Welch, Frank – Wellington, George L
Welch, Frank
congressman. He was a representative from Nebraska to the forty-fifth congress.
Welch, John
lawyer, state senator, congressman, author, was born Oct. 28, 1805, in Harrison county, Ohio. He was a member of the state senate of Ohio in 1846 and 1847; and was a representative in congress from 1851 to 1853. He was subsequently one of the trustees of the Ohio university. He was the author of Mathematical Curiosities; and Index Digest of Ohio Decisions.
Welch, Johnson
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 15, 1809, in Harrison county, Ohio. He became a minister of the presbyterian church, adhering to the Scotch or seceding party, and at the time of his death was president of Franklin college. He died April 1, 1837, in Athens, Ohio.
Welch, Moses Cook
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 22, 1754, in Mansfield, Conn. He published various discourses and pamphlets, including Eulogy on Benjamin Chaplin; and The Addresser Addressed, a reply to Hon. Zephaniah Swift. He died April 21, 1824, in Mansfield, Conn.
Welch, Philip Henry
journalist, humorist, author, was born in 1849 in New York. He was a journalist and humorist of New York city; and the author of The Tailor-Made Girl; and Said In Fun. He died in 1889.
Welch, Ransom Bethune
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1825 in Greenfield, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman, professor of Christian theology at Auburn seminary; and the author of Faith and Modern Thought; and Outlines of Christian Theology. He died June 29, 1890, in Healing Springs, Va.
Welch, William H
lawyer, jurist, was born in Connecticut. In 1853 he was appointed chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Minnesota, where he resided.
Welch, William Henry
physician, educator, author, was born in 1850 in Connecticut. He is a Baltimore physician, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins university from 1884; and the author of General Pathology of Fever.
Welch, William W
physician, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1818, in Norfolk, Conn. He was twice elected to the house of representatives, and twice to the senate of Connecticut. He was a representative from that state during the thirty-fourth congress.
Welcher, Adair
author, poet. He is a writer of Berkeley, Cal.; and the author of a work entitled Romer, King of Norway.
Weld, Mrs. Angelina Emily
[GRIMKE], author, was born Feb. 20, 1805, in Charleston, S. C. She was the author of Letters to Catharine Beecher, a review of the slavery question; Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; and Sacred Palmlands. She died in 1879.
Weld, Horatio Hastings
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1811, in Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of Riverton, N. J.; and the author of Corrected Proofs; Life of Christ; and Women of the Scriptures. He died Aug. 27, 1888, in Riverton, N. J.
Weld, Theodore Dwight
abolitionist, reformer, author, was born Nov. 23, 1803, in Hampton, Conn. He was a reformer of Boston, long prominent as an abolitionist; and the author of The Bible Against Slavery; American Slavery As It Is; and Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States. He died in
Weldon, Lawrence
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1829 in Muskingum county, Ohio. In 1860 he was elected a representative in the Illinois state legislature, and was also a presidential elector on the republican ticket. In 1861 he resigned his seat in the legislature to accept the appointment of United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois. He resigned in 1866, and in 1867 moved to Bloomington, Ill.
In 1883 he was appointed associate justice of the United States court of claims.
Welker, Martin
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, educator, was born April 25, 1819, in Knox county, Ohio.
In 1851 he was elected a judge of the common pleas for the sixth district, serving five years. In 1857 he moved to Wooster, and was elected lieutenant-governor of Ohio, declining a renomination. In 1861 he was appointed a judge advocate, with the rank of major; and was soon afterwards appointed aide-de-camp and acting judge advocate-general, with the rank of colonel, under the governor of the state.
In 1862 he was an assistant adjutant-general, and superintended the draft of the state. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth congress. He was re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican. and in 1873 was appointed United States judge for the northern district of Ohio.
He afterward became professor of political science, and of constitutional and international law in Wooster university.
Wellborn, Marshall Johnson
lawyer, congressman, was born May 29, 1808, in Putnam county, Ga. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1849 to 1851. He died Oct. 16, 1874, in Columbus, Ga.
Wellborn, Olin
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 13, 1843, in Cumming, Ga. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. He moved to Dallas, Tex.; and was elected a representative from Texas to the fortysixth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and fortyninth congresses as a democrat.
Weller, George
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 15, 1790, in Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman once prominent in Tennessee and Mississippi; and was the author of Vindication of the Church; and The Weller Tracts.
He died Nov. 9, 1841, in Raymond, Miss.
Weller, John B
congressman, United States senator, governor, was born in 1812 in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1845; and was the first United States commissioner to Mexico. Having taken up his residence in California he was in 1851 elected to the United States senate for six years. He was subsequently elected governor of California; and in 1860 was appointed United States minister to Mexico. He died Aug. 7, 1875, in New Orleans, La.
Weller, Luman H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1833, in Litchfield county, Conn. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the fortyeighth congress.
Weller, Walter Scott
journalist, musician, composer, was born Dec. 1, 1857, in LaPorte, Ind. He is a noted musician and composer; and the author of Evening Echoes; Idylle; and Among the Daisies. He has edited numerous publications, and is now the editor and proprietor of The New Church Independent of Chicago, Ill.
Welles, Charles Stuart
physician, author, poet, was born about 1860.
He has published Boheme; Lilian; and The New Marriage and Other Uniform Laws.
Welles, Gideon
journalist, state legislator, author, was born July 1, 1802, in Glastonbury, Conn. From 1827 to 1835 he was a member of the Connecticut legislature; and was subsequently appointed comptroller of public accounts. From 1836 to 1841 he was postmaster of Hartford; and in 1842 was made comptroller of the state. In 1846 he took charge of a bureau in the navy department, where he remained until 1849. In 1861 he went into President Lincoln's cabinet as secretary of the navy. For thirty years before becoming secretary he was an occasional contributor to the Hartford Press, the New York Evening Post, and the Washington Globe and Union; and was the author of Lincoln and Seward. He died Feb. 11, 1878, in Hartford, Conn.
Welles, Noah
clergyman, was born Sept. 25, 1718, in Colchester, Conn. He was a tutor at Yale in 1745-46, and in the latter year received a call to Stamford, where he remained until the day of his death, the thirtieth anniversary of his ordination. He published The Real Advantages which Ministers and People may Enjoy, especially in the Colonies, by conforming to the Church of England; The Divine Right of Presbyterian Ordination Asserted; Patriotism Described and Recommended, the annual election sermon; and Vindication of the Validity and Divine Right of Presbyterian Ordination. He died Dec. 31, 1776, in Stamford, Conn.
Welles, Thomas
governor, was born in 1598 in England. In 1655 he was elected governor of Connecticut, but after two years he returned to the office of deputy governor. He was chosen governor for a second time in 1658, and in 1659 again held the office of deputy governor.
He died Jan. 14, 1660, in Wethersfield, Conn.
Welling, James Clarke
educator, was born July 14, 1825, in Trenton, N. J.
In 1884 he was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian institution, and soon afterward he was elected chairman of its executive committee. He is president of the Copyright league of the District of Columbia.
Wellington, Arthur Mellen
civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 20, 1847, in Waltham, Mass. He was a civil engineer of distinction; and the author of The Computation of Earthwork from Diagrams; The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways; Car-Builders' Dictionary; and Field Work of Railway Location. He died in 1895.
Wellington, George L
congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 28, 1852, in Cumberland, Md. He was appointed treasurer of Allegany county, Md., in 1882, and served until 1888; and was again appointed in 1890.
He was a delegate to the national republican conventions of 1884 and 1888. He was appointed assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore in 1890; and was nominated for congress by the republicans of the sixth congressional district in 1892. He was renominated in 1894 and elected to the fifty-fourth congress; and was elected to the United States senate.