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his own. He was a skilful and accomplished editor and a most genial companion. His every impulse was kindly, every opinion or criticism appreciative; and his conversation abounded in the same humor that secured popularity for his published work. He lived several years near Morristown, N. J., but a few years ago bought a fine old place, Claymont, in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and made it his home. For portrait, see frontispiece.

Stoetzer, Wilhelm, soldier, born in Allstedt, Germany, about 1843; died on Governor's island, New York, April 20, 1902. He was educated at Leipsic; joined the Prussian army for service in the war against France, and participated in numerous engagements, including Metz, Worth, Sedan, and the siege of Paris. After the war he came to the United States and enlisted in the regular army; and was assigned to the 12th Infantry. He remained in the army till his death. He was also a distinguished linguist and musician, and was the official interpreter of every command to which he was attached while in the American army.

Stromberg, John, musician, composer, and orchestra leader, born in Prince Edward Island in 1860; died in Freeport, Long Island, July 5, 1902. At a very early age he showed marked talent for composing music, and received a thorough musical education. He traveled several seasons in Canada with various theatrical companies, and then came to the United States, leading orchestras in theaters in different cities and composing many songs that caught the public fancy. In 1896, after finishing a long engagement as orchestra leader for Andrew Mack, the singing Irish comedian, he became the musical director at the famous vaudeville theater of Weber and Fields in New York city. Here, with an extraordinarily fine company to bring his songs before the public, he composed all the music for the brilliant burlesques given at that theater. None of his compositions failed to achieve success, and soon after they were heard in New York they were played, sung, and whistled all over the country, so great was their peculiar charm.

Swayne, Wager, military officer, born in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1834; died in New York city, Dec. 18, 1902. He was graduated at Yale University in 1856; studied at the Cincinnati Law School; was admitted to the bar in Ohio and began practise in Columbus. At the outbreak of the civil war he raised the 43d Ohio

Infantry and was made its major; was promoted lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 14, 1861; colonel, Oct. 18, 1862; brigadier-general, March 8, 1865; majorgeneral, June 20, 1865; and was mustered out Sept. 1, 1867. After the war he was transferred to the regular army, and was commissioned colonel of the 45th Infantry, July 11, 1870. He served under Gen. Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, and at Salkahatchie, S. C., he received a wound that caused the amputation of his leg. Shortly after the war he was made Military Governor of Alabama. He established the first school for negroes in the South at Talladega. After his retirement from the regular army he returned to Ohio and practised law in Toledo till 1880, when he removed to New York city, where he formed the firm of Dillon & Swayne, which later became Swayne & Swayne. He was for many years general counsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Wabash Railway Company, the Associated Press, and other corporations.

Thompson, Hugh Miller, Episcopal clergyman, born in County Londonderry, Ireland, June 5, 1830; died in Jackson, Miss., Nov. 18, 1902. He removed with his parents to the United States in 1836, received a common-school education obtained in Caldwell, N. J., and was graduated at Nashotah Theological Seminary in 1852, and was ordered priest in 1856. He was successively in charge of Grace Church, Madison, Wis., and Church of the Nativity, Maysville, Ky., and after his ordination to the priesthood was rector of St. James's Church, Portage, Wis., 1856-'58; St. Matthew's, Kenosha, Wis., 1858-59; Grace Church, Galena, Ill., 1859-'66; assistant rector of St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee, 1866-70; rector of St. James's Church, Chicago, 1870-'71; Christ Church, New York city, 1871-75; Trinity, New Orleans, 1875-'83. In addition to the duties of his profession he was Professor of Church History at Nashotah Seminary, 1860-'70, and for seven years editor of the Church Journal, in New York, continuing his editorial labors after removing to New Orleans. In 1883 he was consecrated bishop-coadjutor of Mississippi, and he became bishop of that diocese on the death of Bishop Green in 1887. He attended the Lambeth Conference in 1888, and preached in St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and before Oxford University. His published books include Unity and its Restoration (1860); Sin and its Penalties (1862); First Principles (1868); Absolution (1872); Copy, a very popular collection of editorial papers (1872); Is Romanism the Best Religion of the Republic (1873)?; The World and the Logos (1886); The World and the Kingdom (1888); The World and the Wrestlers (1895); The World and the Man; More Copy (1897). Many sermons by him were issued separately, and he often contributed to pamphlet controversy.

Torrey, Henry Augustus Pearson, educator, born in Beverly, Mass., Jan. 8, 1837; died there, Sept. 20, 1902. He removed to Burlington, Vt., in boyhood, and was graduated at the university there in 1858. He was graduated at Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1864, ordained in 1865, and became pastor of the Congregational church in Vergennes, Vt. In 1868 he was made Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy in the University of Vermont, and he occupied that chair continuously thirty-four years, being at the time of his death, in point of service, the oldest member of the faculty. From 1888 to 1893 he had charge of the university library. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1896. He contributed to the Andover Review a series of articles on The Theodicee of Leibnitz (1885) and

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published The Philosophy of Descartes (1892). He was a fine English scholar, a graceful public speaker, had a gift of quiet humor, and invariably won the love of his pupils by his serene temper and sympathetic instruction. The periodical published by the undergraduates of the university says of him: "He wore his learning and his honors so modestly; he was so gracious and cordial, without losing the dignity which was natural to him; his personality in all ways was so attractive and inspiring, that his going from among us begets no ordinary sense of loss. His ripe and accurate scholarship, his power of logical analysis and construction, his courtesy in discussion, his wisdom in counsel, the serene poise of his whole character, mental and moral, gave him a standing among us which would be claimed for no other member of the teaching staff, and made us all-faculty and students -proud of ranking professor, and glad to work with and under him. Everybody appreciated the transparent and strong, yet always graceful, English in which his thoughts were clothed, and not less the quiet humor whose lambent gleams were seldom intermitted for long." Urso, Camilla, violinist, born in Nantes, France, June 13, 1842; died in New York, Jan. 20, 1902. She was the daughter of Salvator Urso, a Sicilian flautist and organist of considerable renown, and early showed her inherited love of music. When she was six years old she expressed a wish to learn to play the violin, and a year later she made her first appearance as a soloist at a concert. Her success was instantaneous, and she was hailed as a prodigy. She entered the Paris Conservatoire, where she studied three years, practising ten hours a day. After leaving the Conservatoire, she played in concerts in Paris at the Salle Herz, and before the Société Polytechnique and the Association of Musical Artists. She was then eleven years old, and her remarkable performances aroused the greatest admiration and curiosity among musicians and critics and the public in general. In 1852 the young virtuosa came to this country and appeared under the auspices of the Germania Society, creating a great sensation in musical circles. The next season she played in six of Mme. Alboni's concerts, and in December, 1853, she became the violin soloist of Mme. Sontag's concert company. Camilla Urso married Frederic Luere before she was twenty years old, and for several years did not appear in public. In 1863 she played at a Philharmonic concert in New York, and so enthusiastic was the greeting she received that she decided to continue her professional career. She made a tour of the world, winning admiration and exciting wonder wherever she appeared, and was considered the most wonderful woman violinist that ever had been heard. At her funeral the famous violin of the great artist was placed upon the coffin.

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N. Y., May 23, 1826; died in Portland, Ore., in November, 1902. She began to write for the newspapers at the age of fourteen, and her latest publication, a volume of poems, was issued in 1900. She was educated at a seminary in Wooster, Ohio, and with her younger sister, Metta Victoria, published in 1851 Poems of Sentiment and Imagination, with Dramatic and Descriptive Pieces. She married Judson Barrett, of Michigan, in 1853, who died a few years later, and in 1862 she married Henry Victor, an engineer in the United States navy, a brother of her sister's husband. After this second marriage Mrs. Victor removed to the Pacific coast. Her pen had been laid aside for several years prior to this event, but she now resumed it, contributing to the newspapers of San Franscico and Sacramento, as well as to the Overland Monthly from its start. Mrs. Victor was the author of The River of the West (1865); Life and Adventures in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon (1870); All over Oregon and Washington (1870); The New Penelope and Other Stories (1877); and chapters on Oregon and other States to Bancroft's Pacific Coast Histories.

Wallace, Martin Reuben Merritt, jurist, born in Urbana, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1829; died in Chicago, Ill., March 6, 1902. He was graduated at Rock River Seminary, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1859, when he removed to Chicago to practise. In 1861 he was commissioned major of the 4th Illinois Cavalry, was promoted lieutenant-colonel and colonel, served at Forts Henry and Donelson and at Shiloh and Corinth, and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. In the war he was offered a bribe of $100,000 "to take his men on a scout," which meant permitting the bringing into the Union lines of a quantity of cotton for speculators. The suggestion was denounced with characteristic vehemence. After the war he returned to Chicago and was appointed assessor of internal revenue. While he held this office the whisky men offered him $20,000 a month, to be paid privately to his wife, as long as he would keep his eyes shut." When his most intimate friend was made ac

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quainted with the intended corruption and asked him what course he intended to take, he replied, "I am going to look." In 1868 he was elected county judge, and he held that post eight years; later he became attorney for the county board, and was United States jury commissioner forty years, and police magistrate thirteen years.

Ward, John Elliott, diplomatist, born in Sunbury, Ga., Oct. 2, 1814; died in Dorchester, Ga., Nov. 30, 1902. He entered Amherst College in 1831, but left on account of the indignation there manifested against Virginians after the imprisonment of two Cherokee missionaries. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in Savannah. He was solicitor-general of the Eastern District of Georgia in 1836-'38; United States district attorney for Georgia in 1838; member of the Georgia Legislature in 1839, 1845, and 1853, being speaker in the latter year; mayor of Savannah in 1854; president of the National Democratic Convention that met in Cincinnati in 1856; Lieutenant-Governor of the State and president of the State Senate in 1857; and United States minister to China in 1858-'61. In the latter year he resigned in consequence of the adoption by Georgia of the ordinance of secession, although he was strongly opposed to that measure. January, 1866, he removed to New York city.

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Warden, David Adams, musician, born in the Tower of London, England, in 1815; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 4, 1902. In his early years

he was organist in several Protestant Episcopal churches. He composed a book of chants which attained considerable popularity, and also the music for many patriotic songs that were sung by both armies during the civil war, among them The Flag's come back to Tennessee. He also wrote the words and music of Mother, Don't Weep for your Boy, and music for Tell me, ye Winged Winds.

Warren, George William, organist and composer, born in Racine, Wis., in 1829; died in New York, March 16, 1902. He showed great ability in music from an early age, and when he was twenty-three years old he obtained the place of organist at St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church in Albany, N. Y. Later he became the organist at St. Paul's Church, in the same city. He went to New York in 1870, and soon entered St. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal Church as organist, remaining there until 1900. He was a composer of hymns and anthems that came into wide use in churches of many denominations, besides considerable secular music that also won popularity. In 1887 he received the degree of doctor of music from the University of Leipsic. A special commemorative service was held in his honor at St. Thomas's on the completion of his twenty-fifth year as organist of that church, and in 1900, after thirty years' service, he retired as organist emeritus from the place he had held so long. He was also Professor of Music at Columbia University, New York, for many

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Wenckebach, Carla, educator, born in Hildesheim, Germany, Feb. 14, 1853; died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 29, 1902. She was educated at the Girls' High School in Hildesheim, the Normal School at Hanover, and the universities of Zurich and Leipsic; taught in England, Belgium, Russia, and New York; and became Professor of German in Wellesley College in 1883, which post she held till her death. She was one of the most distinguished German instructors in the United States, and had won a high reputation as teacher, editor, and author. With her sister, the late Helen W. Wenckebach, she was author of several educational books on the German language, and was editor of German literary works, including a collection of the best German songs. Among her works were Deutsche Grammatik (with Josepha Schrakamp, 1884); Deutscher Anschauungs-Unterricht (with her sister, 1886); Deutsches Lesebuch (with her sister, 1887); Deutsche Literaturgeschichte (1890); Deutsche Sprachlehre (1896); German Composition (1899); etc. was editor of Die schönsten deutschen Lieder (with her sister, 1885); Meissner's Aus meiner Welt (1889); Die Meisterwerke des Mittelalters (1893); Scheffel's Ekkehard (1893); Scheffel's Trompeter von Sakkingen (1895); Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom (1900); and Schiller's Maria Stuart (with Margarethe Muller, 1900).

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Wernle, Henry, inventor, born in Germany about 1831; died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 20, 1902. He was educated in Germany; came to the United States in 1852; and entered the Government service at the Frankford arsenal as an inventor and maker of delicate mathematical instruments. During the civil war his services were of great value on account of the many inventions of gun-sights that he perfected. The manner of tempering his instruments was a secret that Mr. Wernle carefully guarded. Although often urged to impart the information to others, he never did so, and the secret died with him.

West, William H., actor and minstrel performer, born in Syracuse, N. Y., June 18, 1853;

died in Chicago, Feb. 15, 1902. He made his first appearance when a boy as a singer and dancer in a Buffalo concert-hall. His cleverness attracted attention, and he was soon engaged to travel with P. T. Barnum's circus, and after that with Skiff and Gaylord's Minstrels. In 1869 he formed a partnership with George H. Primrose, another well-known minstrel performer, whom he had known as a boy, and this business contract lasted thirty years. Together they appeared in Simmons and Slocumn's Minstrels in Philadelphia, and in 1873 the partners went to New York, and first appeared there at the old Olympic Theater, Broadway, near Houston Street. In the season of 1874-75 they became members of J. H. Haverly's Minstrels, and traveled with that company three seasons. At the end of this engagement they organized a minstrel company of their own, calling it Barlow, Wilson, Primrose, and West's Minstrels. In 1882 the personnel of the management changed, and the company took the name of Thatcher, Primrose, and West, appearing under that title for seven years, after which Mr. Thatcher left the company, which was thereafter managed by the two original partners under the name of Primrose and West's Minstrels. The organization was for a long time the finest and most popular in the business, and drew immense audiences all over the country. In 1898 the long partnership was dissolved. Mr. West desired to have his company appear without blackened faces, and to add many accessories and stage settings before unknown in minstrel performances; while Mr. Primrose clung to "black-face" minstrelsy, with all its old traditions. They parted amicably, and Mr. West organized another company, calling it West's Big Minstrel Jubilee, and to it devoted the later years of his life, with great success. He usually appeared on the stage as "middleman or interlocutor, but occasionally acted as endman. His voice was remarkably sweet, and he was tall, well-built, and a graceful dancer. accumulated a handsome fortune and owned a fine property at Bensonhurst, Long Island. Mr. West was married three times, his first wife being Fay Templeton, the popular actress, from whom he was divorced; his second wife was Lizette Morris, who died soon after their marriage; and his third was Emma Hanley, also an actress.

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Whipple, William Denison, military officer, born in Nelson, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1826; died in New York, April 1, 1902. He was graduated at West Point and commissioned brevet 2d lieutenant in the 3d Infantry, July, 1851; was promoted 1st lieutenant, Dec. 31, 1856; captain and assistant adjutant-general, Aug. 3, 1861; major, July 17, 1862; lieutenant-colonel, March 3, 1875; and colonel, Feb. 28, 1887; and was retired Aug. 2, 1890. In 1851 he was assigned to duty on the Indian frontier, and took part in the Navajo and Gila expeditions, and also in the defense of Fort Defiance, New Mexico. On Feb. 10, 1862, he was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in the volunteer service; on Sept. 6, 1864, was promoted brigadier-general; and on Jan. 15, 1866, was honorably mustered out of that service. He took part in the battles of Bull Run, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and Nashville and the siege of Atlanta; and was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general, U. S. A., for gallant and meritorious services during the war. After the war he was on duty as assistant adjutant-general at the headquarters of the principal military divisions, and in 1873'81 as aide-de-camp on the staff of the general commanding the army.

Whitehead, William Riddick, physician, born in Virginia about 1832; died in Denver, Col., Oct. 13, 1902. He was graduated at the Virginia Military Institute in 1851, and studied medicine at the Universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania, and subsequently in Paris and Vienna. While in Vienna he was appointed a surgeon in the Russian army, was ordered to the Crimea, and was stationed at Sebastopol during the siege of that city. For his services he was made a knight of the Imperial Order of St. Stanislaus. He resigned his post of staff surgeon in the Russian army after five months' service; returned to Paris to resume study in the hospitals; and settled in New York, where he became Professor of Clinical Medicine in New York Medical College. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army, and was commissioned chief division surgeon. After the war he returned to New York city to practise, and later removed to Denver, Col. He established the department of medicine in the Universities of Colorado and Denver.

Whittle, Francis McNeece, clergyman, born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, July 7, 1823; died in Richmond, Va., June 18, 1902. He was graduated at the Theological Seminary at Alexandria in 1847, and in 1848 was ordained priest. He was rector of Kanawha Parish in what is now West Virginia in 1847-'49; of St. James's Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia, in 1849-52; of Grace Church, Berryville, Va., in 1852-57; and of St. Paul's, Louisville, Ky., in 1857-'68. In 1868 he was consecrated Assistant Bishop of Virginia, and he became bishop of the diocese in 1876, on the death of Bishop Johns. When the diocese of Western Virginia was set off from Virginia in 1877, Bishop Whittle chose to remain in charge of the eastern diocese, which in 1892 was still further reduced by the organization of the diocese of Southern Virginia. At his death, however, the diocese, even with the loss of twothirds of its former territory, was far stronger than at the time of his consecration. Bishop Whittle received the degree of D. D. from the Theological Seminary of Ohio in 1867, and LL. D. from William and Mary College in 1878. In his theology the bishop was strongly evangelical.

Williamson, James A., lawyer, born in Adair County, Kentucky, Feb. 8, 1829; died in Jamestown, R. I., Sept. 7, 1902. He was educated at Knox College, Illinois, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1861 he enlisted in the 4th Iowa Infantry as 1st lieutenant and adjutant; was promoted lieutenant-colonel, March 9, 1862; colonel, March 18, 1862; and brigadier-general, Jan. 13, 1865; and was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865. He participated in the battles of Pea Ridge and Chickasaw Bayou, the siege of Vicksburg, and the capture of Savannah, After the capture of Savannah he received command of the military district of Missouri, where he remained till the surrender of Gen. Lee's army. After the war he resumed law practise; was commissioner of the United States General Land Office from 1876 till 1881; and afterward land commissioner and general solicitor of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and its president.

Wilson, Joseph Miller, engineer, born in Phoenixville, Pa., June 20, 1838; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 24, 1902. He was graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1858, was appointed an assistant engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1860, and was connected with that road till 1886, during which time he served as resident engineer and as engineer of bridges and buildings. In 1876 he was associate engineer

and architect on the designing and construction of the Main Exposition Building and Machinery Hall for the Centennial Exposition. He served on the commission that condemned the Washington Aqueduct, and on the one that recommended the underground-railroad system now under construction in New York city. He was president of Franklin Institute several years and author of many technical and scientific papers and reports. Wilton, Ellie (Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus), actress, born in Albany, N. Y., in 1852; died in Whitestone, Long Island, July 20, 1902. Her father, John Leonard, moved to San Francisco while she was very young, and when she was only fourteen years old she joined a traveling theatrical company, where her talent and personal beauty soon won her advancement to important rôles. She made an extended tour through the West, playing principal parts in mining-camp theaters long before she was twenty years old, and after a few seasons of that hard experience she was engaged as leading lady in the California Theater, San Francisco, where she remained seven years, winning great popularity and appearing in support of most of the celebrated actors of that time who visited the West. At the end of this long engagement she went to Europe to study, remaining there two years; on her return to the United States she was engaged by Manager A. M. Palmer for his Union Square Theater Company, and she made her first New York appearance in that theater in the comedy called French Flats. She was a member of this company several seasons, and left it to play leading support to the Italian tragedian Tommaso Salvini, with whom she traveled two seasons. She appeared in Charley's Aunt during its long run at the Standard Theater, New York city, and after that she joined the Frohman forces and played in one or another of their companies till 1900, when she originated the rôle of Queen Margaret in A Royal Family, with Annie Russell as the star, at the Lyceum Theater. During that season she injured her foot and was compelled to leave the company. She never again appeared on the stage, but lived at her Long Island home until her death.

Winner, Septimus, composer and publisher of music, born in Philadelphia, May 11, 1827; died there, Nov. 23, 1902. He composed the famous song Listen to the Mocking-Bird, which was a great favorite for many years, and also What is Home without a Mother? which was almost equally popular. He wrote a song entitled Give us back our Old Commander, which made a great sensation when it appeared, and very nearly involved the author in trouble with the Government, as it referred directly to the removal of Gen. George B. McClellan from his command of the Army of the Potomac in 1862. The War Department issued an order forbidding actors or any other persons to sing it in public, on pain of imprisonment; and Mr. Winner, who asserted his innocence of intending anything treasonable in writing the song, was notified that his further publication of it would result in his confinement in Fort Lafayette. Besides his songs, he wrote and published numerous books of technical instruction for various musical instruments. In his earlier years he was a frequent contributor of verse to the American literary magazines, and he was also the founder of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. His last work was The Cogitations of a Crank.

Yeoman, George F., jurist, born in Andes, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1846; died in Rochester, N. Y.,