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Wetmore, George Peabody

lawyer, United States senator, governor, was born Aug. 2, 1846, in London, England.

He was admitted to the bar of Rhode Island and of New York in 1869; is a trustee of the Peabody Museum of Natural History in Yale university; is a trustee of the Peabody education fund, president of the Newport hospital, and a director of other associations. He was first presidential elector of Rhode Island in 1880 and in 1884; was a member of the state committee to receive the representatives of France on the occasion of their visit to Rhode Island in 1881, and as a member of the commission to build a new statehouse. He was governor of Rhode Island in 1885-86, and 1886-87. He was elected to the senate in 1894.

WETMORE, PROSPER MONTGOM- ERY, author, poet, was born Feb. 14, 1798, in Stratford, Conn. He was a once prominent citizen of New York city, and the author of Lexington, and Other Fugitive Poems; and Observations on the War with Mexico. He died March 16, 1876, in Stratford, Conn.