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Whiton, Mary Bartlett

educator, author, was born Aug. 17, 1857, in New Haven, Conn. She was the author with her father of Six Months' Preparation for Reading Xenophon.

WHITSETT, WILLIAM THORNTON, educator, poet, was born Aug. 5, 1866, in Guilford county, N. C. His preparatory education was received in public schools and under private tutors. Began teaching at the age of seventeen, and taught for two years in the public schools of Guilford and Alamance. In 1885 was assistant in Oakdale Alamance academy, county.

He entered the university of North Carolina in 1886, where he spent two years as a student. In 1888 he was elected superintendent of Fair View institute, which position he still holds. He is a frequent contributor to periodicals of prose and verse, and a diligent student of educational problems.