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His nephew, Charles, geologist, b. in Southington, Conn., 4 Oct., 1808; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, 18 Oct., 1886, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1831, and assigned to the 5th infantry. In 1832 he was stationed at Fort Howard, Wis., and, after serving in the Black Hawk war, he resigned on 30 Sept. of the same year. After studying law he followed that profession in Cleveland, and in 1836-'7 he was editorially connected with the Cleveland “Herald.” In 1837 he was appointed assistant geologist of Ohio, under William W. Mather, and given charge of the topographical and mathematical parts of that survey, which disclosed the rich coal and iron deposits of eastern Ohio that are the foundation of its manufacturing industries. At this time he carefully examined and measured several of the works of the mound-builders, and his plans and notes of twenty of these remains were embodied in Davis and Squier's “American Monuments of the Mississippi Valley” (Washington, 1848). From 1847 till 1851 he was engaged by the U. S. government in making a mineralogical and geological survey of the region about Lake Superior and the upper Mississippi. Subsequently he was professionally engaged as a mining engineer in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and in 1858 became associated in the geological work of the survey of Wisconsin. In February, 1861, he was enrolled in a company that tendered its services to Gen. Winfield Scott to escort the president-elect, Abraham Lincoln, to Washington. He was made assistant quartermaster-general on the staff of the governor of Ohio on 17 April, 1861, and during the western Virginia campaign acted as chief engineer of the Ohio troops. At the expiration of his three-months' service he was appointed, on 15 Aug., 1861, colonel of the 20th Ohio infantry, and detailed as chief engineer of the Department of Ohio, with charge of planning and constructing the defences of Cincinnati. He was present at Fort Donelson, where he led his regiment, and after the surrender was sent to the north in charge of over 10000 prisoners. At the battle of Shiloh he commanded the 3d brigade of Gen. Lewis Wallace's division, but failing health compelled his retirement from active service, and he resigned on 19 April, 1862. He then resumed the geological exploration in the Lake Superior and upper Mississippi basin, and continued his literary labors. In 1867 he was active in the founding of the Western Reserve and northern Ohio historical society, of which he was president until his death. His bibliography included about 200 titles, and, in addition to his reports for the geological surveys, he published in the “Smithsonian Contributions” “Descriptions of Ancient Works in Ohio” (Washington, 1851); “On Fluctuations of Level in the North American Lakes” (1860); “Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior” (1863); and “On the Fresh-Water Glacial Drift in the Northwestern States” (1866). He is also the author of “Life of John Fitch,” in Sparks's “American Biography” (Boston, 1845); and “Early History of Cleveland and Vicinity” (Cleveland, 1867).
WHITTLESEY, Frederick, jurist, b. in Wash-
ington, Conn., 12 June, 1799 ; d. in Rochester, N. Y.,
19 Sept., 1851. He was graduated at Yale in 1818,
and was admitted to the bar in Utica, N. Y., in
1821. He settled in Rochester in 1822, was a mem-
ber of the " Morgan committee," and conducted an
anti-Masonic political newspaper in the canvass
of 1828. He was treasurer of Monroe county in
1829-'30, representative in congress from New York
in 1831-5, vice-chancellor of the 8th judicial dis-
trict of the state in 1839-47, and judge of the su-
preme court of New York in 1847-'8. Judge Whit-
tlesey was professor of law at Genesee college in
1850-'l. He published an address that he deliv-
ered at Rochester. 4 July, 1842, and pamphlets.
WHITTLESEY, Joseph H., soldier, b. in New
York in 1821 ; d. in Seattle, W. T., 2 Aug.. 1886.
He was graduated at the U. S. military academy
in 1844, and assigned to the 2d U. S. dragoons,
becoming 1st lieutenant, 18 Oct., 1847. He served
in the military occupation of Texas and in the war
with Mexico, and was brevetted 1st lieutenant for
gallantry at Buena Vista in 1847. Until the open-
ing of the civil war he was on duty in New Mexico
and Oregon. As major of the 5th" U. S. cavalry he
served with the Army of the Potomac till May,
1862. During the remainder of the war Maj.
Whittlesey was employed in organizing volunteer
cavalry. He was retired from active service on
account of disability resulting from exposure in
the line of duty. He was employed on light duty
until February, 1867, when he was ordered to in-
spect the educational institutions of the United
States, for the purpose of devising a system of
military instruction for colleges and universities
with relation to a scheme for future National de-
fence. He was professor of military science at
Cornell in 1868-"I0, and treasurer of the Soldiers'
home, Washington, D. C, till 1881.
WHITTLESEY, Sarah Johnson Cogswell, author, b. in Williamston. Martin co., N. C., about 1825. She was graduated at La Vallie seminary,
in Halifax county, N. C, in 1841. She removed to
Virginia in 1848 and resides in Alexandria. Miss
Whittlesey has written for the periodical press
prose and verse, and among other works has pub-
lished " Heart-Drops from Memory's Urn " ( New-
York, 1852) ; " The Stranger's Stratagem, or the
Double Deceit, and other Stories " (1860) ; " Her-
bert Hamilton, or the Bas Bleu " (1867) ; " Bertha,
the Beauty: a Story of the Southern Revolution "
(Philadelphia, 1871); and, with her brother, "Spring
Buds and Summer Blossoms " (1888).
WHITTREDGE, Worthington, artist, b. in Springfield, Ohio, 22 May, 1820. When he was about twenty years of age he went to Cincinnati, when he soon began portrait-painting. In 1849 he visited Europe, going first to London and Paris, and then to Dlisseldorf, where he was for three years a pupil of Andreas Achenbach. He studied also in Belgium and Holland, and in 1855 went to Rome, remaining there until 1859. In the latter year he returned to the United States and settled in New York, where he was elected an associate of the National academy in 1860, and an academician the following year. In 1874 he was president of the academy. He made a sketching tour to the west in 1865, accompanying Gen. John Pope on his tour of inspection. Mr. Whittredge is an alert student of nature, whose well-finished landscapes, though
