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Wilkin, James W – Wilkinson, John Miles

Wilkin, James W

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1762. He was a member of the legislature of New York in 1800; and was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1819. He died Feb. 23, 1845, in Goshen, N. Y.

Wilkin, Samuel J

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1790 in New York. He was a member of the state assembly from Orange county in 1824 and 1825; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833. He was the whig candidate for lieutenantgovernor on the ticket with Millard Fill- He died March 11, 1866, in Goshen, more.

N. Y.

Wilkins, Ben C

telegraph manager, author, poet, was born in 1849, in Fond du Lac, Wis. For thirty years he has been connected with the Western Union Telegraph company in Wisconsin, Iowa and Dakota, and is now telegraph manager at Ashland, Wis. He is the author of a prose work entitled Cruise of the Little Nan, and a volume of poems.

Wilkins, Beriah

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born July 10, 1846, in Union county, Ohio. He became cashier and general manager of the National bank at Urichsville, Ohio. He was elected a state senator in 1879; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.

Wilkins, John Hubbard

author, was born in 1794, in New Hampshire.

He was a Boston writer whose Elements of Astronomy was long popular as a textbook. He died in 1861.

Wilkins, Ross

lawyer, jurist, was born in February, 1799, in Pittsburg, Pa.

He was a federal judge for the territory of Michigan; and in 1837 was appointed a regent of the state university. He presided over the first war meeting held in Detroit after the commencement of the rebellion; and was, for a great many years, a circuit judge, remaining in office until 1870. He died May 17, 1872, in Detroit, Mich.

Wilkinson, Adolphus C

lawyer, was born July 16, 1853, in England. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin; was a member of the county board of supervisors several times in Wisconsin; court commissioner and district attorney; and local attorney for the leading railroad companies in Wisconsin; and for the past ten years has been attorney for the Great Northern Railway company at Crookston, Minn.

Wilkinson, James

soldier, governor, author, was born in 1757 near Benedict, Md. He was governor of Louisiana territory from 1805 to 1807. He was general-in-chief of the army, and remained at the head of the southern department until 1811; and in 1812 was appointed brevet major-general. In 1813 he became major-general. After the war he removed to Mexico, where he purchased large estates. He wrote Memories of My Own Times. He died Dec. 28, 1825, near the City of Mexico.

Wilkinson, James Simon

poet, was born Feb. 8, 1876, in Oneida, Kan.

He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Hours in Dreamland.

Wilkinson, Jemima

religious impostor, was born in 1753 in Cumberland, R. I. She professed to be endowed with the power of Christ, and alleged that she could work miracles. She removed with a few proselytes to Crooked Lake in New York. She died July 1, 1819, in Jerusalem, N. Y.

Wilkinson, John

naval officer, author, was born Nov. 6, 1821, in Norfolk, Va. He is a confederate naval officer who has published The Narrative of a Blockade Runner.

Wilkinson, John Miles

clergyman, lecturer, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in Toronto, Canada. He graduated in arts from the Toronto university; was valedictorian and won the prize in elocution and oratory. For three years he was pastor of the Agnes Street Methodist church of Toronto, Canada, and subsequently organized the People's Tabernacle of that city. He is now the well known clergyman of the methodist episcopal church of St. Peter, Minn. As an orator and lecturer he has attained a wide reputation.