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children are perhaps the host examples. His bust 



tier has been likened to a Greek Bacchus and 

 it might well be accepted as an antique. Hi- 



:Mity was us pun- as a Greek'a His work was 

 never superficially decorative, nor conventional, nor 

 tricky. His sincerity, his mastery of materials. hN 

 feeling for construction, his profound sensim- 

 to the beautiful, and his rare tact in modeling im- 

 parted to all his work a rare and serious character. 

 His death in his prime meant the loss of a great 

 artist, whose work yet unfinished bears, neverthe- 

 theless, the stamp of a rare and precious genius. 

 Articles upon Mr. Warner were published by Wil- 

 liam ('. Brownell in " Scribner's Ma.ira/ine " for Oc- 

 tober. "Henry Eckford " in the Century 

 Maga/ine" for. January. 1889. and Ripley Hitchcock 

 in the " Art Review " for March. 1887. A memorial 

 addr< iivered by Mr. Brownell before the 

 National Sculpture Society a few months after Mr. 

 Warner's death, and was printed privately. 



Week-. Joseph I)., statistician, born "in M 

 chusetts. in 1*41 : died in Pittsburg. Pa.. Dec. 26, 

 . Prior to the civil war he was engaged for 

 some time as a minister and missionary of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in the South, and dur- 

 ing the war was connected with the United States 

 .Sanitary Commission, and was also a hospital chap- 

 lain. After the war he was associated with the 

 iron and steel industries of the country. He be- 

 came a Government statistician and was employed 

 in the compilation of the census reports of 1880 

 and 1890, having charge particularly of the returns 

 on coke, glass, manganese, petroleum, and natural 

 About 1886 he became connected with the 

 United States Geological Survey, and prepared the 

 reports on coke, petroleum, natural gas, and man- 

 ganese for the " Mineral Resources of the United 

 States." In 1*95 he went to Fun \ nt of 



the United States Government, to investigate the 

 process of coke making on the by-product system ; 

 and he also made a visit to Europe at the instance 

 of Gov. Hartranft to study the practical results of 

 conciliation and arbitration as means of settling 

 labor disputes. At the time of his death he was 

 editor of "The American Manufacturer." 



Wcideiueyer, John William, author, born in 

 Fredericksbiirg. Ya.. April 26. 1819: died in Amity- 

 ville, Long Island, Jan. 19. 1896. His father was an 

 officer in the life guards of Jerome Bonaparte, King 

 of Westphalia, with whom at an early age he came 

 to New York city. Among the son's first teachers 

 was Alexander T. Stewart, and he completed his 

 education at the Columbia College Grammar School. 

 For several years he taught at various seminaries 

 in Ohio, but subsequently settled in New York city 

 and entered upon business as a music dealer and 

 publisher. He made collections of lepidoptera, and 

 discovered several important species, among which 

 \va- Limenitis Weidemeyerii, of the Adirondack 

 mountains. His large collection was purchased by 

 the museum in Ratisbon, Germany. In connection 

 with the study of entomology he published a 

 "Catalogue of North American Butterflies" (Phila- 

 delphia. 1864). He contributed to the "Christian 

 Inquirer " and the " Atlantic Monthly/' and pre- 

 pared political articles for various journals. In 

 1*41 he wrote a play entitled "The Vagabonds." 

 which was produced at the Franklin Theater, in New 

 York city, and the Arch Street Theater, in Phila- 

 delphia, and nearly half a century later he wrote 

 " Ca'sar and Cleopatra.'' an acting drama. Mr. 

 Weidemeyer also published " Real and Ideal : A 

 Collection of Metrical Compositions, by John W. 

 Montclair" (Philadelphia. IM'MI : "Themes and 

 Translations" (New York. iMiTt: "American Fish, 

 and how to catch them " (1883); and " From Alpha 

 to Omega " (1889). 



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\VmtHor1li. William I'itt. architect, born in 



Bellows Kails. Vt.. in 1N39; died in Newton, 

 April 12, iN'.iti. He v.a< educafc 

 and remo. ;on about 1S(U. Anion. 



buildings erected after his plans ;l |-e church- 

 Norfolk, Va.. in Jamestown, N. Y.. and in several 

 New England cities and towns, and hospitals in 

 Newton, Lynn, and Boston. The great h 



pital DOW being erected by the Slate i,f Ma--achll- 

 setts at Medfield was planned by him. 



Westerx'lt. Daniel I)., shipbuilderjborn in 

 York city, in 1828; died near Belmar. N. J.. June 

 4. 1 *'.. He wa* a s..n of .I.-fol, A. We-;, vvclt. ship- 

 builder and Mayor of New York city. and. on com- 

 pleting his education, entered his father's shipyard 

 and served successively in each department. Many 

 of the most famous California clippers, pilot 1 

 and steamers built before the civil war were de- 

 signed by him and built under his supervision. He 

 was the principal designer and one of the builders 

 of the United States war ship " Brooklyn," and de- 

 signed and built vessels for the Spanish navy, for 

 which he received the decoration of the Order of 

 Isabella Catolica. During the civil war he v. 

 special agent of the Federal Government at New 

 York to procure from private owners vessels suit- 

 able for war ships, and he selected several hundred 

 Is of various kinds. His efforts in this line 

 won the commendation of President Lincoln and 

 Secretary Welles. 



Wheeler, Crosby Howard, missionary, born in 

 Hampden, Penobscot County. Me.. Sept', s. 

 died in Auburndale. Mass.. Oct. 11. ls!6. He was 

 graduated at Bowdoin College in 1847. and at Ban- 

 gor Theological Seminary in 1851 ; was ordained in 

 Warren. Me., in 1852, and after serving as pastor 

 there for four years, went with his wife to Smyrna, 

 to work in the North Armenian mission. The cou- 

 ple reached Harpoot on July 31, 1857, and labored 

 there for thirty-nine years. In 1878 Dr. Wheeler 

 raised funds in the United States for the buildings 

 and the partial endowment of Euphrates College, in 

 Harpoot. and from the organization of the institu- 

 tion till 1873 he was its president. On May 11, 

 1896, his home and all his household goods were 

 destroyed in the great massacre of Armenians at 

 Harpoot. and Dr. Wheeler and his wife were com- 

 pelled to leave the city. They returned by slow 

 stages to Auburndale, where Dr. Wheeler survived 

 the effects of the terrible ordeal through which he 

 had passed only about three months. 



Whitney. Josiah Ihvight. geologist, born in 

 Northampton. Mass.. Nov. 2:5. 1819; died at Lake 

 Sunapee, N. H.. Aug. 18, 1896. He was the eldest 

 son of Josiah D. Whitney, a merchant in North- 

 ampton. He was graduated at Yale in 1839. and 

 entered the chemical laboratory of Prof. Robert 

 Hare, of Philadelphia, and in 1840 became asso- 

 ciated with Charles T. Jackson as assistant in a 

 geological survey of New Hampshire. After two 

 years of this work he went to Europe, where he 

 studied under Elie de Beaumont, Rammelsberg, 

 Liebig. and other masters. In 1847 he returned to 

 the United States, and was employed in the Geolog- 

 ical Survey of the Lake Superior region. For a 

 time he worked with John W. Foster, under the 

 direction of Charles T. Jackson, but later the work 

 was intrusted to Foster and Whitney alone, and 

 they published "Synopsis of the Explorations of 

 the Geological Corps in the Lake Superior Land 

 ict in the Northern Peninsula " (Washington, 

 and " Report on the Geology and Topography 

 of a Portion of the Lake Superior Land District in 

 the State of Michigan " ( Part I. Copper Lands. 1850 ; 

 Part II, The Iron Region. 1851). On the comple- 

 tion of this work, Mr. Whitney traveled for two 

 ra through the States east of the Mississippi, 



