WHITOX
WHITTIIOIINE
S.uihitii (Berlin. 1S56). ami publislied indppend-
eutly : Contrilmtions from the Atharva Veda to
the Theory of Sanskrit Verlml Accent (1856) ; was
editoriiiUy connected "with "Webster's Dic-
tionary" ; editor-in-chief of the "Century Dic-
tionary " (6 vols., 1889-91). and a contributor to
Boluingk's and Rotli's "Sanskrit Dictionary"
(St. Petersburg. 7 vols., 185;J-G7). He translated
the " Surya-Siddhanta. a text-book of Hindu astro-
nomy" (1S60). He is the author of: On the
Tijotisha Obi^rrvation of the Place of the Colnres
atui the Date derirablefrom it (1864) ; Language
ami the Study of language (1867) ; A Compendious
German Grammar (1869) ; German Reader in
Prose and Verse (1S69) ; On Material and Form
in Language (1872) Oriental and Linguistic
Studies (3 series, 1873, 1874. 1875) ; Daricinism
and Language (1874) ; Life and Growth of Lan-
guage (1875) in the "international Scientific
Series," translated into various foreign languages ;
A Practical French Grammar (1886); Essentialsof
English Grammar (ISll) ; A Compendious German
and English Dictionary (with Professor Edgren,
1S77); Sanskrit Grammar (Leipzig. 1879; 2d ed.,
1888) ; Logical Consistencg in Vietcs of Language
(1889): Mixture in Language (1881); The Study
of Hindu Grammar and the Study of Saiiskrit
(1*84) ; Forty Years' Record of the Class of 1845,
Williams College (1885) ; The Upanishads and
their Latest Translations (1886) ; Practical French
Grammar (iH86) ; and also a large proportion of
Volumes VI. -XH. oi the Journal of the American
Oriental society (1860-81), his English version of
" Taittirlya Pratiqakhya" winning the Bopp prize
from the Berlin academy in 1871. Most impox'tant
among his technical works is his critical com-
mentary on the Atharva- Veda, with exegetical
notes and a translation. No treatment, at once
so systematic, extensive and complete, of the
critical status of any Vedic text has ever been
undertaken before ; and it is incidentally of great
significance as exemplifying the method which
future investigators must follow in the case of
Rig-Veila. The work, which forms two large
royal octavos, was edited by Professor Charles R.
Lanman of Harvard university, and published by
that university in 1903. See memorial sketch
of Dr. Whitney by Thomas D. Seymour (1894).
He died in Nfw Haven. Conn., June 7, 1S94.
WHITON, James Morris, author, was born in Bfjston. Mass., A]n\\ 11. 1833 ; son of James Morris and Mary Elizabeth (Knowlton) Whiton ; grandson of the Rev. Dr. John Milton and Abby (Morris) Whiton and of Ebenezer and Margaret (Bas-s) Knowlton, and a descendant of James Whiton (Hingham, Mass.. 1647), Thomas Morris (New Haven. Conn., 1638). an.l John Alden (Plymouth. Mass., 1620). His paternal grand- father (178.5-1856), A.B., Yale-1805, D.D., C(jllege
of New Jersey, 1848, was pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Antrim, N.H.. 1808-53, and of the Con-
gregational church in Bennington, N.H., 1853-56.
He published " A History of Antrim" (Concord,
N.H., 1834), tlie groundwork of Cochrane's History
of xVntrim (1880) ; " Sketches of the Early History
of New Hampshire, 1623-1833 " (Concord. N.H.,
1834) ; contributed to the Collections of the Neio
Hampshire Historical Society, and left in manu-
cript, " A History of Presbyterianism in New
Hampshire." James Morris Whiton was fatted
for college at the Boston Latin school ; was
graduated from Yale, A.B., 1853, and was rector
of Hopkins Grammar school, New Haven, Conn.,
1854-64. He was married, May 1, 1855, to Mary
Eliza, daughter of William and Mary (Crie) Bart-
lett, of Portland, Maine. He was pastor of tlie
First and Nortli Congregational churches of Lynn,
Mass., 1867-69, and 1869-75, respectively ; principal
of Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 1876-
78 ; pastor of the First Congregational church, in
Newark, N.J., 1879-85, and of Trinity Congrega-
tional church, Tremont, New York city, 1886-91.
He was professor pro /ejH^wre of ethics, Meadville,
Pa., Theological school, 1893-94; in 1897 became
a member of the editorial staff of the Outlook,
and in 1899 a charter member and chairman of
the executive committee of the New York State
Conference of Religions (undenominational) . He
was acting pastor of the Congregational church
at Haworth, N.J., 1898-1901. He received the
degree of Ph.D. for post-graduate study at Yale
in 1861, one of three men on whom the degree
was then for the first time conferred by an Ameri-
can college. Besides many articles in periodicals
and weekly journals, his publications include :
Select Orations of Lysias (1875) ; 7s Eternal Pun-
ishment Endless ? (1876); Six iceeks' Prejyai'ation
for Reading Ccesar {187G)\ Essay on the Gospel
according to 3Iattheui (1880) ; Beyond the Shadow
(1881) ; Early Pupils of the Spirit (1884; rev. ed.,
1896) ; The Evolution of Revelation (1885) ; Three
Months' Ph'eparation for Reading Xenophon,
with his daughter, Mary Bartlett Whiton (1885) ;
The Divine Satisfaction (1886); Turning Points
of Tlwught and Conduct, sermons (1887) ;
Auxilia Pergiliana (1887) ; The Law of Liberty,
sermons (1888); Xew I'oiuts to Old Texts, sermons
(1889) ; JMiat of Samuel? (1890) ; Gloria Patri
(1902) ; Reconsiderations and Reinforcements
(1896) ; Miracles and Su2)ernatural Religion
(1903), and various Latin and Greek text-books.
WHITTHORNE, Washington Curran, sena-
tor, was born in Lincoln (now Marshall) county,
Tenn., April 19, 1825. He attended an academy
in Williamson county, and Campbell academy at
Lebanon ; entered the University of Nashville,
and was graduated from East Tennes.see univer-
sity at Knoxville, A.B., 1843. He subsequently
