_supra_, very prominent as a literary figure in her day, and especially
esteemed as a political satirist. The Group, a political satire;
History of the American Revolution; three tragedies, including The
Adulator, the Sack of Rome, The Ladies of Castille; Poems: Dramatic and
Miscellaneous. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Mrs. Ellet’s
Women of the Revolution; Life of, by Alice Brown, supra, 1896._
=Warren, Nathan Boughton.= _N. Y._, 1805-1898. An author of Troy, New
York. The Ancient Plain Song of the Church; The Order of Daily Service,
with the English Musical Notation; The Holidays; Hidden Treasure, a
Goblin Story.
=Warren, Samuel Edward.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. An educator of Newton,
Massachusetts. Elementary Projection Drawing; General Problems of
Shades and Shadows; Problems in Stone Cutting; Descriptive Geometry;
Machine Drawing; The Sunday Question, are among his published works.
=Warren, Thomas Robinson.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. A traveller and
merchant. Dust and Foam Tracks; The Yachtsman Primer; Shooting,
Boating, and Fishing; On Deck; Juliette Irving and the Jesuit.
=Warren, William.= _Me._, 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman at
Gorham, Maine. School Geography; Household Consecration; The Spirit’s
Sword; Twelve Years Among Children; These for Those.
=Warren, William Fairfield.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A Methodist clergyman,
president of Boston University from 1873. Paradise Found: the Cradle of
the Human Race at the North Pole; The True Key to Ancient Chronology;
In the Footsteps of Arminius; Constitutional Law Questions in the
Methodist Church; The Quest of the Perfect Religion; The Story of
Gottlieb. _Fl. Hou. Meth._
=Warriner, Edward Augustus.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. An Episcopal clergyman
of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Victor La Tourette; Kear, a Poem; I Am That
I Am, a Metrical Essay.
=Warriner, Francis.= _Ms._, 1805-1866. A Congregational clergyman
who was a United States naval chaplain, 1831-1834. The Cruise of the
Potomac.
=Warrington.= _See Robinson, W. S._
=Washburn, Charles Ames.= _Me._, 1822-1889. A diplomatist who was
minister to Paraguay, 1863-68. The History of Paraguay; From Poverty to
Competence: Graduated Taxation; Political Evolution; Philip Thaxter;
Gomery of Montgomery. _Le._
=Washburn, Edward Abiel.= _Ms._, 1819-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of
Broad Church views, rector of Calvary Church, New York city. The Social
Law of God; Voices from a Busy Life, a volume of verse; The Relation
of the Episcopal Church to Other Bodies; Epochs of Church History;
Beatitudes, and Other Sermons. _Dut. Wh._
=Washburn, Emory.= _Ms._, 1800-1877. A lawyer of Worcester, 1828-56;
was governor of Massachusetts, 1854-56; and professor of law in Harvard
University, 1856-76. Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts;
History of Leicester, Massachusetts; Treatise on American Law of Real
Property; American Law of Easements and Servitudes; Testimony of
Experts; Lectures on the Study and Practice of the Law. _Hou. Lit._
=Washburn, Francis.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
Newburg, New York. Meditations on Charity; The Soul Athirst, and Other
Sermons; Thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer. _Wh._
=Washburn, Israel.= _Me._, 1813-1883. Brother of C. A. Washburn,
_supra_; governor of Maine, 1861. Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and
Personal, of Livermore, Maine. _See Bibliography of Maine._
=Washburn, Peter Thacher.= _Ms._, 1814-1870. A lawyer of Woodstock,
Vermont, and governor of his State in 1869. Reports of the Supreme
Court of Vermont; Digest of All Cases in the Vermont Supreme Court.
=Washburn, William Tucker.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A lawyer and novelist
of New York city. Fair Harvard; The Unknown City, a story of New York;
Spring and Summer, a collection of verse.
=Washburne, Elihu Benjamin.= _Me._, 1816-1887. Brother of C. A.
Washburn, _supra_, but adding an “e” to the family name. A statesman
who was secretary of state in 1869, and minister to France,
1869-77. Sketch of Edward Coles and the Slavery Struggle of 1823-24;
Recollections of a Minister to France. _Scr._
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= _Va._, 1856- ----. A distinguished
educator of African descent, president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
from 1881. Up from Slavery.
=Washington, Bushrod.= _Va._, 1762-1829. Nephew of G. Washington,
_infra_. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases in the
Virginia Court of Appeals; Reports of Cases in the United States
Circuit Court, Third District, 1803-27. _See Life by H. Binney, 1858._
=Washington, George.= _Va._, 1732-1799. The first president of the
United States, and known to general literature by his Farewell
Address. His writings, including his Diary and Correspondence, have
been edited in fourteen volumes by W. C. Ford, _supra_. _See United
States histories; Lives by Marshall, Bancroft, Irving, Paulding,
Sparks, Weems, Ramsay, E. E. Hale, Lodge, and many others; Allibone’s
Dictionary._ _Put._
=Washington, Mrs. Lucy Hall [Walker].= _Vt._, 1835- ----. A temperance
reformer and verse-writer, the wife of a Baptist clergyman at Port
Jervis, New York. Echoes of Song; Memory’s Casket.
=Wasson, David Atwood.= _Me._, 1823-1887. A Unitarian clergyman of
Massachusetts, prominent as a radical thinker, who lived at West
Medford after his retirement from the ministry. Poems; Essays:
Religious, Social, Political. _See Memoir of, by O. B. Frothingham,
supra._ _Le._
=Waterbury, Jared Bell.= _N. Y._, 1799-1876. A Presbyterian clergyman
who was city missionary of Brooklyn. Advice to a Young Christian;
Voyage of Life; Sketches of Eloquent Preachers; Southern Planters and
Freedmen, are among his works.
=Waterhouse, Benjamin.= _R. I._, 1754-1846. A physician who was
professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1783-1812, and of natural
history at Brown University, 1784-91. Lectures on the Theory and
Practice of Medicine; The Principles of Vitality; The Botanist; The
Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, a novel.
=Waterman, Thomas Glasby.= _N. Y._, 1788-1862. A lawyer of Binghamton,
New York, who published The Justice’s Manual.
=Waterman, Thomas Whitney.= _N. Y._, 1821-1898. Son of T. G. Waterman,
_supra_. A lawyer of Binghamton, New York, who edited many law books
and wrote, The Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in New York;
Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices in Wisconsin and Iowa;
Principles of Law and Equity; The Law of Set-Off; The Law of Trespass;
The Law Relating to Specific Performance of Contracts; The Law of
Corporations other than Municipal.
=Waters, Mrs. Clara [Erskine] [Clement].= _Mo._, 1834- ----. An
art-writer of Boston. Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art;
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works, a
Handbook; Christian Symbols (with K. Conway, _supra_); Artists of the
Nineteenth Century and their Works (with L. Hutton, _supra_); Life
of Charlotte Cushman; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; Stories of Art and
Artists; Naples, the City of Parthenope; Venice, Mediæval and Modern;
Constantinople, the City of the Sultans; History of Painting for
Beginners and Students; Rome the Eternal City. _Est. Hou. Sto._
=Waters, Robert.= _S._, 1835- ----. An educator of Hoboken, New Jersey.
Life of William Cobbett; Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself; How Genius
Works its Wonders.
=Waterston, Mrs. Anne Cabot Lowell [Quincy].= _Ms._, 1812-1899. Wife
of R. C. Waterston, _infra_, and daughter of J. Quincy (1772-1864),
_supra_. Verses by A. C. Q. W.; Adelaide Phillipps, a Record.
=Waterston, Robert Cassie.= _Me._, 1812-1893. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston. Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture; Arthur Lee and Tom
Palmer.
=Watson, Beriah Andre.= _N. Y._, 1836-1892. A physician of Jersey City.
Amputations and their Complications; The Sportsman’s Paradise, or the
Lake Lands of Canada.
=Watson, Elkanah.= _Ms._, 1758-1842. A noted traveller and
agriculturist. Men and Times of the Revolution, his best-known work, is
mainly autobiographic. Other works of his are, Tour in Holland in 1784;
History of the Canals in the State of New York from 1788 to 1819; Rise
of Modern Agricultural Societies; History of Agricultural Societies on
the Berkshire System.
=Watson, Henry Clay.= _Md._, 1831-1869. A journalist of Philadelphia,
and subsequently of California. Camp-fires of the Revolution;
Camp-fires of Napoleon; Romance of History; Lives of the Presidents;
Nights in a Block-House; Old Bell of Independence; The Yankee Teapot;
Heroic Women of History; Universal Naval History. _Le. La._
=Watson, James Craig.= _Ont._, 1838-1880. A professor of astronomy in
the University of Wisconsin at the time of his death. He discovered
several asteroids and comets. Popular Treatise on Comets; Theoretical
Astronomy; Simple and Compound Interest Tables.
=Watson, James Madison.= _N. Y._, 1827-1900. An educator of Elizabeth,
New Jersey. Handbook of Gymnastics; Manual of Calisthenics, and a
series of Independent Readers.
=Watson, John Fanning.= _N. J._, 1780-1860. A bookseller, and
subsequently a banker, of Philadelphia. Historic Tales; Annals of
Philadelphia.
=Watson, John Whittaker.= _N. Y._, 1824-1890. A journalist of New York
city. Beautiful Snow and Other Poems; The Outcast and Other Poems.
=Watson, Paul Barron.= _N. J._, 1861- ----. Grandson of J. F. Watson,
_supra_. A lawyer of Boston. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus; Bibliography
of Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America; The Swedish Revolution under
Gustavus Vasa, a very effective study of an important epoch in Swedish
history. _Har. Lit._
=Watson, Sereno.= _Ct._, 1826-1892. A noted botanist of Cambridge,
curator of the Herbarium of Harvard University, 1888-92.
Bibliographical Index of North American Botany; Botany of California
(with Gray and Brewer).
=Watson, William.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. A professor of mechanical
engineering. Technical Education; Course in Descriptive Geometry;
Course in Shades and Shadows.
=Watson, Winslow Cossoul.= _N. Y._, 1803- ----. Son of E. Watson,
_supra_. Treatise on Practical Husbandry; Pioneer History of the
Champlain Valley; History of Essex County, New York.
=Watterson, George.= _N. Y._, 1783-1854. A Washington lawyer who was
the first librarian of Congress. Letters from Washington; The Wanderer
in Washington; Course of Study Preparatory to the Bar or Senate; The
Lawyer, or Man as He Ought Not to Be.
=Watterson, Henry.= _D. C._, 1840- ----. A journalist of Louisville,
long prominent as editor of The Courier-Journal. Oddities of Southern
Life and Character.
=Wayland, Francis.= _N. Y._, 1796-1865. A Baptist clergyman
eminent as a metaphysician, who was president of Brown University,
1827-55. Elements of Moral Science; Intellectual Philosophy; Human
Responsibility; Elements of Political Economy; Occasional Discourses;
Moral Law of Accumulation; Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural
Institution; Sermons to the Churches; Principles and Practice of
Baptist Churches; Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel. _See
Allibone’s Dictionary; Lives by his sons, 1867, Murray, 1890._
=Wayland, Heman Lincoln.= _R. I._, 1830-1898. Son of F. Wayland,
_supra_. A Baptist clergyman, editor of The National Baptist at
Philadelphia, 1872-1894, and editor of The Examiner from 1894. Life and
Labors of F. Wayland (with his brother); Faith and Works of Charles
Spurgeon.
=Wayman, Alexander Washington.= _Md._, 1821-1895. An African Methodist
bishop. My Recollections; Cyclopedia of African Methodism; Wayman on
Discipline.
=Wead, Charles Kasson.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. An electrician of
Hartford. Aims and Methods of the Teaching of Physics; Lecture Notes on
Sound and Light.
=Weaver, George Sumner.= _Vt._, 1818- ----. A Universalist clergyman.
Lectures on Mental Science; Hopes and Helps for the Young; Aims and
Aids for Girls; The Ways of Life; The Christian Household; The Open
Way; Moses and Modern Science; The Heart of the Word; Lives and Graves
of Our Presidents.
=Weaver, Jonathan.= _O._, 1824-1901. A clergyman of Ohio, bishop of
the Church of the United Brethren. Discourses on the Resurrection;
Ministerial Salary; Divine Providence; Universal Restoration not
Sustained by the Word of God.
=Webb, Alexander Stewart.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. Son of J. W. Webb,
_infra_. The president of the College of the City of New York from
1869, and during the Civil War a general in the Federal army. The
Peninsula; McClellan’s Campaign of 1862. _Scr._
=Webb, Charles Henry.= “John Paul.” _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A journalist
now living at Nantucket very popular as a humourist in the earlier part
of his career. Liffith Lank; St. Twel’mo’; John Paul’s Book; Parodies
in Prose and Verse; Vagrom Verse. _See Hart’s American Literature._
_Hou._
=Webb, Mrs. Frances Isabel [Currie].= _N. J._, 1857-1895. A magazinist
of New York city. A Tiff with the Tiffins; Gala Day Books; A Breath of
Suspicion.
=Webb, James Watson.= _N. Y._, 1802-1884. A journalist of New York
city, minister to Brazil, 1861-69. Altowan, or Life in the Rocky
Mountains; Slavery and its Tendencies.
=Webber, Charles Wilkins.= _Ky._, 1819-1856. A journalist and traveller
who was killed in Walker’s expedition in Nicaragua. Hunter-Naturalist;
Tales of the Southern Border; Old Hicks the Guide; Gold Mines of the
Gila; Shot in the Eye; Adventures with Texas Rifle Rangers; Wild Scenes
and Song Birds; History of Mystery; Spiritual Vampirism; Texan Virago;
Wild Girl of Nebraska; Romance of Natural History. _See Bibliography of
Texas._ _Lip._
=Webber, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1759-1810. An educator of Cambridge, professor
of mathematics in Harvard University, 1789-1806, and president of the
same, 1806-10. He published a System of Mathematics that was for a long
time the only text-book on that subject in use in New England colleges.
=Webber, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1797-1880. Son of S. Webber, _supra_. A
physician of Charlestown, New Hampshire. Zogan, an Indian Tale, in
Verse; War, a Poem.
=Webster, Albert Falvey.= _Ms._, 1848-1876. A magazinist of New York
city the best of whose short stories are, Little Majesty; An Operation
in Money; Miss Eunice’s Glove.
=Webster, Daniel.= _N. H._, 1782-1852. A distinguished statesman
who was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1801. He represented New
Hampshire in Congress, 1813-17, and, removing to Massachusetts in
1816, was a representative from that State, 1823-27. He was a member
of the Senate, 1827-41 and 1845-50, and secretary of state, 1841-1843
and 1850-52. He died at Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852.
He was a master of English style, the best of his orations on especial
occasions being those delivered at the second Pilgrim centennial in
1820, on the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument in
1825, and the eulogy of Adams and Jefferson in 1826. _See Parton’s
Famous Americans; Private Life of, by C. Lanman, supra; Whipple’s
Great Speeches of Webster, 1879; Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882;
Lives by Curtis, Lyman, Smucker, Everett, Fletcher Webster, Tefft,
Lodge; Appletons’ American Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia;
Allibone’s Dictionary; Reminiscences of, by Harvey; Biographical
Encyclopædia of Massachusetts._ _Co. Lit._
=Webster, John White.= _Ms._, 1793-1850. A chemist who was professor
at Harvard University, 1824-50, and was tried and executed in 1850 for
the murder of Dr. Parkman, _supra_. Description of the Island of St.
Michael; Manual of Chemistry. _See Reports of Trial by Bemis and Stone._
=Webster, Nathan Burnham.= _N. H._, 1821-1900. An educator of Norfolk,
Virginia. Outlines of Chemistry.
=Webster, Noah.= _Ct._, 1758-1843. A famous lexicographer, best known
by his Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English
Language (1828). His great dictionary is still published, being
revised and enlarged from time to time, and edited according to
the principles laid down by its originator. The unabridged edition
is now called the International Dictionary. Among his other works
are included, A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English
Language; The Prompter, or Common Sayings and Subjects; Rights of
Neutrals; Dissertations on the English Language; A Compendious
Dictionary of the English Language (1806). _See North American Review,
April, 1829; Life by H. E. Scudder, 1882; Allibone’s Dictionary._
=Webster, Pelatiah.= _Ct._, 1725-1797. A once famous political
economist of Philadelphia. Essays on Free Trade and Finance; Essay on
Credit; Political Essay on the Nature and Operation of Money, are among
his writings.
=Webster, Richard.= _N. Y._, 1811-1856. A Presbyterian clergyman,
pastor at Mauch Chunk, 1835-56. History of the Presbyterian Church in
America till 1760.
=Webster, Warren.= _N. H._, 1835-1896. An army surgeon during the Civil
War. The Army Medical Staff; Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye, from the
German of Mauthner.
=Weed, Clarence Moores.= _O._, 1864- ----. A professor of zoölogy and
entomology at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic
Arts, Durham, New Hampshire. Ten New England Blossoms and their Insect
Visitors; Insects and Insecticides; Fungi and Fungicides; Spraying
Crops. _Hou. Ju._
=Weed, Thurlow.= _N. Y._, 1797-1882. A journalist of note who founded
The Albany Evening Journal in 1830. Letters from Europe; Autobiography.
_See Memoir by Thurlow Weed Barnes._ _Hou._
=Weeden, William Babcock.= _R. I._, 1834- ----. A woollen manufacturer
of Providence. The Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws; Social Law of
Labor; The Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789. _Hou.
Rob._
=Weeks, Edwin Lord.= _Ms._, 1849-1903. An artist of note. From the
Black Sea through Persia and India. _Har._
=Weeks, John M----.= _Ct._, 1788-1858. An inventor o£ Salisbury,
Vermont. Manual on Bees; History of Salisbury.
=Weeks, Robert Kelley.= _N. Y._, 1840-1876. A lawyer and verse-writer
of New York city whose poems are not without individuality and a very
measurable degree of charm. Twenty Poems; Episodes and Lyric Pieces.
_Ho._
=Weeks, Stephen Beauregard.= _N. C._, 1865- ----. An historical writer.
Bibliography of the Historical Literature of North Carolina; Church and
State in North Carolina; The Press of North Carolina in the Eighteenth
Century; Southern Quakers and Slavery. _J. H. U._
=Weeks, William Raymond.= _Ct._, 1783-1848. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Newark, New Jersey. Nine Sermons; Pilgrim’s Progress in the Nineteenth
Century; Scripture Catechism.
=Weems, Mason Locke.= _Va._, 1759-1825. An Episcopal clergyman, famous
as a book agent in his day, but at one time rector of Pohick Church,
Mount Vernon, where Washington attended. He was an erratic personage
whose regard for truth is far from being the strongest feature of his
biographies. His Life of Washington, which as early as 1811 had reached
an eleventh edition, is still the most popular life of its subject, as
from some points of view it is the most entertaining. He wrote, also,
Lives of Marion, Penn, and Franklin, which are as untrustworthy as his
more noted performance. _Lip._
=Weidemeyer, John William.= 1819-1896. A writer of New York city.
Catalogue of North American Butterflies; Real and Ideal, a volume of
verse; Themes and Translations; American Fish and How to Catch Them;
From Alpha to Omega.
=Weidner, Revere Franklin.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A Lutheran clergyman,
professor of systematic theology at Augustana Seminary, Rock Island,
1885-1891, and subsequently at the Lutheran Seminary, Chicago.
Commentary on Mark; Exegetical Theology; Historical Theology; System of
Dogmatic Theology; Grammar of New Testament Greek; Commentary on the
Hebrew Text of Obadiah; Method for Study of New Testament Greek. _Scr._
=Weir, James.= _Ky._, 1821- ----. A Kentucky romancer. Lonz Powers, or
the Regulators; Simon Kenton; Winter Lodge.
=Weir, John Ferguson.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. The director of the School
of Fine Arts at Yale University from 1869, and professor of painting
and design there. The Way: the Nature and Means of Revelation. _Hou._
=Weiss= [wīss], =John.= _Ms._, 1818-1879. A Unitarian clergyman of
very radical views who was pastor at Watertown, Massachusetts, and was
prominent as an abolitionist. Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare; American
Religion; The Immortal Life; Life of Theodore Parker. _Rob._
=Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer [Talley].= _Va._, 1835- ----. A verse-writer
of New York city whose poems were first collected in 1859.
=Weisse, John Adam.= _F._, 1810-1888. A philologist, born in Lorraine,
who came to America in 1840, and ten years later settled in New York
city, where he was president of the New York Philological Society. Key
to the French Language; Origin, Progress, and Destiny of the English
Language and Literature; The Obelisk and Freemasonry.
=Welby, Mrs. Amelia [Coppuck].= _Md._, 1819-1852. A versifier of
Louisville whose sentimental lyrics attained an extraordinary
popularity in their author’s lifetime. Poems by Amelia. _See Griswold’s
Female Poets of America; Coggeshall’s Poets of the West._
=Welch, Adonijah Strong.= _Ct._, 1821-1889. A lawyer and educator of
Michigan and Iowa, president of Iowa Agricultural College, 1869-83.
Analysis of the English Sentence; Object Lessons; Talks on Psychology;
The Teacher’s Psychology.
=Welch, John.= _O._, 1805- ----. A jurist of Ohio. Mathematical
Curiosities; Index Digest of Ohio Decisions.
=Welch, Philip Henry.= _N. Y._, 1849-1889. A journalist and humourist
of New York city. The Tailor-made Girl; Said In Fun. _Scr._
=Welch, Ransom Bethune.= _N. Y._, _c._ 1825-1890. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of Christian theology at Auburn Seminary. Faith
and Modern Thought; Outlines of Christian Theology.
=Welch, William Henry.= _Ct._, 1850- ----. A Baltimore physician,
professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins University from 1884. General
Pathology of Fever.
=Weld, Mrs. Angelina Emily [Grimke].= _S. C._, 1805-1879. Wife of T.
D. Weld, _infra_, and daughter of J. F. Grimke, _supra_. Letters to
Catharine Beecher, a review of the slavery question; Appeal to the
Christian Women of the South; Sacred Palmlands.
=Weld, Horatio Hastings.= _Ms._, 1811-1888. An Episcopal clergyman of
Riverton, New Jersey. Corrected Proofs; Life of Christ; Women of the
Scriptures.
=Weld, Theodore Dwight.= _Ct._, 1803-1895. A reformer of Boston, long
prominent as an abolitionist. The Bible Against Slavery; American
Slavery As It Is; Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United
States.
=Weller, George.= _Ms._, 1790-1841. An Episcopal clergyman once
prominent in Tennessee and Mississippi. Vindication of the Church; The
Weller Tracts.
=Welles, Charles Stuart.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A physician who has
published Bohème (verse); Lilian; The New Marriage and Other Uniform
Laws.
=Welles, Gideon.= _Ct._, 1808-1878. A journalist and politician,
secretary of the navy, 1861-69. Lincoln and Seward.
=Wellington, Arthur Mellen.= _Ms._, 1847-1895. A civil engineer of
distinction. The Computation of Earthwork from Diagrams; The Economic
Theory of the Location of Railways; Car-Builders’ Dictionary; Field
Work of Railway Location. _See Annual Cyclopædia, 1895._ _Wil._
=Wells, Mrs. Catherine Boott [Gannett].= _E._, 1838- ----. Daughter
of E. S. Gannett, _supra_. A Boston essayist and novelist who has
contributed largely to periodicals. In the Clearings; Miss Curtis;
Two Modern Women; About People, a collection of essays; several
Sunday-school manuals of ethics and normal methods. _Hou. Lip._