Wakefield, Cyrus – Waldstein, Charles
Wakefield, Cyrus
manufacturer, was born Feb. 7, 1811, in Roxbury, N. H.
He originated the rattan business in this country, and discovered several methods of utilizing the rattan waste, while of the split rattans he made furniture and carriage-bodies. He established a large factory for these manufactures in South Reading, Mass., where his rattan-works cover seven acres of ground. He died Oct. 26, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
Wakefield, George Washing- Ton
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 22, 1839, near De Witt, Ill. He was admitted to the bar in 1868; in 1885-86 he became circuit judge in the fourth judicial district of Iowa; and since 1887 has been district judge. Since 1892 he has been president of the board of trustees of Sioux City Public library. He is interested in science and literature, and occasionally writes on those subjects.
Wakefield, James B
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1828 in Connecticut. He was a member of the first state legislature of Minnesota in 1857; and was again a member of the legislature in 1865, and was elected speaker. He was a state senator in 1867-69; and in the latter year was appointed receiver of the United States land office at Winnebago City. He resigned in 1875, and was elected lieutenant-governor of Minnesota.
He was elected a representative from Minnesota to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
Wakefield, Mrs. Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest
was born Dec. 7, 1836, in Royalton, Mass. She was a versewriter remembered for her poem, Over the River. She died Sept. 21, 1870, in Winchendon, Mass.
Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont
clergyman, author, was born in 1804 in Danbury, Conn. He was a methodist clergyman of New York city among whose writings are The Heroes of Methodism; Lost Chapters Recovered from Early American Methodism; Reminiscences; and The American Temperance Cyclopedia. He died April 27, 1876, in New York city.
Wakelin, Mary a. Hitchcock
educator, temperance worker, was born April 28, 1834, in Rodman, N. Y. She has attained success in educational work, and for six years was state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Nebraska.
Wakely, Ebenezer
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He settled in Wisconsin; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Nebraska.
Wakeman, Abraham
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 31, 1824, in Fairfield, Conn. In 1850 he was elected to the New York legislature; and was re-elected in 1851. In 1854 he was elected an alderman in New York, serving two years. In 1856 he was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress; and also frequently served as a member of state conventions.
Wakeman, Seth
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1811, in Franklin, Vt. He was district attorney of Genesee county, N. Y., from 1851-57; and was a member of the assembly of the state of New York in 1856-57. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of New York in 1867-68; and was elected to the forty-second congress as a republican, serving with ability on several important committees while a member of that body.
Walbridge, Arthur Dewey
musical composer, was born April 10, 1843, in Gaines, N. Y. He was the author of the words and music of several popular songs, including Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep; Sleeping Where the Daisies Grow; Baby Meets Me on the Stairs; and college songs.
He died Dec. 14, 1872, in Rochester, N. Y.
Walbridge, David S
agriculturist, congressman, was born July 30, 1802, in Bennington, Vt. He removed to Michigan in 1842; and was elected a representative in congress from that state in 1854, and served until 1859. He died June 15, 1868, in Kalamazoo.
Walbridge, Henry S
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1851 to 1853.
Walbridge, Hiram
congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1821, in Ithaca, N. Y.
Removing to New York city he was elected a representative in congress from New York, serving from 1853 to 1855. He died Dec. 6, 1870, in New York city.
Walch, Henry F
stenographer, was born July 19, 1848, in Madison county, N.
Y. For thirty-three years he has devoted his time to stenographic work. In 1890 he was elected the first president of the Michigan Law Stenographers' association, and received the election again in 1896.
Walcott, Charles Doolittle
geologist, author, was born March 31, 1850, in New York Mills, N. Y. He is a geologist of note, director of the United States geological survey from 1894; and the author of The Trilobite; Paleontology of the Eureka District; The Cambrian Faunas of North America: The Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olinus Zone; and Correlation Papers.
Walcott, Charles Melton
actor, author, was born in London, England. He was an actor and playwright of Philadelphia, among whose plays are The Course of True Love; Hoboken; Washington, or Valley Forge; and A Good Fellow. died May 10, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Walcutt, Charles Carroll
soldier, was born Feb. 12, 1838, in Columbus, Chio. He served through the civil war, and for gallantry and meritorious services received the rank of major-general of the United States army.
Walden, Hiram
state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1800, in Rutland county, Vt. He attained the office of major-general of militia. In 1836 he was elected to the New York state legislature; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1849 to 1851.
Walden, John M
clergyman, bishop, was born Feb. 11, 1831, in Lebanon, Ohio.
He is a successful clergyman, and bishop of the methodist episcopal church at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Walden, Madison M
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1836, in Adams county, Ohio. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1865 as captain of infantry and cavalry. He had charge of a newspaper at Centreville, Icwa; and was a member of the house of representatives of Iowa in 1866 and 1867. He was a member of the state senate in 1868 and 1869; and was lieutenantgovernor of Iowa in 1870. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the fortysecond congress as a republican.
Walden, Treadwell
clergyman, author, was born in 1830 in New York.
He is an episcopal clergyman of Washington; and the author of Sunday-School Prayer Book; Our English Bible and its Ancestors; and The Great Meaning of Metanoia.
Waldo, Daniel
clergyman, was born Sept. 10, 1762, in Windham, Conn. In 1855, at the age of ninety-three, he was made chaplain of the house of representatives. He died July 30, 1864, in Syracuse, N. Y.
Waldo, Frank
meteorologist, educator, author, was born in 1857 in Ohio. He is a meteorologist of Princeton, N. J., formerly a junior professor in the United States signal service. Beside a number of scientific monographs he has published Modern Meteorology; and Elementary Meteorology.
Waldo, H. L
lawyer, jurist. In 1876 he was appointed chief justice of the United States court for the territory of New Mexico.
Waldo, Leonard
astronomer, author, was born March 4, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was appointed assistant at the Harvard observatory in 1875, and continued there until 1880, after which, until 1887, he was astronomer in charge of the horological bureau of the Winchester observatory of Yale. He is the author of cyclopædia articles and popular papers on technical subjects.
Waldo, Lorin P
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1802, in Canterbury, Conn. He was state's attorney for Connecticut from 1837 to 1849; and was for two years judge of the court of probate in his district, and six years a member of the legislature of his state. In 1849 he was elected to the thirty-first congress; and in 1852 was elected commissioner of the school fund of Connecticut. In 1853 he was appointed commissioner of pensions. In 1855 he was elected to the office of judge of the supreme court.
Waldo, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1721 in Maine. In 1760 he was appointed judge of probate for Cumberland county, Maine. He died April 16, 1770, in Maine.
Waldo, Samuel Lovett
artist, was born April 6, 1783, in Windham, Conn. For fifty-three years he painted portraits in New York city; among them are those of General Macomb; and Mayors Willett, Radcliffe, and Allen. He died Feb. 16, 1861, in New York city.
Waldo, Samuel Putnam
author, was born in 1780 in Connecticut. He was a writer of Hartford, Conn.; and the author of Tour of President Monroe in 1818; Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson; Life of Stephen Decatur; and Biographical Sketches. He died in March, 1826, in Hartford, Conn.
Waldron, Edmund Quincy Sheafe
clergyman, college president, was born July 6, 1812, in Dover, N. H.
From 1857 till 1860 he had charge of St.
Matthew's church at Washington, D. C.
From 1860 till 1869 he was president of Borromeo college, Pikesville, Md. He died April 16, 1888, in Pikesville, Md.
Waldron, Henry
civil engineer, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1819, in Albany, N. Y. He was elected to the legislature of Michigan in 1843; served as a representative in congress during the years 1855-58; and was also elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was elected a representative to the forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Waldstein, Charles
archæologist, author, was born March 30, 1856, in New York city. He is an eminent archæologist, and the director of the American School of Archæology at Athens from 1888. He is the author of Excavations at the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of Emotion and Intellect; Essays on the Art of Pheidias; The Work of John Ruskin; and Study of Art in Universities.