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Rh Col., 7 Aug., 1868, by Bishop Randall. After serv- ing as a missionary in Colorado three years he returned to the east, and became rector of the Church of the Nativity, South Bethlehem, Pa., where he remained until his elevation to the epis- copate. He received the degree of D. D. from Union college in 1880. During his rectorship at Bethlehem he was assistant secretary of the diocese of central Pennsylvania for eleven years, and twice a deputy to the general convention from that dio- cese. He was consecrated bishop of Pittsburg in Trinity church, Pittsburg, 25 Jan., 1882. Bishop Whitehead attended the third Pan-Anglican council in London in 1888.

WHITEHEAD, William Adee, historian, b. in Newark, N. J., 19 Feb., 1810 ; d. in Perth Amboy, N. J., 8 Aug., 1884. He left school in his thir- teenth year and entered a bank, but afterward be- came a surveyor, and in 1828 made a survey of the island of Key West, Pla. He then engaged in commercial pursuits there, and was U. S. collector of customs from 1830 till 1838, when he removed to New York and became a stock-broker. He was connected with the New Jersey railroad and trans- portation company from 1849 till 1871, except in 1855-'9, when he was treasurer of the New York and Harlem railroad, and in 1871 he became treas- urer of the American trust company of New Jersey, at Newark. He was a commissioner of public schools in the latter city in 1859-'71, and in 1872 was president of the city board of education. He was a founder and president of the Newark library association, and, on the organization of the New Jersey historical society in 1845, became its corre- sponding secretary, which office he held till his death. He was also a member of numerous other historical and antiquarian societies. Of the " Col- lections " of the State historical society he is au- thor of vol i., " East Jersey under the Proprietary Governments " (New York, 1846) ; vol. iv., " Papers of Lewis Morris, Governor of New Jersey," with a memoir and notes (1852) ; and vol. v., " Analytical Index to the Colonial Documents of New Jersey, in the State Paper Office in England " (1858). He edited, in part, vol. vi., " Records of the Town of Newark " (1864), and wrote the supplement to that volume, entitled " Historical Memoir on the Cir- cumstances leading to and connected with the Settlement of Newark " (1866). His other writings include " Biographical Sketch of William Frank- lin " (1848) ; " Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy" (1856): and numerous papers in the " Proceedings " of the New Jersey historical society, all the volumes of which were edited by Mr. Whitehead during his secretaryship.

WHITEHILL, Robert, congressman, b. in Pequea, Lancaster co., Pa., 29 July, 1738; d. in Lauther Manor, Cumberland co., Pa., 8 April, 1813. He received a common-school education, and in 1770 purchased from the proprietaries of Pennsylvania two tracts of land in Lauther Manor, where in 1771 he erected the first stone house. He was a member of the Philadelphia convention of July, 1776, which approved the Declaration of In- dependence and adopted a state constitution and bill of rights, and also of the convention that rati- fied the U. S. constitution, and the one that adopted the state constitution of 1790. He served often in either branch of the legislature, holding a seat in the lower house during the stormy sessions of 1798-1800, and subsequently being speaker of the senate during the impeachment trial of the judges of the state supreme court of Pennsylvania. He was a member of four successive congresses, serv- ing from 2 Dec, 1805, till 3 March, 1813.

WHITEHORNE, James, artist, b. in Walling- ford, Rutland co., Vt., 22 Aug., 1803 ; d. in New York city, 31 March, 1888. He began to study at the National academy about 1826, was elected an associate member in 1829, and an academician in 1833. In 1838-'44 he was recording secretary of the academy. He devoted himself to portrait- painting, executing a large number of works, nota- bly the portrait of Silas Wright that is now in the city-hall, New York. He made also the design for the well-known mezzotint engraving, " Henry Clay addressing the Senate," published about 1846.

WHITEHOUSE, Henry John, P. E. bishop, b. in New York city, 19 Aug., 1803 ; d. in Chicago, 111., 10 Aug., 1874. He was graduated at Colum- bia in 1821, and at the Protestant Episcopal gen- eral theological seminary, New York city, in 1824. He was ordained deacon by Bishop William White in St. James's church, Philadelphia,on26 Aug., 1827, and im- mediately entered upon his ministry in Reading, Pa., from which in 1830 he was called to St. Luke's parish, Rochester, N. Y., where he remained fifteen years, at- taining wide rep- utation as a pas- tor and preacher; was rector of St. Thomas's church, New York city, from 1844 till 1851, when he was elected assistant bishop of Illinois, to which see, on the death of Bishop Philander Chase, he succeeded on 20 Sept., 1852. While in England in 1867, Bishop Whitehouse delivered the opening sermon before the first Pan-Anglican conference at Lambeth palace, by invitation of the archbishop of Canter- bury, and it was due to the advice of Bishop White- house that invitations were extended to the Ameri- can bishops. Oxford gave him the degree of D. D. and Cambridge that of LL. D., while Columbia had given him that of LL. D. in 1865. Bishop White- house was one of the most accomplished prelates of the Episcopal church, possessing versatility of tal- lent with great learning. He was a brilliant orator and conversationalist. " Not one in ten thousand," says Bishop Henry W. Lee, of Iowa, in his memo- rial sermon, " had such ready command of words and such precision of diction as mark his written and spoken productions." His views had great weight in the house of bishops, and among foreign communions his influence did much to secure greater consideration for his own church. In the Cheney case, which precipitated the formation of the Reformed Episcopal church (see^ Cheney, Charles Edward), he defended the church's stand- ard of baptismal doctrine. He was the first bishop of his church to advocate the adoption in this country of the cathedral system, which he did in his first diocesan address. Though highly cultured and deeply learned, he left no published works other than his annual addresses contained in the journals of the diocese of Illinois from 1853 to 1873.

WHITEHOUSE, James Horton, designer, b. in Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, 28 Oct., 1833. He was educated at King Edward's school.