Whittet, Robert
publisher, poet, was born in 1829 in Scotland. He was a printer and publisher in Richmond, Va.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled The Brighter Side of Suffering. WHITTHORNE, WASHINGTON CUR- RAN, soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born April 19, 1825, in Marshall county, Tenn. He was a member of the Tennessee state senate for four years; and in 1859 was elected to the lower house of the legislature of Tennessee, and made presiding officer. He was assistant adjutant-general in the provisional army of Tennessee in 1861; and was afterward adjutant-general of the state, which position he held until the close of the war. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the fortysecond, forty-third, and forty-fourth congresses; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses. In 1886 he was appointed a United States senator, serving until March 3, 1887. He died Sept. 21, 1891, in Columbia, Tenn.
WHITTIER, ELIZABETH HUSSEY, poet, was born Dec. 7, 1815, in Haverhill, Mass. She was the author of poems marked by tenderness, grace, and rhythmic felicity. Several of them were included by her brother in his volume entitled Hazel Blossoms. She died Sept. 3, 1864, in Amesbury.