Wingate, Paine
clergyman, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born May 14, 1739, in Amesbury, Mass. He was ordained as a congregational minister at Hampton Falls, N. H., in 1763. He was appointed a member of congress under the confederation in 1787; and after the adoption of the constitution was elected a member of the United States senate in 1789, and served until 1793, when he was elected a representative in congress, serving until 1795. In 1798 he was appointed a judge of the superior court of New Hampshire, and continued in office until 1809, when he attained the age of seventy. He died March 7, 1838, in Stratham, N. H.
WINGER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, lawyer, journalist, was born Nov. 27, 1835, in Pennsylvania. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, and became lieutenant-colonel of the one hundred and twelfth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. In 1868 he served as a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives; and for a quarter of a century has been editor and owner of The Press of Greencastle, Pa.
WINGFIELD, JOHN HENRY DUCA- CHET, clergyman, bishop, was born Sept. 24, 1833, in Portsmouth, Va. In 1874 he was consecrated bishop of northern California. He is also the president of the St. Augustine college and the St. Mary's college, and rector of St. Paul's church of Benicia, Cal.