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Whiting, Samuel – Whitney, Asa

Whiting, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 20, 1597, in England. He was a puritan clergyman, pastor at Lynn, Mass., in 1636-79; and the author of Oratio quam Comitijs Cantab. Americanis, etc.; The Last Judgment; and Abraham Interceding for Sodom. He died Dec. 11, 1679, in Lynn, Mass.

Whiting, William

lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 3, 1813, in Concord, Mass. He was a Boston jurist whose chief work, The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress, has been widely read. He died June 29, 1873, in Boston, Mass.

Whiting, William

manufacturer, banker, state senator, congressman, was born May 24, 1841, in Dudley, Mass. In 1865 he organized the Whiting Paper company; and became president of the Holyoke National bank in 1872. He was a state senator in 1873; was city treasurer of Holyoke in 1876 and 1877; and mayor in 1877 and 1878. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

Whiting, William B

naval officer, was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Troy, N. Y.

In recognition of his scientific attainments, he was promoted to commander and captain in 1867, and to commodore in 1871. He died Dec. 16, 1883, in Milwaukee, Wis.

WHITING, WILLIAM HENRY CHASE, soldier, was born in 1825, in Mississippi.

In 1845 he graduated from West Point; entered the confederate service, and was made a major-general in 1863. He died March 10, 1865, on Governor's Island, N. Y.

Whitley, Vinson M

lawyer, stockman, legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1855, in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. He served as a representative in the Tennessee leg-- islature.

Whitman, Bernard

clergyman, author, was born June 8, 1796, in East Bridgewater, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor at Waltham, Mass., in 1826-34; and the author of On Denying the Lord Jesus; Letters on Religious Liberty; Village Sermons; and Friendly Letters to a Universalist. He died Nov. 5, 1834, in Waltham, Mass.

Whitman, Charles Otis

naturalist, author, was born in 1842 in Maine.

He is a naturalist of note and head professor of zoölogy in the university of Chicago from 1892. He established The Journal of Morphology in 1887; and is the author of Methods of Research in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology.

Whitman, Jason

clergyman, author, was born April 30, 1799, in Bridgewater, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Portland, Maine; and author of Memoir of B. Whitman; Young Man's Assistant; Young Lady's Aid to Usefulness; Week Day Religion; and Discussions on the Lord's Prayer. He died Jan. 25, 1848, in Lexington, Mass.

Whitman, Lemuel

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1823 to 1824. He died Nov. 18, 1841, in Farmington, Conn.

Whitmore, George W

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1824, in McMinn county, Tenn.

He was a member of the Texas state house of representatives in 1852, 1853 and 1858. In 1866 he was appointed attorney of the ninth district; was appointed register in bankruptcy in 1867; and was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-first congress as a republican.

Whitney, Anne

sculptor, poet, was born Sept. 2, 1821, in Watertown, Mass.

She is a sculptor and poet of Boston.

Her only volume of Poems appeared in 1859. Bertha is her best known poem.

Whitney, Asa

merchant, author, was born in 1797. He was in mercantile business in New York city. He was the author of A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific; and A Plan for a Direct Communication Between the Great Centers of Populations of Europe and Asia. He died in August, 1872, in Washington, D. C.