Wilmot, David – Wilson, George West
Wilmot, David
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 20, 1814, in Bethany, Pa. He was a member of congress from 1845 to 1851, and was subsequently president judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania, which position he resigned, and to which he was re-elected. In 1861 he was elected a senator in congress, where he remained until 1863. He was also a delegate to the peace congress of 1861, and in 1863 was appointed a judge of the court of claims. He died March 16, 1868, in Towanda, Pa.
Wilmshurst, Zavarr
journalist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1824, in England. He was a journalist of New York city, and the author of The Viking, an epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other Poems; The Siren; and Ralph and Rose, a Poem. He died Jan. 27, 1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wilshire, William W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1830, in Gallatin county, Ill. In 1867 he was appointed solicitor-general of Arkansas at Little Rock, and in 1868 became chief-justice of one of the state courts, remaining in office until 1871. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-fourth congress as a conservative.
Wilson, Alexander
ornithologist, author, was born July 6, 1766, in Scotland.
He was a Scottish ornithologist and poet who came to America in 1794. He is often called the Father of American Ornithology. He was the author of Watty and Meg, a narrative poem; and American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. He died Aug. 23, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wilson, Alexander
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1804 to 1809.
Wilson, Allen Benjamin
inventor, was born Oct. 18, 1824, in Willet, N.
Y. His first patent bears the date of Nov. 12, 1850, and is the fifteenth on the patent office record for an improved sewing-machine. The first machine, completed early in 1851, was sold for $125, and for a time this output was limited to eight or ten machines a week, but the demand soon increased, and they removed to Bridgeport, where they established the largest factory of its kind in the world, making six hundred machines a day. He died April 29, 1888, in Woodmont, Conn.
Wilson, Mrs. Augusta Jane
(EV- ANS), author, was born May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Ga. She was a popular novelist living at Mobile. Her writings had at one time an extraordinary vogue, but are now much less read. She is the author of Beulah; Macaria; Vashti; St. Elmo; Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; Infelice; and At the Mercy of Tiberius.
Wilson, Benjamin
lawyer, congressman, was born April 30, 1825, in Harrison county, Va. He was attorney for the commonwealth in Harrison county from 1852 to 1860. He was elected a representative from West Virginia to the forty-fourth congress and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and fortyseventh congresses as a democrat.
Wilson, Benjamin Frank
educator, clergyman, college president, was born March 12, 1862, near Mayesville, S.
C. During 1880-84 he attended the Davidson college, North Carolina, and in 1885- 8. the Theological seminary of Princeton, N. J. For three years he was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Spartansburg, S. C., and since 1890 has been president of the Converse college, the first undenominational private endowed college for women in the south. He has attained success in educational work, and has contributed extensively to current literature on that and kindred subjects.
Wilson, Bird
lawyer, clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 8, 1777, in Carlisle, Pa. He was elected professor of systematic divinity in the Episcopal General Theological seminary in Pennsylvania in 1821, which post he held for nearly thirty years. He was secretary of the house of bishops in 1829-41. He died April 14, 1859, in New York city.
Wilson, Clarence True
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born April 24, 1872, in Milton, Del. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Wilmington, Del.; attended St John's college and the university of Southern California.
He has had the degrees of A. B. and Ph. D. conferred upon him. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal church at Seaford, Del.; Sea Cliff, N. Y., and is now filling a pastorate in North Pasadena, Cal.
He has attained success as a clergyman, lecturer and author, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Wilson, David
legislator, author, was born Sept. 17, 1818, in West Hebron, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1852, and in 1854 declined a nomination for congress. He published Life in Whitehall: a Tale of Ship-Fever Times; Solomon Northrup, or Twelve Years a Slave, a narrative of the abduction and enslavement of a free negro of Washington county; and Life of Jane McCrea. He died June 9, 1887, in Albany, N. Y.
Wilson, E. K
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1827 to 1831.
Wilson, E. Willis
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born in 1844 in Harper's Ferry, Va. In 1870 he was elected a delegate in the Virginia state legislature, and in 1872 was elected state senator. In 1874 he moved to Charleston, W. Va., and in 1876 was again elected to the lower house of the state legislature, and was elected a third time in 1880. During the latter term he was elected, and served as speaker of the house of delegates. In 1884 he was elected governor of West Virginia.
Wilson, Edgar
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 25, 1861, in Armstrong county, Pa. He graduated in 1884 from Michigan university school of law. For two years he was district attorney of Ada county, Idaho. In 1886- 88 he was a member of the constitutional convention, and in 1890 was elected a member of the fiftyfourth congress, representing the state of Idaho at large.
Wilson, Edgar C
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1833 to 1835. He died in May, 1860, in Morgantown, Va.
Wilson, Ephraim King
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in Snow Hill, Md. He was a representative in the Maryland legislature in 1847, and was a presidential elector in 1852. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-second congress; was judge of the first judicial circuit of Maryland from 1878 to 1884, and in 1884 was elected a United States senator from Maryland for the term ending March 3, 1891. He died Feb. 24, 1891, in Washington, D. C.
Wilson, Ervin A
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 23, 1856, in Lehi, Utah. He has filled numerous positions of honor in Provo City, Utah; was superintendent of schools of his county; president board of education; and in 1896 was elected for a term of five years as judge of the fourth district court of state of Utah.
Wilson, Eugene M
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Morgan county, Va. He was United States district attorney for Minnesota from 1857 to 1861, and served as a captain in the war for the union. He was elected a representative from Minnesota to the fortyfirst congress as a democrat. He practices law in Minneapolis.
Wilson, Francis Henry
lawyer, congressman, was born in Westmoreland, N. Y. He took a prominent part in the organization of the Union League club of Brooklyn, N. Y., of which organization he was president for four successive years.
He was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wilson, George Henry
musical writer, was born Feb. 18, 1854, in Lawrence, Mass. He is the musical critic of the Boston Traveler, and in 1883 began the Boston Musical Year-Book, the title of which was changed in 1886 to the Musical Year-Book of the United States. Since 1885 he has prepared annually an analytical and historical programme of the concerts of the Boston symphony orchestra.
Wilson, George W
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1840, in Brighton, Ohio. He received his education in the common schools and at Antioch college.
In 1862 he enlisted in the ninety-fourth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry for three years; was commissioned second and first lieutenant; and in 1864 was commissioned first lieutenant in the first regiment of United In States veteran volunteer engineers. 1866 he was elected prosecuting attorney for Madison county, Ohio, and received the re-election two years later. In 1871 he was elected a member of the Ohio general assembly, and in 1877 was elected to the state senate. In 1892 he was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican; and in 1894 was re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress. In 1896 he was a delegate to the republican national convention.
Wilson, George West
journalist, was born May 10, 1859, in Boone county, Ky. He has been United States collector of internal revenue for the district of Florida; chairman and secretary of various democratic campaign committees in Florida; president of the Ocala exposition, and executive officer in many enterprises. He is now the editor and owner of the Florida Citizen of Jacksonville.