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he, and it is quite safe to say that scarcely a 

 reform in the management of Indian all'airs that 

 has taken place within the past forty years was 

 unforeseen as needful in his judgment of the mat- 

 ter during the first year of his episcopate. At 

 the time of the Sioux massacre in 1802 Bishop 

 Whipple declared that the blame was directly 

 traceable to the false dealing of the whites with 

 their Indian neighbors, and when threatened with 

 violence for saying this, replied : " These things 

 .are true, and the nation needs to know them; 

 and, so help me God! I will tell them if I am 

 shot the next minute." In 1876 the bishop se- 

 cured the Sioux treaty, which opened the most 

 fertile parts of Dakota to white settlement. The 

 counsel and advice of Bishop Whipple were 

 sought in relation to Indian affairs by every 

 President of the United States from Lincoln to 

 McKinley. He had traveled extensively, and was 

 well known and honored in England as well as at 

 home, and was reverenced by men of all creeds 

 and no creed. Besides vigorous pamphlets on the 

 Indian question and sermons and charges, the 

 bishop published Lights and Shadows of a Long 

 Episcopate (1899), in which will be found a very 

 strong presentation of the Indian problem. 



White, Greenough, clergyman, born in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., in 1863; died at Sewanee, Tenn., 

 July 3, 1901. He was educated at Harvard, and 

 was graduated at the Episcopal Theological 

 School in Cambridge in 1892, being admitted to 

 the priesthood in 1896. While still in deacon's or- 

 ders he had been in charge of St. James's Church, 

 West Hartford, Conn., 1893-'94, but this was his 

 only pastorate. He was Professor of English 

 Literature in the University of the South, at 

 Sewanee, 1886-'87, and of History and Political 

 Economy at Trinity College, Hartford, 1893-'94. 

 He then returned to Sewanee, and was Professor 

 of Ecclesiastical History and Polity there from 

 1894 until his death. He was the author of Out- 

 line of the Philosophy of English Literature 

 (1895); A Saint of the Southern Church: A 

 JVIemoir of Nicholas Hanmer Cobbs (1897); An 

 Apostle of the Western Church: A Memoir of 

 Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper (1899); An Outline of 

 the Philosophy of American Literature; and The 

 Rise of Papal Supremacy. He edited Matthew 

 Arnold and the Spirit of the Age (1898). 



White, Stephen Mallory, lawyer, born in San 

 Francisco, Cal., Jan. 19, 1853; died in Los An- 

 geles, Cal., Feb. 21, 1901. He was graduated at 

 Santa Clara College in 1871, studied law, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1874, and began to practise 

 in Los Angeles County. In 1882 he was elected 

 district attorney on the Democratic ticket. In 

 1884, and again in 1886, he was chairman of the 

 Democratic State Convention. In 1886 he was 

 elected to the State Senate. In 1888, on the dea.th 

 of Gov. Bartlett, he discharged the functions of 

 Lieutenant-Governor. In 1890 he was an unsuc- 

 cessful candidate for the United States senator- 

 ship, but in 1893 was elected to that office. 



Wigger, Winand Michael, clergyman, born 

 in New York city, Dec. 12, 1841; died in South 

 Orange, N. J., Jan. 5, 1901. He was educated for 

 the priesthood at St. Francis Xavier College, New 

 York city, and at Seton Hall College, South 

 Orange, N. J., where minor orders were con- 

 ferred upon him, in December, 1861. In 1862 he 

 went to Genoa, Italy, where he finished his theo- 

 logical course in the College of Brignoli Sali. In 

 1865 he was ordained a priest. He returned to 

 the United States and was appointed an assistant 

 priest at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Newark, N. J. ; 

 later he was stationed for short periods at St. 

 John's Church, Orange, St. Vincent's Church, 



Madison, and the church at Mill.iun. In .July, 

 1881, he was appointed Bishop ol Newark, lie re- 

 ceivqd the degree of D. D. from tin: Collco,. ,,f 

 Brignoli Sali in I860. 



Wildman, Rounseville, journalist., bom ] n 

 Batavia, N. Y., March 19, 1804; di<-d in iho Pa- 

 cific Ocean, near California, Feb. 22, I DO I. |j (! 

 was graduated at Syracuse University, and bc- 

 came editor of the Idaho Statesman at Boise Cii.v. 

 Later he was sent to Congress as Territorial l)ci'<-- 

 gate, and it was largely due to his efforts that 

 Idaho was admitted to statehood. In 18S!) he 

 was appointed consul-general at Singapore; ho 

 served three years, and was transferred to Bre- 

 men. When he returned to the United States he 

 devoted himself to magazine work, and was for a 

 time editor of the Overland Monthly. In May, 

 1898, he was appointed consul-general at Hong- 

 Kong, and he was prominently before the public 

 in connection with the war in the Philippine 

 Islands. He was on leave of absence and on his 

 way home on the steamer City of Rio Janeiro, 

 when the ship struck on a reef and he was 

 among those who were drowned. 



Williams, Alonzo, educator, born in Foster, 

 R. I., Sept. 14, 1842; died in Providence, R. I., 

 March 16, 1901. He worked in cotton-mills in 

 his youth and served for a time in the army dur- 

 ing the civil war. He was graduated at Brown 

 University in 1870, became a professor there, and 

 from 1892 was at the head of the Germanic semi- 

 nar. He was the author of technical works and 

 lectures bearing upon the modern languages. 



Williams, Robert, soldier, born in Culpeper 

 County, Virginia, Nov. 5, 1829; died in Plainfield, 

 N. J., Aug. 24, 1901. He was graduated at West 

 Point, and entered the service as brevet 2d lieu- 

 tenant of the 1st Dragoons, July 1, 1851; pro- 

 moted 2d lieutenant, July 15, 1853; 1st lieutenant, 

 June 7, 1855. He was made assistant adjutant- 



feneral, with the rank of brevet captain, May 11, 

 861 ; promoted captain, Aug. 3, 1861 ; lieutenant- 

 colonel, Feb. 22, 1869; colonel, July 1, 1881; and 

 appointed adjutant-general, with the rank of brig- 

 adier-general, July 5, 1892; he was retired Nov. 5, 

 1893. In the volunteer service in the civil war 

 he was commissioned colonel of the 1st Massa- 

 chusetts Cavalry. Oct. 7, 1861; promoted major, 

 July 17, 1862; and resigned, Oct. 1, 1862. He 

 took part in the battle of Antietam and was 

 brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 24, 1864; colo- 

 nel and brigadier-general, March 13, 1865, for dili- 

 gent, faithful, and meritorious service in the de- 

 partment of the adjutant-general during the war. 

 Williams, Stephen Bobbins, philanthropist, 

 born in Amityville, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1832; died 

 there, Jan. 30, 1901. For several years he was 

 superintendent of the poor of Suffolk County, 

 and in 1887 he founded the Brunswick Home for 

 Invalids. He also incorporated a similar insti- 

 tution at Westport, Conn. 



Wilson, Thomas, soldier, born in Washington, 

 D. C., June 10, 1832; died in New York city, 

 May 30, 1901. He was graduated at West Point 

 in 1853, and assigned to the 6th Infantry as 

 brevet 2d lieutenant; promoted 2d lieutenant 5th 

 Infantry, Oct. 26, 1854; 1st lieutenant, April 1, 

 1857; commissary of subsistence, with rank of 

 captain. Oct. 25, 1861 ; lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 26, 

 1863; major, May 20, 1882; made assistant com- 

 missary-general of subsistence, with the rank of 

 lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 1, 1892; promoted colo- 

 nel, June 1, 1896; and retired, June 10, 1896. 

 Before the civil war he was on frontier duty in 

 Texas and also engaged against the Seminole In- 

 dians in Florida. He was present at the battle 

 of Antietam, and was chief of commissariat of 



