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Wells, Robert W

lawyer, jurist.

He was for nearly thirty years on the United States bench of Missouri; and his decisions were always respected by the supreme court of the United States. He died Sept. 22, 1864, in Bowling Green, Ky.

Wells, Samuel

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 15, 1801, in Durham, N. H. He was for some years judge of the superior court of Maine; and was governor of the state in 1856 and 1857. He died July 15, 1868, in Boston, Mass..

Wells, Samuel Roberts

phrenologist, author, was born April 4, 1820, in West Hartford, Conn. He was a phrenologist of New York city, long a member of the publishing house of Fowler and Wells; and the author of The New Physiognomy; and Wedlock, or the Right Relations of the Sexes. He died April 13, 1875, in New York city.

Wells, Walter

educator, author, was born November, 1830, in Salisbury, N. H. In 1867 he was appointed to the hydrographic survey of Maine, and he published in connection with that work The Water-Power of Maine. He died April 21, 1881, in Portland, Maine. was

Wells, William

soldier, was born Dec. 14, 1837, in Waterbury, Vt. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, in 1865, received his full commission in May and was subsequently brevetted major-general. He died April 29, 1892, in New York city.

Wells, William Vincent

author, was born Jan. 2, 1826, in Boston, Mass.

He is the author of Explorations in Honduras; Walker's Expedition to Nicaragua; and Life of Samuel Adams.

Wellstood, James

engraver, was born Nov. 20, 1855, in Jersey City, N. J.

At the time of his death he was a member of the firm of William Wellstood and Company, and was a successful and promising engraver. His principal plates were The Pointer; and Safe in Port, after Thomas Moran. He died March 14, 1880, in Jersey City, N. J.

Wellstood, John Geikie

engraver, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in Scotland.

In 1871 he founded in Washington, D. C., the Columbian Bank-Note company. While he was president of this company he modeled and partially engraved the backs of all the United States treasury-notes.

He died Jan. 21, 1893, in Greenwich, Conn.

Wellstood, William

engraver, was born Dec. 19, 1819, in Scotland. He has been employed by the Western Methodist Book concern in 1846-74, and by various firms in New York. Among his plates, executed in the line manner, are portraits of Florence Nightingale, Ulysses S. Grant, and Henry W. Longfellow, the latter after Alonzo Chappel, and the landscape, Coast of Mount Desert.

Welman, Charles William

educator, journalist, was born Sept. 18, 1858, in Crawford county, Ind. Since 1888 he has been the editor and owner of The Times of Sullivan, Ind. He is president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial association, and has been county superintendent of schools since 1891.

Wels, Charles

musician, composer, was born Aug. 24, 1825, in Bohemia. He has been very successful in the composition of church music.

Welsh, Alfred Hix

educator, author, was born Sept. 7, 1850, in Fostoria, Ohio. He was a professor of English in Ohio State university from 1885, and the author of Development of English Literature and Language; English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; The Conflict of Ages; Man and His Relations; and Plane Trigonometry. He died in 1889.