Wilcox, Marrion – Wilkes, Charles
Wilcox, Marrion
author, was born in 1858 in Georgia. She is a New Haven writer; and the author of Real People; and Senora Villena.
Wilcox, Phineas Bacon
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 26, 1798, in Middletown, Conn. He was a lawyer of Columbus, Ohio; and the author of Condensed Reports of Ohio Supreme Court; Ohio Forms and Practice; A Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar; Practical Forms in Action, etc.; and Practical Forms Under Code of Civil Procedure.
He died March 25, 1863, in Columbus, Ohio.
Wild, Augustus
soldier, was born Nov. 25, 1825, in Brookline, Mass. In 1863 he was made a brigadier-general of volunteers; and since the war has been engaged in silver mining.
Wilde, Richard Henry
lawyer, educator, congressman, author, poet, was born Sept. 24, 1789, in Ireland. He was made attorney-general of Georgia; and in 1815 was elected a representative in congress from that state. He was again elected in 1823, and again in 1827, serving with marked ability until 1835. In 1843 he moved to New Orleans, La.; and was elected professor of constitutional law in the university of Louisiana. He was the author of Conjectures and Researches Concerning Tasso; but is known chiefly as the author of the graceful lyric, My Life is Like the Summer Rose. He died Sept. 10, 1847, in New Orleans, La.
Wilde, William Allan
journalist, legislator, was born July 11, 1827, in Acton, Mass. He is a noted newspaper man of Malden, Mass.; superintendent of schools; and a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature.
Wilder, a. Carter
merchant, congressman, was born March 18, 1828, in Mendon, Mass. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Kansas to the thirtyeighth congress. He died Dec. 23, 1875, in San Francisco, Cal.
Wilder, Alexander
journalist, physician, scientist, author, was born May 14, 1823, in Verona, N. Y. In 1850 he graduated in medicine. He became assistant editor of the Syracuse Star, then editor of the New York Teacher; and later editor of the American College Journal. About 1860 he became member of the editorial staff of the Evening Post, and a for thirteen years was its legislative correspondent. He has been prominent in public affairs, and in various medical associations, and is a noted scientist with decided philosophic proclivities; and in 1893 he delivered the address at the World's Medical Congress auxiliary. He is the author of the following works: The Later Platonists; The Soul; Life Eternal; The Birth and Being of Things; The Antecedent Life; Intuition and Divination; Micro-Organisms in Disease; Mind, Thought, and Cerebration; The Ganglionic Nervous System; Psychological Science; and The Resurrection.
Wilder, Burt Green
physician, educator, author, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He is a physician, professor of physiology at Cornell university from 1867; and the author of What Young People Should Know; Emergencies; and Health Notes for Students.
Wilder, Daniel Webster
lawyer, journalist, author, was born July 15, 1832, in Blackstone, Mass. He is a Kansas lawyer and journalist who has published The Annals of Kansas.
Wilder, Edward Binns
civil engineer, was born Aug. 9, 1814, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. After graduating from Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., he studied civil engineering; and during 1846-53 was engaged in exploring the mineral resources of Cuba. He subsequently moved to California and engaged in mining engineering, and for many years was superintendent of the Ophir silver mines in Nevada. He resides in Salt Lake City, and is a brother of the late William H.
Wilder, the eminent lawyer of New Orleans, La.
Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
humorist, author, was born Sept. 19, 1859, in Geneva, N. Y. He is the author of a book entitled The People I've Smiled With.
Wilder, William Heatley
lawyer, civil engineer, philanthropist, was born March 25, 1813, in Beauford, S. C.
After graduating from the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., he studied French, German, and Spanish in Europe. He subsequently graduated from the New York university of Law; and from 1833 was engaged in the practice of that profession, moving to New Orleans in 1843. For three successive terms he was a member of the Louisiana legislature; was a member of the general council of New Orleans in 1847; and subsequently alderman for a number of years. He was noted for his great philanthropy and benevolence.
He died March 25, 1898, in New Orleans, La.
Wildman, Milton Millard
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1856, in Piatt county, Ill. He received a thorough education, and graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan. He has attained success as an able lawyer of York, Neb.; has filled various offices of public trust; and is now county judge of York county.
Wildman, Zalmon
congressman, was born in Danbury, Conn. He was elected a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1835 to 1836. He died Dec. 10, 1835, in Washington, D. C.
Wildrick, Isaac
congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853.
Wiles, Irving Ramsay
artist, was born April 8, 1861, in Utica, N. Y. He is known as a clever figure-painter, and his Corner Table gained the third Hallgarten prize at the Academy of Design in 1886.
Wiles, Lemuel Maynard
artist, was born Oct. 21, 1826, in Perry, N. Y.
In 1875 he assumed the directorship of the college of Fine Arts in Ingham university, Le Roy, N. Y., and in 1888 he founded the Silver Lake art-school at Perry, N.
Y. His works include The Pillar of Fire; Mount San Jacinto, California; Ruins of the Cathedral of San Juan Capistrano, Cal.; The Noonday Retreat; The Vale of Elms; Snowbound; and A Song of the Sea.
Wiley, Calvin Henderson
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1819, in Guilford county, N. C. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator in the Carolinas; and the author of Adventures of Old Dan Tucker; Utopia, a Picture of Early Life at the South; Scriptural Views of National Trials; Alamance, a novel; and Roanoke, or Where is Utopia? He died Jan. 11, 1887, in Winston, N. C.
Wiley, Harvey Washington
educator, chemist, was born in 1844, in Kent, Ind. He has been state chemist of Indiana; president of the American Chemist society; president of the association of Official Agricultural Chemists; and filled various other positions of honor. He is the author of Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis: Part I., Soils; Part II., Fertilizers; and Part III., Agricultural Products.
Wiley, Isaac William
bishop, author, was born March 29, 1825, in Lewiston, Pa. He was a bishop of the methodist church from 1872; and the author of The Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chan; The Religion of the Family; and China and Japan: a Record of Observations. He died in November, 1884, in China.
Wiley, James S
congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1847 to 1849.
Wiley, John M
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1846, in Ireland. He was elected to the New York legislature in 1871 and 1872; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.
Wiley, William Lorenzo
business man, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1820, in Saxton's River, Vt. For six years he was engaged in educational work; then entered mercantile work in his native place, where he was also postmaster. In 1851 he moved to Illinois, and dealt largely in real estate. In connection with his brothers, George and Henry Wiley and others, he laid out the town of Galva, and built the first school house.
He was the first president of the First National bank of Galva, and a director until the charter expired. He was a delegate to the republican national convention in Chicago that nominated Grant for president; and for many years was vice-president and director in the Rock Island and Peoria Railroad company. For four years he was a member of the state board of equalization from his district; and is now and has been for years president of the board of education of Galva, Ill. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, some of which can be found in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Wilkes, Charles
naval officer, author, was born April 3, 1798, in New York city. In 1826 he was commissioned a lieutenant, and in 1830 was appointed to the charge of the United States department of charts and instruments. It is said of him that he was the first man in the country to set up fixed astronomical instruments and take observations with them. He was commissioned rear-admiral on the retired list July 25, 1866. He was the author of Narrative of United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838-42; Western America; and Theory of the Winds. He died Feb. 8, 1877, in Washington, D. C.