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Willard, Sylvester David – Willey, Henry

Willard, Sylvester David

physician, author, was born June 19, 1825, in Wilton, Conn. He was an Albany physician, surgeon-general of New York at the time of his death. The Willard Asylum for the Insane was named for him. He was the author of Biographical Memoirs of Physicians of Albany County; and Annals of the Albany County Medical Society. He died April 2, 1865, in Albany, N. Y.

Willcox, Orlando Bolivar

soldier, author, was born April 16, 1823, in Detroit, Mich. He served with distinction throughout the Mexican and civil wars, and was brevetted major-general of volunteers in 1865. In 1886 he was promoted to brigadier-general of the regular army, and was retired in 1887. In 1888 he was made governor of the Soldiers' Home of Washington, D. C. He is the author of Shoepack Recollections; and Faca, an Army Memoir.

Willett, Joseph Edgerton

educator, author, was born Nov. 17, 1826, in Macon, Ga. He is a professor of natural science in Mercer university, Macon, Ga., from 1849; and the author of The Wonders of Insect Life.

Willett, Marinus

soldier, was born July 31, 1740, in Jamaica, N. Y.

He served with distinction through the revolutionary war; and in 1792 was appointed a brigadier-general. In 1807 he was mayor of New York city. He published an Autobiography. He died Aug. 22, 1830, in New York city.

Willett, William Marinus

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 3, 1803, in New York city. He was a methodist clergyman and educator; and the author of Scenes in the Wilderness; A New Life of Summerfield; Life and Times of Herod the Great; Herod Antipas: The Messiah; and The Restitution of All Things. He died in 1895.

Willetts, Deborah

was born in 1789 in Marshfield, Mass. She was a skilful grammarian, and was often consulted on difficult questions by Goold Brown, who in the preface of his celebrated grammar, acknowledged his indebtedness to her. She died in 1880 near Mechanic, N. Y.

Willetts, Jacob

educator, was born in 1785 in Fishkill, N. Y. He was an accomplished mathematician, and published text-books of geography, arithmetic, and bookkeeping, which were much used throughout the world. He died Sept. 12, 1860, near Mechanic, N. Y.

Willey, Austin

clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 24, 1806, in Campton, N. H. He was a congregational clergyman of Maine, long prominent as an abolitionist, and the editor of The Advocate of Freedom, in 1839-58. After the latter date he lived at Northfield, Minn.

He was the author of Family Memorial; and History of the Anti-Slavery Cause in State and Nation. He died in 1896.

Willey, Benjamin Glazier

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 1, 1796, in Conway, N. Y. He was a congregational clergyman of New Hampshire who wrote a History of the White Mountains. He died April 17, 1867, in East Summer, Maine.

Willey, Calvin

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 15, 1776, in East Haddam, Conn. He served in the Connecticut state legislature and senate a number of years; and was postmaster at Stafford Springs eight years. He was a judge of probate for seven years; and in 1824 was a presidential elector. He was a senator in congress from 1825 to 1831. He died Aug. 23, 1858, in Stafford, Conn.

Willey, Henry

botanist, lawyer, journalist, author, was born July 19, 1824, in Geneseo, N. Y. He is the author of List of North American Lichens; Introduction to the Study of Lichens; and Synopsis of the Genus Athona.