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Wilson, Woodrow

educator, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 28, 1856, in Staunton, Va. He has held professorships in Bryn Mawr college and Wesleyan university; and is now professor of jurisprudence in Princeton college, N. J. He has attained success as a lecturer; and is the author of Congressional Government:

A Study in American Politics; The State Elements of Historical and Practical Politics; An Old Master, and Other Political Essays; Division and Reunion, 1829-89; George Washington; and Mere Literature, and Other Essays.

Wilstach, Joseph Walter

lawyer, author, was born June 28, 1857, in Lafayette, Ind. He is a lawyer of Lafayette, Ind.; and the author of Horatian Odes; and Montalembert: a Character Study.

Wiman, Erastus

capitalist, author, was born April 21, 1834, in Canada. He was formerly a prominent capitalist of New York city; and the author of Chances of Success.

Winans, Edwin B

farmer, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born May 16, 1828, in Avon, N. Y. He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature from 1861 to 1865; and in 1876 was elected probate judge for Livingston county. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress as a democrat.

Winans, James January

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born June 7, 1818, in Maysville, Ky. In 1857 he was elected to the Ohio state senate; and in 1863 was elected a representative in the legislature. In 1864 he was elected a judge of the court of common pleas for two years; and was re-elected in 1866 for a full term of five years. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress as a republican.

Winans, Ross

inventor, author, was born Oct. 7, 1796, in Vernon, N. J. He was an eminent inventor; and the author of One Religion: Many Creeds. He died April 11, 1877, in Baltimore, Md.

Winans, William

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 3, 1788, in Pennsylvania. He was a pioneer of his church in Mississippi and Louisiana, and took a conspicuous part in the organization of the methodist episcopal church, south. He published Discourses on Fundamental Religious Subjects. He died Aug. 31, 1857, in Amite county, Miss.

Winchell, James Manning

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1791, in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He was called to the First Baptist church in Boston in 1814, and remained until his death. He was one of the editors of the American Baptist Magazine, and published Jubilee Sermons: Two Discourses, exhibiting an Historical Sketch of the First Baptist Church in Boston from 1665 to 1818; and Watts's Psalms and Hymns, with a Supplement. He died Feb. 22, 1820, in Boston, Mass.

Winchell, Newton Horace

geologist, author, was born Dec. 17, 1839, in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He is state geologist of Minnesota; and the author of Geology of Minnesota; and Annual Reports on the Geological Natural History Survey of Minnesota from 1872. WINCHELL, ROGER W.. educator, state legislator, was born Jan. 5, 1848, in Wyocena, Wis. He was elected in 1883 as a member of the Washington state legislature.

Winchester, Elhanan

clergyman, author, poet, was born Sept. 30, 1751, in Brookline, Mass. He was a universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, but in earlier life a baptist minister. He was the author of New Book of Poems on Several Occasions; Universal Restoration; Prophecies to Be Fulfilled; and Progress and Empire of Christ, a Poem. He died April 18, 1797, in Hartford, Conn.