Wheeling
a city and county-seat of Ohio co., W. Va.; on the Ohio river, and on the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
WHIG Louis, the Ohio River, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads; 65 miles S. W. of Pittsburgh, Pa. Part of the city is on an island in the river, connected with the main part by by bridges. Here are a United States Government building, court house, public library, Masonic and Odd Fellows' halls, Wheeling and city hospitals, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National, State, and savings banks, and a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Manufacturing is greatly promoted by the natural gas and bituminous coal found abundantly in the vicinity. The principal plants include steel and iron works, blast furnaces, glass factories, tobacco and cigar factories, foundries, boiler works, stove works, canneries, ice factory, machine shops, brass foundry, planing mills, etc.
Wheeling was settled in 1769, and was the scene of battles with the British_and Indians during the Revolutionary War.
In 1863-1870, and in 1875-1885 it was the State capital. Pop. (1910) 41,641; (1920) 56,208.
WHEWELL (hū'el), WILLIAM, an English philosopher; born in Lancaster, England, May 24, 1794; was graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1816; became fellow and tutor of his college; in 1828 was elected Professor of Mineralogy. In 1832 he resigned this chair for that of moral philosophy, which he held till 1855, when he became vicechancellor of the university. In 1841 he was nominated to the mastership of Trinity, and in this position he labored successfully to obtain for the natural and moral sciences a better recognized position among the studies of the university. He became fellow of the Royal Society in 1820, and was one of the first members of the British Association, of which he was president in 1841. Among Whewell's multifarious writings may be mentioned the Bridgewater treatise, "Astronomy and General Physics, considered with reference to Natural Theology" (1833); "History of the Inductive Sciences" (1837); "Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences" (1840); "History of Scientific Ideas; Elements of Morality, including Polity" (1845); "On Liberal Education in General; Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England" (1852); "Platonic Dialogues" (1859-1861); "Lectures on Political Economy" (1863). He died in Cambridge, March 6, 1866.