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render in 1865. attaining the rank of major. In 1867 

 he was elected a member of the State Constitutional 

 Convention, in 1868 was the Republican candidate for 

 Congress from the 2d Georgia District, and though 

 elected was deprived of his seat. In the same year 

 he was appointed Solicitor-General of the Southwest- 

 ern Circuit; in February, 1870, was elected United 

 States Senator for the term ending March 3, 1871, but 

 again failed to secure his seat ; and in 1870 and 1872 

 was elected Representative and seated. He served in 

 Congress as a member of the committees on manu- 

 facturers and on public expenditures. He removed to 

 Boulder in 1877, and there resumed practice. 



Wigginton, Peter Dinwiddie, lawyer, born in Spring- 

 field, 111., Sept. 6, 1839 ; died in Oakland, Cal., July 

 7. 1890. He removed with his parents to southern 

 Wisconsin when four years old, was educated in the 

 University of Wisconsin, studied law and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar, and removed to Merced County, 

 Cal. In 1864 he was elected district-attorney of the 

 county, and he held the office for four years, 'in 1874 

 and 1876 he was elected to Congress from the 4th- 

 California District as a Democrat. The election cer- 

 tificate^ after his second candidacy, was given to his 

 Republican opponent, but on his contest the House of 

 Representatives decided in his favor. In 1886 he 

 made an attempt to revive the old American party, 

 and as candidate for Goverpor of California he re- 

 ceived more than 8,000 votes in the ensuing election. 

 In 1888 he was chairman of the American National 

 Convention, and the first choice of his party for the 

 Presidential nomination, but he declined it and ac- 

 cepted the nomination for Vice-President. The ticket 

 received but 1,591 votes, all in California. 



Wilber, David, farmer, born in Schenectady County, 

 N. Y., Oct. 5, 1820 ; died in Oneonta, N. Y., April 1, 

 1890. He removed with his parents to Milford, Otse- 

 go County, N. Y., when a boy, received a common- 

 school education there, was supervisor of the town in 

 1858-' 66, and for thirty years was one of the most ex- 

 tensive hop growers in New York. He organized the 

 Wilber National Bank of Oneonta, and was president 

 of it till his death, and at various times was a trustee 

 of Cazenovia Seminary and Syracuse University and 

 a director of the Albany and Susquehanna and the 

 Cooperstown and Susquehanna Railroads. He was 

 elected to Congress from the 24th New York District 

 as a Republican in 1872, 1878, 1886, and 1888, and 

 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention 

 in 1880. His last service in Congress was on the 

 committee on banking and currency. 



Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus, military officer, born in 

 Wayne County, N. C., May 19, 1826 ; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., Dec. 2, 1890. He was graduated at the 

 United States Military Academy and appointed a bre- 

 vet 2d lieutenant in 'the army 'in 1846, was brevetted 

 1st lieutenant for gallantry at the storming of Chapul- 

 tepec, Mexico, and was promoted 1st lieutenant Aug. 

 24, 1851. From 1852 till 1857 he was assistant in- 

 structor in military tactics at the United States 

 Military Academy, then spent a year in Europe on 

 sick leave, was promoted captain of infantry in De- 

 cember, 1860, and while on frontier duty in Arizona 

 in 1861 was ordered to report at Washington for serv- 

 ice in suppressing the rebellion. A few days after 

 receiving this order he learned that his State had 

 seceded, and on June 8 he resigned his commission in 

 the national army. Almost immediately he was ap- 

 pointed a colonel in the provisional army of the Con- 

 federacy and given command of an Alabama regi- 

 ment. ' He re-enforced Gen. Beauregard at Manassas, 

 commanded a brigade in Longstreet's corps at the 

 second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 

 and Gettysburg, and a division under Gen. Ambrose 

 P. Hill at the Wilderness. He served with the Army 

 of Northern Virginia to the close of the war, being 

 promoted brigadier-general Oct. 21, 1861, and major- 

 general Aug. 9, 1863. After the war he declined a 

 brigadier-general's commission in the Egyptian 

 army, in 1879 was appointed a messenger in the 

 United States Senate, and in 1886 became Chief of the 



Railroad Division of the General Land Office in Wash- 

 ington. Gen. Wilcox published " Rifles and Rifle 

 Practice" (New York, 1859), and translated " Evolu- 

 tions of the Line, as practiced by the Austrian In- 

 fantry, and adopted in 1853 " (1860). 



Wilson, Eugene M,, lawyer, born in Morgan County 

 Va., Dec, 25, 1833 ; died in Nassau, New Providence 

 April 10, 1890. He was graduated at Jefferson Col- 

 lege m 1852, studied law and was admitted to the 

 bar, removed to Minnesota in 1855, and was United 

 States District Attorney from the Minneapolis Dis- 

 trict from 1857 till 1861. He served with the 1st 

 Minnesota Cavalry through the civil war. and in 1868 

 was elected to Congress as a Democrat from the 2d 

 Minnesota District. He served in that body as a 

 member of the committees on the Pacific Railroad 

 and on public lands. 



Winants, Garret E,, capitalist, born on Staten Island, 

 N. Y., in October, 1813; died in Bayonne, N. J., 

 Aug. 11 1890. Fatherless and penniless, he shipped 

 before the mast when eighteen years old, within a 

 .year was placed in command of the schooner " Gil- 

 letta," three years afterward purchased it, and in the 

 course of a few years was the owner of a fleet of fifteen 

 vessels. In the early part of the civil war he built 

 and chartered to the Government five steamboats. 

 He made a fortune during the war, and after it held 

 for some time the contract for cleaning the streets of 

 New York city. A fortunate investment at Harsimus 

 Cove, Jersey City, made him a millionaire. He spent 

 many years in foreign travel, and published " Journal 

 of Travels over the Continents of Europe, Asia, and 

 Africa, and the Islands of the Seas" (1872), and 

 " Around the World " (1877). He gave Rutgers Col- 

 lege $100,000 with which to build a dormitory. He 

 was a delegate to the General Synod of the Reformed 

 Church, a trustee of the Foreign Board of Missions, 

 and a Hudson County Park Commissioner. 



Woods, George L,, lawyer, born in Boone County, 

 Mo., in 1832; died in Portland, Ore., Jan. 8, 1890. 

 He emigrated to Oregon in 1847, worked on a farm 

 and studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. 

 He became active in politics, was made county judge 

 of Wasco County, Ore., in 1863, and lacked only a few 

 votes of securing the nomination for judge of the Su- 

 preme Court. He was a Lincoln presidential elector 

 in 1864, and in 1865 was appointed judge of the Su- 

 preme Court of Idaho, but declined. In the latter 

 year he was elected Governor of Oregon, and served 

 till 1870. In 1871 he was appointed Governor of 

 Utah, where he actively enforced the anti-polygamy 

 laws. In 1875 he removed to California. 



Wright, John Gi, engineer, born in New York city in 

 1837 ; died there, Nov. 2, 1890. At the beginning of 

 the civil war he was doing a successful business in 

 New York city as a builder. He and his brother 

 David were members of the 7th Regiment, and ac- 

 companied it on its first trip to the seat of war. On 

 their return both brothers re-enlisted in New York, 

 while two others, George and William, enlisted in 

 Western armies. John re-entered the field as a cap- 

 tain in the 51st New York Veteran Volunteers, was 

 promoted major in March, 1863, and lieutenant-colo- 

 nel in December, 1864, and in March, 1865, was bre- 

 vetted brigadier - general for distinguished services 

 during the war. He accompanied Gen. Burnside's 

 expedition to North Carolina, was in the battles of 

 Kelly's Ford, Rappahannock Station, Sulphur Springs, 

 Bristow Station, the second Bull Run, and Chantilly. 

 He was taken prisoner at Poplar Grove in September, 

 1864, and was confined six months in Libby, Sauls- 

 bury, and Danville prisons. He was three times 

 wounded in battle. The earthworks of the 9th Army 

 Corps in front of Petersburg were planned by him and 

 constructed under his supervision. After the war he 

 engaged in building macadamized roads in various 

 parts of the country, making his home in Orange, 

 N. J. He died from a surgical operation. 



Young, Andrew H,, military officer, born in Barring- 

 ton, N. H., June 16, 1827 ; died in Dover, N. H., 

 Dec. 10, 1890. He received a public-school educa- 



