Whiting, Lilian – Whitney, Charles S
Whiting, Lilian
journalist, author, was born about 1850 in New York. She is a Boston journalist; and the author of From Dreamland Sent, a volume of verse; The World Beautiful, two collections of essays; and After Her Death: The Story of a Summer.
Whiting, Martha
one of the pioneers of female education in America, was born Feb. 27, 1795, in Hingham, Mass.
She founded the Charleston Female seminary, where some of the noted women of America have been finely educated, prominent among whom are Mary A. Livermore and Abbie R. Knight. She died Aug. 22, 1853, in Hingham, Mass.
Whiting, Richard H
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1826, in Hartford, Conn. He engaged in business as a merchant in Illinois; served as paymaster in the federal army during the civil war; and in 1870 was appointed assessor. He was collector of the fifth collection district of Illinois, which position he held until elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.
Whiting, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 20, 1597, in England. He was a puritan clergyman, pastor at Lynn, Mass., in 1636-79; and the author of Oratio quam Comitijs Cantab. Americanis, etc.; The Last Judgment; and Abraham Interceding for Sodom. He died Dec. 11, 1679, in Lynn, Mass.
Whiting, William
lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 3, 1813, in Concord, Mass. He was a Boston jurist whose chief work, The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress, has been widely read. He died June 29, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
Whiting, William
manufacturer, banker, state senator, congressman, was born May 24, 1841, in Dudley, Mass. In 1865 he organized the Whiting Paper company; and became president of the Holyoke National bank in 1872. He was a state senator in 1873; was city treasurer of Holyoke in 1876 and 1877; and mayor in 1877 and 1878. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Whiting, William B
naval officer, was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Troy, N. Y.
In recognition of his scientific attainments, he was promoted to commander and captain in 1867, and to commodore in 1871. He died Dec. 16, 1883, in Milwaukee, Wis.
Whiting, William Henry Chase
soldier, was born in 1825, in Mississippi.
In 1845 he graduated from West Point; entered the confederate service, and was made a major-general in 1863. He died March 10, 1865, on Governor's Island, N. Y.
Whitley, Vinson M
lawyer, stockman, legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1855, in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. He served as a representative in the Tennessee leg-- islature.
Whitlock, George Clinton
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1808 in Vermont. He is a methodist clergyman and educator of Iowa; and the author of Elements of Geometry; and New System of Surveying.
Whitman, a. B
educator, lawyer, state senator, was born April 1, 1854, in Turner, Maine. He was educated in Hortonville, Wis.; and during 1882-89 was city superintendent of schools in Appleton. He was district attorney of Outagamie county in 1889-91; and city attorney of Appleton in 1894-96. In 1895 he was elected to the Wisconsin state senate.
Whitman, Alonzo Garcelon
educator, author, was born Sept. 7, 1842, in Auburn. In 1875 he was elected principal of the high school of Melrose, Mass. He published in 1872 a volume entitled Notes on Mineralogy.
Whitman, Benaiah Longley
clergyman, college president, was born Nov. 21, 1862, in Nova Scotia. He has filled a pastorate in the baptist church of Portland, Maine; was president of the Colby university for three years; and since 1895 has been president of the Columbian university of Washington, D. C.
Whitman, Bernard
clergyman, author, was born June 8, 1796, in East Bridgewater, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor at Waltham, Mass., in 1826-34; and the author of On Denying the Lord Jesus; Letters on Religious Liberty; Village Sermons; and Friendly Letters to a Universalist. He died Nov. 5, 1834, in Waltham, Mass.
Whitman, Charles Otis
naturalist, author, was born in 1842 in Maine.
He is a naturalist of note and head professor of zoölogy in the university of Chicago from 1892. He established The Journal of Morphology in 1887; and is the author of Methods of Research in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology.
Whitman, Ezekiel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 9, 1776, in East Bridgewater, Mass. He was chief justice of the common pleas and also of the superior court of Maine, presiding as such for twenty-five years. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1809 to 1811, and from 1817 to 1821. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1821 to 1823; and was a member of the executive council of Maine in 1815 and 1816. He died Aug. 1, 1866, in East Bridgewater, Mass.
Whitman, Jason
clergyman, author, was born April 30, 1799, in Bridgewater, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Portland, Maine; and author of Memoir of B. Whitman; Young Man's Assistant; Young Lady's Aid to Usefulness; Week Day Religion; and Discussions on the Lord's Prayer. He died Jan. 25, 1848, in Lexington, Mass.
Whitman, Lemuel
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1823 to 1824. He died Nov. 18, 1841, in Farmington, Conn.
Whitman, Marcus
pioneer, was born Sept. 4, 1802, in Rushville, N. Y.
Dr. Whitman, and the Rev. Henry N.
Spaulding and their young wives, set out in 1836, and crossed the Rocky mountains by the South Pass, through which John C. Fremont's party penetrated six years later. Mrs. Whitman and Mrs.
Spaulding were the first white women to cross the mountains. Whitman is credited with saving Oregon to the union. He was subsequently massacred with his wife and two children by the Cayuse Indians. He died Nov. 29, 1847, in Waulatpu, Oregon.
Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen
[POWER], poet, was born in 1803, in Providence, R. I. She was a poet of Providence whose Still Day in Autumn, her finest effort, still finds an honored place in anthologies. She is the author of Hours of Life, and Other Poems; and Edgar Poe and his Critics. A complete edition of her poems appeared in 1879.
She died June 27, 1878, in Providence, R. I.
WHITMAN, WALTER [WALT], poet, was born May 31, 1819, in West Hills, N.
Y. During the civil war he served as a volunteer nurse in the Washington hospitals, and, after holding a government clerkship till 1873, removed to Camden, N. J., where the rest of his life was passed. Leaves of Grass, his first book, appeared in 1855. Drum Taps, which included the now famous Lincoln elegies, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, and O Captain, My Captain, followed in 1865. His later works include, After All Not to Create Only; A Passage to India; As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free; Two Rivulets; November Boughs; Good Bye My Fancy; Sands at Seventy; Specimen Days and Collect; in prose, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate; Democratic Vistas; and Memoranda During the War. My Captain is his most popular poem. He died March 25, 1892, in Camden, N. J.
Whitmarsh, Caroline Snowden
author, was born June 1, 1827, in Boston, Mass. Her books include Violet; Daisy; Never Mind the Face; and the Summer- House Series on scientific subjects. She has compiled Hymns for Mothers and Children; Hymns of the Ages, the first series with Mrs. Anne E. Guild; and Prayers of the Ages.
Whitmore, George W
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1824, in McMinn county, Tenn.
He was a member of the Texas state house of representatives in 1852, 1853 and 1858. In 1866 he was appointed attorney of the ninth district; was appointed register in bankruptcy in 1867; and was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Whitmore, William Henry
genealogist, was born Sept. 6, 1836, in Dorchester, Mass. He is a genealogist of Boston; and the author of American Genealogy; Elements of Heraldry; History of the Old State House, Boston; and many genealogies.
Whitney, Mrs. Adeline Dutton Train
author, was born Sept. 15, 1824, in Boston, Mass. She has lived at Milton, Mass., for many years. She is the author of Friendly Letters to Girl Friends; Faith Gartney's Girlhood; The Gayworthys; A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life; Hitherto; We Girls; The Other Girls; Real Folks; Sights and Insights; Odd or Even?; Bonnyborough; Boys at Chequasset; Homespun Yarns; Ascutney Street; A Golden Gossip; Patience Strong's Outings; Mother Goose for Grown Folks. She has also written The Open Mystery: A Reading of the Mosaic Story; Just How, a Key to the Cook Books; and in verse, Pansies; Daffodils; Holy Tides; Bird Talk; and White Memories.
Whitney, Anne
sculptor, poet, was born Sept. 2, 1821, in Watertown, Mass.
She is a sculptor and poet of Boston.
Her only volume of Poems appeared in 1859. Bertha is her best known poem.
Whitney, Asa
merchant, author, was born in 1797. He was in mercantile business in New York city. He was the author of A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific; and A Plan for a Direct Communication Between the Great Centers of Populations of Europe and Asia. He died in August, 1872, in Washington, D. C.
Whitney, Caspar
journalist, author, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of New York city, a prominent advocate of amateur sports; and the author of A Sporting Pilgrimage; and On Snow Shoes to the Barren Grounds.
Whitney, Charles S
railroad president, was born Feb. 9, 1824, in Gallipolis, Ohio. He is president of the Bradford and Western Pennsylvania railroad at Belmont, N. Y.