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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walsh, Robert 1784-1859 (search)
Walsh, Robert 1784-1859 Author; born in Baltimore, Md., in 1784; received a collegiate education; admitted to the bar and began practice in Philadelphia, Pa., but later abandoned law and engaged in journalism; founded the National gazette in 1819, and was connected with it till 1836; editor of the American review in 1827-37; United States consul at Paris, France, in 1845-51. He was the author of Essay on the future State of Europe; Appeal from the judgment of Great Britain respecting the United States; The select speeches of George Canning; The select speeches of Windham and William Huskisson, etc. He died in Paris, France, Feb. 7, 1859.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weightman, Richard Hanson 1818- (search)
Weightman, Richard Hanson 1818- Military officer; born in Maryland in 1818; entered the United States Military Academy in 1837; served in the Mexican War as captain in the Missouri Light Infantry; was paymaster in the United States army in 1848; was honorably discharged in 1849, and settled in New Mexico. He was a Democratic member of Congress in 1851-53; entered the Civil War as colonel of a regiment of the Missouri State Guard; took part in the battle of Carthage in 1861; and was killed while commanding a brigade at Wilson's Creek, Mo., Aug. 10, 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weiss, John 1818-1879 (search)
Weiss, John 1818-1879 Author; born in Boston, Mass., June 28, 1818; graduated at Harvard College in 1837, and at Harvard Divinity School; and became pastor of a Unitarian church in Watertown in 1843, and again in 1859. In 1870 he retired to devote himself to literature. He published Aesthetic prose, a translation of Schiller's philosophical and aesthetic essays, and Life and correspondence of Theodore Parker. He was attached to the transcendental school of philosophy, and was an earnest abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights. He died in Boston, Mass. March 9, 1879.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheaton, Henry 1785-1848 (search)
of its decisions. In the New York constitutional convention of 1821 he was a prominent member, and was one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the State of New York. From 1827 to 1835 he was charge d'affaires to Denmark; from 1835 to 1837 resident minister at Berlin; and from 1837 to 1846 minister plenipotentiary there. He returned to New York in 1847, and was made Professor of International Law in Harvard College, but died before the time appointed for his installation. Mr. Whea1837 to 1846 minister plenipotentiary there. He returned to New York in 1847, and was made Professor of International Law in Harvard College, but died before the time appointed for his installation. Mr. Wheaton was a voluminous writer upon various subjects, and as a reporter he was unrivalled. In 1843 he became a corresponding member of the French Institute, and the next year a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin. He wrote biography, history, and essays upon law. He is most widely known for his History of the laws of Nations in Europe and America from the earliest times to the treaty of Washington (a prize essay, written for the French Institute). He died in Dorchester, Mass
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittlesey, Charles 1808-1886 (search)
Whittlesey, Charles 1808-1886 Geologist; born in Southington, Conn., Oct. 4, 1808, and went to Tallmadge, O., in 1813; graduated at West Point in 1831; resigned the next year, and became a lawyer. Afterwards he engaged in journalism, and in geological and mineralogical surveys of Ohio at different periods from 1837 to 1860. He became assistant quartermastergeneral of Ohio in 1861; engaged in the campaign in western Virginia in the summer of that year; and became colonel of the 20th Ohio Volunteers. He was at the siege of Fort Donelson, and in the battle of Shiloh commanded a brigade in Gen. Lew. Wallace's division, rendering important service. He resigned a few days after this event, and was afterwards engaged in geological exploration. He is the author of several biographical, historical, and scientific works; and was one of the founders and the president of the Western Reserve Historical Society, at Cleveland. He died in Cleveland, O., Oct. 18, 1886.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkinson, John 1821- (search)
Wilkinson, John 1821- Naval officer; born in Norfolk, Va., Nov. 6, 1821; joined the navy in 1837; served on the Portsmouth in 1845-46; promoted master in June, 1850, and lieutenant in the following November. He resigned from the National service in 1861 and joined the Confederate navy as a lieutenant; was executive officer of the ram Louisiana, which was captured by Farragut in the spring of 1862, when New Orleans fell; was exchanged in the following August and appointed an agent to buy and load a vessel with war materials in England. He purchased the Giraffe, with which he ran the blockade at Wilmington, N. C. In 1864 he commanded the Chickamauga, with which he destroyed numerous merchant vessels, and in the following year commanded the blockade runner Chameleon, in which he sailed to Liverpool, where she was seized by the United States governemnt after the war. Wilkinson published The narrative of a blockade runner.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams, Thomas 1815- (search)
Williams, Thomas 1815- Military officer; born in New York in 1815; graduated at West Point in 1837; was assistant Professor of Mathematics there, and aide to General Scott from 1844 to 1850, behaving gallantly in the war with Mexico. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in September, 1861; commanded for a time the forts at Hatteras, and accompanied Butler in the expedition to New Orleans. He was engaged in cutting the canal in front of Vicksburg, and was placed in command at Baton Rouge in August, 1862. General Van Dorn sent Gen. J. C. Breckinridge to seize the post. He expected to be aided by the ram Arkansas. He attacked the Nationals vigorously on the morning of Aug. 5. Williams had only about 2,500 men to oppose the assailants; Breckinridge had 5,000. The first blow struck fell upon Maine, Indiana, and Michigan troops, who were pushed back; when others from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, with two sections of a battery, hastened to their relief. The ba
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woods, William Allen 1837- (search)
Woods, William Allen 1837- Jurist; born in Marshall county, Tenn., May 16, 1837; graduated at Wabash College in 1859; admitted to the bar in 1861; a member of the Indiana State legislature in 1867; circuit judge of the 34th circuit of Indiana in 1873-80; judge of the Supreme Court in 1881-83; United States district judge for Indiana in 1883-92; and United States circuit judge from 1892 till his death. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., June 29, 1901.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright, Elizur 1804-1885 (search)
Wright, Elizur 1804-1885 Journalist; born in South Canaan, Conn., Feb. 12, 1804; graduated at Yale College in 1826; was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College in 1829-33; and secretary of the American Anti-slavery Society in 1833. He was editor of Human rights in 1834-35, and the Anti-slavery magazine in 1837-38; Massachusetts abolitionist in 1839; and Daily Chronotype in 1845; was commissioner of insurance for Massachusetts in 1858-66; wrote an introduction to Whittier's Poems; and Savings Banks life insurance, etc.; contributed to the Atlantic monthly; and published several anti-slavery pamphlets. He died in Medford, Mass., Nov. 22, 1885.
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