Woollen, William Wesley – Worcester, Thomas
Woollen, William Wesley
journalist, banker, author, was born June 21, 1828, in Dorchester county, Md. He has filled the office of auditor and treasurer of his county; and city comptroller, and manager of the Indianapolis Clearing House association. He is the author of Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana.
Woolley, Mrs. Celia Parker
lecturer, author, was born June 14, 1848, in Toledo, Ohio. She is the author of Love and Theology, which was changed in its fifth edition to the title of Rachel Armstrong. Her other works are A Girl Graduate; and Roger Hunt. She has lectured before women's clubs, and for a year was president of the Woman's Western Unitarian conference. For two years she served as president of the Chicago Woman's club.
Woolman, John
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1720, in Northampton, N. J. He was a Quaker itinerant preacher of New Jersey, in whose writings occurs the earliest protest in America against the slave trade. He is the author of Essays and Epistles; Serious Considerations; and On the Keeping of Negroes. His famous journal, by which he is most widely known, has been edited by the poet Whittier. He died Oct. 7, 1772, in England.
Woolsey, Abby Howland
philanthropist, author. She was a New York philanthropist; and the author of A Century of Nursing; Lunacy Legislation in England; Handbook for Hospital Visitors; and Hospital Laundries. She died in 1893.
Woolsey, Sarah Channing
author, poet, was born in 1836 in Ohio. She is a poet and popular writer for young people; and a resident of Newport, R. I.
She is the author of Old Convent School in Paris; The New Year's Bargain; What Katy Did; A Guernsey Lily; For Summer Afternoons; In the High Valley; A Short History of Philadelphia; The Barberry Bush, and Other Stories About Girls; Verses; and A Few More Verses.
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight
clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1801, in New York city. He was a congregational clergyman, and president of Yale university in 1846-71. He was the author of Political Science; Communism and Socialism; Introduction to the Study of International Law; Essay on Divorce and Divorce Legislation; Helpful Thoughts for Young Men; The Religion of the Present and the Future; and Eros, and Other Poems. He died July 1, 1889, in New Haven, Conn.
Woolson, Mrs. Abba Louisa
[GOOLD], lecturer, author, was born April 30, 1838, in Windham, Maine. She is a Boston lecturer on English literature; and the author of Woman in American Society; Dress Reform; Browsings Among Books; and George Eliot and Her Heroines.
Woolson, Constance Fenimore
author, was born in 1848 in Claremont, N. H. She was a novelist whose work was much above the average level of fiction, Horace Chase being her best novel. Her other works include Castle Nowhere; Lake Country Sketches; Two Women, a poem; Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches; Anne; For the Major; East Angels; Jupiter Lights; The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories; Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories; Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu; and The Old Stone House.
She died in 1894. 4 1
Woolworth, James M
lawyer, state legislator, author, was born in 1829 in Onondaga Valley, N. Y. After practicing law in Syracuse, he moved to Omaha in 1856; and was the first city attorney of Omaha. He served one session in the Nebraska legislature, and in 1871 was a member of the constitutional convention. In 1873 he was a democratic candidate for chief justice of the supreme court.
Among his publications are A Hand-Book of Nebraska Territory; two volumes of Nebraska State Reports; and one volume of United States Circuit Court Reports.
Woomer, Ephraim M
soldier, bank cashier, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1844, in Jonestown, Pa. He enlisted in company A, ninety-third regiment Pennsylvania volunteers in 1861. He is cashier of the People's bank of Lebanon; was a member of the councils of the borough of Lebanon from 1883 to 1885; and president of select councils of the city of Lebanon from 1885 to 1889. He was elected from Lebanon, Pa., to the fifty-third, and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Wooster, Charles Wing
naval officer, was born in 1785 in New Haven, Conn. He served in the war with England; and in 1829 was promoted rear-admiral. He died in 1848 in California.
Wooster, David
soldier, state legislator, was born March 2, 1710, in Stratford, Conn. He became a brigadier-general in 1775; was one of the originators of the expedition which captured Ticonderoga in 1775; and served as a member of the Connecticut assembly. He was a gallant soldier; and also contributed valuable articles to the literature of the day.
For many years he was major - general of the Connecticut militia. He was shot while annoying the enemy's rear-guard with two hundred men in protecting his state from the enemy. He filled many public offices of honor in the civil service prior to the revolutionary war. He was taken to Danbury, and died there May 2, 1777.
Wooster, David
physician, surgeon, author, was born June 10, 1825, in Jasper, N. Y. In 1858 he founded The Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal in San Francisco, Cal., which he edited four years. He has published a brochure on Diphtheria, the first publication in the United States on this disease; Diseases of the Heart; a pamphlet on Hip-Joint Disease; and a Genealogy of the Woosters in America.
Wootton, T. J
farmer, business man, jurist, was born Nov. 7, 1832, in Brazos county, Tex. He is a successful farmer of Kerr county, Tex., and for several years was engaged in mercantile business. He has been county judge of his county, and has filled numerous other public positions of trust.
Worcester, Alfred
physician, author, was born in 1855 in Massachusetts. He is a physician of Waltham, Mass.; and the author of Monthly Nursing; A New Way of Training Nurses; Training Schools for Nurses in Small Cities; and Small Hospitals.
Worcester, John
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 13, 1834, in Boston, Mass. He was pastor of the New Church society of Newtonville, Mass., in 1869, instructor of theology in the New Church Theological school, Boston, in 1878, and subsequently its president.
Worcester, Joseph Emerson
lexicographer, philologist, author, was born Aug. 24, 1784, in Bedford, N. H. He was a distinguished lexicographer and philologist of Cambridge; and the author of Geographical Dictionary; Gazetteer of the United States; Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants; Elements of History; Outlines of Scriptural Geography; and Comprehensive Primary Dictionary. His greatest work is his wellknown quarto Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1860. He died Oct. 27, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass.
Worcester, Noah
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1758, in Hollis, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor at Brighton, Mass., in 1813-37. He edited The Friend of Peace; and was the author of A Respectful Address to the Trinitarian Clergy; The Atoning Sacrifice a Display of Love, not Wrath; Last Thoughts on Important Subjects; and Causes and Evils of Contentions Among Christians. He died Oct. 31, 1837, in.
Brighton, Mass.
Worcester, Noah
physician, author, was born in 1812 in New Hampshire. He was a physician who was professor of pathology in Western Reserve college, Hudson, Ohio; and the author of Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Skin Diseases. He died April 4, 1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Worcester, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 1, 1770, in Hollis, N. H. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Salem, Mass., from 1803; and the author of Letters to Dr. Channing on the Unitarian Controversy; and Discourses on the Covenant with Abraham. He died June 7, 1821, in Brainard,. Tenn.
Worcester, Samuel Melanch- Thon
clergyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 4, 1801, in Fitchburg, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman, professor of rhetoric at Amherst college in 1825-34, and pastor at Salem, Mass., in 1834-60. He was the author of Essays on Slavery; and Life of Samuel Worcester.
He died Aug. 16, 1866, in Boston, Mass.
Worcester, Samuel T
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 30, 1804, in Hollis, N. H. In 1848 and 1849 he was elected to the state senate from Norwalk, Ohio. In 1859 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, which position he held until elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtyseventh congress.
Worcester, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 23, 1768, in Hollis, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman; and the author of Call for Scripture Evidence that Christ is God; The True God but One Person; and New Chain of Plain Argument. He died Dec. 24, 1831, in Salisbury.
Worcester, Thomas
clergyman, was born April 15, 1795, in Thornton, N.
H. He was the first clergyman of the Swedenborgian faith in Massachusetts, serving as pastor of the Boston society of the New Jerusalem church from 1821 till 1867. He published sermons, addresses, and magazine articles. He died Aug. 12, 1878; in Waltham, Mass.