Walsh, Patrick – Walton, George Augustus
Walsh, Patrick
journalist, state legislator, United States senator, was born Jan. 1, 1840, in Ireland. In 1862 he moved to Augusta, Ga., and for forty-two years has been connected with the press of that city, most of the time as manager and editor of the Augusta Chronicle, which was established in 1785. In 1870 he was elected a member of the city council of Augusta, and in 1873-77 he served as a member of the state legislature from Richmond county. In 1894 he was appointed senator from Georgia to fill a vacancy.
Walsh, Robert
public official, journalist, author, was born in 1784 in Baltimore, Md. He was a prominent Philadelphian who was United States consul at Paris in 1845-51. In 1811 he established the American Review of History and Politics, the first quarterly in the United States. He was the author of An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain; Letter on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government; Correspondence Respecting Russia; Didactics; and The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science. He died Feb. 7, 1859, in Paris, France.
Walsh, T
poet. He is a writer of Louisville, Ky., and the author of a volume of Poems.
Walsh, Thomas Y
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1851 to 1853.
Walsh, William
lawyer, congressman, was born May 11, 1828, in Ireland. In 1874 he was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Walsh, William Shepard
journalist, author, was born Feb. 1, 1854, in France. He was a Philadelphia writer, (editor of Lippincott's Magazine in 1886-90, and the author of Authors and Authorship; Pen Pictures of Earlier Victorian Authors: Faust: the Legend and the Poem; Paradoxes of a Philistine; Pen Pictures of Modern Authors; and Our Young Folks' History of the Roman Empire. He died about 1896.
Walter, Alfred
railroad president, was born Oct. 2, 1851, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Since 1894 he has been president of the Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill railroad.
Walter, George William
organist, was born Dec. 16, 1851, in New York city. As an organist he is known for his powers in extemporaneous performance and novelty in registration. His musical library contains more than eight thousand works.
Walter, Nehemiah
clergyman, author, was born in December, 1663, in Ireland. He was a pastor at Roxbury, Mass., from 1688 until his death, and the author of The Sense of Indwelling Sin in the Unregenerate; Sermons; and Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven. He died Sept. 17, 1750, in Roxbury, Mass.
Walter, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 13, 1696, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, the colleague of his father, and the author of Grounds and Rules of Music Explained; and Infallibility May Sometimes Mistake. He died Jan. 10, 1725, in Roxbury, Mass.
Walter, Thomas
botanist, author, was born about 1740 in England. He was a successful planter near Charleston, S. C., and in 1788 published a work entitled Flora Caroliniana. He died in 1788 in Charleston, S. C.
Walter, Thomas Ustick
architect, was born Sept. 4, 1804, in Philadelphia, Pa. Among the many monuments of his skill as designer and architect, are the Girard college, perhaps the finest specimen of classical architecture in America; the iron dome and extension of the capitol at Washington, east and west wings of the patent office, and extension of the general postoffice. He died Oct. 30, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Walter, William
clergyman, was born Oct. 7, 1737, in Roxbury, Mass. In 1792 he became rector of Christ church in Boston, Mass., where he ministered till his death. In 1796 he was invited to deliver the Dudleian lecture at Harvard college, and in 1798 he pronounced the anniversary discourse before the Massachusetts Humane society, which was published. He died Dec. 5, 1800, in Boston, Mass.
Walter, William Bicker
author, poet, was born April 19, 1796, in Boston, Mass. ne was a poet who published Poems; and Sukey, suggested by Halleck's Fanny. He died April 23, 1822, in Boston, Mass.
Walter, William Henry
musician, author, was born July 1, 1825, in Newark, N. J. He was appointed organist at Columbia college, New York, in 1856, with which he is still connected.
His published works are Manual of Church Music; Chorals and Hymns; Common Prayer with Ritual Song; Lessons in Music; and Mass in C, with Latin and English text.
Walters, George
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 4, 1835, in Hamilton county, Tenn. In 1870 he was a member of the Tennessee constitutional convention, and in 1871-72 was representative in the state legislature. He is now one of the foremost lawyers of Texas at Waxahachie, where for six years he has served with distinction as district attorney.
Walters, William Thompson
merchant, author, was born May 23, 1820, in Juniata River, Pa. He was a merchant of Baltimore, long prominent as an art patron, and the author of Antoine Louis Barye, from the French of Various Critics; The Percheron Horse, from the French of Du Hays; and Notes upon Certain Masters of the Nineteenth Century. He died in 1891.
Walthall, Edward Cary
soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born April 4, 1831, in Richmond, Va. He received an academic education at Holly Springs, Mississippi; studied law at Holly Springs, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and commenced the practice of law the same year in Coffeeville, Miss.
In 1856 he was elected district attorney for the tenth judicial district of Mississippi, and re-elected in 1859, resigning that office in the spring of 1861. He then entered the confederate service as a lieutenant in the fifteenth Mississippi regiment; was soon after elected lieutenant-colonel of that regiment. In the spring of 1862 he was elected colonel of the twenty-ninth Mississippi regiment, and was promoted to brigadier-general in 1862, and major-general in 1864. After the surrender he practiced law at Coffeeville until 1871, when he moved to Grenada, and there continued practice until 1885. He was a delegate-at-large to the national democratic conventions of 1868, 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1896; except in 1868 was chairman of the Mississippi delegation in these conventions. He was appointed to the United States senate in 1885 to fill a vacancy, and was elected for the unexpired term the following year, receiving the re-election in 1888, and again in 1892. In 1894 he resigned on account of ill health.
Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wil- Helm
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 25, 1811, in Saxony. He was a lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1839, and was president of the Lutheran Theological seminary at St. Louis in 1849-87. He was the leader of what are known as Missouri lutherans. He died May 7, 1887, in St. Louis, Mo.
Walton, Charles Edgar
physician, surgeon, was born May 30, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. This eminent physician and surgeon has been professor of anatomy, surgery and gynecology in the Homeopathic Medical society of Cleveland, Ohio, of which institution he was president in 1889.
Walton, Charles W
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1819, in Mexico, Maine. Removing to Androscoggin county, Maine, in 1855, he was elected attorney for that county in 1857, which office he held until 1860, when he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1862 he resigned his seat in congress, and was appointed judge of the supreme court of Maine.
Walton, Clifford Stevens
lawyer, author, was born March 2, 1861, near Chardon, Ohio. He is a successful Spanish-American lawyer of Washington, D. C. He has contributed a number of articles to current literature on international law subjects, and his life and experience in Spain.
Walton, E. P
journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 17, 1812, in Montpelier, Vt. He edited the Vermont Watchman, and served in the Vermont state legislature as a representative one term. He was then elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. After leaving congress he resumed the editorship of his journal in Montpelier, Vt.
Walton, George
signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1740 in Frederick county, Va. In 1776 he was a delegate to congress from Georgia, and a signer of the declaration of independence and the articles of confederation. In 1779 he was chosen governor of the state. In 1780 he was again sent to congress; in 1783 was appointed chief justice of the state, and in 1787 was a delegate to the convention for framing the constitution of the United States, but declined taking his seat. In 1789 he was a presidential elector, and in 1793 was again judge of the supreme court. He died Feb. 2, 1804, in Augusta, Ga.
Walton, George Augustus
educator, author, was born Feb. 18, 1822, in Wakefield, Mass. He received a thorough collegiate training; and has attained success as an educator. He has been principal of various schools in Massachusetts, and for twenty-five years was the agent of the Massachusetts state board of education. He has been conductor of institutes in the states of Massachusetts, New York and Virginia. He is the author of several works on arithmetic, and has contributed extensively to educational journals.