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command of the left wing, lie opposed the passage of 

 tin- British throughout (lie day. ami led his mci 



oT at evening. On tin- It'.tli an action which I om- 



menced was out short liy a storui. On tin- 20th lie 

 was surprised at Parker's Ferry and forced to retreat 

 with some Ions: IttdMMBded a court martial, wl.ieh 

 honorably ac<|iiitted him. In tin- battle of German- 

 town, Oct. 1. he commanded the right wing, but mis- 

 lakes or accidents occurred, and he nttMted with m> 

 new laurels. In the following months he was of much 

 s-cnice iii Rmgng, en i.-> ing into New Jersey and pro 

 curing cattle and provisions for the army. At Mon- 

 inoutli, Juno 2S. I77S, he bore a prominent part and 

 was praised by Washington. His most lirilliant exploit 

 was the storming of Stony Point. N. V , July IS, at 

 night, only bayonets being used ; for this he received 

 the thanks of Congress and a gold medal. His popular 

 title was " mad Anthony." Fortune favored him with 

 no more such opportunities as this. He suppressed a 

 mutiny of LYmisylvania troops in New Jersey in .Ian 

 uary, 1781. At Green Spring, Va., July 6, hesuddcnly 

 encountered the enemy and retired : accounts of this 

 atfair are conflicting. After Cornwall!*' surrender he 

 was scut to Georgia, where he cleared the State (except 

 Savannah) of the enemy; the legislature voted him 

 thanks and a farm, on which he lived for some years 

 Whatever his degree of prudence, his gallantry had 

 earned more than the brevet of major-general. He 

 was a member of the Pennsylvania convention which 

 ratified the constitution in ]TS ( J, and in 1791 claimed 

 a seat in Congress from Georgia, but lost it. Jn April, 

 179:2, lie succeeded St. Clair in the command of the 

 Western army in Ohio, which sadly needed recruil.s, 

 supplies, organization, and discipline. Alter two years 

 of preparation and negotiation he attacked ihe Indians 

 ut Maumee Hapids, A us. 20, 17'J4, and won ft brilliant 

 victory ; the treaty of Greenville was made the follow- 

 ing year. Wayne was returning to the Kast when he 

 died at Presque Isle, on Lake Eric, Dee. 15, 179C. 

 His remains were interred at Radnor, Pa., and there a 

 monument was erected by the Society of the Cincinnati. 

 July 4, J8O9. H. N. iMoore published a memoir of him 

 (I84S). (p. M . H.) 



WEED, Trrriu.ow (1707-1882), journalist nn<l p.,| 

 itieian, was born at A era, Greene en., N. Y ., Nov. IS. 

 1797. He had no eiirly advantages but sn;-h as come 

 from the discipline of hardship ; he was a tnl in boy 

 on the Hudson at 10, and began to learn the printer's 

 trade at 12. From out; office he moved to another, and 

 in the war of IBISheMTTed on (he frontier. At 20 

 he was editing the Afrrirnttiiriilut at Norwich, N. Y. 

 From this time he was always coin.' -t. ! -,v 

 newspaper. In lS2f hn was sent to the l.c-rislature. 

 and as editor of the .!/<'/ M *.<,,, <i<: /m/tiirrr-.tt Rochester 

 toi k i art in the. agitation of that time (stirred up by 

 ' 'organ murder), ami helped to re-elect De Witt 

 Clinton to the governorship. In lx:ti) he was :i 

 t i.e legislature and placed in charge of the Albany 

 tg Journal, then started by the party opposed 

 to "the Kcgcney" and to 1're.s. Jackson. His life 

 for the next .'!2 years was hound up with this paper 

 and with New York politics, in which he became a 

 mighty power. He was a m.isler of the art of hand- 

 ling voters and managing conventions ; he was .-.iid I" 

 ! i M .t.- i'.iion at the last moment 

 by the dexterous use of a moderate sum. Yet he was 

 personally incorruptible and disinterested ; he neither 

 nought nor accepted office for himself; he was loyal to 

 hi.- party and his country and so indifferent to his own 

 fortunes that friends looked after his financial affairs 

 with eminent success. With Seward and Greejey h: 

 constituted a State triumvirate. While the former 

 was governor, 18.'(<M.'!, Weed was considered by many 

 a power behind the throne. Though New York was 

 especially his province, he did not neglect national 

 affairs, but assisted in nominating successively llarri 

 Hon. Taylor, and So, it His r.cal tor the Wh'iir parly 

 Was transferred to the Republican ; he htrovc t m.iLc 



Seward a presidential candidate in 1S5C and 1860, but. 

 ma-teiing his disap|x>intiucnt. earnestly sups 

 Fremont and Lincoln. The latter sent him to Kuropc 

 on an unacknowledged mission in the autumn of 

 and the next year lie ceased to conduct the Journal. 

 llcmoving to New York in 1805, he edited the 

 intrt-iiil Ailrtrtiser for three years. After that, his 

 activity, though continued, was concealed : a new race 

 of managers had arisen, and at Saratoga in 1X7C> he 

 was warned to abstain from interference. He pub- 

 lished LetHnfromAfeffatdAt \\'>*t Iiulirx t 

 and contributed some Keniiniscencrt to the Ailnntir 

 Monthly in 1870. In his old age his sight almost, 

 totally failed. He died in New York 1882, 



leaving an Autobiography, which was edited by his 

 daughter, and appeared at Boston 1883 (2 vols.). To 

 this was added in 1884 a Mrmoir by his grandson, 

 T. W. Barnes. , B .) 



W KKV IL See AGRICULTURE, Chap. 1 X 



WK1R, ROBERT WAITER, artist, was born at New 

 Rochelle, N. Y., June 18. 1803. He was engaged in 

 mercantile pursuits until nearly twenty years of age, 

 and then adopted art as a profession, studying under 

 Jarvis, and painting for some time in New York. 

 About 1824 he went to Italy, where he remained for 

 several years. In 1S;!S he became an associate of the 

 National Academy, and in IS2D he was elected an 

 academician. Three years later he was appointed 

 >r of drawing in the West Point Military Acad- 

 emy, a position which he held for 42 years. His 

 works include portrait. 1 ;, genre pictures, and histor- 

 ical oompowtianB, and he is noted especially for the 

 laithful rendering of the accessories, the still life in 

 liis pictures. Among his best-known paintings? are The 

 Belie of the Carnival (IS36) ; handing of Henry Hud- 

 son (1842); Embarkation of the Pilgrim* (1845), in 

 the rotunda of the Capitol. Washington ; The Kvenii g 

 of the (!rucifixion (I8f>7); Chri.n in the Garden 

 (I.H7:<); Our Ixird on the Mount of Olives (1877) : 

 Columbus before the Council of Salamanca (18^4). ana 

 various portraits, including one of Red Jacket, painted 

 lor lr. J. W. Francis. 



His sons have also gained an honorable position 

 among our artists. JOHN FKIUICSON WKIR, born at 

 West Point. N. Y., Aug. 28, 1841. studied under his 

 lather. In ISol he opened a studio in New York-, 

 where he boc.uiiie a National Academician in 18fi6. 

 Alter spending a year in Kurope he was. in 

 appointed director of the Yale School of Fine Arts 

 Me was also appointed judge of the tine arts at. the 

 Philadelphia hxhibitinn in ls7tl. His viirornug stvle 

 is perhaps best shown by such strong work as Forcing 

 the Shaft (18f>8), which was burned, but of which a 

 replica was exhibited at Paris in IsT.s. He IMS painted 

 also portraits of S. Wells Williams and others, and in 

 1884 executed a statue of Benjamin Silliman. 



Jri.iAN AI.DEN WKIR, born Aug. ;5u. i.s',2. at West 

 Point, N. Y., also studied under his father, ami later 

 (Is72-7i'0, under G^r&me, in Paris. He was elected :i 

 National . \eadeinician in 188fi, was one ol the foniul- 

 ers of the Society of American Artists, and is also a 

 incinlKT of various other societies. His works include 

 Breton Interior and various other Breton subjects; 

 Tin- Good Samaritan (ISS1) ; and portraits of K. W. 

 Wcii (ISSll); Olin L Warner (1SSI) ; Itiehard Grant 

 White (|ss:{); Peter Cooper (1884) ; and John tlil- 

 bcrt (l. vss ) lie has been the recipient of various 

 honors at home and abroad, notably honorable mention 

 at the Salon of IKS1 for his portrait of Warren Delano. 

 and the prize at the 4th Prise Fund Exhibition of the 

 American Art Association, New York, for his Idle 

 Hours. (p. L. w.) 



WELLES, (iIliKOS (IS02-1S78), statesman, was 

 Ixirn at Glaslonhury, Conn., July I. I802, being de- 

 H--endcd from Thomas Welles, a colonial governor. He 

 i -aied ii Norwich I 'diversity, studied law and 

 in IX'JC, bcca;nc eililor and proprietor of the Hart- 

 //(/ Time*, in which he advocated I hit election of 



