Chapter V (2)

=Waters, Mrs. Clara [Erskine] [Clement].= _Mo._, 1834- ----. An art-writer of Boston. Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art; Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works, a Handbook; Christian Symbols (with K. Conway, _supra_); Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works (with L. Hutton, _supra_); Life of Charlotte Cushman; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; Stories of Art and Artists; Naples, the City of Parthenope; Venice, Mediæval and Modern; Constantinople, the City of the Sultans; History of Painting for Beginners and Students; Rome the Eternal City. _Est. Hou. Sto._

=Waters, Robert.= _S._, 1835- ----. An educator of Hoboken, New Jersey. Life of William Cobbett; Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself; How Genius Works its Wonders.

=Waterston, Mrs. Anne Cabot Lowell [Quincy].= _Ms._, 1812-1899. Wife of R. C. Waterston, _infra_, and daughter of J. Quincy (1772-1864), _supra_. Verses by A. C. Q. W.; Adelaide Phillipps, a Record.

=Waterston, Robert Cassie.= _Me._, 1812-1893. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture; Arthur Lee and Tom Palmer.

=Watson, Beriah Andre.= _N. Y._, 1836-1892. A physician of Jersey City. Amputations and their Complications; The Sportsman’s Paradise, or the Lake Lands of Canada.

=Watson, Elkanah.= _Ms._, 1758-1842. A noted traveller and agriculturist. Men and Times of the Revolution, his best-known work, is mainly autobiographic. Other works of his are, Tour in Holland in 1784; History of the Canals in the State of New York from 1788 to 1819; Rise of Modern Agricultural Societies; History of Agricultural Societies on the Berkshire System.

=Watson, Henry Clay.= _Md._, 1831-1869. A journalist of Philadelphia, and subsequently of California. Camp-fires of the Revolution; Camp-fires of Napoleon; Romance of History; Lives of the Presidents; Nights in a Block-House; Old Bell of Independence; The Yankee Teapot; Heroic Women of History; Universal Naval History. _Le. La._

=Watson, James Craig.= _Ont._, 1838-1880. A professor of astronomy in the University of Wisconsin at the time of his death. He discovered several asteroids and comets. Popular Treatise on Comets; Theoretical Astronomy; Simple and Compound Interest Tables.

=Watson, James Madison.= _N. Y._, 1827-1900. An educator of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Handbook of Gymnastics; Manual of Calisthenics, and a series of Independent Readers.

=Watson, John Fanning.= _N. J._, 1780-1860. A bookseller, and subsequently a banker, of Philadelphia. Historic Tales; Annals of Philadelphia.

=Watson, John Whittaker.= _N. Y._, 1824-1890. A journalist of New York city. Beautiful Snow and Other Poems; The Outcast and Other Poems.

=Watson, Paul Barron.= _N. J._, 1861- ----. Grandson of J. F. Watson, _supra_. A lawyer of Boston. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus; Bibliography of Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America; The Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vasa, a very effective study of an important epoch in Swedish history. _Har. Lit._

=Watson, Sereno.= _Ct._, 1826-1892. A noted botanist of Cambridge, curator of the Herbarium of Harvard University, 1888-92. Bibliographical Index of North American Botany; Botany of California (with Gray and Brewer).

=Watson, William.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. A professor of mechanical engineering. Technical Education; Course in Descriptive Geometry; Course in Shades and Shadows.

=Watson, Winslow Cossoul.= _N. Y._, 1803- ----. Son of E. Watson, _supra_. Treatise on Practical Husbandry; Pioneer History of the Champlain Valley; History of Essex County, New York.

=Watterson, George.= _N. Y._, 1783-1854. A Washington lawyer who was the first librarian of Congress. Letters from Washington; The Wanderer in Washington; Course of Study Preparatory to the Bar or Senate; The Lawyer, or Man as He Ought Not to Be.

=Watterson, Henry.= _D. C._, 1840- ----. A journalist of Louisville, long prominent as editor of The Courier-Journal. Oddities of Southern Life and Character.

=Wayland, Francis.= _N. Y._, 1796-1865. A Baptist clergyman eminent as a metaphysician, who was president of Brown University, 1827-55. Elements of Moral Science; Intellectual Philosophy; Human Responsibility; Elements of Political Economy; Occasional Discourses; Moral Law of Accumulation; Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution; Sermons to the Churches; Principles and Practice of Baptist Churches; Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Lives by his sons, 1867, Murray, 1890._

=Wayland, Heman Lincoln.= _R. I._, 1830-1898. Son of F. Wayland, _supra_. A Baptist clergyman, editor of The National Baptist at Philadelphia, 1872-1894, and editor of The Examiner from 1894. Life and Labors of F. Wayland (with his brother); Faith and Works of Charles Spurgeon.

=Wayman, Alexander Washington.= _Md._, 1821-1895. An African Methodist bishop. My Recollections; Cyclopedia of African Methodism; Wayman on Discipline.

=Wead, Charles Kasson.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. An electrician of Hartford. Aims and Methods of the Teaching of Physics; Lecture Notes on Sound and Light.

=Weaver, George Sumner.= _Vt._, 1818- ----. A Universalist clergyman. Lectures on Mental Science; Hopes and Helps for the Young; Aims and Aids for Girls; The Ways of Life; The Christian Household; The Open Way; Moses and Modern Science; The Heart of the Word; Lives and Graves of Our Presidents.

=Weaver, Jonathan.= _O._, 1824-1901. A clergyman of Ohio, bishop of the Church of the United Brethren. Discourses on the Resurrection; Ministerial Salary; Divine Providence; Universal Restoration not Sustained by the Word of God.

=Webb, Alexander Stewart.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. Son of J. W. Webb, _infra_. The president of the College of the City of New York from 1869, and during the Civil War a general in the Federal army. The Peninsula; McClellan’s Campaign of 1862. _Scr._

=Webb, Charles Henry.= “John Paul.” _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A journalist now living at Nantucket very popular as a humourist in the earlier part of his career. Liffith Lank; St. Twel’mo’; John Paul’s Book; Parodies in Prose and Verse; Vagrom Verse. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Hou._

=Webb, Mrs. Frances Isabel [Currie].= _N. J._, 1857-1895. A magazinist of New York city. A Tiff with the Tiffins; Gala Day Books; A Breath of Suspicion.

=Webb, James Watson.= _N. Y._, 1802-1884. A journalist of New York city, minister to Brazil, 1861-69. Altowan, or Life in the Rocky Mountains; Slavery and its Tendencies.

=Webber, Charles Wilkins.= _Ky._, 1819-1856. A journalist and traveller who was killed in Walker’s expedition in Nicaragua. Hunter-Naturalist; Tales of the Southern Border; Old Hicks the Guide; Gold Mines of the Gila; Shot in the Eye; Adventures with Texas Rifle Rangers; Wild Scenes and Song Birds; History of Mystery; Spiritual Vampirism; Texan Virago; Wild Girl of Nebraska; Romance of Natural History. _See Bibliography of Texas._ _Lip._

=Webber, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1759-1810. An educator of Cambridge, professor of mathematics in Harvard University, 1789-1806, and president of the same, 1806-10. He published a System of Mathematics that was for a long time the only text-book on that subject in use in New England colleges.

=Webber, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1797-1880. Son of S. Webber, _supra_. A physician of Charlestown, New Hampshire. Zogan, an Indian Tale, in Verse; War, a Poem.

=Webster, Albert Falvey.= _Ms._, 1848-1876. A magazinist of New York city the best of whose short stories are, Little Majesty; An Operation in Money; Miss Eunice’s Glove.

=Webster, Daniel.= _N. H._, 1782-1852. A distinguished statesman who was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1801. He represented New Hampshire in Congress, 1813-17, and, removing to Massachusetts in 1816, was a representative from that State, 1823-27. He was a member of the Senate, 1827-41 and 1845-50, and secretary of state, 1841-1843 and 1850-52. He died at Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852. He was a master of English style, the best of his orations on especial occasions being those delivered at the second Pilgrim centennial in 1820, on the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument in 1825, and the eulogy of Adams and Jefferson in 1826. _See Parton’s Famous Americans; Private Life of, by C. Lanman, supra; Whipple’s Great Speeches of Webster, 1879; Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Lives by Curtis, Lyman, Smucker, Everett, Fletcher Webster, Tefft, Lodge; Appletons’ American Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary; Reminiscences of, by Harvey; Biographical Encyclopædia of Massachusetts._ _Co. Lit._

=Webster, John White.= _Ms._, 1793-1850. A chemist who was professor at Harvard University, 1824-50, and was tried and executed in 1850 for the murder of Dr. Parkman, _supra_. Description of the Island of St. Michael; Manual of Chemistry. _See Reports of Trial by Bemis and Stone._

=Webster, Nathan Burnham.= _N. H._, 1821-1900. An educator of Norfolk, Virginia. Outlines of Chemistry.

=Webster, Noah.= _Ct._, 1758-1843. A famous lexicographer, best known by his Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). His great dictionary is still published, being revised and enlarged from time to time, and edited according to the principles laid down by its originator. The unabridged edition is now called the International Dictionary. Among his other works are included, A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language; The Prompter, or Common Sayings and Subjects; Rights of Neutrals; Dissertations on the English Language; A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806). _See North American Review, April, 1829; Life by H. E. Scudder, 1882; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Webster, Pelatiah.= _Ct._, 1725-1797. A once famous political economist of Philadelphia. Essays on Free Trade and Finance; Essay on Credit; Political Essay on the Nature and Operation of Money, are among his writings.

=Webster, Richard.= _N. Y._, 1811-1856. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Mauch Chunk, 1835-56. History of the Presbyterian Church in America till 1760.

=Webster, Warren.= _N. H._, 1835-1896. An army surgeon during the Civil War. The Army Medical Staff; Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye, from the German of Mauthner.

=Weed, Clarence Moores.= _O._, 1864- ----. A professor of zoölogy and entomology at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Durham, New Hampshire. Ten New England Blossoms and their Insect Visitors; Insects and Insecticides; Fungi and Fungicides; Spraying Crops. _Hou. Ju._

=Weed, Thurlow.= _N. Y._, 1797-1882. A journalist of note who founded The Albany Evening Journal in 1830. Letters from Europe; Autobiography. _See Memoir by Thurlow Weed Barnes._ _Hou._

=Weeden, William Babcock.= _R. I._, 1834- ----. A woollen manufacturer of Providence. The Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws; Social Law of Labor; The Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789. _Hou. Rob._

=Weeks, Edwin Lord.= _Ms._, 1849-1903. An artist of note. From the Black Sea through Persia and India. _Har._

=Weeks, John M----.= _Ct._, 1788-1858. An inventor o£ Salisbury, Vermont. Manual on Bees; History of Salisbury.

=Weeks, Robert Kelley.= _N. Y._, 1840-1876. A lawyer and verse-writer of New York city whose poems are not without individuality and a very measurable degree of charm. Twenty Poems; Episodes and Lyric Pieces. _Ho._

=Weeks, Stephen Beauregard.= _N. C._, 1865- ----. An historical writer. Bibliography of the Historical Literature of North Carolina; Church and State in North Carolina; The Press of North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century; Southern Quakers and Slavery. _J. H. U._

=Weeks, William Raymond.= _Ct._, 1783-1848. A Presbyterian clergyman of Newark, New Jersey. Nine Sermons; Pilgrim’s Progress in the Nineteenth Century; Scripture Catechism.

=Weems, Mason Locke.= _Va._, 1759-1825. An Episcopal clergyman, famous as a book agent in his day, but at one time rector of Pohick Church, Mount Vernon, where Washington attended. He was an erratic personage whose regard for truth is far from being the strongest feature of his biographies. His Life of Washington, which as early as 1811 had reached an eleventh edition, is still the most popular life of its subject, as from some points of view it is the most entertaining. He wrote, also, Lives of Marion, Penn, and Franklin, which are as untrustworthy as his more noted performance. _Lip._

=Weidemeyer, John William.= 1819-1896. A writer of New York city. Catalogue of North American Butterflies; Real and Ideal, a volume of verse; Themes and Translations; American Fish and How to Catch Them; From Alpha to Omega.

=Weidner, Revere Franklin.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Augustana Seminary, Rock Island, 1885-1891, and subsequently at the Lutheran Seminary, Chicago. Commentary on Mark; Exegetical Theology; Historical Theology; System of Dogmatic Theology; Grammar of New Testament Greek; Commentary on the Hebrew Text of Obadiah; Method for Study of New Testament Greek. _Scr._

=Weir, James.= _Ky._, 1821- ----. A Kentucky romancer. Lonz Powers, or the Regulators; Simon Kenton; Winter Lodge.

=Weir, John Ferguson.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. The director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University from 1869, and professor of painting and design there. The Way: the Nature and Means of Revelation. _Hou._

=Weiss= [wīss], =John.= _Ms._, 1818-1879. A Unitarian clergyman of very radical views who was pastor at Watertown, Massachusetts, and was prominent as an abolitionist. Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare; American Religion; The Immortal Life; Life of Theodore Parker. _Rob._

=Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer [Talley].= _Va._, 1835- ----. A verse-writer of New York city whose poems were first collected in 1859.

=Weisse, John Adam.= _F._, 1810-1888. A philologist, born in Lorraine, who came to America in 1840, and ten years later settled in New York city, where he was president of the New York Philological Society. Key to the French Language; Origin, Progress, and Destiny of the English Language and Literature; The Obelisk and Freemasonry.

=Welby, Mrs. Amelia [Coppuck].= _Md._, 1819-1852. A versifier of Louisville whose sentimental lyrics attained an extraordinary popularity in their author’s lifetime. Poems by Amelia. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Coggeshall’s Poets of the West._

=Welch, Adonijah Strong.= _Ct._, 1821-1889. A lawyer and educator of Michigan and Iowa, president of Iowa Agricultural College, 1869-83. Analysis of the English Sentence; Object Lessons; Talks on Psychology; The Teacher’s Psychology.

=Welch, John.= _O._, 1805- ----. A jurist of Ohio. Mathematical Curiosities; Index Digest of Ohio Decisions.

=Welch, Philip Henry.= _N. Y._, 1849-1889. A journalist and humourist of New York city. The Tailor-made Girl; Said In Fun. _Scr._

=Welch, Ransom Bethune.= _N. Y._, _c._ 1825-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of Christian theology at Auburn Seminary. Faith and Modern Thought; Outlines of Christian Theology.

=Welch, William Henry.= _Ct._, 1850- ----. A Baltimore physician, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins University from 1884. General Pathology of Fever.

=Weld, Mrs. Angelina Emily [Grimke].= _S. C._, 1805-1879. Wife of T. D. Weld, _infra_, and daughter of J. F. Grimke, _supra_. Letters to Catharine Beecher, a review of the slavery question; Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; Sacred Palmlands.

=Weld, Horatio Hastings.= _Ms._, 1811-1888. An Episcopal clergyman of Riverton, New Jersey. Corrected Proofs; Life of Christ; Women of the Scriptures.

=Weld, Theodore Dwight.= _Ct._, 1803-1895. A reformer of Boston, long prominent as an abolitionist. The Bible Against Slavery; American Slavery As It Is; Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States.

=Weller, George.= _Ms._, 1790-1841. An Episcopal clergyman once prominent in Tennessee and Mississippi. Vindication of the Church; The Weller Tracts.

=Welles, Charles Stuart.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A physician who has published Bohème (verse); Lilian; The New Marriage and Other Uniform Laws.

=Welles, Gideon.= _Ct._, 1808-1878. A journalist and politician, secretary of the navy, 1861-69. Lincoln and Seward.

=Wellington, Arthur Mellen.= _Ms._, 1847-1895. A civil engineer of distinction. The Computation of Earthwork from Diagrams; The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways; Car-Builders’ Dictionary; Field Work of Railway Location. _See Annual Cyclopædia, 1895._ _Wil._

=Wells, Mrs. Catherine Boott [Gannett].= _E._, 1838- ----. Daughter of E. S. Gannett, _supra_. A Boston essayist and novelist who has contributed largely to periodicals. In the Clearings; Miss Curtis; Two Modern Women; About People, a collection of essays; several Sunday-school manuals of ethics and normal methods. _Hou. Lip._

=Wells, David Ames.= _Ms._, 1828-1898. A distinguished writer on economics. Familiar Science; Science of Common Things; Our Merchant Marine; Primer of Tariff Reform; Practical Economics; Local Taxation; Robinson Crusoe’s Money; Study of Mexico; Recent Economic Changes; Relation of the Tariff to Wages; Principles of Taxation; Production and Distribution of Wealth. _Ap. Har. Put._

=Wells, Henry Parkhurst.= _R. I._, 1842- ----. A lawyer of New York city. City Boys in the Woods; Fly Rods and Fly Tackle; The American Salmon Fisherman. _Har._

=Wells, J---- C----.= 18-- - ----. A legal writer of Ohio. Delineation of the Law of Limitation in Illinois; My Uncle Toby: his Table Talks and Reflections; Questions of Law and Fact; Treatise on the Doctrines of Res Adjudicata and Stare Decisis; On the Separate Property of Married Women under the Separate Enabling Acts; E Pluribus Unum; Magna Charta, or the Rise and Progress of Constitutional Civil Liberty in England and America; The Jurisdiction of Courts; Powers and Duties of Ohio County Commissioners.

=Wells, Mrs. Kate Gannett.= _See Wells, Mrs. Catherine._

=Wells, Samuel Roberts.= _Ct._, 1820-1875. A phrenologist of New York city, long a member of the publishing house of Fowler & Wells. The New Physiognomy; Wedlock, or the Right Relations of the Sexes.

=Wells, William Harvey.= _Ct._, 1812-1885. An educator of Chicago, superintendent of the city public schools, 1856-64. Historical Authorship of English Grammar; several popular text-books on English Grammar.

=Wells, William Vincent.= _Ms._, 1826- ----. Great-grandson of S. Adams, _supra_. Explorations in Honduras; Walker’s Expedition to Nicaragua; Life of Samuel Adams.

=Welsh, Alfred Hix.= _O._, 1850-1889. A professor of English in Ohio State University from 1885. Development of English Literature and Language; English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; The Conflict of Ages; Man and His Relations; Plane Trigonometry. _Sil. Sc._

=Welsh, Herbert.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A philanthropist of Philadelphia, prominent as a champion of the rights of the Indians. Civilization among the Sioux Indians; Four Weeks among some of the Sioux Tribes; A Visit to the Navajo, Pueblo, and Hualpais Indians.

=Wendell, Barrett.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. An assistant professor of English at Harvard University. The Duchess Emilia, a romance; Rankell’s Remains, a novel; Life of Cotton Mather, _supra_; English Composition; Stelligeri, and Other Essays; William Shakspere, a Study in Elizabethan Literature; Ralegh in Guiana, a play. _Do. Scr._

=Wesselhoeft, Conrad.= _G._, 1834- ----. A well-known homœopathic physician of Boston, professor of pathology and therapeutics in the Boston University School of Medicine, who has translated Hahnemann’s Organon and contributed extensively to homœopathic journals.

=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster [Pope].= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Wife of C. Wesselhoeft, _supra_. A Boston writer of popular juvenile tales. Jerry the Blunderer; Sparrow the Tramp; Flipwing the Spy; Old Rough the Miser; The Winds, the Woods, and the Wanderer; Frowzle, the Runaway. _Rob._

=West, Andrew Fleming.= _Pa._, 1853- ----. A professor of Latin in Princeton College from 1883. The Philobiblion of Richard de Bury; Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. _Scr._

=West, Mary Allen.= _Il._, 1837-1892. An Illinois educator who was Knox County superintendent of schools, 1873-1892. Childhood: its Care and Culture.

=West, Nathaniel.= _I._, 1794-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Ark of God the Safety of the Nation; Popery the Prop of European Despotism; Babylon the Great; Right and Left Hand Blessings of God; Complete Analysis of the Whole Bible.

=West, Stephen.= _Ct._, 1735-1819. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1759-1819. Essay on Moral Agency; Life of Reverend Samuel Hopkins, _supra_; Evidence of the Divinity of Christ; Duty and Obligation of Christians to Marry Only in the Lord. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Westcott, Thompson.= _Pa._, 1820-1888. A Philadelphia journalist, editor of The Sunday Dispatch, 1848-84. Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steamboat; The Tax-payer’s Guide; Official Guide to Philadelphia; Historic Mansions of Philadelphia. _Co._

=Weston, Mrs. Mary Catherine [North].= _N. Y._, 1822-1882. Calvary Catechism; Synopsis of the Bible; Jewish Antiquities; Biography of Old and New Testament Characters. _Dut._

=Weston, Roxana.= 1800-1891. A verse-writer of Skowhegan, Maine, whose poems were published in 1889.

=Wetherell, Elizabeth.= _See Warner, Susan._

=Wetherill, Charles Mayer.= _Pa._, 1825-1871. A professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, 1866-71; The Manufacture of Vinegar.

=Wetherill, Julie K.= _See Baker, Mrs. J._

=Wetmore, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bisland].= _Ts._, 1863- ----. A journalist of New York city. A Flying Trip Around the World. _Har._

=Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery.= _Ct._, 1798-1876. A once prominent citizen of New York city. Lexington, and Other Fugitive Poems; Observations on the War with Mexico.

=Wharey, James.= _N. C._, 1789-1842. A Presbyterian clergyman of Goochland County, Virginia. Baptism; Sketches of Church History. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. A Philadelphia writer. The Wharton Family; Virgilia; St. Bartholomew’s Eve; Colonial Days and Dames; Through Colonial Doorways; A Last Century Maid, and Other Stories for Children; Martha Washington, a biography. _Lip. Scr._

=Wharton, Charles Henry.= _Md._, 1748-1833. An Episcopal clergyman of Burlington, New Jersey, rector of St. Mary’s Church, 1798-1833. Reply to Bishop Carroll’s Address to the Roman Catholics of America; Proofs of the Divinity of Christ; Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy between Protestant and Roman Catholic churches.

=Wharton, Francis.= _Pa._, 1820-1889. Son of T. I. Wharton, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, professor of ecclesiastical and international law in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge. Criminal Law of the United States; Medical Jurisprudence; State Trials of the United States; The Silence of Scripture; Treatise on Theism; Precedents of Indictments; The Law of Homicide in the United States; The Conflict of Laws; Law of Agency and Agents; Digest of International Law (with M. Stillé, _supra_); The Law of Negligence; Commentary on the Law of Evidence in Civil Issues; The Law of Contracts. _Lip._

=Wharton, Henry.= _Pa._, 1827-1880. Son of T. I. Wharton, _infra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Practical and Elementary Treatise on the Law of Vicinage.

=Wharton, Thomas Isaac.= _Pa._, 1791-1856. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Digest of Cases in United States Court, Third District; Reports of Cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Memoir of William Rawle, _supra_.

=Wharton, Thomas Isaac.= _Pa._, 1859-1896. Son of H. Wharton, _supra_. A journalist. A Latter Day Saint; Hannibal of New York; Bobbo.

=Wheat, John Thomas.= _D. C._, 1800-1888. An Episcopal clergyman in Tennessee who published a very popular Preparation for Holy Communion.

=Wheatley, Charles Moore.= _E._, 1822-1882. A mineralogist of Phœnixville, Pennsylvania, who published a Catalogue of the Shells of the United States.

=Wheatley, Phillis.= _See Peters, Mrs._

=Wheatley, Richard.= _E._, 1831- ----. A Methodist clergyman of New Jersey. Cathedrals and Abbeys in Great Britain and Ireland. _Har._

=Wheaton, Henry.= _R. I._, 1785-1848. A diplomatist and an eminent authority upon international law, chargé d’affaires to Denmark, 1827-35, minister to Prussia, 1835-45. History of the Progress of the Law of Nations; Elements of International Law (completed by Lawrence); History of the Northmen; Reports of Cases in United States Supreme Court; Digest of Supreme Court Decisions from 1789 to 1820; Life of William Pinkney in Sparks’s American Biography. _See Westminster Review, July, 1847; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Whedon, Daniel Denison.= _N. Y._, 1808-1885. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1856-84. The Freedom of the Will; Commentary on the New Testament; Commentary on the Old Testament; Essays, Reviews, and Discourses; Statements: Theological and Critical. _Meth._

=Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter.= “Nym Crynkle.” _N. Y._, 1835-1903. A dramatic and musical critic of New York city. The Chronicles of Milwaukee; The Twins, a comedy; The Primrose Path of Dalliance, a theatrical tale.

=Wheeler, Benjamin Ide.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A professor of comparative philology at Cornell University from 1886, and of Greek also from 1888. Life of Alexander the Great; The Greek Noun Accents; Introduction to Study of History and Language. _Put._

=Wheeler, Charles Gardiner.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. Nephew of W. A. Wheeler, _infra_. A writer formerly of Winchendon, Massachusetts, and later of Topsham, Maine. Who Wrote It? a literary index, and Familiar Allusions, both begun by his uncle, were completed by him. The Course of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World. _Hou._

=Wheeler, Charles Stearns.= _Me._, 1816-1843. A classical scholar who published an edition of Herodotus from the text of Schweighäuser.

=Wheeler, Crosby Howard.= _Me._, 1823-1896. A missionary to Turkey. Little Children in Eden; Letters from Eden; Ten Years on the Euphrates; Odds and Ends; Grace Illustrated.

=Wheeler, David Hilton.= _N. Y._, 1829-1902. A Methodist clergyman, president of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1883-87. Brigandage in South Italy; By-Ways of Literature; Our Industrial Utopia and its Unhappy Citizens. _Mg._

=Wheeler, Henry Nathan.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Formerly an instructor in mathematics at Harvard University and now engaged in educational publishing work in Boston. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; The Elements of Logarithms; Second Lessons in Arithmetic. _Gi. Hou._

=Wheeler, John Hill.= _N. C._, 1806-1882. A diplomatist who was minister to Nicaragua, 1854-57. History of North Carolina; Legislative Manual of North Carolina; Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina.

=Wheeler, Junius Brutus.= _N. C._, 1830-1886. Brother of J. H. Wheeler, _supra_. A military engineer, professor at West Point, 1866-85. Civil Engineering; Art and Science of War; Elements of Field Fortifications; Military Engineering.

=Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Sparks.= _E._, 1835- ----. A Philadelphia writer. Poems for the Fireside; Modern Cosmogony and the Bible. _Meth._

=Wheeler, William Adolphus.= _Ms._, 1833-1874. A librarian of Boston who, besides editing an edition of Webster’s Dictionary, was author of Noted Names of Fiction; Familiar Allusions; Who Wrote It? a literary index. _Hou. Le._

=Wheelwright, John Tyler.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A Boston lawyer. Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge (with F. Stimson, _supra_); A Child of the Century, a novel; A Bad Penny. _Lam. Scr._

=Wheildon, William Willder.= _Ms._, 1805-1892. A journalist of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1827-70, and long a resident of Concord, in the same State. Letters from Nahant; Contributions to Thought; New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill; The Arctic Regions; Curiosities of History.

=Whelan, James.= _I._, 1823-1878. A Roman Catholic bishop of Nashville. Catena Aurena, or Papal Infallibility no Novelty.

=Whelpley, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1766-1817. A Baptist clergyman (from 1806 Presbyterian) and educator of New Jersey. Letters on Capital Punishment; a once popular Compend of History; The Triangle, a theological discussion.

=Whipple, Edwin Percy.= _Ms._, 1819-1886. A Boston essayist and critic, whose writing was as discriminating as it was vigourous and epigrammatic in style. Character and Characteristic Men; Literature and Life; Essays and Reviews; Success and its Conditions; Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; Recollections of Eminent Men, with Other Papers; American Literature, and Other Papers; Outlooks on Society, Literature, and Politics; Rufus Choate, a volume of personal recollections. _Har. Hou._

=Whipple, Squire.= _Ms._, 1804-1888. A civil engineer of note. The Way to Happiness; Treatise on Bridge Building; The Doctrine of Central Forces.

=Whistler, James Abbott McNeill.= _Ms._, 1834-1903. An artist who from 1863 to 1892 lived in London, and in Paris from the latter date. Ten O’Clock; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. _Hou._

=Whitaker, Alexander.= _E._, 1588-after 1613. An Episcopal clergyman who came to Virginia in 1611. He baptized Pocahontas, and officiated at her wedding. Good Newes from Virginia, one of the very first books written in the colony. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Whitaker, Epher.= _N. J._, 1820- ----, A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Southold, Long Island, from 1851. The War of Death; New Fruits from an Old Field; Ready for Duty; Collection of Original Hymns; History of Southold, 1640-1740; Old Town Records.

=Whitaker, Mrs. Mary Scrimgeour [Furman] [Miller].= _S. C._, 1820- ----. A New Orleans writer. Poems; Albert Hasting, a novel.

=Whitaker, Nathaniel.= _L. I._, 1732-1795. A Presbyterian clergyman in New England and Virginia, popular in the colonial period. Discourses on Reconciliation; Discourses on Toryism, which were widely read.

=Whitcher, Mrs. Frances Miriam [Berry].= _N. Y._, 1812-1852. A still popular humourist who was the wife of an Episcopal clergyman in Elmira, New York. The Widow Bedott Papers; Widow Spriggins, and Other Sketches.

=White, Andrew Dickson.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A distinguished diplomatist and educator, minister to Germany, 1879-81, and to Russia, 1892, president of Cornell University, 1867-85, appointed ambassador to Germany in 1897. Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History; The New Germany; History of the Doctrine of Comets; European Schools of History and Politics; Studies in General History; Paper Money Inflation in France; The Warfare of Science with Theology. _Ap._

=White, Carlos.= _Vt._, 1842- ----. Ecce Femina, an Attempt to Solve the Woman Question.

=White, Catherine Ann.= _N. Y._, 1825-1878. A former Superior of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York city. The Students’ Mythology; Classical Literature; Bible Literature.

=White, Charles.= _Ind._, 1795-1861. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1841-1861. Essays in Literature and Ethics.

=White, Charles Abiathar.= _Ms._, 1826- ----. The State geologist of Iowa, 1865-70, and on the United States Geological Survey from 1882. Report of Iowa Geological Survey; Physical Geography of Iowa.

=White, Charles Ignatius.= _Md._, 1807-1877. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Washington, long pastor of St. Matthew’s Church. Life of Mrs. Eliza Seton, _supra_. He translated, from the French, Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, and other works.

=White, Daniel Appleton.= _Ms._, 1776-1861. A jurist of Salem, Massachusetts. The Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Court of Probate; New England Congregationalism in its Origin and Purity; Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch.

=White, Eliza Orne.= _N. H._, 1856- ----. A writer of Brookline, Massachusetts. Miss Brooks; When Molly was Six, a juvenile tale; Winterborough; A Little Girl of Long Ago; The Coming of Theodora. _Hou. Rob._

=White, Mrs. Ellen G---- [Harmon].= _Me._, 1828- ----. Wife of James White, _infra_. The Spirit of Prophecy.

=White, Emerson Eldridge.= _O._, 1829-1902. An Ohio educator, superintendent of the Cincinnati public schools from 1883. The Elements of Pedagogy; School Management.

=White, Greenough.= _Ms._, 1863-1901. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor of English at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1885-1887, and professor of ecclesiastical history and polity there from 1894. Sketch of the Philosophy of American Literature; The Rise of Papal Supremacy; Outline of the Philosophy of English Literature. _Gi._

=White, Henry.= _Ms._, 1790-1858. A Congregational clergyman of Maine and New Hampshire, who published, The Early History of New England.

=White, Henry Clay.= _Md._, 1850- ----. The State chemist of Georgia from 1880. Complete History of the Cotton Plant; Elementary Geology of Tennessee (with MacAdoo).

=White, Horace.= _N. H._, 1834- ----. A journalist, editor of The Chicago Tribune, 1864-74, and since 1883 one of the editors of The New York Evening Post. The Silver Question; The Tariff Question; Coin’s Financial Fool; Money and Banking Illustrated by American History; The Gold Standard. _Gi._

=White, James.= _Me._, 1821- ----. A Seventh Day Adventist elder who published Life Incidents of the Great Advent Movement.

=White, James Terry.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A publisher of New York city, but formerly a resident of San Francisco. His volumes of original verse comprise, Christmas Greeting; Bouquet of California Flowers; Flowers from Arcady; Captive Memories.

=White, John.= _Ms._, 1677-1760. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1703-60. The Gospel Treasure in Earthen Vessels; New England’s Lamentations for the Decay of Godliness (1735).

=White, John Blake.= _S. C._, 1781-1857. An artist, lawyer, and dramatist of Charleston. Foscari; Mysteries of the Castle; Intemperance; Modern Honor; Triumph of Liberty.

=White, John Silas.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. An educator of New York city, master of the Berkeley School from 1880. Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch; Herodotus and Pliny. _Gi._

=White, John Williams.= _O._, 1849- ----. A professor of Greek at Harvard University from 1877. Greek and Latin at Sight; First Lessons in Greek; The Beginner’s Greek Book; An Illustrated Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis (with M. H. Morgan). _Gi._

=White, Matthew.= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. An editor and novelist of New York city. One of the Profession; The Affair at Islington; A Born Aristocrat.

=White, Pliny Holton.= _Ct._, 1822-1869. A Unitarian clergyman of Coventry, Vermont, but prior to 1859 a lawyer there. History of Coventry.

=White, Mrs. Rhoda Elizabeth [Waterman].= 18-- - ----. Portraits of My Married Friends; From Infancy to Womanhood, a Book for Young Mothers; What Will the World Say?

=White, Richard Grant.= _N. Y._, 1822-1885. An eminent Shakespearean scholar and littérateur of New York city. His critical twelve-volume edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1865, and the Riverside edition in 1883. His original works comprise, Words and Their Uses; Every-Day English; England Without and Within; Biographical and Critical Handbook of Christian Art; Shakespeare’s Scholar; Memoirs of Shakespeare; Studies in Shakespeare; The New Gospel of Peace, a political satire; Revelations: a Companion to The New Gospel of Peace; The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, a novel; The Fall of Man, or the Loves of the Gorillas; The American View of the Copyright Question; The Chronicles of Gotham. _See Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Foley’s American Authors._ _Hou._

=White, Sallie Joy.= _See White, Mrs. Sarah._

=White, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth [Joy].= _Me._, 18-- - ----. A Boston journalist. Housekeepers and Homemakers; Business Openings for Girls. _Lo._

=White, William.= _Pa._, 1748-1836. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Memoir of the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the Catechism; Comparative View of the Controversy Between Calvinists and Arminians, are among his writings. _See Life by Bird Wilson, 1839; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ _Dut._

=White, William Allen.= _Ks._, 1868- ----. The Real Issue, and Other Stories; Stratagems and Spoils.

=White, William Charles.= _Ms._, 1777-1818. A lawyer and dramatist of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Country Cousin; The Poor Lodger; Compendium of the Laws of Massachusetts.

=White, William N----.= _N. Y._, 1819-1861. A bookseller of Athens, Georgia, who edited The Southern Cultivator. Gardening for the South; Scientific Gardening.

=Whitehead, Charles Edward.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. The Campfires of the Everglades, or Wild Sports in the South.

=Whitehead, William Adee.= _N. J._, 1810-1884. A prominent citizen of Newark, New Jersey. Biographical Sketch of William Franklin; Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy; East Jersey Under the Proprietary Governments.

=Whiteley, Mrs. Isabel [Nixon].= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A Philadelphia writer. The Falcon of Langéac, a romance. _Cop._

=Whitfield, Henry.= _E._, 1597-1658. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1637, and was one of the founders of the New Haven colony. He returned to England in 1650. Helps to stir up to Christian Duties; The Light Appearing; Strength out of Weakness.

=Whiting, Charles Goodrich.= _Vt._, 1842- ----. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts, on the editorial staff of The Republican. The Saunterer: Essays on Nature. _Hou._

=Whiting, Henry.= _Ms._, _c._ 1790-1851. A United States army officer. Otway, the Son of the Forest, a Poem; Sanilæ, a Poem; The Age of Steam; Life of Zebulon Pike, in Sparks’s American Biography.

=Whiting, Lilian.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A Boston journalist. From Dreamland Sent, verse; The World Beautiful, two collections of essays; After her Death; A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Kate Field: A Record. _Lit._

=Whiting, Samuel.= _E._, 1597-1679. A Puritan clergyman, pastor at Lynn, Massachusetts, 1636-79. Oratio quam Comitijs Cantab. Americanis, etc.; The Last Judgment; Abraham Interceding for Sodom.

=Whiting, William.= _Ms._, 1813-1873. Descendant of S. Whiting, _supra_. A Boston jurist whose chief work, The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress, has been widely read. _See Duyckinck’s American Literature._ _Le._

=Whitlock, George Clinton.= _Vt._, 1808- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Iowa. Elements of Geometry; New System of Surveying.

=Whitman, Bernard.= _Ms._, 1796-1834. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Waltham, Massachusetts, 1826-34, and prominent as a controversialist. On Denying the Lord Jesus; Letters on Religious Liberty; Village Sermons; Friendly Letters to a Universalist. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Memoir by J. Whitman, infra._

=Whitman, Charles Otis.= _Me._, 1842- ----. A naturalist of note, head professor of zoölogy in the University of Chicago from 1892. He established The Journal of Morphology in 1887. Methods of Research in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology.

=Whitman, Jason.= _Ms._, 1798-1848. Brother of B. Whitman, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Portland, Maine. Memoir of B. Whitman, _supra_; Young Man’s Assistant; Young Lady’s Aid to Usefulness; Week Day Religion; Discussions on the Lord’s Prayer.

=Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen [Power].= _R. I._, 1813-1878. A poet of Providence whose Still Day in Autumn, her finest effort, still finds an honoured place in anthologies. Hours of Life, and Other Poems; Edgar Poe and his Critics. A complete edition of her poems appeared in 1879. _See Easy Chair of Harper’s Magazine, September, 1878._

=Whitman, Walter= [commonly =Walt=]. _N. Y._, 1819-1892. A poet regarding whose claims to the title much controversy has raged. During the Civil War he served as a volunteer nurse in the Washington hospitals, and, after holding a government clerkship till 1873, removed to Camden, New Jersey, where the rest of his life was passed. Leaves of Grass, his first book, appeared in 1855, a vigourous protest against established rules of versification in its utter formlessness. Drum Taps, which included the now famous Lincoln elegies, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, and O Captain, My Captain, followed in 1865. The republication of his poems in England in 1868 aroused instant attention there, and excited extravagant praise in some quarters. His rejection of rhyme and metre will probably always repel the mass of readers. His later works include, After All Not to Create Only; A Passage to India; As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free; Two Rivulets; November Boughs; Good Bye My Fancy; Sands at Seventy; Specimen Days and Collect; in prose, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate; Democratic Vistas; Memoranda During the War. _See O’Connor’s Good Gray Poet; Burroughs’s Notes on Whitman, and Study of Whitman; Walt Whitman, by R. M. Bucke; Whitman, by W. Clarke; Whitman: a Study of Democracy, by Triggs; Whitman: a Study, by J. H. Symonds; Annual Cyclopedia, 1892; Life of by W. S. Kennedy, supra; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; In Re Walt Whitman; Foley’s American Authors; T. Donaldson’s Walt Whitman the man._

=Whitmarsh, Caroline.= _See Guild, Mrs._

=Whitmore, William Henry.= _Ms._, 1836-1900. A genealogist of Boston. American Genealogy; Elements of Heraldry; History of the Old State House, Boston; and many genealogies.

=Whitney, Mrs. Adeline Dutton [Train].= =Ms.=, 1824- ----. A very popular writer for girls. She has lived at Milton, Massachusetts, for many years. Friendly Letters to Girl Friends; Faith Gartney’s Girlhood; The Gayworthys; A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life; Hitherto; We Girls; The Other Girls; Real Folks; Sights and Insights; Odd or Even?; Bonnyborough; Boys at Chequasset; Homespun Yarns; Ascutney Street; A Golden Gossip; Patience Strong’s Outings; Mother Goose for Grown Folks. She has also written, The Open Mystery: A Reading of the Mosaic Story; Just How, a Key to the Cook Books; and in verse, Pansies; Daffodils; Holy Tides; Bird Talk; White Memories. _See Vedder’s American Writers._ _Hou._

=Whitney, Anne.= _Ms._, 1821- ----. A Boston sculptor and poet. Her only volume, Poems, appeared in 1859. Bertha is her best known poem.

=Whitney, Caspar.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A journalist of New York city, a prominent advocate of amateur sports. A Sporting Pilgrimage; On Snow Shoes to the Barren Grounds. _Har._

=Whitney, James Amaziah.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. An agricultural chemist. Relation of the Patent Laws to Development of Agriculture; The Chinese and the Chinese Question; Shobab, a Tale of Bethesda in verse; Sonnets and Lyrics; The Children of Lamech (verse).

=Whitney, [Joseph] Ernest.= _Ct._, 1858-1893. An instructor in English for some years at Yale University. Poems of the Pike’s Peak Region (1890).

=Whitney, Josiah Dwight.= _Ms._, 1819-1896. A professor of geology at Harvard University from 1865, and State geologist of California, 1860-74. The United States; The Metallic Wealth of the United States; Barometric Hypsometry; Polypetalæ and Gamopetalæ; Contributions to American Geology; Names and Places, Studies in Geography and Topographical Nomenclature; Geological Survey of California; Yosemite Guide Book; Geological Survey of Iowa. _Lip. Lit._

=Whitney, Mrs. Louisa [Goddard].= _E._, 1819-1882. Wife of J. D. Whitney, _supra_. The Burning of the Convent; Peasy’s Childhood: an Autobiography.

=Whitney, Peter.= _Ms._, 1744-1815. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Northborough, Massachusetts, 1767-1815. History of Worcester County (1793).

=Whitney, Thomas Richard.= _N. Y._, 1804-1858. A journalist of New York city, member of Congress, 1855-57. The Ambuscade, a Poem; Defence of the American Policy.

=Whitney, William Dwight.= _Ms._, 1827-1894. Brother of J. D. Whitney, _supra_. A philologist of eminence, professor of Sanskrit at Yale University from 1854, and of comparative philology, also, from 1870. He edited The Century Dictionary. Language and the Study of Language; Compendious German Grammar; Oriental and Linguistic Studies; Life and Growth of Language; Essentials of English Grammar; Sanskrit Grammar; Practical French Grammar; Roots, Verb Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language; Max Müller’s Science of Language. _See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1895._ _Ap. Gi. Ho. Scr._

=Whiton, James Morris.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Grandson of J. M. Whiton, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman of New York city. New Points to Old Texts; Is Eternal Punishment Endless?; The Gospel of the Resurrection; Beyond the Shadow; The Divine Satisfaction; Early Pupils of the Spirit; The Evolution of Revelation; The Law of Liberty; Turning Points of Thought and Conduct; Gloria Patri. _Wh._

=Whiton, John Milton.= _Ms._, 1788-1856. A Presbyterian clergyman of Antrim, New Hampshire. Sketches of the Early History of New Hampshire, 1623-1833.

=Whitsitt, William Heth.= _Tn._, 1841- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Louisville, professor of ecclesiastical history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1872. History of the Rise of Infant Baptism; History of Communion Among Baptists; Life and Times of Jude Caleb Wallace; A Question in Baptist History. _Mor._

=Whittaker, Frederick.= _E._, 1838- ----. Son of H. Whittaker, _infra_. A Federal cavalry officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a journalist of New York city. A Defence of Dime Novels by a Writer of Them; Life of General Custer; Cadet Button, a Tale of American Army Life; Bel Rubio, a novel.

=Whittaker, Henry.= _W._, 1808-1881. A law-office clerk in New York city. Practice and Pleading Under the Codes; Analysis of Decisions in Practice and Pleading.

=Whittaker, James Thomas.= _O._, 1843-1900. A prominent surgeon of Cincinnati. Lectures on Physiology; History of Tuberculosis; Theory and Practice of Medicine. _Clke._

=Whittemore, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1800-1861. A Universalist clergyman of Boston. History of Modern Universalism; Notes and Illustrations of the Parables; Commentaries on Daniel and Revelations; Life of Hosea Ballou; Autobiography.

=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= _Ms._, 1807-1892. A famous New England poet, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807, and all his life a member of the Society of Friends. He was one of the early abolitionists, and edited The Pennsylvania Freeman, 1838-39. After 1840 he lived at Amesbury, Massachusetts. Among the most characteristic of his shorter poems are, My Soul and I; The Eternal Goodness; In School Days; The Last Walk in Autumn; The Playmates; My Psalm. His prose writings include, The Stranger in Lowell (1845); The Supernaturalism of New England (1847); Leaves from Margaret Smith’s Journal (1849); Old Portraits and Modern Sketches (1850); Literary Recreations and Miscellanies (1854). His work in verse comprises, Legends of New England (1831); Moll Pitcher (1832); Mogg Megone (1836); Poems (1838); Lays of My Home (1843); Voices of Freedom (1849); Songs of Labor (1850); The Chapel of the Hermits (1853); A Sabbath Scene (1853); The Panorama (1856); Home Ballads and Poems (1860); In War Time (1862); National Lyrics (1865); Snow-Bound (1866); The Tent on the Beach (1867); Among the Hills (1868); Ballads of New England (1870); Miriam (1870); The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872); Hazel Blossoms (1875); Mabel Martin (1876); Centennial Hymn (1876); The Vision of Echard, and Other Poems (1878); The King’s Missive, and Other Poems (1881); The Bay of Seven Islands, and Other Poems (1883); St. Gregory’s Guest, and Other Poems (1886); At Sundown (1890-92). He was also the compiler of Songs of Three Centuries; Child-Life; and Child-Life in Prose; and the editor of John Woolman’s Journal. _See Scribner’s Magazine, August, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1883; Century Magazine, December, 1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Lives by Underwood, Brown, Pickard, W. J. Linton; Personal Recollections of, by Mrs. Claflin; Whittier: Notes of his Life and of his Friendships, in Authors and Friends, by Mrs. Fields; Memorial of, from his Native City, 1893; Allibone’s Dictionary; Annual Cyclopedia, 1892; Whittier, by B. O. Flower; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; American Song, by A. B. Simonds; Foley’s American Authors._ _Hou._

=Whittingham, William Rollinson.= _N. Y._, 1805-1879. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maryland. Fifteen Sermons. _See Life, by W. F. Brand._ _Ap._

=Whittlesey, Mrs. Sarah Johnson [Cogswell].= _N. C._, 1825-1896. Heart Drops from Memory’s Urn; The Stranger’s Stratagem, and Other Stories; Herbert Hamilton; Bertha the Beauty; Spring Buds and Summer Blossoms.

=Wiard, Norman.= _Ont._, 1826-1896. An inventor and military engineer of distinction whose specialty was the manufacture of ordnance. The Solution of the Ordnance Problem.

=Wickersham, James Pyle.= _Pa._, 1825-1891. An educator of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, State superintendent of public instruction, 1866-81, minister to Denmark, 1882. School Economy; Methods of Instruction. _Lip._

=Wickes, Stephen.= _L. I._, 1813-1889. A physician of Orange, New Jersey. Living and Dying: their Psychics and Physics; History of Medicine in New Jersey; Sepulture: its History, Methods, and Requisites; History of the Newark Mountains.

=Wickes, Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1814-1870. Brother of S. Wickes, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Marietta, Ohio. Exposition of the Apocalypse; The Son of Man; The Household; Economy of the Ages.

=Wiggin, Kate Douglas.= _See Riggs, Mrs._

=Wigglesworth, Edward.= _Ms._, 1693-1765. Son of M. Wigglesworth, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of theology at Harvard University, 1722-65. An Answer to Mr. Whitefield’s Reply to the College Testimony; Doctrine of Reprobation Briefly Considered, are among his writings.

=Wigglesworth, Edward.= _Ms._, 1732-1794. Son of E. Wigglesworth, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman who succeeded his father in the Hollis professorship at Harvard University in 1765. Calculations on American Population; Authority of Tradition Considered.

=Wigglesworth, Edward.= _Ms._, 1804-1876. Grandson of E. Wigglesworth, 2d. A lawyer and merchant of Boston who published Reflections, a collection of apothegms. _El._

=Wigglesworth, Michael.= _E._, 1631-1705. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Malden, Massachusetts, 1656-1705. The Day of Doom, his chief work, appearing in 1662, was for more than a century the most popular poem in New England. It is an epic of the Last Judgment, not without gleams of poetic merit, but full of what must be styled savage theology. Meat Out of the Eater is a much inferior poem, but was very popular for a long period. God’s Controversy with New England, also in verse, and A Short Discourse on Eternity, comprise his remaining works. _Tyler’s American Literature; Life by John Ward Dean._

=Wight, Orlando Williams.= _N. Y._, 1824-1888. A Universalist clergyman and physician, appointed State geologist of Wisconsin in 1874. The Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton; Lives and Letters of Abelard and Héloise; Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good; Maxims of Public Health; People and Countries Visited in a Winding Journey round the World. _Ap. Hou._

=Wight, Peter Bonnett.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. An architect of New York city. One Phase in the Revival of Fine Arts in America.

=Wikoff, Henry.= _Pa._, 1813-1884. A writer whose life after 1834 was passed mainly in Europe. He was commonly known as Chevalier Wikoff. Reminiscences of an Idler; Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Life of Count d’Orsay; My Courtship and its Consequences; Adventures of a Roving Diplomatist; A New Yorker in the Foreign Office; The Four Civilizations.

=Wilbour, Charles Edwin.= _R. I._, 1833-1896. An Egyptologist who has published a Life of Victor Hugo and a number of translations from the French.

=Wilbur, Hervey.= _Ms._, 1787-1852. A Congregational clergyman and educator of Massachusetts among whose writings are, Elements of Astronomy; Lexicon of Useful Knowledge.

=Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus.= _N. C._, 1826-1890. A United States army officer. Rifles and Rifle Practice; History of the Mexican War.

=Wilcox, Carlos.= _N. H._, 1794-1827. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, popular as a verse-writer in his day. The Age of Benevolence. _See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Wilcox, Mrs. Ella [Wheeler].= _Wis._, 1855- ----. A very popular verse-writer and novelist of New York city. Maurine, and Other Poems; Drops of Water, temperance poems; Shells; Poems of Passion; Poems of Pleasure; The Song of the Sandwich; The Beautiful Land of Nod, poems and prose for children; Custer, and Other Poems. Her prose work includes, Men, Women, and Emotions; Mal Moulée; Was It Suicide?; A Double Life; Sweet Danger; Perdita and Other Stories; An Erring Woman’s Love; Men, Women, and Emotions; Adventures of Miss Volney. _See Bibliography of Wisconsin._

=Wilcox, Marrion.= _Ga._, 1858- ----. A New Haven writer. Real People; Señora Villena.

=Wilcox, Phineas Bacon.= _Ct._, 1798-1863. A lawyer of Columbus, Ohio. Condensed Reports of Ohio Supreme Court; Ohio Forms and Practice; A Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar; Practical Forms in Action, etc.; Practical Forms Under Code of Civil Procedure.

=Wilde, Richard Henry.= _I._, 1789-1847. A New Orleans lawyer who wrote Conjectures and Researches Concerning Tasso, but is known chiefly as the author of the graceful lyric, My Life is Like the Summer Rose. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Mrs. Johnson’s Our Familiar Songs._

=Wilder, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1823- ----. A physician and journalist of New York city. Lectures on Scientific and Literary Subjects; Intermarriage of Kindred; Life Eternal; The Ganglionic Nervous System, are his principal writings.

=Wilder, Burt Green.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A physician, professor of physiology at Cornell University from 1867. What Young People Should Know; Emergencies; Health Notes for Students. _Est. Put._

=Wilder, Daniel Webster.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A Kansas lawyer and journalist who has published The Annals of Kansas.

=Wildwood, Will.= _See Pond, F. E._

=Wiley, Calvin Henderson.= _N. C._, 1819-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator in the Carolinas. Adventures of Old Dan Tucker; Utopia, a Picture of Early Life at the South; Scriptural Views of National Trials; Alamance, a novel; Roanoke, or Where is Utopia? _See Hart’s American Literature._

=Wiley, Harvey Washington.= _Ind._, 1844- ----. A chemist of note, chief of the chemical division of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1883. Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis: Part I., Soils; Part II., Fertilizers; Part III., Agricultural Products.

=Wiley, Isaac William.= _Pa._, 1825-1884. A bishop of the Methodist Church from 1872. The Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chan; The Religion of the Family; China and Japan: a Record of Observations. _Meth._

=Wilkes, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1798-1877. A naval officer of distinction. Narrative of United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838-42; Western America; Theory of the Winds.

=Wilkes, George.= _N. Y._, 1820-1885. A journalist of New York city, editor of The Spirit of the Times from 1850. History of California (1845); Europe in a Hurry; Shakespeare from an American Point of View.

=Wilkeson, Frank.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A journalist. Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac. _Put._

=Wilkie, Franc[is] Bangs.= _N. Y._, 1832-92. A Chicago journalist. Petrolia, or the Oil Regions of the United States (1865); Davenport, Past and Present; Walks About Chicago; The Chicago Bar; Great Inventions and Their Influence on Civilization; The Gambler, a Story of Chicago Life; Pen and Powder; Personal Reminiscences. _Hou._

=Wilkins, John Hubbard.= _N. H._, 1794-1861. A Boston writer whose Elements of Astronomy (1822) was long popular as a text-book.

=Wilkins, Mary Eleanor.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A novelist of Randolph, Massachusetts, whose rank as a short-story writer is among the very first, her work displaying the greatest skill in constructive details as well as accurate perception in characterization. Her fictions deal almost entirely with phases of New England rural life. A Humble Romance, and Other Stories; A New England Nun, and Other Stories; Young Lucretia, and Other Stories; The Pot of Gold, a collection of juvenile tales; Jane Field; Pembroke; Madelon; Giles Corey, Yeoman, a Play; Jerome, a Poor Man; The Adventures of Ann; Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring; The Long Arm (with J. E. Chamberlin, _supra_). _Har. Lo. Rev._

=Wilkinson, James.= _Md._, 1757-1825. A soldier who served in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812. Memories of My Own Times. _See Gayarré’s Spanish Domination in Louisiana, 1854; Gilmore’s Advance Guard of Western Civilization, 1887._

=Wilkinson, John.= _Va._, 1821- ----. A Confederate naval officer who has published, The Narrative of a Blockade Runner.

=Wilkinson, William Cleaver.= _Vt._, 1833- ----. A Baptist clergyman and educator. Poems; A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters; Webster, an Ode; The Baptist Principle; The Epic of Saul; The Dance of Modern Society; College Greek Course in English, and other text-books. _Fl. Fu. Meth._

=Willard, Ashton Rollins.= _Vt._, 1858- ----. A lawyer of Boston. A Sketch of the Life and Work of the Painter Domenico Morelli; Legislative Handbook Relating to the Preparation of Statutes. _Hou._

=Willard, Mrs. Emma [Hart].= _Ct._, 1787-1870. A noted educator of Troy, New York. Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain; History of the United States; Universal History in Perspective; Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood; Last Leaves of American History; Poems. She wrote the well-known poem, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. _See Life, by John Lord, supra; Hart’s American Literature._

=Willard, Frances Elizabeth.= _N. Y._, 1839-1898. A temperance reformer of prominence. Woman and Temperance; How to Win; Woman in the Pulpit; Nineteen Beautiful Years; Glimpses of Fifty Years; A Great Mother. _See A Woman of the Century._ _Fu._

=Willard, John.= _Ct._, 1792-1862. An eminent jurist of New York city. Equity Jurisprudence; Treatise on Executors, Administrators, and Guardians; Real Estate and Conveyancing.

=Willard, Joseph Augustus.= _Ms._, 1816-1904. Son of Sidney Willard, _infra_. Clerk of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for Suffolk County, from 1865. His connection with courts of justice began in 1846. Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers. _Hou._

=Willard, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1640-1707. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, president of Harvard University, 1701-07. Of his many works, A Complete Body of Divinity is the best known. Others are, Peril of the Times Displayed; Covenant-Keeping the Way to Blessedness; Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Willard, Sidney.= _Ms._, 1780-1856. A descendant of S. Willard, _supra_. A professor of Hebrew at Harvard University, 1801-31. Hebrew Grammar; Memories of Youth and Manhood.

=Willard, Sylvester David.= _Ct._, 1825-1865. An Albany physician, surgeon-general of New York at the time of his death. The Willard Asylum for the Insane was named for him. Biographical Memoirs of Physicians of Albany County; Annals of the Albany County Medical Society.

=Willcox, Orlando Bolivar.= _Mch._, 1823- ----. A United States army officer. Shoepack Recollections; Faca, an Army Memoir.

=Willett, Joseph Edgerton.= _Ga._, 1826-1897. A professor of natural science in Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, from 1849. The Wonders of Insect Life.

=Willett, William Marinus.= _N. Y._, 1803-1895. A Methodist clergyman and educator. Scenes in the Wilderness; A New Life of Summerfield; Life and Times of Herod the Great; Herod Antipas; The Messiah; The Restitution of All Things.

=Willey, Austin.= _N. H._, 1806-1896. A Congregational clergyman of Maine, long prominent as an abolitionist, and the editor of The Advocate of Freedom, 1839-58. After the latter date he lived at Northfield, Minnesota. Family Memorial; History of the Anti-Slavery Cause in State and Nation.

=Willey, Benjamin Glazier.= _N. H._, 1796-1867. A Congregational clergyman of New Hampshire who wrote a History of the White Mountains.