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 WHEELOCK

WHERRY

classes instructed by Dr. Wheelock, 99 pupils be- came graduates of the college. The Revolution- ary war materially lessened the attendance of the Indians at the Charity school (which was in- corporated with the college, 1849), interfered with the receipts from Great Britain, and upon Dr. Wheelock's deatli, the whole property of the col- lege, if sold, would not have paid its indebted- ness. He named his son, John Wheelock, his successor to the presidency of the college. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Edinburgh university in 1767. He is the author of: Narrative of the Indian School at Lebanon, with several continuations (1762-75). See his "Memoir" by the Revs. David McClure and Elijah Parish. Dr. Wheelock died in Han- over, N. H., April 24, 1779.

WHEELOCK, John, educator, was born in Lebanon, Conn., Jan. 28, 1754; son of Eleazar (q.v.) and Mary (Brinsmaid) Wheelock. He was a student at Yale, 1767-70, and was graduated in the first class from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1771, A.M., 1774, remaining there as tutor, 1772-74. He was a member of the Provincial congress, 1774; a I'epi'esentative in the generel assembly, 1775; was commissioned major of New Y'ork militia in 1777, and lieutenant-colonel in the Continental arjny in November, 1777, serving in an expedition against the Indians and on the staff of Gen. Horatio Gates, in whose family he lived until 1779, when he succeeded his father as presi- dent of Dartmouth college. He was appointed pro- fessor of civil and ecclesiastical history in 1782, visiting England in the financial interests of the college in 1783, and having the misfortune to lose the money he had solicited and also his private papers in a shipwreck off Cape Cod on his return in 1784. During his administration, Dartmouth hall, the college chapel and a new building for the Cliarity School were built, a~id a legislative grant of a township of wild lands (now Clarksville, N.H. ) was obtained, which partly relieved the inherited debt of the college, amounting to $30,000 in 1789, and the medical department was established in 1788. Dr. Wheelock was removed from the presi- dency of the college in 1815, owing to a religious controversy, and the famous lawsuit of the college followed, which resulted in its reorganization as Dartmouth university in 1817, and the reinstat- ing of Dr. Wheelock as president, who, however, died in a few months thereafter. Dr. Wheelock was married, Nov. 29, 1786, to Maria, daugliter of Gov. Christian Suhm of St. Thomas, W.I., and their daughter Maria Malleville, was married to the Rev. Dr. W^illiam Allen (q.v.), president of Bowdoin college. He received the honorary de- gree of LL.D. from Dartmouth, 1789, and was ex officio trustee of the college, 1779-1815. Dr. Wheelock bequeathed half of his property

to Princeton Thelogical seminary. He is the author of Essays on Painting, Music and Poetry (1774); Eidogy on Prof. John Smith (1810); Sketches of the History of Dai-tmouth College (1816) and an historical work in MS. See Shirley's "The Dartmouth College Causes " (1879). Dr. Wheelock died in Hanover, N.H., April 4, 1817,

WHELAN, James, R.C. bishop, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, Dec. 8, 1823. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1833; entered the Dominican novitiate at Springfield, Ky., in 1839, and took the vows in 1842. He attended the Dominican convent at Somerset, Ohio; was ordered deacon and ordained priest, Aug. 2, 1846, by Archbishop Purcell at St. Joseph's Monastery, and engaged in missionary work in Ohio. He was elected president of St. Joseph's college. Perry county, Ohio, in 1852; was chosen provincial of the Dominican province in the United States, and was nominated coadjutor to Bishop Miles of Nashville. He was consecrated Bishop at St. Louis, Mo., May 8. 1859, by Arch- bishop P.R. Kenrick, assisted by Bishops, Juncker, Miege and Smythe, his title being bishop of " Marcopolis," and coadjutor of the Bishop of Nashville. He succeeded Bisliop Miles to the see of Nashville, Feb. 21, 1860. During the civil war, lie was accused of misusing his military pass through the Federal lines, and in 1864 he resigned his see by letter, dated, February, 1864, and re- tired to St. Joseph's convent. He declined the appointment of bishop of " Diocletianopolis,"in September, 1864. He is the author of Catena Aurea, or a Golden Chain of Evidences Demon- strating that Papal Infallibility is no Novelty (1871). He died at Zanesville, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1878.

WHELAN, Richard Vincent, R.C. bishop, was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 28, 1809; son of David and Sarah (Maccubbin) Whelan. He at- tended Mount St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md., and the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris; was ordained priest, May 1, 1831, at Versailles, France, by Monsignor de Quelen of Paris, and on his re- turn to the United States he was appointed pastor at Harper's Ferry. He was consecrated bishop at Baltimore, Md., March 21, 1841, by Archbishop Eccleston, assisted by Bishops Fenwick of Boston and Hughes of New York, and was elected bishop of Richmond, Va. He founded schools and missions, and in 1846 labored as a priest in Wheel- ing, W. Va., where he erected a cathedral and opened a seminary. When the bishopric of Wheeling was created he was chosen its first bishop. He establislied a college in Wheeling, opened several schools and founded nearly fifty churches. He was present at the Vatican council, 1869-70. He died in Baltimore, Md., July 7, 1874.

WHERRY, William Mackey, soldier, was born in St. Louis, Mo,, Sept. 13, 1836; son of