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Wheeler, Benjamin Ide

educator, philologist, author, was born July 15, 1854, in Randolph, Mass. He was instructor in Brown university and in Harvard; and professor of comparative philology and Greek in Cornell college. He is the author of The Greek Noun Accents; Analogy, and the Scope of Its Application in Language; Introduction to the Study of History and Language; and other works.

WHEELER, CHARLES GARDINER, author, was born in 1855 in Peabody, Mass. He is a writer formerly of Winchendon, Mass., and later of Topsham, Maine. He is the author of Who Wrote It? a literary index, and Familiar Allusions, both begun by his uncle, and completed by him. The Course of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World.

WHEELER, CHARLES KENNEDY, lawyer, congressman, was born April 18, 1863, in Christian county, Ky. Since 1880 he has been engaged in the active practice of law in Paducah, Ky., and has been corporation counsel for the city for the years 1894 and 1895. He was democratic elector for the first congressional district of Kentucky in 1892, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.