Wise, John – Witherspoon, Theodore Dwight
Wise, John
aëronaut, author, was born Feb. 24, 1808, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a noted aëronaut; and the author of System of Aeronautics; and Through the Air, or Forty Years' Experience as an Aeronaut. He died Sept. 29, 1879, on Lake Michigan.
Wise, John Sergeant
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 25, 1846, in Brazil. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the fortyeighth congress. He now practices law in New York city; and is the author of Diomed, the Life, Travels and Observations of a Dog.
Wise, Morgan R
state legislator, congressman, was born June 7, 1830, in West Bethlehem, Pa. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania state legislature from 1874 to 1878; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Wisely, James L
educator, journalist, poet, was born June 9, 1824, in Aberdeen, Scotland. At the age of twenty he became associated with Isaac Pitman in disseminating the art of phonography.
In 1850 he emigrated to America, farmed in Wisconsin, and there taught school.
In 1878 he moved to Nebraska, and in 1884 became editor and owner of the Loup County Clarion; was elected county treasurer; has been justice of the peace for several terms; and in 1893 retired from active work and moved to Lincoln, Neb. He has contributea to various publications, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Wisman, James Martin
educator, college president, was born Feb. 20, 1855, in Williams county, Ohio. In 1893 he was elected president of Duquesne college, Pittsburg, Pa., which position he still holds.
Wisner, Benjamin Blydenburg
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 19, 1794, in Goshen, N. Y. In 1821-32 he was pastor of the Old South church of Boston, Mass. His publications include single sermons and memoirs; History of the Old South Church; and Moral Condition and Prospects of the Heathen. He died Feb. 9, 1835, in Boston, Mass.
Wisner, Henry
congressman, was born in 1725 in Goshen, N. Y. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776. He died in 1790 in Goshen, N. Y.
Wisner, Moses
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1818 in Aurelius, N. Y. In 1843 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for Lapeer county, Mich. In 1858 he was elected governor of the state. He died Jan. 5, 1863, in Lexington, Ky.
Wisner, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1782 in Warwick, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Rochester, N. Y.; and the author of Incidents in the Life of a Pastor; and Civil Liberty. He died Jan. 7, 1871, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Wisner, William Carpenter
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 7, 1808, in Elmira, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman at Lockport, N. Y., in 1837- 76; and the author of Prelacy and Parity.
He died July 14, 1880, in Lockport, N. Y.
Wisser, John Philip
soldier, journalist, was born July 19, 1852, in St. Louis, Mo. During 1874-80 he was second lieutenant of the first artillery, United States army; and since 1880 has been first lieutenant, with headquarters at Fort Monroe, Va. He is the editor of The Journal of the United States artillery; and the author of Chemical Manipulations; Modern Gun Cotton; Practical Instruction in Minor Tactics and Strategy; and Report on Military Schools of Europe.
Wistar, Caspar
physician, educator, author, was born Sept. 13, 1761, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1792 he became adjunct professor of anatomy in the university of Pennsylvania. The chair of anatomy he filled until his death, and his lectures and demonstrations did much to establish the high character and wide reputation of the school. From 1793 to 1810 he was physician to the Pennsylvania hospital, and his resignation of this post after long services caused great regret. He was the author of System of Anatomy for Use of Students in Medicine. He died Jan. 22, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wistar, Isaac Jones
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 14, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the national army in 1861 as a captain in a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and served in Maryland and Virginia, and was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers. After the war he resumed practice, and is now president of a canal company and several coal companies in Pennsylvania.
Wister, Mrs. Annis Lee Fur- Ness
author, translator, was born Oct. 9, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a noted and popular translator of many German novels.
Wister, Owen
lawyer, author, was born in 1860 in Pennsylvania. He is a lawyer and writer of Philadelphia; and the author of The New Swiss Family Robinson; The Dragon of Wantley, a romance; and Red Men and White, a collection of frontier stories. WISTER, MRS. SARAH [BUTLER], author, poet, was born in 1835 near Philadelphia, Pa. She is a Philadelphia writer who has published A Boat of Glass, a poem; and translations from Alfred de Musset.
Wiswall, Ichabod
clergyman, poet, was born in 1638 in England. From 1676 until his death he was pastor of the church in Duxbury, Mass. He published a poem on the comet of 1680. He died July 23, 1700, in Duxbury, Mass.
Witcher, John S
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 15, 1839, in Cabell county, Va. He entered the volunteer army in 1862 as a lieutenant, and rose by degrees to the rank of brigadier-general, serving to the end of the war. In 1865 he was elected to the West Virginia state legislature; and in 1866 was elected secretary of state.
In 1868 he was elected a representative from West Virginia to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Witham, Samuel Mosher
contractor, builder, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1843, in Old York, Maine. He is a successful contractor, builder and dealer in real estate in Haverhill, Mass., where he has filled numerous public positions of trust. Several of his poems have been set to music; and he is represented in Poets of America and other standard works.
Withee, Levi
lumber merchant, state senator, was born Oct. 26, 1834, in Norridgewock, Maine. He moved to Wisconsin in 1853; and is a successful lumber merchant in La Crosse. In 1892 he was elected a state senator in the Wisconsin assembly; and received the re-election to the same office in 1896.
Witherell, James
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born June 16, 1759, in Mansfield, Mass. He was a member of the state legislature; two years a county judge, and state councilor from 1803 to 1807. He was a representative in congress from Vermont during the years 1807 and 1808, and in the latter year was appointed federal judge in the territory of Michigan. He died Jan. 9, 1838, in Detroit, Mich.
Withers, Frederic Clarke
architect, author, was born Feb. 4, 1828, in England. He is an architect of New York city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity church in that city, and the author of Church Architecture.
Withers, Jones Mitchell
soldier, lawyer, journalist, legislator, was born Jan. 12, 1814, in Madison county, Wis.
He settled in Mobile as a lawyer and commission merchant in 1841. He was in the legislature in 1855; mayor of Mobile in 1856-61, and at the beginning of the civil war entered the confederate army as colonel of the third Alabama infantry. He became brigadier-general in 1861, and major-general early in 1862. After the war he returned to Mobile, and edited the Tribune in that city.
Withers, Robert Enoch
soldier, journalist, United States senator, governor, was born Sept. 18, 1821, in Campbell county, Va. He entered the service as major when Virginia passed the ordinance of secession, and was made colonel of the eighteenth Virginia regiment in 1861. In 1866 he moved to Lynchburg and edited the News until 1868. He was presidential elector for the state at large in 1873, and was elected lieutenant-governor in 1873, and United States senator for six years from March 4, 1875.
Withers, T. I
lawyer, jurist. He was reputed to be one of the ablest jurists in the south, and was for a long time judge of the supreme court of South Carolina. He died Dec. 8, 1865, in Sumterville, S. C.
Witherspoon, John
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Feb. 5, 1722, in Scotland. In 1766 he came to America, having been elected president of Princeton college. He was a member of the first constitutional convention of New Jersey in 1776; was a signer of the declaration of independence, and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1776 to 1782, and signed the articles of confederation. He served in the legislature, and at the same time frequently occupied the pulpit. He was the author of Ecclesiastical Characteristics; Thoughts on American Liberty; Sermons on Practical Subjects; Leading Truths of the Gospel; Letters on Marriage; and Sermons on Various Subjects. He died Nov. 15, 1794, in Princeton, N. J.
Witherspoon, Robert
congressman. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1809 to 1811.
Witherspoon, Theodore Dwight
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 17, 1836, in Greensborough, Ala. He was a presbyterian clergyman in Louisville from 1882, and the author of Children of the Covenant; and Letters on Romanism.