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Westcott, George – Weston, Thomas R

Westcott, George

lawyer, journalist, was born March 26, 1843, in Clyde, N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The Times of Ely, Minn. He has served as a county judge in South Dakota.

Westcott, George P

railroad president, was born Dec. 25, 1842, in Blue Hill, Maine. Since 1882 he has been president of the Portland and Rochester railroad at Portland, Maine.

Westcott, James Diament

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 18, 1839, in Tallahassee, Fla. He entered the confederate service at the beginning of the war, and attained the rank of major.

In 1885 he became attorney-general of Florida, but resigned this post a year later, and was appointed a justice of the supreme court.

Westcott, Thompson

journalist, author, was born June 5, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia journalist, editor of The Sunday Dispatch in 1848-84, and the author of Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steamboat; The Taxpayer's Guide; Official Guide to Philadelphia; and Historic Mansions of Philadelphia. He died May 8, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Westerlo, Eilardus

clergyman, author, was born in October, 1738, in Holland. He delivered the address of welcome to General Washington when he visited Albany in 1782. He left in manuscript an autobiography containing references to the years between 1761 and 1790, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, complete, and a translation from the Dutch of Alberthonias's Catechism. He died Dec. 20, 1790, in Albany, N. Y.

Westerlo, Rensselaer

congressman, was born in 1775 in Albany, N. Y.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819. He died in 1851 in Albany, N. Y.

Westlake, William

inventor, was born July 23, 1831. He invented the first loose globe car lamp; and the revolving headlight for locomotives. He has large establishment in New York city, which is known as the Adams and Westlake company. a

Westmoreland, J. F

journalist, legislator, was born April 27, 1847, in Stokes county, N. C. He is the editor and owner of the Davidson County News of Thomasville, N. C., and has represented his district as state senator in the North Carolina legislature.

Weston, Edward

electrician, inventor, was born May 9, 1850, in England. In 1887 he built in Newark one of the largest private laboratories in the world, and he also possesses a fine technical library that contains many rare books on electricity. One of his most valuable inventions is that of tamidine, a modification of cellulose, which is extensively used in incandescent lamps.

Weston, Henry Griggs

clergyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1820, in Lynn, Mass. In 1868 he accepted the presidency of the Crozer Theological seminary, Pennsylvania. He was for a time editor of the Baptist Quarterly, and has also been president of the American Baptist Missionary union. He has contributed to periodicals, and is the author of a treatise on the Four Gospels.

Weston, James A

governor. He was governor of Nevada in the years 1871 and 1872.

Weston, Thomas R

lawyer, author, was born June 14, 1834, in Middleboro, Mass. He is the author of A Sketch of Peter Oliver, the last Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in Massachusetts Bay Colony; and a Genealogy of the Descendants of Demon Weston.