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Wikoff, Henry – Wilcox, John Shuler

Wikoff, Henry

author, was born in 1813 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a writer whose life after 1834 was passed mainly in Europe. He was commonly known as Chevalier Wikoff. He was the author of Reminiscences of an Idler; Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Life of Count d'Orsay; My Courtship and Its Consequences; Adventures of a Roving Diplomatist; A New Yorker in the Foreign Of-- fice; and The Four Civilizations. He died May 2, 1884, in England.

Wilber, David

agriculturist, lumber merchant, banker, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1820, in Schenectady county, N. Y.

He was, for several years, interested in the Second National bank at Cooperstown, and the bank at Oneonta. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-third congress; and was also elected to the forty-sixth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

Wilbour, Charles Edwin

author, was born March 17, 1833, in Little Compton, R. I. He was an Egyptologist who published a Life of Victor Hugo and a number of translations from the French.

He died in 1896.

Wilbur, Charles Toppan

physician, journalist, was born May 18, 1835, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1884 he opened a private asylum for the feeble-minded at Kalamazoo. In 1882 he founded the Philanthropic Index and Review, a monthly publication devoted to the interests of feeble-minded children, and the only periodical of the kind in existence.

Wilbur, Hervey

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1787 in Wendell, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman and educator of Massachusetts among whose writings are, Elements of Astronomy; and Lexicon of Useful Knowledge. He died Jan. 5, 1852, in Newburyport, Mass.

Wilbur, Hervey Backus

physician, philanthropist, was born Aug. 18, 1820, in Wendell, Mass. He was founder of the schools for idiots in the United States, the first fully organized one being at Syracuse, N. Y., 1854, of which he was appointed superintendent.

Wilbur, Isaac

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in Rhode Island. He was for many years chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and in 1806 was acting governor. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1807 to 1809.

Wilbur, Newell L

musician, composer, was born Aug. 2, 1851, in Providence, R. I. He has attained eminence as a successful church organist in Providence, R. I. As a teacher of music he stands at the head of his profession. .

Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus

soldier, author, was born May 29, 1826, in Wayne county, N. C. He was a United States army officer; and the author of Rifles and Rifle Practice; and History of the Mexican War. He died Dec. 2, 1890, in Washington, D. C.

Wilcox, Jeduthun

congressman, was born in 1769 in New Hampshire. He was a representative in congress from 1813 to 1817. He died in July, 1838, in Oxford, N. H.

Wilcox, John A

congressman, was born in North Carolina. He removed to Mississippi and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

Wilcox, John Shuler

soldier, lawyer, was born March 18, 1833, in Fultonville, N. Y. He served as a union soldier during the civil war and became colonel in the fifty-second regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. He is an able lawyer of Elgin, Ill., of which city he has been postmaster and mayor.