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=Willey, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A botanist, lawyer, and journalist of New Bedford. List of North American Lichens; Introduction to the Study of Lichens; Synopsis of the Genus Athona.

=Williams, Alfred Mason.= _Ms._, 1840-1896. A Providence journalist, editor of The Journal. The Poets and Poetry of Ireland; Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry; Sam Houston and the War of Independence in Texas. _Hou._

=Williams, Mrs. Anna [Bolles].= “Jak.” _Ct._, 1840- ----. A writer of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has written a number of popular juvenile tales. Birchwood; Professor Johnny; The Fitch Club; Who Saved the Ship?; Rolf and His Friends; Scotch Caps; Giant Dwarf; Riverside Museum. _Cr._

=Williams, Mrs. Catherine R---- [Arnold].= _R. I._, 1787-1872. A Providence writer. Original Poems; Religion at Home; Tales: National and Revolutionary; Fall River, an Authentic Narrative; Neutral French; Annals of the Aristocracy of Rhode Island; Aristocracy: a novel.

=Williams, Charles Frederic.= _Ms._, 1842-1895. The Tariff Laws of the United States, with Explanatory Notes; Index of Cases Overruled by the Courts of America, England, and Ireland from 1873 to 1887. He edited the last eight volumes of The American and English Cyclopædia of Law.

=Williams, Edwin.= _Ct._, 1797-1854. A writer of New York city. The Politician’s Manual; New Universal Gazetteer; Book of the Constitution; New York as It Is; Arctic Voyages; The Fortunate Puzzler; The Statesman’s Manual; The Twelve Stars of the Republic, comprise his chief works.

=Williams, Eleazer.= 1787?-1858. An Episcopal clergyman at Green Bay, Wisconsin, supposed by some persons to have been Louis XVII. of France. He published A Spelling-Book in the Language of the Seven Iroquois Nations, and other works in Iroquois. _See The Lost Prince, by Hanson._

=Williams, Francis Howard.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A littérateur of Philadelphia. His plays include, The Princess Elizabeth, a Lyric Drama; The Higher Education; A Reformer in Ruffles; Master and Man; Theodora, a Christmas Pastoral. Other works are, Atman, a Story; The Flute Player, and Other Poems; Pennsylvania Poets of the Provincial Period. _Cas._

=Williams, George Huntington.= _N. Y._, 1856-1894. A professor of inorganic geology at Johns Hopkins University from 1892. Elements of Crystallography.

=Williams, George Washington.= _Pa._, 1849-1891. A writer of African descent who served in the Federal army during the Civil War, and as lieutenant-colonel of artillery in the Republican army of Mexico, 1865-67, and who was minister to Hayti, 1885-86. History of the Negro Race in America; The Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion; History of the Reconstruction of the Insurgent States. _Har._

=Williams, Henry Shaler.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A professor of palæontology at Cornell University from 1871. The Bones, Ligaments, and Muscles of the Domestic Cat; Geological Biology. _Ho._

=Williams, Henry Willard.= _Ms._, 1821-1895. A Boston physician, professor of ophthalmology at Harvard University, 1871-91. Our Eyes and How to Take Care of Them; Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Eye; Practical Guide to Study of Diseases of the Eye.

=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= _Il._, 1871- ----. A littérateur of New York city. Princeton Stories; The Freshman, a book for boys. _Scr._

=Williams, John.= _Ms._, 1664-1729. A Congregational clergyman of Deerfield, Massachusetts, carried captive to Canada, with many of his parishioners, by the French and Indians in 1704. The Redeemed Captive is a graphic account of heroism and suffering during the period of captivity.

=Williams, John.= “Anthony Pasquin.” _E._, _c._ 1765-1818. An English journalist who came to the United States after being very unpopular in England. Poems; Legislative Biography; The Hamiltoniad; The Dramatic Censor; Life of Alexander Hamilton.

=Williams, John.= _Ms._, 1817-1899. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, and presiding bishop from 1887. Sermons; Studies on the English Reformation; Ancient Hymns of Holy Church; Thoughts on the Gospel Miracles; The World’s Witness to Christ; Studies in the Book of Acts. _Wh._

=Williams, Roger.= _W._, 1607-1683. A famous clergyman, minister at Salem, Massachusetts, but banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1635 on account of his views upon religious liberty. In 1636 he founded the city of Providence, and was the chief citizen of the Rhode Island colony until his death. He was the first upholder of the doctrine of liberty of conscience in its entirety, and actively sustained his theories in many controversial works. Key Into the Languages of America; The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience; The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton’s Endeavour to wash it white in the Bloud of the Lambe; Mr. Cotton’s Letter Lately Printed, Examined and Answered; George Fox Digg’d Out of his Burrowes, include his principal works. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Mudge’s Footprints of Roger Williams; Allibone’s Dictionary; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia; Appletons’ American Biography; Dexter’s As to Roger Williams; Lives by Knowles, 1834, Gammell, 1846, Elton, 1852, Straus, 1894; Bibliography of Rhode Island._

=Williams, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1743-1817. Grandson of J. Williams, 1st. A Congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of mathematics at Harvard University, 1780-88. A Natural and Civil History of Vermont (1809); History of the American Revolution.

=Williams, Samuel Wells.= _N. Y._, 1812-1884. A secretary and interpreter of the American Legation in China for many years; after 1877 professor of Chinese at Yale University. China, the Middle Kingdom; Easy Lessons in Chinese; Chinese Commercial Guide; Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect; Syllabic Dictionary of Chinese; Chinese Topography. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by F. Williams, 1888._ _Scr._

=Williams, Stephen West.= _Ms._, 1790-1855. Great-grandson of J. Williams, 1st. A physician who was medical professor in Willoughby University, Ohio, 1838-53. Catechism of Medical Jurisprudence; American Medical Biography; The Williams Family in America (1847).

=Williams, Thomas.= _Ct._, 1779-1876. A Congregational clergyman of Providence. Ten Sermons on Important Subjects; The Domestic Chaplain; Rhode Island Sermons.

=Williams, William R.= _N. Y._, 1804-1885. A noted Baptist clergyman of New York city, pastor of Amity Street Church, 1832-85. Religious Progress; God’s Rescues, or The Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son: Discourses on Luke; Miscellanies; Lectures on the Lord’s Prayer; Lectures on Baptist History; Eras and Characters of History. _Bap. Har. Ran._

=Williamson, Hugh.= _Pa._, 1735-1819. A statesman and physician who was a member of the Continental Congress. History of North Carolina; Observations on the Climate of America.

=Williamson, Isaac David.= _Vt._, 1807-1876. A Universalist clergyman of Cincinnati and other cities. Argument for the Truth of Christianity; The Crown of Life; Philosophy of Odd Fellowship; Philosophy of Universalism; Rudiments of Theological and Moral Science.

=Williamson, Joseph.= _Me._, 1828-1902. A lawyer of Belfast, Maine. The Maine Register and State Reference Book; Bibliography of Maine; History of Belfast. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Williamson, Julia May.= “Lura Bell.” _Me._, 1859- ----. A verse-writer of Augusta, Maine. Echoes of Time and Tide; The Choir of the Year.

=Williamson, Robert Stockton.= _N. Y._, 1824-1882. A soldier and military engineer. Report of a Reconnoissance in California for Pacific Railroad Route; Use of the Barometer on Surveys; Practical Tables in Meteorology.

=Williamson, Walter.= _Pa._, 1811-1870. A homœopathic physician of Philadelphia. Diseases of Females; Instructions Concerning Diseases of Females.

=Williamson, William Durkee.= _Ct._, 1779-1840. A Bangor lawyer, governor of Maine in 1820. History of Maine from its First Discovery to the Separation from Massachusetts.

=Willis, Nathaniel Parker.= _Me._, 1806-1867. A once popular New York littérateur, much overrated in the earlier part of his career, and now neglected. His prose, though pleasing, is almost all of ephemeral merit, and his verse is sentimental rather than thoughtful. The latter includes the once widely read Sacred Poems; Melanie; Lady Jane and Humorous Poems; Poems of Passion: while his prose comprises Hurry Graphs; People I have Met; Pencillings by the Way; Inklings of Adventures; Letters From Under a Bridge; Famous Persons and Places; A Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean; The Convalescent; Out-Doors at Idlewild; Paul Fane, a novel; Al Abri, and other works of lesser importance. A complete edition of his poems appeared in 1868. _See Life by Beers; Allibone’s Dictionary; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Foley’s American Authors._ _Cr. Scr._

=Willis, William.= _Ms._, 1794-1870. A Portland lawyer. History of Portland; History of the Law, Courts, and Lawyers of Maine.

=Williston, Seth.= _Ct._, 1770-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman in New York State. Discourses on the Sabbath; Moral Imperfections of Christians; Harmony of Divine Truth; Millennial Discourses, are among his writings.

=Williston, Timothy.= _N. Y._, 1805-1893. A Presbyterian clergyman. Orthodox Paths Restored; Talks to My Bible Class; Christ’s Millennial Reign; Premium Essays.

=Willson, [Byron] Forceythe.= _N. Y._, 1837-1867. A verse-writer at one time on the staff of The Louisville Journal. The Old Sergeant, and Other Poems. _See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1875._ _Hou._

=Willson, James McLeod.= _Pa._, 1809-1866. Son of J. R. Willson, _infra_. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Deacon; Bible Magistracy; Civil Government; Social Religious Covenanting; Witnessing.

=Willson, James Renwick.= _Pa._, 1780-1853. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman in New York and Pennsylvania. History of the Church of Scotland; The Written Law; Historical Sketch of Opinions on the Atonement.

=Willson, Marcius.= _Ms._, 1813- ----. An educator of Vineland, New Jersey. Civil Polity and Political Economy; Mosaics of Bible History; and many school text-books. _Har._

=Wilmer, Lambert A----.= _Circa_ 1805-1863. A Philadelphia journalist. New System of Grammar; The Quacks of Helicon; Life of De Soto; Our Press Gang, an Exposition of the Corruptions of American Newspapers (1859); Recantation: a Poem; Somnia; Liberty Triumphant.

=Wilmer, Richard Hooker.= _Va._, 1816-1900. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Alabama. The Recent Past from a Southern Standpoint. _Wh._

=Wilmshurst, Zavarr.= _E._, 1824-1887. A journalist of New York city. The Viking, an epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other Poems; The Siren; Ralph and Rose, a Poem.

=Wilson, Alexander.= _S._, 1766-1813. A Scottish ornithologist and verse-writer who came to America in 1794. He is often called the father of American ornithology. Watty and Meg, a narrative poem; American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States (continued by Charles Lucien Bonaparte). _See Life by G. F. Ord; Life by Brightwell, 1860; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Co._

=Wilson, Mrs. Augusta Jane [Evans].= _Ga._, 1835- ----. A once popular novelist living at Mobile. Her writings had at one time an extraordinary vogue, but are now much less read. Beulah; Macaria; Vashti; St. Elmo; Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; Infelice; At the Mercy of Tiberius. _See Manly’s Southern Literature._ _Dil._

=Wilson, Henry.= _N. H._, 1812-1875. A Massachusetts statesman who was vice-president of the United States at the time of his death. History of Anti-Slavery Measures; Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. _See Life and Public Services of by G. E. Nason._ _Hou._

=Wilson, James Grant.= _S._, 1832- ----. Son of W. Wilson, _infra_. A littérateur of New York city who, besides editing Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography, has published Poets and Poetry of Scotland; Mr. Secretary Pepys and his Diary; Love in Letters; Bryant and His Friends; Centennial History of the Diocese of New York; Life of General Grant; Life of Fitz Greene Halleck; Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers. _Dil. Har._

=Wilson, James Harrison.= _Il._, 1837- ----. A United States army officer. China: Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom; Life of Andrew Alexander; Life of General Grant (with C. A. Dana, _supra_). _Ap._

=Wilson, James Patriot.= _Del._, 1769-1830. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Lectures on the Parables; Essay on Grammar; Common Objections to Christianity; Easy Introduction to Hebrew, are among his works.

=Wilson, John.= _E._, 1588-1667. A Puritan clergyman, the first pastor in Boston, and long prominent in the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the colony. Some Helps to Faith; Famous Deliverances of the English Nation, a poem; The Day Breaking if not the Sun Rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England.

=Wilson, John.= _S._, 1802-1868. A Scottish printer who came to America in 1846, and established himself in the printing business in Cambridge. A Treatise on English Punctuation is his best-known work, but he wrote others on Scripture Proofs of Unitarianism; The Concessions of Trinitarians; Unitarian Principles Confirmed. _A. U. A._

=Wilson, John Grover.= _Del._, 1810-1885. A Philadelphia clergyman, originally of the Methodist Protestant denomination, but after 1855 the church of which he was pastor was known as the Ebenezer Independent Church. Among his various works are, Discourses on Prophecy; Writings in Prose and Verse; The Sabbath and Its Law; Atheism and Theism.

=Wilson, John Laird.= _S._, 1832-1896. A journalist of New York city, but prior to 1866 a United Presbyterian minister in Scotland. The Battles of the Civil War; Life of John Wycliffe. _Su._

=Wilson, John Leighton.= 1809-1880. A Presbyterian missionary to Africa. Western Africa: its History, Condition, and Prospects (1857). _See Life by Du Bose, 1895._ _Har._

=Wilson, Peter.= _S._, 1746-1825. An educator of New York city, classical professor at Columbia College, 1789-1792 and 1797-1820. Rules of Latin Prosody; Introduction to Greek Prosody; Compendium of Greek Prosody.

=Wilson, Robert Anderson.= _N. Y._, 1812- ----. A lawyer of California. Mexico and its Religion, reissued as Mexico, California, and Central America; New History of the Conquest of Mexico.

=Wilson, Robert Burns.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. An artist and verse-writer of Louisville. Life and Love, a volume of verse.

=Wilson, Samuel Farmer.= _Ct._, 1805-1870. A New Orleans journalist. History of the American Revolution, long a popular work.

=Wilson, Samuel Graham.= 18-- - ----. A Presbyterian missionary in Persia. Persian Life and Customs. _Rev._

=Wilson, Theodore Delevan.= _L. I._, 1840-1896. A naval architect of note in the government service. Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical.

=Wilson, Thomas.= _Pa._, _c._ 1768-_c._ 1828. A Philadelphia printer. Principal American Military and Naval Heroes (1821); The Picture of Philadelphia for 1824.

=Wilson, [Thomas] Woodrow.= _Va._, 1856- ----. A professor of jurisprudence at Princeton College. 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, 1829-1889; George Washington; Mere Literature, and Other Essays. _Har. He. Hou. Lgs. Scr._

=Wilson, William.= _S._, 1801-1860. A Scottish verse-writer who became a bookseller and publisher in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1854. Poems, edited by B. J. Lossing (1870).

=Wilson, William Dexter.= _N. H._, 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of Syracuse, professor of philosophy at Cornell University, 1868-86. History of the Reformation in England; The Church Identified; Psychology; The Foundations of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise on Logic; Live Questions in Psychology and Metaphysics; Introduction to the Study of the History of Philosophy. _Ap._

=Wilstach, John Augustine.= _D. C._, 1824-1897. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana, who has published a translation into English verse, with variorum notes, of the complete works of Virgil; also a translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia into English verse. _Hou._

=Wilstach, Joseph Walter.= _Ind._, 1857- ----. Son of J. A. Wilstach, _supra_. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana. Horatian Odes; Montalembert: a Character Study.

=Wiman, Erastus.= _Ont._, 1834-1904. Formerly a prominent capitalist of New York city. Chances of Success.

=Winans, Ross.= _N. J._, 1796-1877. An eminent inventor. One Religion: Many Creeds.

=Winchell, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1824-1891. A professor of geology at the University of Michigan, 1854-73 and 1879-91. Sketches of Creation; Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; World Life; Science and Religion; The Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Causality; Sparks from a Geologist’s Hammer; Geological Excursions; Geological Studies; Walks and Talks in the Geological Field. _Har. Sc._

=Winchell, Newton Horace.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. Brother of A. Winchell, _supra_. State geologist of Minnesota. Geology of Minnesota; Annual Reports on the Geological Natural History Survey of Minnesota from 1872.

=Winchester, Carroll.= _See Curtis, Mrs._

=Winchester, Elhanan.= _Ms._, 1751-1797. A Universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, but in earlier life a Baptist minister. New Book of Poems on Several Occasions; Universal Restoration; Prophecies to be Fulfilled; Progress and Empire of Christ, a Poem. _See Life of, by E. M. Stone, 1836._

=Winchester, Samuel Gover.= _Md._, 1805-1841. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and subsequently of Natchez. Companion for the Sick; Family Religion; The Theatre.

=Winebrenner, John.= _Md._, 1797-1860. A German Reformed clergyman of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, founder in 1830 of the Church of God, a sect commonly known as Winebrennerians. Regeneration; Practical and Doctrinal Sermons; Brief Views of the Church of God.

=Wines, Enoch Cobb.= _N. J._, 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman, widely known as a philanthropist, who laboured extensively in behalf of prison reform. Two and a Half Years in the Navy; A Trip to China; Hints on Popular Education; How Shall I Govern My School; Commentaries on Laws of the Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada; State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions Throughout the World.

=Wines, Frederic Howard.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Son of E. C. Wines, _supra_. Formerly a Presbyterian clergyman, but now devoted in official and private capacities to various reforms connected with the defective, dependent, and criminal classes. Punishment and Reformation, an Historical Sketch of the Rise of the Penitentiary System; The Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects (with John Koren). _Cr. Hou._

=Wing, Conway Phelps.= _O._, 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, long active as an abolitionist. Among his writings are, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; History of the Presbyteries of York and Carlisle.

=Wingate, Charles Edgar Lewis.= _N. H._, 1861- ----. A Boston journalist. Shakespeare’s Heroines on the Stage. _Cr._

=Wingate, Charles Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A sanitary engineer of New York city. Views and Interviews on Journalism; Plumbing and House Drainage; Twilight Tracts.

=Wingate, George Wood.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. Brother of C. F. Wingate, _supra_. A lawyer and soldier. Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment; Manual of Rifle Practice; On Horseback Through the Yellowstone.

=Winser, Henry Jacob.= _Ba._, 1833-1896. A journalist of New York city, and subsequently of Newark, New Jersey, United States consul at Sonneburg, Germany, 1869-81. The Great Northwest; The Yellowstone National Park; The Seat of a Thousand Industries, a description of Newark.

=Winship, Albert Edward.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. An educator of Boston, editor of The Journal of Education, Methods and Principles in Bible Study; Life of Horace Mann, _supra_.

=Winslow, Mrs. Catherine Mary [Reignolds].= _E._, 183- - ----. Best known as Mrs. Erving Winslow. A once popular actress of Boston, and since her retirement from the stage well known as a public reader. Yesterdays with Actors; Readings (with notes) from the Old English Dramatists, _Le._

=Winslow, Charles Frederick.= _Ms._, 1811-1877. A physician. Cosmography; The Cooling Globe; Force and Nature.

=Winslow, Edward.= _E._, 1595-1655. A notable member of the Plymouth colony who succeeded Bradford as governor of that colony in 1633. Good Newes from New England; Hypocrisy Unmasked; New England’s Salamander; The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Among the Indians of New England. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island._

=Winslow, Mrs. Erving.= _See Winslow, Mrs. Catharine._

=Winslow, Helen Maria.= _Vt._, 1851- ----. A Boston journalist. Concerning Cats; Literary Boston of To-Day.

=Winslow, Hubbard.= _Vt._, 1799-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman who held charges in Boston and other localities, and among whose writings are, Hidden Life; Moral Philosophy; Doctrine of the Trinity; Controversial Theology; Christian Doctrines; Young Man’s Aid to Knowledge, a very popular work; Intellectual Philosophy.

=Winslow, Miron.= _Vt._, 1789-1864. Brother of H. Winslow, _supra_. A Presbyterian missionary in Ceylon and Madras. Hints on Missions to India; Sketch of the Missions; Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary.

=Winslow, Stephen Noyes.= _Vt._, 1826- ----. A Philadelphia journalist. Biographies of Successful Philadelphia Merchants.

=Winslow, William Copley.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Son of H. Winslow, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston widely known as an Egyptologist. Israel in Egypt; The Store City of Pithom; A Greek City in Egypt; The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland.

=Winsor, Justin.= _Ms._, 1831-1897. The librarian of Harvard University. He was editor of The Memorial History of Boston; Narrative and Critical History of America. His original works include, Reader’s Handbook of the American Revolution; Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical Discovery in the Interior of North America in its Historical Relations, 1534-1700; Christopher Columbus; The Mississippi Basin: the Struggle in America between England and France, 1697-1763; Was Shakespeare Shapleigh?; History of Duxbury; The Westward Movement. _See Bibliography of Maine._ _Hou._

=Winter, William.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A prominent littérateur and dramatic critic of New York city. Poems; The Trip to England; The Jeffersons; English Rambles; Shakespeare’s England; Gray Days and Gold; Old Shrines and Ivy; Shadows of the Stage; My Witness, a Book of Verse; The Wanderers, a collection of poems; Thistle Down, a Book of Lyrics; The Queen’s Domain, and Other Poems; The Convert, and Other Poems; Brown Heath and Blue Bells; George William Curtis: a Eulogy. _See Foley’s American Authors._ _Hou. Kt. Mac._

=Winthrop, John.= _E._, 1588-1649. The first governor of Massachusetts. Arbitrary Government Described; History of New England from 1630 to 1649. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Letters of, to Margaret Winthrop; Lives by R. C. Winthrop, infra, 1867, J. H. Twichell, supra, 1891; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864._

=Winthrop, John.= _Ms._, 1714-1779. Great-grandson of J. Winthrop, _supra_. A professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard University, 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of science in America in his century. Lectures on Earthquakes; Account of Some Fiery Meteors; Lectures on the Parallax.

=Winthrop, Laura.= Sister of T. Winthrop, _infra_. _See Johnson, Mrs. L._

=Winthrop, Robert Charles.= _Ms._, 1809-1894. Descendant of Governor Winthrop, _supra_. A Massachusetts statesman, a lifelong resident of Boston, noted for the polish and refinement of his oratory. Addresses and Speeches; a Life of Governor John Winthrop; Washington, Bowdoin, and Franklin. _See Smalley’s Studies of Men; Life by R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 1897._ _Lit._

=Winthrop, Theodore.= _Ct._, 1828-1861. Descendant of Governor Winthrop, _supra_. 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. John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; Edwin Brothertoft; The Canoe and the Saddle; Love and Skates; Life in the Open Air. _See Atlantic Monthly, August, 1861, and August, 1863; Life and Poems of, edited by his sister; Nichol’s American Literature._ _Ho. Int._

=Winthrop, William Woolsey.= _Ct._, 1831-1899. Brother of T. Winthrop, _supra_. A United States army officer, professor of law at West Point. Treatise on Military Law; Digest of Opinions of the Judge-Advocates-General of the Army. _Lit. Wil._

=Wirt, Mrs. Elizabeth Washington [Gamble].= _Va._, 1784-1857. Wife of W. Wirt, _infra_. Flora’s Dictionary.

=Wirt, William.= _Md._, 1772-1834. A famous Virginia statesman and orator, attorney-general of the United States, 1817-28. Life of Patrick Henry; Letters of the British Spy. _See Memoir by J. P. Kennedy, supra._ _Co. Har._

=Wise, Daniel.= “Francis Forrester.” _E._, 1813-1898. A Methodist clergyman and religious editor of Boston. Personal Effort; Heroic Methodists; Boy Travellers in Arabia; Some Remarkable Women; My Uncle Toby’s Library; Uncrowned Kings; Summer Days on the Hudson; Men of Renown, are among his numerous works. _Meth._

=Wise, Henry Alexander.= _Va._, 1806-1876. A Virginia politician, minister to Brazil, 1844-47, governor of Virginia, 1856-60, in whose administration occurred the celebrated John Brown raid. Seven Decades of the Union; Memoir of John Tyler.

=Wise, Henry Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1819-1869. Cousin of H. A. Wise, _supra_. A United States naval officer. Story of the Gray African Parrot; Captain Brand; Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines; Scampavias, from Gibel Tarak to Stamboul.

=Wise, Isaac Mayer.= _Bo._, 1819-1900. A Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati from 1854, president of Hebrew Union College. 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; Pronaos to Holy Writ. _Clke._

=Wise, John.= _Ms._, 1652-1725. A Congregational clergyman of Ipswich from 1780 until his death. A strong, vigourous writer, almost the first of the American colonists to declare his belief in a government founded on human equality. The Church’s Quarrel Espoused; Vindication of the Government of New England Churches. _See Tyler’s American Literature._ _C. P. S._

=Wise, John.= _Pa._, 1808-1879. A once noted aëronaut. System of Aëronautics; Through the Air, or Forty Years’ Experience as an Aëronaut.

=Wise, John Sergeant.= _B._, 1846- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Diomed: The Life, Travels, and Observations of a Dog; The End of an Era. _Hou. Mac._

=Wisner, William.= _N. Y._, 1782-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman of Rochester, New York. Incidents in the Life of a Pastor; Civil Liberty.

=Wisner, William Carpenter.= _N. Y._, 1808-1880. Son of W. Wisner, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman at Lockport, New York, 1837-76. Prelacy and Parity.

=Wisser, John Philip.= _Mo._, 1852- ----. An instructor at West Point from 1878. Chemical Manipulations; Modern Gun Cotton; Practical Instruction in Minor Tactics and Strategy; Report on Military Schools of Europe. _Ap._

=Wistar, Caspar.= _Pa._, 1761-1818. A Philadelphia physician, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1792-1818. System of Anatomy for Use of Students in Medicine.

=Wister, Mrs. Annis Lee [Furness].= _Pa._, 1830- ----. Daughter of W. H. Furness, _supra_. A noted and popular translator of many German novels. With F. H. Hedge, _supra_, Metrical Translations and Poems. _Hou. Lip._

=Wister, Owen.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. Son of Mrs. S. B. Wister, _infra_. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. The New Swiss Family Robinson; The Dragon of Wantley, a romance; Red Men and White, a collection of frontier stories; Lin McLean. _Har. Lip._

=Wister, Mrs. Owen.= _See Wister, Mrs. Sarah._

=Wister, Mrs. Sarah [Butler].= _Pa._, 1835- ----. Daughter of Frances Kemble. A Philadelphia writer who has published, A Boat of Glass, a poem; translations from Alfred de Musset.

=Withers, Frederic Clarke.= _E._, 1826-1901. An architect of New York city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity Church in that city. Church Architecture.

=Witherspoon, John.= _S._, 1722-1794. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1768-94, eminent in his day as a leader of opinion, both political and religious, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Ecclesiastical Characteristics; Thoughts on American Liberty; Sermons on Practical Subjects; Leading Truths of the Gospel; Letters on Marriage; Sermons on Various Subjects. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; American Historical Review, July, 1896._

=Witherspoon, Theodore Dwight.= _Al._, 1836-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman in Louisville from 1882. Children of the Covenant; Letters on Romanism.

=Withington, Leonard.= _Ms._, 1789-1885. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1816-1885. The Puritan, a series of Essays; Penitential Tears; Solomon’s Song Translated and Explained.

=Wolcott, Roger.= _Ct._, 1679-1767. A colonial governor of Connecticut, 1750-1754. Poetical Meditations. _See Everest’s Poets of Connecticut._

=Wolf, Edmund Jacob.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg from 1874. History of the Lutherans in America.

=Wolfe, Theodore Frelinghuysen.= _N. J._, 1843- ----. A physician and littérateur of Ledgewood, New Jersey. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors; Literary Shrines: the Haunts of Some Famous American Authors,--two widely popular books. Among his professional works are volumes on Tetanus; Anæsthesia, and other medical subjects. _Lip._

=Wolle, Francis.= _Pa._, 1817-1893. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, eminent as a botanist. Desmids of the United States; Fresh-Water Algæ; Diatomaceæ of North America. _Wn._

=Wollenweber, Louis August.= _G._, 1807-1888. A German printer who came to America, and, after editing several German papers in Philadelphia, removed to Reading, Pennsylvania. Sketches of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania; Treu bis in den Tod; Zwei treue Kameraden.

=Wood, Alphonso.= _N. H._, 1810-1881. An educator of Brooklyn whose text-books were very popular. Class-Book of Botany; First Lessons in Botany; Leaves and Flowers; The American Botanist.

=Wood, Benjamin.= _Ky._, 1820-1900. A journalist of New York city, member of Congress, 1861-65. Fort Lafayette, or Love and Secession.

=Wood, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Germantown, Philadelphia. Saunterings in Europe.

=Wood, De Volson.= _N. Y._, 1832-1897. A professor of mathematics and engineering at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1872. Treatise on Resistance of Materials; Construction of Bridges and Roofs; Elements of Analytical Mechanics; Elements of Coördinate Geometry; The Mechanics of Fluids; Trigonometry; Thermodynamics; Theory of Turbines. _Wil._

=Wood, George.= _Ms._, 1799-1870. A treasury clerk at Washington. Peter Schmeil in America; The Modern Pilgrim; Marrying Too Late; Future Life (1858), reissued in 1869 as The Gates Wide Open. _Le._

=Wood, George Bacon.= _N. J._, 1797-1879. A Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-60. The Dispensatory of the United States (with F. Bache, _supra_). The Practice of Medicine; Therapeutics and Pharmacology; Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects; History of the University of Pennsylvania; Lives of S. G. Morton, F. Bache. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._ _Lip._

=Wood, Henry.= _Vt._, 1834- ----. A philosophical essayist and novelist of Boston. Natural Law in the Business World; Political Economy of Natural Law; God’s Image in Man; Ideal Suggestions Through Mental Photography; Edward Burton, a novel; Studies in the Thought World. _Le._

=Wood, Horace Gay.= _Vt._, 1831-1893. A New Hampshire lawyer, who practised in New York city in his latest years. The Relation of Landlord and Tenant; Treatise on the Law of Nuisances; Master and Servant; The Law of Fire Insurance; Limitation of Actions at Law and in Equity; On the Statute of Frauds; The Law of Railroads; Legal Remedies of Mandamus and Prohibition.

=Wood, Horatio Curtis.= _Pa._, 1841- ----. Nephew of G. B. Wood, _supra_, a medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1866. The Phalangidæ of the United States; Researches upon American Hemp; Brain Work and Overwork; On Fever; Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis; Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke; Therapeutics. _Lip._

=Wood, James.= _N. Y._, 1799-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator in Indiana. Old and New Theology; Treatise on Baptism; Call to the Sacred Office; The Best Lesson and the Best Time; The Gospel Fountain; Grace and Glory.

=Wood, Mrs. Jean [Moncure].= _Va._, 1754-1823. The wife of James Wood, who was governor of Virginia, 1796-99. She was socially prominent in her day. Flowers and Weeds of the Old Dominion, a book of verse.

=Wood, John.= _S._, _c._ 1755-1822. A Scottish writer who came to America in 1800 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. Among his writings are General View of the History of Switzerland; History of the Administration of John Adams.

=Wood, John Seymour.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city, editor of The Bachelor of Arts. Gramercy Park, a story of New York; College Days, or Harry’s Career at Yale; Yale Yarns; A Coign of Vantage; An Old Beau, and Other Stories; A Daughter of Venice. _Ap. Cas. Do. Put._

=Wood, Mrs. Julia Amanda [Sargent].= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A Roman Catholic writer of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Myrrha Lake; Hubert’s Wife; Annette; Strayed From the Fold; From Error to Truth; The Brown House at Duffield.

=Wood, Mrs. Sarah Sayward [Barrell] [Keating].= _Ms._, 1759-1855. A novelist whose sentimental fictions include, Duval; Ferdinand and Almira; Amelia, or the Influence of Virtue; Tales of the Night; The Illuminated Baron.

=Wood, William.= _E._, 1580-1639. A Puritan colonist who came to New England in 1629. He founded the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. New England’s Prospect, a descriptive work partly in verse. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Wood, William Maxwell.= _Md._, 1809-1880. A United States naval surgeon. Wandering Sketches; A Shoulder to the Wheel of Progress; Hints to the People on the Profession of Medicine; Fankwei, or the San Jacinto in the Seas of India, China, and Japan.

=Woodberry, George Edward.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. A prominent literary critic of New York city, professor of literature in Columbia University, editor, with E. C. Stedman, of the complete works of Poe. He has also edited a complete edition of Shelley, with Memoir and Notes. A History of Wood Engraving; The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems; Life of Edgar Allan Poe; Life of James Russell Lowell; Studies in Letters and Life. _Har. Hou._

=Woodbridge, Samuel Merrill.= _Ms._, 1819- ----. Kinsman of W. C. Woodbridge, _infra_. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor at Rutgers Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1857. Analysis of Theology; Faith: its True Position in the Life of Man.

=Woodbridge, William Channing.= _Ms._, 1794-1845. An educator of Hartford. Universal Geography (with E. Willard, _supra_). Modern School Geography; Letters from Hofwyl.

=Woodbury, Augustus.= _Ms._, 1825-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Providence from 1851. Plain Words to Young Men; The Second Rhode Island Regiment; Historical Sketch of Rhode Island Prisons and Jails, include his principal works.

=Woodbury, Daniel Phineas.= _N. H._, 1812-1864. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War. Sustaining Walls; Theory of the Arch.

=Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.= _N. J._, 1837- ----. A United States army surgeon. Notes on Military Hygiene; Studies in the non-emetic use of Ipecacuanha. _Lip. Wil._

=Woodruff, Hiram.= _N. J._, 1817-1887. A noted horse-trainer who wrote The Trotting Horse of America. _Co._

=Woodruff, Mrs. Julia Louisa Matilda [Curtiss].= “W. M. L. Jay.” _Ct._, 1832- ----. An author and compiler of New York city. My Winter in Cuba; Shiloh; Holden With the Cords; Bellevue; Daisy Seekers, and various compilations. _Dut._

=Woods, Mrs. Kate [Tannatt].= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts. Six Little Rebels; Dr. Dick; Out and About; The Wooing of Grandmother Grey; Grandfather Grey; Children’s Stories; Toots and His Friends; The Duncans on Land and Sea. _Cas. Le. Lo._

=Woods, Katharine Pearson.= _W. Va._, 1853- ----. The Crowning of Candace; John: a Tale of King Messiah; From Dusk to Dawn; A Web of Gold; Metzerott, Shoemaker, a protest against social injustice; Mine and Thine. _Ap. Cr. Do._

=Woods, Leonard.= _Ms._, 1774-1854. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, professor at Andover Seminary, 1808-54. Letters to Unitarians; Inspiration of the Scriptures; Memoirs of American Missionaries; Church Government; Lectures on Swedenborgianism; Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection. _See Park’s Life and Character of._

=Woods, Virna.= _O._, 1864-1903. An educator of Sacramento, California. A Modern Magdalene, a novel; The Amazons, a lyrical drama. _Fl. Le._

=Woodward, Ashbel.= _Ct._, 1804-1885. A physician of Franklin, Connecticut. Vindication of General Israel Putnam; Vindication of Army Surgeons; Life of General Nathaniel Lyon; Medical Ethics, include his principal writings.

=Woodward, Annie Aubertine.= Sister of J. J. Woodward, _infra_. _See Moore, Mrs. A._

=Woodward, Calvin Milton.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A St. Louis educator, professor in Washington University from 1868. History of the St. Louis Bridge; The Manual Training School: its Aims, Methods, and Results.

=Woodward, Joseph Janvier.= _Pa._, 1833-1884. A United States army surgeon. Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies, as observed during the present war (1864); Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion (with G. Otis). _Lip._

=Woodward, Francis Channing.= _Ct._, 1812-1859. Nephew of S. Woodworth, _infra_. A once popular writer of juvenile tales, among which are, Uncle Frank’s Home Stories; Stories for Little Folks.

=Woodward, Robert Simpson.= _Mch._, 1849- ----. A mathematician, professor of mechanics at Columbia University from 1893. Latitudes and Longitudes of Certain Points in Missouri, Kansas, and New Mexico, and many scientific papers of value.

=Woodworth, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1785-1842. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city who wrote, The Champions of Freedom, an historical romance; Melodies, Duets, Trios, Songs, and Ballads, but who will be longest remembered as the author of the famous lyric, The Old Oaken Bucket. _See Foley’s American Authors._

=Woolf, Benjamin Edward.= _E._, 1836-1901. A popular playwright, among whose plays are, The Mighty Dollar; The Professor; The Doctor of Alcantara.

=Woolley, Mrs. Celia [Parker].= _O._, 1848- ----. A novelist, formerly of Chicago, now (1897) in the Unitarian ministry at Geneva, Illinois. Roger Hunt; A Girl Graduate; Rachel Armstrong, or Love and Theology. _Hou._

=Woolman, John.= _N. J._, 1720-1772. A Quaker itinerant preacher of New Jersey, in whose writings occurs the earliest protest in America against the slave trade. His ethical teachings have won the highest praise from many quarters. Essays and Epistles; Serious Considerations; On the Keeping of Negroes. His famous Journal, by which he is most widely known, has been edited by the poet Whittier. _Hou._

=Woolsey, Abby Howland.= 18-- -1893. A New York philanthropist. A Century of Nursing; Lunacy Legislation in England; Handbook for Hospital Visitors; Hospital Laundries.

=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey.= “Susan Coolidge.” _O._, 1845- ----. Niece of T. D. Woolsey, _infra_. A poet and popular writer for young people. A resident of Newport, Rhode Island. Old Convent School in Paris; The New Year’s Bargain; What Katy Did; A Guernsey Lily; For Summer Afternoons; In the High Valley; A Short History of Philadelphia; The Barberry Bush, and Other Stories About Girls; Verses; A Few More Verses, include the more important of her writings. _Rob._

=Woolsey, Theodore Dwight.= _N. Y._, 1801-1889. A Congregational clergyman, president of Yale University, 1846-71, long eminent as a scholar and thinker. Political Science; Communism and Socialism; Introduction to the Study of International Law; Essay on Divorce and Divorce Legislation; Helpful Thoughts for Young Men; The Religion of the Present and the Future; Eros, and Other Poems. _Lo. Scr._

=Woolson, Mrs. Abba Louisa [Goold].= _Me._, 1838- ----. A Boston lecturer on English literature. Woman in American Society; Dress Reform; Browsings Among Books; George Eliot and Her Heroines. _Har. Rob._

=Woolson, Constance Fenimore.= _N. H._, 1840-1894. A novelist whose work was much above the average level of fiction, Horace Chase being her best novel. Her other works include, Castle Nowhere; Lake Country Sketches; Two Women, a poem; Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches; Anne; For the Major; East Angels; Jupiter Lights; The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories; Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories; Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu; The Old Stone House. _See Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia, 1894._ _Ap. Har._

=Worcester, Alfred.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. A physician of Waltham, Massachusetts. Monthly Nursing; A New Way of Training Nurses; Training Schools for Nurses in Small Cities; Small Hospitals.

=Worcester, Joseph Emerson.= _N. H._, 1784-1865. A distinguished lexicographer and philologist of Cambridge. Geographical Dictionary; Gazetteer of the United States; Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants; Elements of History; Outlines of Scriptural Geography; Comprehensive Primary Dictionary. His greatest work is his well-known quarto Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1860. _Lip._

=Worcester, Noah.= _N. H._, 1758-1837. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Brighton, Massachusetts, 1813-37, who was prominent in the Unitarian controversy. He edited The Friend of Peace. A Respectful Address to the Trinitarian Clergy; The Atoning Sacrifice a Display of Love, not Wrath; Last Thoughts on Important Subjects; Causes and Evils of Contentions Among Christians. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Worcester, Noah.= _N. H._, 1812-1847. A physician who was professor of pathology in Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio. Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Skin Diseases.

=Worcester, Samuel.= _N. H._, 1770-1821. Brother of N. Worcester, 1st, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Salem, Massachusetts, from 1803. Letters to Dr. Channing on the Unitarian Controversy; Discourses on the Covenant with Abraham. _See Life of, by S. M. Worcester, infra._

=Worcester, Samuel Melanchthon.= _Ms._, 1801-1866. Son of S. Worcester, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, professor of rhetoric at Amherst College, 1825-34; pastor at Salem, Massachusetts, 1834-60. Essays on Slavery; Life of Samuel Worcester, _supra_.

=Worcester, Thomas.= _N. H._, 1768-1831. Brother of N. Worcester, 1st. A Unitarian clergyman. Call for Scripture Evidence that Christ is God; The True God but One Person; New Chain of Plain Argument.

=Work, Henry Clay.= _Ct._, 1832-1884. A popular song-writer of Chicago. Marching Through Georgia; Grandfather’s Clock, are perhaps the best known of his songs.

=Workman, Mrs. Fanny [Bullock].= _Ms._, 1859- ----. Daughter of A. H. Bullock, _supra_, and wife of W. H. Workman, _infra_. A littérateur who has lived much abroad. With her husband she has written, Algerian Memories: a Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara; Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia. _Ran._

=Workman, William Hunter.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A physician who is co-author with Mrs. Workman, _supra_, of Algerian Memories, and Sketches Awheel. _Ran._

=Worman, James Henry.= _P._, 1835- ----. An educator who has filled professorships in various colleges North and South. Complete Grammar of the German Language; Elementary German Grammar; L’Echo de Paris.

=Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.= _E._, 1832- ----. A translator of prominence who has translated the novels of Balzac and the plays of Molière, and is the author of The Other Side of War; Life of Balzac; The United States Sanitary Commission; Hospital Transports. _Rob._

=Wormley, Theodore George.= _Pa._, 1826-1897. A Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania from 1877. Methods of Analysis of Coals, etc.; The Micro-Chemistry of Poisons. _Lip._

=Worthen, William Ezra.= _Ms._, 1819-1897. A civil engineer of prominence. Cyclopædia of Drawing; First Lessons in Mechanics; Rudimentary Drawing for Schools.

=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= _N. H._, 1840- ----. A statistician of distinction, United States Commissioner of Labor from 1885, and professor of political science in the Catholic University at Washington from 1895. Census of Massachusetts, 1875; The Factory System of the United States; The Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question; Annual Reports of Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 1873-88; Convict Labor; Strikes and Lockouts; Working Women in Large Cities; Railroad Labor; Marriage and Divorce; Cost of Production of Iron, Steel, etc.; Cost of Production of Textiles and Glass; Industrial Evolution of the United States. _Fl._

=Wright, Chauncey.= _Ms._, 1830-1875. An instructor in mathematical physics at Harvard University. Philosophical Discussions; Darwinism. _See Biographical Sketch, by C. E. Norton, supra; Memoir, J. B. Thayer._

=Wright, Elizur.= _Ct._, 1804-1885. A journalist of Boston long prominent as a reformer. A Curiosity of Law; The Politics and Mysteries of Life Insurance; Savings Bank Life Insurance; Myron Holley and What He Did for Liberty and True Religion; a translation of La Fontaine’s Fables.

=Wright, Fanny.= _See D’Arusmont._

=Wright, George Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Congregational clergyman and geologist, since 1884 attached to the United States Geological Survey in the Department of Glacial Geology. The Glacial Boundary in Ohio; Studies in Science and Religion; Logic of Christian Evidences; The Relation of Death to Probation; Divine Authority of the Bible; The Ice Age in North America; Man and the Glacial Period; Life of Charles Grandison Finney, _supra_. _Ap. Hou._

=Wright, Hendrick Bradley.= _Pa._, 1808-1881. A lawyer of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Member of Congress, 1853-55, 1861-63, and 1877-80. A Practical Treatise on Labor; Historical Sketches of the Wyoming Valley.

=Wright, Henrietta Christian.= 18-- -1899. The Golden Fairy Series; Children’s Stories of American Progress; Stories of the Great Inventors; Stories in American Literature; Stories in English Literature; Stories of American History; The Princess Liliwinkins. _Har. Scr._

=Wright, Henry Clarke.= _Ct._, 1797-1870. An anti-slavery reformer and lecturer of prominence in his day. Man-Killing by Individuals and Nations a Wrong; A Kiss for a Blow; Defensive War a Denial of Christianity; Human Life Illustrated; Marriage and Parentage; The Living Present and the Dead Past. _Le._

=Wright, John Stephen.= _Ms._, 1815-1874. A Chicago manufacturer who established The Prairie Farmer in 1840. Chicago: Past, Present, and Future.

=Wright, Mrs. Julia [MacNair].= _N. Y._, 1840-1903. Wife of W. J. Wright, _infra_. A prolific writer of temperance and religious tales, the latter being strongly anti-Roman Catholic in character. Among them are, Almost a Nun; Priest and Nun; Scenes of the Convent; The Gospel in the Riviera; A Wife Hard Won; A Million Too Much. _Co. Lip._

=Wright, Mrs. Mabel [Osgood].= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. Daughter of S. Osgood, _supra_, and great-niece, on the maternal side, of Susanna Rowson, _supra_. A nature writer of Fairfield, Connecticut. The Friendship of Nature, a series of out-door studies; Birdcraft, a field-book of New England Birds; Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts: a Natural History Story; Citizen Bird, a bird book for beginners. _Mac._

=Wright, Mrs. Mary [Tappan].= _O._, 1851- ----. A writer of Cambridge, the wife of Professor J. H. Wright, of Harvard University. A Truce, and Other Stories; Aliens; The Test. _Scr._

=Wright, Marcus Joseph.= _Tn._, 1831- ----. A brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer of Memphis. Life of General Winfield Scott; Life of Governor William Blount; Reminiscence of the Early Settlement of McNairy County, Tennessee. _Ap._

=Wright, Robert Emmet.= _Pa._, 1810- ----. A lawyer of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Aldermen and Justices of the Peace; The Office and Duties of Constable; Pennsylvania State Reports, 1861-65.

=Wright, Robert William.= _Vt._, 1816-1885. A Connecticut lawyer and journalist. The Church Knaviad; Vision of Judgment; The Pious Chi-Neh; Life: its True Genesis, a refutation of evolution; Practical Legal Forms.

=Wright, Thomas Lee.= _O._, 1825- ----. A physician and journalist of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Notes on the Theory of Human Existence; Disquisition on the Ancient History of Medicine; Inebriism: a Pathological and Psychological Study.

=Wright, William.= _I._, 1824-1866. A journalist of Paterson, New Jersey. The Oil Regions of Pennsylvania (1865). _Har._

=Wright, William Bull.= _N. Y._, 1840-1880. A physician and educator of Buffalo. Highland Rambles, a Poem; The Brook, and Other Poems.

=Wright, William Burnet.= _O._, 1836- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, and more recently of Buffalo. Ancient Cities from the Dawn to the Daylight; The World to Come; Master and Men: the Sermon on the Mountain practiced on the Plain. _Hou._

=Wright, William Henry.= _N. C._, 1814-1845. A military engineer in government service. Brief Practical Treatise on Mortars.

=Wright, William James.= _Vt._, 1831- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of metaphysics at Westminster College, Missouri, from 1887. Tracts on Higher Mathematics.

=Wyatt, William Edward.= _N. S._, 1789-1864. An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore, rector of St. Paul’s Church, 1814-64. Christian Offices; The Parting Spirit’s Address to His Mother.

=Wyckoff, William Cornelius.= _N. Y._, 1832-1882. Son of W. H. Wyckoff, _infra_. The scientific editor of The New York Tribune, 1869-78. Silk Goods in America; American Silk Manufacture.

=Wyckoff, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1807-1877. A Baptist clergyman and educator of New York city. American Bible Society and the Baptists; Documentary History of the American Bible Union.

=Wyeth, John Allan.= _Al._, 1845- ----. A surgeon of New York city, founder, in 1880, of the New York Polyclinic and Hospital, the first graduate medical school in America. Essays on Surgical Anatomy and Surgery; Text-Book on Surgery. _Ap._

=Wylie, Theodore William John.= _Pa._, 1818-1898. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. English, Latin, and Greek Vocabulary; The God of Our Fathers; Washington as a Christian.

=Wylie, Theophilus Adam.= _Pa._, 1810-1895. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of ancient languages in the University of Indiana from 1864. History of the University of Indiana.

=Wyman, Edwin Allen.= _Me._, 1834- ----. A clergyman of Malden, Massachusetts. Acquaintance with God, or Salvation and Character.

=Wyman, Jeffries.= _Ms._, 1814-1874. A physician and scientist of distinction, Hersey professor of anatomy in Harvard University, 1847-74. He was the author of Fresh-Water Shell-Mounds of the St. John’s River, Florida, and many scientific monographs of much value. _See Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874; Biographical Memoirs of National Academy of Science, vol. 3._

=Wyman, Mrs. Lillie Buffum [Chace].= _R. I._, 1837- ----. Poverty Grass, a collection of short stories.

=Wyman, Morrill.= _Ms._, 1812-1903. Brother of J. Wyman, _supra_. A physician of Cambridge. Practical Treatise on Ventilation; Progress in School Discipline; Autumnal Catarrh. _Hou._

=Wynne, James.= _N. Y._, 1814-1871. A physician of New York city. Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America; Importance of the Study of Legal Medicine; The Private Libraries of New York.

=Wynne, Mrs. Madelene [Yale].= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. Daughter of Mrs. Yale, _infra_. A Chicago artist and worker in silver. The Little Room and Other Stories. _Wy._

=Wythe, George.= _Va._, 1726-1806. A Virginia lawyer, professor of law at William and Mary College, 1779-89, and a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery (1795).

=Wythe, Joseph Henry.= _E._, 1822- ----. A Methodist clergyman and physician of San Francisco. The Microscopist; Curiosities of the Microscope; Agreement of Science and Revelation; The Science of Life; Biblical Biology; Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology; Physiology of the Soul. _Meth._