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and joined the Republicans. Elected mayor of Chicago in 1857 and again in 1860, he aggressively supported AL's administration during the Civil War, even though relations between the two men were never cordial. (HEI; DAB)
white, horace (1834¬1916)
Born in New Hampshire, White moved with his family to Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1838 after his father founded the town. He graduated from Beloit College in 1853 and moved to Chicago, where he began a long journalistic career. In 1858 he re‚ported the Lincoln-Douglas debates for the partisan Republican newspaper Chi‚cago Press and Tribune, and during the Civil War he served as the paper's Wash‚ington, D.C., correspondent. After the war he bought an interest in the Tribune, serving as its editor in chief from 1865 to 1874. In 1884 he purchased an interest in the New York Evening Post, becoming its chief editor in 1899. He was instru‚mental in ‚nding a publisher for the second edition (1892) of WHH's and JWW's biography of AL and contributed a chapter on the debates. (NCAB; DAB)
whitehurst, stephen s. (1828¬75)
In 1848 Whitehurst became editor of a Spring‚eld temperance paper, the Illinois Organ. The next year he married Maria C. Matheny, the sister of AL's friend James Matheny. Later he served as deputy circuit clerk in Sangamon County and in the 1860s as circuit clerk. (Power; HSC; letter from Terence A. Tanner, January 6, 1993)
whitney, henry clay (1831¬1905)
Whitney came to Urbana, Illinois, in 1854 and practiced law with AL on the Eighth Judicial Circuit for the next seven years. Shortly after his inauguration AL appointed Whitney a paymaster of volunteers, a position he held until March 1865. After the war Whitney practiced law in Kansas and then moved to Chicago, where he was associated with Walter B. Scates, former justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. In 1892 he published a memoir, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln. (Paul M. Angle, ¿Introduction,î in Henry Clay Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln [1892; rpt., Caldwell, Idaho, 1940]; Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictio‚nary of the United States Army [Washington, D.C., 1903])
wickizer, john h. (1821¬89)
A Pennsylvania-born legal colleague of AL on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Wick‚izer came to Bloomington in 1847, where he served as mayor and represented McLean County in the Illinois legislature for several terms. During and after the Civil War he held a variety of federal appointments under Republican adminis‚trations. (Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society 2 [1903]; The His‚tory of McLean County, Ill. [Chicago, 1879])
wilder, daniel webster (1832¬1911)
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Wilder graduated from Harvard in 1856, studied law at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1857. He
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