OBIT17AIMKS. AMKKH'AN. (W AU D WILSOJI.) 



Andrew Johnson became Pivsidcnt Mr. Walter-son 



led li\ liiiu tc \V ashinu'ton. Mini IDF a time was 



lii> nioM Intimate adviser. Id- practiced law then- in 



. -'.inn! Mihnci|ucntlv spent hi> time partly then- 



anil partly in Louisville, ky., aw an editorial writer on 



"The < 'mirier Journal." of \\liidi hi.- MIII, Henry 



Wattcrson. has I'MliT bed! editor. 



Wand, Alfred R,, ani-t, born in London, F.in. r land. in 

 lied in Marietta, (ia.. April <:, IV'l. lie iv- 

 eei\eil his art educatinii in his native eity. removed to 

 New York in K.>.and was one of the early exhibitor* 

 at the National Academy of Design, but became 

 ino>t widely known its an illustrator foi the periodical 



.lid of hooks, lie wa.- one of the War pictorial 

 correspondent.-* of "Harper's Weekly, "and wns one 

 of the lirst urtists in the coimtn to make his il lustra 

 timis in Murk and white-. Sinee the war hi; hud 

 draw ii niiu-li fr illustrated weekly and monthly pub- 

 lieations. and in reeent \eurs he had eontriluited 

 numerous illustrations to the war articles in the " Cent 

 urv " magazine. At the time of Ins death he was 

 making an extended sketehinir tourof the battle-fields 

 in the >outh. for the purpose of illustrating a new 

 series of war narratives. 



Whitthorne, Washington Ourran, lawyer, born in Mar- 

 shall County, Tenn.. April !'., \^~> ; died in Columbia, 

 Tellll.. Sept. -Jl. 1V.U. lie was graduated lit East 



Tennessee I niversitv, Knoxville, in 1843, studied 

 law, and was admitted to the Imr. lie was a State 

 Senator in IN">."> Y>s,aiid u mi-mlier ami Speaker of the 

 A-.-eiiiMy in ls.")'.i; and was the I >cmocratic presiden 

 tial clcctor-at-large in 1800. Early in 1801 he was 

 appointed assistant adjutant-gcm-ruf in the Confeder- 

 ate Army of Tennessee, and afterward wa.> Adjutant- 

 (Jciieral of the State till the close of the war. In Is7<> 

 his )H>litieal disabilities were removed by Congress, 

 and in the same year he was elected to' that body 

 from the 7th Tennessee District as a Democrat. 

 He was re-elected five times, was appointed United 

 States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 resignation of llowell E. Jackson in 1886, and served 

 till March 3. 1SS7. 



Wiokersham, James Pyle, educator, torn in Chester 

 County, Pa.. March r>, 1 S2;"> ; died in Lancaster. 1'a., 

 March 25, 1891. lie became n teacher when sixteen 

 vcnrs old, and principal of the Marietta Academy, 

 Pennsylvania, at the age of twenty. In 18.54 he was 

 appointed the tirst superintendent of public schools in 

 Lam-aster Comity, and in the following year opened 

 the first normal school in the State at Millersville. 

 From is'Hi till ISM he was state Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, and durtinr President Arthur's 

 administration he was United States minister to Den- 

 mark. Dr. Wickershain had twice been President 

 of the National Association of School Superintend- 

 ents, had edited the " Pennsylvania School Teacher." 

 and had published " School Economy "and" Methods 

 of Instruction." 



Wickham, Joseph Dresser, clergyman, born in Thomp- 

 son. < 'onn.. Aprl 4. !7'.'7 : died in Manchester, Vt., May 

 12, 1891. He was irraduatcd at Yale College in 1816, 

 and for five years had been the last survivor of his 

 class, and for three years the oldest graduate of the 

 college. After irradiiating he acted us amanuensis 

 to President Dwii. r ht for a year, was rector of the 

 Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, in the tollow- 

 im. r year, and was a tutor in Yale and a student of 

 theology in IM* '-jo. In Is-.'l In- became ;. missionary 

 on l.oiiir Island, afterward labored in eentral New- 

 York in the service of the Presbyterian Kducation 

 Society, and in Is-.;:; was ordained to the ministry and 

 installed pastor of the CongrcL'ationul Church in 

 Oxford, N. Y. For three years from 1*'J"> he was in 

 pastoral charge of the United Pn sbvterian Churches 

 of New Kochellc and West Farms, N. Y. : in 1 



was one of the proprietors of Washington Institute, 

 New York city; in November. l s :;j. was installed 

 pastor of the new Presbyterian Church in Mattcawan, 

 . Y.; and in 1-C7 '''-I' he was in charge of Burr 

 Seminary. Manchester. N't., exeeptimr for three \cars, 

 wlicn he was treasurer and acting Professor of (Jreck 



and Latin in Middi. l.m\ College and wu connected 



with the collegiate iliMitllte, Pon^hkei-jvii-. N 



Winrtling, 0orge B., civil en/mefr, Ix.rn in ilurri* 

 burj/, I'u., Juti. UN l-:i.'i; died in < liatiiU-rl>u,|f. Pu.. 

 .lime 17. i s '.'l. In curly life he wa* u <-i\ii engineer 



in the employ of the' I'einicy Ivutiiu iJiiilrnad. and 

 arterward he built the larire tunnel on the Delaware, 

 I.aekawanna and \\.-i.in llailmad at Oxford Kur- 

 naee, N. .1. lie M-r\ed in the national urmy through 

 the civil war, in\ented for the (iovernrnent an at- 

 tachment deML'licd to as.-ist tl.i n.o\ i-im nt of 

 artillery through the deep mud in Virginia, and wi 

 with (Jen. Kearne\'- brigade .luring the udxahee from 

 Hurke's Station to Hull Ikim. One of his M-outs capt- 

 ured the ( ontederate mail that contained an announce- 

 ment of the inti tided movement of (Jen. i 

 corps upon Norfolk, and the capture resulted i:, the 

 concentration of :;O.MO<I nutionul lr<*>]* at Suttolk, 

 where the Confe<lerate advance was cheeked. He 

 was a Kepiililican presid.-ntial ele.-tor in lvu, flrt 



President of the I'nited State> As oeiation of C)iar- 



coal Iron Workers, the first engineer to demonstrate 

 that a furnace could be banked over Sunday. Pn-i- 

 clent of the Montulto Iron Company, und sujierin- 

 tendelit of the Montalto Railroad. 



Wild, Augustus, military olh'ccr. born in Brookline, 

 Muss., in 18^5; died in McdcHin, Coloml>iu, Soutli 

 America, in August, ISiil. He was graduated at Har- 

 vard College in Is44, arul at the Jefferson Medical 

 College s<H>n afterward; took a course of medical 

 lectures in Paris; was a medical officer in the 

 Turkish army during the Crimean War: and. re- 

 turning to "Brookline, practiced till the bepin- 

 nin.vr of the civil war. Karly in l^'d he was com- 

 n.issioned a ca]>tuin in thevlst Massachusetts Vol- 

 unteers, with which he served at Hull Kim and 

 in the Peninsular campaign, hciiiir severely woundetl 

 at Fair Oaks. He was promoted major while yet dis- 

 abled, lieutenant-colonel on his recovery, and "colonel 

 of the Sfith Massachusetts Volunteers on its or^ani/a- 

 tion : and he n-turncd to the front in time to take 

 part in the battle of South Mountain, where lie was 

 ufrnin wounded and lost an arm. On April 'j:i. IM;:;. 

 he was promoted bripidier-t r eneral of volunteers, and 

 afterward he assisted in raisins.' and commanded the 

 regiments of colored troops known as Wild's African 

 Brigade till the close of the war. Subsequently lie 

 became superintendent of the Diana mine at Austin, 

 Nev. At the time of his death he was engaged in 

 mininsr operations in South America. 



Wiley, John, publisher, born in Flatbu-.li. Long Isl- 

 and, IS". Y., Oct. 4, iN'.s; died in Kast Orange, U. J., 

 Feb. 21, 18!il. He was the son of Charles Wiley, who 

 published "The Spy,'' the first of James Fenimore 

 Cooper's American romances. When seventeen Years 

 old lie entered the publishing house in which his 

 father was a partner. nd on the death of his father, in 

 1828, he went into business for himself. In 1>".-J In- 

 formed a partnership with (ieorge Long, and subse- 

 quently, whe;i (leorye P. Putninii had completed his 

 apprenticeship with Jonathan Lcavitt, and hud at- 

 tained his majority, the firm of Wiley iV Putnam was 

 formed. The best known publication of the firm at 

 this time was the serio called "The Li bran <!' 

 Choice Keadiliir." edited by Kvurt A. IhlVckillck. Ill 

 IMs M r . Putnam retired' from the firm, and after 

 carry ing on the business alone till IM;;,, Mr. Wiley 

 took' his son Charles into partnership. In l>>7-">. when 

 another son, William II.. was admitted, the firm name 

 was chaiii,'ed to John Wiley 4 V Sons. In recent years 

 the firm has made a specialty of scientific publica- 

 tions. Mr. Wiley was always a strong advocate of 

 international copyright. He was the American pub- 

 lisher of Husk in's works. 



Wilson, Ephraim Zing, jurist. l>orn in Snow Hill, 

 Md.. Dee. -'-'. Is.M ; died 'in Washington. D. '.. Feb. 

 'Jl. ls;il. He was -.'i-aduated at Jetter>on d'Hcirc. 

 Pi-misx Ivania, in Is41, studied law, and was admitted 

 to the bar. '" 1*17 he was elected a member of the 

 Maryland HoOM df Delegates ; in Is.".-. 1 was a Pien-e 

 and King presidential elector; in l^-J \\a- elected to 



