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WADE, FRANK BERTRAM: 1875-
Frank Bertram Wade , born in New Bedford, Mass., in 1875, became head of the science department at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1903. He became a nationally recognized authority on gems and is the author of several textbooks not listed here.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
page: 328[View Page 328]- A Teacher's Handbook. 1915.
- Diamonds; a Study of the Factors That Govern Their
Value. New York, 1916.
- How to Buy Diamonds Wisely. 1921.
- Facts in Regard to Industrial Diamond Setting. 1923.
- The Teaching of Science and the Science Teacher (withH. Brownell). New York, 1925.
WALK, CHARLES EDMONDS: 1875-
" Charles Edmonds Walk was born Mar. 18, 1875, in Memphis, Tenn., the son of a Methodist minister. He was educated in Indianapolis , and in 1893 he married Mary H. Hamilton of Kokomo, Ind. In 1908 they moved to Cass County, Indiana."
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- The Silver Blade. Chicago, 1908.
- The Yellow Circle. Chicago,
1909.
- The Paternoster Ruby. Chicago,
1910.
- The Time Lock. Chicago, 1912.
- The Crimson Cross (withMillard Lynch). Chicago, 1913.
- The Green Seal. Chicago, 1914.
WALKER, CHARLES MANNING: 1834-1920.
Born in Athens, O., Dec. 25, 1834, Charles Manning Walker was educated at the University of Ohio. He came to Indianapolis about 1855, where he taught in the Institute for the Blind and studied law. From 1861 to 1869 he was connected with the U. S. Treasury Department, but he returned to Indianapolis as associate editor of the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL and later worked on the INDIANAPOLIS TIMES and the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. He died in 1920.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- History of Athens County, Ohio, and Incidentally of the Ohio
Land Company, and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta.
Cincinnati, 1869. 2
vols.
- Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver
P. Morton. Prepared for the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL by
Charles M. Walker. Indianapolis, 1878.
- Hovey and Chase. Life of Alvin P. Hovey… Together
with a Sketch of Ira J. Chase. Indianapolis,
1888.
WALKER, GUY MORRISON: 1870-
Guy Morrison Walker was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 24, 1870. His parents were the Rev. Wilbur F. and Mary Florence Morrison Walker.
Mr. Walker received the A.B. from De Pauw University in 1890, the LL.B. in 1891 and the A.M. in 1893. He married Minnie L. Royse, of Terre Haute, Ind., on Dec. 15, 1891. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1891.
He spent some time in China and was regarded as an expert on Chinese affairs, acting as editor of Chinese material for LESLIE'S WEEKLY after the Boxer outbreaks and as a consultant to President McKinley. He organized the Terre Haute (Ind.) Trust Company in 1894 and the Security Trust Company of Toledo (O.) in 1898. He removed to New York in the latter year.
His business career was chiefly devoted to the reorganization of trust organizations and public utilities.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Railroads and Wages. New York,
1902.
- The Why and How of Interurban Railways.
Chicago, 1904.
- Record of Phi Kappa Psi. New
York, 1906.
- The Spirit of Indiana. New York,
1907.
- Fundamental Education. New York,
1912.
- Measure of Civilization. New
York, 1917.
- Railroad Rates and Rebates. New
York, 1917.
- The Things That Are Caesar's–A Defense of
Wealth. New York, 1919.
- The English Language and the People Who Speak It.
New York, 1920.
- The Man Who Can, and Other Addresses. New
York, 1920.
- Skeletons (A Claim Agent's Stories).
Boston, 1921.
- Gods of the Nation. New York,
1921.
- Can We Escape War with Japan? New
York, 1921.
WALL, LEE WESLIE: ?-1899.
" Lee Weslie Wall was a printer living in Logans port, Ind., for many years. He died in that city on July 10, 1899. He is the author of a religious book… consisting of quotations from the Bible with appropriate poetical accompaniment …"
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- Words of Comfort. Logansport,
Ind., 1896.
WALLACE, LEWIS: 1827-1905.
Lewis (Lew) Wallace (Apr. 10, 1827-Feb. 15, 1905) went through life as an amateur–a singularly page: 329[View Page 329] gifted one at times–of half a dozen professions. He is best known as a writer, the author of the long-time best seller Ben Hur; a Tale of the Christ (1880). But as he makes clear in his posthumous Autobiography (1906), he wrote as an avocation and for pleasure rather than as a serious business. He liked to dream; he was an incurable romantic and his novels are the setting down of his fantasies. When he dealt with a concrete theme, as in the case of his Autobiography, he adopted a fairly easy-flowing, almost conversational style in contrast to the consciously "literary" style of the more pretentious works.
In addition to the two titles mentioned, Wallace wrote The Fair God (1873), a fictionization of the Spanish conquest of Mexico under Cortez; The Life of Benjamin Harrison (1888), a hastily compiled campaign biography; The Boyhood of Christ (1888); The Prince of India, or Why Constantinople Fell (1893); and the volume (1898) containing the poem The Wooing of Malkatoon and the tragedy Cornmodus, written at an earlier date.
Wallace's second career was as a soldier. From earliest youth a lover of adventure, he tried to run away from home at the age of thirteen and join the Texans in their war for independence. He later participated in the Mexican War (1846-47).
Wallace saw the Civil War coming and knew that it would not only be a long and bitter conflict but, as he says in his autobiography, "that it would also be crowded with opportunities for distinction not in the least inconsistent with patriotism." Acting on this foresight, he organized in 1856 a military company in Crawfordsville, Ind., officially called the Montgomery Guards but better known as the Zouaves because of the uniforms they wore.
With the coming of war in 1861 the Zouaves enlisted in the Union army almost to a man and Wallace was called by Gov. O. P. Morton to be adjutant-general of Indiana . He was given full charge of raising his state's quota of regiments, exceeded the quota, and was given command of the Eleventh Indiana Regiment.
Wallace saw action at Fort Donelson, Shiloh , and Monocacy. He served with distinction and rose to the rank of major general.
His impetuosity and lack of tact cost him the good will of Gen. Halleck and he was twice relieved of his command, perhaps in consequence, only to be restored to it again by direction of higher authority.
Near the end of the Civil War, Wallace was active in helping the Mexicans in their uprising against the French Emperor Maximilian.
For many years a cloud hung over Wallace's military career as a result of a misunderstanding with Grant at Shiloh . Grant bitterly criticized Wallace for his route of march which caused him to arrive too late for the first day's battle. Grant subsequently somewhat grudgingly modified his observations. Wallace was deeply hurt by this criticism and many years later we find him writing to his wife of "the old wound at Shiloh," a wound to the spirit.
He served on the courts martial that tried Lincoln's assassins and investigated conditions at Andersonville Prison.
Lew Wallace was also a lawyer, although he does not appear to have let the law interfere with his other interests. He read law in his father's office in Indianapolis , failed the bar examination in 1846 in his haste to be off to the Mexican War, was admitted to practice before the circuit court the following year, and ultimately, in 1849, redeemed himself before the Indiana Supreme Court and was fully admitted to the bar. While he had carried on a modest practice in Indianapolis during the years he was studying for the bar, he opened his first real law office in Covington, Ind., shortly after receiving his license from the Indiana Supreme Court. He served two terms as prosecuting attorney in Covington (1850-53) and in 1853 resigned to move to Crawfordsville , where his wife's parents lived. In 1852 he had married Susan Elston, third daughter of Maj. Isaac C. Elston. In Crawfordsville he continued the practice of law off and on for the greater part of his life.
Closely connected with his legal career was Wallace's interest in politics, although he never achieved elective public office higher than state senator (1856).
Wallace started out in politics as a Whig. His father had been a Whig before him and had been elected governor of Indiana with that party's support. But when the Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor president in 1848 Wallace could not go along with the party. He despised Taylor because of the latter's treatment of Wallace's unit in the Mexican War, so he bolted to the Democratic ranks. Soon he found himself in a political dilemma. The controversy over the admission to the union of states as "free" states or "slave" states found him torn between his dislike of the abolitionists and his repugnance to human slavery. He wound up by becoming a Douglas Democrat with the principle that each new state should determine its own status on the slavery issue. But events led Wallace away from this position and he was ultimately convinced, after hearing Lincoln debate Douglas, that the Democrats were the party not only of slavery but of secession. In 1860 he moved into the page: 330[View Page 330] Republican camp. It was a Republican president, Hayes, who appointed him governor of New Mexico Territory in 1878 and another Republican, Garfield, who appointed him minister to Turkey in 1881.
In both of the last assignments Wallace came on the scene in periods of excitement. The reign of terror of "Billy the Kid" occurred while he was governor of New Mexico , and the notorious Abdul Hamid II was sultan during Wallace's tour of duty in Constantinople.
Around the edges of the varied careers Wallace found time to play the violin and to paint pictures. He even dabbled in modeling clay.
Lew Wallace's formal education was of the skimpiest. He was sent from school to school and along the way spent a scant two months in the preparatory department of Wabash College, but formal education apparently did not take. His greatest source of real education was his father's library.
It has been ventured before now that a contributing psychological factor to the readiness of the South for an unnecessary and tragic war was the popularity of romantic fiction, particularly the Waverley Novels of Walter Scott. If the young manhood of the slave-holding class regarded themselves as feudal seigneurs or highland chieftains, a highly debatable contention, they certainly had a northern counterpart in Lew Wallace.
It was noted above that Wallace was a romantic in his writing; but his romanticism went deeper than that and tinged almost every phase of his life. From his first attempt to run away and be a hero he was committed to the dramatic, the fanciful, and the heroic. He dressed his military company in the baggy trousers and gay tasselled sash of the Algerian Zouaves of France . He saw in the coming Civil War a chance to rise to fame. He ordered the men of the Eleventh Indiana Regiment to fall upon their knees, raise their right hands and publicly swear a mighty oath to remember the humiliation of the Indiana forces at Buena Vista in the Mexican War and to wipe out that shame in battle.
Gen. Grant may have been weak on his facts as to what occurred before Shiloh but he knew his man when he observed in the CENTURY MAGAZINE, "I presume his idea was that by taking the route he did, he would be able to come around on the flank or rear of the enemy, and thus perform an act of heroism that would redound to the credit of his command, as well as to the benefit of his country."
The romantic tendency can be noted in Wallace's painting of the conspirators planning the assassination of Lincoln. They are shown in a range of poses from furtive to poetic before a classical ruin, a favorite stage property of the artists who revolted against the logic and reason of the classical age.
Again we find the love of the colorful in his description of the Turkish sultan: "The commander of the faithful wears the uniform of an army officer, without ornament other than a slight dress sword. His bearing is kingly, his face thin and colorless, eyes black and keen as a falcon's. He rides a milk-white Arabian, which he manages with skilful and delicate hand."
In the last years of his life, Lew Wallace caused to be built in the garden of his Crawfordsville, Ind., home a study which he described as "a pleasure-house for my soul." It is unfortunate that this tangible evidence of Wallace's choice of an ideal setting for himself as a writer and a man of the world remains for us to see. It is better to think of him as the restless adventure-seeker, the striker of picturesque attitudes that his writings and the events of his life reveal him. There is little of the commonplace in that portrait. It comes as something of a shock, then, to see preserved in this little building, now maintained as a memorial, the standard trappings and artistic cliches of an era when aesthetic judgment in the English-speaking world was at its nadir.
By John D. Forbes, Wabash College.
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The Fair God; or, the Last of the
'Tzins: a Tale of the Conquest of Mexico
. Boston, 1873.
- Commodus. An Historical Play.
Crawfordsville, Ind., [1876].
-
Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ
. New York, 1880.
- The Life of General Benjamin Harrison.
Philadelphia, 1888.
- The Boyhood of Christ. New York,
1888.
- Ben-Hur in Dramatic Tableaux and Pantomime Arranged by the
Author. New York, 1891.
- Life and Public Services of Benjamin Harrison…
with a Choice Biographical Sketch of-Whitelaw Reid …
Cincinnati, n.d.
- The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell.
New York, 1893.
- The Story of American Heroism (with others).
Akron, O., 1896.
- The Wooing of Malkatoon; Commodus: Two Poems.
New York, I898.
-
The First Christmas; from Ben-Hur
. New York, 1899.
- Lew Wallace, an Autobiography
. New York, 1906.
2 vols. (Brought down to the end of the Civil War by
Wallace, this was completed by Susan Elston Wallace and Mary Hannah
Krout.)
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- Chariot-Race From Ben-Hur. New
York, 1908.
- The Boy's Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ.
New York, [1880-1928].
WALLACE, SUSAN ARNOLD ELSTON (MRS. LEW): 1830-1907.
Susan Arnold Elston , daughter of Maj. Isaac C. and Maria E. Aiken Elston, was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Dec. 25, 1830. She was educated at home and at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., completing her course there in 1849. She married Lew Wallace in 1852 and, except for the years of his government service, made her home in Crawfordsville until her death.
In addition to her books, she contributed to newspapers and periodicals and acted as editor and critic of her husband's writing. She took pleasure in encouraging the literary efforts of all young people, and especially those of Mary Hannah Krout, who was a protege from childhood. It has been suggested that the literary taste of Mrs. Wallace was somewhat superior to that of her illustrious husband and that his work could have been improved, in style and structure, by even more of her editing than it received.
Mrs. Elston died on Oct. 1, 1907.
Information from Who Was Who in America and from the ms. notes and scrap-books of Mary Hannah Krout.
- The Storied Sea. Boston, 1883.
- Ginevra; or, the Old Oak Chest: a Christmas Story;
Illustrated by Lew Wallace. New York, 1886.
- The Land of the Pueblos. New
York, 1888.
- The Repose in Egypt: a Medley. New
York, 1888.
- Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches.
Chicago, 1898.
- Travel Sketches. New York, n.d.
- The City of the King: What the Child Jesus saw and
Heard. Indianapolis, 1903.
- Child-Life Abroad (with-others). Evanston,
Ill., n.d.
WALLACE, WILSON DEWITT: 1838-1901.
Wilson DeWitt Wallace , son of James and Sarah A. Marquam Wallace, was born in Lafayette, Ind., on November 19, 1838. He attended the Lafayette grade schools, the Waveland (Ind.) Academy, and received the A.B. degree from Jefferson College, Pa. , in 1861. On Nov. 19, 1861, he married Anna M. Shields.
He served in the Union army until wounded and was discharged with the rank of captain in 1863. After his discharge he studied in the law office of John A. Stein (father of Orth Harper and Evaleen Stein) and was admitted to the Tippecanoe County bar in 1864. He was elected judge of the Superior Court in 1894 and held the position until his death on Jan. 28, 1901.
Judge Wallace wrote a great deal of both prose and verse during his life and enjoyed association with others of similar tastes.
Information from de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County. Indiana. and Combination Atlas Map of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- Love's Ladder; a Novel.
Chicago. 1886.
- Idle Hours. New York, 1890.
WALSER, GEORGE HENRY: 1834-?
Except for the fact that George Henry Walser was born in Dearborn County, Ind., in 1834, no information on his life has been located. The places of publication of his first two books (both probably printed for the author) would seem to indicate that he moved west in middle life.
Information from Federal Writers Project–Indiana Authors, 1937.
- Poems of Leisure. Lamar, Mo.,
1890.
- The Bouquet; a Poetic Treasury of Flowers, Their Classics and
Vocabulary, Lincoln. Nebr., 1897.
- Life and Teachings of Jesus.
Boston, 1908.
- Floral Tribute.
WAREING, ERNEST CLYDE: 1872–1944.
Ernest Clyde Wareing , son of James and Sarah Wilson Wareing, was born in Volga, Ind., on May 29, 1872, lived in Huntingburg, Ind., in his youth, and graduated from the Huntingburg High School. He received the A.B. degree from De Pauw University in 1898, the D.D. in 1914 and the S.T.B. from Boston University in 1909. He also received degrees from Ohio Northern University, Evansville College, and McKendree College. On May 7, 1896, he married Mary Alcinda Matlock.
Ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1901, he served as a pastor in Indiana (at Plainfield, Williamsport, Plymouth , and Brazil ) from 1901 to 1912. From 1912 to 1915 he was associate editor page: 332[View Page 332] and from 1916 to 1932 editor of the WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, with headquarters in Cincinnati . He was a pastor in Fort Wayne , 1932-33, and in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1933-36. From 1936 to 1939 he acted as superintendent of the church's Chattanooga district, and from 1939 until his death he was pastor of the Red Bank Methodist Church.
He died on Feb. 4, 1944.
Information from Who's Who in America and Wilson's History Notes, Vol. 20.
- Knights of the White Shield. 1906.
- The Building of a Great Sunday School. 1911.
- The Evangelism of Jesus; Six Studies. New
York, 1918.
- Critical Hours in the Preacher's Life.
New York, 1923.
- The Other Shepherd; a Tale of the First Christmas Among the
Shepherds of Bethlehem. New York, 1929.
- The Spiritual Force of the Epworth League
Institute.
WARRUM, HENRY: 1867-1939.
Born in Greenfield, Ind., in 1867, Henry Warrum spent most of his life in Indianapolis and Washington . He died in 1939.
Information from Indianapolis Public Library.
- Some Religious Weft and Warp.
Indianapolis, 1915.
WASON, ROBERT ALEXANDER: 1874-
Robert Alexander Wason , son of Robert Alexander and Gertrude Louise Paddock Wason, was born in Toledo, O., on Apr. 6, 1874. Removing to Indiana as a boy, he attended high school in Delphi for one year. On May 11, 1911, he married Emma Louise Brownell of Peru , Ind.
For eight years he was a clerk in a general store–at the same time making several trips to the West. During the Spanish-American War he served nine months in the Fifth U. S. Artillery.
In addition to his books he has written vaudeville sketches, a comic opera, and short stories.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Babe Randolph's Turning Point. 1904.
- The Wolves: Fable with a Purpose.
Chicago, 1908.
- Nachette (withNed Nye). New York, 1909.
- Happy Hawkins. Boston, 1909.
- The Steering Wheel.
Indianapolis, 1910.
- The Knight-Errant: a Novel of To-Day.
Boston, 1911.
- Friar Tuck; Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John
Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A., as Set Forth and Embellished by His Friend
and Admirer Happy Hawkins and Here Recorded by Robert Alexander
Wason. Boston, 1912.
- And Then Came Jean. Boston,
1913.
- The Dog and the Child and the Ancient Sailor Man.
Boston, n.d. [1913].
- Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle.
Boston, 1914.
- Knute Ericson's Celebration, in the Grim
Thirteen. 1917.
- Spoilers of the Valley. 1921.
WASSON, JOHN MACAMY: 1810-?
John Macamy Wasson , author of a very well written historical pamphlet which he published anonymously, was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1810, the son of Archibald Wasson.
The family moved to Richmond, Ind., in 1829, and young Wasson married Anna Moore.
He began to gather notes on the early history of the county and about 1870 he began to jot down his own recollections of the early days. These were collected and published after his death.
Information from Young–History of Wayne County and the Indiana State Library.
- Annals of Pioneer Settlers on the Whitewater and Its
Tributaries in the Vicinity of Richmond, Indiana, from 1804 to 1830.
[Anonymous.]
Richmond, Ind., 1875.
WATERMAN, LUTHER DANA: 1830-1918.
Luther Dana Waterman was born in Wheeling, Va., (now W. Va.), on Nov. 21, 1830. From 1832 to 1855 he was a resident of Ohio , where he attended Miami University, taught school, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1853. In 1855 he came to Kokomo, Ind. During the Civil War he was with the army for three years as surgeon of the 39th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and he spent two months as a prisoner of war at Macon, Ga., and Charleston, S. C. After the war he settled in Indianapolis , where he lived until his death.
Dr. Waterman was a charter organizer of the old Indiana Medical College and taught there for a number of years. In 1878 he was president of the Indiana Medical Society. At the time of his death, June 30, 1918, he was professor emeritus of medicine in the Indiana University School of Medicine. He will be remembered chiefly for his gift of $100,000 to page: 333[View Page 333] Indiana University for the establishment of the "Luther Dana Waterman Institute for Scientific Research."
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Phantoms of Life; Poems. New
York, 1883.
- The Economy and Necessity of a State Board of
Health.
WEATHERLY, ULYSSES GRANT: 1865-1940.
Ulysses Grant Weatherly , son of William A. and Lydia Dix Weatherly, was born at West Newton, Ind., on Apr. 21, 1865, and graduated from Colgate University in 1890. In 1894 he received the Ph.D. degree from Cornell, in 1910 the Litt.D. from Colgate, and in 1911 the A.M. from Indiana University. He also studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Columbia. On Dec. 24, 1890, he married Alice M. Burgess.
In 1894-95 he was an instructor at Central High School in Philadelphia . After 1895 he served on the faculty of Indiana University, first as assistant professor, then associate professor of history and, after 1899, as professor of economics and sociology. From 1907 to 1910 he was joint-editor of the ECONOMIC BULLETIN. He was also a member of various state boards and commissions.
He died on July 18, 1940.
Information from Who Was Who in America and Indiana University , 1820-1904.
- Louis VI, the Founder of the French Monarchy.
Hamilton, N. Y., 1891.
- Comparative Politics. Albany, N.
Y., 1895.
- Outlines of Sociology.
Indianapolis, 1906.
- Social Progress, Studies in the Dynamics of Change.
Philadelphia, 1926.
WEBSTER, MARIE DAUGHERTY (MRS. GEORGE, JR.): 1859-
Born in Wabash, Ind., in 1859, Marie Daugherty moved to Marion, Ind., in 1884, when she became the wife of George Webster, Jr. She was a resident of Marion for many years, later moving to Princeton, N. J.
Information from the Marion Public Library.
- Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them.
Garden City, N. Y., 1915.
WEIGLE, ELIZA DANA (MRS. CHARLES): ?-
According to de Hart's Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, published in 1909, " Mrs. Eliza Dana Weigle has been a resident of Lafayette since the time of her marriage to Mr. Charles Weigle …"
de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, 1909.
- In an Old-Time Garden, and Bits of Nature Verse.
Brandon, Ft.
WEIK, JESSE WILLIAM: 1857-
Jesse William Weik , son of Louis and Katharine Smith Weik, was born in Greencastle, Ind., on Aug. 23, 1857.
He received the A.B. degree from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1875 and the A.M. in 1883. He read law and was admitted to the bar but did not practice.
On Dec. 1, 1890, he married Frances A. Hays, of Portland, Ind.
After his graduation from college Weik spent several years in and around Springfield, Ill., where he began to form the collection of Lincolniana from which much of his writing on Lincoln's life was developed and which eventually became one of the finest collections of Lincoln letters and manuscripts.
Forming a working connection with William H. Herndon, Lincoln's former law partner, he began collecting additional material in the form of interviews with contemporaries in Springfield, in the Indiana Lincoln country and in Kentucky . Their joint work, Herndon's Lincoln: the True Story of a Great Life, appeared in 1889 and enjoyed an enormous sale.
Weik served with the U. S. Pension Bureau, 1882-85 and 1891-94, and spent the majority of his remaining years in Greencastle , where he served as president of the local telephone company.
Information from Who's Who in America and De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- Herndon's Lincoln: the True Story of a Great
Life (withWilliam H. Herndon). Chicago, 1886-89. 3 vols.
- History of the Republican Party. 1908.
- History of Putnam County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1910.
- The Real Lincoln; a Portrait.
Boston, 1922.
WEIR, LEBERT HOWARD. 1878-
Born on a farm near Scottsburg, Ind., on Sept. 20, 1878, Lebert Howard Weir attended the country grade schools and graduated from Scottsburg High School. In 1903 he received the A.B. degree from Indiana University. He was a student at Stanford University in 1903 and at the University of Cincinnati in 1907. He also studied in Europe in 1933 and in 1936.
Mr. Weir was a teacher in 1903-04 and served as assistant secretary of the Associated Charities of Cincinnati in 1904-05. From 1905 to 1910 he was chief officer of the Juvenile Court of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, O. From 1910 to 1919 he was associated with the National Recreation Association as field secretary and park and recreation planner.
In addition to his books he was the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles.
Information from the Scottsburg Public Library.
- A Practical Recreation Manual for Schools (withStella Walker Durham). Salem, Ore., 1914.
- Summary of a Recreation Survey of Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Minneapolis, 1915.
- Survey of Vocational Recreation. 1918.
- The Buffalo Recreation Survey. Buffalo, N.
Y., 1925.
- Recreation Survey of Providence and Environs, Rhode
Island. 1936.
- Europe at Play; a Study of Recreation and Leisure Time
Activities. New York, 1937.
- Summary of Recreation Survey of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, 1944.
WELLS, HELEN WESTON (MRS. OTTO): ?-
Helen Weston Wells , a native of Indiana , was graduated from De Pauw University. She married Otto Wells and resided in Fairmount, Ind.
From about 1907 to the Twenties she contributed short stories of Indiana life of a half century before to various women's magazines, usually under the pseudonym of Forest Blake. She was the author of one published novel.
Information from Ramsey, Lenore P., in the INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, March, 1947.
- Saint Joseph. New York, 1909.
WELSH, JOSEPH S.: ?-
One of the most interesting among Indiana literary figures is Dr. Joseph S. Welsh , a physician by profession and a teacher by vocation.
Except for the fact that he chose west central Indiana as a place of residence, probably during his early middle life, little biographical information is available. That little was set down by Hiram W. Beckwith, lawyer and amateur historian who lived within a few miles of Dr. Welsh's sphere of activity. Beckwith, writing in 1881, says:
"Few persons in private life, dying, have been mourned by a wider circle of warm and admiring friends than was Dr. Joseph S. Welsh. He died on Coal Creek [Fountain County, Ind.] about the year 1846, having lived there presumably sixteen or eighteen years. It is much to be lamented that more is not known of his early life, his education and training … The industry with which he attended to the medical profession did not prevent his giving attention to general literature, and he wrote many poems and prose sketches of merit … he published a small volume of poems, entitled Harp of the West, which indicates the goings of his mind. Some of them are devotional; some breathe a spirit of high patriotism. The imagery is not always well chosen, and the versification is sometimes faulty, but many of them have high merit in various ways. They are rich in knowledge of Indian, as well as general history. He excelled rather as a prose writer … Reading his descriptions of natural scenery, the movement of armies and military engagements, one cannot help thinking what a war correspondent he would have been had he lived during the war of the rebellion …
"His conversational powers were even more remarkable … As a teacher he had few equals. Youth looked up to him with wonder and admiration while he discoursed to them in a strain too high for their full comprehension, but which held in their hearts and memories, their awakened curiosity, and enlarged understanding, sooner or later made clear. Of himself he wrote: 'My highest ambition is to plant in the bosoms of the rising generation, the youth of our favored land, the great, the good, and ennobling principles of morality, virtue, and patriotism.'
"His life, then, was a magnificent success. Truth regulated all his actions and guided his words."
From Beckwith–History of Fountain County, 1881.
- Harp of the West. Cincinnati,
1839.
WELTY, CORA GOTTSCHALK (MRS. B. F.): ?-
Cora Gottschalk was born in Berne, Ind., attended the public schools and was graduated from the Indiana State Teachers' College. After teaching for a short time she married B. F. Welty, an attorney of Lima, O., and made her home in that place.
Information from the Berne, Ind., Public Library.
- The Masquerading of Margaret.
Boston. 1908.
WELTY, MELBA MILDRED: 1890–
Melba Mildred Welty , daughter of Alonzo and Lottie Welty was born at Sharon, Ind., in 1890. She was educated in the public schools of Carroll County and Logansport, Ind., and attended the Terre Haute Normal School. She resides in Young America, Ind.
Information supplied by the Logansport Public Library.
- Memories of Youth. Logansport.
Ind.. 1911.
WENGER, CHRISTIAN M.: 1849-1926.
Christian M. Wenger , son of Martin Light and Christiana Studebaker Wenger, was born at South Bend, Ind., May 24, 1849, and was married to Mary E. Longley Sept. 17, 1872. He died Apr. 25, 1926. His little book, published in 1898, contains his father's memoirs and a wealth of local historical information.
Information from the South Bend Public Library.
- Wenger Memoirs and Autobiography of Martin Light Wenger and
His Wife Christiana Studebaker. Together with the Home History and Genealogy
of Their Posterity to the Present Time. South Bend.
Ind., 1898.
WENGER, MARTIN D.: 1841-1901.
Born in Lancaster County, Pa., on Mar. 24, 1841, Martin D. Wenger moved with his parents to Waterloo County, Ont., Canada , in 1856 and later in the same year moved to Elkhart, Ind.
He started to work for the Mennonite Publishing Company in Elkhart in 1867. He was later editor of the HEROLD DER WAHRHEIT and of the German children's paper, DER CHRISTLICHE JUGENDFREUND. Because of ill health he retired from the publishing company in 1881 and moved to his farm south of Elkhart, but in 1900 he returned to town.
Mr. Wenger married Nancy K. Stayrook on Apr. 30, 1876, and died on Sept. 22, 1901.
Information from Goshen College Library.
- History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger
…. (withJonas G. Wenger and Joseph H. Wenger). Elkhart, Ind., 1903.
WHALLON, EDWARD PAYSON: 1849-1939.
Edward Payson Whallon , son of the Rev. Thomas and Harriet Bickle Whallon, was born at Putnamville, Ind., on Mar. 30, 1849.
He was educated at Hanover College and at McCormick Theological Seminary, graduating from the latter in 1872. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wooster in 1885, the D.D. in 1892, and the LL.D. from Hanover College in 1925. He married Margaret E. Kitchell on Nov. 17, 1873.
He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1871 and occupied pulpits in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio . He was editor of CHURCH AT WORK, 1886-88, HERALD AND PRESBYTER, 1888-1925, and THE PRESBYTERIAN, from 1925 until shortly before his death in his ninetieth year.
The Rev. Mr. Whallon was active in Masonic Lodge work. During his later years he resided in Wyoming, and in Cincinnati, O.
He died June 3, 1939.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- History of the Presbytery of Vincennes.
Indianapolis, 1888.
- The Foursquare Christian.
Cincinnati, 1905.
- Pastoral Memories. Cincinnati,
1907.
- Christian College. n.p., n.d.
- Some Family Records… Partial Histories of the
Whallon, Hagaman, Bickle, Bridgeland, Kitchell, Pierson, Ball, Bruen, Crist,
Hughes, Vincent, Bloodgood, Jans, Farrand and Tuttle Families.
Cincinnati, 1934.
WHITAKER, LYDIA: ?-
No information as to the date and place of birth of Lydia Whitaker is available. She received the A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1900 and was for page: 336[View Page 336] several years a teacher of Latin in the Terre Haute public schools.
Information from the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Ind.
- The Prophet of St. Pierre. New
York, 1904.
- The Prophet of Martinique. New
York, 1906.
WHITCOMB, JAMES: 1795-1852.
Though he was a colorful figure in Indiana politics and though he had the distinction of a namesake–James Whitcomb Riley, who was to produce in his verse the very quintessence of Hoosierdom– James Whitcomb had little writing published except currently in newspapers and in reprints of political speeches.
A few extracts from the excellent sketch which appears in the Dictionary of American Biography give a clear enough picture of his life. According to this account he was the son of
"…John and Lydia (Parmenter) Whitcomb … born in Rochester, Windsor County, Vt. … In 1806 the family moved to the neighborhood of Cincinnati , O. James, studious, and a poor farmer, is said to have worked his way through Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., but there is no record of his attendance. He studied law, and in 1822 was admitted to the bar of Fayette County, Ky., From 1824 to 1836 he practised law at Bloomington, Ind., and from 1826 to 1829 was prosecuting attorney … He was elected to the state Senate for the sessions 1830-31 and from 1832 to 1836, standing with the Democratic party as party lines became definitely drawn. In 1836 he was appointed commissioner of the general land office by President Jackson, serving until the end of Van Buren's term, and mastering both French and Spanish for use in his work. In 1841 he established a law office at Terre Haute, Ind., where he soon developed a large and lucrative practise. In the campaign of 1843 he wrote a popular treatise, Facts for the People, one of the most effective arguments ever written against a protective tariff. Whitcomb was elected governor…and took office in December 1843. In 1846 he was re-elected …
"As governor, Whltcomb contributed decisively toward the adjustment of the staggering indebtedness incurred by the state in the building of roads, railroads, and especially canals … and in the failure of most of the canal system … Whitcomb vigorously promoted popular education and the development of benevolent institutions. The office of superintendent of common schools was created in 1843; a school for the deaf was developed by the state in 1844; a state hospital for the insane was provided for in 1845 and received patients in 1848; and in 1847 the Indiana Institute for the Education of the Blind was created. He was an ardent supporter of the national administration in the War with Mexico …
"On Mar. 24, 1846, he married Martha Ann (Renwick) Hurst … of Pickaway County, O. Mrs. Whitcomb died the following year after the birth of a daughter … In the election of U. S. senator by the General Assembly for the term beginning in March 1849, Whitcomb defeated the incumbent, Edward Allen Hannegan. In failing health … he took little part in the Senate proceedings in the critical years 1849-52, and died in New York City, after a surgical operation …"
Condensed from C. B. C., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XX.
- Facts for the People in Relation to a Protective Tariff;
Embracing a Brief Review of the Operation of Our Tariff Laws Since the
Organization of the Government, Including That of 1842. By an
Indianian. Indianapolis, 1843.
WHITE, CHARLES: 1795-1861.
Charles White , president of Wabash College from 1841 to 1861, was born in New England on Dec. 28, 1795, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1821. He studied theology at Andover. On Mar. 8, 1825, he married Martha Carter.
From 1834 to 1841 he served as pastor in Oswego, N. Y., and in 1841 was called to the presidency of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., He was president of the college until his death on Oct. 29, 1861, at Crawfordsville.
Information from Gronert and Osborne–Wabash College: The First Hundred Years and Appletons" Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. VI.
- An Address, at His Inauguration as President of Wabash
College. Indianapolis, 1842.
- The Duties of Educated Young Men of the West …
July 20, 1842. Indianapolis, 1842.
- Independence of Mind: a Baccalaureate Address…
July 19, 1843. Indianapolis, 1843.
- Goodness an Essential Element of True Greatness; a
Baccalaureate Address July 17, 1844.
Indianapolis, 1844.
- page: 337[View Page 337]
- A Pure and Sound Literature: a Baccalaureate Address
… July 22, 1845. Indianapolis, 1845.
- Political Rectitude; a Baccalaureate Address July 23,
1846. New York, 1846.
- Discourse Delivered at the Interment of the Remains of
Tilghman Ashurst Howard, at Rockville, Ind., June 2, 1847.
Indianapolis, 1848.
- Contributions of Intellect to Religion; a Baccalaureate
Address, July 20, 1848. New York, 1849.
- Essays in Literature and Ethics.
Boston, 1853.
WHITE, ESTHER GRIFFIN: ?-
Esther Griffin White , Richmond, Ind., newspaper woman, critic, poet and feature writer, was educated in the Richmond schools and attended Earlham College from 1887 to 1892. She was at various times connected with the RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SUN-TELEGRAM, EVENING ITEM and MORNING NEWS.
Information from the Richmond Public Library.
- Indiana Bookplates. Richmond,
Ind., 1910.
- Things as They Sometimes Are. Richmond,
Ind., 1912.
- In the Orchestra. n.p. [Richmond,
Ind.], 1915.
- In the Garden. Richmond, Ind.,
1936.
- Poems About Richmond. Richmond,
Ind., 1937.
- Passion's Jewels. Centerville,
Ind., 1939.
- Sonnets of the Senses. Centerville,
Ind., 1939.
WHITE, GEORGE WASHINGTON: 1858-1940.
George Washington White , son of David Wesley and Lydia Emmeline Taylor White, was born at Valparaiso, Ind., on Feb. 18, 1858, and graduated from Cornell College in Iowa in 1883, receiving the A.M. degree in 1886 and the D.D. in 1896. In 1930 he was awarded an LL.D. degree by the University of Southern California. He married Celia Villette Hutchins on Jan. 24, 1885.
Entering the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1877, he was a pastor in Iowa until 1883, when he spent a year as business agent for Cornell College and then became a pastor in southern California. From 1892 to 1895 he was superintendent of the Los Angeles District of the Methodist Episcopal Church, from 1895 to 1899 president of the University of Southern California. From 1903 to 1916 he was a pastor in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., and from 1916 until his retirement in 1924 superintendent of the San Francisco District.
He died on Dec. 1, 1940.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Historic Christ. 1910.
WHITSON, JOHN HARVEY: 1854-1936.
John Harvey Whitson , son of Aaron F. and Tacy McNamee Whitson, was born in Seymour, Ind., on Dec. 28, 1854.
Admitted to the Indiana bar in 1876, he practiced law at Seymour until 1897. In 1897 he formed connections with eastern publishing houses and writing under the pen name of "Lieut. A. K. Sims" he turned out a great many books of the dime novel stamp. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1898.
From 1920 to 1923 he taught Biblical history and literature at Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, Tenn., and he was at one time head of the department of religious education at Hardin College in Mexico , Mo.
He married Flora Josselyn in 1900 and died on May 2, 1936.
Information from Who Was Who in Jmerica and Burke and Howe–American Authors and Books.
- Captain Cactus. 1888.
- Huckleberry, the Foot Hills Detective. 1888.
- Signal Sam. 1890.
- The Rival Rustlers. 1891.
- The Doctor Detective in Texas. 1893.
- The King-Pin of the Leadville Lions. 1894.
- The Young Ditch Rider. Elgin,
Ill., 1899.
- With Frémont the Pathfinder; or, Winning the
Empire of Gold, Boston, 1903.
- Barbara–a Woman of the West.
Boston, 1903.
- A Courier of Empire. Boston,
1904.
- The Rainbow Chasers. Boston,
1904.
- Campaigning with Tippecanoe. New
York, 1904.
- Justin Wingate, Ranchman.
Boston, 1905.
- The Castle of Doubt. Boston,
1907.
- Filibusters. 1910.
- The Edgewood Enigma. 1912.
- Wings of Mars. 1914.
- Mystery at Greenacres. 1916.
- The Castle Empire.
WHITSON, ROLLAND LEWIS: 1860-1928.
Rolland Lewis Whitson , son of David M. V. L. and Verlinda Jay Whitson, was born at Jonesboro, page: 338[View Page 338] Ind., on May 7, 1860. He lived in Marion, Ind., where he did some occasional journalistic work.
At the time of his death he had worked for seven years on a history of the Quaker settlement in Grant County. This history was to have been completed by a Friends minister, but Whitson's notes were burned along with other discarded possessions after his death on Oct. 26, 1928.
Information from the Marion Public Library.
- Rolinda, a Tale of the Mississinewa.
Columbus, O.
WHITTEN, ROBERT HARVEY: 1873-1936.
Robert Harvey Whitten , son of William M. and Margaret Milliken Whitten, was born in South Bend, Ind., on Oct. 9, 1873, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1896, receiving the Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1898. On Dec. 6, 1900, he married Elizabeth Gilbert.
From 1898 to 1907 he was reference librarian and editor of the YEARBOOK OF LEGISLATION for the New York State Library, from 1907 to 1914 he was with the New York State Public Service Commission, and from 1914 to 1917 he was secretary of the committee on the city plan and zoning commission of New York . He then spent three years as consultant for the City Plan Commission of Cleveland, O., six years with the Boston City Planning Board, and after 1934 was a consultant for the National Resources Committee and the New York State Planning Board.
He died on June 6, 1936.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Public Administration in Massachusetts; the Relation of
Central to Local Activity. New York, 1898.
- Trend of Legislation in the United States.
Albany, N. Y., 1900.
- Taxation of Corporations in New York, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Albany, N. Y.,
1901.
- Political and Municipal Legislation, 1899-1903.
Philadelphia.
- Designing a Complete System of City Thoroughfares.
New York.
- Economic Utilization of Land in City Building.
New York.
- Valuation of Public Service Corporations; Legal and Economic
Phases of Valuation for Rate Making and Public Purchase.
New York, 1912.
- Regulation of Public Service Companies in Great Britain, with
Supplemental Chapters on the Boston Sliding Scale and Toronto Auction Sale
and Maximum Dividend Plans. New York, 1914.
- The Cleveland Thoroughfare Plan. 1920.
- Atlanta Zone Plan. Atlanta,
1922.
- Regional Zoning. 1923.
- Providence Zone Plan; Report Outlining a Tentative Zone Plan
for Providence, R. I. Providence, 1923.
- Cranston Zone Plan; Report to the Ordinance Committee of the
City Council Outlining a Tentative Zone Plan for Cranston, R. I. (withC. F. Fisher). Cleveland, 0., 1923.
- Woonsocket Zone Plan; Report to the City Zoning Commission
Outlining a Tentative Zone Plan for Woonsocket, R. I.
Woonsocket, R. I., 1923.
- West Hartford Zoning; Report to the Zoning Commission on the
Zoning of West Hartford, Connecticut. West Hartford,
Conn., 1924.
- Providence Thorofare Plan. 1926.
- Research into the Economics of Land Subdivision; with
Particular Reference to a Complete Neighborhood Unit for Low or Medium Cost
Housing. New York, 1927.
- Boston Thorofare Plan. 1930.
- Neighborhoods of Small Homes; Economic Density of Low-Cost
Housing in America and England (withThomas Adams). Cambridge, Mass., 1931.
- Model Laws for Planning Cities, Counties, and States (with
others). Cambridge, Mass., 1935.
WILE, FREDERIC WILLIAM: 1873-1941.
Frederic William Wile , author, newspaper columnist and editorial writer, was born in LaPorte, Ind., Nov. 30, 1873. His parents were Jacob and Henrietta Guggenheim Wile.
As a young man Wile attended the University of Notre Dame, receiving the LL.D. from that institution. in 1924 and the same from Ursinus in 1929. He married Ada Shakman on May 14, 1901.
Wile acted as correspondent for the CHICAGO RECORD and the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS in London and Berlin during the Boer War and as Berlin correspondent for the LONDON DAILY MAIL, NEW YORK TIMES and CHICAGO TRIBUNE from 1906 to 1914. During the first World War he was attached to the Intelligence Section, G.H.Q., A.E.F.
In 1919 he became chief of the Washington bureau of the Philadelphia PUBLIC LEDGER and later an editorial staff writer for the WASHINGTON EVENING STAR. From 1923 to 1928 he was political analyst for the National Broadcasting Company, and he occupied the same position for the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1929 to 1938. He was the first radio commentator on transatlantic news events, broadcasting page: 339[View Page 339] from the London Naval Conference in 1930 and the World Disarmament Conference at Geneva in 1932.
Frederic William Wile died Apr. 7, 1941.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Our German Cousins. 1909.
- Men Around the Kaiser; the Makers of Modern Germany.
London, 1913.
- The Assault; Germany before the Outbreak and England in
War-Time; a Personal Narrative. Indianapolis,
1916.
- Who's Who in Hunland.
London, 1916.
- Explaining the Britishers; the Story of England's
Mighty Effort in Liberty's Cause as Seen by an American.
New York, 1919.
- Emile Berliner, Maker of the Microphone.
Indianapolis, 1926.
- News Is Where You Find It; Forty Years' Reporting at
Home and Abroad. Indianapolis, 1939.
WILEY, HARVEY WASHINGTON: 1844-1930.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley , through his research, writing, speaking and fighting of all comers, succeeded, well-nigh single handed, in arousing the consciousness of the American public to the dangers of impure and adulterated foods and in securing the passage of the national Food and Drugs Act.
The Dictionary of American Biography says of him, in part, that he was born Oct. 18, 1844
"… in a log cabin at Kent, Jefferson County, Ind., the sixth of the seven children of Preston Pritchard and Lucinda Weir (Maxwell) Wiley, both descendants of Scotch-Irish pioneers who had fought in the Revolution. Young Wiley had his early training in a log schoolhouse, in neighboring district schools, and in his home. In 1863 he entered Hanover College (A.B., 1867). His studies were interrupted in 1864 by the Civil War, in which he served as corporal with the 137th Indiana Volunteers. After teaching for a year (1868), he entered the Medical College of Indiana in Indianapolis , from which he was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1871. Coincident with his medical studies he taught Greek and Latin at Northwestern Christian University (later Butler College). He received the degree of B.S. at Harvard in 1873, and returned to Indianapolis to assume professorships of chemistry at Butler and the Medical College of Indiana. After a temporary breakdown that obliged him to discontinue all work, he became professor of chemistry at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., (1874-83),:serving also as state chemist of Indiana . He spent a year in Germany (1878), largely at the University of Berlin in the study of chemistry … His studies of food adulteration, begun under Sell of the German Imperial Health Office, he energetically continued after his return to Purdue.
"In 1883 he accepted an appointment as chief chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture and remained in this position until 1912. This was a period of active productivity along three principal lines. The first was a chemical study of the sugar and sirup crops of the United States , in which he performed technological work upon the application of diffusion to the extraction of sugar from sugar cane … The second was his work in agricultural chemical analysis, for which he devised many new pieces of apparatus and originated many new methods of procedure. The third, his greatest achievement, was his public service in the campaign against food adulteration. The analyses of American food products, which he began immediately after his appointment as chemist of the Department of Agriculture, revealed a shocking state of adulteration, and Wiley gave the rest of his life to correcting this evil. In the face of prolonged opposition he finally secured in 1906 the passage by Congress of the Food and Drugs Act. Confronted with an even more determined resistance, he then began the administration of this Act under difficulties that would have discouraged a less resolute reformer. When he investigated the effect of benzoate of soda and other food preservatives upon the health of his assistants (his famous 'Poison Squad'), his damaging reports aroused so much criticism that President Theodore Roosevelt appointed the Remsen Referee Board to reconsider the question. Although the conclusions of the board differed from Wiley's, public sentiment generally was upon his side, and the use of food preservatives has in consequence diminished.
"In Mar. 1912, after having completely vindicated himself against unjust charges of maladministration, Wiley resigned his office as chief of the bureau of chemistry. In his twenty-nine years of service he built up an organization from six to more than five hundred employees. During this period he originated many lines of chemical research in such fields as soils, milk products, road construction, and standardization of apparatus that afterwards led to the establishment of separate bureaus. Until 1914 he continued to hold the position of professor of agricultural chemistry at George Washington University which he had assumed in 1899. He devoted the rest of his life to writing and lecturing in the interest of pure food. He accepted a position (1912-30) as director of the bureau of foods, sanitation, and health of the Good HOUSEKEEPING page: 340[View Page 340] magazine, for which he wrote monthly articles and conducted a question box …
" Wiley had great natural gifts as a wit, poet, and public speaker. His commanding presence, unfailing humor, and courageous expression of opinion held the attention of every audience. His public services won for him many degrees, medals, decorations, and honorary memberships in societies both at home and abroad … On Feb. 27, 1911, he married Anna Campbell Kelton, by whom he had two sons. His activity in promoting the cause of pure food continued almost to the day of his death, which occurred in Washington . He was buried in Arlington Cemetery …"
His scores of government bulletins and scientific papers are not listed here.
Condensed from C. A. B., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XX.
- Songs of an Agricultural Chemist. 1892.
- Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis.
Easton, Pa., 1894-1897. 3 vols.
- Foods and Their Adulteration.
Philadelphia, 1907.
- 1001 Tests of Foods, Beverages and Toilet Accessories, Good
and Otherwise; Why They Are So. New York, 1914.
- Not by Bread Alone: the Principles of Human
Nutrition. New York, 1915.
- The Lure of the Land; Farming After Fifty.
New York, 1915.
- Health Reader; Physiology–Hygiene.
Chicago, 1916.
- Beverages and Their Adulteration; Origin, Composition,
Manufacture, Natural, Artificial, Fermented, Distilled, Alkaloidal and Fruit
Juices. Philadelphia, 1919.
- History of a Crime Against the Food Law; the Amazing Story of
the National Food and Drugs Law Intended to Protect the Health of the
People, Perverted to Protect Adulteration of Foods and Drugs.
Washington, D. C., 1929.
- Harvey W. Wiley–an Autobiography.
Indianapolis, 1930.
WILLIAMS, IRVING: 1873-
Irving Williams , son of Dr. Thomas George and Adella Coe Williams, was born in Watertown, Wis., Aug. 4, 1873. He was educated at the Indianapolis High School and at Purdue University and, after a brief time spent in the lumber business, settled in Indianapolis in 1897, where he was associated with an insurance journal, ROUGH NOTES, of which he became editor and vice-president.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Insurance Definitions. A Serio-Comic Dictionary of Insurance
Terms. Indianapolis, 1903.
- Mistah Robinson's Remembery Book.
Indianapolis, 1913.
- Big Wallace. New York, 1914.
- Joe Manning. New York, 1915.
- Bruce Wright. New York, 1916.
- Insurance Policy and Forms Analyses Service.
Indianapolis, 1929-33.
- Insurance Coverages Applicable to Over 400 Specific
Risks. Indianapolis, n.d.
WILLIAMS, OSCAR HARRISON: 1874-
Oscar Harrison Williams was born at Fairfield, Ind., in 1874 and attended Indiana University, receiving the A.B. degree in 1905. During his career as an educator he served as school principal in various Indiana towns, was with the State Board of Public Instruction (1917-24), and served on the faculties of Indiana, DePauw, Illinois and Ohio Universities, and Kent College. In 1940 he retired as dean of the college of liberal arts at Kent College and returned to his home in Bloomington, Ind.
Information supplied by the Indiana State Library.
- History of Indiana. Boston,
1916.
- Syllabus of European History. New
York, 1918.
WILLIAMS, WILBUR HERSCHEL: 1874-1935.
Born in North Manchester, Ind., in 1874, Wilbur Herschel Williams , son of John Wesley and Elizabeth Kohser Williams, was a student at Northwestern University and at Denver University.
He began his newspaper career as a reporter on the DENVER POST, was with the DETROIT FREE PRESS from 1898 to 1902, and became literary editor on the staff of the DETROIT JOURNAL in 1903, a position he resigned to write the story of the St. Louis Fair for Laird and Lee, Chicago publishers. In 1911 he was employed by Atkinson, Mentzer and Grover, publishers, New York , and from 1911 until 1916 he was northeastern manager for the Prang Company, Boston . After 1916 he engaged in syndicate work.
He died on Sept. 15, 1935.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Uncle Bob and Aunt Becky's Strange Adventures at the
World's Great Exposition. Chicago,
1904.
- Fairy Tales from Folklore. New
York, 1908.
- page: 341[View Page 341]
- My Chums in Caricature. Chicago,
1909.
- Uncle Bob and Aunt Becky's Exciting Trip and the
Strange Romance of Tom and Ruth. Chicago, 1909.
- Making Faces: a Study in Facial Expressions.
Chicago, 1910.
- My Advice Book. Chicago, 1910.
- Young People's Story of Massachusetts.
New York, 1916.
- The Merrymakers in New York.
Boston, 1919.
- The Merrymakers in Chicago.
Boston, 1920.
- The Jolly Old Whistle and Other Tales. New
York, 1927.
- Children of the Clouds; a Phantasy and Play for Boys and
Girls of All Ages. New York, 1929.
- The Traveling Tingles. Boston,
1931.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM: 1763-1824.
William Williams , distinguished minister of the Society of Friends in Indiana , was born in Chatham County, N.C., on Oct. 7, 1763. He was educated by his mother, his father having died in his early youth, and was apprenticed to a Friend who, he says, strengthened his feeling for the church.
He married Rachel Kemp on Mar. 16, 1786, and they settled in Tennessee . He joined the Lost Creek Quarterly Meeting and became a minister about 1799 or 1800. In 1804 he toured Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina , and in 1807 he made a tour of Ohio . In 1808 he removed to Blount County, O., where he helped to organize a new congregation.
In 1814 he removed to the White Water Valley, in eastern Indiana , and remained there as a minister until his death on Aug. 25, 1824.
His one book is important as a description of the life of the day in what are now the middle southern and middle western states. It is considered by collectors to be an item of considerable importance.
Information from Williams, William–Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours, of William Williams …
- Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours, of William
Williams, Dec. A Minister of the Society of Friends Late of White-Water,
Indiana. Cincinnati, 1828.
WILLSON, BYRON FORCEYTHE: 1837-1867.
Forceythe Willson was born at Little Genesee, Allegany County, N. Y. , on Apr. 10, 1837. His father, Hiram Willson, was a native of Vermont, a patron of liberal education and an early abolitionist. His mother was Ann Calvin Ennis, who had been born in Rhode Island .
In about 1846 the family started west, flatboating to Maysville, Ky., where they remained about a year before moving on to Covington, Ky., Forceythe Willson had his first formal schooling in Maysville , continuing in Covington . In 1852 the family again moved, this time to New Albany, Ind.,
Here Hiram Willson conducted a prosperous lumber business until his death in 1859, three years after his wife had passed away. Although he left eight children, of whom Forceythe was the eldest, there was property enough to render them all comfortable.
Young Forceythe had already spent a year at Antioch College in Ohio , which was then under the direction of Horace Mann. He continued for a year or two at Harvard, but left because of ill health and returned to New Albany .
He became interested in spiritualism when that belief enjoyed a vogue in New Albany around 1858. He soon left the company of the more avid followers of the sect but continued in his faith in his own psychic powers–of which he gave a demonstration to Lowell, Longfellow and James R. Gilmore during his later resident at Cambridge .
After his father's death he lived alone–apparently in a house apart from his younger brothers and sisters–and began his serious writing. When the Civil War began, he took somewhat more interest in it than might have been anticipated after his recent apparent renunciation of things worldly. He began to write editorials for the LOUISVILLE JOURNAL, and raised (and, according to tradition, equipped at his own expense) a company of Union volunteers. He did not serve in the war himself, although he was said to have been offered a commission.
His first poem to attract attention, "The Old Sergeant," was published anonymously as the "carrier's New Year's address" of the LOUISVILLE JOURNAL on Jan. 1, 1863. It was supposed to have been based on fact, one of the characters being a New Albany man. It was said to have appealed to Abraham Lincoln: certainly Oliver Wendell Holmes approved it, read it frequently in his wartime lectures, and made continued efforts to locate the author.
In 1863 Willson married Elizabeth Conwell Smith of Laurel, Ind., a twenty-one-year-old student in De Pauw College for Women at New Albany , and the two moved to Cambridge, Mass., purchasing a house near that of James Russell Lowell. Elizabeth Willson died the next year, leaving a few poems of her own page: 342[View Page 342] which her husband printed privately a year or two later.
Willson remained in Cambridge until 1866, but he made no effort to become acquainted with Lowell, Holmes, or the other New England literateurs who were his neighbors. Before he left, however, they found him out, and after his death Holmes wrote of him: "He came amongst us as softly and silently as a bird drops into his nest. His striking personal appearance had attracted the attention of the scholars and poets who were his neighbors, long before they heard his name or condition. It was impossible to pass without noticing the tall and dark young man with long curled locks, and large, dreamy, almond-shaped eyes …"
In the autumn of 1866 he suffered a recurrence of his old illness–evidently tuberculosis. He recovered somewhat for a few weeks but died in Alfred, N. Y., on Feb. 2, 1867, and was buried beside his wife at Laurel, Ind.
Information from Piatt, John James–"An Ohio Valley Poet" in The Hesperian Tree, 1900, and Nicholson–The Hoosiers.
- The Old Sergeant and Other Poems.
Boston, 1867.
WILLSON, ELIZABETH CONWELL SMITH (MRS. BYRON FORCEYTHE): 1842-1864.
Elizabeth Conwell Smith was born at Laurel, Ind., on June 26, 1842. She attended De Pauw College for Women in New Albany , where she met and married Byron Forceythe Willson in the fall of 1863.
The young couple removed to Cambridge, Mass., soon after their marriage, where they made a home for themselves and for Willson's brother, then a student in Harvard College.
Mrs. Willson died in Cambridge on Oct. 13, 1864. only a year after her marriage. She was buried at Laurel, Ind. After her death her husband gathered together a few of her poems and published them privately.
Information from Piatt, John James–"An Ohio Valley Poet" in The Hesperian Tree, 1900.
- Poems. Cambridge, 1866.
WILSON, ALMA WINSTON: 1855-1932.
Alma W. Wilson was born in New Albany, Ind., Mar. 6, 1855, and was brought to Indianapolis as a baby. She taught in the schools and became librarian of one of the first branch libraries of the city and later became an assistant at the Central Library. For many years she was state historian of the Philip Schoff chapter of the Daughters of 1812. She died in 1932.
Information from Indianapolis Public Library.
- Beside the Old Brass Andirons; Sketch of the Life of Mrs.
Mary Barbee Wilson. Indianapolis, 1906.
WILSON, GEORGE ROBERT: 1863-1941.
George Robert Wilson , son of Michael and Elizabeth Chilton Wilson, was born at Cannelton, Ind., on Aug. 15, 1863. Both of his parents were English. In 1868 the family moved to Dubois County, Ind., where George grew up and spent many years of his life.
When he was eleven years old, he went to work in the coal mines near Jasper, Ind., working there for four years and studying at home in his leisure time. He then taught school for nine years–during the last two serving as principal of the high school at Ireland, Ind.–and at the same time took a course in civil engineering and held the position of Dubois County surveyor. In 1889 he became superintendent of schools for Dubois County and reorganized the school system. He resigned in 1903 to become Indiana manager of the State Life Insurance Company of Indianapolis .
Mr. Wilson held the degree of bachelor of law but never practiced. He helped reorganize the Indiana Association of Life Underwriters and served as its president. He also served on many state boards. He was considered an authority on pioneer surveys in Indiana .
In 1893 he married Caroline L. Kuebler.
Information from Indiana and Indianans, Vol. III.
- History and Art Souvenir of Dubois County.
Jasper, Ind., 1896.
- Titles, Deeds and Surveys.
Indianapolis, 1897.
- Battlefields in Time of Peace.
Indianapolis, 1897.
- History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910;
Including Biographies of Capt. Toussaint Dubois and the Very Rev. Joseph
Kundeck. Jasper, Ind., 1910.
- Observations. 1914.
- Dubois County Settlement Stone.
[Indianapolis], 1919.
- The Buffalo Trail Marker. 1926.
- The Buffalo Trace (withGayle Thornbrough). Indianapolis, 1946.
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- Handbook of the Dubois County Schools.
- George H. Profft, His Day and Generation. n.p.,
n.d.
WILSON, LILLIAN PAMPELL (MRS. J. WOOD): ?-
Lillian Pampell , at one time a teacher in the public schools of Wabash, Ind., was married to J. Wood Wilson, a financier of Marion, Ind. She was a resident of Marion at the time of publication of her collection of one-act plays. Following the death of her husband she was married to Dr. John Vaughan, surgeon and explorer. Subsequently they moved to New York , where Dr. Vaughan died.
Information from the Marion Public Library.
- Fruit of Toil and Other One-Act Plays.
Indianapolis, 1916.
WILSON, WOOD LEVETTE: 1865-1945.
Born in Indianapolis on Aug. 20, 1865, Wood Levette Wilson was an Indianapolis journalist all of his life. He was with the Associated Press until 1892, when he became copy editor (the first in Indianapolis ) for the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. He was later an associate editor of the NEWS, until his retirement in 1938. He married Belle Closser.
Mr. Wilson was a regular contributor to PUCK, JUDGE, and the original LIFE. Hilton U. Brown, of the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, writes that he "was a humorist of fine quality, retiring in personality, a naturalist and gardener and an accurate scholar." Mr. Wilson died on Apr. 23, 1945.
Information from Hilton U. Brown, of the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS.
- The End of Dreams. New York,
1909.
WILSTACH, JOHN AUGUSTINE: 1824-1897.
Born in Washington, D. C., on July 14, 1824, John Augustine Wilstach moved to Lafayette, Ind., in 1842. He was educated in a military institute and at Cincinnati College, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850.
From 1852 to 1862 he was a master in chancery, in 1867 he acted as commissioner for Indiana at the Paris Exposition, and from 1870 to 1875 he was commissioner of immigration for Indiana . During his later years he studied philology, lectured, and wrote on literature and history.
He married Elbra Cecilia Patti.
He died at Lafayette on July 24, 1897.
Information from Houghton Mifflin Company–A Catalogue of Authors, 1899, and Appletons" Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. VI.
- The Imperial Period of National Greatness. A Lecture on the
Destiny of the West. Lafayette, Ind., 1855.
- Cities, States, Nations and Their Relations.
Lafayette, Ind., 1876.
- The Virgilians. 1884.
- Dante, the Danteans, and Things Dantean. 1889.
- The Battle Forest, a Poem. New
York, 1890.
- The Angel and the King, and Other Poems. 1893.
WILSTACH, JOSEPH WALTER: 1857-
Joseph Walter Wilstach , son of John Augustine and Elbra Cecilia Patti Wilstach, was born in Lafayette, Ind., on June 28, 1857, and was educated at St. John's College in Fordham, N. Y. He studied law and practiced in Lafayette .
Information from de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, Indiana .
- Montalembert: a Biographical Sketch. New
York, 1885.
WILSTACH, PAUL: 1870-
Paul Wilstach , son of John Augustine and Elbra Cecilia Patti Wilstach, was born in Lafayette, Ind., on July 1, 1870, and graduated from St. Viator's College in Illinois in 1889.
During the first World War he served as a lieutenant commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve, going on the inactive list in April of 1919.
He was a contributor to SCRIBNER'S, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, and ATLANTIC magazines and to the Dictionary of American Biography. His plays, most of which, while produced, were not published, are not all listed here.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Richard Mansfield, the Man and the Actor.
New York, 1908.
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- Thais: the Story of a Sinner Who Became a Saint and a Saint
Who Sinned: a Play in Four Acts, Founded on Anatole France's
Novel. Indianapolis, 1911.
- Fifty Games of Solitaire with Cards.
Indianapolis, 1891.
- Mount Vernon, Washington's Home and the
Nation's Shrine. Garden City, N. Y.,
1916.
- Potomac Landings. Garden City, N.
Y., 1921.
- Along the Pyrenees.
Indianapolis, 1995.
- Jefferson and Monticello. Garden City, N.
Y., 1925.
- Islands of the Mediterranean; a Holiday.
Indianapolis, 1926.
- Along the Mediterranean. 1926.
- Patriots Off Their Pedestals.
Indianapolis, 1927.
- An Italian Holiday. New York,
1928.
- Tidewater Virginia.
Indianapolis, 1929.
- Tidewater Maryland.
Indianapolis, 1931.
- Hudson River Landings.
Indianapolis, 1933.
WINGER, OTHO: 1877-1946.
Son of John M. and Mary Smith Winger, Otho Winger was born near Marion, Ind., on Oct. 23, 1877.
A member of the Church of the Brethren–whose intelligent friendship for the American Indian has been a tradition for generations–it was natural that young Winger should conceive a liking for, and an interest in, the remnant of the Indiana Miamis who lived in his neighborhood while he was still a youth.
Young Winger attended the county schools and took his college preparatory work in the Academy of Manchester College. He received his A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1905 and his M.A. degree from the same institution in 1907. In 1918 he received the LL.D. degree from Mount Morris College.
After acting as teacher and administrator of various Indiana schools he returned to Manchester College as professor of history and philosophy in 1907 and became president of that institution in 1911, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1941. He died Aug. 13, 1946.
Information from Manchester College.
- The Life of Elder R. H. Miller. Elgin,
Ill., 1910.
- History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana.
Elgin, Ill., 1917.
- History and Doctrines of the Church of the Brethren.
Elgin, Ill., 1919.
- Letters from Foreign Lands to the Home Folks.
Elgin, Ill., 1928.
- The Frances Slocum Trail. North Manchester,
Ind., 1933.
- The Ke Na Po Co Mo Co; Eel River, the Home of Little
Turtle. North Manchester, Ind., 1934.
- The Last of the Miamis; Me-Shin-Co-Me-Sia, the Last Tribal
Chief of the Miamis. North Manchester, Ind.,
1935.
- Brief Centennial History of Wabash County, 1835-1935.
North Manchester, Ind., 1935.
- The Lost Sister Among the Miamis. Elgin,
Ill., 1936.
- A Pioneer Experiment in Teaching Agriculture.
North Manchester, Ind., 1939.
- The Potawatomi Indians. Elgin,
Ill., 1939.
- Memories of Manchester. Elgin,
Ill., 1940.
- Little Turtle, the Great Chief of Eel River.
North Manchester, Ind., 1942.
WINTER, WILLIAM HENRY: 1819-1879.
The following sketch of William Henry Winter was prepared by his youngest son, De Winter, in 1937. Mr. De Winter's manuscript, insofar as the biographical section is concerned, is given as it was written except for the addition of correct information as to his father's college course which has been taken from the Wabash College archives. William Henry Winter's book, written with Overton Johnson, commands the highest price from collectors of any Indiana production. Further information regarding it will be found in the sketch of Overton Johnson.
" William Henry Winter was born in 1819 in Vigo County, Ind. His father, William Winter, is supposed to have been born in Virginia , his mother in Massachusetts . Her maiden name was Arnold. William Winter was her second husband. One of the daughters by her first marriage married Maj. Elston of Crawfordsville . A daughter of Maria Elston married Senator Henry S. Lane; another married Gen. Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur. William Winter died in early middle life, and his widow married a man named Crawford, after whom Crawfordsville was named. [This is incorrect: Crawfordsville had been named many years before and for a Secretary of the Treasury, who made Government Land Office appointments]. W. H. Winter was brought up in and around that town. In 1834 he enrolled in the preparatory department of Wabash College, Crawfordsville , and continued through 1835-36. He was enrolled there again in 1839-40.
"In 1843 Winter joined an expedition to the Pacific coast. It started from Independence, Mo., went up the Platte River, by Fort Laramie, on to Fort Hall , Id., and into Oregon . At Willamette Falls, the company divided, one party remaining in Oregon , the other going down into California . Winter was with the California page: 345[View Page 345] party. In May 1844, his party left Sutter's Fort, crossed Nevada into Idaho , and joined the Oregon party at Soda Springs. There Winter turned over to Overton Johnson the notes he had made on the entire route and on the scenery and resources of Oregon and California . Johnson took them back to Indiana and published a book there, based on the notes, which gave a full description of the expedition. The book was published in 1846. This book is very rare and a valuable item of Californiana.
"How W. H. Winter spent the first year or so after he left the company is not certain. Probably he explored the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys more fully than he had before. In the winter of 1845-46 he was employed as a carpenter at the rancho of Gen. Vallejo in Sonora. He must have helped erect some of the old buildings now there. He left Sonora shortly before the Bear Flag Incident, and went to Sutter's Fort.
"In July, 1846, he left Sutter's Fort on muleback to return to Indiana . He rode south into Sonora, Mexico , and across to Vera Cruz on the Gulf, about 2,000 miles. He went by boat to New Orleans and up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to his home. He had been away a year and a half. [An obvious error].
"In April, 1846 he left St. Joseph, Mo., as captain of a company bound for the California mines. They came into California by the Yuba pass. He and James A. Kleiser ran a store on the Mokelumne River, three miles above the Mexican camp of Rancha Plana. Their camp was called Winter's Bar. Late in the fall of 1850 he and Kleiser left Winter's Bar, took their gold dust to San Francisco and boarded a steamer for Panama. They crossed the Isthmus, went bv boat to New Orleans , sold their gold dust at the mint, and went up the river home. They had been away nearly two years.
"Sometime early in 1851, Capt. Winter married Sarah Armstrong, of Waveland, Ind. The first of their six sons, Isaac Henry Winter, was born during the first year of their marriage. Capt. Winter engaged in cattle-raising a year or so, then sold out, headed a company, and for the third time started west. His second son, William Nebraska Winter, was born near the Platte River, in an ox-wagon. They had some trouble with the Indians, but no fighting. In California Capt. Winter first tried western Colusa County, then Lake County, then Sonoma County, and finally settled in 1856 in Huichica Creek, half-way between Sonoma and Napa. There he bought 1280 acres of land, part of the grant made by Gov. Alvarado in 1836 to Salvador Vallejo, brother of Gen. Vallejo.
" Capt. Winter made money fast on the Huichica in stock, grapes, and grain, and built a good house, a dairy, a wine-cellar, and a distillery. In company with A. J. Cook he had a stock ranch on the Eel River. He also bought a wheat ranch of 1480 acres at Crow's Landing on the San Joaquin River. He drove large bands of stock into Nevada for pasturage on the Humboldt River. On a similar drive to Idaho in 1872, he and Cook saw Fall River in Shasta County, and bought the land around the falls at the confluence with Pit River. From this time, Capt. Winter's energies were given mainly to the Fall River project. He bought out Cook, he bought more land, built a flour mill, a saw mill, a planing mill, and practically made the town of Fall River Mills. In 1875 he moved his family from the Huichica Ranch to Fall River. He built a house on an island in the rapids where Fall and Pit River met and made it his home. His wife died there in July, 1879, and he was buried beside her less than six weeks later."
De Winter ms. in the Wabash College Archives.
- Route Across the Rocky Mountains, with a Description of
Oregon and California; Geographical Features. Their Resources, Soil,
Climate, Productions, Etc., Etc. Lafayette,
Ind., 1846.
WISHARD, JOHN G.: 1863-1940.
Son of John O. and Mary Fisher Wishard, John G. Wishard was born in Danville, Ind., Sept. 19, 1863. He was graduated from Central Normal (now Canterbury) College in 1885, received his M.D. from the Indiana Medical College in 1888, a second M.D. from the Faculté de Medicine in Constantinople in 1889, and the A.M. degree from Wabash College in 1903.
On Dec. 28, 1893, he married Annabette Bryan, who died in Persia in 1899. He married Harriet J. Wishard on Dec. 23, 1902, and after her death in 1937 he married Blanche Wakefield Pollock on Nov. 26, 1938.
From 1889 to 1909 Dr. Wishard acted as a medical missionary in Persia and, after 1910, as a practicing physician in Wooster, O. He died on July 15, 1940.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Twenty Years in Persia. Chicago,
1908,
- Reminiscences of a Doctor. Wooster,
O., 1935.
WISHARD, SAMUEL ELLIS: 1825-1915.
Samuel Ellis Wishard , son of Col. John and Agnes Henderson Oliver Wishard, was born in Johnson County, Ind., on Dec. 18, 1825, and graduated from Wabash College in 1853, receiving the A.M. degree in 1856. He graduated from Lane Theological Seminary in 1856 and received the D.D. degree from Centre College in 1884. On Feb. 13, 1857, he married Sophie Evarts.
For twenty years following his ordination in 1857 he was a pastor in various communities–Rushville, Ill., Tecumseh and Battle Creek, Mich., and Franklin, Ind. He engaged in evangelistic work from 1877 to 1880, was a pastor in Chicago from 1880 to 1883, was superintendent of home mission work in Kentucky from 1883 to 1887, and was a pastor in Des Moines, Ia., from 1887 to 1890. He then became superintendent of home mission work in Utah , a position he held until 1906, when he resumed preaching. Dr. Wishard wrote a letter every week for thirty-two years to the HERALD AND PRESBYTER.
He died on Nov. 11, 1915.
Information from Who Was Who in dmerica.
- In Memoriam … Rev. Frederick R. Gallaher. Sketch
of His Life, with Funeral Services and Memorial Sermon.
Hartford, 1870.
- History of the Half Century Celebration of the Organization
of the First Presbyterian Church of Franklin, Indiana.
Cincinnati, 1874.
- The Divine Law of Marriage; or, the Bible Against
Po]ygamy. New York, 1888.
- The Mormons. New York, 1904.
- The Old, Old Story. Cincinnati,
1908.
- The Testimony of the Bible Concerning Assumptions of
Destructive Criticism. Cincinnati, 1909.
- The Passion Play in the Light of Our Protestant Faith and the
Word of God.
- The Story of a Pilgrim, an Autobiographical Sketch.
New York, 1912.
WISSLER, CLARK: 1870-1947
Clark Wissler was born in Wayne County, Ind., on Sept. 18, 1870. His parents were Benjamin Franklin and Sylvania Needler Wissler.
Wissler received the A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1897 and the A.M. in 1899. In the same year he married Etta Viola Gebhart and began work toward his doctorate at Columbia University, where he received the Ph.D. in 1901. In 1929 he received the honorary LL.D. from Indiana University.
After completing his work at Columbia he joined the faculty of New York University. He was an instructor in 1901-1902, an assistant in anthropology (which became the field in which he was to gain his greatest reputation) from 1903 to 1906 and in the latter year he became curator of the American Museum of Natural History. In 1924 he became professor of anthropology at Yale University.
His work in the field of the study of the American Indian–especially of the costume of the Plains Indians –has been of greatest distinction. Besides the works listed, Dr. Wissler had some scores of contributions published in learned journals, bulletins, serials, etc. Dr. Wissler died Aug. 25, 1947.
Information from the Richmond Public Library; additional material from Who's Who in America.
- North American Indians of the Plains. New
York, 1912.
- The American Indian; an Introduction to the Anthropology of
the New World. New York, 1917.
- Man and Culture. New York, 1923.
- Adventurers in the Wilderness (withC. L. Skinner and William Wood). New Haven, Conn., 1925.
- The Relation of Nature to Man in Aboriginal America.
New York, 1926.
- An Introduction to Social Anthropology. New
York, 1929.
- Population Changes Among the Northern Plains Indians.
New Haven, Conn., 1936.
- Indian Cavalcade; or, Life on the Old-Time Indian
Reservations. New York, 1938.
- The Indians of the United States; Four Centuries of Their
History and Culture. New York, 1940.
WOOD, AARON: 1802-?
Born Oct. 15, 1802, in Virginia , Aaron Wood moved with his family to Ohio in 1805, where he secured a good education. As a Methodist minister he traveled circuits in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois , serving in Indiana on the Connersville circuit in 1823-24, the Madison circuit in 1824-25, and the Corydon circuit in 1829-30. He also served churches in Vincennes, Bloomington, Terre Haute, Lafayette , and Michigan City . He was agent for Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1844-45 and agent for the American Bible Society from 1846 to 1851. In 1868 he was appointed moral instructor in Northern Indiana State Prison.
page: 347[View Page 347]Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans; INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Vol. xxiii; Littell Auction Catalog; The Distinguished Collection of Americana; and the Indiana State Library.
- Address Before Philisonian Society …
Greencastle, Ind., 1853.
- Annals of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the State of
Indiana. Indianapolis, 1854.
- Sketches of Things and People in Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1883.
WOOD, FLORA WILLIAMS: ?-
Flora Williams Wood , a resident of Elkhart, Ind., contributed verse to newspapers and periodicals.
Information from the Federal Writers Project, Indiana Authors, 1937, and from the Indiana State Library.
- Reflections. Elkhart, Ind.,
1912.
WOOD, JOHN ANDERSON: 1865-1926.
John Anderson Wood , son of William Smith and Louisa Hamilton Anderson Wood, was born in Cleveland, O., on Aug. 14, 1865, and graduated from Indiana State Normal School in 1889. In 1897 he received the A.B. degree from Indiana University, in 1901 the A.M., and in 1903 received the Ps.D. degree from the Chicago School of Psychology. He also studied at Clark University and Columbia. On June 24, 1891, he married Louise Meyer.
From 1889 to 1896 he was principal of the high school in Frankfort, Ind., from 1897 to 1909 superintendent of the city schools of LaPorte, Ind., and from 1909 to 1912 superintendent in South Bend . After 1912 he was professor of religious education and dean of Biblical Seminary in New York .
He died on Apr. 4, 1926.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Heating, Ventilating and Fuel for School Buildings.
LaPorte, Ind., 1903.
WOOD, WILLIAM ALLEN: 1874-1927.
Born in Covington, Ind., Sept. 25, 1874, William Allen Wood , son of Samuel Fletcher and Mary Allen Wood, was educated at Covington High School and Indiana University.
After teaching school in the South for a short time, he came to Indianapolis where he practiced law until illness forced his retirement in 1920. He contributed to newspapers and magazines–principally editorials on political and social subjects–and was editor of the ILLUSTRATED INDIANA WEEKLY. He was also on the editorial staffs of the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS and INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. He was active in the affairs of the Indiana Society, Sons of the American Revolution. He died in Indianapolis on May 8, 1927.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Modern Business Corporations; Including the Organization and
Management of Private Corporations, with Financial Principles and Practices,
and Summaries of Decisions of the Courts Elucidating the Law of Private
Business Corporations, and Explanations of the Acts of Promoters, Directors,
Officers and Stockholders of Corporations… Forms of Procedure
Illustrative of the Formation, Organization, Operation and Consolidation of
Corporations (withLouis R. Ewbank). Indianapolis, 1906.
- The Investment Guide and Record…
Indianapolis, 1913.
- Review of William Jennings Bryan's Bible Talks, and
Other Articles. Boston.
WOODBURN, JAMES ALBERT: 1856-1943.
James Albert Woodburn , son of James and Martha Jane Hemphill Woodburn, was born in Bloomington, Ind., on Nov. 30, 1856. He graduated from Indiana University in 1876, receiving the A.M. degree in 1885, and received the Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1890. He also received honorary degrees from Indiana , Colgate, and Wabash. On Nov. 30, 1893, he married Caroline Louise Gelston.
Dr. Woodburn was professor of American history at Indiana University from 1890 to 1924 and professor emeritus from 1924 until his death on Dec. 12, 1943. He contributed to periodicals and encyclopedias and, in addition to his other books, was the author and joint-author of numerous textbooks and the editor of several works not listed here.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Causes of the American Revolution.
Baltimore, 1892.
- A Study of the American Commonwealth (As Reflected by
page: 348[View Page 348] Orations of Burke and Webster) (withCyrus Wilburn Hodgin). Boston, 1893.
- The Making of the Constitution: a Syllabus of
Madison's Journal of the Constitutional Convention, Together with a
Few Outlines Based on the Federalist. Chicago,
1898.
- The American Republic and Its Government: an Analysis of the
Government of the United States with a Consideration of Its Fundamental
Principles and of Its Relations to the States and Territories.
New York, 1903.
- American Politics. Political Parties and Party Problems in
the United States: a Sketch of American Party History and of the Development
and Operations of Party Machinery, Together with a Consideration of Certain
Party Problems in Their Relation to Political Morality.
New York, 1903.
- American History and Government (joint-author). 1906.
- Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in Monroe Co., Ind. 1910.
- The Life of Thaddeus Stevens; a Study in American Political
History, Especially in the Period of the Civil War and
Reconstruction. Indianapolis, 1913.
- The Citizen and the Republic. 1918.
- The History and Government of Indiana (withThomas F. Moran). New York, 1920.
- The American Community (joint-author). 1924.
- Since the Beginning: a Retrospect.
Bloomington, Ind., 1924.
- The High School Teacher ia Indiana History.
- Finders and Founders of the New World (joint-author).
1925.
- Studies in American History. Bloomington,
Ind., 1926.
- Introduction to American History; the European Background
(joint-author). 1926.
- Makers of America (joint-author). 1926.
- Active Citizenship (withThomas F. Moran). New York, 1928.
- Our United States (withThomas F. Moran and H. C. Hill). New York, 1930.
- Our Country; a United States History for City Boys and
Girls. New York, 1938.
3 vols.
- History of Indiana University, 1820-1902.
Bloomington, Ind., 1940.
WOODWARD, WALTER CARLETON: 1878-1942.
Walter Carleton Woodward , son of Ezra Hinshaw and Amanda Marls Woodward, was born near Mooresville, Ind., on Nov. 28, 1878.
Removing to Oregon , he attended the Friends Pacific Academy at Newberg and received the A.B. degree from Pacific College, in the same town, in 1898. A year later he received the B.L. degree from Earlham College and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California in 1908 and 1910.
He married Catherine Hartman and spent the years 1900-1907 as associate editor of a Newberg newspaper and as an instructor in history and political science at Pacific College. Between 1910 and 1915 he was a member of the Earlham College faculty and in 1917 he became editor of THE AMERICAN FRIEND, residing in Richmond, Ind., He died in April, 1942.
Information from the Richmond Public Library.
- The Rise and Early History of Political Parties in Oregon,
1843-1868. Portland, Ore., 1913.
- The Indiana Centennial.
- The Pageant in Quest of Freedom (withEdna Johnson and Mrs. Mary H. Flanner). Richmond, Ind., 1916.
- The Pageant of Earlham College, in Quest of Freedom.
Presented on the College Campus June, 1922.
[Richmond, 1922.]
- Friendly Tales of Foreign Trails. Richmond,
Ind., 1923.
- Pageant of Richmond. Richmond,
Ind., 1924.
- Timothy Nicholson–Master Quaker.
Richmond, Ind., 1927.
WOOLLEN, EVANS: 1864-1942.
Evans Woollen , son of William Watson and Mary Allen Evans Woollen, was born in Indianapolis on Nov. 28, 1864. After graduating from Yale in 1886 and receiving the A.M. degree in 1889, he began the practice of law in Indianapolis . Mr. Woollen was a founder and president of the Fletcher Trust Company and was active in numerous civic affairs. In 1928 he was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. He died on May 20, 1942, at his home in Indianapolis .
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Benjamin Franklin. Indianapolis,
1906.
- After the War. n.p.
[Indianapolis], n.d. [1917].
- The Federal Reserve Act. n.p.
[Indianapolis], n.d.
WOOLLEN, WILLIAM WATSON: 1838-1921.
William Watson Woollen , son of Milton and Sarah Black Woollen, was born in Indianapolis on May 28, 1838. He grew up on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and graduated from the law department of Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University page: 349[View Page 349] in 1860. On Apr. 1, 1861, he was admitted to the Indianapolis bar, and at the time of his death he was the senior member both in age and continuous practice.
Mr. Woollen was active in civic affairs and will be remembered largely for his interest in and knowledge of natural history. He founded the Nature Study Club of Indiana, was president of the Indiana Audubon Society, and presented Buzzard's Roost, a tract of ground set apart for bird and flower study, to the city of Indianapolis . He died in Indianapolis on Mar. 26, 1921. He edited and annotated several law books not listed here.
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Birds of Buzzard's Roost.
Indianapolis, 1907.
- Inside Passage to Alaska, 1792-1920; with an Account cf the
North Pacific Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cook Inlet, from the Accounts
Left by Vancouver and Other Early Explorers, and from the Author's
Journals of Explorations and Travel in that Region; Ed. from His Original
Manuscripts by Paul L. Haworth. Cleveland,
1924. 2 vols.
- Marion County Bar. Indianapolis,
1918.
WOOLLEN, WILLIAM WESLEY: 1828-1902.
William Wesley Woollen , the eldest son of Edward and Anna Wheeler Woollen, was born June 21, 1828, in Dorchester County, Md. Until he was sixteen years old he lived on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and worked in a dry-goods house. In 1844 he came to Madison, Ind., where he taught school for a time, then entered Hanover College. After he left Hanover , he held county offices of auditor and treasurer and studied law on the side. For two years he was editor and part owner of the MADlSON BANNER, and in 1857, with Capt. John Marsh, he opened the banking house of John Marsh & Co. He moved to Franklin, Ind., in 1860 and was associated with banking there.
In 1865 he came to Indianapolis , where he spent the remainder of his life. He helped found the Indiana Banking Company, was a co-founder of the banking house of Woollen, Webb, & Co., and was associated with insurance companies in Indianapolis . For years he contributed to the editorial columns of the Indi-anapolis SENTINEL and the JOURNAL. He died in 1902.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. 11; the Barry Ms.; and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Madison from 1844 to 1852: a Lecture. n.p.
[Indianapolis], n.d. [1879].
- Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early
Indiana. Indianapolis, 1883.
- William McKee Dunn, Brigadier-General, U. S. A.
New York, 1892.
- Representative Men of Indiana (author and editor).
Indianapolis, 1880.
WRAY, NEWTON: 1854-1933.
Newton Wray , son of Isom and Miami Bower Wray, was born Oct. 30, 1854, in Shelby County, Ind.
He received the A.B. degree from De Pauw University in 1875, the B.D. from Drew Theological Seminary in 1887, and the D.D. from Taylor University in 1912. He married Mary Alma Gilbert of Bainbridge, N. Y., on Nov. 15, 1892.
From 1877 to 1879 he practiced law in Greenfield, Ind. He was ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1880 and occupied pulpits in various Indiana and New York cities, with one academic year of teaching, until 1905.
In 1906 he joined the faculty of Asbury (Ky.) College, removing to Taylor University, Upland, Ind., in 1909. There he taught theology, Bible history, the Greek New Testament and Christian apologetics until 1929.
Dr. Wray died in 1933.
Information from Who's Who in America.
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WRIGHT, EDWARD DANVILLE: 1859-
Born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1859, Edward Danville Wright was reared in that locality and was apparently a resident there until at least middle age.
Information from the Federal Writers Project, Indiana Authors, 1937, and from the Indiana State Library.
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Richmond, Ind., 1888.
WRIGHT, WILLIAMSON SWIFT: 1857-1923.
" Williamson Swift Wright , son of Williamson Wright, was born Jan. 11, 1857, at Logansport, Ind., He was graduated from Wabash College with the class of 1877 and later received the A.M. degree at the same institution. He studied and practiced law at Logansport and was editor and proprietor of the LOGANSPORT JOURNAL from 1888 to 1898. He was a lieutenant in the U. S. Signal Corps during the Spanish-American War. He served as deputy postmaster 1889 to 1893 and Deputy Secretary of the State of Indiana in 1894 …" He died in 1923.
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
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WYLIE, ANDREW: 1789-1851.
" Andrew Wylie (Apr. 12, 1789-Nov. 11, 1851), educator, first president of Indiana University, was born at Washington, Pa., the son of Adam Wylie who emigrated from Antrim, Ireland. about 1776 and became a farmer in Fayette County, Pa. He was educated at home and in local schools until the age of fifteen, when he entered Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., supporting himself by tutoring and odd jobs until his graduation, with first honors, in 1810. For the next two years he was a tutor and at twenty-three succeeded to the principalship of the college. This office he ably administered for four years, resigning only as the result of dissatisfaction over his approval of plans for the consolidation of Jefferson College with Washington College, Washington, Pa. Soon after his resignation, April, 1816, he was named president of Washington College. He resigned, Dec. 9, 1828, to become the first president of Indiana College, which had been established by act of legislature, Jan. 24, 1828, as successor to the Indiana Seminary at Bloomington. He held this office until his death. When Wylie assumed office the faculty consisted of himself (as professor of moral and mental philosophy, political economy, and polite literature), two instructors, and sixty students. In 1838 the college became Indiana University and in 1842 a school of law was opened. Wylie's work as an educator was distinguished by the introduction of a system of study called 'specialization by rotation,' in which the student devoted himself to one subject at a time, mastering it before going to the next. His administration was marked by a slow but steady growth.
"In early life Wylie embraced the tenets of Presbyterianism, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ohio , Oct. 12, 1812, and was pastor of a church at Millers Run, Pa., for several years after 1813. But the Presbyterian doctrine became unsatisfactory to him because of its extreme 'sectarianism,' and in 1841 he united with the Protestant Episcopal Church. In December he was ordained deacon and in May 1842 priest. He was described as 'tolerant and patient to a fault of everything but meanness and duplicity,' for the most part affable but occasionally brusque in manner … He was married in May 1813 to Margaret Ritchie, who survived him …"
Condensed from P. D. J., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XX.
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