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 win: I [.DON. WHIPPLE. "45 ri.i. Alice Walker, and Frederick Willder Wheildon, who died in 1874, aged twenty- two years. Mr. Wheildon was a member of the Charlestown city council, anil of the school board for many years, until his removal to ( 'oncord. 1 [e was a member of the govern- ment of the Massachusetts Charitable Me- chanic Association, a director of the Bunker Hill Monument Association since 1845, and is now vice-president, a trustee or director in two savings banks in Charlestown, in an insurance company, a horse railroad, a gas company, etc. He is also treasurer WILLIAM W. WHEILDON. of the Peterborough & Shirley R. R., and president of the Boston & Chelsea R. R. lie is a fellow of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Historical Assm 1 iation, American Forestry Congress, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Essex Institute, Webster Historical Soci- ety, Bostonian Society, Concord Anti- quarian Society, and Massachusetts Horti- cultural Society. Mr. Wheildon is master of a fertile pen, and his pamphlets arc numerous. Of the following works he himself set the type : •'Memoir of Solomon Willard," "Contri- butions to Thought," " Sentry or Beacon Hill," and "Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere." It was his frequent practice to compose editorials without the use of manuscript. The trend of this author's mind is his- torico-scientific. Among his best-known works, besides those mentioned, arc : a series of papers on the Arctic Regions. " New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill;" " Evacuation of Boston and Charles- town ;"" Curiosities of History — Boston, 1630-1880. " " The New Arctic Continent, brWrangell's Land, with government map" (1868); "Scientific Excursion across the State of Iowa" (1872); "New Chapter in the History of the Concord Fight," "The Maverick Bridge," "The American Lobster," and " Letters from Nahant." WHIPPLE, JOHN JAY, son of Fer- dinand and Hannah (Sweet) Whipple, was born December 31, 1847, in the city of Worcester. At the common schools he obtained his education, and in 1866 went into the busi- ness of drugs and groceries, under the name of J. J. Whipple & Co., which firm has continued in the same business to the present time without change. In Brockton, on the 22(1 of June, 1869, Mr. Whipple was married to Helen Otis, daughter of Franklin Otis and Helen M. (Davis) Howard. Their children are: Mary Helen, Edith Bell and Howard F. W hippie. Mr. Whipple is president of the Brock- ton Savings Bank, a director in the Brock- ton National Bank, and one of the four proprietors of the Brockton City Theatre In 1878 he was elected selectman, and has served nine years on the school com- mittee. For four years he- was a water commissioner, and was mayor of the city in 1886 and '87, being elected the latter year by the largest plurality and majority ever given a candidate for that office in the city of Brockton. In 1885 he was a member of the state Legislature, and served as chairman of the House committee on water supply, and as clerk on the committee on insurance. In 1884 and '85 he was the efficient secretary of the Republican state central committee, and held the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Robinson, in 1S84, '85, and '86. He was chairman on the first board of wage arbitration that ever existed in New England. He has served as brigadier-general on the staff of the lieutenant-general com- manding Patriarchs Militant, I.. O. F., and in the same order has been past grand representative, Sovereign Grand Lodge;