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Willson, Slater Gordan

railroad president, was born Dec. 28, 1824, in Arkwright, N. Y. He is president of the Crooked Creek and Webster City, and Southwestern railroads at Webster City, Iowa.

Wilmarth, Lemuel Everett

art-- ist, was born Nov. 11, 1835, in Attleborough, Mass. Among his works, principally genre pictures, are Captain Nathan Hale; Playing Two Games at the Same Time; The Home Missionary: Another Candidate for Adoption (1871); Guess.

What I Have Brought You; Left in Charge; Ingratitude; Feat of Courage; A Plea for the Homeless; Pick of the Orchard; and Jack's Return.

Wilmarth, Seth

inventor, was born.

Sept. '8, 1810, in Brattleboro, Vt. He became a machinist in Pawtucket, R. I., and in 1855 was appointed superintendent. and master-mechanic of the Charlestown navy yard. Among his patents, numbering about twenty, were those for his revolving turrets, and for the hydraulic lift. for raising the turret shafts on monitor vessels. He died Nov. 5, 1886, in Walden,.

Mass.

Wilmer, Joseph Pere Bell

protestant episcopal bishop, was born Feb. 11,. 1812, in Kent county, Md. He went to England in 1863 to purchase Bibles for the confederate army, was captured on his return voyage, and for a short time confined in the old Capitol prison, Washington, D. C. He became bishop of Louisiana in 1866. He died Dec. 2, 1878, in New Orleans, La.

Wilmer, Lambert A

journalist, author, was born about 1805. He was a Philadelphia journalist, and the author of New System of Grammar; The Quacks of Helicon; Life of De Soto; Our Press Gang, an Exposition of the Corruptions of American Newspapers (1859); Recantation: a Poem; Somnia; and Liberty Triumphant. He died Dec. 21, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Wilmer, Richard Hooker

bishop of Alabama, was born March 15, 1816, in Alexandria, Va. He was successively rector of several churches in Virginia, and of St. James's, Wilmington, N. C., till he was consecrated bishop of Alabama. He is the author of The Recent Past from a Southern Standpoint,

Wilmshurst, Zavarr

journalist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1824, in England. He was a journalist of New York city, and the author of The Viking, an epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other Poems; The Siren; and Ralph and Rose, a Poem. He died Jan. 27, 1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Wilshire, William W

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1830, in Gallatin county, Ill. In 1867 he was appointed solicitor-general of Arkansas at Little Rock, and in 1868 became chief-justice of one of the state courts, remaining in office until 1871. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-fourth congress as a conservative.

Wilson, Alexander

ornithologist, author, was born July 6, 1766, in Scotland.

He was a Scottish ornithologist and poet who came to America in 1794. He is often called the Father of American Ornithology. He was the author of Watty and Meg, a narrative poem; and American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. He died Aug. 23, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Wilson, Alexander

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1804 to 1809.

Wilson, Benjamin

lawyer, congressman, was born April 30, 1825, in Harrison county, Va. He was attorney for the commonwealth in Harrison county from 1852 to 1860. He was elected a representative from West Virginia to the forty-fourth congress and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and fortyseventh congresses as a democrat.

Wilson, Bird

lawyer, clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 8, 1777, in Carlisle, Pa. He was elected professor of systematic divinity in the Episcopal General Theological seminary in Pennsylvania in 1821, which post he held for nearly thirty years. He was secretary of the house of bishops in 1829-41. He died April 14, 1859, in New York city.