Wilkes, George – Willard, Ashbel P
Wilkes, George
journalist, author, was born in 1820 in New York city. He was a journalist of New York city, editor of The Spirit of the Times from 1850; and the author of History of California; Europe in a Hurry; and Shakespeare from an American Point of View. He died Sept. 23, 1885, in New York city.
Wilkes, John Summerfield
soldier, lawyer, was born March 2, 1841, in Culleoka, Tenn. He served as a soldier in the confederate army. He has been president of the Citizens National bank of Pulaski, Tenn.; president of Martin Female college; and associate justice of the supreme court of Tennessee.
Wilkeson, Frank
journalist, author, was born March 8, 1845, in Buffalo, N. Y. He is a journalist of Hamilton, Wash.; and the author of Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac.
Wilkeson, Samuel
manufacturer, state senator, was born in 1781 in Carlisle, Pa. He was appointed first judge of the Erie court of common pleas in February, 1821, though he was without a legal education, was elected to the New York state senate in 1842, and served in that body and in the court for the correction of errors for six years. In 1836 he was elected mayor of Buffalo. He died in July, 1848, in Tennessee.
Wilkeson, Samuel
journalist, was born May 9, 1817, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was for twelve years a staff writer on the New York Tribune, and its war correspondent in the army of the Potomac, and was the editor and owner of the Buffalo Democracy and of the Albany Evening Journal, having bought out Thurlow Weed in 1865. He has been secretary of the Northern Pacific Railroad company since 1869.
Wilkie, Francis Bangs
journalist, author, was born July 2, 1832, in West Charlton, N. Y. He was a Chicago journalist; and the author of Petrolia, or the Oil Regions of the United States (1865); Davenport, Past and Present; Walks About Chicago; The Chicago Bar; Great Inventions and Their Influence on Civilization; The Gambler, a Story of Chicago Life; Pen and Powder; and Personal Reminiscences. He died in 1892.
Wilkin, James W
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1762. He was a member of the legislature of New York in 1800; and was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1819. He died Feb. 23, 1845, in Goshen, N. Y.
Wilkin, Samuel J
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1790 in New York. He was a member of the state assembly from Orange county in 1824 and 1825; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833. He was the whig candidate for lieutenantgovernor on the ticket with Millard Fill- He died March 11, 1866, in Goshen, more.
N. Y.
Wilkins, Ben C
telegraph manager, author, poet, was born in 1849, in Fond du Lac, Wis. For thirty years he has been connected with the Western Union Telegraph company in Wisconsin, Iowa and Dakota, and is now telegraph manager at Ashland, Wis. He is the author of a prose work entitled Cruise of the Little Nan, and a volume of poems.
Wilkins, Beriah
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born July 10, 1846, in Union county, Ohio. He became cashier and general manager of the National bank at Urichsville, Ohio. He was elected a state senator in 1879; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Wilkins, John Hubbard
author, was born in 1794, in New Hampshire.
He was a Boston writer whose Elements of Astronomy was long popular as a textbook. He died in 1861.
Wilkins, Mary Eleanor
author, was born in 1862 in Randolph, Mass. She is a novelist of Randolph, Mass. Her fiction deals almost entirely with phases of New England rural life. She is the author of A Humble Romance, and Other Stories; A New England Nun, and Other Stories; Young Lucretia, and Other Stories; The Pot of Gold, a collection of juvenile tales; Jane Field; Pembroke; Madelon; Giles Corey, Yeoman, a Play; Jerome, a Poor Man; The Adventures of Ann; Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring; and The Long Arm (with J. E. Chamberlin).
Wilkins, Ross
lawyer, jurist, was born in February, 1799, in Pittsburg, Pa.
He was a federal judge for the territory of Michigan; and in 1837 was appointed a regent of the state university. He presided over the first war meeting held in Detroit after the commencement of the rebellion; and was, for a great many years, a circuit judge, remaining in office until 1870. He died May 17, 1872, in Detroit, Mich.
Wilkins, William
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1779, in Carlisle, Pa. He was a senator in congress from Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1834. He was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Russia in 1834; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1844. In 1844 and 1845 he was secretary of war under President Tyler; and subsequently held the office of judge of the United States district court for western Pennsylvania. He died June 23, 1865, near Pittsburg, Pa.
Wilkinson, Adolphus C
lawyer, was born July 16, 1853, in England. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin; was a member of the county board of supervisors several times in Wisconsin; court commissioner and district attorney; and local attorney for the leading railroad companies in Wisconsin; and for the past ten years has been attorney for the Great Northern Railway company at Crookston, Minn.
Wilkinson, James
soldier, governor, author, was born in 1757 near Benedict, Md. He was governor of Louisiana territory from 1805 to 1807. He was general-in-chief of the army, and remained at the head of the southern department until 1811; and in 1812 was appointed brevet major-general. In 1813 he became major-general. After the war he removed to Mexico, where he purchased large estates. He wrote Memories of My Own Times. He died Dec. 28, 1825, near the City of Mexico.
Wilkinson, James Simon
poet, was born Feb. 8, 1876, in Oneida, Kan.
He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Hours in Dreamland.
Wilkinson, Jemima
religious impostor, was born in 1753 in Cumberland, R. I. She professed to be endowed with the power of Christ, and alleged that she could work miracles. She removed with a few proselytes to Crooked Lake in New York. She died July 1, 1819, in Jerusalem, N. Y.
Wilkinson, John
naval officer, author, was born Nov. 6, 1821, in Norfolk, Va. He is a confederate naval officer who has published The Narrative of a Blockade Runner.
Wilkinson, John Miles
clergyman, lecturer, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in Toronto, Canada. He graduated in arts from the Toronto university; was valedictorian and won the prize in elocution and oratory. For three years he was pastor of the Agnes Street Methodist church of Toronto, Canada, and subsequently organized the People's Tabernacle of that city. He is now the well known clergyman of the methodist episcopal church of St. Peter, Minn. As an orator and lecturer he has attained a wide reputation.
Wilkinson, Morton Smith
lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 22, 1819, in Skaneateles, N. Y. In 1847 he settled in Minnesota; and in 1849, when that territory was organized, was elected to the legislature, and the laws adopted by the territory as its code were of his draughting. In 1859 he was chosen a senator in congress from Minnesota for the term ending in 1865. He was subsequently elected to the forty-first congress as a representative from Minnesota.
Wilkinson, Theodore Stark
planter, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1847, in Plaquemines Parish, La. He was a member and president of the board of levee commissioners for the third levee district; and was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a democrat.
Wilkinson, Ulysses Grant
lawyer, clergyman, writer, was born July 30, 1863, in Green county, Mo. He has attained prominence both as a successful lawyer and an eminent clergyman, in Comanche, Indian Territory. He also contributed extensively to current literature.
Wilkinson, William Cleaver
clergyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 19, 1833, in Westford, Vt. He is a baptist clergyman and educator; and the author of Poems; A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters; Webster, an Ode; The Baptist Principle; The Epic of Saul; The Dance of Modern Society; and College Greek Course in English, and other text-books.
Will, Thomas Elmer
educator, college president, was born Nov. 11, 1861, in Stones Prairie, Ill. He has attained success in educational work; has lectured extensively; and is now the president of the Kansas State Agricultural college of Manhattan.
Willard, Allie Capitola
journalist, temperance worker, was born April 13, 1860, near Nauvoo, Ill. For five years she was postmaster of Loup City, Neb.; and in 1889 was a clerk in the Nebraska senate. She then engaged in journalistic work, and in 1893 went to Europe for study and travel.
For eighteen months she was manager of the business office of Lady Henry Somerset's newspaper, The Woman's Signal, at Memorial Hall, London, England; in which city she also edited for a year The Woman's Signal Budget, the organ of the British Women's Temperance association.
Willard, Ashbel P
governor. He was governor of Indiana from 1857 until his death, in 1861. He died in 1861.