Wells, Ben H
lawyer, state senator, was born Sept. 21, 1860, in Hines county, Miss. He is a successful lawyer of Jackson, Miss.; was a member of the Mississippi house of representatives in 1886; and was elected to the state senate in 1896.
WELLS, MRS. CATHERINE BOOTT [GANNETT], essayist, author, was born in 1838 in England. She is a Boston essayist and novelist who has contributed largely to periodicals; and is the author of In the Clearings; Miss Curtis; Two Modern Women; About People, a collection of essays; and several Sunday-school manuals of ethics and normal methods.