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WHITE, Trueman C .:
Jurist; born in Perrysburg, N. Y., in 1840; studied law, and being admitted to the bar, practiced at Buffalo. Served in volunteer troops during the Civil War; was elected judge of the Supreme Court, at Buffalo; 1896, elected judge of the Su- preme Court of New York, Eighth Dis- trict, for term of seventeen years; was the judge before whom was tried Czol- gosz, the assassin of President Mckinley. Residence. 150 W. Utica St .; office, City Hall, Buffalo.
WHITEHEAD, Ralph Radcliffe:
Son of Francis Frederick and Isabella (Dalglish) Whitehead; born in Saddle- worth, Yorkshire: M. A. of Balliol Col- lege, Oxford, 1877. Married Jane Byrd, daughter of the
late Peter MacCall of Philadelphia. He is
a follower of John Ruskin and William Morris, whose principles he has embodied in the organ- ization of artistic handicrafts on a tract of land called "Byrdcliffe." This is sit- uated at Woodstock, Ulster County. In connection with the workshops is a sum- mer school of painting and decoration. Address, Woodstock, Ulster County, N. Y.
WHITEHOUSE, Edward N .:
Paymaster U. S. Navy; was born in New York; appointed as acting assistant Paymaster. Dec. 4, 1862; Choctaw (iron- clad). Mississippi Squadron, 1862-64;
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steamer James Adger, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1865-66. Commis- sioned as assistant paymaster in 1866, and promoted to passed assistant paymaster Sept. 6, 1867; Dale (fourth rate), North Atlantic Station, 1867-68; Sabine, special cruise, 1869-70; Portsmouth (training- ship), Mare Island. 1872-75; S. S. Supply, 1875-76; Monocacy. Asiatic Station, 1876- 79. Commissioned as paymaster, 1877; special duty, New York, 1880; Ashuelot, Asiatic Station. 1881-84; inspector pro- visions, Navy Yard, New York, 1884; re- ceiving-ship Vermont. 1885-89; Chicago, Squadron of Evolution, 1889 to June, 1893; leave of absence, June 1, 1893. to Dec., 1894; U. S. receiving-ship Minnesota, Dec., 1894-95; U. S. S. Maine, Sept., 1895-96; leave of absence, Dec., 1896. Retired, April, 1898. Address, 445 West Washing- ton St., Chicago, Ill.
WHITEHOUSE, George M .:
Banker and broker; senior partner of Whitehouse & Co., 27 William St., New York City; member of New York Stock Exchange and New York Produce Ex- change. Was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 8, 1844; son of Edward and Julia E. (Cammann) Whitehouse. Married Helen, daughter of Dr. Ferdinand W. Ostrander, a direct descendant of Pieter Ostrander, who came to New York in 1659. He was educated in private schools. Member of Players Club and St. Nicholas Society. Residence, New Brighton, Borough of Richmond, N. Y.
WHITEHOUSE, Worthington:
Real estate broker; senior member of the firm of Whitehouse & Porter, which has transacted much business in the rent- ing and selling of residential property in New York (particularly in the Fifth Avenue and the Murray Hill sections), and also at Newport and other fashionable. watering rlaces where they have agents. He is a prominent member of New York society and a cotillon leader; has summer home at Southampton. Long Island. Mem- ber of Union League, Knickerbocker, Princeton, Racquet and Tennis, and the Knollwood Country Clubs. Address, 573 Fifth Ave., New York.
WHITING, William Henry:
Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy; born in New York City, July 8, 1843; appointed from Wisconsin, Sept. 21, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-63. Promoted to ensign, Oct. 1, 1863; attached to flagship Hartford, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-65; honorable mention by Admiral Farragut in squadron general or- ders, for gallant conduct at the burning of the blockade-runner Ivanhoe. under. the guns of Fort Morgan. on the night of July 5, 1864; honorable mention by the captain of the Hartford at the battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864; at the surrender of Fort Gaines, Aug. 8, 1864; hauled down
the Confederate flag and hoisted the United States flag; bombardment and sur- render of Fort Morgan, Aug. 24, 1864; steam sloop Kearsarge, European Squad- ron, 1865-66. Promoted to master. Nov. 10, 1866; steamer Frolic, European Squad- ron, 1866-68. Commissioned as lieutenant, Feb. 21, 1867; commissioned as neutenant- commander, March 12, 1868; steam sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron, 1868- 69; Swatara (fourth rate), N. A. Squad- ron, 1869-71; Benecia (second rate), N. P. Station, 1872-75; Navy Yara, New York, 1875-76: Torpedo School, Newport, R. I., 1876; Constitution, special service, 1878- 79; Navy Yard. New York, 1881-84. Pro- moted to commander, July, 1882; com- manding training-ship Saratoga, 1884-86; Navy Yard. New York, 1886-89; command- ing Kearsarge, N. A. Squadron, 1889; Navy Yard, New York, Feb., 1890 to Oct., 1892; commanding Alliance, Oct., 1892, to Oct., 1893; commandant Navy Yard, Pen- sacola, Jan., 1894, to July, 1896; command- ant Port Orchard Naval Station, Aug., 1896, to June, 1897. Promoted to captain, June 19, 1897. commanding Monadnock (second rate); Pacific Station June, 1897, to Nov., 1898; took the Monadnock from San Francisco to Manila; commanding Charleston from Dec., 1898, to May, 1899; took part on the breaking out of the in- surrection at Manila, on the night of Feb. 4, and the following day, Feb. 5; also in the battle of Caloocan; commanding Bos- ton, May, 1899. to July, 1899; commanding Independence, March. 1900, to 1902; com- mandant Naval Station, Hawaii, July 24, 1902; rear-admiral, 1903; commandant Na - val Training Station, San Francisco, Cal., since 1903, which is present station.
WHITLOCK, Thomas C .:
Democratic State Senator, representing the Fourth Senate district (one of the Kings County districts) ; born in Virginia, Jan. 21, 1874; was admitted to the bar in Kings County in 1897. In 19v2 he was elected State Senator for the district he now represents; was appointed a member of the following Senate committees in 1903; Codes. Penal Institutions, and Re- vision. Address, New York City.
WHITNEY, Charles C .:
Secretary of the New York Life Insur- ance Company: was born Oct. 2, 1832. at Seneca Castle. N. Y .; graduated from Wil- liams College with the degree of B. A. in 1853, and received that of M. A. in 1856. His early life was devoted to tel- egraphy and insurance. In 1876 he pe- came private secretary of William H. Beers, vice-president and actuary of the New York Life Insurance Company, and retained that position with him when he became president. In 1892 Mr. Whitney was elected secretary of the company, the office having been created for that purpose. Address, 346 Broad St., New York.
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WHITNEY, Edward Baldwin:
Lawyer; born at New Haven, Conn., Aug. 16, 1857. Son of Professor William Dwight Whitney of Yale, and descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Gradu- ate of Yale, class of 1878. Studied law in Yale and Columbia Law Schools; ad- mitted to New York Bar in April, 1880, and practiced there ever since. Was one of executive committee of the old Young Men's Democratic Club of New York, up to the time of its transformation into the present Democratic Club, and was one of the organizers and first secretary of the National Association of Democratic Clubs in 1888. Was one of the organizers and first secretary of the so-called "Anti- Snapper" Democratic organization in New York State in 1892. Was assistant attorney-general of the United States from 1893 to 1897 and argued many of the constitutional and international law cases of that period at the United States Supreme Court, including the Income Tax case. Also obtained the first victory over an industrial "trust" under the anti- trust law, the Addyston Pipe Company case at Circuit Court of Appeals at Nash- ville; afterwards affirmed by the Supreme Court. Lecturer on International Law at New York Law School, counsel to New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900, and New Tenement House Law of 1901. Contributor of articles to reviews and law journals on constitutional sub- jects, among them being "Philippine Con- stitutional Question," Columbia Law Re- view, 1900; "Insular Decisions," id., 1902; "Latest Development of Interstate Com- merce Power," Michigan Law Review, 1903; "Parasite Corporations," before the American Social Science Association, 1902, and on the Northern Securities Company, Yale Law Journal, 1902. Married, 1896, Miss Josepha Newcomb. daughter Profes- sor Simon Newcomb, U. S. Navy. Resi- dence, 321 West 77th St .; office, 59 Wall St., New York.
WHITNEY, Harry Payne:
Capitalist; born in New York, April 29, 1892; son of Hon. William C. Whitney; graduated from Yale, 1894. He is a direc- tor in various corporations, prominent in turf affairs and one of the champion rac- quet players of the United States. Mar- ried. 1896, to Gertrude Vanderbilt, daugh- ter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Knick- erbocker, Country. Mid-day, New York Yacht. Lawyers, Meadow-brook, Sons of the Revolution. Racquet, Riding, Turf and Field, and other clubs. Residence, 2 West 57th St., New York.
WHITNEY, George H .:
Republican Assemblyman, representing Saratoga County in the Assembly; born in Stockbridge. Mass .. Aug. 19. 1863; is a direct descendant of John Whitney, Puri-
tan emigrant, who came from London, Eng., to Watertown, Mass., in 1635; his grandfather. George Whitney, was a rep- resentative in the Massachusetts Legis- lature in 1824. His early life was spent on the farm of his father, George Fenn Whitney, at Stockbridge, Mass .; received his education in the public schools of Stockbridge. At the age of eighteen he secured a position as clerk in a drug store in Castleton, N. Y .; continued at this oc- cupation in Hudson, N. Y., and New Haven, Conn., until he passed the New York State pharmacy examination in 1884. In the spring of 1885 he became manager of a drug store in Mechanicsville, N. Y., for his brother-in-law, Byron Stedman, and in 1887 succeeded him in the business, which he still conducts. During his resi- dence in Mechanicsville he has been treas- urer of the village on two different oc- casions; was next nominated for super- visor in the town of Halfmoon by the Re- publicans, but was defeated by a small majority. On being nominated a second time in 1898 for the same office he was elected by a large majority over the one who had defeated him previously. Has now held the office for five consecutive years. and is supervisor at the present time for the town of Halfmoon. Was elected to the Assembly in 1902, and in 1903 he was appointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Insur- ance, Public Education, and Soldiers' Home. Address, Halfmoon, Saratoga Co .. N. Y.
WHITNEY, William C .:
Capitalist; was born at Conway, Mass., July 5, 1841. He comes from an old and prominent New England family, being descended, in the eighth generation, from John Whitney. a leader among the Eng- lish Puritans who settled at Watertown, Mass., in 1635; while on his mother's side his ancestry can be traced back to Wil- liam Bradford. governor of Plymouth Col- ony. Brigadier-General Josiah Whitney, one of his forefathers, was an active Rev- olutionary officer, and a subsequent mem- ber of the Massachusetts and the United States constitutional conventions. His father, Brigadier-General James S. Whit- ney, was in 1854 superintendent of the United States arsenal at Springfield, Mass., and in 1860 collector of the port of Bos- ton. Mr. Whitney received his prepara- tory education at Williston Seminary, East Hampton. Mass., and afterwards en- tered Yale \College, where he graduated in 1863; passed the following year in Har- vard Law School, and shortly afterwards began practice in the courts of New York City, where he quickly gained a reputation as a skillful and energetic lawyer, and one notable for his loval devotion to the interests of his clients. His first active participation in public affairs was in 1871, when he took a leading part in the or. ganization of the Young Men's Democrat- ic Club; in the following year he became a
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leading spirit in the County Democracy, a section of the party in revolt against the domination of the regular party lead- ers. The first official position held by him was in 1872, when he was made in- spector of schools; in 1875 was appointed to the important legal position of corpora- tion counsel for the City of New York; the field of duty upon which he thus en- tered was a difficult and arduous one. He found no less than three thousand eight hundred suits pending, a weight of re- sponsibility which he hastened to sweep away. He at once reorganized the de- partment with four bureaus of admin- istration, introduced reforms and econo- mies wherever possible, and so rapidly disposed of the pending suits that in two years he had handled them all and as many more which had arisen. Despite the great accumulation of work thus dis- posed of, he considerably reduced the ex- penses of the office. He resigned the po- sition in 1882. having, during the seven years of his incumbency, gained various legal triumphs. and won a reputation for legal skill and executive capacity .. In 1885. after the election of President Cleve- land. to which Mr. Whitney had lent his efficient aid, he was made a member of the cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. A plan for the reorganization of the depart- ment was quickly prepared by him, and proved of great utility in the dispatch of business. The new navy of the United States. the creation of which had begun in the preceding administration. was pushed forward by him with a vigor and activity which rapidly gave this country a high standing among the naval powers of the world. It was his aim to make the United States independent in this branch of the service, a purpose which called for very radical steps. He found this coun- try without facilities for the production of armor plates, forgings for large guns, and some other necessities, all of which had previously been obtained abroad. He at once induced the Bethlehem Steel Works to put in a new plant, at great expense to itself, and by the end of his term of of- fice all those requisites were being pro- duced in the United States of a quality and in a manner never before equaled. During his term there were fully or part- ly built five double-turreted monitors, two new coast defense armor-clads. three ar- mored and five unarmored steel and iron cruisers, four gunboats, and a dynamite cruiser, with other contracts made. On the close of the administration Mr. Whit- ney retired to private life, but in 1892 be- came the leader of the Cleveland forces in the National Democratic Convention, in which he showed controlling skill. He was given the honorary degree of LL.D. by Yale in 1888. In 1896 he married Edith S. Randolph, of East Court, Eng- land. Mr. Whitney is a director in the Central Crosstown Railroad, Christopher and Tenth Streets Railroad, Horse Show Association of New York, Manufacturing
Investment Company, trustee of the Met- ropolitan Museum of Natural History, director of the Metropolitan Opera House Company, Trustee of the Mutual Life In- surance Company, Nassua County Bank, Mineola (New York) National Horse Show Association, National Union Bank, Queens County Horse Show Association, Second Avenue Railroad, and trustee and member of the executive committee of the State Trust Company. He is a mem- ber of the leading clubs of New York City and of many clubs in other parts of the country; he is a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and a trustee of the Peabody Museum of Yale. Address, 871 Fifth Ave., New York.
WHITRIDGE, Frederick W .:
Lawyer; born in New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 8, 1852; educated at Amherst Col- lege and Columbia Law School; admitted to bar in 1879. President Washington County Railway Company; director Ni- agara Development Company, Cataract Construction Company, and Chicago Ter- minal Elevator Company. Member of the University, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Reform, City, Down Town, Players, Cen- tury and West Chester Country Clubs. Address, 16 East 11th St .; office, 59 Wall St., New York.
WHITTELSEY, William Bailey:
Lieutenant-commander, U. S. Navy; born in and appointed from New York; cadet midshipman, June, 1878; naval ca- det, Aug., 1882; U. S. S. Hartford, until 1884. Commissioned ensign, July, 1884; U. S. S. Tallapoosa, till wrecked off Mar- tha's Vinevard; U. S. S. Ranger till 1887; Hydrographic office till 1889; U. S. S. Monocacy till 1892; Navy Department till 1894. Commissioned lieutenant (junior grade), June, 1894; U. S. S. Essex till 1896; U. S. S. Puritan till 1897. Commissioned lieutenant, Dec., 1897; ordnance inspector, Bridgeport. till 1899; U. S. S. Lancaster till 1901; U. S. S. Alabama, Nov., 1901; Cincinnati, Feb .. 1902. Retired as lieu- tenant commander, 1903. Address, 43 Court St., Plattsburgh, N. Y.
WHITTEN, Robert Harvey:
Sociology librarian and editor Legisla- tion Bulletin. New York State Library, since 1898. Legislative Bulletin includes the annual Digest of Governors' Messages. Summary and Index of Legislation and Review of Legislation. Born at South Bend, Ind., Oct. 9, 1873; graduated from University of Michigan in 1896; 1895 re- ceived Giles prize of $150 for essay on "The Best Method of Making Public Im- provements in Chicago by Special Assess- ment"; studied political science at Uni- versity of Chicago, 1896-97, and at Colum- bia University (as fellow in administra- tion law), 1897-98, receiving Ph. D. degree. Married at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 6, 1900,
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to Elizabeth Gilbert. Member American Political Science Association, Société de Législation Comparée, National Associa- tion of State Librarians, American Libra- ry Association, American Academy of Po- litical and Social Science, American Econ- omic Association. Author "Public Ad- ministration in Massachusetts" (Colum- bia University Studies); "Trend of Leg- islation in the United States;" "Taxation of Corporations in New York, Massachu- setts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey"; also of articles in political science journals. Residence, 276 Quail St., Albany, N. Y.
WICKER, Cassius Milton:
Railroad manager and banker; was born at North Ferrisburgh, Vt., Aug. 25, 1846. Son of Cyrus Washburn and Maria De- liglit (Halladay) Wicker, and a descend- ant of William Wicker, a Scotch-Irish Protestant, who was forced out of Rox- bury by the Puritan council in 1720 and settled in Leicester, Mass. His son, Jacob Wicker, married Abial Washburn, a sister of Colonel Seth Washburn, an of-
ficer on General Washington's staff
throughout the Revolution. By this mar- riage Mr. Wicker is a lineal descendant of Mary Chilton, who, historians declare, was the first woman to set foot on Plym- outh Rock. He has also three other May- flower ancestors: James Chilton, William Latham, and Elder Brewster. He was educated at the "little red schoolhouse" at North Ferrisburgh, and the academies at Williston and Middlebury, Vt. When twenty-one years of age he began his railroad career as check clerk of the Star Union line at East St. Louis. Dur- ing the next three years, he was cashier of the People's Dispatch fast freight line and Chinese emigrant agent of the North Missouri Railway. His territory em- braced the Great West from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis, to the Pacific coast. He was assistant general freight agent of- the North Missouri railway, 1869-71, and was assistant general freight agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway 1871- 76, with the additional duty of settling the claims for losses resulting from the Chicago fire in 1871. During 1876-80 he was successively general agent, assist- ant general freight agent and traffic man- ager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway's trans-Ohio divisions. He was in charge of mining property in Northern Michigan, 1880-83, and later general manager of coal mines at Springfield, Braidwood and Tracy, operated by the Central Illinois Coal Company. He was commissioner of the Chicago freight bureau, 1883-87, with full charge of the transportation inter- ests of the wholesale merchants and imanufacturers of Chicago, of the stock yards, the lumber interests and of the Chicago board of trade. Subsequently he became vice-president of the Colorado Eastern Railway and took up his resi- dence in New York City. Mr. Wicker
then successively filled the following of- fices: from 1889 to July, 1901, vice-presi- dent of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway; from Nov., 1893, to Dec., 1897, vice-president and general manager of the Brooklyn, Queens County and Subur- ban Railroad; from Jan., 1894 to May, 1899, he was president of the North Shore Traction Company, which owned all the stock of the Lynn and Boston Railroad and the controlling interest in other prop- erties. Was married, June 5. 1872, at Lebanon, Ill., to Augusta Carroll, daugh- ter of Augustus C. French a native of New Hampshire, who while governor of Illinois, drove the Mormons out of that State. Mrs. Wicker died in 1889, leaving three children, Henry Halladay, Lucy Southworth and Cyrus French Wicker. He is a member of the Union League, Lotos, Colonial, Lawyers, Church, Atlantic Yacht and St. Andrews Golf Clubs of New York City and the Union League of Chi- cago. He is also member of the Metro- politan Museum of Art, the American Geographical Society, the Sons of the Revolution, the New England Society and the Mayflower Descendants, America's Founders and Defenders, and is president of the Chicago Society of New York. He has long been vestryman and treasurer of All Angels' Church (Episcopal), of New York; is a trustee and vice-presi- dent of the Washington Savings Bank, director and president of the Dillon-Gris- wold Wire Company, director and presi- dent of the Iroquois Construction Com- pany, director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Discount; was prominent in the organization of the Bankers' Money Order Association, of which he is director and president, and is a special partner in the house of Wicker Brothers. Residence, West End Ave., New York.
WICKES, Robert B .:
Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester in 1878; studied law, 1878-80; has practiced law since 1880 in Rochester, N. Y. He has published "Danforth and Wickes' New York Court of Appeals Di- gest" in 1884; "Danforth's Supreme Court Digest," 1886. Address, 103 German In- surance Building, Rochester, N. Y.
WIEBER, Francis W. F .:
Surgeon, U. S. Navy; was born in Ger- many; appointed from New York. As- sistant surgeon, Nov., 1884; passed assist- ant surgeon. Nov., 1887; surgeon, Nov., 1897; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, June, 1893- 98; U. S. S. Miantonomah, from March 10, 1898, to Oct. 29, 1898; at Naval Station, San Juan, P. R., from Nov. 5, 1898, until June 5. 1901; on duty at Naval Academy from June 13, 1901, to 1903; U. S. S. Prai- rie, 1903. Address. care Navy Depart- ment, Washington, D. C.
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WIETING, Charles Augustus:
Commissioner of agriculture: born in Seward, Schoharie County, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1862; son of John C. and Mary Sexton, and grandson of Philip Wieting, one of the pioneer preachers of Schoharie Coun- ty. Mr. Wieting is a farmer and was ap- pointed commissioner of agriculture on May 1, 1896, by Governor Levi P. Mor- ton; he continued in this position under the administration of Governor Frank S. Black, was reappointed by Governor Theo- dore Roosevelt on May 1, 1899, and again appointed to the same position on May 1, 1902, by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. He has served as vice-president and chairman of the executive committee of the New York State Fair Commission since 1900. Address, Cobleskill, N. Y.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas:
Author; born in Philadelphia. Pa .. Sept. 28. 1857; daughter of Robert N. Smith, a lawyer; educated in common schools and Abbott Academy, Andover Mass. In 1876 went to California to study kindergarten methods: in 1878 organized the Silver Street Kindergarten in San Francisco; 1880. organized (with her sister) the Cali- fornia Kindergarten Training School. Married, in 1880. to Samuel B. Wiggin, a lawyer of San Francisco; gave up teach- ing and removed to the East. In 1878 produced her first literary work, a short serial story called "Half a Dozen House- keepers;" also author of "The Birds' Christmas Carol," 1888; "The Story of Patsv." 1889; "Timothy's Quest," 1890; "Children's Rights," 1892; "Marm Losa," 1894; "Village Watch Tower," 1895; "Nine Love Songs and a Carol," 1896; "Pene- lope's Progress." "Experiences in Eng- land, Ireland and Scotland," "The Diary of a Goose Girl," 1902; "Golden Numbers," ""The Posy Ring." and "Rebecca," 1903. Address, 165 West 58th St., New York.
WILBER, David F .:
Consul; born at Milford, N. Y .. 1859; educated at Cazenovia Seminary, gradu- ating in 1879. Has been engaged in mer- cantile business; represented Twenty-first district in the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses; member of New York com- mission to investigate tuberculosis in cat- tle in 1893. On June 29. 1903 he was ap- pointed consul at Barbados, West Indies.
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