WHITNEY, Henry Clay, lawyer; b. Detroit, Me., Feb. 23, 1831; ed. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Augusta Coll., Ky. and Farmers Coll., Ohio; m. Sarah Anna Snyder, Urbana, Ill.; intimate friend of Lincoln from 1854 until his death; paymaster, U. S. A., 1861-5; State senator, Kansas, 1871-2; att’y for Ill. Cent. R. R., 1855-61; for Florida Southern R. R., 1881-2. Author: Life on the Circuit with Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce; also many essays on Lincoln. Residence: 164 Bellingham Av., Beachmont, Revere, Mass. Office: 27 Doane St., Boston.

Whitney, Henry Clay, lawyer, state senator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1831, in Detroit, Maine. He was an intimate friend of Lincoln from 1854 until his death; and in 1861-65 was paymaster in the United States army. In 1871-72 he was state senator of Kansas. He is the author of Life on the Circuit with Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce; and also many essays on Lincoln. He died Feb. 27, 1905, in Salem Mass.

PUTNAM, James Osborne, diplomatist, was born in Attica, N.Y., July 4, 1818 ; son of Harvey and Myra (Osborne) Putnam, and a descendant, in the eighth generation, of John and Priscilla Putnam, who emigrated from Buckinghamshire, England, in 1634 and settled in Salem, Mass. He passed his freshman and sophomore years in Hamilton college, 1837-38, and entered the Yale junior class of 1839, and was graduated as of that class in 1865, receiving his A.M. degree the same year.