ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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"Wheeler (L. H.) —Continued. 

 See Jones (P.) and others. 



Leonard Henienway Wheeler was bom in 

 Shrewsbury, Mass., April 18, 1811. He gradu- 

 ated from Middlebury College in 1837, and from 

 Andover Seminary in 1840. The fall and winter 

 were spent attending medical lectures in Pitts- 

 field and practicing medicine in Lowell. On the 

 26th of April, 1841, he married Miss Harriet 

 "Wood of Lowell, and started for their mission- 

 ary field, arriving at La Point Island, Aug. 1, 

 1841. They began work at once, relieving Mr. 

 Hall, the founder of the mission, who devoted 

 the greater part of his time to translating the 

 Bible and Peep of Day into Ojibwa. 



The Indians spent their time in hunting and 

 fishing, and, as Mr. Wheeler mingled among 

 them and studied their customs, he became 

 thoroughly convinced that no permanent good 

 could be done the Indians until these roam- 

 ing habits were broken up. He accompanied 

 them to their sugar camps at Odawah, and, ob- 

 serving the richness of the soil, conceived the 

 idea of locating the Indians upon these lands, 

 giving patents to them and obliging them to 

 work them. By the co-operation of the Amer- 

 ican Board with the Government, he secured 

 the land for the Indians, and went to Odawah in 

 May, 1845. His time and strength were taxed to 

 the uttermost in building a house for his fam- 

 ily, a church and school-house, preaching, teach- 

 ing, tending the sick, and instructing the In- 

 dians in the first principles of farming. In 

 1856 he opened a manual labor boarding-school 

 for the benefit of the children on the reserve. 

 Their education was thoroughly practical and 

 was intended to make self-reliant, self-support- 

 ing men and women of them. The school was 

 a success and was a power for good to all the 

 Indians upon the reserve. In 1862 Mr. Wheeler 

 published a new orthography, which was in- 

 troduced into the mission school. By "its use 

 the English teacher was able to read the Ojibwa 

 ■with one hour's study. In 1859 he published a 

 hymn-book (see p. 270 of this bibliographj^), 

 and during the next two years commenced a 

 grammar and catechism, but owing to ill health 

 it was not completed. For thirteen years Mr. 

 Wheeler's constitution had been giving away 

 to the inroads of consumption, brought on by 

 exposure and overwork. In the fall of 1866, 

 by the advice of his physician, he resigned his 

 work and moved to Beloit, Wis., where he died 

 Feb. 25, 1872. 



"Whipple (Amiel Weeks), Ewbank (T.), 

 and Turner (W. W.). Explorations 

 and surveys for a railroad route from 

 the Mississippi river to the Pacific 

 ocean. | War department. | Route near 

 the thirty-fifth parallel, under the com- 

 mand of lieut. A. W. Whipple, | topo- 

 graphical engineers, in 1853 and 1854. | 

 Report I upon | the Indian tribes, | by 



Whipple (A. W.) and others — Cont'd. 

 I lieut. A. W. Whipple, Thomas Ew- 

 bank, esq., and prof. Wm. W. Turner. | 



Washington, D. C, \ 1855. 



Title verso blank 1 1. contents verso blank 1 

 1. illustrations verso blank 1 1. text pp. 7-127, 

 seven plates, 4°. Included in " Keports of ex- 

 plorations and surveys for a railroad from the 

 Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean," vol. 3, 

 of which it forms the third part; it was also 

 issued separately. 



Chapter V, Vocabularies of North American 

 Languages (collected by A. W, Whipple; claa- 

 sified, with accompanying remarks, by Wm.W. 

 Turner) , pp. 54-103, contains, under the heading 

 Algonkin, parallel vocabularies of the English, 

 Delaware and Shawnee, about 250 words each 

 (pp. 56-60), followed by remarks on the same 

 (pp. 60-61). 



Copies seen : Bureau of Ethnology, Eamee, 

 Pilling. 



At the sale of Prof. W. W. Turner's library 

 in New York, May, 1860 (nos. 294-296), eight 

 copies of the separate edition were sold. Mr. T. 

 W. Field's copy (no. 2523) sold in 1875 for $1.75. 



Amiel Weeks Whipple, soldier, born in Green- 

 wich, Mass., in 1818; died iu Washington, T). 

 C, 7 May, 1863. He studied at Amherst ; was 

 graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1841 ; 

 was engaged immediately afterward in the 

 hydrographic survey of Patapsco River, and in 

 1842 in surveying the approaches to New 

 Orleans and the harbor of Portsmouth, N. H. 

 In 1844 he was detailed as assistant astronomer 

 upon the northeastern boundary survey, and in 

 1845 he was employed in determining the north- 

 ern boundaries of New York, Vermont, and 

 New Hampshire. In 1849 he was appointed 

 assistant astronomer in the Mexican boundary 

 commission, and in 1853 he had charge of the 

 Pacific railroad survey along the 35th parallel. 

 In 1856 he was -appointed engineer for the 

 southern light-house district and superintend- 

 ent of the improvement of St. Clair flats in St. 

 Mary's river. At the opening of the civil war 

 he at once applied for service in the field, and 

 was assigned as chief topographical engineer 

 on the staff" of Gen. Irvin McDowell.— ^ppie- 

 ton's Cyclop, of A m. Biog. 

 "White {Rev. Andrew). Grammar, dic- 

 tionary, and catechism in the language 

 of the Maryland Indians. (*) 



"Father White labored among the Piscata- 

 ways, and these works were probably in their 

 language. When Rev. Father William Mc- 

 Sherry found White's Relatio Itineris in the 

 archives of the Professed House of the Jesuits 

 at Rome about 1832, an Indian catechism accom- 

 panied that document. A copy of it was prom- 

 ised me, but in the troubles in Italy the valu- 

 able papers were boxed up and stored for 

 safety." — J. O. Shea. 

 See Interpretation. 



Andrew White, clergyman, born in London, 

 England, about 1579; died there 27 Dec, 1656- 



