Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton – Ward, Mary Snedekor
Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton
missionary, author, was born July 9, 1812, in Bergen, N. Y. He was a presbyterian missionary in India in 1836-47, and subsequently a minister in Geneseo, N. Y. He is the author of India and the Hindoos; Christian Gift, or Pastoral Letters Upon Character; Summer Vacation Abroad; and History of the Churches of Rochester, N. Y.
Ward, Florence Nightingale
physician, surgeon, was born July 10, 1860, in San Francisco. She has the largest practice of any woman physician west of Chicago, and has written extensively for medical journals.
Ward, Hamilton
lawyer, congressman, was born July 3, 1829, in Salisbury, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected district attorney for Allegany county at Belmont, holding the office three years, and was reelected in 1862. During that year he was active in raising and organizing state troops. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican.
Ward, Henry
congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1732, in Rhode Island. He was appointed secretary of Rhode Island in 1760; was a supporter of the revolution; and a member of the congress which met in New York in 1765. He was a member of the committee of correspondence during the revolution; and held the office of secretary from his appointment until his death. He died in December, 1797.
Ward, Henry Augustus
naturalist, author, was born March 9, 1834, in Rochester, N. Y. He is a naturalist of note, professor in the university of Rochester in 1860-75; and the author of Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri; and Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in Royal Museums of Europe.
Ward, Henry Dana
clergyman, author, was born in 1797 in Massachusetts. He was a baptist clergyman prominent as an opponent of Freemasonry; and the author of Freemasonry: Its Pretensions; The Gospel of the Kingdom; The History of the Cross; and The Faith of Abraham and Christ. He died in 1884.
Ward, Herbert Dickinson
author, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts.
He is the author of The Captain of the Kittie Wink; A Dash to the Pole; The New Senior at Andover; The White Crown, and Other Stories; and The Burglar Who Moved Paradise.
Ward, Horatio
banker, philanthropist, was born in 1810 in New York city. He bequeathed $100,000 to the National Soldiers' and Sailors' home of Washington, D. C.; and an equal sum for the education of soldiers' orphans. He died in April, 1868, in England.
Ward, James H
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 30, 1853, in Chicago, Ill. He engaged in the practice of law in Chicago; and was elected supervisor of the town of West Chicago in 1879. He was a presidential elector in 1884; and in the same year was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Ward, James Harman
naval officer, author, was born in 1806 in Hartford, Conn. He was a United States naval officer; and the author of Elementary Course of Instruction in Naval Gunnery; Manual of Naval Tactics; and Steam for the Million. He died June 27, 1861, near Matthias Point, Conn.
Ward, James Thomas
educator, clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 21, 1820, in Georgetown, D. C. He studied at the Columbian academy of Washington, D. C., and the Brookville academy, Maryland.
In 1840 he was licensed to preach; and has since attained eminence as a clergyman, and has filled pastorates in various prominent churches of Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He is the author of Fifty Short Letters to Save Souls; A Tribute to the Memory of George A.
Johnson; Thanksgiving Sermon and Christmas Poem; Sunday Address in Rhyme; Daily Manual for Bible Readers; and a series of sixty papers entitled Sketches and Reminiscences of American Protestant Ministers. During 1868-86 he was president of the Western Maryland college; and in 1886 was elected president of the Westminster Theological seminary of the methodist protestant church, which position he still holds.
Ward, James Warner
poet, was born June 5, 1817, in Newark, N. J. He is a poet; librarian in 1874-95 of the Grosvenor library at Buffalo; and the author of Home-Made Verses and Stories in Rhyme; Yorick, and Other Poems; and Higher Water, a parody upon Hiawatha.
Ward, James William
physician, surgeon, author, was born March 14, 1861, in Minneapolis, Minn. He held the chair of physiology in the Hahnemann Medical college from 1885-86; and is the author of A Year's Work at the Sanatorium Without a Death.
Ward, Jasper D
lawyer, congressman. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-third congress; and five days after its adjournment was appointed United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois in 1875.
Ward, John
soldier, physician, author, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1838, in New York city. He is a soldier and physician of New York city; and the author of The Overland Route to California, and Other Poems.
Ward, John Elliot
lawyer, state senator, was born Oct. 2, 1814, in Sunbury, Ga. In 1838 he was appointed United States district attorney for Georgia; and the following year was elected a member of the state legislature. He was also a member of the state legislature in 1845 and 1853; and in 1854 was elected mayor of Savannah. In 1857 he was elected a state senator, and was chosen its president. During 1859-61 he was United States minister to China.
Ward, John Henry Hobart
soldier, was born June 17, 1823, in New York city. He served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadier-general in 1862.
He took part in the first battle of Bull Run, in which his regiment lost one hundred and twentysix men. He commanded a brigade at Gettysburg, the battle of the Wilderness, and in numerous other battles.
Ward, John Quincy Adams
sculptor, was born June 29, 1830, in Urbana, Ohio. In 1861 he opened a studio in New York, where he has since resided.
The Indian Hunter, completed in 1864 and now in the Central park, won universal praise for its excellence in design and execution, and is among the best of his statues. New York city also possesses a colossal statue of a citizen soldier for the seventh regiment; Shakespeare; and a colossal statue of Washington.
Ward, John Tefft
journalist, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1847, in Norway, N. Y. For twenty years this eminent clergyman has filled pastorates in the free baptist church. He is the editor of The Free Baptist at Minneapolis, Minn.; and author of The Free Baptist Cyclopædia.
Ward, Jonathan
state senator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a state senator from Westchester county, N. Y., from 1807 to 1810; and was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1817.
Ward, Julius Hammond
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Oct. 12, 1837, in Charlton, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman and journalist of Boston on the staff of The Boston Herald. He was the author of Life of J. G. Percival; The Bible in Modern Thought; Life of Bishop White; Phillips Brooks in Massachusetts; The Church in Modern Society; and The White Mountains, a Guide to Their Interpretation. He died in 1897.
Ward, Lester Frank
botanist, geologist, author, was born June 18, 1841, in Joliet, Ill. He is a botanist and geologist employed in the United States geological survey; and is the author of Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity; Sketch of Paleontological Botany; Synopsis of the Flora of the Laramie Group; Types of the Laramie Flora; Geographical Distribution of Fossil Plants; Dynamic Sociology; The Psychic Factors of Civilization; and The Principles of Sociology.
Ward, Lula
educator, poet. She attained prominence as a successful educator, has contributed extensively to the periodical press, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Ward, Marcus Lawrence
manufacturer, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 9, 1812, in Newark, N. J. He was elected governor of New Jersey in 1865 for the term of three years; and was elected to the forty-third congress. He died April 25, 1884, in Newark, N. J.
Ward, Mary Eastman
poet, was born in May, 1843, in North Danville, Vt.
She has written numerous poems of merit, which have appeared in eastern publications, her most notable poems being The Flag of the Seventeenth Vermont Regiment, and Signal Lights.
Ward, Mary Snedekor
musician, author, was born in Troy, N. Y. She graduated from the Troy Female college, and afterward received instruction in the languages under private tutors; and received her musical instruction from eminent professors. She is prominent in various societies; has been vice-president of the Domestic Training association of Orange, N. J.; and manager of the Orange Woman's exchange; and was one of the organizers of the Daughters of the Revolution in New Jersey, and was its first state secretary. She was on the educational committee of Essex county for woman's work at the World's Columbian exposition. She has visited every capital city in Europe; has been a correspondent for the metropolitan press, and is the author of interesting Sketches of Egypt, and Random Leaves of European Travel.