clergyman, minister at Cranbury, New Jersey, from 1869. Popery the Foe
of the Church; Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic; Through the Prison to
the Throne; From Gloom to Gladness; Giving or Entertainment,--Which?;
Theism or Evolution. _Fu._
=Van Dyke, Theodore Strong.= _N. J._, 1842- ----. Brother of J. C. Van
Dyke, _supra_. A lawyer and sportsman of Southern California. Rifle,
Rod, and Gun in California; Southern California; The Still Hunter; Game
Birds at Home; Southern California the Italy of America. _Fo._
=Van Horne, Thomas B[udd].= 18-- - ----. A clergyman, chaplain in
the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the Army of the
Cumberland; Life of Major-General Thomas. _Clke. Scr._
=Van Lennep, Henry John.= _A. M._, 1815-1889. A Congregational
missionary in Asia Minor, 1839-69. Ten Days Among Greek Brigands; Bible
Lands; Travels in Little Known Parts of Asia Minor; The Oriental Album.
_Har. C. P. S._
=Vannah, Letitia Catharine.= _Me._, 1857- ----. A verse-writer of
Gardiner, Maine, who has published a volume of Verses.
=Van Ness, Thomas.= _Md._, 1859- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, pastor of the Second Church. The Coming Religion; The Ideal
Commonwealth; My Visit to Count Tolstoi. _Rob._
=Van Ness, William Peter.= _N. Y._, 1778-1826. A jurist of New York
city. Examination of Charges against Aaron Burr; Laws of New York (with
Woodworth); Concise Narrative of Jackson’s First Invasion of Florida.
=Van Nest, Abraham Rynier.= _N. Y._, 1823-1892. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman in charge of American chapels abroad, and pastor in
Philadelphia, 1878-86. Signs of the Times; Life of G. Bethune, _supra_.
=Van Norden, Charles.= _Ct._, 1843- ----. A Congregational clergyman
at Suffield, Connecticut. The Outermost Rim and Beyond; The Psychic
Factor. _Ap. Ran._
=Van Rensselaer= [rĕn´sĕl-ar], =Cortland.= _N. Y._, 1808-1860. A
Presbyterian clergyman who was secretary of the Presbyterian Board
of Education, 1846-60. Miscellaneous Sermons, Essays, and Addresses;
Essays and Discourses.
=Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Mariana [Griswold].= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. An art
critic of New York city. Art Out of Doors, a work on gardening; English
Cathedrals; Six Portraits; Handbook of English Cathedrals; Henry Hobson
Richardson; One Man who was Content, and Other Stories. _Cent. Hou.
Scr._
=Van Rensselaer, Maunsell.= _N. Y._, 1819-1900. An Episcopal clergyman
of New York city. Sister Louise: her Life Book; Annals of the Van
Rensselaers in the United States.
=Van Santvoord, Cornelius.= _N. J._, 1816-1901. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman of New York State. Memoir of Eliphalet Nott, _supra_;
Limitation of the Liabilities of Ship Owners Under United States Laws.
=Van Santvoord, George.= _N. J._, 1819-1863. Brother of C. Van
Santvoord, _supra_. A lawyer of Kinderhook, New York. Life of Algernon
Sidney; Lives of the Chief Justices of the United States; The Indiana
Justice; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions; Precedents of
Pleading; Practice in Equity Actions in New York Supreme Court.
=Van Santvoord, Harold.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. Son of G. Van Santvoord,
_supra_. A New York littérateur. Half Holidays, a volume of essays.
=Van Schaack, Henry Cruger.= _N. Y._, 1802-1887. Son of P. Van Schaack,
_infra_. A lawyer of Manlius, New York. History of Manlius Village;
An Old Kinderhook Mansion; Captain Thomas Morris; Life of Peter Van
Schaack, _infra_.
=Van Schaack, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1747-1832. A once famous jurist of
Kinderhook, New York. Laws of the Colony of New York; Conductor
Generalis. _See Life of, by his son, with Journal, Diary, and Letters._
=Vanuxem, Lardner.= _Pa._, 1792-1848. A scientist who was State
geologist of New York, 1836-42. Geology of New York, Third District;
Essay on the Ultimate Principles of Chemistry, Natural Philosophy,
and Physiology (1827), an early declaration of the qualitative
interconvertibility of heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.
=Van Zile, Edward Sims.= _N. Y._, 1863- ----. A novelist and journalist
of New York city on the staff of The World. Wanted, a Sensation; The
Last of the Van Slacks; A Magnetic Man, and Other Stories; Don Miguel,
and Other Stories; The Manhattaners; A Crown Prince. _Cas. Lov._
=Varley, John Philip.= _See Mitchell, L. E._
=Varney, George Jones.= _Me._, 1836-1901. Young People’s History of
Maine; Gazetteer of Maine; A Brief History of Maine; The Story of
Patriot’s Day. _Le._
=Varnum, Joseph Bradley.= _D. C._, 1818-1874. A lawyer and littérateur
of New York city. The Seat of Government of the United States; The
Washington Sketch-Book.
=Vasey, George.= _E._, 1822-1893. A physician and botanist who was
botanist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, 1872-93.
Beauties and Utilities of a Library; The Philosophy of Laughing and
Smiling; A Descriptive Catalogue of Native Forest Trees of the United
States; Grasses of the United States; Agricultural Grasses of the
United States; Grasses of the South; Grasses of the Arid Districts;
Descriptive Catalogue of the Grasses of the United States; Individual
Liberty.
=Vassar, John Guy.= _N. Y._, 1811-1888. A philanthropist of
Poughkeepsie, nephew of the founder of Vassar College. Twenty Years
Around the World.
=Vassar, Thomas Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. Cousin of J. G. Vassar,
_supra_. A Baptist clergyman, author of Uncle John Vassar, or The Fight
of Faith, a very popular work.
=Vaughan= [vawn], =John.= _Pa._, 1775-1807. A physician of Wilmington,
Delaware, very eminent in his day. Chemical Syllabus; Observations on
Animal Electricity.
=Vaux= [vauks], =Calvert.= _E._, 1824-1895. An English architect and
landscape gardener who settled in the United States in 1851. With F. L.
Olmsted, _supra_, he designed Central Park in New York city, and he was
associated with him in many similar works throughout the country. He
published Villas and Cottages in the earlier part of his career. _See
Annual Cyclopædia, 1895._
=Vaux, Richard.= _Pa._, 1816-1895. Son of R. Vaux, _infra_. A
distinguished penologist of Philadelphia. His writings include every
annual report of the Eastern Penitentiary for more than fifty years;
Recorders’ Decisions; and many volumes on the subject of penology.
=Vaux, Roberts.= _Pa._, 1786-1836. A jurist and penologist of
Philadelphia, prominent in all local philanthropic enterprises
throughout his life. Memoirs of Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, and
Anthony Benezet; Efforts to Improve the Discipline of the Prison at
Philadelphia.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A journalist for many years,
and subsequently professor of church history at Crozer Theological
Seminary, Upland, Pennsylvania. American Writers of To-day; A Short
History of the Baptists. _Bap. Sil._
=Veeder, Mrs. Emily Elizabeth [Ferris].= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A
novelist and verse-writer of St. Louis. Her Brother Donnard; Entranced;
The Unexpected; In the Garden, and Other Poems. _Lip._
=Venable, Charles Scott.= _Va._, 1827-1900. A Confederate army officer,
professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia from 1865, and
author of a series of popular mathematical text-books.
=Venable, Francis Preston.= _Va._, 1856- ----. Son of C. S. Venable,
_supra_. A professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina
from 1880. A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis; The Development of
the Periodic Law.
=Venable, William Henry.= _O._, 1836- ----. An educator and littérateur
of Cincinnati. School History of the United States; Footprints of the
Pioneers in the Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of Literary Culture in
the Ohio Valley; Let Him First be a Man, a collection of essays on
education. His writings in verse include, June on the Miami, and Other
Poems; The Melodies of the Heart. _Clke. Le._
=Verdi, Tullio Suzzara.= _Iy._, 1829- ---- A homœopathic physician
practicing in Washington from 1857. Maternity; Mothers and Daughters;
The Infant Philosopher; Special Diagnosis for Popular Use.
=Verplanck= [vĕr-plănk´], =Gulian Crommelin.= _N. Y._, 1786-1870.
A Shakespearean scholar of New York city whose carefully edited
Shakespeare appeared in 1846. He was the author of Essays on Revealed
Religion; Discourses on American History, Art, and Literature;
Discourses and Addresses; Essay on the Doctrine of Contrasts; The
Bucktail Bards. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._
=Very, Jones.= _Ms._, 1813-1880. A Unitarian clergyman living at
Salem, Massachusetts, who must be accounted as one of the most purely
spiritual of American poets. His Essays and Poems appeared in 1839, the
poems including fifty sonnets on the Shakespearean model remarkable for
their extreme delicacy and purity of conception. A fuller edition of
the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a complete and revised edition
of Poems and Essays in 1886. _See Memoir, by W. P. Andrews, in Poems,
1883; Biographical Notice, by J. F. Clarke, supra, in Poems and Essays,
1886; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883._ _Hou._
=Very, Lydia Louisa Anna.= _Ms._, 1823-1901. Sister of J. Very,
_supra_. For many years a teacher in Salem. Poems and Prose Writings.
=Vethake, Henry.= _B. G._, 1792-1866. A Philadelphia educator who was
professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1836, and provost in
1854. Principles of Political Economy.
=Vetromile, Eugene.= _Iy._, 1819-1881. A noted Italian Jesuit
missionary long resident among the Penobscot Indians. Travels in
Europe, etc.; The Abenaki and Their History; and several works in the
Abenaki language. _See Bibliography of Maine._
=Veysey, Arthur Henry.= _E._, 1869- ----. A littérateur of New York
city. A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel. _Dil._
=Victor, Mrs. Frances Auretta [Fuller] [Barrett].= _O._, 1826-1902.
Sister of Mrs. M. Victor, _infra_, with whom she published Poems of
Sentiment and Imagination (1851). After her second marriage to a
brother of O. Victor, _infra_, she removed to California. The River
of the West; All Over Oregon; The New Penelope, and Other Stories;
Atlantis Arisen. _Ap. Lip._
=Victor, Mrs. Metta Victoria [Fuller].= “Seeley Register.” _Pa._,
1831-1885. A novelist and verse-writer of New York city. Fresh Leaves
from Western Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan romance; The Senator’s
Son, a plea for the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; The Gold Hunters; Miss
Slimmens’ Window, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel; Too True; Alice
Wilde; The Backwoods Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess’s Client; The Dead
Letter; Figure Eight; Passing the Portal; Blunders of a Bashful Man;
The Bad Boy’s Diary; The Naughty Girl’s Diary; The Rasher Family,
comprise the greater portion of her works. Her poem Compound Interest
is still quoted.
=Victor, Orville James.= _O._, 1827- ----. An author and editor of New
York city. History of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents and Anecdotes
of the War; History of American Conspiracies.
=Viele, Egbert Ludovickus.= _N. Y._, 1825-1902. A military engineer who
served in the Civil War, and became Park Commissioner of New York City
in 1883. Handbook for Active Service; Topographical Atlas of New York
City.
=Vincent, Francis.= _Del._, 1822-1884. A journalist of Wilmington,
Delaware, who published A History of Delaware.
=Vincent, Frank.= _L. I._, 1848- ----. A traveler of note. The Land
of the White Elephant; Norsk, Lapp, and Finn; Through and Through
the Tropics; The Republics of South America; Around and About South
America; In and Out of Central America; Actual Africa; Lady of
Cawnpore, a novel (with A. Lancaster). _Ap. Fu. Har. Put._
=Vincent, John Heyl.= _Al._, 1832- ----. A Methodist bishop now
living at Topeka, of much prominence as the founder of the celebrated
Chautauqua Movement in 1878. Studies in Young Life; The Modern Sunday
School; Little Footprints in Bible Lands; Earthly Footsteps of the Man
of Galilee; Better Not; The Chautauqua Movement; To Old Bethlehem; Our
Own Church; Outline History of Greece; Outline History of Rome, include
his more important works. _See The Outlook, October, 1896._ _Fu. Fl.
Meth._
=Vincent, Marvin Richardson.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary from 1888.
Faith and Character; Student’s Handbook of the Topics and Literature of
New Testament Introduction; Word Studies in the New Testament; Stranger
and Guest; Gates into the Psalm Country; Amusement a Force in Christian
Training; The Two Prodigals; The Minister’s Handbook; What Is It To
Believe?; God and Bread; The Covenant of Peace; The Law of Sowing and
Reaping; Bible Inspiration and Christ; That Monster, the Higher Critic;
Christ as a Teacher; In the Shadow of the Pyrenees, from Basque Land to
Carcassonne; The Age of Hildebrand. _Do. Ran. Scr._
=Vincent, Thomas McCurdy.= _O._, 1832- ----. An army officer who has
published The Military Power of the United States during the War of the
Rebellion.
=Vinght, Francisco Javier.= _C._, 1823- ----. A Cuban educator, after
1848 a resident of New York, and professor of Spanish in the University
of the City of New York. Spanish Grammar; Spanish and English
Phrase Book; El Maestro de Francés; El Maestro de Inglés; Le Maître
d’Espagnol; Lector y Traductor Inglés.
=Vinton, Alexander Hamilton.= _R. I._, 1807-1881. An Episcopal
clergyman of Boston, prominent as a Low Churchman. Bohlen Lectures for
1877; Sermons. _Wh._
=Vinton, Arthur Dudley.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. Son of F. Vinton,
_infra_. A lawyer and novelist of New York city. The Pomfret Mystery;
The Unpardonable Sin.
=Vinton, Francis.= _R. I._, 1809-1872. Brother of A. H. Vinton,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of Trinity
Church, 1855-72. Arthur Tremaine, or Annals of Cadet Life; Evidences
of Christianity; Manual Commentary on the General Canon Law of the
Episcopal Church.
=Vinton, Francis Laurens.= _Me._, 1835-1879. Nephew of A. H. Vinton,
_supra_. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, who rose
to the rank of brigadier-general. The Guardian, a poem; Lectures on
Machines; Theory of the Strength of Materials.
=Vinton, John Adams.= _Ms._, 1801-1877. A Congregational clergyman
and genealogist. The Vinton Memorial; The Symmes Memorial; The Giles
Memorial; The Sampson Family in America.
=Virgin, William Wirt.= _Me._, 1823-1893. A jurist who was justice
of the supreme court of Maine. The Maine Civil Officer; Digest of
the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine; Law and Equity
Reports.
=Vogdes, William.= _Pa._, 1802-1886. A lawyer and educator of
Philadelphia. United States Arithmetic; Elementary Treatise on
Mensuration.
=Von Holst.= _See Holst, H. E. von._
=Vos, Geerhardus.= _H._, 1862- ----. A Dutch clergyman, professor of
biblical theology at Princeton Seminary from 1894. The Mosaic Origin of
the Pentateuchal Codes; Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den Banu
Umajja und den Banu Haschim; The Doctrine of the Covenants in Reformed
Theology; Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Discipline.
=Vose, George Leonard.= _Me._, 1831- ----. A civil engineer, professor
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-86. Orographic
Geology; Manual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Disasters in America;
A Graphic Method for Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary Course of
Geometric Drawing; Life of G. W. Whistler, Civil Engineer. _Le._
=Vose, John.= _N. H._, 1766-1840. An educator of Atkinson, New
Hampshire, prominent in his day, and author of System of Astronomy;
Compendium of Astronomy.
W
=Wackerhagen, Augustus.= _G._, 1774-1865. A Lutheran clergyman of
Columbia County, New York. Inbegriff des Glaubens und Sittenlehre.
=Wade, William P----.= 18- ----. Treatise on the Law of Notice; On the
Operation and Construction of Retroactive Laws; Manual of American
Mining Laws in the Western States; The Laws of Notice as Affecting
Civil Rights and Remedies; The Law of Attachment and Garnishment.
=Wadsworth, Marshman Edward.= _Me._, 1847- ----. The State geologist of
Michigan from 1888. Geology of the Iron and Copper Districts of Lake
Superior; The Azoid System (with J. D. Whitney, _infra_); Lithological
Studies, are among his writings.
=Wagner, Arthur Lockwood.= _Il._, 1853- ----. An officer in the United
States army. Catechism of Outpost Duty; Organization and Tactics; The
Service of Security and Information; The Campaign of Königgrätz.
=Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew.= _E._, 1792-1854. A provisional
Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, 1852-54. The Land of Bondage;
Short Family Prayers; The Pathway and Abiding Places of Our Lord;
Lessons on the Church Religious Education; Selected Sermons. _See Lives
by Doane, 1856, Norton, 1858._ _Ap. Dut._
=Wait, William.= _N. Y._, 1821-1880. An eminent lawyer of Fulton
County, New York. Law and Practice in Civil Actions; New York Annotated
Code of Procedure; Actions and Defences at Law and in Equity; Treatise
on General Principles of the Law.
=Waite, Charles Burlingame.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A Chicago jurist,
author of The Christian Religion to A. D. 200.
=Waite, Mrs. Catherine [Van Valkenburg].= _Ont._, 1829- ----. Wife of
C. B. Waite, _supra_. A Chicago lawyer, founder of The Chicago Law
Times, and an active advocate of woman-suffrage. The Mormon Prophet and
his Harem.
=Waite, Henry Randall.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman
who has published The Motive of St. Paul’s Life; Illiteracy and the
Mormon Problem; A Boy’s Workshop. _Lo._
=Wakefield, Mrs. Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest.= _N. H._, 1836-1870. A
verse-writer remembered for her poem, Over the River. _See Poems of,
with Memoir, 1871._
=Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont.= _Ct._, 1804-1876. A Methodist clergyman of
New York city among whose writings are, The Heroes of Methodism; Lost
Chapters Recovered from Early American Methodism; Reminiscences; The
American Temperance Cyclopedia. _Meth._
=Walcott, Charles Doolittle.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A geologist of
note, director of the United States Geological Survey from 1894. The
Trilobite; Paleontology of the Eureka District; The Cambrian Faunas
of North America; The Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olinus Zone;
Correlation Papers.
=Walcott, Charles Melton.= _E._, 1815-1868. An actor and playwright of
Philadelphia among whose plays are, The Course of True Love; Hoboken;
Washington, or Valley Forge; A Good Fellow.
=Walden, Treadwell.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
Washington. Sunday-School Prayer Book; Our English Bible and its
Ancestors; The Great Meaning of Metanoia. _Co. Wh._
=Waldo, Frank.= _O._, 1857- ----. A meteorologist of Princeton, New
Jersey, formerly a junior professor in the United States signal
service. Beside a number of scientific monographs, he has published
Modern Meteorology; Elementary Meteorology. _Am._
=Waldo, Samuel Putnam.= _Ct._, 1780-1826. A writer of Hartford,
Connecticut. Tour of President Monroe in 1818; Memoirs of General
Andrew Jackson; Life of Stephen Decatur; Biographical Sketches.
=Waldstein, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. An eminent archæologist,
the director of the American School of Archæology at Athens from
1888. Excavations at the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of Emotion and
Intellect; Essays on the Art of Pheidias; The Work of John Buskin;
Study of Art in Universities. _Gi. Har._
=Wales, Philip Skinner.= _Md._; 1837- ----. A United States naval
officer who has published a Treatise on Mechanical Therapeutics.
=Walke, Henry.= _Va._, 1808-1896. A naval officer appointed
rear-admiral in 1870, and the author of Naval Scenes and Reminiscences
of the Civil War.
=Walker, Alexander Joseph.= _Va._, 1819-1893. A lawyer and journalist
of New Orleans. Jackson and New Orleans; History of the Battle of
Shiloh; Butler at New Orleans; Duelling in Louisiana; Life of General
Andrew Jackson.
=Walker, Amasa.= _Ct._, 1799-1875. A political economist of Boston. The
Science of Wealth; The Nature and Uses of Money. _Lip._
=Walker, Charles Manning.= _O._, 1834- ----. A journalist of
Indianapolis. History of Athens County, Ohio; First Settlement of Ohio
at Marietta; Lives of Oliver Martin and Alvin Hovey. _Clke._
=Walker, Cornelius.= _Va._, 1819- ----. An Episcopal clergyman,
professor in the Virginia Theological Seminary from 1866. Sorrowing Not
Without Hope; Outlines of Christian Theology; Lectures on Christian
Ethics. _Wh._
=Walker, Edward Dwight.= _L. I._, 1859-1890. A journalist and
littérateur of New York city. Reincarnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth.
=Walker, Francis Amasa.= _Ms._, 1840-1897. Son of A. Walker, _supra_.
The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1881,
and during the Civil War a Federal officer, rising to the rank of
colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. A distinguished
authority on financial topics; an advocate of bimetallism. Wages;
Money; Money in its Relations to Trade and Industry; Political Economy;
The Indian Question; Land and its Rent; History of the Second Army
Corps; Life of General Hancock; The Making of the Nation; Double
Taxation in the United States; International Bimetallism. _See Review
of Reviews, February, 1897._ _Ap. Ho. Lit. Mac. Scr._
=Walker, George Leon.= _Vt._, 1830-1900. A Congregational clergyman,
pastor of a church in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1879. History of the
First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder,
Democrat; Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England. _Do. Sil._
=Walker, James.= _Ms._, 1794-1874. A Unitarian clergyman, minister at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1818-38, president of Harvard University,
1853-60. Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on the Philosophy of
Religion; Sermons Preached in the College Chapel; Discourses. _A. U. A._
=Walker, James Barr.= _Pa._, 1805-1887. A popular Presbyterian
clergyman in Ohio and Illinois. Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation;
Poetry of Reason and Conscience; Pioneer Life in the West; God Revealed
in Nature and in Christ; Philosophy of Skepticism and Ultraism; The
Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man; Living Questions of the Age;
Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; Poems. _Meth._
=Walker, James Bradford Richmond.= _Ms._, 1821-1885. A Congregational
clergyman of Massachusetts. Comprehensive Concordance to the Holy
Scriptures. _C. P. S._
=Walker, James Murdock.= _S. C._, 1813-1854. A South Carolina lawyer.
The Theory of Common Law; Tract on Government; The State _versus_ Bank
of South Carolina; Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of Real Estate.
=Walker, James Perkins.= _N. H._, 1829-1868. A Boston publisher. Faith
and Patience, a story for boys; Book of Raphael’s Madonnas; Sunny-Eyed
Tim. _See Memoir of, 1869._
=Walker, Joseph Burbeen.= _N. H._, 1822- ----. An agriculturist of
New Hampshire. Land Drainage; Forests of New Hampshire; Prospective
Agriculture in New Hampshire; Oats; Rogers the Ranger; Birth of the
Federal Constitution.
=Walker, Joseph Henry.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Republican Congressman
from Massachusetts whose home is in Worcester. A Few Facts and
Suggestions on Money, Trade, and Banking. _Hou._
=Walker, Mrs. Katherine Kent [Child].= _Vt._, 1840- ----. A writer who
is best known by a famous paper in The Atlantic Monthly on The Total
Depravity of Inanimate Things. Bible Stories for the Young; Life of
Christ; From the Crib to the Cross. _Ran._
=Walker, Mrs. Mary Spring.= 18-- - ----. A Boston writer. Wife of J. B.
R. Walker, _supra_. The Family Doctor, or Mrs. Barry and her Bourbon;
Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his Wine; Both Sides of the Street; Down in a
Saloon; White Robes.
=Walker, Robert James.= _Pa._, 1801-1869. The secretary of the United
States Treasury, 1845-49, and author of Letters on the Finances and
Resources of the United States.
=Walker, Sears Cook.= _Ms._, 1805-1853. Brother of T. Walker, _infra_.
An astronomer who published a number of professional monographs.
=Walker, Timothy.= _Ms._, 1806-1856. A jurist of Cincinnati. Elements
of Geometry; Introduction to American Law. _Lit._