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versity of P»'nnsvlvania. ISGl-SG. and contributed $30,000 totheendowint'iit fund of that university, and also $10,000 to the Pliiiadelj>hia At-adeniy of Natural Sciences. He was made kni^xht com- mander of tl>e order of St. Olaf. by the king of Sweden; commander of tl»e Order of the Rising Sun by the emperor of Japan, and Grand Officer of the Order of Nizan Iftakan by tiie bey of Tunis. He received from the University of Pennsylvania the degree of LL.D. in 1878 and from Washington and Lee in 18S0. He died in Phihidelpliia. Pa., April 10, 1886.

WELSH, Thomas, soldier, was born in Columbia. Pa., May 5, 18'34. He engaged in the lumber business, and served in the war with 3Iexico, enlisting as a private, and being com- missioned lieutenant for gallantry at Buena Vista, Feb. 22, 1847, where he was wounded. In 1861 he recruited a company, of which he was com- missioned captain; was promoted lieutenant- colonel of the 2d Pennsylvania volunteers, a tliree months' regiment, which served in the Shenan- doah valley, and colonel of the 45th Pennsylvania volunteers early in 1862. fighting at South Moun- tain, and Antietam, Sept, 17, 1862, where he com- manded the 2d brigade, 1st division, 9th corps, under Reno. At Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862, he commanded his regiment in the 3d bri- giide, 1st division. 9th corps under Willcox. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1863. and in that mouth, the 9th corps was sent west. He served under Burnside, in the Department of the Ohio, and on June 14. under John G. Parke, joined Grant in front of Vicksburg, General Welsh commanding the 1st division. After the fall of Vicksburg, July 4, the corps returned to Burnside; but on the marcli Welsh was stricken with malarial fever and died at Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1863.

WENDELL, Barrett, educator and author, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 23, 1855; son of Jacob and Mary Bertoldi (Barrett) Wendell; grandson of Jacob Wendell of Portsmouth, N.H., and of Nathaniel Augustus Barrett; great-grand- son of John Wendell; great--grandson of John Wendell of Boston; great'-grandson of Abraham Wendell of New York; great*-grandson of John Wendell of Albany, and greats-grandson of Evert Jansen Wendell, who settled at Ne%v Amsterdam about 1640 and later removed to Albany. Barrett Wendell prepared for college in New York city private schools, and was graduated from Har- vard, A.B., 1877. He .studied law at Harvard, 1877-78, and in New York city and Boston law offices, 1878-80. He was married, at Quincy, Mass., June 1,1880, to Edith, daughter of Will- iam Whitwell and Catherine S. (Curtis) Green- ough of Boston. He was instructor in English at Harvard, 1880-88; assistant professor of English,

1888-98. and full professor of English from 1898. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Massachusetts Historical society, and a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum. In 1902 he was chosen to deliver the Clark series of lectures at Trinity college, Cam- bridge universit}-, England. He is the autlior of: The Duch- ess Emilia, a novel (1885); RankelVs Et- mains. a novel (1887) , English Comiwsitioyi, lectures before the Lowell Institute,

Boston (1891); Lije of Cotton Mather (1891); Sfelligeri and Other Essaijs Con- cerning America

(1893); William Shakspere: A Study in Eliza- bethan Literature (1894); Raleigh in Guiana, a play (1897); ^4 Literary History of America (1900), and many lectures on English composition.

WENTWORTH, Benning, governor of New Hampshire, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., July 24, 1696; son of Lieut-Gov. John and Sarali (Hun- king) Went worth; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Benning) Wentworth and of Mark Hun- king; great-grandson of Samuel Wentworth of Portsmouth, and great--grandson of Elder Wil- liam Wentworth, the emigrant. He was grad- uated from Harvard, A.B., 1715, A.M., 1718; engaged as a merchant in Portsmouth; was a representative in the general assembly; was ap- pointed a king's councillor, Oct. 12, 1734, and in 1741, when the separate provincial government of New Hampshire was established, Dec. 13, 1741, he was made its first governor, serving until 1767. He granted patents of land in New Hampshire, and in southern Vermont, under authority of the crown, and came into collision with the colonial governor of New York, who ac- cused him of encroaching on the colony of New York. He gave to Dartmouth college the 500 acres of land on which the c<jllege buildings were erected, and the town of Bennington, N.H., was named in his honor. He was twice married: first to Abigail, daughter of John Ruck of Boston, and secondly, March 15, 1760, to Martha Hilton, his housekeeper, whose memory is preserved in L(mgfellow's " Lady Wentworth.'' He died in Portsmouth. N.H.. Oct.. 14, 1770.

WENTWORTH, John, governor of New Hampshire, was born in Portsmouth, N.H.. Aug. 9, 1737; son of ^lark Hunking and Eliz;ilietli (Ringe) Wentworth; grandson of Lieut-Gov.