Ward, Matthew Flournoy – Ware, Eugene Fitch
Ward, Matthew Flournoy
author, was born May 19, 1826, in Scott county, Ky. He was a writer of Louisville; and the author of Letters from Three Continents; and English Items. He died Sept. 30, 1862, in Helena, Ark.
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Ward, Matthias
state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born about 1800 in Elbert county, Ga. served a number of years in the congress of the Texas republic; and when it became a state was elected to the legislature as a senator. In 1858 he was appointed a senator in congress from Texas for the term ending in 1863. He died Oct. 13, 1861, in Raleigh, N. C.
WARD, MRS. MAY [ALDEN], author, was born in 1853 in Ohio. She is the author of Petrarch; Dante: Sketch of His Life and Works; and Old Colony Days.
Ward, Milan Lester
educator, college president, was born Dec. 24, 1830, in Meredith, N. Y. Since 1887 he has been professor of mathematics in the Ottawa university, Kan., of which institution he has been president for the past three years.
Ward, Nathaniel
clergyman, author, was born in 1580 in England. He was a puritan clergyman, minister at Ipswich in 1634-36, and a resident of the colony of Massachusetts until 1646, when he returned to England, and was rector of Shenfield in Essex, 1647-52. He is famous as the author of The Simple Cobbler of Aggavvam in America, a piece of satire as able as it is vindictive and intolerant.
The first code of laws made in New England was drafted by Ward in 1639, and formally adopted in 1644. It is styled The Body of Liberties. Mercurius Anti-mechanicus, or the Simple Cobbler's Boy with His Lap-full of Caveats, is usually attributed to Ward, and probably with truth. Other writings ascribed to him are, A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army; and A Sermon Before Parliament. He died in 1652 in England.
Ward, Richard
governor, was born April 15, 1689, in Newport, R. I. In 1712- 13 he was attorney-general of Rhode Island; recorder during 1714-30; and was subsequently governor of Rhode Island.
He died Aug. 21, 1763, in Newport, R. I.
Ward, Richard Halsted
microscopist, was born June 17, 1837, in Bloomfield, N. J. As an expert in microscopical examinations he was one of the first to discriminate between different kinds of blood; and has published some original investigations. Since 1875 he has been manager of the American Postal Microscopical club of Troy, N. Y.
Ward, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born May 27, 1725, in Newport, R. I. He was a member of the general assembly from 1756 to 1759; was chief justice in 1761; and was governor in 1762, and from 1765 to 1767. He was one of the founders of Rhode Island college, now known as Brown university. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776, in which he usually presided when in committee of the whole. He died March 26, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ward, Samuel
banker, was born May 1, 1786, in Rhode Island. In 1838 he secured through the bank of England a loan of nearly $5,000,000 to enable the banks to resume specie payments, and established the Bank of Commerce in New York city, becoming its president. He died Nov. 27, 1839, in New York city.
Ward, Thomas
congressman, was born in 1759. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1813 to 1817. He died Feb. 4, 1842, in Newark, N. J. a
Ward, Thomas
author, poet, was born June 8, 1807, in Newark, N. J. He was a writer of New York city; and the author of A Month of Freedom; Passaic:
Group of Poems; Flora, or the Gypsy's Frolic, a pastoral opera; and War Lyrics. Besides his published works he was a constant contributor to the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States. He died April 13, 1873, in New York city.
Ward, Thomas
soldier, was born March 18, 1839, in West Point, N. Y.
During 1859-63 he was a cadet at the Military academy; he graduated and was promoted in the army to second lieutenant of the first artillery. He served during the rebellion of the seceding states during 1863-66, and was brevetted captain for good conduct and gallant services.
During 1873-77 he was professor of military science at the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y.; was promoted to captain of first artillery in 1876; assistant adjutant-general in 1884; and lieutenantcolonel and assistant adjutant-general in 1893. He received the degree of A. M. from the Union college.
Ward, Thomas B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 27, 1835, in Marysville, Ohio. He was twice elected mayor of the city of Lafayette, Ind., serving from 1861 to 1865. He served six years as city attorney; and in 1875 was appointed to the then newly-created office of judge of the superior court of Tippecanoe county. In 1876 he was elected to that position, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Ward, William
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Ward, William Greene
lawyer, soldier, was born July 20, 1832, in New York city. In 1863 he served as colonel of the regiment in the Pennsylvania campaign. After the war he was made a brigadier-general in the state militia service, and served for nearly twenty years.
Ward, William Hayes
clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 25, 1835, in Abington, Mass. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Independent, and eminent as an Assyriologist. He is the author of Notes on Oriental Antiquities.
Ward, William Lukens
manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1856, in Greenwich, Conn. He was elected to congress and also as elector at the same election; and was elected from New York to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Ward, William Thomas
congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1808, in Amelia county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1851 to 1853.
He died Oct. 12, 1878, in Louisville, Ky.
Wardell, Daniel
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1791 in Bristol, R. I. He was four times elected to the legislature of New York from Rome; and was for several years judge of a county court. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1837.
Warden, David Baillie
public official, author, was born in 1778 in Ireland. He was a consul and secretary of the United States legation at Paris from 1804 until his death. He was the author of Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments; Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of the Negroes; Description of the District of Columbia; and a Statistical History of the United States. He died Oct. 9, 1845, in Paris, France.
Warden, Robert Bruce
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 18, 1824, in Bardstown, Ky. He is a lawyer formerly of Cincinnati, but since 1873 of Washington. He is the author of A Familiar Forensic View of Man and Law; A Voter's Version of the Life and Character of Stephen Douglas; and Private Life of Salmon Chase.
Warder, George Woodward
lawyer, author, poet, was born May 20, 1848, in Richmond, Mo. He is the author of an historical novel, but is best known as a poet, having issued three volumes of verse which have attracted considerable attention, and established for the authora national reputation; in 1873 appeared Poetic Writings or College Poems; in 1874 Eden Dell, or Love's Wanderings; and the third volume, a collection of his finest poems, entitled the Utopian Dreams and Lotus Leaves, was issued from London press in 1885. Col. Warder organized the stock exchange of Kansas City, Mo., of which city he has been one of the foremost in its improvements, and was elected its mayor in 1886. He is president of the mining exchange, a director in the Exposition association, the Warder Grand opera house, the Newsboys' home, and is connected with various enterprises and charitable institutions.
Warder, John Aston
physician, author, was born Jan. 19, 1812, near Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Cincinnati physician very active in promoting a general interest in forestry and landscape gardening. He was the author of Hedge Manual; and American Pomology. He died July 14, 1883, in North Bend, Ohio.
Ware, Ashur
educator, journalist, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 10, 1782, in Sherburne, Mass. He moved to Portland, Maine, in 1817, and was judge of the United States district court of Maine from 1822 to 1866; and was first secretary of state for Maine in 1820. He published Reports of Cases in the United States District Court of Maine, from 1822 to 1839; and also wrote several legal essays and orations. He died Sept. 10, 1873, in Portland, Maine.
Ware, Eugene Fitch
soldier, lawyer, legislator, poet, was born May 29, 1841, in Hartford, Conn. He served five years in the volunteer army; and five years in the Kansas state senate.
He is a successful lawyer of Fort Scott; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Rhymes of Ironquill. He is a constant contributor to current newspapers and magazines; and his poems have been incorporated in several standard collections.