death. In 1857 he was appointed United States 

 district attorney for Massachusetts, and in 1870-'71 

 \\iis a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. 

 Mr. Wood bury was one of the compilers of " Wood- 

 bury and Minot's Reports," in three volumes; edi- 

 tor of the second and third volumes of " Levi Wood- 

 bury 's Writings" (Boston, 1852) ; and was also the 

 author of several pamphlets on international diplo- 

 matic questions. 



Woodruff, Wilford, president of the Mormon 

 'hurch, born near Hartford, Conn., March 1, 1807; 

 lied in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 3, 1898. He re- 

 sived a common-school education in Farmington, 

 Jonn., and was brought up under the influences of 

 ~ie Orthodox Congregational Church. In 1833 he 

 ecame a convert to Mormonism, and was ordained 

 priest. In 1839 he was ordained one of the Twelve 

 Lpostles, with the special designation " the Banner 

 of the Gospel." During his first six years' connec- 

 tion with the Mormons he had traveled with .the 

 lain body, or with detachments, through Arkan- 

 is, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois. In 

 1840 he made a missionary tour of England. In 

 1842 he joined the Mormons at their chief rendez- 

 vous, in Nauvoo, 111., where he was appointed a 

 icmber of the city council. In 1847 he joined in 

 the hegira to Utah, and he was the last survivor of 

 that band. In 1850 he was elected a Senator of the 

 provisional State of Deseret. On the death of Brig- 

 ham Young, in 1877, John Taylor succeeded to the 

 aresidency of the Church, and Woodruff was made 

 president of the Twelve Apostles, which office he 

 eld through life, and when President Taylor 

 lied, in 1887, Woodruff became president of the 

 Church. He was also president of St. George's 

 Temple, in southern Utah, which was completed 

 id dedicated by Brigharn Young shortly before 

 lis death. President Woodruff from 1875 was the 

 listorian and general recorder of the Church. He 

 took a great interest in all the jubilees and anni- 

 versaries of the Church, and he was the central fig- 

 ure at the pioneer jubilee in 1897. For twenty-two 

 years he was a member of the Legislature of Utah. 

 He was a practical polygamist till polygamy was 

 forbidden by a law of the United States, and just 

 before the admission of Utah as a State he issued 

 a manifesto declaring his intention to abide by 

 the law, and advising all Mormons to do the same. 

 The Twelve Apostles unanimously approved the 

 manifesto. He was a man of great physical endur- 

 ance. It is said that he had traveled in Great Brit- 

 ain and in 23 States and 5 Territories of the Union, 

 and that from the beginning to the end of his 

 ministry he had covered 172,369 miles, had held 

 7,665 meetings, had delivered 3,226 discourses, and 

 had organized 51 branches of the Church and 7 

 preaching stations. 



Wright, Charles Barstow, financier, born in 

 Wysox, Pa., Jan. 8, 1822 ; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 March 24, 1898. He began business while a mere 

 boy. at the age of twenty was a successful banker 

 ind merchant in Braddock, and in 1843 went to 

 Chicago, where within two years he amassed a 

 small fortune in real estate. In 1863 he was ac- 

 tively engaged in the development of the petroleum 

 " iterests of Pennsylvania, took a prominent part in 

 le construction of the Philadelphia and Erie Rail- 

 ,d. and later became general manager of the 

 inited railway companies in the oil regions. He 

 ecame a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad 

 1870, and in 1874, as its fourth president, assisted 

 in its reorganization and the completion of the road 

 Puget Sound. He resigned the presidency in 

 1878, remaining a director. He took an active part 

 in the founding of the city of Tacoma, and endowed 

 the Annie Wright Seminary for girls and the 

 Washington College for boys. 



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Wylie, Theodore William John, clergyman, 

 born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 3, 1818 ; died there, 

 June 11, 1898. He was graduated at the University 

 of Pennsylvania in 1836, was ordained to the min- 

 istry, and became associated with his father in the 

 pastorate of the First Reformed Presbyterian 

 Church of Philadelphia, succeeding him in 1852. 

 He was corresponding secretary of the Board of 

 .Missions of his Church from 1843 till 1849, and pro- 

 fessor in the Reformed Presbyterian Theological 

 Seminary, 1847-'51, 1854-'57, and 1859-'61. He 

 received the degree of D. D. from the University of 

 New York in 1859. He edited " The Juvenile Mis- 

 sionary Intelligencer " (1835-'37) ; " The Missionary 

 Advocate " (1838-'41) ; and " The Banner of the 

 Covenant " (1845-'55) ; and published " An English, 

 Latin, and Greek Vocabulary" (1839); "The God 

 of Our Fathers " (1854) ; and ' Washington a Chris- 

 tian" (1862). 



Yandell, David W r endell, physician, born near 

 Murfreesboro, Tenn., Sept. 12, 1826; died in Louis- 

 ville, Ky., May 2, 1898. He was graduated at 

 the University of Louisville in 1846 ; studied two 

 years in Europe, and began to practice medicine in 

 1848. He became a professor in the University of 

 Louisville in 1859, and was a medical director in 

 the Confederate army from 1861 till 1866. In 1870 

 he established " The American Practitioner." He 

 was elected president of the American Medical 

 Association in 1871, and was appointed Professor of 

 Surgery in Indiana Medical College in 1874. 



Zachos, John ., educator, born of Greek par- 

 ents in Constantinople, Turkey, in 1820; died in 

 New York city, March 20, 1898. He was brought 

 to the United States by Dr. Howe, studied at Am- 

 herst College, and was graduated at Kenyon Col- 

 lege. Ohio, in 1840. He studied medicine in Cin- 

 cinnati, but after completing his course he adopted 

 literature as a profession, and in 1853 became Pro- 

 fessor of English in Antioch College, Yellow Springs, 

 Ohio. He served from 1862 till 1864 as acting sur- 

 geon in the National army, being assigned to the 

 superintendency of Paris Island, in Beaufort Bay, 

 S. C. He occupied the Unitarian pulpit in West 

 Newton, Mass., for two years, and in 1866 became 

 Professor of Rhetoric in the Meadville, Pa., Theolog- 

 ical School. In 1871 he came to New York city, 

 and was appointed curator of Cooper Union, which 

 office he held till his death. Mr. Zachos was one of 

 the founders of the Ohio Society of New York city, 

 and also of the Beta Theta Pi Society. He pub- 

 lished "A New American Speaker" (1852); "An- 

 alytic Elocution " (1861) ; " New System of Phonic 

 Reading " (1863) ; and " Phonic Primer and Read- 

 er " (1864) ; and edited " A Sketch of the Life and 

 Opinions of Peter Cooper " (1876). 



Ziegfler, Henry, educator and author, born in 

 Center County, Pa., Aug. 19, 1816 ; died in Selins- 

 grove, Pa., Nov. 25, 1898. He was graduated at 

 Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 1841, studied 

 theology there, and was ordained by the Pittsburg 

 Synod. His first pastorate was at Selinsgrove. and 

 he assisted also the pastors at Sunbury and Lewis- 

 burg, and served the congregation at Liverpool. In 

 1845-'50 he labored in the Pittsburg Synod as trav- 

 eling missionary, having as his territory Crawford, 

 Venango, Mercer. Beaver, Butler, and Allegheny 

 Counties. He was pastor at Williamsport. Pa., in 

 1850-'53, and organized the first Englisn Lutheran 

 congregation of that city. He was agent of the 

 parent education society of the General Synod in 

 1853-'55 and was pastor in Clinton and' Center 

 Counties in 1855-'58. In the latter year he became 

 Professor of Theology in Missionary Institute (now 

 Susquehanna University), Selinsgrove, Pa., and he 

 held that chair until 1881, when failing health 

 compelled him to retire. For many years he was 



