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Winters, Joseph Edcil – Wise, John

Winters, Joseph Edcil

physician, author, was born Jan. 11, 1850, in Minnisink, N. Y. He is the author of Is Operation of Tracheotomy in Diphtheritic Croup Dangerous; When Should the Operation Be Performed; Diphtheria and Its Management; Are Membranous Croup and Diphtheria Distinct Diseases; and numerous other works.

Winthrop, Frederick

soldier, was born Aug. 3, 1839, in New York city.

He was commissioned a captain in the twelfth United States infantry, and received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864. In 1867 the brevet of major-general of volunteers was conferred on him, among the few brevets that were given after death. He died April 1, 1865, near Five Forks, Va.

Winthrop, John

educator, author, was born Dec. 19, 1714, in Boston, Mass.

He was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard university in 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of science in America in his century. He was the author of Lectures on Earthquakes; Account of Some Fiery Meteors; and Lectures on the Parallax. He died May 3, 1779, in Cambridge, Mass.

Winthrop, Laura

author, was born Sept. 13, 1825, in New Haven, Conn. She has published Little Blossom's Reward, a book for children, under the pen-name of Emily Hare; Poems of Twenty Years; and Longfellow Prose Birthday Book.

Winthrop, Theodore

soldier, author, was born Sept. 22, 1828, in New Haven, Conn. He was a brilliant young novelist who entered the federal army at the outbreak of the civil war and was killed at the battle of Big Bethel. He was the author of John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; Edwin Brothertoft; and The Canoe and the Saddle. He died June 10, 1861, near Great Bethel, Va.

Wipperman, Herman C

lawyer, state legislator, was born July 28, 1853, in Mosel, Wis. He is a successful lawyer of Grand Rapids; in 1895 was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly; and received the re-election to a second term.

Wise, Daniel

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 10, 1813, in England. He is a methodist clergyman and religious editor of Boston; and the author of Personal Effort; Heroic Methodists; Boy Travelers in Arabia; Some Remarkable Women; My Uncle Toby's Library; Uncrowned Kings; Summer Days on the Hudson; and Men of Renown.

Wise, George Douglas

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 4, 1831, in Accomac county, Va. He served in the confederate army as a captain during the war of the rebellion; and was commonwealth attorney of Richmond, Va., from 1870 to 1880. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth gresses; and was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. con-

Wise, Henry Augustus

naval officer, author, was born May 12, 1819, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a United States naval officer; and the author of Story of the Gray African Parrot; Captain Brand; Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines; and Scampavias, from Gibel Tarak to Stamboul. He died April 2, 1869, in Naples, Italy.

Wise, Isaac Mayer

author, was born April 3, 1819, in Bohemia. He is Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati from 1854, president of Hebrew Union college; and the author of History of the Israelitish Nation; Essence of Judaism; Judaism: Its Doctrines and Duties; The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth; The Cosmic God; History of the Hebrew Second Commonwealth; and Pronaos to Holy Writ.

Wise, John

clergyman, author, was born in August, 1652, in Roxbury, Mass.

He was a congregational clergyman of Ipswich from 1780 until his death. He was the author of The Church's Quarrel Espoused; and Vindication of the Government of New England Churches. He died April 8, 1725, in Ipswich, Maine. was a