regarding whose claims to the title much controversy has raged.
During the Civil War he served as a volunteer nurse in the Washington
hospitals, and, after holding a government clerkship till 1873,
removed to Camden, New Jersey, where the rest of his life was passed.
Leaves of Grass, his first book, appeared in 1855, a vigourous protest
against established rules of versification in its utter formlessness.
Drum Taps, which included the now famous Lincoln elegies, When Lilacs
Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, and O Captain, My Captain, followed in
1865. The republication of his poems in England in 1868 aroused instant
attention there, and excited extravagant praise in some quarters.
His rejection of rhyme and metre will probably always repel the mass
of readers. His later works include, After All Not to Create Only;
A Passage to India; As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free; Two Rivulets;
November Boughs; Good Bye My Fancy; Sands at Seventy; Specimen Days and
Collect; in prose, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate; Democratic Vistas;
Memoranda During the War. _See O’Connor’s Good Gray Poet; Burroughs’s
Notes on Whitman, and Study of Whitman; Walt Whitman, by R. M. Bucke;
Whitman, by W. Clarke; Whitman: a Study of Democracy, by Triggs;
Whitman: a Study, by J. H. Symonds; Annual Cyclopedia, 1892; Life of by
W. S. Kennedy, supra; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; In Re Walt Whitman;
Foley’s American Authors; T. Donaldson’s Walt Whitman the man._
=Whitmarsh, Caroline.= _See Guild, Mrs._
=Whitmore, William Henry.= _Ms._, 1836-1900. A genealogist of Boston.
American Genealogy; Elements of Heraldry; History of the Old State
House, Boston; and many genealogies.
=Whitney, Mrs. Adeline Dutton [Train].= =Ms.=, 1824- ----. A very
popular writer for girls. She has lived at Milton, Massachusetts, for
many years. Friendly Letters to Girl Friends; Faith Gartney’s Girlhood;
The Gayworthys; A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life; Hitherto; We
Girls; The Other Girls; Real Folks; Sights and Insights; Odd or Even?;
Bonnyborough; Boys at Chequasset; Homespun Yarns; Ascutney Street; A
Golden Gossip; Patience Strong’s Outings; Mother Goose for Grown Folks.
She has also written, The Open Mystery: A Reading of the Mosaic Story;
Just How, a Key to the Cook Books; and in verse, Pansies; Daffodils;
Holy Tides; Bird Talk; White Memories. _See Vedder’s American Writers._
_Hou._
=Whitney, Anne.= _Ms._, 1821- ----. A Boston sculptor and poet. Her
only volume, Poems, appeared in 1859. Bertha is her best known poem.
=Whitney, Caspar.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A journalist of New York city, a
prominent advocate of amateur sports. A Sporting Pilgrimage; On Snow
Shoes to the Barren Grounds. _Har._
=Whitney, James Amaziah.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. An agricultural chemist.
Relation of the Patent Laws to Development of Agriculture; The Chinese
and the Chinese Question; Shobab, a Tale of Bethesda in verse; Sonnets
and Lyrics; The Children of Lamech (verse).
=Whitney, [Joseph] Ernest.= _Ct._, 1858-1893. An instructor in English
for some years at Yale University. Poems of the Pike’s Peak Region
(1890).
=Whitney, Josiah Dwight.= _Ms._, 1819-1896. A professor of geology
at Harvard University from 1865, and State geologist of California,
1860-74. The United States; The Metallic Wealth of the United States;
Barometric Hypsometry; Polypetalæ and Gamopetalæ; Contributions
to American Geology; Names and Places, Studies in Geography and
Topographical Nomenclature; Geological Survey of California; Yosemite
Guide Book; Geological Survey of Iowa. _Lip. Lit._
=Whitney, Mrs. Louisa [Goddard].= _E._, 1819-1882. Wife of J. D.
Whitney, _supra_. The Burning of the Convent; Peasy’s Childhood: an
Autobiography.
=Whitney, Peter.= _Ms._, 1744-1815. A Congregational clergyman, pastor
at Northborough, Massachusetts, 1767-1815. History of Worcester County
(1793).
=Whitney, Thomas Richard.= _N. Y._, 1804-1858. A journalist of New York
city, member of Congress, 1855-57. The Ambuscade, a Poem; Defence of
the American Policy.
=Whitney, William Dwight.= _Ms._, 1827-1894. Brother of J. D. Whitney,
_supra_. A philologist of eminence, professor of Sanskrit at Yale
University from 1854, and of comparative philology, also, from 1870.
He edited The Century Dictionary. Language and the Study of Language;
Compendious German Grammar; Oriental and Linguistic Studies; Life and
Growth of Language; Essentials of English Grammar; Sanskrit Grammar;
Practical French Grammar; Roots, Verb Forms, and Primary Derivatives of
the Sanskrit Language; Max Müller’s Science of Language. _See Atlantic
Monthly, March, 1895._ _Ap. Gi. Ho. Scr._
=Whiton, James Morris.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Grandson of J. M. Whiton,
_infra_. A Congregational clergyman of New York city. New Points to Old
Texts; Is Eternal Punishment Endless?; The Gospel of the Resurrection;
Beyond the Shadow; The Divine Satisfaction; Early Pupils of the Spirit;
The Evolution of Revelation; The Law of Liberty; Turning Points of
Thought and Conduct; Gloria Patri. _Wh._
=Whiton, John Milton.= _Ms._, 1788-1856. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Antrim, New Hampshire. Sketches of the Early History of New Hampshire,
1623-1833.
=Whitsitt, William Heth.= _Tn._, 1841- ----. A Baptist clergyman of
Louisville, professor of ecclesiastical history at the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary from 1872. History of the Rise of Infant Baptism;
History of Communion Among Baptists; Life and Times of Jude Caleb
Wallace; A Question in Baptist History. _Mor._
=Whittaker, Frederick.= _E._, 1838- ----. Son of H. Whittaker, _infra_.
A Federal cavalry officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a
journalist of New York city. A Defence of Dime Novels by a Writer of
Them; Life of General Custer; Cadet Button, a Tale of American Army
Life; Bel Rubio, a novel.
=Whittaker, Henry.= _W._, 1808-1881. A law-office clerk in New York
city. Practice and Pleading Under the Codes; Analysis of Decisions in
Practice and Pleading.
=Whittaker, James Thomas.= _O._, 1843-1900. A prominent surgeon of
Cincinnati. Lectures on Physiology; History of Tuberculosis; Theory
and Practice of Medicine. _Clke._
=Whittemore, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1800-1861. A Universalist clergyman of
Boston. History of Modern Universalism; Notes and Illustrations of the
Parables; Commentaries on Daniel and Revelations; Life of Hosea Ballou;
Autobiography.
=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= _Ms._, 1807-1892. A famous New England
poet, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807, and all
his life a member of the Society of Friends. He was one of the early
abolitionists, and edited The Pennsylvania Freeman, 1838-39. After 1840
he lived at Amesbury, Massachusetts. Among the most characteristic of
his shorter poems are, My Soul and I; The Eternal Goodness; In School
Days; The Last Walk in Autumn; The Playmates; My Psalm. His prose
writings include, The Stranger in Lowell (1845); The Supernaturalism
of New England (1847); Leaves from Margaret Smith’s Journal (1849);
Old Portraits and Modern Sketches (1850); Literary Recreations and
Miscellanies (1854). His work in verse comprises, Legends of New
England (1831); Moll Pitcher (1832); Mogg Megone (1836); Poems (1838);
Lays of My Home (1843); Voices of Freedom (1849); Songs of Labor
(1850); The Chapel of the Hermits (1853); A Sabbath Scene (1853); The
Panorama (1856); Home Ballads and Poems (1860); In War Time (1862);
National Lyrics (1865); Snow-Bound (1866); The Tent on the Beach
(1867); Among the Hills (1868); Ballads of New England (1870); Miriam
(1870); The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872); Hazel Blossoms (1875); Mabel
Martin (1876); Centennial Hymn (1876); The Vision of Echard, and Other
Poems (1878); The King’s Missive, and Other Poems (1881); The Bay of
Seven Islands, and Other Poems (1883); St. Gregory’s Guest, and Other
Poems (1886); At Sundown (1890-92). He was also the compiler of Songs
of Three Centuries; Child-Life; and Child-Life in Prose; and the
editor of John Woolman’s Journal. _See Scribner’s Magazine, August,
1879; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1883; Century Magazine, December,
1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Steuart’s Letters to Living
Authors; Lives by Underwood, Brown, Pickard, W. J. Linton; Personal
Recollections of, by Mrs. Claflin; Whittier: Notes of his Life and of
his Friendships, in Authors and Friends, by Mrs. Fields; Memorial of,
from his Native City, 1893; Allibone’s Dictionary; Annual Cyclopedia,
1892; Whittier, by B. O. Flower; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; American
Song, by A. B. Simonds; Foley’s American Authors._ _Hou._
=Whittingham, William Rollinson.= _N. Y._, 1805-1879. The fourth
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maryland. Fifteen Sermons. _See Life, by
W. F. Brand._ _Ap._
=Whittlesey, Mrs. Sarah Johnson [Cogswell].= _N. C._, 1825-1896. Heart
Drops from Memory’s Urn; The Stranger’s Stratagem, and Other Stories;
Herbert Hamilton; Bertha the Beauty; Spring Buds and Summer Blossoms.
=Wiard, Norman.= _Ont._, 1826-1896. An inventor and military engineer
of distinction whose specialty was the manufacture of ordnance. The
Solution of the Ordnance Problem.
=Wickersham, James Pyle.= _Pa._, 1825-1891. An educator of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, State superintendent of public instruction, 1866-81,
minister to Denmark, 1882. School Economy; Methods of Instruction.
_Lip._
=Wickes, Stephen.= _L. I._, 1813-1889. A physician of Orange, New
Jersey. Living and Dying: their Psychics and Physics; History
of Medicine in New Jersey; Sepulture: its History, Methods, and
Requisites; History of the Newark Mountains.
=Wickes, Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1814-1870. Brother of S. Wickes, _supra_. A
Presbyterian clergyman of Marietta, Ohio. Exposition of the Apocalypse;
The Son of Man; The Household; Economy of the Ages.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas.= _See Riggs, Mrs._
=Wigglesworth, Edward.= _Ms._, 1693-1765. Son of M. Wigglesworth,
_infra_. A Congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of theology at
Harvard University, 1722-65. An Answer to Mr. Whitefield’s Reply to the
College Testimony; Doctrine of Reprobation Briefly Considered, are
among his writings.
=Wigglesworth, Edward.= _Ms._, 1732-1794. Son of E. Wigglesworth,
_supra_. A Congregational clergyman who succeeded his father in the
Hollis professorship at Harvard University in 1765. Calculations on
American Population; Authority of Tradition Considered.
=Wigglesworth, Edward.= _Ms._, 1804-1876. Grandson of E. Wigglesworth,
2d. A lawyer and merchant of Boston who published Reflections, a
collection of apothegms. _El._
=Wigglesworth, Michael.= _E._, 1631-1705. A Congregational clergyman,
pastor at Malden, Massachusetts, 1656-1705. The Day of Doom, his
chief work, appearing in 1662, was for more than a century the most
popular poem in New England. It is an epic of the Last Judgment, not
without gleams of poetic merit, but full of what must be styled savage
theology. Meat Out of the Eater is a much inferior poem, but was very
popular for a long period. God’s Controversy with New England, also in
verse, and A Short Discourse on Eternity, comprise his remaining works.
_Tyler’s American Literature; Life by John Ward Dean._
=Wight, Orlando Williams.= _N. Y._, 1824-1888. A Universalist clergyman
and physician, appointed State geologist of Wisconsin in 1874. The
Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton; Lives and Letters of Abelard and
Héloise; Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good; Maxims of
Public Health; People and Countries Visited in a Winding Journey round
the World. _Ap. Hou._
=Wight, Peter Bonnett.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. An architect of New York
city. One Phase in the Revival of Fine Arts in America.
=Wikoff, Henry.= _Pa._, 1813-1884. A writer whose life after 1834
was passed mainly in Europe. He was commonly known as Chevalier
Wikoff. Reminiscences of an Idler; Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Life
of Count d’Orsay; My Courtship and its Consequences; Adventures of
a Roving Diplomatist; A New Yorker in the Foreign Office; The Four
Civilizations.
=Wilbour, Charles Edwin.= _R. I._, 1833-1896. An Egyptologist who has
published a Life of Victor Hugo and a number of translations from the
French.
=Wilbur, Hervey.= _Ms._, 1787-1852. A Congregational clergyman and
educator of Massachusetts among whose writings are, Elements of
Astronomy; Lexicon of Useful Knowledge.
=Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus.= _N. C._, 1826-1890. A United States army
officer. Rifles and Rifle Practice; History of the Mexican War.
=Wilcox, Carlos.= _N. H._, 1794-1827. A Congregational clergyman of
Hartford, popular as a verse-writer in his day. The Age of Benevolence.
_See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of
America._
=Wilcox, Mrs. Ella [Wheeler].= _Wis._, 1855- ----. A very popular
verse-writer and novelist of New York city. Maurine, and Other Poems;
Drops of Water, temperance poems; Shells; Poems of Passion; Poems
of Pleasure; The Song of the Sandwich; The Beautiful Land of Nod,
poems and prose for children; Custer, and Other Poems. Her prose work
includes, Men, Women, and Emotions; Mal Moulée; Was It Suicide?;
A Double Life; Sweet Danger; Perdita and Other Stories; An Erring
Woman’s Love; Men, Women, and Emotions; Adventures of Miss Volney. _See
Bibliography of Wisconsin._
=Wilcox, Marrion.= _Ga._, 1858- ----. A New Haven writer. Real People;
Señora Villena.
=Wilcox, Phineas Bacon.= _Ct._, 1798-1863. A lawyer of Columbus, Ohio.
Condensed Reports of Ohio Supreme Court; Ohio Forms and Practice; A
Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar; Practical Forms in Action, etc.;
Practical Forms Under Code of Civil Procedure.
=Wilde, Richard Henry.= _I._, 1789-1847. A New Orleans lawyer who wrote
Conjectures and Researches Concerning Tasso, but is known chiefly as
the author of the graceful lyric, My Life is Like the Summer Rose. _See
Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Mrs. Johnson’s Our Familiar
Songs._
=Wilder, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1823- ----. A physician and journalist
of New York city. Lectures on Scientific and Literary Subjects;
Intermarriage of Kindred; Life Eternal; The Ganglionic Nervous System,
are his principal writings.
=Wilder, Burt Green.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A physician, professor of
physiology at Cornell University from 1867. What Young People Should
Know; Emergencies; Health Notes for Students. _Est. Put._
=Wilder, Daniel Webster.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A Kansas lawyer and
journalist who has published The Annals of Kansas.
=Wildwood, Will.= _See Pond, F. E._
=Wiley, Calvin Henderson.= _N. C._, 1819-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman
and educator in the Carolinas. Adventures of Old Dan Tucker; Utopia,
a Picture of Early Life at the South; Scriptural Views of National
Trials; Alamance, a novel; Roanoke, or Where is Utopia? _See Hart’s
American Literature._
=Wiley, Harvey Washington.= _Ind._, 1844- ----. A chemist of note,
chief of the chemical division of the United States Department of
Agriculture from 1883. Principles and Practice of Agricultural
Analysis: Part I., Soils; Part II., Fertilizers; Part III.,
Agricultural Products.
=Wiley, Isaac William.= _Pa._, 1825-1884. A bishop of the Methodist
Church from 1872. The Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chan; The Religion of
the Family; China and Japan: a Record of Observations. _Meth._
=Wilkes, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1798-1877. A naval officer of distinction.
Narrative of United States Exploring Expedition During the Years
1838-42; Western America; Theory of the Winds.
=Wilkes, George.= _N. Y._, 1820-1885. A journalist of New York city,
editor of The Spirit of the Times from 1850. History of California
(1845); Europe in a Hurry; Shakespeare from an American Point of View.
=Wilkeson, Frank.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A journalist. Recollections of
a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac. _Put._
=Wilkie, Franc[is] Bangs.= _N. Y._, 1832-92. A Chicago journalist.
Petrolia, or the Oil Regions of the United States (1865); Davenport,
Past and Present; Walks About Chicago; The Chicago Bar; Great
Inventions and Their Influence on Civilization; The Gambler, a Story of
Chicago Life; Pen and Powder; Personal Reminiscences. _Hou._
=Wilkins, John Hubbard.= _N. H._, 1794-1861. A Boston writer whose
Elements of Astronomy (1822) was long popular as a text-book.
=Wilkins, Mary Eleanor.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A novelist of Randolph,
Massachusetts, whose rank as a short-story writer is among the very
first, her work displaying the greatest skill in constructive details
as well as accurate perception in characterization. Her fictions
deal almost entirely with phases of New England rural life. A Humble
Romance, and Other Stories; A New England Nun, and Other Stories; Young
Lucretia, and Other Stories; The Pot of Gold, a collection of juvenile
tales; Jane Field; Pembroke; Madelon; Giles Corey, Yeoman, a Play;
Jerome, a Poor Man; The Adventures of Ann; Comfort Pease and her Gold
Ring; The Long Arm (with J. E. Chamberlin, _supra_). _Har. Lo. Rev._
=Wilkinson, James.= _Md._, 1757-1825. A soldier who served in the
American Revolution and in the War of 1812. Memories of My Own Times.
_See Gayarré’s Spanish Domination in Louisiana, 1854; Gilmore’s Advance
Guard of Western Civilization, 1887._
=Wilkinson, John.= _Va._, 1821- ----. A Confederate naval officer who
has published, The Narrative of a Blockade Runner.
=Wilkinson, William Cleaver.= _Vt._, 1833- ----. A Baptist clergyman
and educator. Poems; A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters;
Webster, an Ode; The Baptist Principle; The Epic of Saul; The Dance of
Modern Society; College Greek Course in English, and other text-books.
_Fl. Fu. Meth._
=Willard, Ashton Rollins.= _Vt._, 1858- ----. A lawyer of Boston.
A Sketch of the Life and Work of the Painter Domenico Morelli;
Legislative Handbook Relating to the Preparation of Statutes. _Hou._
=Willard, Mrs. Emma [Hart].= _Ct._, 1787-1870. A noted educator of
Troy, New York. Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain;
History of the United States; Universal History in Perspective;
Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood; Last Leaves of American
History; Poems. She wrote the well-known poem, Rocked in the Cradle of
the Deep. _See Life, by John Lord, supra; Hart’s American Literature._
=Willard, Frances Elizabeth.= _N. Y._, 1839-1898. A temperance reformer
of prominence. Woman and Temperance; How to Win; Woman in the Pulpit;
Nineteen Beautiful Years; Glimpses of Fifty Years; A Great Mother. _See
A Woman of the Century._ _Fu._
=Willard, John.= _Ct._, 1792-1862. An eminent jurist of New York city.
Equity Jurisprudence; Treatise on Executors, Administrators, and
Guardians; Real Estate and Conveyancing.
=Willard, Joseph Augustus.= _Ms._, 1816-1904. Son of Sidney Willard,
_infra_. Clerk of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for Suffolk
County, from 1865. His connection with courts of justice began in 1846.
Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers. _Hou._
=Willard, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1640-1707. A Congregational clergyman of
Boston, president of Harvard University, 1701-07. Of his many works,
A Complete Body of Divinity is the best known. Others are, Peril of
the Times Displayed; Covenant-Keeping the Way to Blessedness; Ne Sutor
Ultra Crepidam. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Willard, Sidney.= _Ms._, 1780-1856. A descendant of S. Willard,
_supra_. A professor of Hebrew at Harvard University, 1801-31. Hebrew
Grammar; Memories of Youth and Manhood.
=Willard, Sylvester David.= _Ct._, 1825-1865. An Albany physician,
surgeon-general of New York at the time of his death. The Willard
Asylum for the Insane was named for him. Biographical Memoirs of
Physicians of Albany County; Annals of the Albany County Medical
Society.
=Willcox, Orlando Bolivar.= _Mch._, 1823- ----. A United States army
officer. Shoepack Recollections; Faca, an Army Memoir.
=Willett, Joseph Edgerton.= _Ga._, 1826-1897. A professor of natural
science in Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, from 1849. The Wonders of
Insect Life.
=Willett, William Marinus.= _N. Y._, 1803-1895. A Methodist clergyman
and educator. Scenes in the Wilderness; A New Life of Summerfield;
Life and Times of Herod the Great; Herod Antipas; The Messiah; The
Restitution of All Things.
=Willey, Austin.= _N. H._, 1806-1896. A Congregational clergyman
of Maine, long prominent as an abolitionist, and the editor of The
Advocate of Freedom, 1839-58. After the latter date he lived at
Northfield, Minnesota. Family Memorial; History of the Anti-Slavery
Cause in State and Nation.
=Willey, Benjamin Glazier.= _N. H._, 1796-1867. A Congregational
clergyman of New Hampshire who wrote a History of the White Mountains.
=Willey, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A botanist, lawyer, and
journalist of New Bedford. List of North American Lichens; Introduction
to the Study of Lichens; Synopsis of the Genus Athona.
=Williams, Alfred Mason.= _Ms._, 1840-1896. A Providence journalist,
editor of The Journal. The Poets and Poetry of Ireland; Studies in
Folk-Song and Popular Poetry; Sam Houston and the War of Independence
in Texas. _Hou._
=Williams, Mrs. Anna [Bolles].= “Jak.” _Ct._, 1840- ----. A writer
of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has written a number of popular
juvenile tales. Birchwood; Professor Johnny; The Fitch Club; Who Saved
the Ship?; Rolf and His Friends; Scotch Caps; Giant Dwarf; Riverside
Museum. _Cr._
=Williams, Mrs. Catherine R---- [Arnold].= _R. I._, 1787-1872. A
Providence writer. Original Poems; Religion at Home; Tales: National
and Revolutionary; Fall River, an Authentic Narrative; Neutral French;
Annals of the Aristocracy of Rhode Island; Aristocracy: a novel.
=Williams, Charles Frederic.= _Ms._, 1842-1895. The Tariff Laws of the
United States, with Explanatory Notes; Index of Cases Overruled by the
Courts of America, England, and Ireland from 1873 to 1887. He edited
the last eight volumes of The American and English Cyclopædia of Law.
=Williams, Edwin.= _Ct._, 1797-1854. A writer of New York city. The
Politician’s Manual; New Universal Gazetteer; Book of the Constitution;
New York as It Is; Arctic Voyages; The Fortunate Puzzler; The
Statesman’s Manual; The Twelve Stars of the Republic, comprise his
chief works.
=Williams, Eleazer.= 1787?-1858. An Episcopal clergyman at Green Bay,
Wisconsin, supposed by some persons to have been Louis XVII. of France.
He published A Spelling-Book in the Language of the Seven Iroquois
Nations, and other works in Iroquois. _See The Lost Prince, by Hanson._
=Williams, Francis Howard.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A littérateur of
Philadelphia. His plays include, The Princess Elizabeth, a Lyric Drama;
The Higher Education; A Reformer in Ruffles; Master and Man; Theodora,
a Christmas Pastoral. Other works are, Atman, a Story; The Flute
Player, and Other Poems; Pennsylvania Poets of the Provincial Period.
_Cas._
=Williams, George Huntington.= _N. Y._, 1856-1894. A professor of
inorganic geology at Johns Hopkins University from 1892. Elements of
Crystallography.
=Williams, George Washington.= _Pa._, 1849-1891. A writer of African
descent who served in the Federal army during the Civil War, and as
lieutenant-colonel of artillery in the Republican army of Mexico,
1865-67, and who was minister to Hayti, 1885-86. History of the Negro
Race in America; The Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion; History
of the Reconstruction of the Insurgent States. _Har._
=Williams, Henry Shaler.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A professor of
palæontology at Cornell University from 1871. The Bones, Ligaments, and
Muscles of the Domestic Cat; Geological Biology. _Ho._
=Williams, Henry Willard.= _Ms._, 1821-1895. A Boston physician,
professor of ophthalmology at Harvard University, 1871-91. Our Eyes and
How to Take Care of Them; Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the
Eye; Practical Guide to Study of Diseases of the Eye.
=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= _Il._, 1871- ----. A littérateur of New York
city. Princeton Stories; The Freshman, a book for boys. _Scr._
=Williams, John.= _Ms._, 1664-1729. A Congregational clergyman of
Deerfield, Massachusetts, carried captive to Canada, with many of his
parishioners, by the French and Indians in 1704. The Redeemed Captive
is a graphic account of heroism and suffering during the period of
captivity.
=Williams, John.= “Anthony Pasquin.” _E._, _c._ 1765-1818. An English
journalist who came to the United States after being very unpopular in
England. Poems; Legislative Biography; The Hamiltoniad; The Dramatic
Censor; Life of Alexander Hamilton.
=Williams, John.= _Ms._, 1817-1899. The fourth Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Connecticut, and presiding bishop from 1887. Sermons; Studies
on the English Reformation; Ancient Hymns of Holy Church; Thoughts on
the Gospel Miracles; The World’s Witness to Christ; Studies in the Book
of Acts. _Wh._