Whitman
CHARLES SEYMOUR, an American public official, born at Norwich, Conn., in 1868. He graduated from Amherst College in 1890. After admission to the bar, he practiced in New York City. From 1901 to 1903 he was assistant corporation counsel, and from 1904 to 1907 was a city magistrate. He was appointed judge of the Court of Special Sessions in 1907, and from 1910 to 1914 was district attorney of New York county. In 1914 he was elected governor of New York. He was reelected in 1916.
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Whitman (II)
SARAH HELEN POWER, an American poet; born in Providence, R. I., in 1803. She married John W. Whitman, a Boston lawyer; was once engaged to Edgar Allan Poe, afterward writing a defense of him entitled "Edgar A. Poe and his Critics" (1860); and was noted for her conversational powers. She published several volumes of poems, among them being the volume "Hours of Life, and Other Poems" (1853); also "Fairy Ballads," written with her sister, Anna M. Power. She died in Providence, R. I., June 27, 1878.
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Whitman College
an institution for higher education, founded at Walla Walla, Washington, in 1859. It has an endowment of about $1,000,000. In 1919 there were 25 instructors and 310 students. President, S. B. L. Penrose, D. D.
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Whitney
MOUNT, one of the highest mountains of the United States; Sierra Nevada in southern California; height, 14,522 feet.
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Whitney
ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN), an American author; born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 15, 1824. Besides writing a great deal for magazines, she published: "Footsteps on the Seas: A Poem" (18) ( 1857); "Mother Goose for Grown Folks" (1860; revised ed. 1882); "The Boys at Chequasset" (1862); "Faith Gartney's Girlhood" (1863); "The Gay- A story of Threads and worthies: "A in Thrustumeria Leslie Goldthwaite's Life" ; Strong's Outings" (1868); "Hitherto: A Yesterdays" (1869); "Real Story of Yeste Folks" (1872); "Pansies" (1872), verse; "The Other Girls" (1873); "Sights and "Bonnyborough" Insights" (1876); (1885); "Homespun Yarns" (1887); and two volumes of poems, "Bird Talk" (1887) and "Daffodils" (1887); "Square Pegs." She died March 20, 1906.
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Whitney (II)
JOSIAH DWIGHT, an American geologist; born in Northamp ton, Mass., Nov. 23, 1819; was graduated at Yale in 1839, and the year after joined the survey of New Hampshire. The years 1842-1847 he spent in study in Europe, returning to explore, together with J. W. Foster, the Lake Superior region. Their "Synopsis" of the explorations was published in 1849; their "Report" on the geology, 1850-1851. Whitney next spent two years traveling in the States E. of the Mississippi, of which the fruit was "The Metallic Wealth of the United States" (1854). Appointed State chemist and professor in the Iowa State University in 1855, together with James Hall, he issued the "Reports" on its geological survey (1858-1859); and in 1858-1860 took part in the survey of the lead region of the Upper Missouri, publishing, again with Hall, his "Report" (1862). He was appointed State Geologist of California in 1860, and labored on the survey of that State till 1874, publishing in six volumes his "Geological In Survey of California" (1864-1870). 1865 he was appointed to the chair of geology at Harvard, received the LL. D. degree from Yale in 1870, and had the honor of giving his name to one of the highest mountains in the United States. His "Yosemite Guidebook" was published at San Francisco in 1869; his "Contributions to American Geology" in 1880; and his "Studies in Geographical and Topographical Nomenclature," in 1888. He died at Lake Sunapee, N. H., Aug. 18, 1896.
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Whitney (III)
WILLIAM COLLINS, an American capitalist; born in Conway, Mass., July 15, 1841; was graduated at Yale College in 1863, and at the Harvard Law School in 1865; studied law with Judge Abraham R. Lawrence in New York City, and was there admitted to the bar. He took an active part in the proceedings against the "Tweed Ring"; served as corporation counsel in 1875- 1882; and was Secretary of the Navy in 1885-1889. For many years he was a large financial operator in New York City. He died in New York, Feb. 2, 1904.
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Whitney (IV)
WILLIAM DWIGHT, an American educator; born in Northampton, Mass., Feb. 9, 1827; was graduated at Williams College in 1845; spent some years abroad in study; in 1854 was made Professor of Sanskrit at Yale, in 1870 of comparative philology, holding both positions till death. His writings are authority on all philological questions, and his rank as a Sanskrit scholar is of the first order. From 1849 he was a member of the American Oriental Society, and its president from 1884. His contributions to the "North American Review," the "New Englander," and other periodicals, were numerous and varied. His earliest work was the preparation, in company with Rudolf Roth of Tübingen, of an edition of the "Atharva Veda Sanhita" (Berlin, 1856). Among his other works are: "Language and the Study of Language" (1867); "On Material and Form in Language" (1872); "Darwinism and Language" (1874); "Logical cal Co Consistency in in Views Views of of Language" (1880); "Mixture in Lan guage" (1881); "The Study of Hindoo Grammar and the Study of Sanskrit" (1884); "The Upanishads and their Latest Translation" (1886). He has also written "Compendious German Grammar" (1869); "German Reader in Prose and Verse" (1870); "Essentials of English Grammar" (1877); "Sanskrit Grammar" (1877); and "Practical French Grammar" (1886). Professor Whitney was the superintending editor of the "Century Dictionary" (1889-1891), and assisted in the preparation of "Webster's Dictionary" ary" (1 (1864). 4). He died in New Haven, Conn., June 9, 1894.
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Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train
Adeline Dutton Train (1824-), an American story writer. She was born and educated in Boston. In 1843 she was married to Seth D. Whitney. She contributed articles and poems to various periodicals, but did comparatively little writing until about 1860. Her stories are for young people. Usually they are wholesome and entertaining and go deeper into the problems that come to girls than does the average story. Faith Gartney's Girlhood, A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life, Hitherto, Real Folks, We Girls, The Other Girls, and The Gayworthys may be mentioned.
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