Wilson, Samuel Farmer – Wiltse, Henry M
Wilson, Samuel Farmer
journalist, author, was born in 1805 in Connecticut. He was a New Orleans journalist, and the author of History of the American Revolution, long a popular work. He died March 11, 1870, in New Orleans, La.
Wilson, Samuel Graham
missionary, author. He is a presbyterian missionary in Persia, and the author of Persian Life and Customs. was
Wilson, Stanyarne
lawyer, congressman, was born in Yorkville, S. C. He elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1884, and to the senate in 1892. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1895, and was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Wilson, Stephen F
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1821, in Columbia, Pa. He was a senator in the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1863 and 1864, and although returned to the state senate, was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Wilson, T. B
business man, public official, was born March 5, 1832, in Towanda, Pa. In 1846 he settled in Menomonie, Wis. For many years he was engaged in surveying, and for nearly half a century has been identified with the business devèlopment of the state of Wisconsin. He has been postmaster of Menomonie, Wis., and filled numerous other public positions of honor in his city, county and state.
Wilson, Theodore Delevan
architect, author, was born May 11, 1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a naval architect of note in the government service, and the author of Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical. He died in 1896.
Wilson, Thomas
merchant, philanthropist, was born Feb. 5, 1789, in Hartford county, Md. By his will he devoted $625,000 to various charities, endowing the Thomas Wilson sanitarium for children -an institution designed to take care of sick children during the summer months -with $500,000; and a fuel-saving society -to aid deserving poor people to purchase their fuel cheaply, and sewing-women to obtain sewing-machines at low cost-with $100,000. He died Sept. 2, 1879, in Baltimore, Md.
Wilson, Thomas
congressman, was born in 1771. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1817. He died Oct. 4, 1824, in Erie, Pa.
Wilson, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1811 to 1813. He died Jan. 24, 1826.
Wilson, Thomas
printer, author, was born in 1768 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia printer; and the author of Principal American Military and Naval Heroes; and The Picture of Philadelphia for 1824. He died about 1828 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wilson, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 16, 1827, in Ireland. He was elected district judge in 1857, and held the office until 1864, when he was appointed by the governor associate justice of the supreme court of Minnesota. He was elected chief justice of the state in 1864, and held the office till 1869, when he resigned. In 1880 he was elected a member of the state house of representatives; and in 1882 was elected state senator, and served 1882-85. In 1886 he was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Wilson, Thomas Bellerby
physician, naturalist, was born Jan. 17, 1807, in Philadelphia. In 1832 he was elected to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and at once took an active part in its proceedings. Its library was largely created through his liberality, and his collection of birds, which then ranked as the third in the world, was presented by him to the academy, of which he was president in 1863-64. He died March 15, 1865, in Newark, Del.
Wilson, Thomas E
builder, poet, was born Sept. 6, 1839, in Kittery, Maine.
Since 1870 he has been successfully engaged as a contractor and builder, principally in Boston, Mass. He is the author of a volume of collected poems; and is represented in Poets of America, Poets of Maine, and other standard works.
Wilson, Thomas S
lawyer, jurist, was an early emigrant to Iowa territory; and in 1838 was appointed United States judge for that district.
Wilson, W. Hasell
railroad president, was born in 1811 in Charleston, S. C. Since 1884 he has been president of the Belvidere-Delaware railway at Philadelphia, Pa.
Wilson, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1819.
Wilson, William
congressman, was born in 1772 in Hillsborough county, N. H.
He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1827. He died in 1827.
Wilson, William
journalist, poet, was born Dec. 26, 1801, in Scotland. He was a Scottish poet and journalist who became a bookseller in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1854. He was the author of Poems, edited by B. J. Lossing. He died Aug. 25, 1860, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Wilson, William
lumber manufacturer, was born Feb. 9, 1807, in Lycoming county, Pa. In 1832 he was a contractor a on the Illinois Central canal; afterward established stage line between Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa, where he has also been a justice of the peace.
About 1846 he moved to Menomonie, Wis., and commenced lumbering operations, and for over fifty a years has been successful lumber merchant and manufacturer; and taken a prominent part in the public affairs of Wisconsin.
Wilson, William Dexter
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 28, 1816, in Stoddard, N. H. He is an episcopal clergyman of Syracuse, professor of philosophy at Cornell university in 1868- 86; and the author of History of the Reformation in England; The Church Identified; Psychology; The Foundations of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise on Logic; Live Questions in Psychology and Metaphysics; and Introduction to the Study of the History of Philosophy.
Wilson, William Lyne
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, cabinet officer, was born May 3, 1843, in Jefferson county, Va. He was elected president of the West Virginia university in 1882. He served in the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, and fifty-third congresses. In the fifty-third congress he was chairman of the committee on ways and means, and had charge of the tariff bill in the house; and in the same congress he introduced and carried through the house of representatives the bill for the repeal of the Sherman law. He was nominated by the president as postmastergeneral and confirmed by the senate, and took the oath of office on the 4th day of April, 1895.
Wilson, Woodrow
educator, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 28, 1856, in Staunton, Va. He has held professorships in Bryn Mawr college and Wesleyan university; and is now professor of jurisprudence in Princeton college, N. J. He has attained success as a lecturer; and is the author of Congressional Government:
A Study in American Politics; The State Elements of Historical and Practical Politics; An Old Master, and Other Political Essays; Division and Reunion, 1829-89; George Washington; and Mere Literature, and Other Essays.
Wilstach, John Augustine
lawyer, linguist, author, poet, was born July 14, 1824, in Washington, D. C. After receiving his education he studied law and began the practice of that profession in Indiana in 1850. For ten years he was master in chancery; in 1867 was sent to Paris as one of the United States commissioners to the Paris Universal exposition; and during 1867-72 he was commissioner of emigration for the state of Indiana. His orations and speeches have frequently appeared in pamphlet form, and his numerous published works have been well received. He is the author of metrical translations of Virgil and Dante; Dante, the Danteans, and Things Dantean, a prose work; The Battle Forest, an epic poem; and The Angel and the King, and Other Poems.
He has gradually withdrawn from the practice of law, and devotes his time to literary work and the management of his private estate at Lafayette, Ind.
Wilstach, Joseph Walter
lawyer, author, was born June 28, 1857, in Lafayette, Ind. He is a lawyer of Lafayette, Ind.; and the author of Horatian Odes; and Montalembert: a Character Study.
Wiltse, Henry M
lawyer, legislator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Shiawassee county, Mich. He received his education at the university of Michigan; has served with distinction as a member of the Tennessee state legislature; has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Chattanooga; has been city attorney; assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee; and registration commissioner of Hamilton county. He is a brilliant lecturer; has contributed extensively to legal publications; is the author of the work entitled The Moonshiners, a brief history of the remarkable people generally so-called; and another work entitled Folk-History of War Times.