Weymouth (Town in Norfolk co Mass)
a town in Norfolk co., Mass., on the South Shore line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 12 miles S. E. of Boston. The town contains the villages of North Weymouth, East Weymouth, Weymouth Center, South Weymouth, Weymouth Heights, Nash, Lovells Corner, Old Spain, and Weymouth Landing. It is a seashore summer resort, but has extensive manufacturing and shipbuilding interests. The principal manufactures include boots, shoes, fertilizers, fireworks, hammocks, boxes, and clothing. There are daily and weekly newspapers, a National bank, electric lights, and street railways, public schools, public library. It is the second oldest town in the State, having been incorporated Sept. 2, 1635. Pop. (1910) 12,895; (1920) 15,057.
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Whalebone
a horny substance, occurring in long, thin plates, fringed at the edges, and acting as a strainer to detain the whale's food when the animal ejects the water which it has swallowed with the medusæ and small fry which constitute its food. The principal source of whalebone is the "right whale," so called, the Balæna mysticetus or australis. Some 300 of the plates are found in the mouth of an adult whale, and vary from 10 to 15 feet in length. Being very flexible, strong, elastic, and light, whalebone is employed for many purposes, as for ribs to umbrellas and parasols, for stiffening ladies' corsets, etc. Also, and more properly, called baleen. BOW-HEAD WHALE
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Whalley
EDWARD, an English regicide; born in England presumably about 1620. During the Revolution of 1642 he was a member of the Parliamentarian party, and commanded the force that defeated the cavalry of Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Naseby in 1645. Subsequently he was made custodian of King Charles at Hampton Court. He was a member of the court which condemned that monarch to death, and he also signed his death warrant. After the restoration of the Stuarts Whalley fled to America with his son-in-law, William Goffe. He died in Hadley, Mass., about 1678.
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Wharton
EDITH (NEWBOLD JONES), an American novelist, born in New York City in 1862. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton of Boston. She achieved great success by her first novel "The Greater Inclination" (1899). This was followed by "Crucial Instances" (1901); "The Valley of Decision" (1902); "The House of Mirth" (1906); "The Fruit of the Tree" (1907); "The Custom of the Country" (1913); "Xingu" (1916 ); "The Age of Innocence". She took an active part in relief work in France during the World War and wrote "Fighting France" (1915); and "Summer" (1917). Mrs. Wharton was recognized as one of the most talented American writers of modern fiction. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France for her services during the war.
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Wharton (FRANCIS an American jurist)
FRANCIS, an American jurist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 7 , 1820; was graduated at Yale College in 1839, and admitted to the bar in 1843. From 1856 to 1863 he was Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in Kenyon College, O.; in 1863 was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church and became rector of St. Paul's in Brookline, Mass., and in 1866 became a professor in the Episcopal Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass. He also held the chair of international law in the Boston Law School. In 1885 he was appointed solicitor for the State Department. Under a resolution of Congress (1888) he was made editor of the Revolutionary diplomatic correspondence of the United States. He wrote extensively on legal and theological subjects. His best known work is a "Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States" (1846), which is accepted as a standard. He wrote also: "Precedents of Indictments and Pleas"; a "Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence," "The Conflict of Laws" (1872); "The Law of Agency and Agents" (1876); Commentary " on the Law of Contracts" (1882); "Treatise on the Law of Evidence and Criminal Issues." He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 21, 1889.
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Wharton, Edith Jones
Edith Jones (1862-), an American novelist. She was born in New York and was educated at private schools. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton and has since resided abroad for the most part. Her novels have been published in this country, many of them appearing serially in various periodicals. The Greater Inclination, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The Touchstone, House of Mirth, and Fruit of the Tree may be mentioned among them.
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Whately
RICHARD, clergyman; born in London, England, an English Feb. 1, 1787, son of the Rev. Joseph Whately. He received his education at a private school at Bristol, and at Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated B. A. in 1808, and in 1810 won the English essay prize. In 1819 he made his first appearance as an author by publishing famous "Historic Doubts relative to his Napoleon Bonaparte." In 1822 Whately was appointed Bampton lecturer at Oxford, and delivered eight lectures the Use and Abuse of Party Feeling Matters of Religion. " He held the of Halesworth in Suffolk in 1822-1825 and was then appointed principal of Alban's Hall, Oxford. In the latter he published " Essays on Some of Peculiarities of the Christian Religion A second series of essays " On Difficulties in the Writings of St. and Other Parts of the New Testament came out in 1828; and a third " The Errors of Romanism traced to Origin in Human Nature, " in 1830. 1827 was published " The Elements Logic, " and the scarcely less " Elements of Rhetoric " in 1828. Both these works were written originally the " Encyclopædia Metropolitana. " occupied the chair of political a at Oxford in 1830-1831, and afterward published " Introductory Lectures Political Economy. " Appointed bishop of Dublin, 1831. Died Oct.,
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Wheatley
HENRY BENJAMIN, woolly an English philologist; born in Chelsea, London, England, May 2, 1838. He was exist. and an official of various London literary and of other societies. Besides editing a numadapted ber of works, he wrote: "Anagrams" wheat (1862); "Round About Piccadilly and fine Pall Mall" (1870); "Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In" (1880); "Decorative Art" (1884); "How to Form a Library" (1886); "How to Catalogue a Library" (1887); "Literary Blunders" (1893); "Hogarth's London" (1909), etc.
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