Wackerhagen, Augustus – Wadsworth, James Samuel
Wackerhagen, Augustus
was born May 22, 1774, in Germany. He was a lutheran clergyman of Columbia county, N. Y.; and the author of Inbegriff des Glaubens und Sittenlehre. He died Nov. 1, 1865, in Clermont, N. Y.
Waddell, Alfred Moore
soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1834, in Hillsborough, N. C. He served in the confederate army as lieutenant-colonel of cavalry. He was elected to the forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Waddell, Hugh
soldier, was born in 1734 in Ireland. He was lieutenant in Colonel James Innes's regiment in the Virginia campaign of 1754, became captain in 1755, built Fort Dobbs, and commanded there in 1756-57. He became colonel in 1759. In 1771 he commanded the expedition against the regulators with the rank of major-general. He died April 9, 1773, in Castle Haynes, N. C.
Waddell, Hugh
lawyer, state senator, was born in 1799 in Newfields, N. C. He represented Orange county in the legislature in 1828; was speaker of the North Carolina state senate in 1836-37, and again a member of that body in 1844-46. He died Nov. 1, 1878, in Wilmington, N. C.
Waddell, James
clergyman, was born July 29, 1739. He was blind, and the original subject of William Wirt's beautiful sketch of The Blind Preacher. He died Sept. 17, 1805, in Virginia.
Waddell, John Newton
educator, was born April 2, 1812, in Willington, S.
C. In 1865-74 he was chancellor of the university of Mississippi, and in 1879-88 he occupied the same post in the Southwestern Presbyterian university, Clarksville, Tenn. Since 1874 he has been secretary of the board of ministerial education of the southern presbyterian church.
Waddell, Moses
clergyman, college president, was born July 29, 1770, in Rowan county, N. C. In 1819-29 he was president of the university of Georgia. He published Memoirs of Miss Catherine Elizabeth Smelt. He died July 21, 1840, in Athens, Ga.
Waddell, William Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 23, 1864, in Crittenden county, Ky. This able lawyer of Jasper, Tenn., has been county attorney, and served two terms in the Tennessee state legislature.
Waddill, Edmund
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born May 22, 1855, in Charles City county, Va.
In 1880 he was elected by the legislature of Virginia judge of the county court of Henrico, and resigned this office in 1883 to accept the office of United States attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, which position he filled till 1885. He was elected in the latter year to the legislature, in which body he served till he resigned to take his seat in the fifty-first congress.
He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Waddill, James Richard
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1842, in Springfield, Mo. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1863, when he resigned. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1874; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortysixth congress as a democrat.
Wade, Benjamin Franklin
lawyer, jurist, state senator, United States senator, was born Oct. 27, 1800, in Feeding Hills Parish, Mass. He was a justice of the peace, prosecuting attorney for Ashtabula county, state senator, and president of a judicial circuit. In 1851 he was elected a senator in congress from Ohio for the term ending in 1857; and was twice re-elected, his third term ending in 1869. At the meeting of the fortieth congress he was chosen president of the senate pro tempore. In 1869 he was appointed a commissioner for the Pacific Railroad company. He died March 2, 1878, in Jefferson, Ohio.
Wade, Decius C
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 23, 1835, in Andover, Ohio. In 1860 he was appointed county judge of Ashtabula county, Ohio, and was twice elected to that position, serving seven years. In 1869 he was elected a state senator, and while serving in that capacity in 1871 was appointed chief justice of Montana; and was reappointed in 1875; again reappointed in 1879, and for a fourth term in 1883.
Wade, Edward
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1803, in West Springfield, Mass. He was elected justice of the peace in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1832; removed to Unionville, and remained until 1837; finally settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-third congress, and was three times re-elected.
He died in August, 1866, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wade, James F
soldier, was born in 1843 in Ohio; and is a son of Hon. B.
Wade. He was brevetted a number of times during the civil war for gallant services, and in 1866 was appointed captain in the sixth cavalry. About 1890 he was commissioned brigadier-general; and during the Spanish-American war in 1898 had command of the United States forces at Tampa.
Wade, Leonidas Elijah
educator, lawyer, was born April 13, 1858, in Tallokas, Ga. He has been a successful school teacher, and is now a successful lawyer of Jacksonville, Fla.
Wade, Martin J
lawyer, educator, lecturer, jurist, was born Oct. 20, 1861, in Burlington, Vt. He was professor of law in the state university of Iowa during 1891-93. He was appointed judge of the eighth judicial district of Iowa in 1893; received the election to that office in 1894, which position he still fills. He also lectures upon Evidence in the law department of the state university, and upon Medical Jurisprudence in the medical department of the same institution. In 1897 he was elected president of the Iowa State Bar association.
Wade, William H
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1835, in Clarke county, Ohio. He enlisted in the union army in 1861, and rose through the intermediate grades to lieutenant-colonel. In 1880 he was elected a representative in the Missouri state legislature, and was re-elected in 1882. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Wade, William P
author. He is the author of a Treatise on the Law of Notice; On the Operation and Construction of Retroactive Laws; Manual of American Mining Laws in the Western States; The Laws of Notice as Affecting Civil Rights and Remedies; and The Law of Attachment and Garnishment.
Wadleigh, Bainbridge
lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Jan. 4, 1831, in Bradford, N. H.
He was a member of the New Hampshire state house of representatives for eight years between 1865 and 1873; and was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879. He died Jan. 24, 1891, in Boston, Mass.
Wadley, William Morris
railroad manager, was born Nov. 12, 1813, in Brentwood, N. H. He was the pioneer in successfully consolidating railroads in the south; and also created the Ocean Steamship company, with its immense wharves; and organized the powerful South Railway and Steamship association. He died Aug. 10, 1882.
Wadsworth, Adrian Rowe
civil engineer, legislator, was born Nov. 26, 1855, in Farmington, Conn. He is a descendant of William Wadsworth, who landed in Boston in 1832; and the Wadsworths have been among the most prominent public spirited of the families of Farmington.
In 1880 he graduated from the scientific department of Yale college; and two years later was elected city surveyor of Shamokin, Pa. He next entered upon the duties of construction and bridge building. In 1885 he moved to Minneapolis, where he practiced his profession in engineering work for street and motor line tramways. He subsequently returned to his native city, and since 1886 has been interested in developing a public water supply. He is president of the Connecticut Dairyman's association, and president of the Farmer's association of the general assembly. He takes an active part in political affairs; was justice of the peace for four years, and received the election in 1897 to the general assembly of the Connecticut state legislature.
Wadsworth, Benjamin
college president, was born in 1669 in Milton, Mass. In 1725 he was elected president of Harvard college, serving until his death.
He died March 16, 1737, in Cambridge, Mass.
Wadsworth, James
congressman, was born July 6, 1730, in Durham, Conn.
He was a delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress from 1783 to 1786.
He died Sept. 22, 1817, in Durham, Conn.
Wadsworth, James Samuel
soldier, philanthropist, was born Oct. 30, 1807, in Geneseo, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1833. He never practiced his profession but devoted himself to the management of the family estate in western New York, which amounted to fifteen thousand acres. In 1852 he was elected president of the State Agricultural society, in which he was interested during his life. He founded a public library in Geneseo; was a subscriber to the endowment of Geneseo college; aided in establishing the school-district library system. died May 8, 1864, near Chancellorsville, Va.
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