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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, James Bradford Richmond 1821- (search)
Walker, James Bradford Richmond 1821- Clergyman; born in Taunton, Mass., April 15, 1821; graduated at Brown University in 1841 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1846; was ordained pastor in the Congregational Church in Bucksport, Me., in 1847; held charges in Holyoke, Mass., in 1855-64; and in Hartford, Conn., in 1864-67. He then turned his attention to literature. His publications include Memorial of the walkers of the old Plymouth colony, and The genealogy of John Richmond. John Grimes Walker.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wall, James Walter 1820-1872 (search)
Wall, James Walter 1820-1872 Legislator; born in Trenton, N. J., May 26, 1820; graduated at Princeton College in 1838; admitted to the bar in 1841; settled in Burlington, N. J., in 1847; was alleged to have interfered with the liberty of the press during the early part of the Civil War and to have made an offer of 20,000 rifles to the Knights of the Golden circle, to be used against the United States; appointed to fill an unexpired term in the United States Senate, and served from Jan. 21 till March 3, 1863; settled in Elizabeth, N. J., in 1869. He died in Elizabeth, N. J., June 9, 1872.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weir, John Ferguson 1841- (search)
Weir, John Ferguson 1841- Artist; born in West Point, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1841; received a common school education; studied art; opened a studio in New York in 1861; elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1864, and an Academician in 1866; and became director and Professor of Painting and Design in Yale School of Fine Arts in 1869. He was judge of fine arts at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. His best-known paintings are The gun foundry; Forging the shaft; and Sunset at West Point. He has also given much attention to sculpture and literature.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Welles, Gideon 1802-1878 (search)
Welles, Gideon 1802-1878 Naval officer; born in Glastonbury, Conn., July 1, 1802; studied law under Judges Williams and Ellsworth, and in 1826 became editor and a proprietor of the Hartford Times, advocating the election of General Jackson to the Presidency. He served in the Connecticut legislature in 1827-35; was comptroller, and in 1836-41 postmaster, at Hartford. In 1846 he was chief of a bureau in the Navy Department, having given up his editorial duties. He became identified with the Republican party in 1857, and was chairman of the Connecticut delegation in the convention at Chicago that nominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, who in 1861 Gideon Welles. called Mr. Welles to his cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, in which capacity he served until 1869. He died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 11, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wentworth, John 1815-1888 (search)
Wentworth, John 1815-1888 Journalist; born in Sandwich, N. H., March 5, 1815; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836; removed to Illinois the same year; was present at the first meeting for the incorporation of Chicago as a city; admitted to the bar in 1841; and member of Congress in 1843-51, and 1853-55. The day after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was adopted in the House he determined to form an anti-slavery party, and out of his organization sprang the Republican party. He was elected mayor of Chicago in 1857 and re-elected in 1860; and was the first mayor to urge his fellowcitizens to hasten recruiting for the National army. His publications include Genealogical. Bibliographical, and biographical account of the descendants of elder William Wentworth, and History of the Wentworth family (3 volumes). He died in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 16, 1888. Lawyer; born in Somersworth, N. H., July 17, 1745; graduated at Harvard College in 1768; was admitted to the bar and bega
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Westcott, Thompson 1820-1888 (search)
Westcott, Thompson 1820-1888 Editor; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 5, 1820; educated in Pennsylvania; admitted to the bar in 1841; was a law reporter on the Public Ledger in 1846-51; editor of the Sunday despatch in 1848-84; editor-in-chief of the Inquirer in 1863-69; and became editor of the Philadelphia Record in 1884. He has contributed articles to periodicals, and written Life of John Fitch, the inventor of the steamboat; The tax-payer's guide; The chronicles of the Great rebellion against the United States of America; Historic mansions and buildings of Philadelphia, etc. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 8, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheeler, John Hill 1806-1882 (search)
Wheeler, John Hill 1806-1882 Historian; born in Murfreesboro, N. C., Aug. 6, 1806; graduated at Columbian University in 1826 and at the Law School of the North Carolina University in 1828. In 1831, under a treaty with France, he was appointed secretary of the commission to settle claims of Americans for losses occasioned by the treaties of Berlin and Milan. He was treasurer of North Carolina in 1841, and minister to Nicaragua in 1854-57. His publications include History of North Carolina; Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina, etc. He died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 7, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whipple, Amiel weeks 1818- (search)
Whipple, Amiel weeks 1818- Military engineer; born in Greenwich, Mass., in 1818; graduated at West Point in 1841. Before the Civil War he was engaged, as topographical engineer, in ascertaining the northern boundary between New York and Vermont, and was an assistant of the Mexican boundary commission in 1849. Early in 1861 he was made chief engineer on the staff of General McDowell, and was in the first battle of Bull Run. In April. 1862, he was on General McClellan's staff, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He was assigned to duty at Washington as commander of the defences of that city. Having asked to be sent to the field, his division was assigned to the 9th Corps. He fought gallantly at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and was mortally wounded in battle at the latter place, dying in Washington, D. C., May 7, 1863.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White, John 1575-1648 (search)
ster, England, July 21, 1648. Clergyman; born in Watertown, Mass., in 1677; graduated at Harvard in 1698; held a pastorate in Gloucester, Mass., in 1703-60. He was the author of New England's lamentation for the decay of godliness, and a Funeral sermon on John wise. He died in Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 17, 1760. Jurist; born in Kentucky in 1805; received an academic education; admitted to the bar and began practice in Richmond, Ky.; member of Congress in 1835-45 and was speaker in 1841-43; and was appointed judge of the 19th District of Kentucky in March, 1845. He died in Richmond, Ky., Sept. 22, 1845. Military officer; born in England; was a surgeon in the British army; settled in Philadelphia, and after the outbreak of the Revolutionary War joined the Continental army as captain; and became colonel of the 4th Georgia Battalion. It is reported that at the siege of Savannah he captured by strategy Captain French and 111 regulars about 25 miles from Savannah on the Og
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitney, William Collins 1841- (search)
Whitney, William Collins 1841- Capitalist; born in Conway, Mass., July 15, 1841; graduated at Yale University in 1863, and at the Harvard Law School in 1865; admitted to the bar and began practising in New York; assisted in organizing the Young Men's Democratic Club in 1871: was active in the movement against the Tweed ring; and Secretary of the Navy in 1885-89, during which period the creation of the new navy was begun. He has since been largely interested in street railway corporations.
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