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1850 he was reappointed Secretary of State, and continued in office till his death. He died at Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1852.

Whitney, Adeline D. T. (page 228), was born in Boston in Her literary career began about 1856, since which time

she has written several novels and poems.

Whittier, John Greenleaf (pages 39, 41, 137), one of the best loved of American poets, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1807. He spent his boyhood on a farm, occasionally writing verses for the papers even then. In 1829 he edited a newspaper in Boston, and the next year assumed a similar position in Hartford. For two years he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. In 1836 he edited an antislavery paper in Philadelphia. "Snow-Bound," published in 1865, is one of the longest and best of his poems. Several of his shorter pieces are marked by much smoothness and sweetness. He died in 1892.

Wirt, William (page 256), an American lawyer and author, was born at Bladensburg, Maryland, in 1772. He was educated privately, and in 1792 was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law; he removed to Richmond in 1799. From 1817 to 1829 he was attorney general of the United States. His last years were spent in Baltimore. He died

in 1834.

Wolfe, Charles (page 309), an Irish clergyman and poet, was born in Dublin in 1791. "The Burial of Sir John Moore," one of the finest poems of its kind in the English language, was written in 1817, and first appeared in the Newry Telegraph. Byron said of this ballad that he would rather be the author of it than of any other ever written.

Yonge, Charlotte M. (page 49), was born in Hampshire, England in 1823. She wrote a large number of books, some historical and others works of fiction. Her best known novel is "The Heir of Redclyffe." She died in 1901.

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