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Lord, William Paine

soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1838 in Dover, Del. During the civil war he was major of the first regiment, Delaware United States cavalry; and afterward became lieutenant of the second regiment United States artillery. He was city attorney of Salem, Oregon, in 1870; a member of the state senate in 1878; judge of the supreme court and chief justice during 1880-94; and in 1895 he was elected governor of Oregon for four years. LORD, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, clergyman, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1819, in Madison county, N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman of Vicksburg, Miss., and more recently of Cooperstown, N. Y., whose poems attracted the praise of Wordsworth. His works are: Poems; Christ in Hades; and André, a tragedy.