WETMORE, Prosper Montgomery, author, born in Stratford, Connecticut, 14 February, 1798; died in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, 16 March, 1876. He removed with his parents to New York city, and after the death of his father was placed in a counting-house. Afterward he engaged in business and entered into partnership with his brother Robert in the dry-goods trade. He joined the 11th regiment of state militia in 1819, was made major in 1824, and colonel in 1826, held several posts on the staff of the governor, and at one time was brigade-inspector. In 1845-'9 he was navy-agent, and for many years he was paymaster-general of the state militia. In 1834-'5 he served in the legislature, was chairman of the committee on colleges and academies, and advocated the bill to establish the school-district libraries, tie became a regent of the University of New York in 1833, was president of the American art union until 1850, was chosen secretary of the New York chamber of commerce in 1843, and vice-president in 1849. He also aided in establishing a line of steamships to Nicaragua. He was a founder of the Union defence committee in April, 1861, and was its secretary until the close of the war. General Wetmore began to write for magazines and annuals at the age of seventeen, and was at one time connected with the "New York Mirror." He was a popular speaker, and in 1832 He recited a poem, "Ambition," before a literary society of Hamilton college. He published" Lexington, with other Fugitive Poems" (New York, 1830) ; "Observations on the War with Mexico" (1847)" and an edition of the " Poems of James Nack," with a biographical notice (1838).