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Welsh, Herbert – Wentworth, John
Welsh, Herbert
philanthropist, author, was born in 1851 in Pennsylvania.
He is a philanthropist of Philadelphia, prominent as a champion of the rights of the Indians, and the author of Civilization Among the Sioux Indians; Four Weeks Among Some of the Sioux Tribes; and A Visit to the Navajo, Pueblo, and Hualpais Indians.
Welsh, Thomas
soldier, was born May 5, 1824, in Columbia, Pa. He commanded a brigade at South Mountain and Antietam, as also at Fredericksburg, where he won promotion by his services on the right center, being commissioned as brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863.
He died Aug. 14, 1863, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Welsh, William
philanthropist, journalist, author, was born about 1810 in Philadelphia. For several years he was proprietor of the North American and the Philadelphia Gazette, which he had purchased in order to elevate the morals of the daily press. He published, besides various papers, Lay Co-operation in St.
Mark's Church; and Letters on the Home Missionary Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He died Feb. 11, 1878, in Philadelphia.
Wemple, Edward
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1843, in Fultonville, N. Y. He was a representative in the New York state legislature in 1877 and 1878. He became president of the Fultonville and Fonda Street Railroad company, and a director in the Fultonville National bank. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Wemyss, Francis Courtney
was born May 13, 1797, in England. He was a theatrical manager of New York city, and the author of Chronology of the American Stage in 1752-1852. He died Jan. 5, 1859, in New York city.
Wendell, Barrett
educator, author, was born in 1855 in New York. He is an assistant professor of English at Harvard university, and the author of The Duchess Emilia, a romance; Rankell's Remains, a novel; Life of Cotton Mather; English Composition; Stelligeri, and Other Essays; William Shakspere, a Study in Elizabethan Literature; and Ralegh in Guiana, a play.
Wendell, John Lansing
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 2, 1785, in Albany, N. Y. For many years he was reporter of the New York supreme court. He published Law Reports of New York During 1828-41, in twenty-six volumes; and Digest of the Supreme Court Reports During 1828-35. He died Dec. 13, 1861, in Hartford, Conn.
Wendover, Peter H
state legislator, congressman. He was a member of the state assembly from the city of New York in 1804; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1815 to 1821.
Wentworth, John
lawyer, jurist, lieutenant-governor, was born Jan. 16, 1671, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1711 he was councilor of New Hampshire; justice of the court of common pleas in 1713, and lieutenant-governor during 1717-30.
He died Dec. 12, 1730, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Wentworth, John
governor, was born Aug. 9, 1737, in Portsmouth, N. H.
He was the last royal governor of New Hampshire. He died April 8, 1820, in Nova Scotia.
Wentworth, John
lawyer, author, was born in 1768 in Portsmouth, N. H.
He was appointed attorney-general of Prince Edward island, and removed to Portsmouth, where he married Martha Wentworth. In 1816 he returned to Europe. He was the author of a System of Pleading, in ten volumes. He died in 1816 in France.
Wentworth, John
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born March 5, 1815, in Sandwich, N. H. He was among the first who took an interest in securing a city charter for Chicago. He was a representative from Illinois to the twentyeighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty-second congresses; and was subsequently elected for the sixth term to the thirty-ninth congress. He died Oct. 16, 1888, in Chicago, Ill.