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vessel was captured at Charleston, S.C.,by Sir Henrj'' Clinton, and he himself held as prisoner until the close of liostilities. He commanded the first vessel, that unfurled the American flag in the river Thames in 17S4, and was a farmer in Cranston, R.I., until 1788, when he purchased a farm near Marietta, Ohio, where he lived until his death. A portrait of Captain Whipple, copied by Healy from an original, hangs in Brown university. He died in Ohio, May 29, 1819. WHIPPLE, Amiel Weeks, soldier, was born in Greenwicli, Mass., in 1818; son of David and Abigail (Pepper) Whipple; grandson of David and Arethusia (Brooks) Whipple, and of James and Lydia (Powers) Whipple, and a descendant of Mathew Whipple (born about 1605; died Sept. 28, 1647), who came from Essex, England, and settled in 1638 at Ipswich, Mass., where he re- ceived a grant of land, and held important offices. Amiel Weeks Whipple attended Amherst college in 1836, and was graduated at the U.S. Military academy, July 1, 1841, being commissioned 2d lieutenant of the topographical engineers. After the Mexican war he was the surveyor and act- ing principal astronomer of the Mexican boundary survey. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, April 24, 1851, and captain, July 1, 1855. In 1852 and 1853 he had charge of the Pacific Railway survey along the 35tli parallel, completing the work and his report in Washington. From 1857 until the outbreak of the civil war, he was stationed in Detroit, Mich., in charge of the lighthouse districts extending from Lake Superior to the St. Lawrence river, and lake and river improve- ments in the same territory. He was chief topo- graphical engineer of the defences of Washing- ton, D.C., and of the Army of the Potomac, in the Manassas campaign, being brevetted lieuten- ant-colonel for his services. He was promoted major, Sept. 9, 1861, and commissioned brig- adier-genei'al of volunteers, April 14, 1862, when lie was at once assigned to the command of the defenses of Washington, south of the Potomac, with his headquarters at Arlington; but late in the fall johied the Army of the Potomac, in com- mand of the 3d division, 3d corps of Hooker's grand division, participating in the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13-15, 1862. He held the .same command under Sickles at Chancellors- ville. May 2-4, 1863, where he was mortally wounded. He was brevetted brigadier-general, U.S.A., May 4, 1863; was promoted major-gen- eral of volunteers. May 6, 1863, and was brevetted mojor-general, U.S.A., May 7, 1863. He was married Sept. 12, 1843, to Eleanor, daughter of John Nathaniel and Eveline (Blunt) Sherburne of Portsmouth, N.H., and his son, Charles Will- iam Whipple, was graduated at the U.S. Mil- itary academy in 1868, became captain in the

ordnance department, served as lieutenant- colonel of volunteers in 1898, and was retired for disability in 1901. General Whipple died in Washington, D.C., May 7, 1863.

WHIPPLE, Edwin Percy, author, was born in Gloucester, Mass., March 8, 1819; son of Mat- thew and Lydia (Gardiner) Whipple. His father died when he was quite young, and his mother removed to Salem, IMass. Whipple was employed in Boston, and became a member of the Mercan- tile library accociation, before which he read an original poem in 1840. His article on Macaulay in 1843, attracted considerable attention, and in the same year a lecture before the Mercantile Library association, began his long career as a lecturer. He was married in 1847, to Charlotte Hastings. He was a voluminous magazine corre- spondent, and the author of many books, includ- ing: Essays and Revieivs (2 vols., 1848-49); Lit- erature and Life (1849); Character and Char- acteristic Men (1866); Success and its Conditions (1871); Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1869); Recollections of Eminent JSIen. published post- humously in (1887); also American Literature and Other Papers (1887). He died in Boston, Mass., June 16, 18^6.

WHIPPLE, Henry Benjamin, first bishop of Minnesota and 6Sth in succession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born in Adams, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1822; son of the Hon. John and Elizabeth

grandson of Benjamin,

(Wager) Whipple; U.S.N., and Eliza- beth Whipple, and of the Hon. Henry and Elizabeth Wager, and a descendant of

Wager, one of

the electors of Presi- dent Jefferson, and of an ancestry in which figured many officers of the army and navy and men useful in church, state and country. He attended private schools in New York, and on reaching man- hood engaged for about one year in mercantile pursuits, which he gave up to prepare for holy orders. He studied theology under the Rev. Dr. W. D. Wilson, and at Hobart Divinity school; was admitted to the diaconate Aug. 17, 1849; ad- vanced to the priesthood, July 16, 1850, and was rector of Zion church. Rome, N.Y., 1820-57, and of Christ church, Chicago, 111., 1857-59. He was elected bishop of the diocese of Minnesota and was consecrated at St. James's churcli Riclimond, Va., Oct. 18, 1859, by Bishops Kemper, DeLancey

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