Wetherell, Emma Abbott – Wheaton, Charles
Wetherell, Emma Abbott
vocalist, was born Dec. 9, 1849, in Chicago, Ill. She gained a national reputation as a vocalist. She died Jan. 5, 1891, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wetherill, Charles Mayer
educator, author, was born Nov. 4, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a professor of chemistry at Lehigh university in 1866-71, and the author of The Manufacture of Vinegar. He died March 5, 1871, in Bethlehem, Pa.
Wetherill, Samuel
soldier, inventor, was born May 27, 1821, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served with distinction during the civil war, and attained the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. The first zinc white was made by a process invented by him.
Wetmore, Mrs. Elizabeth
(BIS- LAND), journalist, author, was born in 1863 in Texas. She is a journalist of New York city, and the author of A Flying Trip Around the World.
Wetmore, George Peabody
lawyer, United States senator, governor, was born Aug. 2, 1846, in London, England.
He was admitted to the bar of Rhode Island and of New York in 1869; is a trustee of the Peabody Museum of Natural History in Yale university; is a trustee of the Peabody education fund, president of the Newport hospital, and a director of other associations. He was first presidential elector of Rhode Island in 1880 and in 1884; was a member of the state committee to receive the representatives of France on the occasion of their visit to Rhode Island in 1881, and as a member of the commission to build a new statehouse. He was governor of Rhode Island in 1885-86, and 1886-87. He was elected to the senate in 1894.
Wetmore, Prosper Montgom- Ery
author, poet, was born Feb. 14, 1798, in Stratford, Conn. He was a once prominent citizen of New York city, and the author of Lexington, and Other Fugitive Poems; and Observations on the War with Mexico. He died March 16, 1876, in Stratford, Conn.
Wever, John M
soldier, banker, congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1847, in Ganges, Mich. He served in the army of the Cumberland and the army of the Ohio.
At the close of the war he located in New York state and entered into the banking business, in which business he has since continued. He was elected county treasurer of Clinton county in 1884 and re-elected in 1887. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.
Weymouth, George Warren
bank and railroad director, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1850, in Fitchburg, Mass. He devotes most of his time to the Fitchburg Steel Ball company as vice-president and general manager. He is director of the Fitchburg National bank and trustee of the Fitchburg Savings bank; is director of the Fitchburg and Leominster Street railway, and also of the Orswell mills and Nockege mills. He is ex-president of the Fitchburg board of trade; was one year in the city council of Fitchburg, in the state legislature of 1896, and a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis in 1896.
He was elected from Massachusetts to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Whaley, Kellian V
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born May 6, 1821, in Onondaga county, N. Y. He was elected to the thirty-seventh congress from West Virginia. Afterward he acted as an aide to Governor Pierpoint in organizing and equipping regiments, and was in command at the battle of Guyandotte. He was re-elected to the thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth congresses. In 1868 he was appointed collector at Brazos de Santiago, Texas.
Whallon, Reuben
congressman, was born in 1777 in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1835. He died April 15, 1843, in Essex county, N. Y.
Wharey, James
clergyman, author, was born June 15, 1789, in Rutherford county, N. C. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Goochland county, Va., and the author of Baptism; and Sketches of Church History. He died April 29, 1842, in Goochland, Va.
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Wharton, Anne Hollings- Worth
author, was born about 1845 in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a Philadelphia writer, and the author of The Wharton Family; Virgilia; St. Bartholomew's Eve; Colonial Days and Dames; Through Colonial Doorways; A Last Century Maid, and Other Stories for Children; and Martha Washington, a biography.
Wharton, Charles Henry
clergyman, author, was born June 5, 1748, in St. Mary's county, Md. He was an episcopal clergyman of Burlington, N. J., rector of St. Mary's church in 1798-1833, and the author of Reply to Bishop Carroll's Address to the Roman Catholics of America; Proofs of the Divinity of Christ; and Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy Between Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches. He died July 22, 1833, in Burlington, N. J.
Wharton, Francis
clergyman, educator, author, was born March 7, 1820, in Philadelphia. He was an episcopal clergyman of Boston, and professor of ecclesiastical and international law in the Episcopal Theological school at Cambridge. He was the author of Criminal Law of the United States; Medical Jurisprudence; State Trials of the United States; The Silence of Scripture; Treatise on Theism; Precedents of Indictments; The Law of Homicide in the United States; The Conflict of Laws; Law of Agency and Agents; Digest of International Law (with M. Stillé); The Law of Negligence; Commentary on the Law of Evidence in Civil Issues; and The Law of Contracts. He died Feb. 21, 1889, in Washington, D. C.
Wharton, Henry
lawyer, author, was born June 2, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the author of Practical and Elementary Treatise on the Law of Vicinage. He died Nov. 11, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wharton, Jesse
congressman, United States senator, was born in 1760 in Albemarle county, Va. He represented the state of Tennessee in congress from 1807 to 1809; and was a United States senator in 1814 and 1815, when he was superseded by J. Williams. He died July 22, 1833, in Nashville.
Wharton, John A
soldier, statesman, congressman, was born in Tennessee. He served through the Mexican war, attaining the rank of adjutant-general.
From 1837-38 he was a member of congress from Texas. He died Dec. 15, 1838, in Houston, Texas.
Wharton, Joseph
manufacturer, was born March 3, 1826, in Philadelphia.
He was among the first to establish the manufacture of spelter, nickel, and cobalt in this country, and was the first to make magnetic needles of other substance than steel. He owns the deposits of nickel ore in Lancaster county, Pa., which he purchased in 1873, and established his works in Camden, N. J. The Wharton School of Finance and Economics was founded by him.
Wharton, Robert
mayor of Philadelphia, was born Jan. 12, 1757, in Philadelphia. He was fifteen times elected mayor of Philadelphia. He died March 7, 1834, in Philadelphia.
Wharton, Samuel
state legislator, congressman was born May 3, 1732, in Philadelphia, Pa. He signed the non-importation resolutions of 1765, and was a member of the city councils of Philadelphia, of the committee of safety in the revolution, of the colonial and state legislatures of Pennsylvania, and of the continental congress in 1782 and 1783. He died in March, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wharton, Thomas
governor, was born in 1735 in Chester county, Pa. He was one of the twenty-five citizens that formed the committee of safety in Philadelphia in 1775. In 1777 he was elected president of Pennsylvania, which office he held till his death. He died May 22, 1778, in Lancaster, Pa.
Wharton, Thomas Isaac
lawyer, author, was born May 17, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the author of Digest of Cases in United States Court, Third District; Reports of Cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court; and Memoir of William Rawle. He died April 7, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wharton, Thomas Isaac
journalist, author, was born Aug. 1, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of A Latter-Day Saint; and Hannibal of New York.
Wheatley, Charles Moore
mineralogist, author, was born March 16, 1822, in England. He was a mineralogist of Phoenixville, Pa., who published a Catalogue of the Shells of the United States. He died May 6, 1882, in Phoenixville, Pa.
Wheatley, Phillis
poet, was born in 1751 in Africa. She is the author of a volume entitled Poems. She died in 1784.
Wheatley, Richard
clergyman, author, was born in England. He is a methodist clergyman of New Jersey and the author of Cathedrals and Abbeys in Great Britain and Ireland.
Wheatley, William
actor, was born Dec. 5, 1816, in New York city. He attained national reputation as noted actor. He died Dec. 3, 1876, in New York. a a
Wheaton, Charles
lawyer, legislator, was born May 29, 1829, in Warren, R. I. He received his education in the academies, and afterward attended Trinity college of Hartford, Conn., from which institution he graduated in 1849. In 1864 he served with distinction as mayor of the city of Aurora, Ill.; and during 1868-72 was supervisor of that city. In 1869-70 he was a member of the conconvention of Illinois; has stitutional taken a prominent part in the public affairs of his city, county and state, and has gained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Illinois.