Withey, Solomon L – Wolf, William P
Withey, Solomon L
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born April 21, 1820, in St. Albans, Vt. In 1848 he was elected judge of probate in Grand Rapids, Mich., and in 1860 was elected to the state senate. He was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Michigan in 1869. He was president of the First National bank of Grand Rapids.
He died April 25, 1886, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Withington, Leonard
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 9, 1789, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Mass., in 1816-85, and the author of The Puritan, a series of Essays; Penitential Tears; and Solomon's Song Translated and Explained.
He died April 22, 1885, in Newbury, Mass.
Witt, Samuel B
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 6, 1850, in Prince Edward county, Va. In 1879-80 he was a member of the Virginia state legislature, and was prosecuting attorney of Richmond, Va., for five terms. He was then elected judge of the Hustings court, to which he was re-elected in 1896 for a second term of six years.
Witte, William H
congressman, was born in New Jersey. Having settled in Pennsylvania he was elected a representative in congress from 1853 to 1855.
Wixon, Isaac
surgeon, state senator, was born March 7, 1803, in Hector, N. Y.
He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature, and a member of the Michigan senate. In 1870 he moved to Fentonville, Mich., where he took up the practice of his profession.
Wixon, Susan Helen
author, poet, was born in 1849, in Dennisport, Mass.
She is a popular lecturer on moral reform and educational topics in Fall River, Mass.; and is president of the Humboldt Scientific society. She is the author of All in a Lifetime; Apples of Gold; The Story Hour; Summer Days at Onset; and a volume of poems.
Woerner, J. Gabriel
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born April 28, 1826, in Germany. He served two terms in the Missouri senate; in 1864 was mayor of St. Louis, and in 1870 was elected judge of the probate court of St. Louis county.
Wofford, John W
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 14, 1837, in Georgia.
He served in the house and senate of Georgia; and was in the confederate service from the beginning to the end of the war. In 1892 he was appointed judge of the Jackson county criminal court at Kansas City, Mo.; and was elected to continue in that position.
Wogan, Henry F
soldier, educator, lawyer, clergyman, was born Nov. 2, 1839, near Rio Grande College, Ohio. He received his education at the A. M. L. university, Pomeroy academy, and the National Normal university, all in Ohio.
He also attended the Hillsdale college.
Michigan, and the Illinois Wesleyan university. During the war he enlisted as a line and recruiting officer in the union army, and out of the company of eighty-four only six survived the siege and fall of Richmond and the confederacy. In 1858 he was ordained a clergy- He was originally admitted to the bar in 1864 in Ohio, and in North Dakota man. in 1883; and in 1890 to the district and supreme courts. He has received the degrees of Ph. D., LL. D., M. D. and D. D. He has attained success also in educational work, and was a candidate for state superintendent of public instruction for North Dakota, in which state he resides at Bismarck.
Wolcott, Anson
farmer, merchant, lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 21, 1819, in Western, N. Y. In 1864 he moved to Indiana; two years later was elected a member of the senate of that state, and during three sessions of the legislature he held the position of chairman of the senate finance committee. In 1876 he was nominated by the greenback party for the office of governor. He filled numerous public offices of trust in his native state prior to his settlement in Indiana, and was attorney and counselor at law of the supreme court for the state of New York, and later of the United States supreme court. He is the author of a number of papers on the subject of finance, which have been published as memorials, by order of the United States senate. He has been a successful farmer and grain dealer of Wolcott, Ind., and is a direct descendant of Henry Wolcott, who came from Somersetshire, England, in 1630.
Wolcott, Edward Oliver
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born March 26, 1848, in Long Meadow, Mass. He served for a few months as private in the one hundred and fiftieth regiment of Ohio volunteers in 1864. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican from Denver, Col., and took his seat March 4, 1889. He was reelected in 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Wolcott, Henry Roger
financier, state senator, was born March 15, 1846, in Long Meadow, Mass. He is now treasurer of the Colorado Mining and Smelting company, a director of the Equitable Life Assurance society of New York. He was a member of the state senate of Colorado in 1878-82, and president pro tem. during his last term.
Wolcott, John Truman
musician, composer, was born May 5, 1869, in Detroit, Mich. He has composed a great many songs, which have become popular, and is the author of the oratorio Hezekiah and St. John. He has conducted several of the heavy cantatas, such as Belshazzar, and gave a grand production of Elijah in 1894. He has been organist in several churches of Detroit; gave a series of successful organ recitals in the states and Canada, and is the present organist and director of the choir of the Lincoln Avenue Methodist church.
Wolcott, Oliver
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Nov. 26, 1726, in Windsor, Conn. He was one of the signers of the declaration of independence and of the articles of confederation; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1775 to 1778, and from 1780 to 1784. As a military man he rose to the grade of major-general, and was present at the capture of Burgoyne.
In 1786 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Connecticut, holding the office ten years. He was governor of Connecticut from 1796 until his death. He died Dec. 1, 1797, in Litchfield, Conn.
Wolcott, Roger
colonial governor, poet, was born Jan. 4, 1679, in Windsor, Conn. He was a colonial governor of Connecticut in 1750-54, and the author of Poetical Meditations. He died May 17, 1767, in East Windsor, Conn.
Wolcott, Roger
lawyer, statesman, was born July 13, 1847, in Boston, Mass.
He served in the common council of Boston in 1877-79; in the state house of representatives in 1882-84; and in 1892 and again in 1893, was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts.
Wolcott, Samuel
clergyman, missionary, poet, was born July 2, 1813, in Windsor, Conn. He was missionary in Syria for three years. He was the author of a genealogy of the Wolcott Family, and wrote numerous hymns. He died in February, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Woldinger, Joseph
manufacturer, state legislator, was born Jan. 7, 1827, in Wilson, Wis. He is president of the Sprangers Clothing company of South Kaukauna, Wis., and president of the Dundas Butter and Cheese company. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly, and was reelected in 1896.
Wolf, Edmund Jacob
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania. He is a lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological seminary at Gettysburg from 1874, and the author of History of the Lutherans in America.
Wolf, George
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 12, 1777, in Northampton county, Pa. After pursuing a course of classical education in his own county, he studied law, became eminent and engaged in a lucrative practice. In 1818 he was elected a member of the legislature of his native state, and was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1824 to 1829. He was governor of that state from 1829 to 1835. In 1836 he was appointed first comptroller of the United States treasury; was subsequently appointed collector of customs at Philadelphia. He died March 17, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wolf, Simon
lawyer, lecturer, was born Oct. 28, 1836, in Bavaria. In 1862 he went to Washington, and in 1869 he was appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, holding that office until 1878. In 1881 he received the post of consul-general in Egypt, which he resigned in 1882.
Wolf, Theodore Frelinghuy- Sen
physician, author, was born in 1843 in New Jersey. He is a physician and littérateur of Ledgewood, N. J., and the author of A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors; and Literary Shrines: the Haunts of Some Famous American Authors-two widely popular books.
Wolf, William P
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1833, in Stark county, Ohio. He was superintendent of common schools in Iowa. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1863 and 1864. He was re-elected to the state house of representatives; was assistant assessor of internal revenue in 1865, and was elected to the state senate in 1867.
He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy.