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Wilcox, Leonard

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1799, in Hanover, N. H. He was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature; was a judge of the superior court; and was a senator in congress from New Hampshire during the years 1842 and 1843. He died June 18, 1850, in Oxford, N. H. +

Wilcox, Marrion

author, was born in 1858 in Georgia. She is a New Haven writer; and the author of Real People; and Senora Villena.

Wilcox, Phineas Bacon

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 26, 1798, in Middletown, Conn. He was a lawyer of Columbus, Ohio; and the author of Condensed Reports of Ohio Supreme Court; Ohio Forms and Practice; A Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar; Practical Forms in Action, etc.; and Practical Forms Under Code of Civil Procedure.

He died March 25, 1863, in Columbus, Ohio.

Wild, Augustus

soldier, was born Nov. 25, 1825, in Brookline, Mass. In 1863 he was made a brigadier-general of volunteers; and since the war has been engaged in silver mining.

Wilde, William Allan

journalist, legislator, was born July 11, 1827, in Acton, Mass. He is a noted newspaper man of Malden, Mass.; superintendent of schools; and a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature. WILDER, A. CARTER, merchant, congressman, was born March 18, 1828, in Mendon, Mass. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Kansas to the thirtyeighth congress. He died Dec. 23, 1875, in San Francisco, Cal.

Wilder, Burt Green

physician, educator, author, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He is a physician, professor of physiology at Cornell university from 1867; and the author of What Young People Should Know; Emergencies; and Health Notes for Students.

Wilder, Daniel Webster

lawyer, journalist, author, was born July 15, 1832, in Blackstone, Mass. He is a Kansas lawyer and journalist who has published The Annals of Kansas.

Wildman, Milton Millard

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1856, in Piatt county, Ill. He received a thorough education, and graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan. He has attained success as an able lawyer of York, Neb.; has filled various offices of public trust; and is now county judge of York county.

Wildman, Zalmon

congressman, was born in Danbury, Conn. He was elected a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1835 to 1836. He died Dec. 10, 1835, in Washington, D. C.

Wildrick, Isaac

congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853.

Wiles, Irving Ramsay

artist, was born April 8, 1861, in Utica, N. Y. He is known as a clever figure-painter, and his Corner Table gained the third Hallgarten prize at the Academy of Design in 1886.

Wiles, Lemuel Maynard

artist, was born Oct. 21, 1826, in Perry, N. Y.

In 1875 he assumed the directorship of the college of Fine Arts in Ingham university, Le Roy, N. Y., and in 1888 he founded the Silver Lake art-school at Perry, N.

Y. His works include The Pillar of Fire; Mount San Jacinto, California; Ruins of the Cathedral of San Juan Capistrano, Cal.; The Noonday Retreat; The Vale of Elms; Snowbound; and A Song of the Sea.