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Whiteley, John – Whiting, Richard H

Whiteley, John

was born April 5, 1819, in England. He emigrated to the United States in 1842; moved to St.

Charles, Ill., the following year; and subsequently settled in Shirley, Mass., where for many years he has been a successful manufacturer. He has been elder and trustee of Shirley and Harvard, Mass.; and is now elder and trustee of the United society.

Whiteley, Richard Henry

soldier, manufacturer, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 22, 1830, in Ireland. He was appointed solicitor-general of the southwestern circuit of Georgia in 1868. In 1870 he was elected United States senator for the term ending in 1871. He was elected to the forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third congresses.

Whiteley, William G

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1819 in Newark, N. J. He was elected from Delaware a member of the thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected to the thirtysixth congress. In 1872 he was appointed prothonotary of the supreme court of New Castle county; and in 1875 was elected mayor of Wilmington, Del. In 1884 he was appointed judge of the circuit court.

He died April 23, 1886.

Whiteside, Jenkins

United States senator, was born in 1782, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a senator in congress from Tennessee, from 1809 to 1811. He died Sept. 25, 1822, in Nashville, Tenn.

Whiteside, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, from 1815 to 1819.

Whitfield, Robert Parr

paleontologist, author, was born May 27, 1828, in New Hartford, N. Y. In 1877 he was appointed curator of the geological department of the American museum of Natural History in New York city. He is the author of thirty memoirs, which have appeared in the Bulletins of the American museum of Natural History.

Whiting, Harvey A

railroad president, was born Oct. 27, 1833, in Pittsburg, Mass. Since 1884 he has been president of the Monson railroad at Wilton, N. Η.

Whiting, Henry

soldier, author, was born about 1790 in Lancaster, Mass.

He was a United States army officer; and the author of Otway, the Son of the Forest, a Poem; Sanilæ, a Poem; The Age of Steam; and Life of Zebulon Pike, in Sparks's American Biography. He died Sept. 16, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo.

Whiting, Justin Rice

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1847, in Bath, N. Y. He is a merchant and manufacturer; and was elected mayor of St. Clair in 1879. He was elected state senator in 1882; and was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, and fiftythird congresses as a democrat.

Whiting, Lilian

journalist, author, was born about 1850 in New York. She is a Boston journalist; and the author of From Dreamland Sent, a volume of verse; The World Beautiful, two collections of essays; and After Her Death: The Story of a Summer.

Whiting, Martha

one of the pioneers of female education in America, was born Feb. 27, 1795, in Hingham, Mass.

She founded the Charleston Female seminary, where some of the noted women of America have been finely educated, prominent among whom are Mary A. Livermore and Abbie R. Knight. She died Aug. 22, 1853, in Hingham, Mass.

Whiting, Richard H

soldier, merchant, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1826, in Hartford, Conn. He engaged in business as a merchant in Illinois; served as paymaster in the federal army during the civil war; and in 1870 was appointed assessor. He was collector of the fifth collection district of Illinois, which position he held until elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.