288 
Tweed, Boss, 6, 227, 235. 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, novel, 100. 
Unitarians, 5. 
Vail, Alfred, 227. 
Valentia, Ireland, 48, 53, 61, 79, 80, 
138, 142, 150, 151, 168. 
Vanderbilt, “Commodore” Cornelius, 
227. 
Vanderbilt, William H., 256. 
Varley, Cromwell F., 45, 119, 120, 157, 
198, 199. 
Victoria, Queen, 14, 49, 59, 62, 67, 
68, 73, 75, 81, 86, 114, 158, 159, 173, 
195, 265. 
Volta, Count Alessandro, 28, 227. 
Wabash Railway, 244, 251, 259. 
INDEX 
Webb, William H., 219. 
Weed, Thurlow, 93, 227. 
Western Union Telegraph Company, 
115, 178, 212, 231, 269. 
Wheatstone, Sir Charles, 83, 119, 162. 
White, Chandler, 32. 
Whitehouse, Edward O. W., 38, 39, 
53, 67, 82, 83, 160, 161. 
Whittier, John G., 174, 175. 
Wilde, Oscar, 274. 
Williams College, 4, 8, 12, 13, 251, 
255. 
Williams, Ephraim, 4. 
Wisconsin, 174. 
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, President 
of Yale, 201, 202. 
Wortley, James Stuart, 96, 154, 187. 
Yale College, 4, 201, 202. 
