Wheeler, Joseph – Whipple, Henry Benjamin
Wheeler, Joseph
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1836, in Augusta, Ga. He graduated from West Point in 1859; was lieutenant of cavalry and served in New Mexico; and resigned in 1861. He was lieutenant of artillery in the confederate army; was successively promoted to the command of a regiment, brigade, division and army corps, and in 1862 was assigned to the command of the army corps of cavalry of the western army, continuing in that position till the war closed. By joint resolution of the confederate congress he received the thanks of that body for successful military operations, and for the defense of the city of Aiken received the thanks of the state of South Carolina. In 1864 he became the senior cavalry general of the confederate armies. He was appointed professor of philosophy, Louisiana State seminary in 1866, which he declined. He was lawyer and planter, and was elected to the forty-seventh, fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. In 1898 he was commissioned a brigadier-general in the United States volunteer army raised for the Cuban war.
Wheeler, Junius Brutus
civil engineer, educator, author, was born Feb. 21, 1830, in Murfreesboro, N. C. He was a military engineer, professor at West Point in 1866-85, and the author of Civil Engineering; Art and Science of War; Elements of Field Fortifications; and Military Engineering. He died July 15, 1886, in Lenoir, N. C.
Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Sparkes
lecturer, author, poet, was born June 21, 1835, in England. She is the author of the two well-known soldiers' decoration hymns, entitled Peacefully Rest; and Scatter Love's Beautiful Garlands Above Them. Her poems have been set to music by Professor Sweeney, P. P. Bliss, Kirkpatrick and others. She is the author of a volume entitled Poems for the Fireside; Modern Cosmogony and the Bible; and other works.
Wheeler, Nathaniel
inventor, manufacturer, state senator, was born Sept. 7, 1820, in Watertown, Conn.
In a 1850 he made the acquaintance of Allan B. Wilson, who was engaged in perfecting sewing-machine, but needed aid in patenting his invention and introducing it to the public. Wilson induced Mr. Wheeler to join in that enterprise, and in 1852 the machine was patented in the firm-name of Wheeler and Wilson.
In 1853 the Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing company was founded. He has served six sessions in the senate and house of the Connecticut legislature, and has taken out patents for various inventions in sewing-machines, railway-cars, heating and ventilation of buildings, and wood finishing.
Wheeler, Orlando Belina
civil engineer, was born Nov. 29, 1835, in Lodi, Mich. Since 1884 he has been United States assistant engineer under the Missouri river commission. His writings, principally reports, have appeared in the annual volumes of the chief of engineers of the United States army, and of the superintendent of the United States naval observatory.
Wheeler, William Adolphus
librarian, author, was born Nov. 14, 1833, in Leicester, Mass. He was a librarian of Boston who, besides editing an edition of webster's Dictionary, was the author of Noted Names of Fiction; Familiar Allusions; and Who Wrote It? a literary index. He died Oct. 28, 1874, in Roxbury.
Wheeler, William Almon
lawyer, banker, state senator, congressman, was born June 30, 1819, in Malone, N. Y.
In 1850 and 1851 he was elected to the New York state legislature, and in 1857 and 1858 to the state senate. In 1860 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyseventh congress. He was, for many years, engaged in the banking business, and was president of the Ogdensburg and Rouses' Railroad company. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867, and was elected its president. He was elected to the forty-first and three succeeding congresses. In 1876 he was elected vice-president of the United States, and served the full term of four years. He died June 4, 1887, in New York.
Wheelock, Eleazar
founder and first president of Dartmouth college, was born April 22, 1711, in Windham, Conn.
He died April 24, 1779.
Wheelock, George Alexander
lawyer, naturalist, was born Jan. 21, 1816, in Winchester, N. H. For twenty-five years he has been chairman of the school board of Keene, N. H.; and served two years in the state legislature. For many years he was president of Ashuelot National bank; and is commissioner and donor of Wheelock Park.
Wheelock, Joseph A
journalist, was born Feb. 8, 1831, in Nova Scotia.
In 1860 and 1861 he was commissioner of statistics of Minnesota. In the latter year, with others, he founded the St.
Paul Press, and in 1862 became its editor. Since that time he has been editor of the St. Paul Press and the Pioneer Press in 1871-75.
Wheelwright, John Tyler
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 28, 1856, in Roxbury, Mass. He is a Boston lawyer, and the author of Rollo's Journey to Cambridge; A Child of the Century, a novel; and A Bad Penny.
Wheildon, William Willder
journalist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1805, in Boston, Mass. He was a journalist of Charlestown, Mass., in 1827-70, and long a resident of Concord, in the same state.
He was the author of Letters from Nahant; Contributions to Thought; New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill; The Arctic Regions; and Curiosities of History. He died in 1892.
Whelan, James
bishop, author, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in Ireland. He was a Roman catholic bishop of Nashville, and the author of Catena Aurena, or Papal Infallibility no Novelty. He died Feb. 18, 1878, in Zanesville, Ohio.
Whelan, Vincent
bishop, was born Jan. 28, 1809, in Baltimore, Md. In 1841 he was consecrated second bishop of Baltimore. He erected a cathedral at Wheeling, W. Va.; and in 1850 was made first bishop of Wheeling. He died July 7, 1874, in Baltimore, Md.
Whelpley, James Davenport
physician, journalist, was born Jan. 23, 1817, in New York city. In 1847 he removed to New York city, where he became editor and one of the owners of the American Whig Review, to which he had been a contributor since 1845. He died April 15, 1872, in Boston, Mass.
Whelpley, Samuel
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1766, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman and educator of New Jersey. He was the author of Letters on Capital Punishment; a once popular Compend of History; and The Triangle, a theological discussion. He died July 14, 1817, in New York city.
Whipple, Abraham
naval officer, was born Sept. 16, 1733, in Providence, R.
I. In 1775 Rhode Island fitted out two armed vessels, and he was put in command and made commodore; and he fired the first guň of the revolution on the water.
In 1779 he captured eight prizes, valued at one million dollars. He died May 2, 1819, in Marietta, Ohio.
Whipple, Edwin Percy
essayist, critic, author, was born March 8, 1819, in Gloucester, Mass. He was a Boston essayist and critic, whose writing was as discriminating as it was vigorous and epigrammatic in style. He was the author of Character and Characteristic Men; Literature and Life; Essays and Reviews; Success and Its Conditions; Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; Recollections of Eminent Men, with Other Papers; American Literature, and Other Papers; Outlooks on Society, Literature, and Politics; and Rufus Choate, a volume of personal recollections. He died June 16, 1886, in Boston, Mass.
Whipple, Henry Benjamin
bishop of Minnesota, was born Feb. 15, 1822, in Adams, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the private schools of New York, and studied under Dr. William D. Wilson of Cornell university. In 1849 he was ordained deacon, and a priest in 1850. The same year he became rector of Zion's church, New York. He was rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in Chicago in 1857, where he remained till consecrated bishop of Minnesota in St. James' church, Richmond, Va., in 1859. In 1876 he was offered the bishopric of the Sandwich Islands. He is one of the original trustees of the Peabody education fund. He built the cathedral of the Merciful Saviour in Faribault, Minn., the first protestant cathedral built in America. He founded and built the three noble educational institutions at Faribault, Minn. -the Seabury Divinity school, St. Mary's Hall and the Shattuck Military school. Bishop Whipple has devoted much of his life to the evangelization of the Indians; is known among the Indians as Straight Tongue, and is called the Apostle to the Indians. His name is well-known in England, and in 1888, at the Pan-Anglican synod, he preached the opening sermon at Westminster Abbey.
He was present at the Lambeth conference in 1897, and delivered the sermon in connection' with the unveiling of the Tennyson memorial at the Isle of Wight.
Bishop Whipple is chaplain-general of the society of the Sons of the Revolution.