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Welcher, Adair – Wells, Clarence W

Welcher, Adair

author, poet. He is a writer of Berkeley, Cal.; and the author of a work entitled Romer, King of Norway.

WELD, MRS. ANGELINA EMILY [GRIMKE], author, was born Feb. 20, 1805, in Charleston, S. C. She was the author of Letters to Catharine Beecher, a review of the slavery question; Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; and Sacred Palmlands. She died in 1879.

Weld, Horatio Hastings

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1811, in Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of Riverton, N. J.; and the author of Corrected Proofs; Life of Christ; and Women of the Scriptures. He died Aug. 27, 1888, in Riverton, N. J.

Weld, Theodore Dwight

abolitionist, reformer, author, was born Nov. 23, 1803, in Hampton, Conn. He was a reformer of Boston, long prominent as an abolitionist; and the author of The Bible Against Slavery; American Slavery As It Is; and Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States. He died in

Wellborn, Olin

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 13, 1843, in Cumming, Ga. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. He moved to Dallas, Tex.; and was elected a representative from Texas to the fortysixth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and fortyninth congresses as a democrat.

Weller, George

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 15, 1790, in Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman once prominent in Tennessee and Mississippi; and was the author of Vindication of the Church; and The Weller Tracts.

He died Nov. 9, 1841, in Raymond, Miss.

Weller, John B

congressman, United States senator, governor, was born in 1812 in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1845; and was the first United States commissioner to Mexico. Having taken up his residence in California he was in 1851 elected to the United States senate for six years. He was subsequently elected governor of California; and in 1860 was appointed United States minister to Mexico. He died Aug. 7, 1875, in New Orleans, La.

Weller, Luman H

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1833, in Litchfield county, Conn. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the fortyeighth congress.

Weller, Walter Scott

journalist, musician, composer, was born Dec. 1, 1857, in LaPorte, Ind. He is a noted musician and composer; and the author of Evening Echoes; Idylle; and Among the Daisies. He has edited numerous publications, and is now the editor and proprietor of The New Church Independent of Chicago, Ill.

Welles, Charles Stuart

physician, author, poet, was born about 1860.

He has published Boheme; Lilian; and The New Marriage and Other Uniform Laws.

Welles, Thomas

governor, was born in 1598 in England. In 1655 he was elected governor of Connecticut, but after two years he returned to the office of deputy governor. He was chosen governor for a second time in 1658, and in 1659 again held the office of deputy governor.

He died Jan. 14, 1660, in Wethersfield, Conn.

Wells, Alfred

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 27, 1814, in Dagsborough, Del. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress; and also held the positions of deputy clerk, district attorney, and judge of Tompkins county. He died in 1857.

Wells, Clarence W

lawyer, was born June 22, 1864, in Daviess county, Ky. In 1887 he graduated from the Georgetown college with the degree of A. B.; and studied law in the law department of the university of Michigan. He is a prominent lawyer of Owensboro, Ky.; where he has filled several public positions of trust.