Whitney, Eli – Whittaker, James Thomas
Whitney, Eli
inventor, was born Dec. 8, 1765, in Westborough, Mass. The first of his inventions was the cotton gin, which he was stimulated to devise by the widow of Nathaniel Green. He afterward reaped a fortune by his various improvements on fire-arms, the manufacturing of which became the origin of the flourishing village of Whitneyville, Conn. He died Jan. 8, 1825, in New Haven, Conn.
Whitney, Eugene
author, was born Dec. 11, 1838, in Mendon, Mass. His compositions include cantatas, choruses, partsongs and songs. He died Jan. 27, 1889, in Burlington, Vt.
Whitney, Frederic Augustus
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 13, 1812, in Quincy, Mass. After doing missionary work, he was pastor at Brighton, Mass., in 1843-59, and afterward lived in that town without a pastoral charge. He published Historical Sketch of the Old Church at Quincy; and Biography of James Holton, founder of the Holton library, Brighton. He died Oct. 21, 1880, in Brighton, Mass.
Whitney, George
clergyman, author, was born July 2, 1804, in Quincy, Mass. He was pastor of churches in Roxbury. He published Some Account of the Early History and Present State of the Town of Quincy, Mass., of which he was preparing an enlarged edition at the time of his death. He died April 2, 1842, in Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Whitney, George J
railroad manager, was born Jan. 26, 1819, in Verona, N. Y. In 1857 he built the Whitney elevator, one of the largest erected up to that time.
Whitney, James Amaziah
chemist, author, was born June 30, 1839, in Rochester, N. Y. He is an agricultural chemist; and the author of Relation of the Patent Laws to Development of Agriculture; The Chinese and the Chinese Question; Shobab, a Tale of Bethesda in verse; Sonnets and Lyrics; and The Children of Lamech. WHITNEY, [JOSEPH] ERNEST, educator, author, was born in 1858 in Connecticut. He is an instructor in English for some years at Yale university; and the author of Poems of the Pike's Peak Region.
Whitney, Josiah Dwight
educator, geologist, author, was born Nov. 23, 1819, in Northampton, Mass. He was a professor of geology at Harvard university from 1865, and state geologist of California in 1860-74. He was the author of The United States; The Metallic Wealth of the United States; Barometric Hypsometry; Polypetalæ; and Gamopetalæ; Contributions to American Geology; Names and Places, Studies in Geography and Topographical Nomenclature; Geological Survey of California; Yosemite Guide Book; and Geological Survey of Iowa. He died in 1896.
Whitney, Levi Lincoln
manufacturer, legislator, was born Jan. 20, 1858, in Princeton, Mass. In 1881 he was elected and served as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and in 1889 became a state senator.
Whitney, Mrs. Louisa Goddard
author, was born Dec. 17, 1819, in England. She was the author of The Burning of the Convent; and Peasy's Childhood, an Autobiography. She died May 13, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.
Whitney, Milton Burrall
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1825, in Granville, Mass. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; was fitted for college, with Rev. Dr. Timothy M. Cooley; graduated from Williams college in 1849; and admitted to the bar at Springfield, Mass., in 1853. In 1862-63 he served as Massachusetts state senator from western Hampden district, serving on several important committees. In 1868 he was a presidential elector; in 1880 was a delegate to the republican national convention; and during 1881-97 was a member of the Massachusetts state board of education. He is one of the foremost lawyers of New England at Westfield, Mass.
Whitney, Myron W
singer, was born Sept. 5, 1836, in Ashbury, Mass.
In 1876 he was the principal solo-singer at the opening exercises of the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia. Since that year he has sung in his native country, and has appeared in nearly all the May festivals held in different cities of the union.
Whitney, Orson F
clergyman, author, poet, was born July 1, 1855, in Salt Lake City, Utah. For many years he was editor of The Deseret News of Utah; and was later city treasurer of Salt Lake City. He is a bishop of the Morchurch; and the author of History of Utah, in three volumes; and a volume of Poetical Writings. He is also a constant contributor to the leadmon ing newspapers and magazines of the United States.
Whitney, Peter
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 6, 1744, in Northborough, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Northborough, Mass., in 1767-1815; and the author of History of Worcester County. He died Feb. 29, 1816, in Northborough, Mass.
Whitney, Thomas Richard
journalist, congressman, author, was born in 1804 in New York city. He served two years in the assembly of New York; devoted much of his life to literary pursuits, having been at one time editor of the New York Sunday News. He was the author of a poem called the Ambuscade, and a political work entitled The American Policy Vindicated. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1855 to 1857. He died April 12, 1858, in New York city.
Whitney, William Collins
lawyer, secretary of navy, was born July 15, 1841, in Conway, Mass. In 1872 he was appointed inspector of schools in the city of New York. In 1875 was appointed corporation counsel of the city of New York; and was re-appointed in 1876 and 1880.
In 1885 he became secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Cleveland.
Whitney, William Dwight
philologist, was born Feb. 9, 1827, in North Hampton, Mass. He was a philologist of eminence, professor of Sanskrit at Yale university from 1854, and of comparative philology, also, from 1870. He edited The Century Dictionary; Language and the Study of Language; Compendious German Grammar; Oriental and Linguistic Studies; Life and Growth of Language; Essentials of English Grammar; Sanskrit Grammar; Practical French Grammar; Roots, Verb Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language; and Max Müller's Science of Language. He died in 1894.
Whiton, James Morris
clergyman, author, was born April 11, 1833, in Boston, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman of New York city; and the author of New Points to Old Texts; Is Eternal Punishment Endless?; The Gospel of the Resurrection; Beyond the Shadow; The Divine Satisfaction; Early Pupils of the Spirit; The Evolution of Revelation; The Law of Liberty; Turning Points of Thought and Conduct; and Gloria Patri.
Whiton, John Milton
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 1, 1785, in Winchendon, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Antrim, N. H.; and the author of Sketches of the Early History of New Hampshire, 1623-1833. He died Sept. 28, 1856, in Antrim, N. H.
Whiton, Mary Bartlett
educator, author, was born Aug. 17, 1857, in New Haven, Conn. She was the author with her father of Six Months' Preparation for Reading Xenophon.
Whitsett, William Thornton
educator, poet, was born Aug. 5, 1866, in Guilford county, N. C. His preparatory education was received in public schools and under private tutors. Began teaching at the age of seventeen, and taught for two years in the public schools of Guilford and Alamance. In 1885 was assistant in Oakdale Alamance academy, county.
He entered the university of North Carolina in 1886, where he spent two years as a student. In 1888 he was elected superintendent of Fair View institute, which position he still holds. He is a frequent contributor to periodicals of prose and verse, and a diligent student of educational problems.
Whitsitt, William Heth
educator, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1841, in Nashville, Tenn. He is a baptist clergyman of Louisville, professor of ecclesiastical history at the Southern Baptist Theological seminary from 1872; and the author of History of the Rise of Infant Baptism; History of Communion Among Baptists; Life and Times of Jude Caleb Wallace; and A Question in Baptist History.
Whitson, W. C
lawyer, jurist, was born in Indiana. He moved to Lewiston, Idaho; and in 1874 was appointed an associate justice of the United States supreme court for the territory of Idaho. He died Dec. 25, 1875, in Omaha, Neb.
Whittaker, Frederick
soldier, journalist, author, was born Dec. 12, 1838, in England. He was a federal cavalry officer during the civil war, and subsequently a journalist of New York city. He is the author of A Defence of Dime Novels by a Writer of Them; Life of General Custer; Cadet Button, a Tale of American Army Life; and Bel Rubio, a novel.
Whittaker, Henry
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 15, 1808, in Wales.
He was a law-office clerk in New York city; and the author of Practice and Pleading Under the Codes; and Analysis of Decisions in Practice and Pleading. He died Feb. 9, 1881, in New York city.
Whittaker, James Thomas
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1843 in Ohio. He is a prominent surgeon of Cincinnati; and the author of Lectures on Physiology; History of Tuberculosis; and Theory and Practice of Medicine.