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Wheelock, Joseph A – Whitaker, Herschel

Wheelock, Joseph A

journalist, was born Feb. 8, 1831, in Nova Scotia.

In 1860 and 1861 he was commissioner of statistics of Minnesota. In the latter year, with others, he founded the St.

Paul Press, and in 1862 became its editor. Since that time he has been editor of the St. Paul Press and the Pioneer Press in 1871-75.

Whelan, James

bishop, author, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in Ireland. He was a Roman catholic bishop of Nashville, and the author of Catena Aurena, or Papal Infallibility no Novelty. He died Feb. 18, 1878, in Zanesville, Ohio.

Whelpley, Samuel

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1766, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman and educator of New Jersey. He was the author of Letters on Capital Punishment; a once popular Compend of History; and The Triangle, a theological discussion. He died July 14, 1817, in New York city.

Whipple, Abraham

naval officer, was born Sept. 16, 1733, in Providence, R.

I. In 1775 Rhode Island fitted out two armed vessels, and he was put in command and made commodore; and he fired the first guň of the revolution on the water.

In 1779 he captured eight prizes, valued at one million dollars. He died May 2, 1819, in Marietta, Ohio.

Whipple, John Adams

inventor, was born Sept. 10, 1822, in Grafton, Mass.

He prepared his plates and brought out his pictures by steam, invented crayon daguerreotypes, and crystalotypes, or daguerreotypes on glass, and, with the aid of the fifteen-inch equatorial telescope of the Harvard college observatory, undér the direction of Prof. William C. Bond, took a daguerreotype of the moon's surface, for which he was complimented by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of London, and in 1850 photographed Alpha Lyra.

Whipple, Squire

civil engineer, author, was born Sept. 16, 1804, in Worcester county, Mass. He was a civil engineer of note, and the author of The Way to Happiness; Treatise on Bridge Building; and The Doctrine of Central Forces. He died March 15, 1888, in Albany, N. Y.

Whipple, Thomas

physician, congressman. man. He served the state of New Hampshire as a representative in congress from 1821 to 1829. He died Jan. 23, 1835, in Wentworth, N. H.

Whitaker, Alexander

clergyman, author, was born in 1585 in England.

He was an episcopal clergyman who came to Virginia in 1611. He baptized Pocahontas, and officiated at her wedding. He was the author of Good Newes from Virginia, one of the very first books written in the colony. See Tyler's American Literature. He died about 1613 in Henrico county, Va.

Whitaker, Daniel Kimball

lawyer, journalist, was born April 13, 1801, in Sharon, Conn. He removed to New Orleans in 1866, where he founded and edited for many years the New Orleans Monthly Review. He was corresponding secretary of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences. He died April 10, 1881, in New Orleans, La.

Whitaker, Epher

clergyman, author, was born March 27, 1820, in Fairheld, N. J. He is a presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Southold, Long Island, from 1851; and the author of The War of Death; New Fruits from an Old Field; Ready for Duty; Collection of Original Hymns; History of Southold, 1640-1740; and Old Town Records.

Whitaker, Herschel

public official, was born July 25, 1847, in Turin, N. Y. For many years he has been a stenographer in the United States circuit and district courts, eastern district of Michigan. He has been United States commissioner; United States examiner; member of the board of education; and Detroit secretary of the Michigan fish commission. For eight years he was president of the Michigan Fish commission; and has been twice president of the American Fisheries society.