lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. The New Swiss Family Robinson;
The Dragon of Wantley, a romance; Red Men and White, a collection of
frontier stories; Lin McLean. _Har. Lip._
=Wister, Mrs. Owen.= _See Wister, Mrs. Sarah._
=Wister, Mrs. Sarah [Butler].= _Pa._, 1835- ----. Daughter of Frances
Kemble. A Philadelphia writer who has published, A Boat of Glass, a
poem; translations from Alfred de Musset.
=Withers, Frederic Clarke.= _E._, 1826-1901. An architect of New York
city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity Church in that city.
Church Architecture.
=Witherspoon, John.= _S._, 1722-1794. A Presbyterian clergyman,
president of Princeton College, 1768-94, eminent in his day as a leader
of opinion, both political and religious, and one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. Ecclesiastical Characteristics; Thoughts
on American Liberty; Sermons on Practical Subjects; Leading Truths of
the Gospel; Letters on Marriage; Sermons on Various Subjects. _See
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; American Historical Review,
July, 1896._
=Witherspoon, Theodore Dwight.= _Al._, 1836-1898. A Presbyterian
clergyman in Louisville from 1882. Children of the Covenant; Letters on
Romanism.
=Withington, Leonard.= _Ms._, 1789-1885. A Congregational clergyman,
pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1816-1885. The Puritan, a series of
Essays; Penitential Tears; Solomon’s Song Translated and Explained.
=Wolcott, Roger.= _Ct._, 1679-1767. A colonial governor of Connecticut,
1750-1754. Poetical Meditations. _See Everest’s Poets of Connecticut._
=Wolf, Edmund Jacob.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A Lutheran clergyman,
professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg from 1874. History
of the Lutherans in America.
=Wolfe, Theodore Frelinghuysen.= _N. J._, 1843- ----. A physician and
littérateur of Ledgewood, New Jersey. A Literary Pilgrimage Among
the Haunts of Famous British Authors; Literary Shrines: the Haunts
of Some Famous American Authors,--two widely popular books. Among
his professional works are volumes on Tetanus; Anæsthesia, and other
medical subjects. _Lip._
=Wolle, Francis.= _Pa._, 1817-1893. A Moravian clergyman and educator
of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, eminent as a botanist. Desmids of the
United States; Fresh-Water Algæ; Diatomaceæ of North America. _Wn._
=Wollenweber, Louis August.= _G._, 1807-1888. A German printer
who came to America, and, after editing several German papers in
Philadelphia, removed to Reading, Pennsylvania. Sketches of Domestic
Life in Pennsylvania; Treu bis in den Tod; Zwei treue Kameraden.
=Wood, Alphonso.= _N. H._, 1810-1881. An educator of Brooklyn whose
text-books were very popular. Class-Book of Botany; First Lessons in
Botany; Leaves and Flowers; The American Botanist.
=Wood, Benjamin.= _Ky._, 1820-1900. A journalist of New York city,
member of Congress, 1861-65. Fort Lafayette, or Love and Secession.
=Wood, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Germantown, Philadelphia. Saunterings in Europe.
=Wood, De Volson.= _N. Y._, 1832-1897. A professor of mathematics and
engineering at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1872.
Treatise on Resistance of Materials; Construction of Bridges and Roofs;
Elements of Analytical Mechanics; Elements of Coördinate Geometry; The
Mechanics of Fluids; Trigonometry; Thermodynamics; Theory of Turbines.
_Wil._
=Wood, George.= _Ms._, 1799-1870. A treasury clerk at Washington. Peter
Schmeil in America; The Modern Pilgrim; Marrying Too Late; Future Life
(1858), reissued in 1869 as The Gates Wide Open. _Le._
=Wood, George Bacon.= _N. J._, 1797-1879. A Philadelphia physician,
medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-60. The
Dispensatory of the United States (with F. Bache, _supra_). The
Practice of Medicine; Therapeutics and Pharmacology; Introductory
Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects; History of the University
of Pennsylvania; Lives of S. G. Morton, F. Bache. _See Gross’s Sketches
of Contemporaries._ _Lip._
=Wood, Henry.= _Vt._, 1834- ----. A philosophical essayist and novelist
of Boston. Natural Law in the Business World; Political Economy of
Natural Law; God’s Image in Man; Ideal Suggestions Through Mental
Photography; Edward Burton, a novel; Studies in the Thought World.
_Le._
=Wood, Horace Gay.= _Vt._, 1831-1893. A New Hampshire lawyer, who
practised in New York city in his latest years. The Relation of
Landlord and Tenant; Treatise on the Law of Nuisances; Master and
Servant; The Law of Fire Insurance; Limitation of Actions at Law and in
Equity; On the Statute of Frauds; The Law of Railroads; Legal Remedies
of Mandamus and Prohibition.
=Wood, Horatio Curtis.= _Pa._, 1841- ----. Nephew of G. B. Wood,
_supra_, a medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania from
1866. The Phalangidæ of the United States; Researches upon American
Hemp; Brain Work and Overwork; On Fever; Nervous Diseases and their
Diagnosis; Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke; Therapeutics. _Lip._
=Wood, James.= _N. Y._, 1799-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman and
educator in Indiana. Old and New Theology; Treatise on Baptism; Call
to the Sacred Office; The Best Lesson and the Best Time; The Gospel
Fountain; Grace and Glory.
=Wood, Mrs. Jean [Moncure].= _Va._, 1754-1823. The wife of James Wood,
who was governor of Virginia, 1796-99. She was socially prominent in
her day. Flowers and Weeds of the Old Dominion, a book of verse.
=Wood, John.= _S._, _c._ 1755-1822. A Scottish writer who came to
America in 1800 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. Among his writings
are General View of the History of Switzerland; History of the
Administration of John Adams.
=Wood, John Seymour.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A lawyer and littérateur of
New York city, editor of The Bachelor of Arts. Gramercy Park, a story
of New York; College Days, or Harry’s Career at Yale; Yale Yarns; A
Coign of Vantage; An Old Beau, and Other Stories; A Daughter of Venice.
_Ap. Cas. Do. Put._
=Wood, Mrs. Julia Amanda [Sargent].= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A Roman
Catholic writer of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Myrrha Lake; Hubert’s Wife;
Annette; Strayed From the Fold; From Error to Truth; The Brown House at
Duffield.
=Wood, Mrs. Sarah Sayward [Barrell] [Keating].= _Ms._, 1759-1855. A
novelist whose sentimental fictions include, Duval; Ferdinand and
Almira; Amelia, or the Influence of Virtue; Tales of the Night; The
Illuminated Baron.
=Wood, William.= _E._, 1580-1639. A Puritan colonist who came to New
England in 1629. He founded the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. New
England’s Prospect, a descriptive work partly in verse. _See Tyler’s
American Literature._
=Wood, William Maxwell.= _Md._, 1809-1880. A United States naval
surgeon. Wandering Sketches; A Shoulder to the Wheel of Progress;
Hints to the People on the Profession of Medicine; Fankwei, or the San
Jacinto in the Seas of India, China, and Japan.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. A prominent literary
critic of New York city, professor of literature in Columbia
University, editor, with E. C. Stedman, of the complete works of Poe.
He has also edited a complete edition of Shelley, with Memoir and
Notes. A History of Wood Engraving; The North Shore Watch, and Other
Poems; Life of Edgar Allan Poe; Life of James Russell Lowell; Studies
in Letters and Life. _Har. Hou._
=Woodbridge, Samuel Merrill.= _Ms._, 1819- ----. Kinsman of W. C.
Woodbridge, _infra_. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor at Rutgers
Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1857. Analysis of
Theology; Faith: its True Position in the Life of Man.
=Woodbridge, William Channing.= _Ms._, 1794-1845. An educator of
Hartford. Universal Geography (with E. Willard, _supra_). Modern School
Geography; Letters from Hofwyl.
=Woodbury, Augustus.= _Ms._, 1825-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of
Providence from 1851. Plain Words to Young Men; The Second Rhode Island
Regiment; Historical Sketch of Rhode Island Prisons and Jails, include
his principal works.
=Woodbury, Daniel Phineas.= _N. H._, 1812-1864. A general in the
Federal army during the Civil War. Sustaining Walls; Theory of the
Arch.
=Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.= _N. J._, 1837- ----. A United States army
surgeon. Notes on Military Hygiene; Studies in the non-emetic use of
Ipecacuanha. _Lip. Wil._
=Woodruff, Hiram.= _N. J._, 1817-1887. A noted horse-trainer who wrote
The Trotting Horse of America. _Co._
=Woodruff, Mrs. Julia Louisa Matilda [Curtiss].= “W. M. L. Jay.” _Ct._,
1832- ----. An author and compiler of New York city. My Winter in Cuba;
Shiloh; Holden With the Cords; Bellevue; Daisy Seekers, and various
compilations. _Dut._
=Woods, Mrs. Kate [Tannatt].= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A writer of Salem,
Massachusetts. Six Little Rebels; Dr. Dick; Out and About; The Wooing
of Grandmother Grey; Grandfather Grey; Children’s Stories; Toots and
His Friends; The Duncans on Land and Sea. _Cas. Le. Lo._
=Woods, Katharine Pearson.= _W. Va._, 1853- ----. The Crowning of
Candace; John: a Tale of King Messiah; From Dusk to Dawn; A Web of
Gold; Metzerott, Shoemaker, a protest against social injustice; Mine
and Thine. _Ap. Cr. Do._
=Woods, Leonard.= _Ms._, 1774-1854. A Congregational clergyman of
Massachusetts, professor at Andover Seminary, 1808-54. Letters to
Unitarians; Inspiration of the Scriptures; Memoirs of American
Missionaries; Church Government; Lectures on Swedenborgianism;
Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection. _See Park’s Life and
Character of._
=Woods, Virna.= _O._, 1864-1903. An educator of Sacramento, California.
A Modern Magdalene, a novel; The Amazons, a lyrical drama. _Fl. Le._
=Woodward, Ashbel.= _Ct._, 1804-1885. A physician of Franklin,
Connecticut. Vindication of General Israel Putnam; Vindication of Army
Surgeons; Life of General Nathaniel Lyon; Medical Ethics, include his
principal writings.
=Woodward, Annie Aubertine.= Sister of J. J. Woodward, _infra_. _See
Moore, Mrs. A._
=Woodward, Calvin Milton.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A St. Louis educator,
professor in Washington University from 1868. History of the St. Louis
Bridge; The Manual Training School: its Aims, Methods, and Results.
=Woodward, Joseph Janvier.= _Pa._, 1833-1884. A United States army
surgeon. Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States
Armies, as observed during the present war (1864); Medical and Surgical
History of the Rebellion (with G. Otis). _Lip._
=Woodward, Francis Channing.= _Ct._, 1812-1859. Nephew of S. Woodworth,
_infra_. A once popular writer of juvenile tales, among which are,
Uncle Frank’s Home Stories; Stories for Little Folks.
=Woodward, Robert Simpson.= _Mch._, 1849- ----. A mathematician,
professor of mechanics at Columbia University from 1893. Latitudes and
Longitudes of Certain Points in Missouri, Kansas, and New Mexico, and
many scientific papers of value.
=Woodworth, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1785-1842. A journalist and verse-writer
of New York city who wrote, The Champions of Freedom, an historical
romance; Melodies, Duets, Trios, Songs, and Ballads, but who will be
longest remembered as the author of the famous lyric, The Old Oaken
Bucket. _See Foley’s American Authors._
=Woolf, Benjamin Edward.= _E._, 1836-1901. A popular playwright, among
whose plays are, The Mighty Dollar; The Professor; The Doctor of
Alcantara.
=Woolley, Mrs. Celia [Parker].= _O._, 1848- ----. A novelist, formerly
of Chicago, now (1897) in the Unitarian ministry at Geneva, Illinois.
Roger Hunt; A Girl Graduate; Rachel Armstrong, or Love and Theology.
_Hou._
=Woolman, John.= _N. J._, 1720-1772. A Quaker itinerant preacher of
New Jersey, in whose writings occurs the earliest protest in America
against the slave trade. His ethical teachings have won the highest
praise from many quarters. Essays and Epistles; Serious Considerations;
On the Keeping of Negroes. His famous Journal, by which he is most
widely known, has been edited by the poet Whittier. _Hou._
=Woolsey, Abby Howland.= 18-- -1893. A New York philanthropist. A
Century of Nursing; Lunacy Legislation in England; Handbook for
Hospital Visitors; Hospital Laundries.
=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey.= “Susan Coolidge.” _O._, 1845- ----. Niece of
T. D. Woolsey, _infra_. A poet and popular writer for young people. A
resident of Newport, Rhode Island. Old Convent School in Paris; The New
Year’s Bargain; What Katy Did; A Guernsey Lily; For Summer Afternoons;
In the High Valley; A Short History of Philadelphia; The Barberry Bush,
and Other Stories About Girls; Verses; A Few More Verses, include the
more important of her writings. _Rob._
=Woolsey, Theodore Dwight.= _N. Y._, 1801-1889. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Yale University, 1846-71, long eminent as
a scholar and thinker. Political Science; Communism and Socialism;
Introduction to the Study of International Law; Essay on Divorce and
Divorce Legislation; Helpful Thoughts for Young Men; The Religion of
the Present and the Future; Eros, and Other Poems. _Lo. Scr._
=Woolson, Mrs. Abba Louisa [Goold].= _Me._, 1838- ----. A Boston
lecturer on English literature. Woman in American Society; Dress
Reform; Browsings Among Books; George Eliot and Her Heroines. _Har.
Rob._
=Woolson, Constance Fenimore.= _N. H._, 1840-1894. A novelist whose
work was much above the average level of fiction, Horace Chase being
her best novel. Her other works include, Castle Nowhere; Lake Country
Sketches; Two Women, a poem; Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches;
Anne; For the Major; East Angels; Jupiter Lights; The Front Yard,
and Other Italian Stories; Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories;
Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu; The Old Stone House. _See Appletons’ Annual
Cyclopædia, 1894._ _Ap. Har._
=Worcester, Alfred.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. A physician of Waltham,
Massachusetts. Monthly Nursing; A New Way of Training Nurses; Training
Schools for Nurses in Small Cities; Small Hospitals.
=Worcester, Joseph Emerson.= _N. H._, 1784-1865. A distinguished
lexicographer and philologist of Cambridge. Geographical Dictionary;
Gazetteer of the United States; Sketches of the Earth and Its
Inhabitants; Elements of History; Outlines of Scriptural Geography;
Comprehensive Primary Dictionary. His greatest work is his well-known
quarto Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1860.
_Lip._
=Worcester, Noah.= _N. H._, 1758-1837. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at
Brighton, Massachusetts, 1813-37, who was prominent in the Unitarian
controversy. He edited The Friend of Peace. A Respectful Address to the
Trinitarian Clergy; The Atoning Sacrifice a Display of Love, not Wrath;
Last Thoughts on Important Subjects; Causes and Evils of Contentions
Among Christians. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Worcester, Noah.= _N. H._, 1812-1847. A physician who was professor
of pathology in Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio. Symptoms,
Diagnosis, and Treatment of Skin Diseases.
=Worcester, Samuel.= _N. H._, 1770-1821. Brother of N. Worcester, 1st,
_supra_. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Salem, Massachusetts,
from 1803. Letters to Dr. Channing on the Unitarian Controversy;
Discourses on the Covenant with Abraham. _See Life of, by S. M.
Worcester, infra._
=Worcester, Samuel Melanchthon.= _Ms._, 1801-1866. Son of S. Worcester,
_supra_. A Congregational clergyman, professor of rhetoric at Amherst
College, 1825-34; pastor at Salem, Massachusetts, 1834-60. Essays on
Slavery; Life of Samuel Worcester, _supra_.
=Worcester, Thomas.= _N. H._, 1768-1831. Brother of N. Worcester, 1st.
A Unitarian clergyman. Call for Scripture Evidence that Christ is God;
The True God but One Person; New Chain of Plain Argument.
=Work, Henry Clay.= _Ct._, 1832-1884. A popular song-writer of Chicago.
Marching Through Georgia; Grandfather’s Clock, are perhaps the best
known of his songs.
=Workman, Mrs. Fanny [Bullock].= _Ms._, 1859- ----. Daughter of A. H.
Bullock, _supra_, and wife of W. H. Workman, _infra_. A littérateur
who has lived much abroad. With her husband she has written, Algerian
Memories: a Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara; Sketches Awheel
in Modern Iberia. _Ran._
=Workman, William Hunter.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A physician who is
co-author with Mrs. Workman, _supra_, of Algerian Memories, and
Sketches Awheel. _Ran._
=Worman, James Henry.= _P._, 1835- ----. An educator who has filled
professorships in various colleges North and South. Complete Grammar of
the German Language; Elementary German Grammar; L’Echo de Paris.
=Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.= _E._, 1832- ----. A translator of
prominence who has translated the novels of Balzac and the plays of
Molière, and is the author of The Other Side of War; Life of Balzac;
The United States Sanitary Commission; Hospital Transports. _Rob._
=Wormley, Theodore George.= _Pa._, 1826-1897. A Philadelphia physician,
professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania from 1877.
Methods of Analysis of Coals, etc.; The Micro-Chemistry of Poisons.
_Lip._
=Worthen, William Ezra.= _Ms._, 1819-1897. A civil engineer of
prominence. Cyclopædia of Drawing; First Lessons in Mechanics;
Rudimentary Drawing for Schools.
=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= _N. H._, 1840- ----. A statistician of
distinction, United States Commissioner of Labor from 1885, and
professor of political science in the Catholic University at Washington
from 1895. Census of Massachusetts, 1875; The Factory System of the
United States; The Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question;
Annual Reports of Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 1873-88; Convict
Labor; Strikes and Lockouts; Working Women in Large Cities; Railroad
Labor; Marriage and Divorce; Cost of Production of Iron, Steel, etc.;
Cost of Production of Textiles and Glass; Industrial Evolution of the
United States. _Fl._
=Wright, Chauncey.= _Ms._, 1830-1875. An instructor in mathematical
physics at Harvard University. Philosophical Discussions; Darwinism.
_See Biographical Sketch, by C. E. Norton, supra; Memoir, J. B. Thayer._
=Wright, Elizur.= _Ct._, 1804-1885. A journalist of Boston long
prominent as a reformer. A Curiosity of Law; The Politics and Mysteries
of Life Insurance; Savings Bank Life Insurance; Myron Holley and What
He Did for Liberty and True Religion; a translation of La Fontaine’s
Fables.
=Wright, Fanny.= _See D’Arusmont._
=Wright, George Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Congregational
clergyman and geologist, since 1884 attached to the United States
Geological Survey in the Department of Glacial Geology. The Glacial
Boundary in Ohio; Studies in Science and Religion; Logic of Christian
Evidences; The Relation of Death to Probation; Divine Authority of the
Bible; The Ice Age in North America; Man and the Glacial Period; Life
of Charles Grandison Finney, _supra_. _Ap. Hou._
=Wright, Hendrick Bradley.= _Pa._, 1808-1881. A lawyer of Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, Member of Congress, 1853-55, 1861-63, and 1877-80. A
Practical Treatise on Labor; Historical Sketches of the Wyoming Valley.
=Wright, Henrietta Christian.= 18-- -1899. The Golden Fairy Series;
Children’s Stories of American Progress; Stories of the Great
Inventors; Stories in American Literature; Stories in English
Literature; Stories of American History; The Princess Liliwinkins.
_Har. Scr._
=Wright, Henry Clarke.= _Ct._, 1797-1870. An anti-slavery reformer
and lecturer of prominence in his day. Man-Killing by Individuals
and Nations a Wrong; A Kiss for a Blow; Defensive War a Denial of
Christianity; Human Life Illustrated; Marriage and Parentage; The
Living Present and the Dead Past. _Le._
=Wright, John Stephen.= _Ms._, 1815-1874. A Chicago manufacturer who
established The Prairie Farmer in 1840. Chicago: Past, Present, and
Future.
=Wright, Mrs. Julia [MacNair].= _N. Y._, 1840-1903. Wife of W. J.
Wright, _infra_. A prolific writer of temperance and religious tales,
the latter being strongly anti-Roman Catholic in character. Among them
are, Almost a Nun; Priest and Nun; Scenes of the Convent; The Gospel in
the Riviera; A Wife Hard Won; A Million Too Much. _Co. Lip._
=Wright, Mrs. Mabel [Osgood].= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. Daughter of S.
Osgood, _supra_, and great-niece, on the maternal side, of Susanna
Rowson, _supra_. A nature writer of Fairfield, Connecticut. The
Friendship of Nature, a series of out-door studies; Birdcraft, a
field-book of New England Birds; Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts: a
Natural History Story; Citizen Bird, a bird book for beginners. _Mac._
=Wright, Mrs. Mary [Tappan].= _O._, 1851- ----. A writer of Cambridge,
the wife of Professor J. H. Wright, of Harvard University. A Truce, and
Other Stories; Aliens; The Test. _Scr._
=Wright, Marcus Joseph.= _Tn._, 1831- ----. A brigadier-general in
the Confederate army during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer
of Memphis. Life of General Winfield Scott; Life of Governor William
Blount; Reminiscence of the Early Settlement of McNairy County,
Tennessee. _Ap._
=Wright, Robert Emmet.= _Pa._, 1810- ----. A lawyer of Allentown,
Pennsylvania. Aldermen and Justices of the Peace; The Office and Duties
of Constable; Pennsylvania State Reports, 1861-65.
=Wright, Robert William.= _Vt._, 1816-1885. A Connecticut lawyer and
journalist. The Church Knaviad; Vision of Judgment; The Pious Chi-Neh;
Life: its True Genesis, a refutation of evolution; Practical Legal
Forms.
=Wright, Thomas Lee.= _O._, 1825- ----. A physician and journalist
of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Notes on the Theory of Human Existence;
Disquisition on the Ancient History of Medicine; Inebriism: a
Pathological and Psychological Study.
=Wright, William.= _I._, 1824-1866. A journalist of Paterson, New
Jersey. The Oil Regions of Pennsylvania (1865). _Har._
=Wright, William Bull.= _N. Y._, 1840-1880. A physician and educator
of Buffalo. Highland Rambles, a Poem; The Brook, and Other Poems.
=Wright, William Burnet.= _O._, 1836- ----. A Congregational clergyman
of Boston, and more recently of Buffalo. Ancient Cities from the Dawn
to the Daylight; The World to Come; Master and Men: the Sermon on the
Mountain practiced on the Plain. _Hou._
=Wright, William Henry.= _N. C._, 1814-1845. A military engineer in
government service. Brief Practical Treatise on Mortars.
=Wright, William James.= _Vt._, 1831- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman
and educator, professor of metaphysics at Westminster College,
Missouri, from 1887. Tracts on Higher Mathematics.
=Wyatt, William Edward.= _N. S._, 1789-1864. An Episcopal clergyman of
Baltimore, rector of St. Paul’s Church, 1814-64. Christian Offices; The
Parting Spirit’s Address to His Mother.
=Wyckoff, William Cornelius.= _N. Y._, 1832-1882. Son of W. H. Wyckoff,
_infra_. The scientific editor of The New York Tribune, 1869-78. Silk
Goods in America; American Silk Manufacture.
=Wyckoff, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1807-1877. A Baptist clergyman and
educator of New York city. American Bible Society and the Baptists;
Documentary History of the American Bible Union.
=Wyeth, John Allan.= _Al._, 1845- ----. A surgeon of New York city,
founder, in 1880, of the New York Polyclinic and Hospital, the first
graduate medical school in America. Essays on Surgical Anatomy and
Surgery; Text-Book on Surgery. _Ap._
=Wylie, Theodore William John.= _Pa._, 1818-1898. A Reformed
Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. English, Latin, and Greek
Vocabulary; The God of Our Fathers; Washington as a Christian.
=Wylie, Theophilus Adam.= _Pa._, 1810-1895. A Reformed Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, professor of ancient languages in the
University of Indiana from 1864. History of the University of Indiana.
=Wyman, Edwin Allen.= _Me._, 1834- ----. A clergyman of Malden,
Massachusetts. Acquaintance with God, or Salvation and Character.