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LEFT WHEATON 349 WHEELER the World He Lived In" (1880) ; "Deco- rative Art" (1884); "How to Form a Library" (1886) ; "How to Catalogue a Library" (1887); "Literary Blunders" (1893); "Hogarth's London" (1909), etc. WHEATON, FRANK, an American military officer; born in Providence, R. I., May 8, 1833; was graduated at Brown University; entered the army as lieu- tenant in the 1st United States Cavalry in 1855, and until the outbreak of the Civil War was chiefly engaged in cam- paigns against the Indians in Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas; was promoted captain in March, 1861, and colonel, July 21, 1861; and was appointed a Brigadier- General of volunteers in Noveniber, 1862. He served with the Army of the Potomac throughout the Civil War, taking part in the battle of Gettysburg, the Shen- andoah Valley campaign, and in other important movements; was promoted Brigadier-General, in April, 1892, and Major-General in April, 1897; and was retired May 8, following. He died June 18, 1903. WHEATON, HENRY, an American jurist; born in Providence, R. I.. Nov. 27, 1785; was graduated at Brown Uni- versity, 1802 ; practiced law in New York, 1812, and edited the "National Advocate." He was a reporter of the United States Supreme Court in 1816-1827, and then became charge d'affaires to Denmark (1827-1835), and in 1835-1846 minister to Berlin. His chief writings are: "Di- gest of Maritime Law" (1815) ; "Life of William Pinkney" (1826); "Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court" (12 vols. 1827); "History of the Northmen" (1831) ; "Elements of International Law" (1836); "History of the Law of Na- tions" (1841). He died in Dorchester, Mass., March 11, 1848. WHEATON, LLOYD, an American military officer; born in Michigan, July 15, 1838; served through the Civil War; won distinction in the battle of Shiloh and in other important actions; and be- came colonel of the 8th Illinois Volun- teers. On July 1, 1866, he was appointed captain in the 34th United States In- fantry; Sept. 11, 1895, was commissioned colonel of the 7th Infantry; and in July, 1898, was appointed a Brigadier-General of volunteers. During the Spanish- American War he commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Division of the 7th Army Corps. In January, 1899, he was as- signed to duty with the 20th Infantry in the Philippines, and in 1901 Vv-as pro- moted Brigadier-General, U. S. A. He retired in 1902. WHEATON COLLEGE, an institution for the higher education of women, es- Cyc 23 tablished in Norton, Mass., in 1834, as the Newton Female Seminary. In 1912 it assumed the name and rank of a col- lege. The productive funds amount to about $1,000,000. There were in 1919 30 instructors and 200 students. President, Samuel V. Cole, D. D. WHEELER, BENJAMIN IDE, an American educator; born in Randolph, Mass., July 15, 1854; was graduated at Brown University in 1875; became Pro- fessor of Philology at Cornell University in 1886 and of Greek in 1888; accepted the similar chair in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, in 1896; and was elected president of the University of California in July, 1899. In 1909-1910 he was Roosevelt professor at the University of Berlin. In 1919 he became president emeritus of the Uni- versity of California. He was the au- thor of "The Greek Noun-Accent" (1883) ; "Analogy in Language" (1887) ; "Introduction to the History of Lan- guage" (1890) ; "Organization of Higher Education in the United States" (1896); "Life of Alexander the Great" (1900); etc., and was the editor of the depart- ment of philology in "Johnson's Univer- sal Cyclopjedia" and of Macmillan's "Dic- tionary of Philosophy and Psychology." WHEELER, JOSEPH, an American military officer; born in Augusta, Ga., Sept. 10, 1836; was graduated at the BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER United States Military Academy in 1859; served in the cavalry till the outbreak of the Civil War, when he entered the Con- federate army, in which he was commis- Vol. X