Whipple, John Adams – White, Andrew Dickson
Whipple, John Adams
inventor, was born Sept. 10, 1822, in Grafton, Mass.
He prepared his plates and brought out his pictures by steam, invented crayon daguerreotypes, and crystalotypes, or daguerreotypes on glass, and, with the aid of the fifteen-inch equatorial telescope of the Harvard college observatory, undér the direction of Prof. William C. Bond, took a daguerreotype of the moon's surface, for which he was complimented by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of London, and in 1850 photographed Alpha Lyra.
Whipple, Squire
civil engineer, author, was born Sept. 16, 1804, in Worcester county, Mass. He was a civil engineer of note, and the author of The Way to Happiness; Treatise on Bridge Building; and The Doctrine of Central Forces. He died March 15, 1888, in Albany, N. Y.
Whipple, Thomas
physician, congressman. man. He served the state of New Hampshire as a representative in congress from 1821 to 1829. He died Jan. 23, 1835, in Wentworth, N. H.
Whipple, William
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Jan. 14, 1730, in Kittery, Maine. In 1775 he was a member of the provincial congress, and in 1776 was a member of the provincial council. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress from 1776 to 1779, and was one of the signers of the declaration of independence. In 1777 he entered the army, and served with distinction in several campaigns, and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. In 1782 he was appointed financial receiver for New Hampshire, serving two years, when he resigned. He also held the offices of judge of the superior court, and justice of the peace and quorum, and was a commissioner on behalf of Connecticut to settle the land difficulties in Wyoming Valley. He died Nov. 28, 1785, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Whipple, William Denison
soldier, was born Aug. 2, 1826, in Nelson, N.
Y. In 1851 he graduated from the United States Military academy; and in 1865 attained the rank of brevet major-general in the regular army.
Whistler, George Washington
civil engineer, was born May 19, 1800, in Fort Wayne, Ind. During 1834-37 he was engaged in the reproduction of a locomotive for the Boston and Albany railroad; and subsequently attained success in the manufacture of improved locomotives.
He died April 7, 1849, in Russia.
Whistler, George William
engineer, was born in 1822 in New London, Conn. He was connected with various railroads in this country, and was superintendent of the Erie, and New York and New Haven railroads. In the winter of 1856 he went to Russia to take charge of the St. Petersburg and Moscow railroad under the Winans contract. He died Dec. 24, 1869, in England.
WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT Mc- NEILL, artist, author, was born in 1834 in Lowell, Mass. He is an artist who from 1863 to 1892 lived in London, and in Paris from the latter date. He is the author of Ten O'Clock; and The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.
Whitaker, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born in 1585 in England.
He was an episcopal clergyman who came to Virginia in 1611. He baptized Pocahontas, and officiated at her wedding. He was the author of Good Newes from Virginia, one of the very first books written in the colony. See Tyler's American Literature. He died about 1613 in Henrico county, Va.
Whitaker, Daniel Kimball
lawyer, journalist, was born April 13, 1801, in Sharon, Conn. He removed to New Orleans in 1866, where he founded and edited for many years the New Orleans Monthly Review. He was corresponding secretary of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences. He died April 10, 1881, in New Orleans, La.
Whitaker, Epher
clergyman, author, was born March 27, 1820, in Fairheld, N. J. He is a presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Southold, Long Island, from 1851; and the author of The War of Death; New Fruits from an Old Field; Ready for Duty; Collection of Original Hymns; History of Southold, 1640-1740; and Old Town Records.
Whitaker, Herschel
public official, was born July 25, 1847, in Turin, N. Y. For many years he has been a stenographer in the United States circuit and district courts, eastern district of Michigan. He has been United States commissioner; United States examiner; member of the board of education; and Detroit secretary of the Michigan fish commission. For eight years he was president of the Michigan Fish commission; and has been twice president of the American Fisheries society.
Whitaker, Lily C
poet, was born about 1850 in Charleston, S. C. She contributed to the Southern Quarterly, under her father's direction, and has written for the New Orleans press. She has published Donata, and Other Poems.
Whitaker, Mrs. Mary Scrim-
GEOUR [FURMAN] [MILLER], author, poet, was born Feb. 22, 1820, in Beaufort district, S. C. She is a New Orleans writer; and the author of Poems; and Albert Hasting, a novel.
Whitaker, Nathaniel
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1732, in Long Island, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman in New England and Virginia, popular in the colonial period. He was the author of Discourses on Reconciliation; and Discourses on Toryism. He died Jan. 21, 1795, in Woodbridge, Va.
Whitaker, Ozi William
bishop of Pennsylvania, was born May 10, 1830, in New Salem, Mass. He was elected missionary bishop of Nevada and Arizona by the general convention in New York in 1868, and was consecrated in St. George's church, New York, on Oct. 13, 1869. The bishop was elected assistant bishop of Pennsylvania in June, 1886.
Whitcher, Mrs. Frances Miriam
[BERRY], humorist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1811, in Whitestown, N. Y. She is a still popular humorist who was the wife of an episcopal clergyman in Elmira, N.
Y.; and the author of The Widow Bedott Papers; and Widow Spriggins, and Other Sketches. She died Jan. 4, 1852, in Whitestown, N. Y.
Whitcomb, James
lawyer, United States senator, governor, was born Dec. 1, 1795, in Windsor, Vt. In 1826 he was appointed prosecuting attorney at Bloomington, Ind.; and in 1830 was chosen a member of the state senate, and served five years. He was appointed commissioner of the general land office in 1836; and in 1841 returned to the practice of his profession at Terre Haute, Ind. In 1843 he was chosen governor of the state; and was re-elected in 1846. In 1849 he was elected a senator of the United States for the term ending in 1855. He died Oct. 4, 1852, in New York city.
White, Addison
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1851 to 1853.
White, Albert Smith
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 24, 1803, in Blooming Grove, N. Y.
He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1839; and was a senator in congress from 1839 to 1845. He was president of the Wabash and Indianapolis, and of the Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad companies. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-seventh congress. After leaving congress he was appointed a commissioner to settle certain claims against the Sioux Indians; and in 1864 was appointed judge of the district court of Indiana. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Stockwell, Ind.
White, Alexander
congressman, was born in 1738 in Rappahannock county, Va. He was a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress from 1786 to 1788; and was a representative in congress from 1789 to 1793. He died in September, 1804, in Woodville, Va.
White, Alexander
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1816, in Franklin, Tenn.
He was a member of the thirty-second congress; was a member of the Alabama state convention of 1865; and was a member of the general assembly in 1872. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-third congress; and in 1875 was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
White, Alexander Caldwell
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1833, near Kittanning, Pa. In 1867 he was elected district attorney of Jefferson county; and in 1868 removed to Brookville, the county seat. In 1870 he was reelected. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortyninth congress as a republican.
White, Alfred
stockman, legislaťor, was born Feb. 21, 1857, in England. In 1876 he emigrated to the United States, and seven years later settled in North Dakota. He is a successful stock dealer and prominent in the public affairs of his city, county and state. He has served with distinction as a member of the fifth assembly of the North Dakota legislature.
White, Allison
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 21, 1816, in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fifth congress from the fifteenth congressional district of that state.
White, Andrew Curtis
educator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1854, in Kirkland, N. Y. For four years he was instructor in Latin and Greek in the Cornell university; and since 1889 has been assistant librarian of that institution. He is the author of Memoirs of Rhoderick White; and other works.
White, Andrew Dickson
educator, state senator, author, was born Nov. 7, 1832, in Homer, N. Y. In 1857 he was elected professor of history in the university of Michigan; and in 1862 was elected a member of the New York state senate; and was re-elected in 1864. In 1867-85 he was president of the Cornell university; and in 1871 was one of the government commissioners to St. Domingo. He was appointed United States minister to Germany in 1879-81; and to Russia in 1892; and appointed ambassador to Germany in 1897. He is the author of Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History; The New Germany; History of the Doctrine of Comets; European Schools of History and Politics; Studies in General History; Paper Money Inflation in France; and The Warfare of Science with Theology.