WHITTAKER, Henry, author, born in Radnorshire, Wales, 15 October, 1808; died in New York city, 9 February, 1881. He came to New York in 1850, and became managing clerk in a law-office. He published "Practice and Pleading under the Code Original and Amended, with Appendix of Forms" (New York, 1852; 3d ed., 1863" with a supplement, 1867), and " Analysis of Recent Decisions on Practice and Pleadings" (1863).--His son, Frederick, author, born in London, England, 12 December, 1838, came to this country with his father in 1850, and studied architecture. During the civil war he was in the National cavalry service, rising to the rank of lieutenant and brevet captain. After the war he became a teacher and journalist. Concerning the circumstances of the battle in which General George A. Custer met his death, he entered into a long and bitter controversy, through a congressional memorial and otherwise, which re-suited in a military court of inquiry being held in Chicago in 1879, in which his version of the facts was virtually sustained. Since that controversy Mr. Whittaker has withdrawn from all literature save that of the popular order, he has written numerous stories for the New York " Ledger," and in March, 1884, he published in the New York "Tribune" a "Defence of Dime Novels, by a Writer of Them." He has published a "Life of General George Armstrong Custer" (New York, 1876) and "Cadet Button," a novel (1878).