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White. William Thomas. physician, born in Kich- 

 BM>nd, Me., July 7, 1829 ; died in New York city. Sc|it. 

 17, ls:i:;. He begun stud\in,' medicine in Kowdo'm 

 College, and WM graduated at tin- New York Medical 

 in ls.v>. He served in the hospitals on Ward 1 ! 

 and Black well's islands I'M- two year.--, and as surgeon 

 in chief oft he Panama Kail road Company, at I'aiuuna. 

 tor three and it half years, and at Aspinwall for live 

 ami settled in New York city in IsU.'i. In IM;I;. 

 '7> lie was an attending physician at Deniilt Dis- 

 pensan ; in l.sT'i " s ". visitint,' surgeon to the Presby- 

 U-riati Hospital ; and from 1*7'.' till his death he was 

 a visiting surgeon to the Charity Hospital on Black- 

 well's Island. l>r. \V hite was most widely known as 

 editor of the Medical Register," a post he had held 

 for sixteen years. 



Whitehead, William, naval officer, born in Philadel- 



iihia. Pa., in 1M' ; died at League Island Navy Yard, 

 'hiladelphia, Jan. 8, 1893. He was appointed an 

 acting midshipman in the United States navy. Sept. 

 23,1856; was promoted midshipman, June 15,1860; 

 muster, Aug. 81, 1861; lieutenant, July 16, 1862; 

 lieutenant-commander, July 25. 1866 ; commander, 

 June 4, 1874; captain, Sept. 4, 1887; and since Nov. 

 26, 1892, had been commandant of the League Isl- 

 and Navy Yard. I Miring the civil war he was at- 

 tached to the "Dakota," "Sonoma," the ironclad 

 " Passaic," on which lie served in the attack on 

 Charleston and in other actions on the Atlantic 

 coast, and to the flagship " Pawnee " in the engage- 

 ments at Stony river and at Tioga creek. In 1866 he 

 accompanied the ironclad " Monadnock " on her 

 perilous trip from New York city around Cape Horn 

 to California. While in command of the "Quinne- 

 baug," of the Mediterranean squadron, in 1881-'83, 

 he forced the authorities of Alexandria to surrender 

 the wife of an American citizen, Stone Bey, under 

 threats of shelling the city. 



Wiltse, Gilbert 0., naval officer, born in Bingham- 

 ton, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1838; died in New York city, 

 April 26, 1893. He was appointed an acting midship- 

 man in the United States navy, Sept. 20, 1855; was 

 promoted midshipman, June 9, 1859; lieutenant, Oct. 

 81, 1861-; lieutenant-commander, Jan. 6. 1866; com- 

 mander, Nov. 8. 1873 : captain, Jan. 26, 1887 ; and 

 at the time of his death was on waiting orders. He 

 was on duty on the "St. Lawrence " during the en- 

 gagement between the Confederate " Merrimack " and 

 the " Congress " and " Cumberland " in Hampton 

 Roads in March, 1862, and took part in the engage- 

 ment of the monitors with Forts Sumter and Moul- 

 trie in November, 1863. On Feb. 5, 1891, he was as- 

 signed to the command of the " Boston," and he was 

 at Valparaiso when the mob attacked the men of the 

 " Baltimore " in the streets of that city. His last ac- 

 tive service was at Honolulu, where, on Jan. 16, 1893, 

 marines were landed from his ship, the American 

 flag was raised, and a conditional protectorate over 

 the Hawaiian Islands was established in the name of 

 the United States Government. Soon after this inci- 

 dent Capt. Wiltse was detached from his command 

 and placed on waiting orders. 



Wolle, Francis, botanist, born in Jacobsburg, North- 

 ampton Count v. Pa., Dec. 17,1817: died in Bethlehem, 

 Pa.. Feb. 10, 1893. He was a nephew of Peter Wolle, 

 at the time of his death, in 1871, the senior bishop of 

 the Moravian Church in Europe and America; was 

 educated in the Moravian school in Bethlehem; 

 taught in the schools in Nazareth and Bethlehem; 

 was vice-principal of the Moravian seminary for 

 young ladies in 1857-'61, and principal in 1861-'81 ; 

 and was ordained to the ministry of the Moravian 

 Church in 1861. In 1852 he patented in the United 

 States, and afterward in all the principal countries of 

 Europe, a machine for making paper bags, the tirst 

 <>f its kind. He derived a considerable income from 

 royalties on the sales of the machine. During the 

 greater part of his life he was deeply interested in 

 botanical study. He published papers in the " Bul- 



letin of the Torrcy Botanical Club"; " I)emidtt of 



the United States, and List of PediaMruuw," with 

 l.lon illustration,, on ;">:; colored platen, from original 

 sketches ( Bethlehem. lh*4 ; ; " The Fresh Water Algiu 

 of the United States," with '^.'SOO illustration* a voli.., 

 17 i; and " Diatomacea- of North America." 



Wood, Horace 0., lawyer, born in Woodstock, Vt., 

 July , 1881; died in "Dublin, N. II.. .Ian. s. 1m:}. 

 lie- was educated and admitted to the bar in his na- 

 tive State; was a member of the Legislature lor sev- 

 eral terms, and acquired a large railroad and corpo- 

 ration practice. During a period of retirement from 

 practice because of failing health he applied himself 

 to legal authorship, and published, among other 

 works, " Nuisances, said to be the first elaborate 

 treatise on the subject ; " Limitations " ; " Landlord 

 and Tenant " ; " Master and Servant " ; u Evidence " ; 

 "Mandamus"; and "Railroads." During the last 

 eight years Mr. Wood practiced in New York city. 



Woolsey, Abby Howland, philanthropist, died April 

 7. 1893. She was an original member of the New 

 York State Charities Aid Association, and had been 

 a member of its board of managers and librarian for 

 twelve years, and a member of its committee on hos- 

 pitals for twenty years. She was author of " A Cen- 

 tury of Nursing," with Hints toward the Organiza- 

 tion of a Training School" (1876); "Lunacy Legis- 

 lation in England"; "Handbook for Hospital Vis- 

 itors " (1877) ; and " Hospital Laundries" (1880). 



Wright. James, photographer, born in England ; died 

 in Brooklyn, N. Y.,Feb. 4, 1893. He served the Brit- 

 ish War Office as a photographer during the Crimean 

 War, and the United States War Department in the 

 same capacity during the civil war, and in the latter 

 was attached to the lieadquarters of the Army of the 

 Potomac. After the war he devised a method of pho- 

 tographing on wood, both direct and in enlarged and 

 reduced reproduction, for the benefit of engravers on 

 wood, and he had been employed since in his special 

 work for the principal illustrated periodicals. 



Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses, hereditary chief of 

 the Sioux Indian nation, born about 1835; died at 

 Pine Ridge agency, S. Dak., July 15, 1893. He was a 

 son of a famous warrior, A-Man- Afraid-of-His-Horses, 

 who died in 1889, at the age of ninety-two, and whose 

 life was intimately connected with the frontier history 

 of the Northwest since the early days of the century. 

 Besides his rank as hereditary chief of the whole 

 Sioux nation, the son was the active chief of the Ogal- 

 lala tribe. Within recent years lie had become a 

 thoroughly civilized and friendly Indian, had made 

 frequent visits to Washington on business concerning 

 his people, and had rendered valuable services to 

 Gens. Crook and Miles, particularly to the latter dur- 

 ing the " Messiah dance" excitement in 1890-'91. 



Webb, Eckford. shipbuilder, born in New York city, 

 April 8, 1825; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 27,1893. 

 He was the eldest son of Isaac Webb, a noted ship- 

 builder ; was brought up in his father's shipyard ; and 

 on the death of the elder Webb, in 1848, he established 

 himself in the same business in Greenpoint. He not 

 only built nearly all the Easl. river ferryboats, but 

 turned out several gunboats for the Governmentduring 

 the civil war, including the famous " Chjppewa," and 

 after the war built several of the Pacific mail steam- 

 ers. In 1871 he constructed the caissons on which 

 the towers of the East River Bridge rests, the largest 

 work of their kind ever known. In recent years he 

 retired from the shipbuilding business, and engaged 

 in the manufacture of paints and oils. 



Young, William 0., civil engineer, born in Youngs- 

 tov.n, Ohio, Nov. -j:>. 1799; died in New Y'ork city, 

 Dec. 22, 1893. In 1M6 he was attached to the party 

 that made a survey of the islands in Lake Ontario, 

 and in 1817 to the one that made the first survey for 

 the Krie Canal. He was graduated at the United 

 States Military Academy in 1822, was assigned to the 

 Third Artillery, and resigned in 1826 to engage in civil 

 cuir'niccring. He became a pioneer in railroad con- 

 struction; was the first to use cross ties in place of 

 the stone blocks and foundations previously used to 



