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"Life of Cotton Jlather "(1891); "Stelligeri. and other Essays concerning Ameiica" (189S) : " Wil- liam Shakspere, a Study in Elizabethan Litera- ture." ami '• Kaleisrh in Guinea," a |ilav (1894).

WENTWORTH, Lady Frances Deering, wife of Sir Jolin Wentworth, Bart., last royal governor of Xew Hampshire. (See article on her liusband, vol. vi., p. 435.) The accom- panying vignette is taken from the original full-length painting by John Singleton Copley (q. v.), made in ITUo, and isa fine example of that artist's por- traiture. It is No. 82 of the Lenox li- brary gallery, and hangs under an ad-

mirable portrait of

the founder's father, Robert Lenox, the opulent New York merchant, bv Col. John Trumbull.

WESTCOTT. Edward Noyes, banker, b. in Syracuse. N. V., 27 Sept., 1847; d. there 31 March. 1898. He was a son of Dr. Amos Westcott. a prominent physician and mayor of that city. The son received a high-school education, and then entered upon a business career as a banker, begin- ning as a junior clerk in the Mechanics bank of Syracuse. Ijaler he liecame the senior of West- colt & Abbott, bankers and brokers. He was a fine singer, and the composer of many songs, of which he wrote both words and music. Failing health led him to retire from business, and he spent the winter of 189.5-'6 in a friend's house near Naples, which appears in " Oavid Harum" as the ilia Violante. He began his book after abandoning business, feeling, like Charles Lamb, that "'no work is far worse thanoverwork," completing it in 1896. After being rejecte<l by six well-known publishing houses, it was, with considera- ble alteration, in De- cember, 1897, accept- ed by D. Appleton & Co., and pnlilishcil in the autumn of I89H. Hi little more than a single year 40(),(J00 copies of " David Harum, a Story of American Life," were sold, the greatest suc- cess, with possibly

two exceptions, ever

achieved by an American novel ; but alas! its au- thor fell a victim to con.sumption six months be- fore its appearance in print, little dreaming of the welcf^me that awaited tiis only literary work. WETaHORE. (icor^e I'edboily, senatf)r, b. in Ijondon, 2 -Aug., 1846. during a visit of his parents abroBil. He was grniluated from Yale with the degree of A. B. in 1867. and of A. M. in 1871. He studied law at the Columbia law-school, and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1869, in which year also he was admitted to the bar of New York and of Bhode Island. In 188() and in 1884 he was a presidential elec^lor, and he has twice served as governor of Rhode Island. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U. S. senator in 1889; but was elected as a Republican in June, 1894, for the term ending 3 March. 1901. He is a trustee of the Peabody museum of natural his- tory at Yale, and also of the Peabody educational fund. The senator's summer home is in Newport.

WEYLER, Don Yalerinno y Nicolnii, Spanish general, b. in Barcelona, Spain. 6 Feb., lt<40. He entered the army when very young. He was a military attache of Spain at Washington during the American civil war and served under Sheri- dan. Was made captain-general of the Canary islands in 1879. as a reward for distinguished services in the San Domingo campaign. He won great fame in the Carlist war on the Spanish |ieninsula in 1873. In 1889 he was appointed captain-general of the Philippine islands, where he succeeded in establishing temporary peace. On his return to Spain he held the highest military posts in Barcelona, his native province. In 1896 he was sent to Cuba to (juell the outbreak in that colony, and was recalled in 1898. Wcvlcr was sent to Cuba after the recall of Gen. Campos, resulting from his disastrous defeat bv Gomez at Peralejo, 24 Dec, 1895. lie speaks English fluently.

WHARTON. Anne Hollingsworth, b. at Southampton Furnace, Cumberland co.. Pa., 15 Dec, 1845, and was educated at a private school in Philadelphia. She has written articles for the leaiiing American magazines and published many children's stories and historical books relating chiefly to colonial subjects. Miss Wharton is the historian of the Pennsylvania society, also of the National society of colonial dames of America, and was a judge of the American colonial exhibit; of the World's Colund)ian exposition. She has been an honorary member of the Historical society of Pennsvlvania since 1878, and is the author of "The W'harton Family" (Philadelphia. 1880); "Through Colonial Doorways" (1890) ; "Colonial Days and Dames " (1895) ; " A Last Century Maid " anil " Life of Martha Washington " (1897); " Heir- looms in Miniature" (1898); and her latest work, "Salons. Colonial and Republican " (1899).

WHARTON, John Austin, soldier, b. in Texas, 3 Sept.. 1831 ; d. in Houston, 6 Aoril, 1865. His father, William H. Wharton, and liis uncle, ,!ohn A. Wharton, one of the heroes of San Jacinto, were prominent act- ors in the Texas revo- lution, where a coun- ty was named in their honor. He was edu- cate<l at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, and in South Carolina, and married the daughter of Gov. Johnson of that state. He was a member of the bar of Brazoria, and in part- nership with Clinton Terry and James Mas- terton, of Houston, at the beginning of the civil war. He joined

the famous "Terry

rangers " as captain, and when Col. B. F. Terry was killed at Woodsonville, Ky., he was elected by the regiment as commander, lie became colonel of the 8th Texas cavalry in June. 18(!2. He commanded a brigade and later a division of Wheeler's cavalry corps. Army of Tennessee. At Sliiloh he rendered valuable service and was wounded. On Forrest's successful raid through Tennessee he was again