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OBTTrAKIKS. AMKKICAH. (Wmr-WnrAm.) 



Empire Theater, New York, played as Martin 

 low n :d in-.- II. : 



after appli "f the Kmpire 



Dramatic School, whi .ded. 



>M,ite Sareptu ( bom in 1810; 



died in San Francis^... (.,!.. Dec, 9, 1807. 

 ried Dr. Kliiah White, a phy-;, i.-m ..f th.- Men 

 Board of Missions an<l 



p. ::.'.,! for the Pi B > '. W! Ill iHtfl Inm tO 



Oregon in 1885. < m i heir av they spent some t imc 

 i., Il..n..lulu. where Mrs. \Vmte taught in MM 

 ..f t!,,- th established there. Fur about 



five yean the Whites were M .ir Salem. 



Or*., an. I during th White OJfUliBM 



and conducted a school of KM) Indiai . boys, 



and u idune; with her 



husband. On one occasion -he traveled >. 

 hundred miles in a canoe down the Willamette 



and UP tli<- Columbia, to attend the wife of 

 Dr. Man-as Whit man. and mi IHT return her 

 was upset and IHT Utby wa- drowned. In isi'J >\\>- 

 rvlur- rfc and completed her medical 



a, and from ls.vj till 1882 she practiced it 



Hhitini: lli-nr\ 1. I : 'graphical cnirii r. lnrn 



about 1M-J: died in Miry, Mass., F- 



1897. In 1884 Prof. Whitini:. Prof'. Shalcr. ..f Har- 

 vard, and <;--M. Krai iker were appointed 

 Massachusetts topographi .-..MI'IH loner-. 

 ami they worked together till is'.i-j. when (Jen. \Valk- 

 i De-mond Fitzgerald succeeded him. 

 Prof. Whit ing was chairman < .f t In- commission from 

 ill hi- death. 



Ui-hl I harlcs < opcland, educator, born in 

 Richmond. Va.. in September. 1S-11 ; died in Balti- 

 M.I.. -lune '2\ iv.;. || ( . was graduated at the 

 sia Military Institute just as the civil war 

 broke out. and served on the staff of Gen. Jackson 

 through the valley campaign. After the war he 

 became a teacher in Baltimore. At the time of his 

 death he was Professor of English Hi-tory in Balti- 

 more City College. 



Willard. Joseph, hotel keeper, born in Vermont 

 in 1M7: .lied in Washington. 1>. < '.. .Ian. 17,1897. 

 With his brothers ('abet and Henry he went to 

 Washington about fifty years ago, and found em- 

 ployment in the old Slet ropolitan Hotel. A few 

 rears later Joseph and Cabet established a small 

 boarding house on tin- ite of their future hotel. A- 

 their business increased they acquired one building 

 after another, and about 1860 the small building- 

 gave way to the st ructun* known as Willard's 1 ! 

 The opening of the enlarged hotel was deemed a 

 matter of such local importance that a number of 

 the most eminent public men in Washington ac- 

 cepted invitations to make speeches. Joseph and 

 Henry had equal shares in the property till a few 

 years ago. when Joseph became sole owner. 



Williams. Charlotte Louisa, educator, born 

 in MorriM'-AM. N..I.. in IM'J: died in New York 

 7 She married the Rev. W. W. Wil- 

 liams, of Philadelphia; was superii r tin- 

 New York Infirmary for ton years; and. on the or- 

 ganization of the teachers' College York 

 city, was elected its principal by a unanimous vote. 

 - Id the last offlr-e till her death, and brought 

 < a hijrh degree of excellence. 



Nilliam* N.|-. n QlXMTenor, soldier, born in 

 R*"" 1828; d.ed in Brooklvn. 



. I>c<-. 1. ivir. ll, entered the United - 

 Military Academy in 1839, in the same class with 

 Ulysses S. Grant, but withdrew at the end of }i\> 

 In 1861 he was commit -.,-1 of 



the 3d Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which he 

 served in Missouri till March, 162. At the battle 

 of Shiloh he commanded the 1st brigade. 4th divi- 

 sion. Army of the Tennessee, Here he was injured 



by the fall of his hor>r when it was v|,,,j. K,, r his 



gallantry in this battle (Jen. Ilurlbut eommended 



him ' Miiuander in ehiel and t lie 



nment. Uefon- he full\ i from his 



ti-mporary paralysis he rejoined his regiment and 



took parl in Ih. rinlh. lie was promoted 



-'..'. but was obli- 



Ins injuries to resign soon afterward. Sinee 1809 



he had b< eii-lonili 



city, and nearly all the time in eh;i 

 the public stores, (o-n. \\ illiams was an .. 



of high merit, particularly in water colors. 



illi- Mhcrl s\,|ney. dij.loniatist, born 

 Shelbyville. K 1849; dii-.l in Honolulu. 



Hawaii -Ian. 5. is.7. He was .u'raduate.l at the 



L..uisvill.- i ! in |M;U. and at the Louisville 



law Scho<.l in !<><;. hi ]*;n an. I l^il he was 



d ailTiii-\ 



is represe'ntatn reel from the I 



ville district. He wa- defeated for re-election in 

 1886. after a fierce political simple, i.reripiiated 

 by the reap|M)intinent of >h . \\ . K. Th>mp- 

 postmistress of Louisville, which had ! 

 mended by Mr. Willis. In s.-pten,i ,<>was 



appointed t'nited Stales minister t" II 



-mmi--ii.ner I'loiint. He was (XHH 

 to his post on a naval vessel, ami was re.eived'by 

 i.-nt Dole. In accordance with his in-tru : - 

 t i'ii<. he called on t he i|ethr.ned <|ueen and inquired 

 whether, in the event of her restoration, she would 

 tfrant full amnesty as to life and properly loall who 

 had been or who wen- then in the Provi-ioiia. 

 eminent, or who had been inst rumental in t h. 

 throw of her <n. \ernmeiit. . \fler a slight I,- 

 lion. Lilioiikalani replied: My decision would be 

 a> the law directs, that such per n- should be be- 

 headed and their property confiscated t" t h< 

 ernmenl." Minister \\ illis communicated the reply 

 to the President, and he disposed of the man- 

 referring it to C..iiL r re-> i-ec u Annual C\ 

 for 1S!M. article II. \w.\in. During hi- residenOC in 



Honolulu. Minister Willis's siM-ial surroundings were 

 far from pleasant. He died at his post after an ill- 

 ness of -everal months. 



\\ ilsuii. (.rein ille 1).. comp.^er. born in Plym- 

 outh. C.,nn.. .Ian. -';. ]v;:: ; ,],ed iii South Nya.-k. 

 N. Y.. S,-pt. 'JO. Is'.iT. After teaching music in Bos- 

 ton he became instructor in that department in 

 Temple (in.ve Seminary, Saratoga Sprm_--. N. Y. 

 He taught Mile. Albani in and while tin-re 



was associate'] with 1... . -chalk. When 



Dr. Leopold DamroM-h was oru r ani/in^ the great 

 MajMnsk Festival that was ^iven in theTtli B 

 nieiit armory Pn.f. Wilson trained 70 voic. 

 him. He ..r-ani/ed the Nyack Choral Society in 

 1879, and conducted it till hi- death. He composed 

 about 800 pieces of music, of which the l>. M known 

 b -The Shepl i 



\\ inaiiv \> illiam I.cu i- apitali-t. born in I'.al- 

 timore. Mil., in l^'J'J; dierl in London. Fn^land. 

 .lime -.'.".. ]"!i7. He was the youngest of the tw< 

 of Hoss Winaiis. inventor." en^inet r. and locomo- 

 tive builder. < Mi reaehini: their major it v t he broth- 

 ers were associated in b , -h their father. 



who had established in Haltimorc tl ?-ail- 



road machine shops in the country. In 1^1'J i In- 

 head of the finn was solicited to go to 1,'u ia and 

 eipiip a projected railroad between St. Peter-burg 

 and MOM-OW. D-''-linmi: t o make t he journey him- 

 s<-lf. he sent hi- -. and in 1M:'. they ^i^ned 



the fir-! contract with the Hu--ian Government for 

 $3,000,000. The railroad was c-onMruct.-d and thor- 

 oughly equipped, and this work brought to the firm 

 other 'advantageous contracts by which a irreat for- 

 tune was accumulated. Thomafl D- Kay Winans 

 returned to the United States: but. William, from an 

 uncontrollable horror of crossing the oc 



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