Wells, Alfred – Wells, John Doane
Wells, Alfred
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 27, 1814, in Dagsborough, Del. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress; and also held the positions of deputy clerk, district attorney, and judge of Tompkins county. He died in 1857.
Wells, Ben H
lawyer, state senator, was born Sept. 21, 1860, in Hines county, Miss. He is a successful lawyer of Jackson, Miss.; was a member of the Mississippi house of representatives in 1886; and was elected to the state senate in 1896.
Wells, Mrs. Catherine Boott
[GANNETT], essayist, author, was born in 1838 in England. She is a Boston essayist and novelist who has contributed largely to periodicals; and is the author of In the Clearings; Miss Curtis; Two Modern Women; About People, a collection of essays; and several Sunday-school manuals of ethics and normal methods.
Wells, Charles William
publisher, author, was born May 7, 1757, in Charleston, S. C. Going with the king's troops to St. Augustine, Fla., in 1782, he published the first weekly newspaper in that province. He received the gold and silver Rumford medals from the Royal society in 1816 for the celebrated Essay on Dew, which is his greatest work.
WELLS, CHARLOTTE FOWLER, phrenologist, was born Aug. 14, 1814, in Cohocton, N. Y. She early became interested in the study of phrenology and is considered the pioneer woman in this field, having been for more than fifty years actively engaged in the work. On the death of her husband in 1875 she became owner and director of the establishment, together with the widely known Phrenological Journal, and is the president of the Fowler and Wells company.
Wells, Clarence W
lawyer, was born June 22, 1864, in Daviess county, Ky. In 1887 he graduated from the Georgetown college with the degree of A. B.; and studied law in the law department of the university of Michigan. He is a prominent lawyer of Owensboro, Ky.; where he has filled several public positions of trust.
Wells, Daniel
merchant, banker, congressman, was born in Maine. He became extensively engaged in the business of banking and lumbering at Milwaukee, Wis.; and was a representative in congress from Wisconsin from 1853 to 1855.
Wells, David Ames
journalist, inventor, author, was born June 17, 1828, in Springfield, Mass. He became an associate editor of the Springfield Republican; and while there invented a machine for folding books and newspapers. After the close of the civil war he was made chairman of a special commission created by congress to inquire into the resources of the country; was subsequently made a special commissioner of the revenue, which office he held four years. After leaving Washington he was appointed to revise the taxation laws of that state and made two important reports in 1872 and 1873. He is the author of 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; and Production and Distribution of Wealth.
Wells, Ebenezer T
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. In 1871 he was appointed one of the associate justices of the United States supreme court for the territory of Colorado.
Wells, Emmeline Blanche
journalist, poet, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Petersham, Mass. Since 1875 she has been connected with the editorial staff of the Woman's Exponent, of Salt Lake City, Utah; and since 1877 has been its sole editor and publisher. She is a member of the Pacific Coast Woman's Press association; has attended conventions of women in Washington and other places; presented memorials to congress; and called upon presidents and senators and members of the house in the interests of Utah. Mrs. Wells is a poet of rare genius, and her poems have appeared in Poets of America and other standard works.
Wells, Erastus
railroad president, congressman, was born Dec. 2, 1823, in Jefferson county, N. Y. He moved to st.
Louis, Mo., and established the first omnibus line in that city, and the first street railroad company. He was, for fifteen years, a member of the city council; and was president of the Missouri Railroad Railroad company, and director in several incorporated companies. He was a elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth congresses; and was also elected to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.
Wells, George William
physician, author, was born June 5, 1841, in Tyrone, N. Y. Since 1891 he has been medical director of the Manhattan Life Insurance company. He is the editor of the Medical Examiner, and the author of a medical work entitled The Medical Examiner: What He Does and Why He Does It.
Wells, Guilford Wiley
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 1840, in Conesus, N. Y. He entered the war for the union as a lieutenant of volunteers, rose to the rank of lieutenantcolonel, and was twice wounded and was brevetted for gallantry on the field. In 1870 he was appointed United States district attorney for the northern district of Mississippi; and was re-appointed in 1874.
The same year he was elected a representative from that state to the fortyfourth congress as a republican.
Wells, Harry Laurenz
journalist, author, poet, was born March 28, 1854, in Geneva, Ill. In 1878 he went to California. His most important work is a Popular History of Oregon; and his Song of the Bears has attracted wide attention.
Wells, Henry Horatio
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 17, 1823, in Rochester, N. Y. He was a member of the Michigan legislature from 1854 to 1856. He served in the war for the union from that state and became a brigadier-general by brevet. He settled in Virginia; was military governor of Virginia in 1868 and 1869 and resigned.
He was United States attorney for the district of Virginia from 1869 to 1872, when he resigned. In 1875 he entered upon the duties of United States attorney for the District of Columbia.
Wells, Henry Parkhurst
lawyer, author, was born in 1842 in Rhode Island. He is a lawyer of New York city; and the author of City Boys in the Woods; Fly Rods and Fly Tackle; and The American Salmon Fisherman.
Wells, Hezekiah G
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1812 in Steubenville, Ohio.
He was elected judge of the circuit court of the state of Michigan. By his individual exertions he raised a regiment of volunteers during the rebellion. From 1865 to 1875 he was president of the state board of agriculture; and was subsequently appointed presiding judge of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims. He died April 4, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Wells, Horace
dentist, was born Jan. 21, 1815, in Hartford, Vt. He was the first to employ laughing gas to destroy pain during dental operations, which he caused to be used on himself successfully in 1844. He died Jan. 24, 1848, in New York city.
Wells, J. C
author, was born 18-.
He is a legal writer of Ohio; and the author of 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; and Powers and Duties of Ohio County Commissioners.
Wells, James Madison
seventeenth governor of Louisiana, was a native of that state. In 1840 he filled the position of sheriff; in 1864 became lieutenant governor; and the following year was elected governor, serving until 1867.
Wells, Jefferson Madison
farmer, public official, was born Jan. 7, 1808, in Rapides, La. He received the rudiments of his education in Bardstown, Ky.; and at Captain Partridge's Military academy, Conn. He served with distinction as governor and surveyor of the port of New Orleans under President Grant. He was president of the returning board that elected R. B. Hayes president of the United States. He is a successful farmer of Lecompte, La.; and has been a power in the public and political affairs of Louisiana.
Wells, John
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1770 in Cherry Valley, N. Y.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1851 to 1853. He died Sept. 7, 1853, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wells, John Doane
physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born in Boston, Mass. In 1817 he graduated from Harvard college; then studied medicine, and attained success as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of New England.
In 1826 he was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology in the Berkshire Medical school; and three years later was elected to the anatomical chair in the university of Maryland. He also became a noted and popular lecturer; and was earnest and enthusiastic in his devotion to science. He died in the summer of 1830.