Wells, John Sullivan – Wentworth, Benning
Wells, John Sullivan
United States senator, was born Oct. 18, 1803, in Durham, N. H. He was a senator in congress from New Hampshire from January to March, in 1855, by executive appointment. He died Aug. 1, 1860, in Exeter, N. H.
Wells, Lemuel Henry
bishop of Spokane, Wash., was born Dec. 3, 1841, in Yonkers, N. Y. From 1884 to 1889 he was rector of St. Luke's church, Tacoma, Wash., and then he became rector of Trinity church, Tacoma, which he had himself founded, and continued in that charge till his elevation to the episcopate.
Wells, Owen A
agriculturist, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1844, in Catskill, N. Y. He was collector of internal revenue for the third Wisconsin district under Grover Cleveland for two years, until the district was consolidated with the Milwaukee district. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Wells, Robert W
lawyer, jurist.
He was for nearly thirty years on the United States bench of Missouri; and his decisions were always respected by the supreme court of the United States. He died Sept. 22, 1864, in Bowling Green, Ky.
Wells, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 15, 1801, in Durham, N. H. He was for some years judge of the superior court of Maine; and was governor of the state in 1856 and 1857. He died July 15, 1868, in Boston, Mass..
Wells, Samuel Roberts
phrenologist, author, was born April 4, 1820, in West Hartford, Conn. He was a phrenologist of New York city, long a member of the publishing house of Fowler and Wells; and the author of The New Physiognomy; and Wedlock, or the Right Relations of the Sexes. He died April 13, 1875, in New York city.
Wells, Walter
educator, author, was born November, 1830, in Salisbury, N. H. In 1867 he was appointed to the hydrographic survey of Maine, and he published in connection with that work The Water-Power of Maine. He died April 21, 1881, in Portland, Maine. was
Wells, William
soldier, was born about 1770, in Kentucky. When he was twelve years of age he was taken captive by the Miami Indians; and served with the Indians until 1790. Realizing that he was fighting against his own kindred, he set out for Gen. Anthony Wayne's army, and was made captain of a company of scouts. He subsequently Indian agent and justice of the peace near Fort Wayne, Ind. When he was informed in 1812 that Fort Dearborn was to be evacuated, he set out with thirty friendly Miami Indians as a body guard for the people on their route from Chicago to Fort Wayne. He arrived too late to prevent its evacuation, which he was certain would result in a massacre. Before they had gone two miles, five hundred Indians sprang from ambush, and massacred them all. He died Aug. 15, 1812, in Chicago, Ill.
Wells, William
soldier, was born Dec. 14, 1837, in Waterbury, Vt. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, in 1865, received his full commission in May and was subsequently brevetted major-general. He died April 29, 1892, in New York city.
Wells, William Harvey
educator, author, was born Feb. 27, 1812, in Tolland, Conn. He was an educator of Chicago, superintendent of the city public schools, in 1856-64; and the author of Historical Authorship of English Grammar; and several popular text-books on English Grammar. He died Jan. 21, 1885, in Chicago, Ill.
WELLS WILLIAM HILL, United States senator, was born about 1760, in Pennsylvania. He was a senator in congress from Delaware from 1799 to 1804, when he resigned; and was again a United States senator from 1813 to 1817.
He died March 11, 1829, in Millsborough, Del.
Wells, William Vincent
author, was born Jan. 2, 1826, in Boston, Mass.
He is the author of Explorations in Honduras; Walker's Expedition to Nicaragua; and Life of Samuel Adams.
Wellstood, James
engraver, was born Nov. 20, 1855, in Jersey City, N. J.
At the time of his death he was a member of the firm of William Wellstood and Company, and was a successful and promising engraver. His principal plates were The Pointer; and Safe in Port, after Thomas Moran. He died March 14, 1880, in Jersey City, N. J.
Wellstood, John Geikie
engraver, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in Scotland.
In 1871 he founded in Washington, D. C., the Columbian Bank-Note company. While he was president of this company he modeled and partially engraved the backs of all the United States treasury-notes.
He died Jan. 21, 1893, in Greenwich, Conn.
Wellstood, William
engraver, was born Dec. 19, 1819, in Scotland. He has been employed by the Western Methodist Book concern in 1846-74, and by various firms in New York. Among his plates, executed in the line manner, are portraits of Florence Nightingale, Ulysses S. Grant, and Henry W. Longfellow, the latter after Alonzo Chappel, and the landscape, Coast of Mount Desert.
Welman, Charles William
educator, journalist, was born Sept. 18, 1858, in Crawford county, Ind. Since 1888 he has been the editor and owner of The Times of Sullivan, Ind. He is president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial association, and has been county superintendent of schools since 1891.
Wels, Charles
musician, composer, was born Aug. 24, 1825, in Bohemia. He has been very successful in the composition of church music.
Welsh, Alfred Hix
educator, author, was born Sept. 7, 1850, in Fostoria, Ohio. He was a professor of English in Ohio State university from 1885, and the author of Development of English Literature and Language; English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; The Conflict of Ages; Man and His Relations; and Plane Trigonometry. He died in 1889.
Welsh, Herbert
philanthropist, author, was born in 1851 in Pennsylvania.
He is a philanthropist of Philadelphia, prominent as a champion of the rights of the Indians, and the author of Civilization Among the Sioux Indians; Four Weeks Among Some of the Sioux Tribes; and A Visit to the Navajo, Pueblo, and Hualpais Indians.
Welsh, Thomas
soldier, was born May 5, 1824, in Columbia, Pa. He commanded a brigade at South Mountain and Antietam, as also at Fredericksburg, where he won promotion by his services on the right center, being commissioned as brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863.
He died Aug. 14, 1863, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Welsh, William
philanthropist, journalist, author, was born about 1810 in Philadelphia. For several years he was proprietor of the North American and the Philadelphia Gazette, which he had purchased in order to elevate the morals of the daily press. He published, besides various papers, Lay Co-operation in St.
Mark's Church; and Letters on the Home Missionary Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He died Feb. 11, 1878, in Philadelphia.
Welty, Edwin Arthur
financier, poet, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in Canal Dover, Ohio. He received his education in the public schools of St. Joseph, Mo., and graduated from the High school in 1872 with highest honors.
At the age of eighteen Edwin crossed the plains and spent six months in the Rocky Mountains, and afterward engaged in the attack and massacre of Major Thornburg's command. Returning from Colorado and New Mexico after some years of desultory roving, he settled into business life as broker in St. Joseph, Mo., and finally in Oregon, Mo., where he now resides. He has taken a prominent part in political affairs, and in 1888 was a delegate to the national republican convention at Chicago, and was a candidate for state senator. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled The Hollow Oak; Border Ballads and Forest Legends; and his poems have appeared in the leading magazines, Poets of America, and other standard works.
Wemple, Edward
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1843, in Fultonville, N. Y. He was a representative in the New York state legislature in 1877 and 1878. He became president of the Fultonville and Fonda Street Railroad company, and a director in the Fultonville National bank. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Wemyss, Francis Courtney
was born May 13, 1797, in England. He was a theatrical manager of New York city, and the author of Chronology of the American Stage in 1752-1852. He died Jan. 5, 1859, in New York city.
Wendell, Barrett
educator, author, was born in 1855 in New York. He is an assistant professor of English at Harvard university, and the author of The Duchess Emilia, a romance; Rankell's Remains, a novel; Life of Cotton Mather; English Composition; Stelligeri, and Other Essays; William Shakspere, a Study in Elizabethan Literature; and Ralegh in Guiana, a play.
Wendell, John Lansing
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 2, 1785, in Albany, N. Y. For many years he was reporter of the New York supreme court. He published Law Reports of New York During 1828-41, in twenty-six volumes; and Digest of the Supreme Court Reports During 1828-35. He died Dec. 13, 1861, in Hartford, Conn.
Wendover, Peter H
state legislator, congressman. He was a member of the state assembly from the city of New York in 1804; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1815 to 1821.
Wentworth, Benning
philanthropist, governor, was born July 24, 1696, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was governor of New Hampshire for twenty years, and gave five hundred acres of land for the founding of Dartmouth college. The town of Bennington, Vt., was named in his honor. He died Oct. 14, 1770, in Portsmouth, N. H.