WHITON, John Milton, clergyman, born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, 1 August, 1785; died in Antrim, New Hampshire, 28 September, 1856. He was graduated at Yale in 1805, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church in An-trim, New Hampshire, from 28 September, 1808 till 1 January, 1853, and then of the Congregational church in the neighboring town of Bennington till his death. He received the degree of D.D. from Princeton in 1848. Dr. Whiton wrote "Brief Notices of the Town of Antrim," in the " Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society" (vol. iv., 1852): "Sketches of the Early History of New Hampshire, 1623-1833" (Concord, 1834) ; also statistical account of the Congregational and Presbyterian ministers of Hillsborough county, in the "New Hampshire Repository" for 1846. At the time of his death he was preparing a "History of Presbyterianism in New Hampshire."--His grandson, James Morris, clergyman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 11 April, 1833, was educated at the Boston Latin-school and at Yale, where he was graduated in 18531 He was rector of Hopkins grammar-school, New Haven, Connecticut, from 1854 till 1864, pastor of the 1st Congregational church, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1865-'69, and of the North Congregational church, Lynn, 1869-'75. In 1876-'8 he was principal of Williston seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, and pastor of the 1st Congregational church, Newark, New Jersey, in 1879-'85, and became pastor of Trinity Congregational church, Tremont, New York city, in 1886. He is regarded as a Christian evolutionist. His views regarding endless punishment were made the subject of an inquiry by a council of Congregational churches at Newark in 1879, the result being a vote of confidence and fellowship, notwithstanding his disavowal of that tenet, he has been a frequent contributor to religious journals, and in addition to various school-books, has published "Select Orations of Lysias" (Boston, 1875) ; "Is Eternal Punishment Endless?" in which he maintains that endless punishment is not decisively revealed in the New Testament (1876): " Essay on the Gospel according to Matthew " (1880) ; ': The Gospel of the Resurrection" (1881) ; '" Early Pupils of the Spirit " (London, 1884) ; " The Evolution of Revelation" (New York, 1885); " The Divine Satisfaction" (London, 1886); and two series of discourses given in Congregational churches in England, entitled "Turning of Thought and Conduct" (London, 1887) and "The Law of Liberty" (1888). --His daughter, Mary Bartlett, educator, born in New Haven, Connecticut, 17 August, 1857, was graduated at Smith college in 1879, taught in Newark high-school in 1881-'3, and has since been a teacher in Packer institute, Brooklyn. New York She was the author with her father of "Six Months' Preparation for Reading Xenophon" (New York, 1885).