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volume of his reports on the geology of Iowa. The 



3l te was subsequently placed io 



Sir. Wortfaen'fl hands, by Prof. Hall, for description. 



Ou the organization of the geological survey of Illi- 

 nois in 1N>1. he was ap -unit in the work 

 and served actively for three years. In 1855 he was 

 nt State geologist of Iowa, but in 1858 he he- 

 came State geofogi>t of Illinois, which place he then 

 held until 1877, when the office was abolished. He 

 devoted himself largely to active work in the field, 







and engaged the services of eminent specialists in the 

 dirierent lines of science to work up the material eol- 



: thus he as.-igned the mineralogy to Josiali D. 

 \V hitney, the description of plants to Leo Lesquereux, 

 the vertebrate palaeontology to John S. Newberry, the 

 invertebrate paleontology to Fielding B. Meek, and 

 the geology to Garland <_'" Broadhead and Edward T. 

 Cox. This resulted in the publication of his reports 

 on the " Geological Survey of Illinois " (8 vols., quar- 

 to. S] ringrl ..' In 1-77 he was appointed 

 curator of the State Historical Library and Natural 

 History Museum, which place he held until his death. 

 During his term of office he gathered an extensive 

 collection of minerals and fossils, which were arr, 

 by him in the Natural History Museum, now in the 

 State Capitol, and also furnished numerous collec- 



> different colleges in the Suite. Mr. Worthen 

 wa- a member of scientific societies, and in 1>74 was 



i a fellow of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. In 1^7- he was chosen a 

 memter of the National Academy of Sciences. The 

 value of his reports was widely recognized, and besides 

 & few professional papers was his only literary work. 

 Wotnerspoon, William Wallace, merchant, "born in 

 New York city in 1821 ; died there, Oct. 11, 1833. lie 

 received a collegiate education, studied painting in 

 Rome, took part in the Italian revolution ot 184 s . and, 

 returning to New York city in 1849, established him- 

 self as a painter. He became a founder of the Arti-ts' 

 Fund and the Sketch Club, and was an active member 

 of the National Academy of Design. On the death 

 of his father, a well-to-do merchant with a fondness 

 for art, he relinquished his art career and applied 

 himself to his father's large business. For overt wen- 

 tv years he had painted only for pleasure, yet in that 

 tune lie lost none of his enthusiasm for art, and de- 



1 in quietly extending pecuniary aid and other 

 encouragement to struggling artists of merit. 



Wyckoff, William OL journalist, born in New York 

 city. May i?. ls',2; died in Brooklyn. N. Y.. May L', 

 1888. He was educated at Forrest's Collegiate School, 

 in 1854 was appointed corresponding clerk and mathe- 

 matician to Bcebe & Co., who were at that time the 

 specie and bullion dealers in the United States. 



From 1861 till 18fi6 he was chief clerk of the National 

 Bauk-N iny. a:;d in Iv; 1 .' became day and 



scientific e<.!:' rk " Tribune." lie was 



secretary of the Silk Association of America from 1878 

 till his death, and during that period was associate 

 editor of the ' 



and expert of the Unit' :..-i:t for the 



statistics of the American silk industry for the ecn- 



i editor-in-chief of the " American 



Magazine" from the latter part of 1886 till March, 



fie published "The Silk Goods of America'* 



(New York. 1^7'." : " Silk Manufacture in the United 



" (1883); and "American Silk Manufacture" 



: and he had nearly completed a curious work 

 on ' >ilk Legends." 



Toting, Thomas L., lawyer, bom in Killvlcagh, 

 Countv Down. Ireland. Dec. 14, 1832; died in Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio. July 20, 188S. He came to the United 

 States when a boy, entered the United States Army by 

 enlistment in the last year of the Mexican War. - 

 till 1 S 57. settled in Cincinnati, and was graduated at 

 the Law School. In 1861, after the firing on Fort 

 SumtCT, he entered the army as a lieutenant of volun- 

 teers, was appointed captain in Fremont's body- 

 guard in August, and assiste_d in raising the One 

 Hundred ar.d Eighteenth Ohio Kegiment, of which 

 he was appointed major and promoted colonel in 

 1 V 62. He was brevettcd brigadier-general for gal- 

 lantry at Eesaca in 1865. Returning to Cincinnati, 

 he was admitted to the bar. appointed assistant au- 

 ditor of the city, and elected a member of the L< -g'^- 

 lature in 1865, was elected recorder of Hamilton 

 County in 1867, appointed supervisor of internal rev- 

 enue in 1868, elected State Senator in 1371. Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor of Ohio in 1875, and succeeded Gov. 

 Rutherford B. Haves in 1877. He was elected to Con- 



.:* a Republican in 1373 and 1880, a_nd was ap- 

 pointed a member of the board of public affairs of 

 Cincinnati in 1856, holding the office till his death. 



Zerega, Augustus, merchant, born in Martinique, 

 Dec. 4, 1803; died in New York city, Dec. 2v. 

 He was the son of a wealthy ship-owner, was edu- 

 cated in London, England, and Balbec, France, re- 

 turned to the West Indies in 1818, studied navigation 

 fm his lathe:' nd became a ship-owner and 



captain in 1320. During the next fifteen years he was 

 engaged in the West India and South American trade, 

 .sailing his vessels himself, and znaking and losing 

 three fortunes. While temporarily living in La 

 Guayra. he became intimate with Gen. Simoii Bolivar, 

 encouraged his scheme for liberating the South Ameri- 

 can states f">m Spanish rule, and in 1831 made a voy- 



:he United States to procure munitions of war 

 for him. In 1S33 he established himself as a coffee- 

 inerchant in New York city, and owned and managed 

 a fleet of thirty vessels, noted in their day as the " Z " 

 line, till 1855, when he retired from business and sold 

 his ves>els. One of his ships, the "Antartie.' 

 cued over 300 United States soldiers from thi 

 Francisco" when she foundered at sea. in 1-54. He 

 lived in retirement at Throgg's Neck from 1855 till 

 1863, and after that spent his winters in New York. 



OBITf ARIES, FOREIGN. Sketches of a few of 

 the most eminent foreigners that died in 1888 

 will be found in their own alphabetical places 

 in this volume, accompanied with portraits. 



Arnason, Jon, an Icelandic scholar, born Aug. 17. 

 1819 ; died in Reykjavik, Iceland, Nov. 13. 1^8: He 

 wa> for many years librarian of the public library of 

 Iceland, which was largely increased under his direc- 

 tion, and did much to preserve the memorials of the 

 early history of Iceland. Dr. Arnason was famous 

 for his great collection of Icelandic sagas. He pub- 

 lished, with Grimson, a collection of Icelandic tales, 

 followed bv a larger one of ' Popular Legends oi' Ice- 

 land" (Lcipsic. r862-'64). 



Baden, Prince Lndwig Wilhelm, second son of the 

 Grand-Duke and of Princess Louise of Prussia, born 



