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504 solved, and its members added to the Greenwich meeting, he was formally disowned by the latter in January, 1843, its action being subsequently confirmed by the quarterly meeting and the Rhode Island yearly meeting. His supporters were suffi- ciently numerous in Rhode Island and other parts of New England to form an independent yearly meeting, the members of which were known as Wilburites. Mr. Wilbur twice visited England, the second time in 1854. He published several polemical pamphlets, but his " Journal and Cor- respondence " (Providence, 1859) did not appear until after his death.

WILCOX, Cadmus Marcellus, soldier, b. in Wayne county, N. C, 29 May, 1826. He studied at Cumberland college, Nashville, his parents hav- ing removed to Tennessee during his infancy, then entered the U. S. military academy, and was grad- uated in 1846. He served through the war with Mexico, being engaged as acting adjutant of the 4th infantry in the siege of Vera Cruz and the battle of Cerro Gordo, and as aide to Gen. John A. Quitman in the storming of Chapultepec, where he earned the brevet of 1st lieutenant, and in the cap- ture of the city of Mexico. He was promoted 1st lieutenant on 24 Aug.. 1851, served as assistant instructor of tactics at the military academy from 1852 till 1857, then went to Europe for a year on sick-leave, was made captain of infantry on 20 Dec, 1860, and at the beginning of the civil war was on frontier duty in New Mexico. Resigning his commission on 8 June, 1861, he was appointed colonel in the provisional army of the Confederacy, and assigned to the command of an Alabama regi- ment. He joined Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army with his regiment on 16 July, 1861, marched to Manassas to re-enforce Gen. Pierre G. T. Beaure- gard, and served with the Army of Northern Vir- ginia till its final surrender, being promoted briga- dier-general on 21 Oct., 1861, and major-general on 9 Aug., 1863. He commanded a brigade in Gen. James Longstreet's corps at the second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and a division under Gen. Ambrose P. Hill, which resisted the repeated assaults of Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's troops at the battle of the Wilderness. Gen. Wilcox declined a brigadier-general's com- mission in the Egyptian army after the war. In 1886 he was appointed chief of the railroad division of the general land-office in Washington, D. C. He is the author of a book on " Rifles and Rifle- Practice " (New York, 1859), and the translator of " Evolutions of the Line, as practised by the Aus- trian Infantry and adopted in 1853 " (1860).

WILCOX, Carlos, clergyman, b. in Newport, N. H., 22 Oct., 1794; d. in Danbury, Conn., 29 May, 1827. His father, a farmer, removed in 1798 to Orwell, Vt., where the son's youth was spent. He was a precocious child, and this, with an acci- dent to his knee which unfitted him for agricul- tural labor, decided his parents to send him to col- lege. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1813, and at Andover theological seminary in 1817, after some interruptions from an affection of the heart, which continued till it ended his life. He preached in several places in 1819-'20. though still in feeble health, and spent the years 1820-'2 in the house of a friend in Salisbury, Conn., writing on his long poem "The Age of Benevolence," which he had projected in college. He was pastor of the North church in Hartford, Conn., from 1824 till 1826, when he accepted a call to Danbury. His poem, " The Age of Benevolence," was to contain five books, of which he completed the first and parts of three others. The first Was published separately (Salisbury, 1822), and fragments of the work ap- peared after his death in a volume of his " Re- mains," which contains also " The Religion of Taste," a poem that he read before the Yale Phi Beta Kappa society in 1824, fourteen sermons, and a memoir of the author (Hartford, 1828). His verses abound in accurate rural description.

WILCOX, Ella Wheeler, author, b. in Johns- town Centre, Wis., about 1845. She was educated in the public schools of Windsor and at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. In 1884 she married Robert M. Wilcox, of Meriden, Conn., and since 1887 they have resided in New York city. Mrs. Wilcox be- gan to write for newspapers at an early age, has contributed much to periodicals, and has published in book-form " Drops of Water " (New York, 1872) ; "Maurine" (Milwaukee, 1875); "Shells" (1883); " Poems of Passion " (Chicago. 1883) ; " Mai Mou- lee," a novel (New York, 1885); and "Poems of Pleasure " (1888).

WILCOX, Leonard, senator, b. in Hanover, N, H., 29 Jan., 1799 ; d. in Orford, N. H., 18 June, 1850. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1817, studied law, and practised at Orford. He became a judge of the state superior court, 25 June. 1838, but infirm health forced him to resign on 20 Sept., 1840. After the resignation of Franklin Pierce from the U. S. senate. Judge Wilcox filled his seat for the remainder of the unexpired term, first by appointment of the governor and then by the choice of the legislature, being elected as a Demo- crat. He served from 7 March, 1842, till 3 March, 1843, was made a justice of the New Hampshire court of common pleas, 7 Dec, 1847, and on 26 June, 1848, was again placed on the bench of the superior court.

WILCOX, Fhineas Bacon, lawyer, b. in Mid- dletown, Conn., 26 Sept., 1798; d. in Columbus, Ohio, 25 March, 1863. He was graduated at Yale in 1821, and practised law at Columbus, Ohio, for about forty years, paying particular attention to land-titles. He was the author of '• Condensed Re- ports of the Superior Court of Ohio " (Columbus, 1832) ; " Ohio Forms and Practice " (1833) : " A Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar " (1836) ; " Reports of the Superior Court of Ohio," being vol. x. of the "Ohio Reports" (1842): "Digest of the First Twelve Volumes of Ohio Reports" (1844); "Practical Forms in Action, Personal and Real, and in Chancery" (2d ed., 1858); and "Practical Forms under the Code of Civil Procedure " (1862).

WILD, Edward Augustus, soldier, b. in Brookline, Mass., 25 Nov., 1825. He was graduated at Harvard in 1844, and on 21 April, 1861, became captain in the 1st Massachusetts regiment, with which he served in the peninsular campaign, being wounded at Williamsburg and Fair Oaks. He became major of the 32d Massachusetts, 24 July, 1862, lieutenant-colonel on 7 Aug., and colonel of the 35th on 20 Aug., and took part in the battle of South Mountain, where his left arm was shattered. After assisting Gov. John A. Andrew in raising and organizing colored troops in Februarv-April, 1863, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers on 24 April, and, with the exception of a few months at the siege of Charleston, served in North Carolina, recruiting colored troops. In December he led an expedition through the eastern counties of the state, and on 18 Jan., 1864, he took command of the district of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. He commanded a brigade in the affair at Wilson's wharf, and was in front of Petersburg when he was placed under arrest on 23 June, 1864, for refusing to obey the order of his superior to relieve his brigade quartermaster and take another. The