Salem, Massachusetts, but banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony
in 1635 on account of his views upon religious liberty. In 1636 he
founded the city of Providence, and was the chief citizen of the
Rhode Island colony until his death. He was the first upholder of
the doctrine of liberty of conscience in its entirety, and actively
sustained his theories in many controversial works. Key Into the
Languages of America; The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of
Conscience; The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton’s Endeavour
to wash it white in the Bloud of the Lambe; Mr. Cotton’s Letter Lately
Printed, Examined and Answered; George Fox Digg’d Out of his Burrowes,
include his principal works. _See Tyler’s American Literature;
Mudge’s Footprints of Roger Williams; Allibone’s Dictionary; Johnson’s
Universal Cyclopedia; Appletons’ American Biography; Dexter’s As to
Roger Williams; Lives by Knowles, 1834, Gammell, 1846, Elton, 1852,
Straus, 1894; Bibliography of Rhode Island._
=Williams, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1743-1817. Grandson of J. Williams, 1st. A
Congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of mathematics at Harvard
University, 1780-88. A Natural and Civil History of Vermont (1809);
History of the American Revolution.
=Williams, Samuel Wells.= _N. Y._, 1812-1884. A secretary and
interpreter of the American Legation in China for many years; after
1877 professor of Chinese at Yale University. China, the Middle
Kingdom; Easy Lessons in Chinese; Chinese Commercial Guide; Tonic
Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect; Syllabic
Dictionary of Chinese; Chinese Topography. _See Allibone’s Dictionary;
Life by F. Williams, 1888._ _Scr._
=Williams, Stephen West.= _Ms._, 1790-1855. Great-grandson of J.
Williams, 1st. A physician who was medical professor in Willoughby
University, Ohio, 1838-53. Catechism of Medical Jurisprudence; American
Medical Biography; The Williams Family in America (1847).
=Williams, Thomas.= _Ct._, 1779-1876. A Congregational clergyman of
Providence. Ten Sermons on Important Subjects; The Domestic Chaplain;
Rhode Island Sermons.
=Williams, William R.= _N. Y._, 1804-1885. A noted Baptist clergyman
of New York city, pastor of Amity Street Church, 1832-85. Religious
Progress; God’s Rescues, or The Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost
Son: Discourses on Luke; Miscellanies; Lectures on the Lord’s Prayer;
Lectures on Baptist History; Eras and Characters of History. _Bap. Har.
Ran._
=Williamson, Hugh.= _Pa._, 1735-1819. A statesman and physician who
was a member of the Continental Congress. History of North Carolina;
Observations on the Climate of America.
=Williamson, Isaac David.= _Vt._, 1807-1876. A Universalist clergyman
of Cincinnati and other cities. Argument for the Truth of Christianity;
The Crown of Life; Philosophy of Odd Fellowship; Philosophy of
Universalism; Rudiments of Theological and Moral Science.
=Williamson, Joseph.= _Me._, 1828-1902. A lawyer of Belfast, Maine. The
Maine Register and State Reference Book; Bibliography of Maine; History
of Belfast. _See Bibliography of Maine._
=Williamson, Julia May.= “Lura Bell.” _Me._, 1859- ----. A verse-writer
of Augusta, Maine. Echoes of Time and Tide; The Choir of the Year.
=Williamson, Robert Stockton.= _N. Y._, 1824-1882. A soldier and
military engineer. Report of a Reconnoissance in California for Pacific
Railroad Route; Use of the Barometer on Surveys; Practical Tables in
Meteorology.
=Williamson, Walter.= _Pa._, 1811-1870. A homœopathic physician of
Philadelphia. Diseases of Females; Instructions Concerning Diseases of
Females.
=Williamson, William Durkee.= _Ct._, 1779-1840. A Bangor lawyer,
governor of Maine in 1820. History of Maine from its First Discovery to
the Separation from Massachusetts.
=Willis, Nathaniel Parker.= _Me._, 1806-1867. A once popular New
York littérateur, much overrated in the earlier part of his career,
and now neglected. His prose, though pleasing, is almost all of
ephemeral merit, and his verse is sentimental rather than thoughtful.
The latter includes the once widely read Sacred Poems; Melanie; Lady
Jane and Humorous Poems; Poems of Passion: while his prose comprises
Hurry Graphs; People I have Met; Pencillings by the Way; Inklings of
Adventures; Letters From Under a Bridge; Famous Persons and Places;
A Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean; The Convalescent; Out-Doors
at Idlewild; Paul Fane, a novel; Al Abri, and other works of lesser
importance. A complete edition of his poems appeared in 1868. _See Life
by Beers; Allibone’s Dictionary; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Foley’s
American Authors._ _Cr. Scr._
=Willis, William.= _Ms._, 1794-1870. A Portland lawyer. History of
Portland; History of the Law, Courts, and Lawyers of Maine.
=Williston, Seth.= _Ct._, 1770-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman in
New York State. Discourses on the Sabbath; Moral Imperfections of
Christians; Harmony of Divine Truth; Millennial Discourses, are among
his writings.
=Williston, Timothy.= _N. Y._, 1805-1893. A Presbyterian clergyman.
Orthodox Paths Restored; Talks to My Bible Class; Christ’s Millennial
Reign; Premium Essays.
=Willson, [Byron] Forceythe.= _N. Y._, 1837-1867. A verse-writer at
one time on the staff of The Louisville Journal. The Old Sergeant, and
Other Poems. _See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1875._ _Hou._
=Willson, James McLeod.= _Pa._, 1809-1866. Son of J. R. Willson,
_infra_. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Deacon;
Bible Magistracy; Civil Government; Social Religious Covenanting;
Witnessing.
=Willson, James Renwick.= _Pa._, 1780-1853. A Reformed Presbyterian
clergyman in New York and Pennsylvania. History of the Church of
Scotland; The Written Law; Historical Sketch of Opinions on the
Atonement.
=Willson, Marcius.= _Ms._, 1813- ----. An educator of Vineland, New
Jersey. Civil Polity and Political Economy; Mosaics of Bible History;
and many school text-books. _Har._
=Wilmer, Lambert A----.= _Circa_ 1805-1863. A Philadelphia journalist.
New System of Grammar; The Quacks of Helicon; Life of De Soto; Our
Press Gang, an Exposition of the Corruptions of American Newspapers
(1859); Recantation: a Poem; Somnia; Liberty Triumphant.
=Wilmer, Richard Hooker.= _Va._, 1816-1900. The second Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Alabama. The Recent Past from a Southern
Standpoint. _Wh._
=Wilmshurst, Zavarr.= _E._, 1824-1887. A journalist of New York city.
The Viking, an epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other Poems; The
Siren; Ralph and Rose, a Poem.
=Wilson, Alexander.= _S._, 1766-1813. A Scottish ornithologist and
verse-writer who came to America in 1794. He is often called the father
of American ornithology. Watty and Meg, a narrative poem; American
Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States
(continued by Charles Lucien Bonaparte). _See Life by G. F. Ord; Life
by Brightwell, 1860; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Co._
=Wilson, Mrs. Augusta Jane [Evans].= _Ga._, 1835- ----. A once
popular novelist living at Mobile. Her writings had at one time an
extraordinary vogue, but are now much less read. Beulah; Macaria;
Vashti; St. Elmo; Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; Infelice; At the Mercy of
Tiberius. _See Manly’s Southern Literature._ _Dil._
=Wilson, Henry.= _N. H._, 1812-1875. A Massachusetts statesman who was
vice-president of the United States at the time of his death. History
of Anti-Slavery Measures; Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.
_See Life and Public Services of by G. E. Nason._ _Hou._
=Wilson, James Grant.= _S._, 1832- ----. Son of W. Wilson, _infra_. A
littérateur of New York city who, besides editing Appletons’ Cyclopædia
of American Biography, has published Poets and Poetry of Scotland; Mr.
Secretary Pepys and his Diary; Love in Letters; Bryant and His Friends;
Centennial History of the Diocese of New York; Life of General Grant;
Life of Fitz Greene Halleck; Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers. _Dil.
Har._
=Wilson, James Harrison.= _Il._, 1837- ----. A United States army
officer. China: Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom; Life
of Andrew Alexander; Life of General Grant (with C. A. Dana, _supra_).
_Ap._
=Wilson, James Patriot.= _Del._, 1769-1830. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Philadelphia. Lectures on the Parables; Essay on Grammar; Common
Objections to Christianity; Easy Introduction to Hebrew, are among his
works.
=Wilson, John.= _E._, 1588-1667. A Puritan clergyman, the first pastor
in Boston, and long prominent in the ecclesiastical and civil affairs
of the colony. Some Helps to Faith; Famous Deliverances of the English
Nation, a poem; The Day Breaking if not the Sun Rising of the Gospel
with the Indians in New England.
=Wilson, John.= _S._, 1802-1868. A Scottish printer who came to America
in 1846, and established himself in the printing business in Cambridge.
A Treatise on English Punctuation is his best-known work, but he
wrote others on Scripture Proofs of Unitarianism; The Concessions of
Trinitarians; Unitarian Principles Confirmed. _A. U. A._
=Wilson, John Grover.= _Del._, 1810-1885. A Philadelphia clergyman,
originally of the Methodist Protestant denomination, but after 1855 the
church of which he was pastor was known as the Ebenezer Independent
Church. Among his various works are, Discourses on Prophecy; Writings
in Prose and Verse; The Sabbath and Its Law; Atheism and Theism.
=Wilson, John Laird.= _S._, 1832-1896. A journalist of New York city,
but prior to 1866 a United Presbyterian minister in Scotland. The
Battles of the Civil War; Life of John Wycliffe. _Su._
=Wilson, John Leighton.= 1809-1880. A Presbyterian missionary to
Africa. Western Africa: its History, Condition, and Prospects (1857).
_See Life by Du Bose, 1895._ _Har._
=Wilson, Peter.= _S._, 1746-1825. An educator of New York city,
classical professor at Columbia College, 1789-1792 and 1797-1820. Rules
of Latin Prosody; Introduction to Greek Prosody; Compendium of Greek
Prosody.
=Wilson, Robert Anderson.= _N. Y._, 1812- ----. A lawyer of California.
Mexico and its Religion, reissued as Mexico, California, and Central
America; New History of the Conquest of Mexico.
=Wilson, Robert Burns.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. An artist and verse-writer
of Louisville. Life and Love, a volume of verse.
=Wilson, Samuel Farmer.= _Ct._, 1805-1870. A New Orleans journalist.
History of the American Revolution, long a popular work.
=Wilson, Samuel Graham.= 18-- - ----. A Presbyterian missionary in
Persia. Persian Life and Customs. _Rev._
=Wilson, Theodore Delevan.= _L. I._, 1840-1896. A naval architect
of note in the government service. Ship Building, Theoretical and
Practical.
=Wilson, Thomas.= _Pa._, _c._ 1768-_c._ 1828. A Philadelphia printer.
Principal American Military and Naval Heroes (1821); The Picture of
Philadelphia for 1824.
=Wilson, [Thomas] Woodrow.= _Va._, 1856- ----. A professor of
jurisprudence at Princeton College. Congressional Government: A Study
in American Politics; The State Elements of Historical and Practical
Politics; An Old Master, and Other Political Essays; Division and
Reunion, 1829-1889; George Washington; Mere Literature, and Other
Essays. _Har. He. Hou. Lgs. Scr._
=Wilson, William.= _S._, 1801-1860. A Scottish verse-writer who became
a bookseller and publisher in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1854. Poems,
edited by B. J. Lossing (1870).
=Wilson, William Dexter.= _N. H._, 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman
of Syracuse, professor of philosophy at Cornell University, 1868-86.
History of the Reformation in England; The Church Identified;
Psychology; The Foundations of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise on
Logic; Live Questions in Psychology and Metaphysics; Introduction to
the Study of the History of Philosophy. _Ap._
=Wilstach, John Augustine.= _D. C._, 1824-1897. A lawyer of Lafayette,
Indiana, who has published a translation into English verse, with
variorum notes, of the complete works of Virgil; also a translation of
Dante’s Divina Commedia into English verse. _Hou._
=Wilstach, Joseph Walter.= _Ind._, 1857- ----. Son of J. A. Wilstach,
_supra_. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana. Horatian Odes; Montalembert: a
Character Study.
=Wiman, Erastus.= _Ont._, 1834-1904. Formerly a prominent capitalist of
New York city. Chances of Success.
=Winans, Ross.= _N. J._, 1796-1877. An eminent inventor. One Religion:
Many Creeds.
=Winchell, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1824-1891. A professor of geology at
the University of Michigan, 1854-73 and 1879-91. Sketches of Creation;
Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; World Life; Science and Religion;
The Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Causality; Sparks from a
Geologist’s Hammer; Geological Excursions; Geological Studies; Walks
and Talks in the Geological Field. _Har. Sc._
=Winchell, Newton Horace.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. Brother of A. Winchell,
_supra_. State geologist of Minnesota. Geology of Minnesota; Annual
Reports on the Geological Natural History Survey of Minnesota from 1872.
=Winchester, Carroll.= _See Curtis, Mrs._
=Winchester, Elhanan.= _Ms._, 1751-1797. A Universalist clergyman of
Philadelphia, but in earlier life a Baptist minister. New Book of
Poems on Several Occasions; Universal Restoration; Prophecies to be
Fulfilled; Progress and Empire of Christ, a Poem. _See Life of, by E.
M. Stone, 1836._
=Winchester, Samuel Gover.= _Md._, 1805-1841. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Philadelphia, and subsequently of Natchez. Companion for the Sick;
Family Religion; The Theatre.
=Winebrenner, John.= _Md._, 1797-1860. A German Reformed clergyman
of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, founder in 1830 of the Church of God, a
sect commonly known as Winebrennerians. Regeneration; Practical and
Doctrinal Sermons; Brief Views of the Church of God.
=Wines, Enoch Cobb.= _N. J._, 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman,
widely known as a philanthropist, who laboured extensively in behalf of
prison reform. Two and a Half Years in the Navy; A Trip to China; Hints
on Popular Education; How Shall I Govern My School; Commentaries on
Laws of the Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; Prisons and Reformatories
of the United States and Canada; State of Prisons and Child-Saving
Institutions Throughout the World.
=Wines, Frederic Howard.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Son of E. C. Wines,
_supra_. Formerly a Presbyterian clergyman, but now devoted in official
and private capacities to various reforms connected with the defective,
dependent, and criminal classes. Punishment and Reformation, an
Historical Sketch of the Rise of the Penitentiary System; The Liquor
Problem in its Legislative Aspects (with John Koren). _Cr. Hou._
=Wing, Conway Phelps.= _O._, 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, long active as an abolitionist. Among his
writings are, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; History of
the Presbyteries of York and Carlisle.
=Wingate, Charles Edgar Lewis.= _N. H._, 1861- ----. A Boston
journalist. Shakespeare’s Heroines on the Stage. _Cr._
=Wingate, Charles Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A sanitary engineer
of New York city. Views and Interviews on Journalism; Plumbing and
House Drainage; Twilight Tracts.
=Wingate, George Wood.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. Brother of C. F. Wingate,
_supra_. A lawyer and soldier. Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second
Regiment; Manual of Rifle Practice; On Horseback Through the
Yellowstone.
=Winser, Henry Jacob.= _Ba._, 1833-1896. A journalist of New York
city, and subsequently of Newark, New Jersey, United States consul
at Sonneburg, Germany, 1869-81. The Great Northwest; The Yellowstone
National Park; The Seat of a Thousand Industries, a description of
Newark.
=Winship, Albert Edward.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. An educator of Boston,
editor of The Journal of Education, Methods and Principles in Bible
Study; Life of Horace Mann, _supra_.
=Winslow, Mrs. Catherine Mary [Reignolds].= _E._, 183- - ----. Best
known as Mrs. Erving Winslow. A once popular actress of Boston, and
since her retirement from the stage well known as a public reader.
Yesterdays with Actors; Readings (with notes) from the Old English
Dramatists, _Le._
=Winslow, Charles Frederick.= _Ms._, 1811-1877. A physician.
Cosmography; The Cooling Globe; Force and Nature.
=Winslow, Edward.= _E._, 1595-1655. A notable member of the Plymouth
colony who succeeded Bradford as governor of that colony in 1633. Good
Newes from New England; Hypocrisy Unmasked; New England’s Salamander;
The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Among the Indians of New England.
_See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island._
=Winslow, Mrs. Erving.= _See Winslow, Mrs. Catharine._
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= _Vt._, 1851- ----. A Boston journalist.
Concerning Cats; Literary Boston of To-Day.
=Winslow, Hubbard.= _Vt._, 1799-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman who held
charges in Boston and other localities, and among whose writings are,
Hidden Life; Moral Philosophy; Doctrine of the Trinity; Controversial
Theology; Christian Doctrines; Young Man’s Aid to Knowledge, a very
popular work; Intellectual Philosophy.
=Winslow, Miron.= _Vt._, 1789-1864. Brother of H. Winslow, _supra_.
A Presbyterian missionary in Ceylon and Madras. Hints on Missions
to India; Sketch of the Missions; Comprehensive Tamil and English
Dictionary.
=Winslow, Stephen Noyes.= _Vt._, 1826- ----. A Philadelphia journalist.
Biographies of Successful Philadelphia Merchants.
=Winslow, William Copley.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Son of H. Winslow,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston widely known as an
Egyptologist. Israel in Egypt; The Store City of Pithom; A Greek City
in Egypt; The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland.
=Winsor, Justin.= _Ms._, 1831-1897. The librarian of Harvard
University. He was editor of The Memorial History of Boston; Narrative
and Critical History of America. His original works include, Reader’s
Handbook of the American Revolution; Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical
Discovery in the Interior of North America in its Historical
Relations, 1534-1700; Christopher Columbus; The Mississippi Basin:
the Struggle in America between England and France, 1697-1763; Was
Shakespeare Shapleigh?; History of Duxbury; The Westward Movement. _See
Bibliography of Maine._ _Hou._
=Winter, William.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A prominent littérateur and
dramatic critic of New York city. Poems; The Trip to England; The
Jeffersons; English Rambles; Shakespeare’s England; Gray Days and Gold;
Old Shrines and Ivy; Shadows of the Stage; My Witness, a Book of Verse;
The Wanderers, a collection of poems; Thistle Down, a Book of Lyrics;
The Queen’s Domain, and Other Poems; The Convert, and Other Poems;
Brown Heath and Blue Bells; George William Curtis: a Eulogy. _See
Foley’s American Authors._ _Hou. Kt. Mac._
=Winthrop, John.= _E._, 1588-1649. The first governor of Massachusetts.
Arbitrary Government Described; History of New England from 1630
to 1649. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Letters of, to Margaret
Winthrop; Lives by R. C. Winthrop, infra, 1867, J. H. Twichell, supra,
1891; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864._
=Winthrop, John.= _Ms._, 1714-1779. Great-grandson of J. Winthrop,
_supra_. A professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard
University, 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of science in America in
his century. Lectures on Earthquakes; Account of Some Fiery Meteors;
Lectures on the Parallax.
=Winthrop, Laura.= Sister of T. Winthrop, _infra_. _See Johnson, Mrs.
L._
=Winthrop, Robert Charles.= _Ms._, 1809-1894. Descendant of Governor
Winthrop, _supra_. A Massachusetts statesman, a lifelong resident of
Boston, noted for the polish and refinement of his oratory. Addresses
and Speeches; a Life of Governor John Winthrop; Washington, Bowdoin,
and Franklin. _See Smalley’s Studies of Men; Life by R. C. Winthrop,
Jr., 1897._ _Lit._
=Winthrop, Theodore.= _Ct._, 1828-1861. Descendant of Governor
Winthrop, _supra_. A brilliant young novelist who entered the Federal
army at the outbreak of the Civil War and was killed at the battle of
Big Bethel. John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; Edwin Brothertoft; The Canoe
and the Saddle; Love and Skates; Life in the Open Air. _See Atlantic
Monthly, August, 1861, and August, 1863; Life and Poems of, edited by
his sister; Nichol’s American Literature._ _Ho. Int._
=Winthrop, William Woolsey.= _Ct._, 1831-1899. Brother of T.
Winthrop, _supra_. A United States army officer, professor of law
at West Point. Treatise on Military Law; Digest of Opinions of the
Judge-Advocates-General of the Army. _Lit. Wil._
=Wirt, Mrs. Elizabeth Washington [Gamble].= _Va._, 1784-1857. Wife of
W. Wirt, _infra_. Flora’s Dictionary.
=Wirt, William.= _Md._, 1772-1834. A famous Virginia statesman and
orator, attorney-general of the United States, 1817-28. Life of Patrick
Henry; Letters of the British Spy. _See Memoir by J. P. Kennedy,
supra._ _Co. Har._
=Wise, Daniel.= “Francis Forrester.” _E._, 1813-1898. A Methodist
clergyman and religious editor of Boston. Personal Effort; Heroic
Methodists; Boy Travellers in Arabia; Some Remarkable Women; My Uncle
Toby’s Library; Uncrowned Kings; Summer Days on the Hudson; Men of
Renown, are among his numerous works. _Meth._
=Wise, Henry Alexander.= _Va._, 1806-1876. A Virginia politician,
minister to Brazil, 1844-47, governor of Virginia, 1856-60, in whose
administration occurred the celebrated John Brown raid. Seven Decades
of the Union; Memoir of John Tyler.
=Wise, Henry Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1819-1869. Cousin of H. A. Wise,
_supra_. A United States naval officer. Story of the Gray African
Parrot; Captain Brand; Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines; Scampavias,
from Gibel Tarak to Stamboul.
=Wise, Isaac Mayer.= _Bo._, 1819-1900. A Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati
from 1854, president of Hebrew Union College. History of the
Israelitish Nation; Essence of Judaism; Judaism: its Doctrines and
Duties; The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth; The Cosmic God; History of
the Hebrew Second Commonwealth; Pronaos to Holy Writ. _Clke._
=Wise, John.= _Ms._, 1652-1725. A Congregational clergyman of Ipswich
from 1780 until his death. A strong, vigourous writer, almost the
first of the American colonists to declare his belief in a government
founded on human equality. The Church’s Quarrel Espoused; Vindication
of the Government of New England Churches. _See Tyler’s American
Literature._ _C. P. S._
=Wise, John.= _Pa._, 1808-1879. A once noted aëronaut. System of
Aëronautics; Through the Air, or Forty Years’ Experience as an Aëronaut.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= _B._, 1846- ----. A lawyer of New York city.
Diomed: The Life, Travels, and Observations of a Dog; The End of an
Era. _Hou. Mac._
=Wisner, William.= _N. Y._, 1782-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Rochester, New York. Incidents in the Life of a Pastor; Civil Liberty.
=Wisner, William Carpenter.= _N. Y._, 1808-1880. Son of W. Wisner,
_supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman at Lockport, New York, 1837-76.
Prelacy and Parity.
=Wisser, John Philip.= _Mo._, 1852- ----. An instructor at West Point
from 1878. Chemical Manipulations; Modern Gun Cotton; Practical
Instruction in Minor Tactics and Strategy; Report on Military Schools
of Europe. _Ap._
=Wistar, Caspar.= _Pa._, 1761-1818. A Philadelphia physician, professor
of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1792-1818. System of
Anatomy for Use of Students in Medicine.
=Wister, Mrs. Annis Lee [Furness].= _Pa._, 1830- ----. Daughter of W.
H. Furness, _supra_. A noted and popular translator of many German
novels. With F. H. Hedge, _supra_, Metrical Translations and Poems.
_Hou. Lip._