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Witherell, James – Wixon, Susan Helen

Witherell, James

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born June 16, 1759, in Mansfield, Mass. He was a member of the state legislature; two years a county judge, and state councilor from 1803 to 1807. He was a representative in congress from Vermont during the years 1807 and 1808, and in the latter year was appointed federal judge in the territory of Michigan. He died Jan. 9, 1838, in Detroit, Mich.

Withers, Frederic Clarke

architect, author, was born Feb. 4, 1828, in England. He is an architect of New York city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity church in that city, and the author of Church Architecture.

Withers, Robert Enoch

soldier, journalist, United States senator, governor, was born Sept. 18, 1821, in Campbell county, Va. He entered the service as major when Virginia passed the ordinance of secession, and was made colonel of the eighteenth Virginia regiment in 1861. In 1866 he moved to Lynchburg and edited the News until 1868. He was presidential elector for the state at large in 1873, and was elected lieutenant-governor in 1873, and United States senator for six years from March 4, 1875.

Withers, T. I

lawyer, jurist. He was reputed to be one of the ablest jurists in the south, and was for a long time judge of the supreme court of South Carolina. He died Dec. 8, 1865, in Sumterville, S. C.

Witherspoon, Robert

congressman. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1809 to 1811.

WITHERSPOON, THEODORE DWIGHT, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 17, 1836, in Greensborough, Ala. He was a presbyterian clergyman in Louisville from 1882, and the author of Children of the Covenant; and Letters on Romanism.

Withey, Solomon L

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born April 21, 1820, in St. Albans, Vt. In 1848 he was elected judge of probate in Grand Rapids, Mich., and in 1860 was elected to the state senate. He was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Michigan in 1869. He was president of the First National bank of Grand Rapids.

He died April 25, 1886, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Withington, Leonard

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 9, 1789, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Mass., in 1816-85, and the author of The Puritan, a series of Essays; Penitential Tears; and Solomon's Song Translated and Explained.

He died April 22, 1885, in Newbury, Mass.

Witt, Samuel B

lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 6, 1850, in Prince Edward county, Va. In 1879-80 he was a member of the Virginia state legislature, and was prosecuting attorney of Richmond, Va., for five terms. He was then elected judge of the Hustings court, to which he was re-elected in 1896 for a second term of six years.

Witte, William H

congressman, was born in New Jersey. Having settled in Pennsylvania he was elected a representative in congress from 1853 to 1855.

Wixon, Isaac

surgeon, state senator, was born March 7, 1803, in Hector, N. Y.

He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature, and a member of the Michigan senate. In 1870 he moved to Fentonville, Mich., where he took up the practice of his profession.

Wixon, Susan Helen

author, poet, was born in 1849, in Dennisport, Mass.

She is a popular lecturer on moral reform and educational topics in Fall River, Mass.; and is president of the Humboldt Scientific society. She is the author of All in a Lifetime; Apples of Gold; The Story Hour; Summer Days at Onset; and a volume of poems.