WHEDON, DANIEL DENISON: Methodist Epispal; b. at Onondaga, N. Y., Mar. 20, 1808; d. at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., June 8, 1885. He was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., 1828; studied law at Rochester and Rome, N. Y.; became a teacher in Oneida (N. Y.). Conference Seminary; a tutor in Hamilton College, 1831;. professor of ancient languages and literature in Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1833; Methodist pastor, 1843; professor of rhetoric, logic, and history in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1845; again entered the pastorate at Jamaica, L. L, N. Y., 1855; was elected editor of The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1856, and reelected quadrennially until May, 1884, when his health, which had long been feeble, forbade his continuing in the position. He was a man of learning, literary ability, and great industry. He was the author of Public Addresses, Collegiate and Popular (Boston, 1856); The Freedom of the Will, as a Basis of Human, Responsibility, Elucidated and Maintained in, its Issue with the Necessitarian Theories of Hobbes, Edwards, the Princeton Essayists, and other Leading Advocates (1864); Commentary on the New Testament (5 vols., 1860-75); Essays, Reviews and Discourses, with a Biographical Sketch (1887); Statements Theological and Critical (1887); and edited the first seven volumes of a Com mentary on the Old Testament (9 vols., 1880-1907).

Bibliography: Besides the sketch in Essays, Reviews, and Discourses, ut sup., consult J. M. Buckley, in American Church History Series, v. 386, 498, 500, New York, 1896.

WHERRY, ELWOOD MORRIS: Presbyterian missionary to India; b. at South Bend, Pa., Mar. 26, 1843. He studied at Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) College (B.A., 1862; M.A., 1875), and Princeton Theological Seminary (graduated,

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1887), having meanwhile engaged in teaching, 1862 1884; was ordained an evangelist and went to India in 1867, being stationed at Rawal Pindi, 18689, and at Lodiana, 1869-83; was professor in the theo logical seminary at Saharanpur, 1883-88; returned to America and was district secretary of the Amer ican Tract Society in Chicago, 1889-98, for two years managing the bookstore of the society; in 1898 he resumed his work in Lodiana. He is the founder of the Nur Afshan "Light Disseminator" (1872), a weekly paper in the Hindu language, of which he was editor for twenty-one years. He also edited, in his capacity of secretary of the World's Congress of Missions at Chicago, 1893: Missions at Home and Abroad: Papers and Addresses presented at the World's Congress of Missions . . . (New York, 1895), as well as Woman in Missions: Papers and Addresses Presented at the Woman's Congress of Missions . . . 1893 (1894). He is the author of The Comprehensive Commentary on the Qurkn (4 vols., London, 1882-86); Zainab the Panjabi (1893); Islam, or, the Religion of the Turk (1894); The Mos lem Controversy (1905), and a number of lesser works on related subjects. He has also translated a num ber of works in English on religious subjects into the native languages of North India.