panied Gen. John Sullivan in his expedi- pastor of a church in Mansfield, which he held till his death, April 21, 1824. He thor of Travels through the States of tion against the Six Nations in 1779. He died in New Orleans, La., May 14, 1806. Weitzel, GODFREY, military engineer; born in Cincinnati, O., Nov. 1, 1835; grad- Weld, HORATIO HASTINGS, author; uated at West Point in 1855. Early in born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 4, 1811; bethe Civil War he was attached to the staff came a printer; was editor of newspapers of General Butler in the Department of in Lowell, Boston, New York, and Philathe Gulf, and became acting mayor of delphia; was ordained in the Protestant New Orleans after its capture. In August, Episcopal Church in 1845; and held pas1862, he was made brigadier-general of torates in Downingtown, Pa., and Morrisvolunteers, and did good service in Lou- town and Riverton, N. J.; and wrote isiana, commanding the advance of Gen- Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, with eral Banks's army in operations there in a Narrative of his Public Life and Ser1863. He was at the capture of Port Hud- vice, etc. He died in Riverton, N. J., Aug. son. In 1864 he commanded a division in 27, 1888. the Army of the James, and was Butler's Weld, ISAAC, traveller; born in Dublin, chief engineer at Bermuda Hundred. He Ireland, March 15, 1774; was an extensive was made commander of the 18th Army traveller on the North American continent, Corps, and was the leader of the land making most of his journeys on foot, attack on Fort Fisher in December, 1864, horseback, or in a canoe. He was the auin which he was second in command. Weitzel was made major-general of volunteers in November, 1864. During the spring of 1865 he was very active in operations against Richmond on the left bank of the James River, and led the troops Weld, THEODORE DWIGHT, reformer; that first entered Richmond after the born in Hampton, Conn., Nov. 23, 1803; reflight of the Confederates from it. He ceived a good education; was an aboliwas brevetted major-general, United States tionist lecturer in 1833-36; became editor army, in March, 1865, and promoted lieu of the books and pamphlets of the Ameritenant-colonel of engineers in 1882. He can Anti-slavery Society in the latter year. died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 19, 1884. In 1854 he founded a school for both white Welch, ASHBEL, civil engineer; born in and negro children at Eagleswood, N. J. Nelson, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1809; was engaged His publications include The Power of in engineering work on the Lehigh Canal Congress over the District of Columbia; in 1827; appointed chief engineer of the The Bible against Slavery; American Delaware and Raritan Canal in 1835; and Slavery as It Is, or the Testimony of a later located and built the Belvidere and Thousand Witnesses (said to have sugDelaware Railroad, and prepared the gested the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin to plans for the Delaware and Chesapeake Harriet Beecher Stowe); and Slavery and Canal in 1853. He was manager and the Internal Slave-trade in the United afterwards president of the Pennsylvania States. He died in Hyde Park, Mass., Feb. Railroad lines in New Jersey; was the 3, 1895. first to introduce the block system of oper- Welde, THOMAS, author; born in Engating trains in the United States; presi- land, presumably in 1590; graduated at dent of the American Society of Civil En- Cambridge University in 1613; was ordaingineers in 1881; and author of papers ed in the Established Church, but owing on railway engineering and economics. He to his Puritan belief sailed for Boston in died in Lambertville, N. J.. Sept. 25, 1882. 1632; and became minister of the first Welch, MOSES COOK, clergyman: born church in Roxbury, in July of that year. in Mansfield, Conn., Feb. 22. 1754; grad- In the following November John Eliot nated at Yale College in 1772: taught was made his associate. He was promischool; studied law and medicine; taught nent in arousing opposition to Anne again: then studied theology; was ordain- Hutchinson and her teachings, and was ed in 1784, and succeeded his father as active in her trial. He returned to Eng 1 land in 1641. He was the author of A man of the Connecticut delegation in the New England; Antinomians and Fami- He GIDEON WELLES. Weldon Railroad, THE. On Aug. 18, 1864, there was a severe battle a few miles below Petersburg, Va., for the possession of the Weldon Railroad, which connected Richmond with the South. Warren, with the 5th Corps, reached the railroad without opposition. Leaving Griffin to hold the point seized, Warren started for Petersburg, and soon fell in with a strong Confederate force, which captured 200 of a Maryland brigade. A sharp fight ensued. Warren held the ground he had gained, but at the cost of 1,000 men killed, wounded, and prisoners. Lee then sent a heavy force under Hill to drive Warren from the road. Hill fell upon Warren's called Mr. Welles to his cabinet as Secre flank and rear, held by Crawford's di- tary of the Navy, in which capacity he vision, and in the fierce struggle that served until 1869. He died in Hartford, ensued the Confederates captured 2,500 Conn., Feb. 11, 1878. of the Nationals, among them Gen. J. Welles, THOMAS, colonial governor; Hayes. Yet the Nationals clung to the born in England in 1598; came to the railroad; and, reinforcements coming up, United States before 1636, and settled in Hill fled. Warren recovered the ground Hartford, Conn., where he was magistrate he had lost and intrenched. On the 21st from 1637 till his death in Wethersfield, the Confederates returned and assailed Conn., Jan. 14, 1660. He was treasurer the Nationals with a cross-fire of thirty of the colony in 1639-51; secretary of guns, and also by columns of infantry. state in 1640-48; commissioner of the The assailants were soon defeated, with a United Colonies in 1649 and 1654; loss of 500 prisoners. The whole Con- moderator of the General Court during federate loss was fully 1,200 men. One of the absence of Gov. Edward Hopkins in Lee's most important lines of communi- 1654; deputy-governor in the same year; cation was thus permanently wrested from governor in 1655 and 1658; and deputy him. governor again in 1659. Welland Canal. See CANALS. Wellesley College, an institution in Welles, GIDEON, naval officer; born in Wellesley, Mass., for the education of Glastonbury, Conn., July 1, 1802; studied women exclusively. It was founded in law under Judges Williams and Ellsworth, 1870 by HENRY TOWLE DURANT (q. v.), at and in 1826 became editor and a proprietor a cost of $1,000,000, and maintained by of the Hartford Times, advocating the him until his death, and afterwards by election of General Jackson to the Presi- his widow. Since its opening in 1875 dency. He served in the Connecticut legis- three additional buildings have been lature in 1827-35; was comptroller, and erected-the School of Music in 1881, in 1836-41 postmaster, at Hartford. In Farnsworth School of Art in 1889, and 1846 he was chief of a bureau in the Navy the chemistry building in 1894. It reDepartment, having given up his editorial ported in 1900: Professors and instructors, duties. He became identified with the sixty-nine; students, 715; volumes in the Republican party in 1857, and was chair- library, 51,475; productive funds, $328, WELLING-WELLS 579; grounds and buildings valued at government in 1866; special commissioner of revenue in 1866-70; and became a mem- Welling, JAMES CLARKE, educator; born in Trenton, N. J., July 14, 1825; graduated at Princeton College in 1844; studied law, which he abandoned in 1848 when he was made principal of the New York Collegiate School; was literary or the Dollar of the Fathers vs. the Doleditor of the National Intelligencer, pub- lar of the Sons; Report of the United lished in Washington, in 1850-65. In this States Revenue Commission; Our Merpaper he warmly supported the Union cause and was a strong advocate of Lincoln's early policy of paying loyal owners for their freed slaves, but did not support the Emancipation Proclamation. He became president of St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1867, and four years later accepted the presidency of Columbian College in Washington, D. C. He died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 4, 1894. Wells, CLARK HENRY, naval officer; born in Reading, Pa., Sept. 22, 1822; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1846; served in the Mexican War; was on the Petrel when that vessel took part in covering the disembarking of Scott's army and in the bombardment of Vera Cruz; and accompanied the expedition which took Tampico and Tuspan in 1846-47. When the Civil War broke out he was made executive officer of the steamer Susquehanna, which participated in the capture of Port Royal, S. C.; com DAVID AMES WELLS. Wells, Fargo & Co. See FARGO, WILLIAM GEORGE. manded a number of boat expeditions chant Marine: How it Rose, Increased, against batteries in the inland coast Became Great, Declined, and Decayed; waters of South Carolina, Georgia, and Relation of Tariff to Wages, etc. He died Florida; promoted lieutenant-commander in Norwich, Conn., Nov. 5, 1898. in July, 1862; commanded the steamer Galena of the Western Gulf blockading squadron; and was present at the battle of Mobile Bay. Subsequently he served with Admiral Porter at Hampton Roads; was promoted captain in June, 1871; rearadmiral. Aug. 1, 1884; and was retired Sept. 22, following. He died in Washing ton, D. C., Jan. 28, 1888. Wells, DAVID AMES, economist; born in Springfield, Mass., June 17, 1828; graduated at Williams College in 1847 and at the Lawrence Scientific School 1851; appointed assistant professor in the last institution; chairman of a commission to consider the best way to raise money by taxation for the needs of the X.-U Wells, HORACE, dentist; born in Hartford, Vt., Jan. 21, 1815; received an academic education and after learning dentistry began practice in his native city, in 1840; after long seeking a means of preventing pain while extracting teeth, he made several unsuccessful experiments with various substances, and then declared that the only efficient treatment was that of nitrous oxide. It was not, however, until Dec. 11, 1844, that he put this agent into practical use, by having a tooth extracted from his own mouth without feeling pain. He then began to use the gas in extracting teeth from other 305 persons. He was the author of A His- templated, he hastened there with thirty tory of the Application of Nitrous-oxide friendly Indians for the purpose of formGas, Ether, and other Vapors to Surgical ing a body-guard to the people on their Operations. He died in New York City, way to Fort Wayne, for he felt certain that Jan. 24, 1848. A bronze statue of Dr. an attempt would be made to massacre Wells has since been erected in Bushnell them shortly after leaving the fort. On Park, Hartford, bearing an inscription Aug. 15, the people left the place precrediting him with the discovery of ceded by Captain Wells and fifteen Indanesthesia, although his claims and those ians, the rest of the Miamis bringing up of Drs. Charles T. Jackson, John C. War- the rear. They had gone little more than ren, William T. G. Morton, and Gardiner a mile when they were attacked by 500 Q. Colton, formed the cause of a notable Indians, who indiscriminately butchered controversy. soldiers, women, and children. Captain Wells fell with half a dozen bullets in his body, which was afterwards brutally mutilated. Wells, JOHN, jurist: born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1770; graduated at Princeton College in 1788; admitted to the bar in 1791; made a justice of the peace in 1797; and won popularity by his skill in replying through the Evening Post to an attack upon the Federalists by James Cheetham in an article which appeared in The American Citizen. Later he conducted the papers entitled The Federalist, though they received a final revision by Alexander Hamilton. He died in Brooklyn. N. Y., Sept. 7, 1823. Wells, WILLIAM VINCENT, author: born in Roston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1826; received a common school education; became a sailor, and afterwards an officer in the merchant marine. Later he was engaged in mining and commercial enterprises; removed to California in 1849, where he built and commanded the first steamboat registered in that State; and afterwards was consul-general of HonWells, SAMUEL ROBERTS, phrenologist; duras in the United States. He owned born in West Hartford, Conn., April 4, and edited several newspapers in San 1820; studied medicine, but abandoned its Francisco; and was author of Walkpractice for phrenology. He was employer's Expedition to Nicaragua: A History ed in a publishing house in New York of the Central American War; ExploraCity in 1845, and became sole proprietor tions and Adventures in Honduras; Life in 1865. He was editor of the Water- and Public Services of Samuel Adams (his cure Journal in 1850-62-the Phreno- great-grandfather), etc. logical Journal from 1863 till his death- Wellsville, a city in Columbiana and the Annual of Phrenology and county, O., 20 miles north of Steubenville. Physiognomy after 1865; lectured much on phrenology in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain: and was author of The New Physiognomy, or Signs of Character; How to Read Character, etc. He died in New York City, April. 13, 1875. About 2 miles below the present city the family of Logan, the great Mingo chieftain, was massacred in 1774. See LOGAN (TA-GA-JUTE). Welsh, HERBERT, reformer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 4. 1851; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1871: was the founder of the Indian Rights' Association, which has done much to promote the welfare of the Indians, and has exposed and defeated numerous schemes to defraud them. He wrote Four Weeks Among Some of the Siour Tribes of Dakota and Nebraska in 1882, etc. Wells, WILLIAM, military officer; born in Kentucky, presumably in 1770; was taken prisoner by the Miami Indians when twelve years old and became the adopted son of Little Turtle, their chief. In 1790, when the Indians became hostile, he deserted them and was made a captain of scouts in Gen. Anthony Wayne's army; was in the United States army till peace was con- Welsh, JOHN, merchant; born in Philacluded in 1795, when he became an Indian delphia, Pa., Nov. 9, 1805; received a col· agent and justice of the peace. In 1812, legiate education; formed a partnership when he learned that the evacuation of with his brothers in the West India trade Fort Dearborn (now Chicago) was con- in 1874. During the Civil War he took Wentworth, SIR JOHN, colonial governor; born in Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 9, 1737; nephew of Benning; graduated at Harvard College in 1755. In 1766 he was sent to England as agent of the province, when the Marquis of Rockingham procured his appointment as governor of an active interest in the measures of re- seat of the Wentworths is yet well pre- Wendell, BARRETT, educator; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 23, 1855; graduated at Harvard University in 1877: assistant Professor of English there in 1888-98, and Professor since 1898. His publications include Life of Cotton Mather; Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America; A Literary History of America, etc. Wentworth, BENNING, colonial governor: born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 24, 1696; graduated at Harvard College in 1715; became a merchant, a representative in the Assembly, and in 1734 a councillor: and was governor of New Hampshire in 1741-67. He began making grants of land in the region of Lake Champlain in 1747, and this was the origin of BENNING WENTWORTH. the "New Hampshire Grants." Benning- New Hampshire, which he held in 1767ton, Vt., was named in his honor. The land 75. He was also appointed surveyor of on which the buildings of Dartmouth Col- the King's woods, which was a lucrative lege were erected (500 acres) was given office. On the assumption of all political by Governor Wentworth. The ancient power by the Provincial Congress of New |