Wiltz, Louis Alfred – Winfield, Charles Harden- Berg
Wiltz, Louis Alfred
was born Jan. 21, 1843, in New Orleans, La. He enlisted as a private soldier in the confederate service during the civil war; was elected captain and became provost marshal at Franklin, La. In 1868 he was elected to the Louisiana state legislature; was elected mayor of New Orleans, but did not serve; and in 1875 was a member of the legislature and speaker of the house. He became lieutenant-governor and president of the state senate; and in 1879 became governor of Louisiana. He died Oct. 16, 1881, before the expiration of his term.
Wiman, Erastus
capitalist, author, was born April 21, 1834, in Canada. He was formerly a prominent capitalist of New York city; and the author of Chances of Success.
Winans, Edwin B
farmer, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born May 16, 1828, in Avon, N. Y. He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature from 1861 to 1865; and in 1876 was elected probate judge for Livingston county. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress as a democrat.
Winans, James January
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born June 7, 1818, in Maysville, Ky. In 1857 he was elected to the Ohio state senate; and in 1863 was elected a representative in the legislature. In 1864 he was elected a judge of the court of common pleas for two years; and was re-elected in 1866 for a full term of five years. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Winans, John
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1831, in Vernon, N. J. He received a thorough education in the public, private schools and academies in New Jersey. He is one of the foremost lawyers in Wisconsin at Janesville; has been city attorney several terms; mayor of his city for two terms; a member of the state legislature several terms; and in 1882-84 served with distinction as a member of the fortyeighth congress from Wisconsin. He has been presidential elector several times, and was chairman of the convention of democratic clubs of the United States at Baltimore in 1888.
Winans, Ross
inventor, author, was born Oct. 7, 1796, in Vernon, N. J. He was an eminent inventor; and the author of One Religion: Many Creeds. He died April 11, 1877, in Baltimore, Md.
Winans, William
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 3, 1788, in Pennsylvania. He was a pioneer of his church in Mississippi and Louisiana, and took a conspicuous part in the organization of the methodist episcopal church, south. He published Discourses on Fundamental Religious Subjects. He died Aug. 31, 1857, in Amite county, Miss.
Winchell, Alexander
educator, geologist, author, was born Dec. 31, 1824, in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a professor of geology at the university of Michigan in 1854-73 and in 1879-91; and the author of Sketches of Creation; Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; World Life; Science and Religion; The Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Causality; Sparks from a Geologist's Hammer; Geological Excursions; Geological Studies; and Walks and Talks in the Geological Field. He died Feb. 19, 1891, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Winchell, James Manning
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1791, in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He was called to the First Baptist church in Boston in 1814, and remained until his death. He was one of the editors of the American Baptist Magazine, and published Jubilee Sermons: Two Discourses, exhibiting an Historical Sketch of the First Baptist Church in Boston from 1665 to 1818; and Watts's Psalms and Hymns, with a Supplement. He died Feb. 22, 1820, in Boston, Mass.
Winchell, Newton Horace
geologist, author, was born Dec. 17, 1839, in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He is state geologist of Minnesota; and the author of Geology of Minnesota; and Annual Reports on the Geological Natural History Survey of Minnesota from 1872. WINCHELL, ROGER W.. educator, state legislator, was born Jan. 5, 1848, in Wyocena, Wis. He was elected in 1883 as a member of the Washington state legislature.
Winchester, Boyd
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1836, in Ascension, La. In 1867 he was elected a Kentucky state senator. He was a presidential elector in 1868; and in that year was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-first congress. He was re-elected to the forty-second congress. In 1875 he became president of the Farmers' and Drovers' Insurance company, in which position he remained until 1877. In 1885 he was appointed minister resident and consul-general of the United States to Switzerland.
Winchester, Charles Wesley
educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born July 2, 1843, in Westminster, Vt.
In 1867 he graduated from the Genesee college, which institution was subsequently absorbed into the Syracuse university; and has received the degrees of A. B., A. M., and D. D. He has filled the chair of Greek and German in the Fairfield seminary; and of Latin and Greek in the Cazenovia seminary. Since 1870 he has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and also a presiding elder since that time. For eleven years he was secretary of the Genesee conference; traveled in Europe in 1890; and in 1891 was a member of the second ecumenical conference in Washington, D. C. He has lectured extensively on various themes, principally on The Eight Wonders of the World. He is the author of The Gospel Kodak Abroad; The Wells of Salvation; and other works.
Winchester, Elhanan
clergyman, author, poet, was born Sept. 30, 1751, in Brookline, Mass. He was a universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, but in earlier life a baptist minister. He was the author of New Book of Poems on Several Occasions; Universal Restoration; Prophecies to Be Fulfilled; and Progress and Empire of Christ, a Poem. He died April 18, 1797, in Hartford, Conn.
Winchester, James
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 6, 1752, in Westminster, Md. He was appointed judge of the district court of the United States in Maryland in 1799. He entered the army as a colonel from Tennessee in 1812; and was made a brigadier-general in 1813. He died July 27, 1826, near Gallatin, Tenn.
Winchester, Oliver Fisher
manufacturer, was born Nov. 30, 1810, in Boston, Mass. In 1865 his company was reorganized as the Winchester Repeating Arms company in New Haven, Conn. They furnished many rifles for the French government during the war with Germany and for Turkey in the Russo-Turkish war.
He died Dec. 10, 1880, in New Haven, Conn.
Winder, Levin
soldier, state senator, governor, was born in 1756. He was appointed major of the Maryland regiment in 1777; and was a lieutenantcolonel at the close of the revolutionary war. Prior to 1812 he was speaker of the house of delegates, and from 1812 to 1815 was governor of Maryland. In 1816 he was a member of the state senate, and was a general of militia and grand master of Masons of Maryland. He died July 7, 1819, in Baltimore, Md.
Windom, William
lawyer, congressman, cabinet officer, United States senator, was born May 10, 1827, in Belmont county, Ohio. He moved to Minnesota in 1853; and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-sixth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth congresses. He was re-elected to the fortieth congress, serving on old committees; and in 1870 was appointed a senator in congress to fill a vacancy; and subsequently elected for the term ending in 1877. He was re-elected for the term ending in 1883; and resigned in 1881 to become secretary of the treasury; and was re-elected to fill a vacancy caused by his own resignation. He died Jan. 29, 1891, in New York.
Winebrenner, John
clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1797, in Frederick county, Md. He was a German reformed clergyman of Harrisburg, Pa., and founder in 1830 of the Church of God, a sect commonly known as Winebrennerians. He was the author of Regeneration; Practical and Doctrinal Sermons; and Brief Views of the Church of God. died Sept. 12, 1860, in Harrisburg, Pa.
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Wines, Enoch Cobb
clergyman, philanthropist, author, was born Feb. 17, 1806, in Hanover, N. J. He was a congregational clergyman, widely known as a philanthropist, who labored extensively in behalf of prison reform. He was the author of Two and a Half Years in the Navy; A Trip to China; Hints on Popular Education; How Shall I Govern My School; Commentaries on Laws of the Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada; and State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions Throughout the World. He died Dec. 10, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass.
Wines, Frederic Howard
clergyman, author, was born April 9, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was formerly a presbyterian clergyman, but now devoted in official and private capacities to various reforms connected with the defective, dependent, and criminal classes. He is the author of Punishment and Reformation, an Historical Sketch of the Rise of the Penitentiary System; and The Liquor Problem in Its Legislative Aspects.
Winfield, Charles H
lawyer, congressman, was born April 22, 1822, in Crawford, N. Y. He was for six years district attorney for Orange county from 1850 to 1856; and in 1862 was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Winfield, Charles Harden- Berg
lawyer, legislator, author, was born Nov. 8, 1829, in Deer Park, N. Y.
Since 1883 he has been prosecutor of the pleas in Hudson county, N. J. During 1886-89 he was a member of the state senate of New Jersey. He is the author of Land Titles of Hudson County, N. J.; and a history of that county; Major Lee's Capture of Paulus Hook in 1779; Monograph on the Founding of Jersey City; History of Hoboken; and other works.