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Whitford, William Clarke

educator, legislator, clergyman, college president, was born May 5, 1828, in Edmeston, N. Y. He received his education at the Brookville academy, De- Ruyter institute, the Union college of Schenectady, and the Theological seminary of New York city. He has been successfully engaged in educational work; has been president of Milton college for the past forty years; and served with distinction as a member of the Wisconsin state legislature. He has been president of the Wisconsin Teachers' association; and for four years was state superintendent of public instruction. For nine years he was regent of the state normal schools of Wisconsin; and for four years was editor of the Wisconsin Journal of Education. He has attained success as an eminent clergyman, and has been prominently identified with the seventh-day baptist church.

WHITING, CHARLES GOODRICH, journalist, author, was born in 1842 in St. Albans, Vt. He is a journalist of Springfield, Mass., on the editorial staff of The Republican; and the author of The Saunterer: Essays on Nature.