Winston, Joseph – Wise, John
Winston, Joseph
soldier, congressman, was born June 17, 1746, in Louisa county, Va. In 1766 he moved to North Carolina; and took an active part in the revolution. He commanded the right wing of the American troops in the battle of King's Mountain, and for his bravery had a sword voted to him by the legislature. He was elected to congress in 1792, and again in 1803, and served until 1807.
He died April 21, 1815, in North Carolina.
Winter, Elisha J
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1813 to 1815.
Winter, Lorenzo Edward
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Oct. 27, 1855, in Winesburg, Ohio.
He attained success in educational work, was superintendent of public schools in Ohio, and president of Ashland college.
He is a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; has been a missionary to India; and now fills a pastorate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Winter, William
littérateur, dramatic critic, author, poet, was born July 15, 1836, in Gloucester, Mass. He is a prominent writer and dramatic critic of New York city; and the author of Poems; The Trip to England: The Jeffersons; English Rambles; Shakespeare's England; Gray Days and Gold; Old Shrines and Ivy; Shadows of the Stage; My Witness, a Book of Verse; The Wanderers, a collection of poems; Thistle Down, a Book of Lyrics; The Queen's Domain, and Other Poems; The Convert, and Other Poems; Brown Heath and Blue Bells; and George William Curtis:
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Wintermute, Martha
author, poet, was born Sept. 6, 1843, in Delaware county, Ohio. She is the author of a work entitled Eleven Women and Thirteen Men, a beautiful story in prose; which also contains a collection of her finest poems. She contributes extensively to current literature, and is the author of several published works.
Winters, Joseph Edcil
physician, author, was born Jan. 11, 1850, in Minnisink, N. Y. He is the author of Is Operation of Tracheotomy in Diphtheritic Croup Dangerous; When Should the Operation Be Performed; Diphtheria and Its Management; Are Membranous Croup and Diphtheria Distinct Diseases; and numerous other works.
Winthrop, Frederick
soldier, was born Aug. 3, 1839, in New York city.
He was commissioned a captain in the twelfth United States infantry, and received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864. In 1867 the brevet of major-general of volunteers was conferred on him, among the few brevets that were given after death. He died April 1, 1865, near Five Forks, Va.
Winthrop, John
governor, author, was born Jan. 22, 1588, in England. He was elected governor of Massachusetts twelve times, and that he was not chosen continuously was due to his strong insistence upon the principle that true liberty requires wise and secure authority. A portrait of him, ascribed to Vandyke, is in the senate chamber of Massachusetts. He was the author of Arbitrary Government Described; and History of New England from 1630 to 1649. He died March 26, 1649, in Boston, Mass.
Winthrop, John
educator, author, was born Dec. 19, 1714, in Boston, Mass.
He was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard university in 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of science in America in his century. He was the author of Lectures on Earthquakes; Account of Some Fiery Meteors; and Lectures on the Parallax. He died May 3, 1779, in Cambridge, Mass.
Winthrop, Laura
author, was born Sept. 13, 1825, in New Haven, Conn. She has published Little Blossom's Reward, a book for children, under the pen-name of Emily Hare; Poems of Twenty Years; and Longfellow Prose Birthday Book.
Winthrop, Robert Charles
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born May 12, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He entered the legislature of Massachusetts in 1835; and was speaker of the house from 1838 to 1840.
He was a member of the United States house of representatives from 1840 to 1842, and continued in that body until 1850; was speaker during the congress commencing in 1847. He was appointed to the senate of the United States to fill a vacancy, and served from 1850 to 1851. He was the author of Addresses and Speeches; a Life of Governor John Winthrop; and Memoirs of Henry Clay, Washington, Bowdoin, and Franklin. He died in 1894.
Winthrop, Theodore
soldier, author, was born Sept. 22, 1828, in New Haven, Conn. He was a brilliant young novelist who entered the federal army at the outbreak of the civil war and was killed at the battle of Big Bethel. He was the author of John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; Edwin Brothertoft; and The Canoe and the Saddle. He died June 10, 1861, near Great Bethel, Va.
Winthrop, Thomas Lindall
merchant, state senator, was born March 6, 1760, in New London, Conn. He was successively a state senator, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1826-32, and a presidential elector. He died Feb. 22, 1841, in Boston, Mass.
Winthrop, William Woolsey
soldier, author, was born Aug. 3, 1831, in New Haven, Conn. He was a United States army officer, professor of law at West Point; and the author of Treatise on Military Law; and Digest of Opinions of the Judge Advocate-General of the Army.
Wipperman, Herman C
lawyer, state legislator, was born July 28, 1853, in Mosel, Wis. He is a successful lawyer of Grand Rapids; in 1895 was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly; and received the re-election to a second term.
Wirt, William
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 8, 1772, in Bladensburg, Md.
In 1802 he was appointed chancellor of the eastern district of Virginia; and in 1803 settled in Norfolk, and wrote the British Spy In 1806 he settled in Richmond; in 1812 wrote The Old Bachelor, and in 1817 the Life of Patrick Henry. In 1816 he was appointed attorney of the United States for the district of Virginia; and in 1817 was appointed attorney-general of the United States, holding this office until 1829, after which he settled in Baltimore. He died Feb. 18, 1834, in Washington, D. C..
Wirt, William Edgar
surgeon, was born Dec. 19, 1862, in Mendota, Ill.
He received the rudiments of his education in the high school of Wadsworth, Ohio; attended the United States Naval academy of Annapolis, Md.; the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city; and the medical department of the university of Wooster. During 1880-86 he was a midshipman in the United States navy; and in 1889- 90 was house surgeon in the hospital for ruptured and crippled in New York city.
Since 1891 he has been professor of orthopedic surgery in the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons; and since 1894 has been orthopedic surgeon in the Cleveland general hospital.
Wise, Daniel
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 10, 1813, in England. He is a methodist clergyman and religious editor of Boston; and the author of Personal Effort; Heroic Methodists; Boy Travelers in Arabia; Some Remarkable Women; My Uncle Toby's Library; Uncrowned Kings; Summer Days on the Hudson; and Men of Renown.
Wise, George Douglas
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 4, 1831, in Accomac county, Va. He served in the confederate army as a captain during the war of the rebellion; and was commonwealth attorney of Richmond, Va., from 1870 to 1880. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth gresses; and was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. con-
Wise, Henry Alexander
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, author, was born Dec. 3, 1806, in Drummondtown, Va. He became a representative in congress, serving from 1833 to 1844, when he resigned his seat for the mission to Brazil, which post he occupied until the fall of 1847. In 1855 he was elected governor of Virginia, which office he held until 1860. He served in the great rebellion as a brigadier-general. He was the author of Seven Decades of the Union; and Memoir of John Tyler. He died Sept. 12, 1876, in Richmond, Va.
Wise, Henry Augustus
naval officer, author, was born May 12, 1819, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a United States naval officer; and the author of Story of the Gray African Parrot; Captain Brand; Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines; and Scampavias, from Gibel Tarak to Stamboul. He died April 2, 1869, in Naples, Italy.
Wise, Isaac Mayer
author, was born April 3, 1819, in Bohemia. He is Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati from 1854, president of Hebrew Union college; and the author of History of the Israelitish Nation; Essence of Judaism; Judaism: Its Doctrines and Duties; The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth; The Cosmic God; History of the Hebrew Second Commonwealth; and Pronaos to Holy Writ.
Wise, John
clergyman, author, was born in August, 1652, in Roxbury, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman of Ipswich from 1780 until his death. He was the author of The Church's Quarrel Espoused; and Vindication of the Government of New England Churches. He died April 8, 1725, in Ipswich, Maine. was a