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Weaver, Jonathan – Webb, Willis S

Weaver, Jonathan

bishop, author, was born Feb. 23, 1824, in Carroll county, Ohio. He is a clergyman of Ohio, bishop of the church of the United Brethren; and the author of Discourses on the Resurrection; Ministerial Salary; Divine Providence; and Universal Restoration not Sustained by the Word of God.

Weaver, Rufus B

physician, educator, was born Jan. 10, 1841, in Gettysburg, Pa. He is lecturer on surgical anatomy, and demonstrator of anatomy in Hahnemann Medical college of Philadelphia.

Weaver, Walter L

lawyer, congressman, was born April 1, 1851, in Montgomery county, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Clarke county, Ohio, in 1874, and again elected to the same office in 1880, 1882, and 1885. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Weaver, Will J

journalist, poet, was born Dec. 24, 1856, in Mill Hall, Pa.

He was editor of The Normal Gazette; and the author of numerous poems.

Webb, Alexander Stewart

soldier, college president, author, was born Feb. 15, 1835, in New York city. He is president of the college of the city of New York from 1869, and during the civil war a general in the federal army. He is the author of The Peninsula; and Mc- Clellan's Campaign of 1862.

Webb, Henry Livingston

soldier, state legislator, was born Feb. 6, 1795, in Claverack, N. Y. He settled in southern Illinois in 1817, and was repeatedly a member of both houses of the legislature.

He was general of the Illinois militia.

He died Oct. 5, 1876, in Makanda, Ill.

Webb, John Russell

educator, author, was born Aug. 6, 1824, in Brown- Book; and Webb's Word Method, in which ville, N. Y. He published John's First he expounded his system of instruction; besides a series of readers embodying the method. He died Sept. 10, 1887, in Benton Harbor, Mich.

Webb, Lindley M

lawyer, legislator, was born March 7, 1849, in Windham, Maine. He has filled several important offices in the city government of Portland, Maine, and has served as a member of the Maine house of representatives.

Webb, Samuel Blatchley

patriot, soldier, was born Dec. 15, 1753, in Wethersfield, Conn. He held the Bible for Washington when he took his oath as first president of the United States.

He died Dec. 3, 1807, in Claverack, N. Y.

Webb, Thomas Smith

Masonic author, was born Oct. 30, 1771, in Boston, Mass. In 1797 as appears from the copyright he published The Freemason's Monitor, or Illustrations of Masonry, and thus secured for himself fame as a Masonic ritualist and author. He died July 8, 1819, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Webb, William Benning

soldier, lawyer, banker, cabinet officer, was born Sept. 17, 1825, in Washington, D. C. In 1861 he joined a company of volunteers, and was elected captain. In 1861, upon the formation of the metropolitan police force in Washington, he was elected superintendent of the force. In 1885 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the District of Columbia; and in 1886 was elected president of the board of commissioners.

Webb, Willis S

banker, was born Nov. 10, 1819, in Clarke county, Ind. In 1863 he was elected president of the First National bank of Franklin, Ind., being the principal stockholder, and served as such for six years.