman of Burlington, New Jersey, rector of St. Mary’s Church, 1798-1833. Reply to Bishop Carroll’s Address to the Roman Catholics of America; Proofs of the Divinity of Christ; Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy between Protestant and Roman Catholic churches.

Wharton, Francis. Pa., 1820-1889. Son of T. I. Wharton, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, professor of ecclesiastical and international law in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge. Criminal Law of the United States; Medical Jurisprudence; State Trials of the United States; The Silence of Scripture; Treatise on Theism; Precedents of Indictments; The Law of Homicide in the United States; The Conflict of Laws; Law of Agency and Agents; Digest of International Law (with M. Stillé, supra); The Law of Negligence; Commentary on the Law of Evidence in Civil Issues; The Law of Contracts. Lip.

Wharton, Henry. Pa., 1827-1880. Son of T. I. Wharton, infra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Practical and Elementary Treatise on the Law of Vicinage.

Wharton, Thomas Isaac. Pa., 1791-1856. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Digest of Cases in United States Court, Third District; Reports of Cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Memoir of William Rawle, supra.

Wharton, Thomas Isaac. Pa., 1859-1896. Son of H. Wharton, supra. A journalist. A Latter Day Saint; Hannibal of New York; Bobbo.

Wheat, John Thomas. D. C., 1800-1888. An Episcopal clergyman in Tennessee who published a very popular Preparation for Holy Communion.

Wheatley, Charles Moore. E., 1822-1882. A mineralogist of Phœnixville, Pennsylvania, who published a Catalogue of the Shells of the United States.

Wheatley, Phillis. See Peters, Mrs.

Wheatley, Richard. E., 1831- ——. A Methodist clergyman of New Jersey. Cathedrals and Abbeys in Great Britain and Ireland. Har.

Wheaton, Henry. R. I., 1785-1848. A diplomatist and an eminent authority upon international law, chargé d’affaires to Denmark, 1827-35, minister to Prussia, 1835-45. History of the Progress of the Law of Nations; Elements of International Law (completed by Lawrence); History of the Northmen; Reports of Cases in United States Supreme Court; Digest of Supreme Court Decisions from 1789 to 1820; Life of William Pinkney in Sparks’s American Biography. See Westminster Review, July, 1847; Allibone’s Dictionary.

Whedon, Daniel Denison. N. Y., 1808-1885. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1856-84. The Freedom of the Will; Commentary on the New Testament; Commentary on the Old Testament; Essays, Reviews, and Discourses; Statements: Theological and Critical. Meth.

Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter. “Nym Crynkle.” N. Y., 1835-1903. A dramatic and musical critic of New York city. The Chronicles of Milwaukee; The Twins, a comedy; The Primrose Path of Dalliance, a theatrical tale.

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide. Ms., 1854- ——. A professor of comparative philology at Cornell University from 1886, and of Greek also from 1888. Life of Alexander the Great; The Greek Noun Accents; Introduction to Study of History and Language. Put.

Wheeler, Charles Gardiner. Ms., 1855- ——. Nephew of W. A. Wheeler, infra. A writer formerly of Winchendon, Massachusetts, and later of Topsham, Maine. Who Wrote It? a literary index, and Familiar Allusions, both begun by his uncle, were completed by him. The Course of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World. Hou.

Wheeler, Charles Stearns. Me., 1816-1843. A classical scholar who published an edition of Herodotus from the text of Schweighäuser.

Wheeler, Crosby Howard. Me., 1823-1896. A missionary to Turkey. Little Children in Eden; Letters from Eden; Ten Years on the Euphrates; Odds and Ends; Grace Illustrated.

Wheeler, David Hilton. N. Y., 1829-1902. A Methodist clergyman, president of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1883-87. Brigandage in South Italy; By-Ways of Literature; Our Industrial Utopia and its Unhappy Citizens. Mg.

Wheeler, Henry Nathan. Ms., 1850- ——. Formerly an instructor in mathematics at Harvard University and now engaged in educational publishing work in Boston. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; The Elements of Logarithms; Second Lessons in Arithmetic. Gi. Hou.

Wheeler, John Hill. N. C., 1806-1882. A diplomatist who was minister to Nicaragua, 1854-57. History of North Carolina; Legislative Manual of North Carolina; Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina.

Wheeler, Junius Brutus. N. C., 1830-1886. Brother of J. H. Wheeler, supra. A military engineer, professor at West Point, 1866-85. Civil Engineering; Art and Science of War; Elements of Field Fortifications; Military Engineering.

Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Sparks. E., 1835- ——. A Philadelphia writer. Poems for the Fireside; Modern Cosmogony and the Bible. Meth.

Wheeler, William Adolphus. Ms., 1833-1874. A librarian of Boston who, besides editing an edition of Webster’s Dictionary, was author of Noted Names of Fiction; Familiar Allusions; Who Wrote It? a literary index. Hou. Le.

Wheelwright, John Tyler. Ms., 1856- ——. A Boston lawyer. Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge (with F. Stimson, supra); A Child of the Century, a novel; A Bad Penny. Lam. Scr.

Wheildon, William Willder. Ms., 1805-1892. A journalist of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1827-70, and long a resident of Concord, in the same State. Letters from Nahant; Contributions to Thought; New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill; The Arctic Regions; Curiosities of History.

Whelan, James. I., 1823-1878. A Roman Catholic bishop of Nashville. Catena Aurena, or Papal Infallibility no Novelty.

Whelpley, Samuel. Ms., 1766-1817. A Baptist clergyman (from 1806 Presbyterian) and educator of New Jersey. Letters on Capital Punishment; a once popular Compend of History; The Triangle, a theological discussion.

Whipple, Edwin Percy. Ms., 1819-1886. A Boston essayist and critic, whose writing was as discriminating as it was vigourous and epigrammatic in style. Character and Characteristic Men; Literature and Life; Essays and Reviews; Success and its Conditions; Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; Recollections of Eminent Men, with Other Papers; American Literature, and Other Papers; Outlooks on Society, Literature, and Politics; Rufus Choate, a volume of personal recollections. Har. Hou.

Whipple, Squire. Ms., 1804-1888. A civil engineer of note. The Way to Happiness; Treatise on Bridge Building; The Doctrine of Central Forces.

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill. Ms., 1834-1903. An artist who from 1863 to 1892 lived in London, and in Paris from the latter date. Ten O’Clock; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Hou.

Whitaker, Alexander. E., 1588-after 1613. An Episcopal clergyman who came to Virginia in 1611. He baptized Pocahontas, and officiated at her wedding. Good Newes from Virginia, one of the very first books written in the colony. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Whitaker, Epher. N. J., 1820- ——, A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Southold, Long Island, from 1851. The War of Death; New Fruits from an Old Field; Ready for Duty; Collection of Original Hymns; History of Southold, 1640-1740; Old Town Records.

Whitaker, Mrs. Mary Scrimgeour [Furman] [Miller]. S. C., 1820- ——. A New Orleans writer. Poems; Albert Hasting, a novel.

Whitaker, Nathaniel. L. I., 1732-1795. A Presbyterian clergyman in New England and Virginia, popular in the colonial period. Discourses on Reconciliation; Discourses on Toryism, which were widely read.

Whitcher, Mrs. Frances Miriam [Berry]. N. Y., 1812-1852. A still popular humourist who was the wife of an Episcopal clergyman in Elmira, New York. The Widow Bedott Papers; Widow Spriggins, and Other Sketches.

White, Andrew Dickson. N. Y., 1832- ——. A distinguished diplomatist and educator, minister to Germany, 1879-81, and to Russia, 1892, president of Cornell University, 1867-85, appointed ambassador to Germany in 1897. Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History; The New Germany; History of the Doctrine of Comets; European Schools of History and Politics; Studies in General History; Paper Money Inflation in France; The Warfare of Science with Theology. Ap.

White, Carlos. Vt., 1842- ——. Ecce Femina, an Attempt to Solve the Woman Question.

White, Catherine Ann. N. Y., 1825-1878. A former Superior of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York city. The Students’ Mythology; Classical Literature; Bible Literature.

White, Charles. Ind., 1795-1861. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1841-1861. Essays in Literature and Ethics.

White, Charles Abiathar. Ms., 1826- ——. The State geologist of Iowa, 1865-70, and on the United States Geological Survey from 1882. Report of Iowa Geological Survey; Physical Geography of Iowa.

White, Charles Ignatius. Md., 1807-1877. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Washington, long pastor of St. Matthew’s Church. Life of Mrs. Eliza Seton, supra. He translated, from the French, Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, and other works.

White, Daniel Appleton. Ms., 1776-1861. A jurist of Salem, Massachusetts. The Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Court of Probate; New England Congregationalism in its Origin and Purity; Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch.

White, Eliza Orne. N. H., 1856- ——. A writer of Brookline, Massachusetts. Miss Brooks; When Molly was Six, a juvenile tale; Winterborough; A Little Girl of Long Ago; The Coming of Theodora. Hou. Rob.

White, Mrs. Ellen G—— [Harmon]. Me., 1828- ——. Wife of James White, infra. The Spirit of Prophecy.

White, Emerson Eldridge. O., 1829-1902. An Ohio educator, superintendent of the Cincinnati public schools from 1883. The Elements of Pedagogy; School Management.

White, Greenough. Ms., 1863-1901. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor of English at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1885-1887, and professor of ecclesiastical history and polity there from 1894. Sketch of the Philosophy of American Literature; The Rise of Papal Supremacy; Outline of the Philosophy of English Literature. Gi.

White, Henry. Ms., 1790-1858. A Congregational clergyman of Maine and New Hampshire, who published, The Early History of New England.

White, Henry Clay. Md., 1850- ——. The State chemist of Georgia from 1880. Complete History of the Cotton Plant; Elementary Geology of Tennessee (with MacAdoo).

White, Horace. N. H., 1834- ——. A journalist, editor of The Chicago Tribune, 1864-74, and since 1883 one of the editors of The New York Evening Post. The Silver Question; The Tariff Question; Coin’s Financial Fool; Money and Banking Illustrated by American History; The Gold Standard. Gi.

White, James. Me., 1821- ——. A Seventh Day Adventist elder who published Life Incidents of the Great Advent Movement.

White, James Terry. Ms., 1845- ——. A publisher of New York city, but formerly a resident of San Francisco. His volumes of original verse comprise, Christmas Greeting; Bouquet of California Flowers; Flowers from Arcady; Captive Memories.

White, John. Ms., 1677-1760. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1703-60. The Gospel Treasure in Earthen Vessels; New England’s Lamentations for the Decay of Godliness (1735).

White, John Blake. S. C., 1781-1857. An artist, lawyer, and dramatist of Charleston. Foscari; Mysteries of the Castle; Intemperance; Modern Honor; Triumph of Liberty.

White, John Silas. Ms., 1847- ——. An educator of New York city, master of the Berkeley School from 1880. Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch; Herodotus and Pliny. Gi.

White, John Williams. O., 1849- ——. A professor of Greek at Harvard University from 1877. Greek and Latin at Sight; First Lessons in Greek; The Beginner’s Greek Book; An Illustrated Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis (with M. H. Morgan). Gi.

White, Matthew. N. Y., 1857- ——. An editor and novelist of New York city. One of the Profession; The Affair at Islington; A Born Aristocrat.

White, Pliny Holton. Ct., 1822-1869. A Unitarian clergyman of Coventry, Vermont, but prior to 1859 a lawyer there. History of Coventry.

White, Mrs. Rhoda Elizabeth [Waterman]. 18— - ——. Portraits of My Married Friends; From Infancy to Womanhood, a Book for Young Mothers; What Will the World Say?

White, Richard Grant. N. Y., 1822-1885. An eminent Shakespearean scholar and littérateur of New York city. His critical twelve-volume edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1865, and the Riverside edition in 1883. His original works comprise, Words and Their Uses; Every-Day English; England Without and Within; Biographical and Critical Handbook of Christian Art; Shakespeare’s Scholar; Memoirs of Shakespeare; Studies in Shakespeare; The New Gospel of Peace, a political satire; Revelations: a Companion to The New Gospel of Peace; The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, a novel; The Fall of Man, or the Loves of the Gorillas; The American View of the Copyright Question; The Chronicles of Gotham. See Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Foley’s American Authors. Hou.

White, Sallie Joy. See White, Mrs. Sarah.

White, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth [Joy]. Me., 18— - ——. A Boston journalist. Housekeepers and Homemakers; Business Openings for Girls. Lo.

White, William. Pa., 1748-1836. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Memoir of the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the Catechism; Comparative View of the Controversy Between Calvinists and Arminians, are among his writings. See Life by Bird Wilson, 1839; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit. Dut.

White, William Allen. Ks., 1868- ——. The Real Issue, and Other Stories; Stratagems and Spoils.

White, William Charles. Ms., 1777-1818. A lawyer and dramatist of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Country Cousin; The Poor Lodger; Compendium of the Laws of Massachusetts.

White, William N——. N. Y., 1819-1861. A bookseller of Athens, Georgia, who edited The Southern Cultivator. Gardening for the South; Scientific Gardening.

Whitehead, Charles Edward. N. Y., 1829- ——. The Campfires of the Everglades, or Wild Sports in the South.

Whitehead, William Adee. N. J., 1810-1884. A prominent citizen of Newark, New Jersey. Biographical Sketch of William Franklin; Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy; East Jersey Under the Proprietary Governments.

Whiteley, Mrs. Isabel [Nixon]. N. Y., 1859- ——. A Philadelphia writer. The Falcon of Langéac, a romance. Cop.

Whitfield, Henry. E., 1597-1658. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1637, and was one of the founders of the New Haven colony. He returned to England in 1650. Helps to stir up to Christian Duties; The Light Appearing; Strength out of Weakness.

Whiting, Charles Goodrich. Vt., 1842- ——. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts, on the editorial staff of The Republican. The Saunterer: Essays on Nature. Hou.

Whiting, Henry. Ms., c. 1790-1851. A United States army officer. Otway, the Son of the Forest, a Poem; Sanilæ, a Poem; The Age of Steam; Life of Zebulon Pike, in Sparks’s American Biography.

Whiting, Lilian. N. Y., 1855- ——. A Boston journalist. From Dreamland Sent, verse; The World Beautiful, two collections of essays; After her Death; A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Kate Field: A Record. Lit.

Whiting, Samuel. E., 1597-1679. A Puritan clergyman, pastor at Lynn, Massachusetts, 1636-79. Oratio quam Comitijs Cantab. Americanis, etc.; The Last Judgment; Abraham Interceding for Sodom.

Whiting, William. Ms., 1813-1873. Descendant of S. Whiting, supra. A Boston jurist whose chief work, The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress, has been widely read. See Duyckinck’s American Literature. Le.

Whitlock, George Clinton. Vt., 1808- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Iowa. Elements of Geometry; New System of Surveying.

Whitman, Bernard. Ms., 1796-1834. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Waltham, Massachusetts, 1826-34, and prominent as a controversialist. On Denying the Lord Jesus; Letters on Religious Liberty; Village Sermons; Friendly Letters to a Universalist. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Memoir by J. Whitman, infra.

Whitman, Charles Otis. Me., 1842- ——. A naturalist of note, head professor of zoölogy in the University of Chicago from 1892. He established The Journal of Morphology in 1887. Methods of Research in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology.

Whitman, Jason. Ms., 1798-1848. Brother of B. Whitman, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Portland, Maine. Memoir of B. Whitman, supra; Young Man’s Assistant; Young Lady’s Aid to Usefulness; Week Day Religion; Discussions on the Lord’s Prayer.

Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen [Power]. R. I., 1813-1878. A poet of Providence whose Still Day in Autumn, her finest effort, still finds an honoured place in anthologies. Hours of Life, and Other Poems; Edgar Poe and his Critics. A complete edition of her poems appeared in 1879. See Easy Chair of Harper’s Magazine, September, 1878.

Whitman, Walter [commonly Walt]. N. Y., 1819-1892. A poet regarding whose claims to the title much controversy has raged. During the Civil War he served as a volunteer nurse in the Washington hospitals, and, after holding a government clerkship till 1873, removed to Camden, New Jersey, where the rest of his life was passed. Leaves of Grass, his first book, appeared in 1855, a vigourous protest against established rules of versification in its utter formlessness. Drum Taps, which included the now famous Lincoln elegies, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, and O Captain, My Captain, followed in 1865. The republication of his poems in England in 1868 aroused instant attention there, and excited extravagant praise in some quarters. His rejection of rhyme and metre will probably always repel the mass of readers. His later works include, After All Not to Create Only; A Passage to India; As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free; Two Rivulets; November Boughs; Good Bye My Fancy; Sands at Seventy; Specimen Days and Collect; in prose, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate; Democratic Vistas; Memoranda During the War. See O’Connor’s Good Gray Poet; Burroughs’s Notes on Whitman, and Study of Whitman; Walt Whitman, by R. M. Bucke; Whitman, by W. Clarke; Whitman: a Study of Democracy, by Triggs; Whitman: a Study, by J. H. Symonds; Annual Cyclopedia, 1892; Life of by W. S. Kennedy, supra; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; In Re Walt Whitman; Foley’s American Authors; T. Donaldson’s Walt Whitman the man.

Whitmarsh, Caroline. See Guild, Mrs.

Whitmore, William Henry. Ms., 1836-1900. A genealogist of Boston. American Genealogy; Elements of Heraldry; History of the Old State House, Boston; and many genealogies.

Whitney, Mrs. Adeline Dutton [Train]. Ms., 1824- ——. A very popular writer for girls. She has lived at Milton, Massachusetts, for many years. Friendly Letters to Girl Friends; Faith Gartney’s Girlhood; The Gayworthys; A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life; Hitherto; We Girls; The Other Girls; Real Folks; Sights and Insights; Odd or Even?; Bonnyborough; Boys at Chequasset; Homespun Yarns; Ascutney Street; A Golden Gossip; Patience Strong’s Outings; Mother Goose for Grown Folks. She has also written, The Open Mystery: A Reading of the Mosaic Story; Just How, a Key to the Cook Books; and in verse, Pansies; Daffodils; Holy Tides; Bird Talk; White Memories. See Vedder’s American Writers. Hou.

Whitney, Anne. Ms., 1821- ——. A Boston sculptor and poet. Her only volume, Poems, appeared in 1859. Bertha is her best known poem.

Whitney, Caspar. Ms., 1861- ——. A journalist of New York city, a prominent advocate of amateur sports. A Sporting Pilgrimage; On Snow Shoes to the Barren Grounds. Har.

Whitney, James Amaziah. N. Y., 1839- ——. An agricultural chemist. Relation of the Patent Laws to Development of Agriculture; The Chinese and the Chinese Question; Shobab, a Tale of Bethesda in verse; Sonnets and Lyrics; The Children of Lamech (verse).

Whitney, [Joseph] Ernest. Ct., 1858-1893. An instructor in English for some years at Yale University. Poems of the Pike’s Peak Region (1890).

Whitney, Josiah Dwight. Ms., 1819-1896. A professor of geology at Harvard University from 1865, and State geologist of California, 1860-74. The United States; The Metallic Wealth of the United States; Barometric Hypsometry; Polypetalæ and Gamopetalæ; Contributions to American Geology; Names and Places, Studies in Geography and Topographical Nomenclature; Geological Survey of California; Yosemite Guide Book; Geological Survey of Iowa. Lip. Lit.

Whitney, Mrs. Louisa [Goddard]. E., 1819-1882. Wife of J. D. Whitney, supra. The Burning of the Convent; Peasy’s Childhood: an Autobiography.

Whitney, Peter. Ms., 1744-1815. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Northborough, Massachusetts, 1767-1815. History of Worcester County (1793).

Whitney, Thomas Richard. N. Y., 1804-1858. A journalist of New York city, member of Congress, 1855-57. The Ambuscade, a Poem; Defence of the American Policy.

Whitney, William Dwight. Ms., 1827-1894. Brother of J. D. Whitney, supra. A philologist of eminence, professor of Sanskrit at Yale University from 1854, and of comparative philology, also, from 1870. He edited The Century Dictionary. Language and the Study of Language; Compendious German Grammar; Oriental and Linguistic Studies; Life and Growth of Language; Essentials of English Grammar; Sanskrit Grammar; Practical French Grammar; Roots, Verb Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language; Max Müller’s Science of Language. See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1895. Ap. Gi. Ho. Scr.

Whiton, James Morris. Ms., 1833- ——. Grandson of J. M. Whiton, infra. A Congregational clergyman of New York city. New Points to Old Texts; Is Eternal Punishment Endless?; The Gospel of the Resurrection; Beyond the Shadow; The Divine Satisfaction; Early Pupils of the Spirit; The Evolution of Revelation; The Law of Liberty; Turning Points of Thought and Conduct; Gloria Patri. Wh.

Whiton, John Milton. Ms., 1788-1856. A Presbyterian clergyman of Antrim, New Hampshire. Sketches of the Early History of New Hampshire, 1623-1833.

Whitsitt, William Heth. Tn., 1841- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Louisville, professor of ecclesiastical history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1872. History of the Rise of Infant Baptism; History of Communion Among Baptists; Life and Times of Jude Caleb Wallace; A Question in Baptist History. Mor.

Whittaker, Frederick. E., 1838- ——. Son of H. Whittaker, infra. A Federal cavalry officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a journalist of New York city. A Defence of Dime Novels by a Writer of Them; Life of General Custer; Cadet Button, a Tale of American Army Life; Bel Rubio, a novel.

Whittaker, Henry. W., 1808-1881. A law-office clerk in New York city. Practice and Pleading Under the Codes; Analysis of Decisions in Practice and Pleading.

Whittaker, James Thomas. O., 1843-1900. A prominent surgeon of Cincinnati. Lectures on Physiology; History of Tuberculosis; Theory and Practice of Medicine. Clke.

Whittemore, Thomas. Ms., 1800-1861. A Universalist clergyman of Boston. History of Modern Universalism; Notes and Illustrations of the Parables; Commentaries on Daniel and Revelations; Life of Hosea Ballou; Autobiography.

Whittier, John Greenleaf. Ms., 1807-1892. A famous New England poet, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807, and all his life a member of the Society of Friends. He was one of the early abolitionists, and edited The Pennsylvania Freeman, 1838-39. After 1840 he lived at Amesbury, Massachusetts. Among the most characteristic of his shorter poems are, My Soul and I; The Eternal Goodness; In School Days; The Last Walk in Autumn; The Playmates; My Psalm. His prose writings include, The Stranger in Lowell (1845); The Supernaturalism of New England (1847); Leaves from Margaret Smith’s Journal (1849); Old Portraits and Modern Sketches (1850); Literary Recreations and Miscellanies (1854). His work in verse comprises, Legends of New England (1831); Moll Pitcher (1832); Mogg Megone (1836); Poems (1838); Lays of My Home (1843); Voices of Freedom (1849); Songs of Labor (1850); The Chapel of the Hermits (1853); A Sabbath Scene (1853); The Panorama (1856); Home Ballads and Poems (1860); In War Time (1862); National Lyrics (1865); Snow-Bound (1866); The Tent on the Beach (1867); Among the Hills (1868); Ballads of New England (1870); Miriam (1870); The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872); Hazel Blossoms (1875); Mabel Martin (1876); Centennial Hymn (1876); The Vision of Echard, and Other Poems (1878); The King’s Missive, and Other Poems (1881); The Bay of Seven Islands, and Other Poems (1883); St. Gregory’s Guest, and Other Poems (1886); At Sundown (1890-92). He was also the compiler of Songs of Three Centuries; Child-Life; and Child-Life in Prose; and the editor of John Woolman’s Journal. See Scribner’s Magazine, August, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1883; Century Magazine, December, 1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Lives by Underwood, Brown, Pickard, W. J. Linton; Personal Recollections of, by Mrs. Claflin; Whittier: Notes of his Life and of his Friendships, in Authors and Friends, by Mrs. Fields; Memorial of, from his Native City, 1893; Allibone’s Dictionary; Annual Cyclopedia, 1892; Whittier, by B. O. Flower; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; American Song, by A. B. Simonds; Foley’s American Authors. Hou.

Whittingham, William Rollinson. N. Y., 1805-1879. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maryland. Fifteen Sermons. See Life, by W. F. Brand. Ap.

Whittlesey, Mrs. Sarah Johnson [Cogswell]. N. C., 1825-1896. Heart Drops from Memory’s Urn; The Stranger’s Stratagem, and Other Stories; Herbert Hamilton; Bertha the Beauty; Spring Buds and Summer Blossoms.

Wiard, Norman. Ont., 1826-1896. An inventor and military engineer of distinction whose specialty was the manufacture of ordnance. The Solution of the Ordnance Problem.

Wickersham, James Pyle. Pa., 1825-1891. An educator of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, State superintendent of public instruction, 1866-81, minister to Denmark, 1882. School Economy; Methods of Instruction. Lip.

Wickes, Stephen. L. I., 1813-1889. A physician of Orange, New Jersey. Living and Dying: their Psychics and Physics; History of Medicine in New Jersey; Sepulture: its History, Methods, and Requisites; History of the Newark Mountains.

Wickes, Thomas. N. Y., 1814-1870. Brother of S. Wickes, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Marietta, Ohio. Exposition of the Apocalypse; The Son of Man; The Household; Economy of the Ages.

Wiggin, Kate Douglas. See Riggs, Mrs.

Wigglesworth, Edward. Ms., 1693-1765. Son of M. Wigglesworth, infra. A Congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of theology at Harvard University, 1722-65. An Answer to Mr. Whitefield’s Reply to the College Testimony; Doctrine of Reprobation Briefly Considered, are among his writings.

Wigglesworth, Edward. Ms., 1732-1794. Son of E. Wigglesworth, supra. A Congregational clergyman who succeeded his father in the Hollis professorship at Harvard University in 1765. Calculations on American Population; Authority of Tradition Considered.

Wigglesworth, Edward. Ms., 1804-1876. Grandson of E. Wigglesworth, 2d. A lawyer and merchant of Boston who published Reflections, a collection of apothegms. El.

Wigglesworth, Michael. E., 1631-1705. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Malden, Massachusetts, 1656-1705. The Day of Doom, his chief work, appearing in 1662, was for more than a century the most popular poem in New England. It is an epic of the Last Judgment, not without gleams of poetic merit, but full of what must be styled savage theology. Meat Out of the Eater is a much inferior poem, but was very popular for a long period. God’s Controversy with New England, also in verse, and A Short Discourse on Eternity, comprise his remaining works. Tyler’s American Literature; Life by John Ward Dean.

Wight, Orlando Williams. N. Y., 1824-1888. A Universalist clergyman and physician, appointed State geologist of Wisconsin in 1874. The Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton; Lives and Letters of Abelard and Héloise; Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good; Maxims of Public Health; People and Countries Visited in a Winding Journey round the World. Ap. Hou.

Wight, Peter Bonnett. N. Y., 1838- ——. An architect of New York city. One Phase in the Revival of Fine Arts in America.

Wikoff, Henry. Pa., 1813-1884. A writer whose life after 1834 was passed mainly in Europe. He was commonly known as Chevalier Wikoff. Reminiscences of an Idler; Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Life of Count d’Orsay; My Courtship and its Consequences; Adventures of a Roving Diplomatist; A New Yorker in the Foreign Office; The Four Civilizations.

Wilbour, Charles Edwin. R. I., 1833-1896. An Egyptologist who has published a Life of Victor Hugo and a number of translations from the French.

Wilbur, Hervey. Ms., 1787-1852. A Congregational clergyman and educator of Massachusetts among whose writings are, Elements of Astronomy; Lexicon of Useful Knowledge.

Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus. N. C., 1826-1890. A United States army officer. Rifles and Rifle Practice; History of the Mexican War.

Wilcox, Carlos. N. H., 1794-1827. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, popular as a verse-writer in his day. The Age of Benevolence. See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

Wilcox, Mrs. Ella [Wheeler]. Wis., 1855- ——. A very popular verse-writer and novelist of New York city. Maurine, and Other Poems; Drops of Water, temperance poems; Shells; Poems of Passion; Poems of Pleasure; The Song of the Sandwich; The Beautiful Land of Nod, poems and prose for children; Custer, and Other Poems. Her prose work includes, Men, Women, and Emotions; Mal Moulée; Was It Suicide?; A Double Life; Sweet Danger; Perdita and Other Stories; An Erring Woman’s Love; Men, Women, and Emotions; Adventures of Miss Volney. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.

Wilcox, Marrion. Ga., 1858- ——. A New Haven writer. Real People; Señora Villena.

Wilcox, Phineas Bacon. Ct., 1798-1863. A lawyer of Columbus, Ohio. Condensed Reports of Ohio Supreme Court; Ohio Forms and Practice; A Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar; Practical Forms in Action, etc.; Practical Forms Under Code of Civil Procedure.

Wilde, Richard Henry. I., 1789-1847. A New Orleans lawyer who wrote Conjectures and Researches Concerning Tasso, but is known chiefly as the author of the graceful lyric, My Life is Like the Summer Rose. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Mrs. Johnson’s Our Familiar Songs.

Wilder, Alexander. N. Y., 1823- ——. A physician and journalist of New York city. Lectures on Scientific and Literary Subjects; Intermarriage of Kindred; Life Eternal; The Ganglionic Nervous System, are his principal writings.

Wilder, Burt Green. Ms., 1841- ——. A physician, professor of physiology at Cornell University from 1867. What Young People Should Know; Emergencies; Health Notes for Students. Est. Put.

Wilder, Daniel Webster. Ms., 1832- ——. A Kansas lawyer and journalist who has published The Annals of Kansas.

Wildwood, Will. See Pond, F. E.

Wiley, Calvin Henderson. N. C., 1819-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator in the Carolinas. Adventures of Old Dan Tucker; Utopia, a Picture of Early Life at the South; Scriptural Views of National Trials; Alamance, a novel; Roanoke, or Where is Utopia? See Hart’s American Literature.

Wiley, Harvey Washington. Ind., 1844- ——. A chemist of note, chief of the chemical division of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1883. Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis: Part I., Soils; Part II., Fertilizers; Part III., Agricultural Products.

Wiley, Isaac William. Pa., 1825-1884. A bishop of the Methodist Church from 1872. The Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chan; The Religion of the Family; China and Japan: a Record of Observations. Meth.

Wilkes, Charles. N. Y., 1798-1877. A naval officer of distinction. Narrative of United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838-42; Western America; Theory of the Winds.

Wilkes, George. N. Y., 1820-1885. A journalist of New York city, editor of The Spirit of the Times from 1850. History of California (1845); Europe in a Hurry; Shakespeare from an American Point of View.

Wilkeson, Frank. N. Y., 1845- ——. A journalist. Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Put.

Wilkie, Franc[is] Bangs. N. Y., 1832-92. A Chicago journalist. Petrolia, or the Oil Regions of the United States (1865); Davenport, Past and Present; Walks About Chicago; The Chicago Bar; Great Inventions and Their Influence on Civilization; The Gambler, a Story of Chicago Life; Pen and Powder; Personal Reminiscences. Hou.

Wilkins, John Hubbard. N. H., 1794-1861. A Boston writer whose Elements of Astronomy (1822) was long popular as a text-book.

Wilkins, Mary Eleanor. Ms., 1862- ——. A novelist of Randolph, Massachusetts, whose rank as a short-story writer is among the very first, her work displaying the greatest skill in constructive details as well as accurate perception in characterization. Her fictions deal almost entirely with phases of New England rural life. A Humble Romance, and Other Stories; A New England Nun, and Other Stories; Young Lucretia, and Other Stories; The Pot of Gold, a collection of juvenile tales; Jane Field; Pembroke; Madelon; Giles Corey, Yeoman, a Play; Jerome, a Poor Man; The Adventures of Ann; Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring; The Long Arm (with J. E. Chamberlin, supra). Har. Lo. Rev.

Wilkinson, James. Md., 1757-1825. A soldier who served in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812. Memories of My Own Times. See Gayarré’s Spanish Domination in Louisiana, 1854; Gilmore’s Advance Guard of Western Civilization, 1887.

Wilkinson, John. Va., 1821- ——. A Confederate naval officer who has published, The Narrative of a Blockade Runner.

Wilkinson, William Cleaver. Vt., 1833- ——. A Baptist clergyman and educator. Poems; A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters; Webster, an Ode; The Baptist Principle; The Epic of Saul; The Dance of Modern Society; College Greek Course in English, and other text-books. Fl. Fu. Meth.

Willard, Ashton Rollins. Vt., 1858- ——. A lawyer of Boston. A Sketch of the Life and Work of the Painter Domenico Morelli; Legislative Handbook Relating to the Preparation of Statutes. Hou.

Willard, Mrs. Emma [Hart]. Ct., 1787-1870. A noted educator of Troy, New York. Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain; History of the United States; Universal History in Perspective; Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood; Last Leaves of American History; Poems. She wrote the well-known poem, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. See Life, by John Lord, supra; Hart’s American Literature.

Willard, Frances Elizabeth. N. Y., 1839-1898. A temperance reformer of prominence. Woman and Temperance; How to Win; Woman in the Pulpit; Nineteen Beautiful Years; Glimpses of Fifty Years; A Great Mother. See A Woman of the Century. Fu.

Willard, John. Ct., 1792-1862. An eminent jurist of New York city. Equity Jurisprudence; Treatise on Executors, Administrators, and Guardians; Real Estate and Conveyancing.

Willard, Joseph Augustus. Ms., 1816-1904. Son of Sidney Willard, infra. Clerk of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for Suffolk County, from 1865. His connection with courts of justice began in 1846. Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers. Hou.

Willard, Samuel. Ms., 1640-1707. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, president of Harvard University, 1701-07. Of his many works, A Complete Body of Divinity is the best known. Others are, Peril of the Times Displayed; Covenant-Keeping the Way to Blessedness; Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Willard, Sidney. Ms., 1780-1856. A descendant of S. Willard, supra. A professor of Hebrew at Harvard University, 1801-31. Hebrew Grammar; Memories of Youth and Manhood.

Willard, Sylvester David. Ct., 1825-1865. An Albany physician, surgeon-general of New York at the time of his death. The Willard Asylum for the Insane was named for him. Biographical Memoirs of Physicians of Albany County; Annals of the Albany County Medical Society.

Willcox, Orlando Bolivar. Mch., 1823- ——. A United States army officer. Shoepack Recollections; Faca, an Army Memoir.

Willett, Joseph Edgerton. Ga., 1826-1897. A professor of natural science in Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, from 1849. The Wonders of Insect Life.

Willett, William Marinus. N. Y., 1803-1895. A Methodist clergyman and educator. Scenes in the Wilderness; A New Life of Summerfield; Life and Times of Herod the Great; Herod Antipas; The Messiah; The Restitution of All Things.

Willey, Austin. N. H., 1806-1896. A Congregational clergyman of Maine, long prominent as an abolitionist, and the editor of The Advocate of Freedom, 1839-58. After the latter date he lived at Northfield, Minnesota. Family Memorial; History of the Anti-Slavery Cause in State and Nation.

Willey, Benjamin Glazier. N. H., 1796-1867. A Congregational clergyman of New Hampshire who wrote a History of the White Mountains.

Willey, Henry. N. Y., 1824- ——. A botanist, lawyer, and journalist of New Bedford. List of North American Lichens; Introduction to the Study of Lichens; Synopsis of the Genus Athona.

Williams, Alfred Mason. Ms., 1840-1896. A Providence journalist, editor of The Journal. The Poets and Poetry of Ireland; Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry; Sam Houston and the War of Independence in Texas. Hou.

Williams, Mrs. Anna [Bolles]. “Jak.” Ct., 1840- ——. A writer of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has written a number of popular juvenile tales. Birchwood; Professor Johnny; The Fitch Club; Who Saved the Ship?; Rolf and His Friends; Scotch Caps; Giant Dwarf; Riverside Museum. Cr.

Williams, Mrs. Catherine R—— [Arnold]. R. I., 1787-1872. A Providence writer. Original Poems; Religion at Home; Tales: National and Revolutionary; Fall River, an Authentic Narrative; Neutral French; Annals of the Aristocracy of Rhode Island; Aristocracy: a novel.

Williams, Charles Frederic. Ms., 1842-1895. The Tariff Laws of the United States, with Explanatory Notes; Index of Cases Overruled by the Courts of America, England, and Ireland from 1873 to 1887. He edited the last eight volumes of The American and English Cyclopædia of Law.

Williams, Edwin. Ct., 1797-1854. A writer of New York city. The Politician’s Manual; New Universal Gazetteer; Book of the Constitution; New York as It Is; Arctic Voyages; The Fortunate Puzzler; The Statesman’s Manual; The Twelve Stars of the Republic, comprise his chief works.

Williams, Eleazer. 1787?-1858. An Episcopal clergyman at Green Bay, Wisconsin, supposed by some persons to have been Louis XVII. of France. He published A Spelling-Book in the Language of the Seven Iroquois Nations, and other works in Iroquois. See The Lost Prince, by Hanson.

Williams, Francis Howard. Pa., 1844- ——. A littérateur of Philadelphia. His plays include, The Princess Elizabeth, a Lyric Drama; The Higher Education; A Reformer in Ruffles; Master and Man; Theodora, a Christmas Pastoral. Other works are, Atman, a Story; The Flute Player, and Other Poems; Pennsylvania Poets of the Provincial Period. Cas.

Williams, George Huntington. N. Y., 1856-1894. A professor of inorganic geology at Johns Hopkins University from 1892. Elements of Crystallography.

Williams, George Washington. Pa., 1849-1891. A writer of African descent who served in the Federal army during the Civil War, and as lieutenant-colonel of artillery in the Republican army of Mexico, 1865-67, and who was minister to Hayti, 1885-86. History of the Negro Race in America; The Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion; History of the Reconstruction of the Insurgent States. Har.

Williams, Henry Shaler. N. Y., 1847- ——. A professor of palæontology at Cornell University from 1871. The Bones, Ligaments, and Muscles of the Domestic Cat; Geological Biology. Ho.

Williams, Henry Willard. Ms., 1821-1895. A Boston physician, professor of ophthalmology at Harvard University, 1871-91. Our Eyes and How to Take Care of Them; Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Eye; Practical Guide to Study of Diseases of the Eye.

Williams, Jesse Lynch. Il., 1871- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Princeton Stories; The Freshman, a book for boys. Scr.

Williams, John. Ms., 1664-1729. A Congregational clergyman of Deerfield, Massachusetts, carried captive to Canada, with many of his parishioners, by the French and Indians in 1704. The Redeemed Captive is a graphic account of heroism and suffering during the period of captivity.

Williams, John. “Anthony Pasquin.” E., c. 1765-1818. An English journalist who came to the United States after being very unpopular in England. Poems; Legislative Biography; The Hamiltoniad; The Dramatic Censor; Life of Alexander Hamilton.

Williams, John. Ms., 1817-1899. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, and presiding bishop from 1887. Sermons; Studies on the English Reformation; Ancient Hymns of Holy Church; Thoughts on the Gospel Miracles; The World’s Witness to Christ; Studies in the Book of Acts. Wh.

Williams, Roger. W., 1607-1683. A famous clergyman, minister at Salem, Massachusetts, but banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1635 on account of his views upon religious liberty. In 1636 he founded the city of Providence, and was the chief citizen of the Rhode Island colony until his death. He was the first upholder of the doctrine of liberty of conscience in its entirety, and actively sustained his theories in many controversial works. Key Into the Languages of America; The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience; The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton’s Endeavour to wash it white in the Bloud of the Lambe; Mr. Cotton’s Letter Lately Printed, Examined and Answered; George Fox Digg’d Out of his Burrowes, include his principal works. See Tyler’s American Literature; Mudge’s Footprints of Roger Williams; Allibone’s Dictionary; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia; Appletons’ American Biography; Dexter’s As to Roger Williams; Lives by Knowles, 1834, Gammell, 1846, Elton, 1852, Straus, 1894; Bibliography of Rhode Island.

Williams, Samuel. Ms., 1743-1817. Grandson of J. Williams, 1st. A Congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of mathematics at Harvard University, 1780-88. A Natural and Civil History of Vermont (1809); History of the American Revolution.

Williams, Samuel Wells. N. Y., 1812-1884. A secretary and interpreter of the American Legation in China for many years; after 1877 professor of Chinese at Yale University. China, the Middle Kingdom; Easy Lessons in Chinese; Chinese Commercial Guide; Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect; Syllabic Dictionary of Chinese; Chinese Topography. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by F. Williams, 1888. Scr.

Williams, Stephen West. Ms., 1790-1855. Great-grandson of J. Williams, 1st. A physician who was medical professor in Willoughby University, Ohio, 1838-53. Catechism of Medical Jurisprudence; American Medical Biography; The Williams Family in America (1847).

Williams, Thomas. Ct., 1779-1876. A Congregational clergyman of Providence. Ten Sermons on Important Subjects; The Domestic Chaplain; Rhode Island Sermons.

Williams, William R. N. Y., 1804-1885. A noted Baptist clergyman of New York city, pastor of Amity Street Church, 1832-85. Religious Progress; God’s Rescues, or The Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son: Discourses on Luke; Miscellanies; Lectures on the Lord’s Prayer; Lectures on Baptist History; Eras and Characters of History. Bap. Har. Ran.

Williamson, Hugh. Pa., 1735-1819. A statesman and physician who was a member of the Continental Congress. History of North Carolina; Observations on the Climate of America.

Williamson, Isaac David. Vt., 1807-1876. A Universalist clergyman of Cincinnati and other cities. Argument for the Truth of Christianity; The Crown of Life; Philosophy of Odd Fellowship; Philosophy of Universalism; Rudiments of Theological and Moral Science.

Williamson, Joseph. Me., 1828-1902. A lawyer of Belfast, Maine. The Maine Register and State Reference Book; Bibliography of Maine; History of Belfast. See Bibliography of Maine.

Williamson, Julia May. “Lura Bell.” Me., 1859- ——. A verse-writer of Augusta, Maine. Echoes of Time and Tide; The Choir of the Year.

Williamson, Robert Stockton. N. Y., 1824-1882. A soldier and military engineer. Report of a Reconnoissance in California for Pacific Railroad Route; Use of the Barometer on Surveys; Practical Tables in Meteorology.

Williamson, Walter. Pa., 1811-1870. A homœopathic physician of Philadelphia. Diseases of Females; Instructions Concerning Diseases of Females.

Williamson, William Durkee. Ct., 1779-1840. A Bangor lawyer, governor of Maine in 1820. History of Maine from its First Discovery to the Separation from Massachusetts.

Willis, Nathaniel Parker. Me., 1806-1867. A once popular New York littérateur, much overrated in the earlier part of his career, and now neglected. His prose, though pleasing, is almost all of ephemeral merit, and his verse is sentimental rather than thoughtful. The latter includes the once widely read Sacred Poems; Melanie; Lady Jane and Humorous Poems; Poems of Passion: while his prose comprises Hurry Graphs; People I have Met; Pencillings by the Way; Inklings of Adventures; Letters From Under a Bridge; Famous Persons and Places; A Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean; The Convalescent; Out-Doors at Idlewild; Paul Fane, a novel; Al Abri, and other works of lesser importance. A complete edition of his poems appeared in 1868. See Life by Beers; Allibone’s Dictionary; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Foley’s American Authors. Cr. Scr.

Willis, William. Ms., 1794-1870. A Portland lawyer. History of Portland; History of the Law, Courts, and Lawyers of Maine.

Williston, Seth. Ct., 1770-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman in New York State. Discourses on the Sabbath; Moral Imperfections of Christians; Harmony of Divine Truth; Millennial Discourses, are among his writings.

Williston, Timothy. N. Y., 1805-1893. A Presbyterian clergyman. Orthodox Paths Restored; Talks to My Bible Class; Christ’s Millennial Reign; Premium Essays.

Willson, [Byron] Forceythe. N. Y., 1837-1867. A verse-writer at one time on the staff of The Louisville Journal. The Old Sergeant, and Other Poems. See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1875. Hou.

Willson, James McLeod. Pa., 1809-1866. Son of J. R. Willson, infra. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Deacon; Bible Magistracy; Civil Government; Social Religious Covenanting; Witnessing.

Willson, James Renwick. Pa., 1780-1853. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman in New York and Pennsylvania. History of the Church of Scotland; The Written Law; Historical Sketch of Opinions on the Atonement.

Willson, Marcius. Ms., 1813- ——. An educator of Vineland, New Jersey. Civil Polity and Political Economy; Mosaics of Bible History; and many school text-books. Har.

Wilmer, Lambert A——. Circa 1805-1863. A Philadelphia journalist. New System of Grammar; The Quacks of Helicon; Life of De Soto; Our Press Gang, an Exposition of the Corruptions of American Newspapers (1859); Recantation: a Poem; Somnia; Liberty Triumphant.

Wilmer, Richard Hooker. Va., 1816-1900. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Alabama. The Recent Past from a Southern Standpoint. Wh.

Wilmshurst, Zavarr. E., 1824-1887. A journalist of New York city. The Viking, an epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other Poems; The Siren; Ralph and Rose, a Poem.

Wilson, Alexander. S., 1766-1813. A Scottish ornithologist and verse-writer who came to America in 1794. He is often called the father of American ornithology. Watty and Meg, a narrative poem; American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States (continued by Charles Lucien Bonaparte). See Life by G. F. Ord; Life by Brightwell, 1860; Allibone’s Dictionary. Co.

Wilson, Mrs. Augusta Jane [Evans]. Ga., 1835- ——. A once popular novelist living at Mobile. Her writings had at one time an extraordinary vogue, but are now much less read. Beulah; Macaria; Vashti; St. Elmo; Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; Infelice; At the Mercy of Tiberius. See Manly’s Southern Literature. Dil.

Wilson, Henry. N. H., 1812-1875. A Massachusetts statesman who was vice-president of the United States at the time of his death. History of Anti-Slavery Measures; Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. See Life and Public Services of by G. E. Nason. Hou.

Wilson, James Grant. S., 1832- ——. Son of W. Wilson, infra. A littérateur of New York city who, besides editing Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography, has published Poets and Poetry of Scotland; Mr. Secretary Pepys and his Diary; Love in Letters; Bryant and His Friends; Centennial History of the Diocese of New York; Life of General Grant; Life of Fitz Greene Halleck; Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers. Dil. Har.

Wilson, James Harrison. Il., 1837- ——. A United States army officer. China: Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom; Life of Andrew Alexander; Life of General Grant (with C. A. Dana, supra). Ap.

Wilson, James Patriot. Del., 1769-1830. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Lectures on the Parables; Essay on Grammar; Common Objections to Christianity; Easy Introduction to Hebrew, are among his works.

Wilson, John. E., 1588-1667. A Puritan clergyman, the first pastor in Boston, and long prominent in the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the colony. Some Helps to Faith; Famous Deliverances of the English Nation, a poem; The Day Breaking if not the Sun Rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England.

Wilson, John. S., 1802-1868. A Scottish printer who came to America in 1846, and established himself in the printing business in Cambridge. A Treatise on English Punctuation is his best-known work, but he wrote others on Scripture Proofs of Unitarianism; The Concessions of Trinitarians; Unitarian Principles Confirmed. A. U. A.

Wilson, John Grover. Del., 1810-1885. A Philadelphia clergyman, originally of the Methodist Protestant denomination, but after 1855 the church of which he was pastor was known as the Ebenezer Independent Church. Among his various works are, Discourses on Prophecy; Writings in Prose and Verse; The Sabbath and Its Law; Atheism and Theism.

Wilson, John Laird. S., 1832-1896. A journalist of New York city, but prior to 1866 a United Presbyterian minister in Scotland. The Battles of the Civil War; Life of John Wycliffe. Su.

Wilson, John Leighton. 1809-1880. A Presbyterian missionary to Africa. Western Africa: its History, Condition, and Prospects (1857). See Life by Du Bose, 1895. Har.

Wilson, Peter. S., 1746-1825. An educator of New York city, classical professor at Columbia College, 1789-1792 and 1797-1820. Rules of Latin Prosody; Introduction to Greek Prosody; Compendium of Greek Prosody.

Wilson, Robert Anderson. N. Y., 1812- ——. A lawyer of California. Mexico and its Religion, reissued as Mexico, California, and Central America; New History of the Conquest of Mexico.

Wilson, Robert Burns. Pa., 1850- ——. An artist and verse-writer of Louisville. Life and Love, a volume of verse.

Wilson, Samuel Farmer. Ct., 1805-1870. A New Orleans journalist. History of the American Revolution, long a popular work.

Wilson, Samuel Graham. 18— - ——. A Presbyterian missionary in Persia. Persian Life and Customs. Rev.

Wilson, Theodore Delevan. L. I., 1840-1896. A naval architect of note in the government service. Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical.

Wilson, Thomas. Pa., c. 1768-c. 1828. A Philadelphia printer. Principal American Military and Naval Heroes (1821); The Picture of Philadelphia for 1824.

Wilson, [Thomas] Woodrow. Va., 1856- ——. A professor of jurisprudence at Princeton College. Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics; The State Elements of Historical and Practical Politics; An Old Master, and Other Political Essays; Division and Reunion, 1829-1889; George Washington; Mere Literature, and Other Essays. Har. He. Hou. Lgs. Scr.

Wilson, William. S., 1801-1860. A Scottish verse-writer who became a bookseller and publisher in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1854. Poems, edited by B. J. Lossing (1870).

Wilson, William Dexter. N. H., 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of Syracuse, professor of philosophy at Cornell University, 1868-86. History of the Reformation in England; The Church Identified; Psychology; The Foundations of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise on Logic; Live Questions in Psychology and Metaphysics; Introduction to the Study of the History of Philosophy. Ap.

Wilstach, John Augustine. D. C., 1824-1897. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana, who has published a translation into English verse, with variorum notes, of the complete works of Virgil; also a translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia into English verse. Hou.

Wilstach, Joseph Walter. Ind., 1857- ——. Son of J. A. Wilstach, supra. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana. Horatian Odes; Montalembert: a Character Study.

Wiman, Erastus. Ont., 1834-1904. Formerly a prominent capitalist of New York city. Chances of Success.

Winans, Ross. N. J., 1796-1877. An eminent inventor. One Religion: Many Creeds.

Winchell, Alexander. N. Y., 1824-1891. A professor of geology at the University of Michigan, 1854-73 and 1879-91. Sketches of Creation; Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; World Life; Science and Religion; The Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Causality; Sparks from a Geologist’s Hammer; Geological Excursions; Geological Studies; Walks and Talks in the Geological Field. Har. Sc.

Winchell, Newton Horace. N. Y., 1839- ——. Brother of A. Winchell, supra. State geologist of Minnesota. Geology of Minnesota; Annual Reports on the Geological Natural History Survey of Minnesota from 1872.

Winchester, Carroll. See Curtis, Mrs.

Winchester, Elhanan. Ms., 1751-1797. A Universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, but in earlier life a Baptist minister. New Book of Poems on Several Occasions; Universal Restoration; Prophecies to be Fulfilled; Progress and Empire of Christ, a Poem. See Life of, by E. M. Stone, 1836.

Winchester, Samuel Gover. Md., 1805-1841. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and subsequently of Natchez. Companion for the Sick; Family Religion; The Theatre.

Winebrenner, John. Md., 1797-1860. A German Reformed clergyman of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, founder in 1830 of the Church of God, a sect commonly known as Winebrennerians. Regeneration; Practical and Doctrinal Sermons; Brief Views of the Church of God.

Wines, Enoch Cobb. N. J., 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman, widely known as a philanthropist, who laboured extensively in behalf of prison reform. Two and a Half Years in the Navy; A Trip to China; Hints on Popular Education; How Shall I Govern My School; Commentaries on Laws of the Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada; State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions Throughout the World.

Wines, Frederic Howard. Pa., 1838- ——. Son of E. C. Wines, supra. Formerly a Presbyterian clergyman, but now devoted in official and private capacities to various reforms connected with the defective, dependent, and criminal classes. Punishment and Reformation, an Historical Sketch of the Rise of the Penitentiary System; The Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects (with John Koren). Cr. Hou.

Wing, Conway Phelps. O., 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, long active as an abolitionist. Among his writings are, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; History of the Presbyteries of York and Carlisle.

Wingate, Charles Edgar Lewis. N. H., 1861- ——. A Boston journalist. Shakespeare’s Heroines on the Stage. Cr.

Wingate, Charles Frederick. N. Y., 1847- ——. A sanitary engineer of New York city. Views and Interviews on Journalism; Plumbing and House Drainage; Twilight Tracts.

Wingate, George Wood. N. Y., 1840- ——. Brother of C. F. Wingate, supra. A lawyer and soldier. Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment; Manual of Rifle Practice; On Horseback Through the Yellowstone.

Winser, Henry Jacob. Ba., 1833-1896. A journalist of New York city, and subsequently of Newark, New Jersey, United States consul at Sonneburg, Germany, 1869-81. The Great Northwest; The Yellowstone National Park; The Seat of a Thousand Industries, a description of Newark.

Winship, Albert Edward. Ms., 1845- ——. An educator of Boston, editor of The Journal of Education, Methods and Principles in Bible Study; Life of Horace Mann, supra.

Winslow, Mrs. Catherine Mary [Reignolds]. E., 183- - ——. Best known as Mrs. Erving Winslow. A once popular actress of Boston, and since her retirement from the stage well known as a public reader. Yesterdays with Actors; Readings (with notes) from the Old English Dramatists, Le.

Winslow, Charles Frederick. Ms., 1811-1877. A physician. Cosmography; The Cooling Globe; Force and Nature.

Winslow, Edward. E., 1595-1655. A notable member of the Plymouth colony who succeeded Bradford as governor of that colony in 1633. Good Newes from New England; Hypocrisy Unmasked; New England’s Salamander; The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Among the Indians of New England. See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island.

Winslow, Mrs. Erving. See Winslow, Mrs. Catharine.

Winslow, Helen Maria. Vt., 1851- ——. A Boston journalist. Concerning Cats; Literary Boston of To-Day.

Winslow, Hubbard. Vt., 1799-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman who held charges in Boston and other localities, and among whose writings are, Hidden Life; Moral Philosophy; Doctrine of the Trinity; Controversial Theology; Christian Doctrines; Young Man’s Aid to Knowledge, a very popular work; Intellectual Philosophy.

Winslow, Miron. Vt., 1789-1864. Brother of H. Winslow, supra. A Presbyterian missionary in Ceylon and Madras. Hints on Missions to India; Sketch of the Missions; Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary.

Winslow, Stephen Noyes. Vt., 1826- ——. A Philadelphia journalist. Biographies of Successful Philadelphia Merchants.

Winslow, William Copley. Ms., 1840- ——. Son of H. Winslow, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston widely known as an Egyptologist. Israel in Egypt; The Store City of Pithom; A Greek City in Egypt; The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland.

Winsor, Justin. Ms., 1831-1897. The librarian of Harvard University. He was editor of The Memorial History of Boston; Narrative and Critical History of America. His original works include, Reader’s Handbook of the American Revolution; Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical Discovery in the Interior of North America in its Historical Relations, 1534-1700; Christopher Columbus; The Mississippi Basin: the Struggle in America between England and France, 1697-1763; Was Shakespeare Shapleigh?; History of Duxbury; The Westward Movement. See Bibliography of Maine. Hou.

Winter, William. Ms., 1836- ——. A prominent littérateur and dramatic critic of New York city. Poems; The Trip to England; The Jeffersons; English Rambles; Shakespeare’s England; Gray Days and Gold; Old Shrines and Ivy; Shadows of the Stage; My Witness, a Book of Verse; The Wanderers, a collection of poems; Thistle Down, a Book of Lyrics; The Queen’s Domain, and Other Poems; The Convert, and Other Poems; Brown Heath and Blue Bells; George William Curtis: a Eulogy. See Foley’s American Authors. Hou. Kt. Mac.

Winthrop, John. E., 1588-1649. The first governor of Massachusetts. Arbitrary Government Described; History of New England from 1630 to 1649. See Tyler’s American Literature; Letters of, to Margaret Winthrop; Lives by R. C. Winthrop, infra, 1867, J. H. Twichell, supra, 1891; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864.

Winthrop, John. Ms., 1714-1779. Great-grandson of J. Winthrop, supra. A professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard University, 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of science in America in his century. Lectures on Earthquakes; Account of Some Fiery Meteors; Lectures on the Parallax.

Winthrop, Laura. Sister of T. Winthrop, infra. See Johnson, Mrs. L.

Winthrop, Robert Charles. Ms., 1809-1894. Descendant of Governor Winthrop, supra. A Massachusetts statesman, a lifelong resident of Boston, noted for the polish and refinement of his oratory. Addresses and Speeches; a Life of Governor John Winthrop; Washington, Bowdoin, and Franklin. See Smalley’s Studies of Men; Life by R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 1897. Lit.

Winthrop, Theodore. Ct., 1828-1861. Descendant of Governor Winthrop, supra. A brilliant young novelist who entered the Federal army at the outbreak of the Civil War and was killed at the battle of Big Bethel. John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; Edwin Brothertoft; The Canoe and the Saddle; Love and Skates; Life in the Open Air. See Atlantic Monthly, August, 1861, and August, 1863; Life and Poems of, edited by his sister; Nichol’s American Literature. Ho. Int.

Winthrop, William Woolsey. Ct., 1831-1899. Brother of T. Winthrop, supra. A United States army officer, professor of law at West Point. Treatise on Military Law; Digest of Opinions of the Judge-Advocates-General of the Army. Lit. Wil.

Wirt, Mrs. Elizabeth Washington [Gamble]. Va., 1784-1857. Wife of W. Wirt, infra. Flora’s Dictionary.

Wirt, William. Md., 1772-1834. A famous Virginia statesman and orator, attorney-general of the United States, 1817-28. Life of Patrick Henry; Letters of the British Spy. See Memoir by J. P. Kennedy, supra. Co. Har.

Wise, Daniel. “Francis Forrester.” E., 1813-1898. A Methodist clergyman and religious editor of Boston. Personal Effort; Heroic Methodists; Boy Travellers in Arabia; Some Remarkable Women; My Uncle Toby’s Library; Uncrowned Kings; Summer Days on the Hudson; Men of Renown, are among his numerous works. Meth.

Wise, Henry Alexander. Va., 1806-1876. A Virginia politician, minister to Brazil, 1844-47, governor of Virginia, 1856-60, in whose administration occurred the celebrated John Brown raid. Seven Decades of the Union; Memoir of John Tyler.

Wise, Henry Augustus. N. Y., 1819-1869. Cousin of H. A. Wise, supra. A United States naval officer. Story of the Gray African Parrot; Captain Brand; Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines; Scampavias, from Gibel Tarak to Stamboul.

Wise, Isaac Mayer. Bo., 1819-1900. A Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati from 1854, president of Hebrew Union College. History of the Israelitish Nation; Essence of Judaism; Judaism: its Doctrines and Duties; The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth; The Cosmic God; History of the Hebrew Second Commonwealth; Pronaos to Holy Writ. Clke.

Wise, John. Ms., 1652-1725. A Congregational clergyman of Ipswich from 1780 until his death. A strong, vigourous writer, almost the first of the American colonists to declare his belief in a government founded on human equality. The Church’s Quarrel Espoused; Vindication of the Government of New England Churches. See Tyler’s American Literature. C. P. S.

Wise, John. Pa., 1808-1879. A once noted aëronaut. System of Aëronautics; Through the Air, or Forty Years’ Experience as an Aëronaut.

Wise, John Sergeant. B., 1846- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Diomed: The Life, Travels, and Observations of a Dog; The End of an Era. Hou. Mac.

Wisner, William. N. Y., 1782-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman of Rochester, New York. Incidents in the Life of a Pastor; Civil Liberty.

Wisner, William Carpenter. N. Y., 1808-1880. Son of W. Wisner, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman at Lockport, New York, 1837-76. Prelacy and Parity.

Wisser, John Philip. Mo., 1852- ——. An instructor at West Point from 1878. Chemical Manipulations; Modern Gun Cotton; Practical Instruction in Minor Tactics and Strategy; Report on Military Schools of Europe. Ap.

Wistar, Caspar. Pa., 1761-1818. A Philadelphia physician, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1792-1818. System of Anatomy for Use of Students in Medicine.

Wister, Mrs. Annis Lee [Furness]. Pa., 1830- ——. Daughter of W. H. Furness, supra. A noted and popular translator of many German novels. With F. H. Hedge, supra, Metrical Translations and Poems. Hou. Lip.

Wister, Owen. Pa., 1860- ——. Son of Mrs. S. B. Wister, infra. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. The New Swiss Family Robinson; The Dragon of Wantley, a romance; Red Men and White, a collection of frontier stories; Lin McLean. Har. Lip.

Wister, Mrs. Owen. See Wister, Mrs. Sarah.

Wister, Mrs. Sarah [Butler]. Pa., 1835- ——. Daughter of Frances Kemble. A Philadelphia writer who has published, A Boat of Glass, a poem; translations from Alfred de Musset.

Withers, Frederic Clarke. E., 1826-1901. An architect of New York city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity Church in that city. Church Architecture.

Witherspoon, John. S., 1722-1794. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1768-94, eminent in his day as a leader of opinion, both political and religious, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Ecclesiastical Characteristics; Thoughts on American Liberty; Sermons on Practical Subjects; Leading Truths of the Gospel; Letters on Marriage; Sermons on Various Subjects. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; American Historical Review, July, 1896.

Witherspoon, Theodore Dwight. Al., 1836-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman in Louisville from 1882. Children of the Covenant; Letters on Romanism.

Withington, Leonard. Ms., 1789-1885. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1816-1885. The Puritan, a series of Essays; Penitential Tears; Solomon’s Song Translated and Explained.

Wolcott, Roger. Ct., 1679-1767. A colonial governor of Connecticut, 1750-1754. Poetical Meditations. See Everest’s Poets of Connecticut.

Wolf, Edmund Jacob. Pa., 1840- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg from 1874. History of the Lutherans in America.

Wolfe, Theodore Frelinghuysen. N. J., 1843- ——. A physician and littérateur of Ledgewood, New Jersey. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors; Literary Shrines: the Haunts of Some Famous American Authors,—two widely popular books. Among his professional works are volumes on Tetanus; Anæsthesia, and other medical subjects. Lip.

Wolle, Francis. Pa., 1817-1893. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, eminent as a botanist. Desmids of the United States; Fresh-Water Algæ; Diatomaceæ of North America. Wn.

Wollenweber, Louis August. G., 1807-1888. A German printer who came to America, and, after editing several German papers in Philadelphia, removed to Reading, Pennsylvania. Sketches of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania; Treu bis in den Tod; Zwei treue Kameraden.

Wood, Alphonso. N. H., 1810-1881. An educator of Brooklyn whose text-books were very popular. Class-Book of Botany; First Lessons in Botany; Leaves and Flowers; The American Botanist.

Wood, Benjamin. Ky., 1820-1900. A journalist of New York city, member of Congress, 1861-65. Fort Lafayette, or Love and Secession.

Wood, Charles. N. Y., 1851- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Germantown, Philadelphia. Saunterings in Europe.

Wood, De Volson. N. Y., 1832-1897. A professor of mathematics and engineering at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1872. Treatise on Resistance of Materials; Construction of Bridges and Roofs; Elements of Analytical Mechanics; Elements of Coördinate Geometry; The Mechanics of Fluids; Trigonometry; Thermodynamics; Theory of Turbines. Wil.

Wood, George. Ms., 1799-1870. A treasury clerk at Washington. Peter Schmeil in America; The Modern Pilgrim; Marrying Too Late; Future Life (1858), reissued in 1869 as The Gates Wide Open. Le.

Wood, George Bacon. N. J., 1797-1879. A Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-60. The Dispensatory of the United States (with F. Bache, supra). The Practice of Medicine; Therapeutics and Pharmacology; Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects; History of the University of Pennsylvania; Lives of S. G. Morton, F. Bache. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries. Lip.

Wood, Henry. Vt., 1834- ——. A philosophical essayist and novelist of Boston. Natural Law in the Business World; Political Economy of Natural Law; God’s Image in Man; Ideal Suggestions Through Mental Photography; Edward Burton, a novel; Studies in the Thought World. Le.

Wood, Horace Gay. Vt., 1831-1893. A New Hampshire lawyer, who practised in New York city in his latest years. The Relation of Landlord and Tenant; Treatise on the Law of Nuisances; Master and Servant; The Law of Fire Insurance; Limitation of Actions at Law and in Equity; On the Statute of Frauds; The Law of Railroads; Legal Remedies of Mandamus and Prohibition.

Wood, Horatio Curtis. Pa., 1841- ——. Nephew of G. B. Wood, supra, a medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1866. The Phalangidæ of the United States; Researches upon American Hemp; Brain Work and Overwork; On Fever; Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis; Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke; Therapeutics. Lip.

Wood, James. N. Y., 1799-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator in Indiana. Old and New Theology; Treatise on Baptism; Call to the Sacred Office; The Best Lesson and the Best Time; The Gospel Fountain; Grace and Glory.

Wood, Mrs. Jean [Moncure]. Va., 1754-1823. The wife of James Wood, who was governor of Virginia, 1796-99. She was socially prominent in her day. Flowers and Weeds of the Old Dominion, a book of verse.

Wood, John. S., c. 1755-1822. A Scottish writer who came to America in 1800 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. Among his writings are General View of the History of Switzerland; History of the Administration of John Adams.

Wood, John Seymour. N. Y., 1853- ——. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city, editor of The Bachelor of Arts. Gramercy Park, a story of New York; College Days, or Harry’s Career at Yale; Yale Yarns; A Coign of Vantage; An Old Beau, and Other Stories; A Daughter of Venice. Ap. Cas. Do. Put.

Wood, Mrs. Julia Amanda [Sargent]. N. H., 1826- ——. A Roman Catholic writer of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Myrrha Lake; Hubert’s Wife; Annette; Strayed From the Fold; From Error to Truth; The Brown House at Duffield.

Wood, Mrs. Sarah Sayward [Barrell] [Keating]. Ms., 1759-1855. A novelist whose sentimental fictions include, Duval; Ferdinand and Almira; Amelia, or the Influence of Virtue; Tales of the Night; The Illuminated Baron.

Wood, William. E., 1580-1639. A Puritan colonist who came to New England in 1629. He founded the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. New England’s Prospect, a descriptive work partly in verse. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Wood, William Maxwell. Md., 1809-1880. A United States naval surgeon. Wandering Sketches; A Shoulder to the Wheel of Progress; Hints to the People on the Profession of Medicine; Fankwei, or the San Jacinto in the Seas of India, China, and Japan.

Woodberry, George Edward. Ms., 1855- ——. A prominent literary critic of New York city, professor of literature in Columbia University, editor, with E. C. Stedman, of the complete works of Poe. He has also edited a complete edition of Shelley, with Memoir and Notes. A History of Wood Engraving; The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems; Life of Edgar Allan Poe; Life of James Russell Lowell; Studies in Letters and Life. Har. Hou.

Woodbridge, Samuel Merrill. Ms., 1819- ——. Kinsman of W. C. Woodbridge, infra. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor at Rutgers Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1857. Analysis of Theology; Faith: its True Position in the Life of Man.

Woodbridge, William Channing. Ms., 1794-1845. An educator of Hartford. Universal Geography (with E. Willard, supra). Modern School Geography; Letters from Hofwyl.

Woodbury, Augustus. Ms., 1825-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Providence from 1851. Plain Words to Young Men; The Second Rhode Island Regiment; Historical Sketch of Rhode Island Prisons and Jails, include his principal works.

Woodbury, Daniel Phineas. N. H., 1812-1864. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War. Sustaining Walls; Theory of the Arch.

Woodhull, Alfred Alexander. N. J., 1837- ——. A United States army surgeon. Notes on Military Hygiene; Studies in the non-emetic use of Ipecacuanha. Lip. Wil.

Woodruff, Hiram. N. J., 1817-1887. A noted horse-trainer who wrote The Trotting Horse of America. Co.

Woodruff, Mrs. Julia Louisa Matilda [Curtiss]. “W. M. L. Jay.” Ct., 1832- ——. An author and compiler of New York city. My Winter in Cuba; Shiloh; Holden With the Cords; Bellevue; Daisy Seekers, and various compilations. Dut.

Woods, Mrs. Kate [Tannatt]. N. Y., 1838- ——. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts. Six Little Rebels; Dr. Dick; Out and About; The Wooing of Grandmother Grey; Grandfather Grey; Children’s Stories; Toots and His Friends; The Duncans on Land and Sea. Cas. Le. Lo.

Woods, Katharine Pearson. W. Va., 1853- ——. The Crowning of Candace; John: a Tale of King Messiah; From Dusk to Dawn; A Web of Gold; Metzerott, Shoemaker, a protest against social injustice; Mine and Thine. Ap. Cr. Do.

Woods, Leonard. Ms., 1774-1854. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, professor at Andover Seminary, 1808-54. Letters to Unitarians; Inspiration of the Scriptures; Memoirs of American Missionaries; Church Government; Lectures on Swedenborgianism; Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection. See Park’s Life and Character of.

Woods, Virna. O., 1864-1903. An educator of Sacramento, California. A Modern Magdalene, a novel; The Amazons, a lyrical drama. Fl. Le.

Woodward, Ashbel. Ct., 1804-1885. A physician of Franklin, Connecticut. Vindication of General Israel Putnam; Vindication of Army Surgeons; Life of General Nathaniel Lyon; Medical Ethics, include his principal writings.

Woodward, Annie Aubertine. Sister of J. J. Woodward, infra. See Moore, Mrs. A.

Woodward, Calvin Milton. Ms., 1837- ——. A St. Louis educator, professor in Washington University from 1868. History of the St. Louis Bridge; The Manual Training School: its Aims, Methods, and Results.

Woodward, Joseph Janvier. Pa., 1833-1884. A United States army surgeon. Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies, as observed during the present war (1864); Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion (with G. Otis). Lip.

Woodward, Francis Channing. Ct., 1812-1859. Nephew of S. Woodworth, infra. A once popular writer of juvenile tales, among which are, Uncle Frank’s Home Stories; Stories for Little Folks.

Woodward, Robert Simpson. Mch., 1849- ——. A mathematician, professor of mechanics at Columbia University from 1893. Latitudes and Longitudes of Certain Points in Missouri, Kansas, and New Mexico, and many scientific papers of value.

Woodworth, Samuel. Ms., 1785-1842. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city who wrote, The Champions of Freedom, an historical romance; Melodies, Duets, Trios, Songs, and Ballads, but who will be longest remembered as the author of the famous lyric, The Old Oaken Bucket. See Foley’s American Authors.

Woolf, Benjamin Edward. E., 1836-1901. A popular playwright, among whose plays are, The Mighty Dollar; The Professor; The Doctor of Alcantara.

Woolley, Mrs. Celia [Parker]. O., 1848- ——. A novelist, formerly of Chicago, now (1897) in the Unitarian ministry at Geneva, Illinois. Roger Hunt; A Girl Graduate; Rachel Armstrong, or Love and Theology. Hou.

Woolman, John. N. J., 1720-1772. A Quaker itinerant preacher of New Jersey, in whose writings occurs the earliest protest in America against the slave trade. His ethical teachings have won the highest praise from many quarters. Essays and Epistles; Serious Considerations; On the Keeping of Negroes. His famous Journal, by which he is most widely known, has been edited by the poet Whittier. Hou.

Woolsey, Abby Howland. 18— -1893. A New York philanthropist. A Century of Nursing; Lunacy Legislation in England; Handbook for Hospital Visitors; Hospital Laundries.

Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey. “Susan Coolidge.” O., 1845- ——. Niece of T. D. Woolsey, infra. A poet and popular writer for young people. A resident of Newport, Rhode Island. Old Convent School in Paris; The New Year’s Bargain; What Katy Did; A Guernsey Lily; For Summer Afternoons; In the High Valley; A Short History of Philadelphia; The Barberry Bush, and Other Stories About Girls; Verses; A Few More Verses, include the more important of her writings. Rob.

Woolsey, Theodore Dwight. N. Y., 1801-1889. A Congregational clergyman, president of Yale University, 1846-71, long eminent as a scholar and thinker. Political Science; Communism and Socialism; Introduction to the Study of International Law; Essay on Divorce and Divorce Legislation; Helpful Thoughts for Young Men; The Religion of the Present and the Future; Eros, and Other Poems. Lo. Scr.

Woolson, Mrs. Abba Louisa [Goold]. Me., 1838- ——. A Boston lecturer on English literature. Woman in American Society; Dress Reform; Browsings Among Books; George Eliot and Her Heroines. Har. Rob.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore. N. H., 1840-1894. A novelist whose work was much above the average level of fiction, Horace Chase being her best novel. Her other works include, Castle Nowhere; Lake Country Sketches; Two Women, a poem; Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches; Anne; For the Major; East Angels; Jupiter Lights; The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories; Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories; Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu; The Old Stone House. See Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia, 1894. Ap. Har.

Worcester, Alfred. Ms., 1855- ——. A physician of Waltham, Massachusetts. Monthly Nursing; A New Way of Training Nurses; Training Schools for Nurses in Small Cities; Small Hospitals.

Worcester, Joseph Emerson. N. H., 1784-1865. A distinguished lexicographer and philologist of Cambridge. Geographical Dictionary; Gazetteer of the United States; Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants; Elements of History; Outlines of Scriptural Geography; Comprehensive Primary Dictionary. His greatest work is his well-known quarto Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1860. Lip.

Worcester, Noah. N. H., 1758-1837. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Brighton, Massachusetts, 1813-37, who was prominent in the Unitarian controversy. He edited The Friend of Peace. A Respectful Address to the Trinitarian Clergy; The Atoning Sacrifice a Display of Love, not Wrath; Last Thoughts on Important Subjects; Causes and Evils of Contentions Among Christians. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Worcester, Noah. N. H., 1812-1847. A physician who was professor of pathology in Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio. Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Skin Diseases.

Worcester, Samuel. N. H., 1770-1821. Brother of N. Worcester, 1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Salem, Massachusetts, from 1803. Letters to Dr. Channing on the Unitarian Controversy; Discourses on the Covenant with Abraham. See Life of, by S. M. Worcester, infra.

Worcester, Samuel Melanchthon. Ms., 1801-1866. Son of S. Worcester, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of rhetoric at Amherst College, 1825-34; pastor at Salem, Massachusetts, 1834-60. Essays on Slavery; Life of Samuel Worcester, supra.

Worcester, Thomas. N. H., 1768-1831. Brother of N. Worcester, 1st. A Unitarian clergyman. Call for Scripture Evidence that Christ is God; The True God but One Person; New Chain of Plain Argument.

Work, Henry Clay. Ct., 1832-1884. A popular song-writer of Chicago. Marching Through Georgia; Grandfather’s Clock, are perhaps the best known of his songs.

Workman, Mrs. Fanny [Bullock]. Ms., 1859- ——. Daughter of A. H. Bullock, supra, and wife of W. H. Workman, infra. A littérateur who has lived much abroad. With her husband she has written, Algerian Memories: a Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara; Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia. Ran.

Workman, William Hunter. Ms., 1847- ——. A physician who is co-author with Mrs. Workman, supra, of Algerian Memories, and Sketches Awheel. Ran.

Worman, James Henry. P., 1835- ——. An educator who has filled professorships in various colleges North and South. Complete Grammar of the German Language; Elementary German Grammar; L’Echo de Paris.

Wormeley, Katharine Prescott. E., 1832- ——. A translator of prominence who has translated the novels of Balzac and the plays of Molière, and is the author of The Other Side of War; Life of Balzac; The United States Sanitary Commission; Hospital Transports. Rob.

Wormley, Theodore George. Pa., 1826-1897. A Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania from 1877. Methods of Analysis of Coals, etc.; The Micro-Chemistry of Poisons. Lip.

Worthen, William Ezra. Ms., 1819-1897. A civil engineer of prominence. Cyclopædia of Drawing; First Lessons in Mechanics; Rudimentary Drawing for Schools.

Wright, Carroll Davidson. N. H., 1840- ——. A statistician of distinction, United States Commissioner of Labor from 1885, and professor of political science in the Catholic University at Washington from 1895. Census of Massachusetts, 1875; The Factory System of the United States; The Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question; Annual Reports of Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 1873-88; Convict Labor; Strikes and Lockouts; Working Women in Large Cities; Railroad Labor; Marriage and Divorce; Cost of Production of Iron, Steel, etc.; Cost of Production of Textiles and Glass; Industrial Evolution of the United States. Fl.

Wright, Chauncey. Ms., 1830-1875. An instructor in mathematical physics at Harvard University. Philosophical Discussions; Darwinism. See Biographical Sketch, by C. E. Norton, supra; Memoir, J. B. Thayer.

Wright, Elizur. Ct., 1804-1885. A journalist of Boston long prominent as a reformer. A Curiosity of Law; The Politics and Mysteries of Life Insurance; Savings Bank Life Insurance; Myron Holley and What He Did for Liberty and True Religion; a translation of La Fontaine’s Fables.

Wright, Fanny. See D’Arusmont.

Wright, George Frederick. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Congregational clergyman and geologist, since 1884 attached to the United States Geological Survey in the Department of Glacial Geology. The Glacial Boundary in Ohio; Studies in Science and Religion; Logic of Christian Evidences; The Relation of Death to Probation; Divine Authority of the Bible; The Ice Age in North America; Man and the Glacial Period; Life of Charles Grandison Finney, supra. Ap. Hou.

Wright, Hendrick Bradley. Pa., 1808-1881. A lawyer of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Member of Congress, 1853-55, 1861-63, and 1877-80. A Practical Treatise on Labor; Historical Sketches of the Wyoming Valley.

Wright, Henrietta Christian. 18— -1899. The Golden Fairy Series; Children’s Stories of American Progress; Stories of the Great Inventors; Stories in American Literature; Stories in English Literature; Stories of American History; The Princess Liliwinkins. Har. Scr.

Wright, Henry Clarke. Ct., 1797-1870. An anti-slavery reformer and lecturer of prominence in his day. Man-Killing by Individuals and Nations a Wrong; A Kiss for a Blow; Defensive War a Denial of Christianity; Human Life Illustrated; Marriage and Parentage; The Living Present and the Dead Past. Le.

Wright, John Stephen. Ms., 1815-1874. A Chicago manufacturer who established The Prairie Farmer in 1840. Chicago: Past, Present, and Future.

Wright, Mrs. Julia [MacNair]. N. Y., 1840-1903. Wife of W. J. Wright, infra. A prolific writer of temperance and religious tales, the latter being strongly anti-Roman Catholic in character. Among them are, Almost a Nun; Priest and Nun; Scenes of the Convent; The Gospel in the Riviera; A Wife Hard Won; A Million Too Much. Co. Lip.

Wright, Mrs. Mabel [Osgood]. N. Y., 1859- ——. Daughter of S. Osgood, supra, and great-niece, on the maternal side, of Susanna Rowson, supra. A nature writer of Fairfield, Connecticut. The Friendship of Nature, a series of out-door studies; Birdcraft, a field-book of New England Birds; Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts: a Natural History Story; Citizen Bird, a bird book for beginners. Mac.

Wright, Mrs. Mary [Tappan]. O., 1851- ——. A writer of Cambridge, the wife of Professor J. H. Wright, of Harvard University. A Truce, and Other Stories; Aliens; The Test. Scr.

Wright, Marcus Joseph. Tn., 1831- ——. A brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer of Memphis. Life of General Winfield Scott; Life of Governor William Blount; Reminiscence of the Early Settlement of McNairy County, Tennessee. Ap.

Wright, Robert Emmet. Pa., 1810- ——. A lawyer of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Aldermen and Justices of the Peace; The Office and Duties of Constable; Pennsylvania State Reports, 1861-65.

Wright, Robert William. Vt., 1816-1885. A Connecticut lawyer and journalist. The Church Knaviad; Vision of Judgment; The Pious Chi-Neh; Life: its True Genesis, a refutation of evolution; Practical Legal Forms.

Wright, Thomas Lee. O., 1825- ——. A physician and journalist of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Notes on the Theory of Human Existence; Disquisition on the Ancient History of Medicine; Inebriism: a Pathological and Psychological Study.

Wright, William. I., 1824-1866. A journalist of Paterson, New Jersey. The Oil Regions of Pennsylvania (1865). Har.

Wright, William Bull. N. Y., 1840-1880. A physician and educator of Buffalo. Highland Rambles, a Poem; The Brook, and Other Poems.

Wright, William Burnet. O., 1836- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, and more recently of Buffalo. Ancient Cities from the Dawn to the Daylight; The World to Come; Master and Men: the Sermon on the Mountain practiced on the Plain. Hou.

Wright, William Henry. N. C., 1814-1845. A military engineer in government service. Brief Practical Treatise on Mortars.

Wright, William James. Vt., 1831- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of metaphysics at Westminster College, Missouri, from 1887. Tracts on Higher Mathematics.

Wyatt, William Edward. N. S., 1789-1864. An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore, rector of St. Paul’s Church, 1814-64. Christian Offices; The Parting Spirit’s Address to His Mother.

Wyckoff, William Cornelius. N. Y., 1832-1882. Son of W. H. Wyckoff, infra. The scientific editor of The New York Tribune, 1869-78. Silk Goods in America; American Silk Manufacture.

Wyckoff, William Henry. N. Y., 1807-1877. A Baptist clergyman and educator of New York city. American Bible Society and the Baptists; Documentary History of the American Bible Union.

Wyeth, John Allan. Al., 1845- ——. A surgeon of New York city, founder, in 1880, of the New York Polyclinic and Hospital, the first graduate medical school in America. Essays on Surgical Anatomy and Surgery; Text-Book on Surgery. Ap.

Wylie, Theodore William John. Pa., 1818-1898. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. English, Latin, and Greek Vocabulary; The God of Our Fathers; Washington as a Christian.

Wylie, Theophilus Adam. Pa., 1810-1895. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of ancient languages in the University of Indiana from 1864. History of the University of Indiana.

Wyman, Edwin Allen. Me., 1834- ——. A clergyman of Malden, Massachusetts. Acquaintance with God, or Salvation and Character.

Wyman, Jeffries. Ms., 1814-1874. A physician and scientist of distinction, Hersey professor of anatomy in Harvard University, 1847-74. He was the author of Fresh-Water Shell-Mounds of the St. John’s River, Florida, and many scientific monographs of much value. See Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874; Biographical Memoirs of National Academy of Science, vol. 3.

Wyman, Mrs. Lillie Buffum [Chace]. R. I., 1837- ——. Poverty Grass, a collection of short stories.

Wyman, Morrill. Ms., 1812-1903. Brother of J. Wyman, supra. A physician of Cambridge. Practical Treatise on Ventilation; Progress in School Discipline; Autumnal Catarrh. Hou.

Wynne, James. N. Y., 1814-1871. A physician of New York city. Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America; Importance of the Study of Legal Medicine; The Private Libraries of New York.

Wynne, Mrs. Madelene [Yale]. N. Y., 1847- ——. Daughter of Mrs. Yale, infra. A Chicago artist and worker in silver. The Little Room and Other Stories. Wy.

Wythe, George. Va., 1726-1806. A Virginia lawyer, professor of law at William and Mary College, 1779-89, and a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery (1795).

Wythe, Joseph Henry. E., 1822- ——. A Methodist clergyman and physician of San Francisco. The Microscopist; Curiosities of the Microscope; Agreement of Science and Revelation; The Science of Life; Biblical Biology; Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology; Physiology of the Soul. Meth.

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Yale, Mrs. Catharine [Brooks]. Vt., 1818-1900. A writer of Deerfield, Massachusetts, wife of the inventor of the Yale lock. Story of the Old Willard House of Deerfield, Mass.; Nim and Cum, and the Wonderhead Stories. Hou. Wy.

Yarrow, Henry Crécy. Pa., 1840- ——. A physician in Washington, curator of the reptile department in the National Museum. Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among North American Indians.

Yates, John Van Ness. N. Y., 1779-1839. A lawyer of Albany. Collection of Pleadings and Practical Precedents, with Notes; History of the State of New York (with J. Moulton); Principles and Practice, etc., in Cases of Writs of Error (with T. Tillinghast).

Yeaman, George Helm. Ky., 1829- ——. A lawyer of New York city, minister to Denmark, 1865-70. The Study of Government.

Yoakum, Henderson K——. Tn., 1810-1856. A lawyer of Huntsville, Texas. History of Texas from its First Settlement to its Annexation to the United States.

Youmans [yoo´manz], Edward Livingston. N. Y., 1821-1887. An eminent scientist who, though partially blind for many years, wrote and lectured extensively, beside editing The Popular Science Monthly, 1872-87. Handbook of Household Science; The Culture Demanded by Modern Life; Alcohol and the Constitution of Man; Chemical Atlas; Correlation and Conservation of Forces (edited). See Life of, by J. Fiske, supra. Ap.

Youmans, Eliza Ann. N. Y., 1826- ——. Sister of E. L. Youmans, supra, and his assistant in his studies and researches. First and Second Books of Botany; Descriptive Botany; Lessons in Cookery. Ap.