Part 70

=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._

=Williams, Roger.= _W._, 1607-1683. A famous clergyman, minister at 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.