WISNER, WILLIAM. 



WOODMAN, JOHN S. 



4,929,647 pounds of wool were raised; 55,205 

 persons, ten years old and over, cannot write, 

 of whom 25,666 are males, and 29,539 are fe- 

 males. Of those twenty-one years old and over, 

 who cannot write, 17,637 are white males. 



The Legislature of 1871 authorized the ap- 

 pointment of a State Board of Charities and 

 Reform, vested with power "to visit and ex- 

 amine into the penal, reformatory, and char- 

 itable institutions of the State." Governor 

 Fairchild appointed four gentlemen and a lady 

 as members of the board. Having organized 

 itself by choosing its president, vice-president, 

 and secretary, the board visited all the above- 

 mentioned institutions, and after eight months 

 presented to the Governor a full and accurate 

 report, which speaks well for the conduct of 

 the said institutions, and contains valuable 

 suggestions concerning them respectively. 

 Governor Washburn, in his message to the 

 Legislature of 1872, commends the report, and 

 says : " The thanks of the whole State are due 

 to the members of the board for the manner 

 in which they have discharged the duties im- 

 posed upon them." 



The new building of the State-House, at 

 Madison, has recently been finished, the entire 

 cost of it amounting to $550,000. 



WISNER, Rev. WILLIAM, D. D., a Presbyte- 

 rian clergyman and author, born in Warwick, 

 N. Y., 1782 ; died in Cedar Rapids, Io., Janu- 

 ary 7, 1871. He received a superior academi- 

 cal education, studied law, and practised in 

 Orange County for some years. Having met 

 with a religious change, he studied theology 

 and entered the ministry in the Presbyterian 

 Church, his first settlement being at Ithaca. 

 In 1831 he was called to the pastorate of the 

 Brick (Presbyterian) Church at Rochester, 

 where he continued for more than thirty years. 

 He had removed to Cedar Rapids, Io., in 1870, 

 and died at the home of. his son in that city. 

 Dr Wisner received the honorary degree of 

 A. M. from Williams College in 1820, and that 

 of D. D. from Delaware College in 1842. He 

 was the author of " Incidents in the Life of a 

 Pastor" (1851), a valuable and popular work; 

 u Elements of Civil Liberty, or the Way to 

 maintain Free Institutions " (1853) ; and nu- 

 merous addresses, pamphlets, and occasional 

 sermons. 



WOLLE, Right Rev. PETER, senior bishop of 

 the Moravian Church, born in the island of 

 St. John, West Indies, January 5, 1792 ; died 

 in Bethlehem, Pa., November 14, 1871. His 

 father was a Moravian missionary in the West 

 Indies, but in the year 1800 came to the United 

 States and placed his son at the Moravian 

 school at Nazareth, Pa., where he remained 

 for several years. He pursued the full course 

 of academical and theological studies required 

 in the Moravian Church schools, and entered 

 the ministry, in which he soon attained emi- 

 nence as an eloquent preacher and an able 

 scholar. He had been a bishop for more than 

 forty years, and at his death was the senior 



bishop of the entire Moravian Church in Eu- 

 rope and America. He possessed a very thor- 

 ough knowledge of music, and by the direc- 

 tion of the Synod had revised and rearranged 

 the hymn-tunes now in use in the Moravian 

 Church, and which are celebrated for their 

 simplicity, sweetness, and beauty. 



WOODMAN, JOHN SMITH, Vice-President 

 and practical head of the Chandler Scientific 

 School of Dartmouth College, born in Dur- 

 ham, N. H., in 1819; died there, May 5, 1873. 

 He pursued his preparatory studies at South 

 Berwick, Me., and entered Dartmouth College 

 in 1838, graduating thence in 1842. During 

 the four years following his graduation he was 

 at Charleston, S. 0., where he taught for a 

 time, and also read law. In 1847 he made a 

 trip abroad, visiting all of the principal coun- 

 tries of Europe, and performing much of the 

 journey on foot. Returning to New Hamp- 

 shire, he completed his legal studies with Hon. 

 D. M. Christie at Dover, and subsequently 

 practised his profession at that place and at 

 Rollinsford until 1851, when he was called to 

 the chair of Mathematics in Dartmouth College. 

 He held this position for five years, though 

 teaching in the Chandler Scientific School also 

 from its establishment in 1852. For two or 

 three years after its commencement the Chan- 

 dler School had somewhat of a precarious ex- 

 istence, and at times some of the warmest 

 advocates had forebodings of its future ; but 

 in 1856 Prof. Woodman accepted the chair of 

 Civil Engineering, and, at the request of the 

 Board of Visitors, became also the practical 

 head of that department of the College. From 

 that period date the remarkable elevation and 

 prosperity of the Scientific School, and it is 

 not invidious to say that to Prof. Woodman, 

 more than to any other person, may be attrib- 

 uted its success. He had many qualifications 

 for the duties of an instructor. Prominent 

 among these were his thorough scholarship 

 and complete mastery of the subjects which he 

 taught, and his remarkable executive ability. 

 He was also genial and courteous in all his 

 associations with both the Faculty and the 

 students, and his sincerity of character, and 

 the deep conviction and purity of purpose 

 that were constantly manifested in all his 

 labors, secured for him the highest respect and 

 esteem of the Board of Instruction and of the 

 members of the College. Seldom has Dart- 

 mouth had a teacher who secured a stronger 

 regard from the students in general than did 

 Prof. Woodman, while especially will those 

 who received his instructions hold his memory 

 in grateful recollection. But college halls did 

 not limit the sphere of his usefulness, and the 

 influence of his labors in the cause of general 

 education was widely felt. He wrote exten- 

 sively for the press, and lectured frequently on 

 scientific and other subjects. His essays on 

 the construction and maintenance of public 

 highways exhibited much originality and prac- 

 tical knowledge. 



