Walton, George Edward – Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
Walton, George Edward
physician, educator, author, was born Dec. 25, 1839, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Cincinnati physician, professor of medicine in Cincinnati college from 1880, and the author of The Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada.
Walton, Matthew
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1803 to 1807, and a presidential elector in 1809. He died Jan. 18, 1819.
Walworth, Clarence Alphon- Sus
clergyman, author, poet, was born May 30, 1820, in Plattsburg, N. Y. He is a Roman catholic clergyman who was one of the founders of the Paulist order in the United States, a prominent temperance advocate, and since 1864 rector of St.
Mary's, Albany. He is the author of The Gentle Sceptic; The Doctrine of Hell; and Andiatorocté, and Other Poems.
WALWORTH, MRS. ELLEN [HAR- DIN], author, was born Oct. 20, 1832, in Jacksonville, Ill. She is a Saratoga writer who has published Saratoga, the Battle Ground.
Walworth, Ellen Hardin
author, was born Oct. 2, 1858, in Saratoga Springs. She is the author of An Old World as Seen Through Young Eyes.
Walworth, Mrs. Jeanette
RITCHIE [HADERMANN], author, was born Feb. 22, 1837, in Philadelphia. She is a novelist of New York city; and the author of Dead Men's Shoes; The Bar Sinister; The Man at Rossmere; At Bay; Southern Silhouettes; Forgiven at Last; Baldy's Point; The Silent Witness; Heavy Yokes; An Old Fogy; The Little Radical; and Uncle Scipio.
Walworth, John
pioneer, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1765 in Groton, Conn.
He settled at Painesville, Ohio, in 1800, and in 1802 was made justice of the peace for Trumbull county. In 1803 he was appointed associate judge of the superior court. He died Sept. 10, 1812, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Walworth, Mansfield Tracy
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 3, 1830, in Albany, N. Y. He was a lawyer once well known as a writer of extremely sensational romances; and the author of Beverly; Warwick; Lulu; Delaplene; Stormcliff; Mission of Death; and Tahara, a Leaf from Empire. He died June 3, 1873, in New York city.
Walworth, Reuben Hyde
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 26, 1788, in Bozrah, Conn. He was an attorney of the supreme court of New York; and settled at Plattsburg in 1811. He was a member of the house of representatives during the a
Walworth, Warren S
railroad president, was born Aug. 21, 1838, in Jefferson county, N. Y. In 1894 he became president of the York Southern railroad at Cleveland, Ohio.
Wanamaker, John
merchant, cabinet officer, was born July 11, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the leading merchant of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1886 he declined the nomination for mayor of Philadelphia tendered by independent republicans. He was appointed postmastergeneral March 4, 1889.
Wanger, Irving Price
lawyer, congressman, was born March 5, 1852, in North Coventry, Pa. He was elected district attorney of Montgomery county, Pa., in 1880 and again in 1886. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Wanton, Joseph
merchant, governor, was born in 1705 in Newport, R. I. He was governor of Rhode Island during 1769-75. He died July 19, 1780, in Newport, R. I.
Ward, a. H
congressman. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy.
Ward, Aaron
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born July 5, 1790, in Sing Sing, N. Y. In 1814 he served in the regular army as a captain. After the war he became district attorney for the county of Westchester; and subsequently attained the position of major-general of the New York militia. He served as a representative in congress from 1825 to 1829, from 1831 to 1837, and from 1841 to 1843. In 1846 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He was the author of Around the Pyramids, a volume of travel. He died March 2, 1867, in Georgetown, D. C. -WARD, ANDREW HENSHAW, lawyer, antiquarian, author, was born May 26, 1784, in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was a lawyer of Shrewsbury, Mass., and subsequently of Newton in the same state; and the author of History of Shrewsbury; Genealogy of the Rice Family; and The Ward Family. He died Feb. 18, 1864, in Newtonville, Mass.
Ward, Anna Lydia
author, was born about 1850 in Bloomfield, N. J. She assisted in compiling a Dictionary of Quotations, and has published A Dictionary of Quotations from the Poets; Surf and Wave; and a History of Waterbury. 1727 in Shrewsbury, Mass. seventeenth congress; declined a re-election; and was appointed a circuit judge in 1823.
In 1828 he was made chancellor of the state of New York, which office he held for twenty years, when the office was abolished. He was the author of Rules and Orders of the New York Court of Chancery; and The Hyde Genealogy. He died Nov. 27, 1867, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Walworth, Reubena Hyde
author, was born Feb. 21, 1867, in Louisville, Ky. She is the author of Where Was Elsie?, a comedietta.
Ward, Artemas
soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born in He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature; and was a judge of the court of common pleas for the county of Worcester. In 1775 he was appointed majorgeneral of the American army. He was a delegate to the provincial congress, and a representative in the United States congress from Massachusetts from 1791 to 1795. He died Oct. 28,1800, in Shrewsbury, Mass.
Ward, Artemas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1762, in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1817; and in 1821 was appointed chief justice of the court of common pleas of the state, which office he held for nineteen years. He died Oct. 7, 1847, in Boston, Mass.
Ward, Durbin
lawyer, state senator, was born Feb. 11, 1819, in Augusta, Ky.
He served through the civil war, and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He entered the Ohio state senate in 1870.
The plan of the present circuit court system of Ohio was drafted by him. He began, but did not live to complete, a work on constitutional law, to be entitled The Federal Institutes. A volume of his speeches was published by his widow in 1888. He died May 22, 1886, in Lebanon, Ohio.
Ward, Duren James Henderson
educator; clergyman, lecturer, author, was born June 17, 1851, in Canada. He received the rudiments of his education in the high schools of Memphis, Mich.; and attended the Hillsdale college, Harvard university, Berlin university, and Leipsic university; and has had the degrees of D. B., A. M., and Ph. D., conferred upon him. During 1879-82 he was principal of the New Lyme academy, Ohio; in 1887- 89 librarian of Harvard Divinity school; and in 1888-89 was a lecturer on philosophy in the Harvard university. In 1889- 91 he was superintendent of the Adler Ethical Society school of New York city; and during 1891-94 lecturer to the Science Sermons society. Since 1895 he has been minister to the Unitarian society of Dover, N. H.
Ward, Edgar Melville
artist, was born Feb. 24, 1839, in Urbana, Ohio.
His Brittany Washerwomen was at the salon of 1876, the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876, and at Paris in 1878 with Venetian Water-Carriers and The Sabot- Maker.
Ward, Elijah
merchant, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1816, in Sing Sing, N. Y. He was president of the Mercantile Library association of New York city in 1839. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress; in 1860 was elected to the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1862 to the thirty-eighth congress. He was, for several years, judge advocate-general of New York with the rank of brigadier-general; and was also elected to the forty-fourth congress. He died Feb. 7, 1882, in Roslyn, N. Y.
Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
[PHELPS], author, was born in 1844 in Massachusetts. She has recently lived in Newton, Mass. The publication in 1869 of The Gates Ajar, a tale whose theme is the life of departed spirits in the next world, aroused much discussion, and instantly made its author famous. She has since pursued the same motive in Beyond the Gates, and The Gates Between. She is the author of Hedged In; The Silent Partner; Sealed Orders, and Other Stories; Men, Women, and Ghosts; Friends: a Duet; Dr. Zay; The Story of Avis; An Old Maid's Paradise, and Burglars in Paradise; Fourteen to One, a book of short stories; Donald Marcy; Jack the Fisherman; The Madonna of the Tubs; A Singular Life; The Supply at St. Agatha's; The Master of the Magicians (with H. D. Ward); Come Forth (with H. D. Ward); What to Wear?; The Struggle for Immortality, a collection of essays; and Chapters from a Life, an autobiography. Less widely known as a poet, her Poetic Studies, and Songs of the Silent World, perhaps represent her highest point of attainment. Her juvenile books include, Gypsey's Rainy Day Book; My Cousin and I; The Trotty Book; and Trotty's Wedding Tour and Story Book.