defence committee in April, 1861, and was its secretary until the close of the war. Gen. Wetmore began to write for magazines and annuals at the age of seventeen, and was at one time connected with the "New York Mirror." He was a popular speaker, and in 1832 he recited a poem, "Ambition," before a literary society of Hamilton college. He published "Lexington, with other Fugitive Poems" (New York, 1830); "Observations on the War with Mexico " (1847) ; and an edition of the u Poems of James Nack," with a biographical notice (1838).
WHALLEY, Edward, regicide, b. in England
about 1620; d. in Hadley, Mass., about 1678. He
became a merchant, and at the beginning of the
revolution of 1642 joined the parliamentary party,
against the wishes of his family, who were royalists.
At Naseby, in 1645, his command defeated
two divisions of Sir Marmaduke Langdale's
cavalry, and for bravery he was made a colonel by
parliament. He led the horse at Bristol, Banbury,
Worcester, and elsewhere, and was afterward
intrusted with the custody of the king's person at
Hampton court. He commanded the infantry with
Gen. George Monk at Dunbar, where two horses
were shot under him, and was afterward left by
Cromwell in Scotland with four regiments. He
sat in the high court of justice that condemned
King Charles, and was a signer of his death-warrant.
Afterward, as major-general, he governed
five counties, and after sitting in Cromwell's second
and third parliaments was given a seat in his
house of lords. After the restoration he fled to
this country with William Goffe (q. v.), his son-in-law,
and shared his fortunes from that time. See
“History of Three of the Judges of King Charles
I.,” by Ezra Stiles (Hartford, 1794).
WHAREY, James, clergyman, b. in Rutherford
county, N. C, 15 June, 1789 ; d. in Goochland
county, Va., 29 April, 1842. He entered Hamp-
den Sidney college, where he remained for five
years, teaching to obtain means to pursue his edu-
cation. He was licensed to preach in 1818, and
began his ministry in Amherst and Nelson coun-
ties, spending a part of his time as principal of an
academy. In 1819 he made a missionary tour in
Virginia, and afterward he was chaplain of Hamp-
den Sidney for a year. In 1822 he held a charge
in Cartersville, Va., and in 1824 he was made pas-
tor of the churches of Bird and Providence in
Goochland county, Va., where he served until his
death. He published a series of articles in the
" Southern Religious Telegraph " on " Baptism,"
and " Sketches of Church History from the Birth
of Christ to the Nineteenth Century," both of which
afterward appeared in book-form. Of the latter a
new edition was published (Philadelphia, 1850).
WHARTON, Charles Henry, clergyman, b. in
St. Marv's county, Md., 5 June, 1748 ; d. in Bur-
lington," N. J., 22 July, 1833. The family planta-
tion, called Notley Hall, was presented to his
grandfather by Lord Baltimore. In 1760 he was
sent to the English Jesuits' college at St. Omer's,
where he was very studious, and acquired the
Latin tongue with such proficiency as to converse
in it. He was ordered deacon in June, 1772, and
priest the following September, both in the
Roman Catholic church. At the close of the
American Revolution he resided at Worcester, Eng-
land, as chaplain to the Roman Catholics in that
city. There he addressed a poetical epistle to Gen.
Washington, with a sketch of his life, which was
published for the benefit of American prisoners
in England (Annapolis, 1779; London, 1780). He
returned to this country in 1783 in the first vessel
that sailed after the peace. In May, 1784, having
adopted the views of the Church of England, he
published his celebrated " Letter to the Roman
Catholics of Worcester" (Philadelphia, 1784), and
became rector of Immanuel church. New Castle,
Del. At the general convention of 1785 he was on
the committee to "draft an ecclesiastical constitu-
tion for the Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States," also on the committee " to prepare
a form of prayer and thanksgiving for the Fourth
of July," and that to Americanize the "Book of
Common Prayer." In 1786 he was elected a mem-
ber of the American philosophical society. After
ten years' further residence in Delaware, he be-
came, in 1798, rector of St. Mary's church, Burling-
ton, N. J. In 1801 he accepted the presidency of Co-
lumbia college, New York, assuming the position at
the commencement ; but he recalled his acceptance
and returned to his rectorship in Burlington, which
he held till his death in 1833. He was always
president of the standing committee of the diocese
and a deputy to the general convention, and among
the first in scholarship and influence of the clergy
of his church in the United States. The testimony
of his contemporaries and his numerous publica-
tions pronounced him an accomplished divine, a
gifted poet, and an able controversialist. At
the time of his decease he was the senior presbyter
of the Protestant Episcopal church. Besides the
works already mentioned, he published "Reply to
an Address [by Bishop Carroll] to the Roman
Catholics of the United States " (Philadelphia,
1785); "Inquiry into the Proofs of the Divinity of
Christ" (1796); and "Concise View of the Prin-
cipal Points of Controversy between the Protestant
and Roman Churches" (New York, 1817). In
1813-'14 he was co-editor, with Rev. Dr. Aber-
crombie, of the " Quarterly Theological Magazine
and Religious Repository." His "Remains," with
a memoir, were published by Bishop George W.
Doane (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1834).
WHARTON, Gabriel Caldwell, soldier, b. in
Springfield, Washington co., Ky., 13 June, 1839 ; d.
in Louisville, Ky., 22 Feb., 1887. He was the son of
a farmer, and was educated at the public schools,
the academy of his native town, and the law de-
partment of Louisville university. In 1860, at the
age of twenty-one, he began the practice of law at
Springfield with immediate success. The next
year, at the opening of the civil war, he enlisted in
the 10th Kentucky infantry in the U. S. volunteer
army, and in November was commissioned major
of that regiment. With the regiment, Major
Wharton shared in the engagements and marches
of the Army of the Cumberland, and in March,
1863, was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel. He
commanded and bore a gallant part in the battles
of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge and the
engagements of the Atlanta campaign in 1864,
until, at the expiration of his three years' service,
he was mustered out. He then resumed his law-
practice at Louisville, and in 1866 was appointed
assistant U. S. attorney for the district of Ken-
tucky. On the appointment of Benjamin II. Bris-
tow as secretary of the treasury, Col. Wharton
succeeded to the district attorneyship, holding that
office for ten years. In 1880 he opened an office
in Washington, and, after two years' practice there,
spent some time in Mexico in the interest of a rail-
road company. Returning, after a year's absence,
he resided in New York city, where he soon had a
lucrative practice. He was on a visit to Louisville
when he died while alone in his room at a hotel.
WHARTON, Jesse, senator, b. in Albemarle county. Va., about 1760; d. in Nashville, Tenn., 22 July, 1833. He was educated in his native state,
