BIOGRAPHY 



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His paintings include many portraits, among 

 e "The White Girl." " Portrait of my Mother." 



worth. 



"Nocturne in Blue and Gold." "Harmony in Gray and 

 Green." etc. In 1890. he wrote the "Gentle Art of 

 Making Enemies." Died in London, 1903. 



White, Andrew Dirkson, American diplomatist and 

 educator; born in Homer, N. Y.. November 2. 1832. He 

 was graduated at Vale in 1853; traveled in Europe; 



attache to legation of the United States. St. Petersburg, . ,, ,,,,i,,-,, U iiu urvruirai, nuicui-au wuci, woo uum 

 1855; studied in the University of Berlin; pro- of Quaker parents in 1807 at Haverhill, Mass.. and edu- 

 r of history and English literature. University of ' cated at the academy of his native place. In his younger 

 Michigan, 1857-1863; returned to Syracuse and elected , days he worked on his father's farm and learned the shoe- 

 Senator. 1863-1867; chosen first president of Cor- , making trade, but early began to write for the press, and 

 nell University, 1866; has in addition to the presidency I in 1831 published his first work, "Legends of New Eng- 

 1 tir of modern history; was appointed by ! land" in prose and verse. He carried on the farm him- 



(1854) been made professor of Sanskrit and of compara- 

 tive philology at \ ale College. Among his independent 

 works may be mentioned: "Language and the Study of 

 Language (1867). "Oriental and Linguistic Studies" 

 (1872-74). "Life and Growth of Language" (1875). "San- 

 skrit Grammar" (a highly important work). "German 

 Grammar, etc. He was editor of the great "Century 

 Dictionary of the English Language." He died in 1894. 

 Whittle r, John Greenleaf, American poet, was born 



filled the chair 



President Grant, commissioner to Santo Domingo to 

 study and report on question of annexation. 1871 ; by 

 President Hayes, minister to Berlin. 1879-1881; by 

 President Harrison, minister to St. Petersburg, and con- 

 tinued under President Cleveland. 1892-1894; appointed 

 member of the Venezuelan Commission, 1895-1896; am- 

 bassador to Berlin under President McKinley, 1897. 

 resigned August 5, 1902; president of the American 

 delegation to the International Peace Congress at The 

 Hague in 1899. His best-known works are "Warfare 

 ,ce and Religion." "The New Germany," and 

 "Studies in General Historv." 



White, Edward Douglas, an American jurist; born 

 in the parish of Lafourche, La., November 3, 1845; was 

 educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Md., and at the 

 Jesuit College in New Orleans. During the Civil War 

 he served in the Confederate army. After the war he 

 practised law. He was State Senator of Louisiana in 

 1874; associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louis- 

 iana in 1878; and United States Senator in 1889-1894. 

 While still in the senate he was appointed an associate 

 justice of the United States Supreme Court. 



White. Horace, journalist; born in Colebrook, N. H., 



10, 1834; graduate of Beloit College, Wis., 1853; 



for many years with "Chicago Tribune" and was its 



editor and one of its chief proprietors, 1864-74; since 



1883. connected with "New \ork Evening Post" as 



pr<i-e 



self for five years, and in 1835-36 be was a member of the 

 Legislature of Massachusetts. After having edited sev- 

 eral other papers he went to Philadelphia to edit the 

 "Pennsylvania Freeman," an anti-slavery paper, the 

 office of which was burned by the mob in 1839. In the 

 following year he returned to his native State, settling at 

 Amesbury. where (or at Danvers. Mass.) he chiefly re- 

 sided until his death. Among the numerous volumes of 

 poetry which he from time to time gave to the world the 

 following may be mentioned: "Moll Pitcher," "Lays 

 of my Home." "Miscellaneous Poems." "The Voices of 

 Freedom." "Songs of Labor." 'The Chapel of the Her- 

 mits," "Home Ballads," and poems "Snow Bound," 

 "In War-time." "National Lyrics." "Ballads of New 

 England." "Miriam." "Mabel Martin," "Hazel Blos- 

 soms," "The King's Missive," "Poems of Nature," etc. 

 Died, 1892. 



Kate Douglas, author; born in Philadel- 



phia, September 28. 1857; graduate of Abbott Academy, 

 Andoyer, Mass.. 1878; married. March 30. 1895. George 

 C. Kiggs. Organized the first free kindergartens for 

 poor children on the Pacific coast; has been interested 

 in that work ever since. Continues her name of " Kate 

 Douglas Wiggin" in her literary work. Author: "The 

 Birds' Christmas Carol," "The Story of Patsy." "A 

 Summer in a Carton." "Timothy's truest." ' I ' 



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Sophismes Economiques, and Luigi Cossa s Scienza | Village Watch Tower" 

 dolle Finanze." Author: Money and Banking Illus t ; A> Smith), 



Hour" (with Nora A. Smith). "Children's Rights 



president of company, editorial writer, and ed.tor-in- 1 (with game). "A Cathedral Courtship." "Penelojxf's 

 retired January,,!, 1903. Mrted Bastiat s English Experiences," "Pollv Oliver's Problem." "The 



Tower," " Fr^bel's Gifts" (with Nora 

 Froebel's Occupations " (with same), 

 "Kindergarten Principles and Practice" (w.th same). 

 "Nine Love Songs and a Carol." "Marm Lisa," " Pene- 

 lope's Progress," "Penelope's Experiences in Ireland." 

 "The Diary of a .Goose Girl." "Rebecca." "The Affair 

 at the Inn" (collaboration), "Rose 

 Editor (with Nora Archibald Smith): 

 bere." "The Posy Ring." 



Wllberforce, Samuel, D. D., was born in 1805. was 

 third son of W. Wilberforce, and an active High Church 



trated by American History," "The Roman History of 

 Appian of Alexandria" (translated from Greek, two 

 volumes). 



\Miiti-, James William, physician, surgeon: born 

 in Philadelphia, November 2, 18.50; graduate of Univer- 

 ivrin<vlv:ini:i. M. D., 1871 (Ph. D.. University 

 of IYnn-\Iv:ima). On staff of Professor Louis Agassis, 

 during Ihussler expedition to West Indies, the Straits 

 of Magellan, both coasts of South America, the Gala- 

 pagos Islands, etc.. 1871-72; resident physician of 



Philadelphia Hospital. 1873; surgeon to Eastern State 

 Penitentiary. 1874-76; surgeon to first troop of Phila- 

 delphia city cavalrv. 1878-88; has been teacher and 

 \vnter in surgery during whole professional life; was 

 first professor of genito-urinary surgery, then professor 

 of clinical surgery; now John Rhea Barton professor of 

 all in University of Pennsylvania. Joint 

 "American Text-book of Surgery" (Keen and 

 "Genito-Urinary Surgery " (White and Martin'. 

 Has written numerous articles on medical and surgical 

 fluhje.-ts m me.lii-al journals. 



\\ hit. . \\ illi.im Mien, owner and editor "Emporia 

 Daily and Weekly Gazette"; born in Kmporia, Kan., 

 educated in common schools. El Dorado, Kan., 

 and State University. I^awrence. Kan. Contributor to 

 magazines and newspapers. Author: "The Real Issue 

 and Other Stories." "The Court of Boyville," "Strata- 



""whltney^Eli. inventor, born In Westborough. Mass.. 

 December 8. 1765. In 1792 he was graduated at Yale, 

 went to Georgia, and for a time read law, while living on 

 the plantation of the widow of General Nathaniel Greene. 

 Here he invented the cotton gin. but owing to litigation 

 growing out of tlie elaimn Off fraudulent imitators, and 

 despairing of obtaining hi* right* in the Booth, Whum-y 

 went to New Haven, Conn*, ... ITHS. win-re he became 

 engaged in the manufacture of firearm*, introducing the 

 extension of nuu-l.mery in place of manual labor. Died 

 at New Haven. Conn.. 182 



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Whittle* \\iiii.un IKvlfht, a dinting.. 



rn in 1827 at Northampton, Mass.. 



tudird at William-' Col,,.j;e. W,lln,m-to . nn.l at Yale 



College, giving special attention to .-v.n-knt. He also 

 studied Sanskrit in Germany from 1850 to 1853. r. 



latter year to America. The first-fruit* of his 



oskrit wa* ai f the Atharva : Veda 



in conjunction with Roth (1850). He had previously 



o* the River." 

 "Golden Num- 



leader, who became Bishop of Oxford in 1845, and of 

 Winchester in 1869. He was an able speaker in the 

 House of Lords, and had much social influence. Died, 

 1873. 



Wllberforce, William, was born 1759; philan- 

 thropist, entered parliament in 1780. and seven years 

 later entered upon the movement against the slave trade, 

 his abolition motion in 1789 gaining the support of the 



though it was not 



In- death .-lavery 



leaders of every party in the House, 



carried for fifteen years. Just before 



it.<>lf was abolished in the British dominions. Died, 



1833. 



Wllcoz. Ella Wheeler, an American poet and writer, 

 was born in 1855 near Madison. Wis., and educated at 

 the State University in that city. She was for many 

 years a contributor to the Milwaukee and Madison paper*, 

 of poems, sketches, etc.. the demand for her pro: 

 steadily increasing, and extending to the leading Journals 

 and periodicals ol the country. Author of An Am- 

 bitious Man." " Sweet Danger." " Poems of Passion." 

 ' Poems of Pleasure," " Kingdom of I 



Women and Emotions." " A Woman of the World." etc. 



\Mlev. Harvey Wanhlngton. rhrnmt ,h,cf of 



l.iirraii <-f rhemi-try. Tmte,! St:it,-s I >,,,:, rtmn.t of \RM- 



cultunv *inrr 18R3; born in Kent. Iml . m 1844: (rrsd- 



uate of Hanover College. 187 (Ph. D.. LL. D.); 



Harvard, 1873; professor ol chemistry. Purdue Univer- 



s74-83. State chemist of IiH' IMI-*I- 



profUor of agricultural chemistry in. 



Columbian University, since 18O5. Author: 



pies and Practice of Agricultural Chemistry" (three 



Volume*) "-:"-. ~f A ;~.1..~ I rtl*OTt..t. " mlmft 



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1880. Her mother was Regent until August 



Songs of Agricultural Chemists' 

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