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WHEELOCK, JULIA S.-As England had her Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war, so had the State of Michigan her Julia Wheelock amid the battle-fields of Virginia, and of this noble heroine we submit the following: On the 10th of September, 1862, while engaged in school teaching in the township of Ionia, Michigan, she heard the sad news that her soldier brother, Orville Wheelock, had been wounded at Bull Run; and in less than five days from that time she stood beside his grave in the city of Alexandria. Then it was that she resolved to remain in this strange land, and endeavor, God being her helper, to do for others as she fain would have done for her brother. A field of labor soon presented itself, which she gladly entered, and to which she devoted all her energies from September, 1862, until July, 1865. Her acts of kindness and words of Christian comfort during that period, soothed the anguish of many a poor soldier in his dying hour, and became a part of the unwritten history of Michigan, which the heroic soldiers of that State, still living, will ever remember with heart-felt gratitude. During the period in question she kept a Journal for her own pleasure and not for publication; but in 1870 she was induced by her friends to revise it for the press, and thus came into existence "The Boys in White; the Experience of a Hospital Agent in and Around Washington." Of this book, we have only to say that it is written with ability and in good taste, abounds in passages of rare interest and pathos, and is calculated to give the reader an exalted idea of the truly noble and unselfish authoress and heroine. We have only to add that, for her services during the war, she never asked nor received any compensation, and that for two years thereafter she was a suffering invalid.

WENDELL, J. A. T.-He was of Scotch parentage, born on the Island of Mackinaw, and has always resided there. After acquiring a good education, he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, and for many years has been a prime mover in developing the commerce of the more Northern Lakes. He served for many sessions in the two Houses of the State Legislature; and was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Michigan, but failed of election. He visited Europe a few years ago, and has travelled much over the United States, but has not yet found any place strong enough to allure him from his Island home in the North.

WHISTLER, WILLIAM.-By his long residence and military service in the North-west, and also by family ties, Colonel Whistler has long been identified with Michigan. He entered the Army as a Lieutenant in 1801; distinguished himself at the battle of Maguago in 1812, and was at once promoted to the rank of Captain; in 1822 he was appointed a Major by brevet for ten years' faithful service; made a full Major in 1826; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1834; and full Colonel in 1845. His subsequent career was equally honorable. His father, John Whistler, Jr., was an Army officer, and a citizen of Michigan Territory, and was wounded at the battle of Maguago in 1812, and died in 1813. His grandfather, John Whistler, was a soldier in the British Army, served also in the Army of the United States, and died in 1827. His brother, George W. Whistler, was educated at West Point, and after leaving the Army obtained distinction as an engineer in the service of Russia, and died at St. Petersburgh in 1849.

WHITING, HENRY.-He was born in Massachusetts, and entered the United States Army as Cornet in the Light Dragoons, in 1808, and was on duty in Michigan for many years, and always took an interest in the Territory and State. He was a man of reflection and literary culture, a writer for the reviews, and by his occasional discourses, threw much light on the history of the Lake country. As a Lieutenant and Aid to General Boyd, he was present at the capture of Fort George, in Canada, in 1813, and for his gallantry on that occasion he was breveted a Captain. He was also Aid to General Macomb in 1815, and in 1817 was made a Captain; in 1824 he was breveted Major for ten years' service; in 1834 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1838 Deputy Quartermaster General, with the rank of Colonel; in 1846 he was made an Assistant Quartermaster-General; served in Mexico under General Taylor as Chief Quartermaster; was breveted a Brigadier-General in 1847 for gallant and meritorious service at Buena Vista; in 1858 he was elected a Regent of the University of Michigan; and died in St. Louis, Missouri, September 16, 1851. He had a son, Henry M. Whiting, who served with honor in the war with Mexico, became a Lieutenant of Artillery, and died at Fort Brown, Texas, October 8, 1853, aged thirty-two years.

WHITING, GEORGE L.-He was a printer and a man of rare culture, long honorably identified with the interests of Michigan, and in 1829 established the Detroit Weekly Advertiser, which appeared as a daily newspaper in 1835, and after a long and useful career, was consolidated in 1862 with The Tribune, and is still published under the title of Advertiser and Tribune. In 1834, Mr. Whiting, in conjunction with Stephen Wells, published a small volume, entitled Historical and Scientific Sketches of Michi gan, which was made up of interesting papers prepared by Lewis Cass, H. R. Schoolcraft, John Biddle, and Henry Whiting. He also published in Detroit two books in the Ottawa language; first, The Ottawa Prayer Book or Anamie Misinaigan, in 1842; and, second, The Indian Book or Anicinabek Amisinahikaniwa, in 1830.

WHIPPLE, CHARLES W. He was born in New York, and was among the earliest emigrants to Michigan from the East, and for many years was well known throughout the State as a faithful officer and jurist. He was frequently elected to the State Legislature, and in 1836 and 1837 was Speaker of the House of Representatives. He held various positions of trust and honor, having long been Judge of the Supreme Court, and a member of the Convention of 1850 which framed the present Constitution of the State. He died at Detroit, October 25, 1856.

WHITTELSEY, HENRY M.-He was born in Connecticut, August 12, 1821; studied law in New York City, and was admitted to the bar in 1845; removed to Michigan in 1854, and located in Detroit, where he held various positions connected with the Fire Department, Young Men's Society, State Military Board, and the Light Guard of the City. He was an officer in the School of Instruction at Fort Wayne, where were instructed the officers of the first five regiments furnished by Michigan for the suppression

of the Rebellion, and subsequently rendered important services as a mustering officer. In 1860 he was elected Register for Wayne County; in 1861, Captain and Acting-Quartermaster of Volunteers; in 1865, with the rank of Colonel, he was associated with the army of Georgia as Chief-Quartermaster; subsequently served on similar duty in Mississippi, and also in the Freedmen's Bureau in Washington City; he was promoted in regular gradation to the rank of Colonel, and made a Brigadier-General by brevet; and was mustered out of the military service in 1867. According to the records of the War Department, his services as an officer were highly appreciated by a number of the leading General Commanders, and he was recommended for a position in the Regular Army. In 1870, after having acquired much experience in the affairs of the Metropolis, he was elected Comptroller of the City of Washington. He is connected with the distinguished Whittlesey family of Ohio, although the name is spelled differently.

WILCOX, ORLANDO B.-He was born in Detroit, Michigan, about the year 1826; and graduated at the West Point Academy in 1846. He took an active part in the war with Mexico, as a Lieutenant of Artillery, and remained in the United States service until about 1854, when he resigned and entered upon the practice of law, to the study of which, in a quiet way, he had previously devoted some attention. Prior to the Rebellion he took a lively interest in organizing the Militia of Michigan, and when hostilities commenced, he offered his sword to the State and was appointed Colonel of the First Infantry, and his regiment was the first to report for service at Washington from the West. He was in command at Alexandria just before the battle of Bull Run, and participated in that battle, in which he was wounded and taken prisoner, and as such remained in Richmond about fifteen months. When General Lorenzo Thomas was negotiating with the Confederate officer Robert Ould, for the exchange of prisoners, he made a special request in behalf of Colonel Wilcox, to which, in a day or two, the Confederate assented. He soon afterwards returned to the army and participated in many of the engagements in Virginia, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Brevet Brigadier and Brevet Major-General of Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at Spottsylvania and Petersburg. He was mustered out in 1866 and appointed an Assessor of Internal Revenue at Detroit, but again re-appointed in the army; and at the present writing, 1870, he is Colonel of the Twelfth United States Infantry, and stationed on Angel Island, Bay of San Francisco, California. As an author he published in 1856, "Shoepack Recollections A Way-side Glimpse of American Life," and in 1857, another work entitled "Foca, an Army Memoir, by Major March.”

WILKINS, ROSS.He was born in Pennsylvania; educated for the bar in that State; and removed to the West at an early day, with a Commission in his pocket from President Jackson, as a Federal Judge for the Territory of Michigan. In 1837, and on several subsequent occasions, he was appointed a Regent of the State University. Aside from exerting much influence in his judicial capacity, he has always taken an interest in the public affairs of the State; and he presided over the first war-meeting held in Detroit after the commencement of the Rebellion. He was many years

ago appointed a Circuit Judge, and remained in office until the summer of 1870, when he voluntarily retired from the Bench, and is now resting from his long judicial labors in the City of Detroit.

WILKINSON, MORTON S.-Born in Skeneateles, Onondaga County, New York, January 22, 1819; received an Academical education, working occasionally upon his father's farm; in 1837 he visited Michigan, but pushed on to Illinois, where he was engaged for two years in the railroad business; returned to his native town, studied law, and on being admitted to the bar removed to Michigan again, and settled at Eaton Rapids. In 1847 he removed to Minnesota, and in 1849, when that Territory was organized, he was elected to the Legislature, and he drafted the code of laws for that Territory; in 1859 he was elected a Senator in Congress for the term ending in 1865, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs. He was also a Delegate to the Baltimore Convention of 1864, and to the Philadelphia "Loyalists' Convention" of 1866.

WILLIAMS, ALPHEUS S.-He was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, September 20, 1810; and after graduating at Yale College in 1831, spent two years travelling in Europe. In 1836 he settled in Detroit, where he began the practice of law; was Judge of Probate for Wayne County from 1840 to 1844; was next elected Recorder of Detroit, after having been defeated as a candidate for Mayor; and from 1843 to 1847 he was the editor and proprietor of the Detroit Daily Advertiser. As a Lieutenant Colonel he served through the Mexican war, and in 1849 he was appointed by President Taylor Postmaster of Detroit, holding the office until 1853. On the breaking out of the Rebellion he was appointed a Major General of Michigan Volunteers, and also President of the State Military Board. He subsequently received from President Lincoln the appointment of Brigadier General in the national army, and was in active service on the Upper Potomac and in Shenandoah Valley; was for a time in command of General Bank's division at Winchester; commanded a division under General Pope at Cedar Mountain, on the Rappahannock, and at Manassas; after the battle of South Mountain, succeeded General Banks as Corps Commander, and commanded the twelfth corps at Antietam, and also took an active and leading part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Atlanta campaign. Was with General Sherman in his "march to the sea," and at Savannah he was breveted a Major-General for gallant and meritorious services in the Georgia campaign. He was subsequently assigned to duty in Arkansas, and was mustered out of the service in 1866. Soon after, he was appointed one of several commissioners to examine and adjust the military claims of Missouri. In 1866 he was nominated for Governor of Michigan, but not elected; and was then appointed Minister Resident to the Republic of San Salvador, in Central America, in which position he remained until 1869, when he returned to Detroit and to private life.

WILLIAMS, JOHN R.- -He was one of the earliest settlers in Detroit; a merchant by occupation, and for many years took a leading part in all the

enterprises calculated to promote the prosperity of Michigan and its largest city. He was elected Mayor of Detroit on six different occasions; the first time in 1824, and the last time in 1846; and he died in 1854, universally lamented by his fellow-citizens of all parties.

WILLIAMS, THOMAS.- He was born in New York in 1815, but subsequently becoming a citizen of Michigan, where he resided many years, and was appointed from that State a cadet at West Point, where he graduated in 1837. He was at once assigned to duty in the Fourth Artillery, serving in Florida, in New York, and in Michigan, with headquarters at Detroit, until 1840; during the latter year he was Professor of Mathematics at West Point, and was again transferred to Michigan; from 1844 until 1850 he was an Aid-de-camp to General Scott, and was present with him at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Cherubusco, and at the City of Mexico, and for his gallant and meritorious services he received two promotions, the second being that of Major for gallantry at Chepultepec. From 1850 until 1852 he was again on duty in Michigan, headquarters at Mackinaw; and from 1852 until 1858 he was on duty in Florida and on the Western frontiers. He entered the war for the Union as Major of the Fifth Artillery, and for his services in Virginia and Pennsylvania he was made a Brigadier General of Volunteers, and after important services in the Carolinas, the Gulf States, and on the Lower Mississippi, he was killed in battle at Baton Rouge August 5, 1862. His last words, uttered to an Indiana regiment just before he fell, were these: "Boys, your field officers are all gone; I will lead you." He was a soldier of rare bravery and high character, and was deeply lamented by all who knew him. Although General Robertson speaks of him as a native of Michigan, the records of the War Department mention New York as his native State.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM G.-He was born in Philadelphia in 1801; spent his boyhood in England, and went through a course of studies at Exeter; graduated at the West Point Academy in 1824; spent two years in Paris, studying his profession; as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry he served ten years on topographical duty; as First Lieutenant he surveyed the site for a fort in the river Delaware; as Brevet Captain of Staff in the Topographical Engineers, he surveyed the route for a ship-canal around the Falls of Niagara in 1835 and '36, performing similar service on Lake Champlain, at Charleston, South Carolina, and at Cincinna i, Ohio; in 1837 he went upon a military reconnoissance to the country of the Cherokees; in 1838 he attained the rank of Captain of Engineers, and during the eight following years he was engaged in making triangulations and constructing harbor works on Lake Erie, was Superintendent of Survey of the North-western Lakes, and of the boundary between the States of Wisconsin and Michigan, and in the latter State he spent much of his time making his headquarters at Detroit. He served under General Taylor in the war with Mexico as Chief of Engineers, and at the battle of Monterey, in 1846, he was mortally wounded, and died at that place September 21, 1846. His dying words were, "Tell my friends that I fell while in the advance, and in the performance of my duty." His literary and scientific acquirements were of a high order, and he also possessed an uncommon taste for the fine

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