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WHITTLE, FRANCIS McNEECE

bishop of Virginia, was born July 7, 1823, in Mecklenburg county, Va. In 1876, he succeeded to the bishopric of Virginia. In 1877 the diocese of Virginia was divided, West Virginia becoming a separate diocese, and Bishop Whittle chose the remaining portion of the old diocese. WHITTLESEY, ABIGAIL GOODRICH, educator, journalist, was born Nov. 29, 1788, in Ridgefield, Conn. She began in 1832, while in Utica, the publication of the Mother's Magazine, which she edited till about 1850, and subsequently revived under the title of The Magazine for Mothers and Daughters.