Washington, George Corbin – Waters, Julius S
Washington, George Corbin
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 20, 1789, in Westmoreland county, Va. He represented Maryland in congress from 1827 to 1833, and from 1835 to 1837. He was also a president of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and a commissioner for the settlement of Indian claims. He died July 17, 1854, in Georgetown, D. C.
Washington, James B
railroad president, was born Aug. 26, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. He was president of the Wheeling, Pittsburg and Baltimore railroad; and also president of numerous railroad corporations in Pittsburg, Pa.
Washington, John Augustus
soldier, was born May 3, 1821, in Blakely, Va. He was a descendant of George Washington; served as aide-de-camp on the staff of General Robert E. Lee; and was killed with a reconnoitering party, Sept. 13, 1861, near Richmond, Va.
Washington, Joseph Edwin
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1851, in Wessington, Tenn.
He is a descendant of the Virginia Washingtons of Surrey and Southampton counties. In 1876 he was elected member of the Tennessee house of representatives; and in 1880 was the democratic elector on the Hancock and English ticket. In 1886 he a was elected a representative from his native county to the fiftieth congress as a democrat; and was re-elected successively to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses. Having been a consistent sound money democrat, he declined to be a candidate for re-election after the adoption of the Chicago democratic platform. He is now engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Washington, Mrs. Lucy Hall
[WALKER], reformer, author, was born in 1835 in Vermont. She is a temperance reformer and poet, the wife of a baptist clergyman at Port Jervis, N. Y., and the author of Echoes of Song; and Memory's Casket.
Washington, William
soldier, legislator, was born Feb. 28, 1752, in Stafford county, Va. He entered the army under Mercer, and greatly distinguished himself at the south as a commander of a corps of cavalry.
Taken prisoner at the battle of Eutaw Springs, he remained a captive until the close of the war. After the conclusion of peace he took other concern in public affairs than to no appear occasionally in the legislature of South Carolina, although he was offered the nomination for the governorship of that state. He died March 6, 1810, in Charleston, S. C.
Washington, William H
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1814 in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from 1841 to 1843; and subsequently served five or six years in the state legislature. He died Aug. 12,
Wasson, David Atwood
clergyman, author, poet, was born May 14, 1823, in West Brooksville, Maine. He was a unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, prominent as a radical thinker, who lived at West Medford after his retirement from the ministry. He was the author of Poems; and Essays: Religious, Social, Political. He died Jan. 21, 1887, in West Medford, Mass.
Wasson, George Savary
artist.
His works are Great Misery Island; The Constitution and the Guerrière; A Wreck at Isle au Haut; Moore's Head, Isle au Haut (1886); Going to Pieces; and Running for a Harbor.
Waterbury, Jared Bell
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 11, 1799, in New York city. He was a presbyterian clergyman who was city missionary of Brooklyn, and the author of Advice to a Young Christian; Voyage of Life; Sketches of Eloquent Preachers; and Southern Planters and Freedmen. He died Dec. 31, 1876, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Waterhouse, Benjamin
educator, physician, author, was born March 4, 1754, in Newport, R. I. He was a physician who was professor of medicine at Harvard university in 1783-1812, and of natural history at Brown university in 1784- 91. He was the author of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine; The Principles of Vitality; The Botanist; and The Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, a novel. He died Oct. 2, 1846, in Cambridge, Mass.
Waterman, Elijah
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 28, 1769, in Bozrah, Conn. He contributed prose and verse to periodicals, and his other publications include An Oration before the Society of the Cincinnati; A Century Sermon at Windham; and Life and Writings of John Calvin. He died Oct. 11, 1825, in Springfield, Mass.
Waterman, Frank Allan
physicist, was born July 9, 1865, in Oswego, N.
Y. In 1888 he graduated from the Princeton university; was professor of physics in the Purdue university in 1891-93; instructor in physics in the Princeton university during 1893-97; and since that time has filled the chair of physics in the Smith college of Northampton, Mass.
Waterman, Ida Ferris
educator, reformer, lecturer, poet, was born May 4, 1855, in Galesburg, Ill. For many years she taught school; has lectured extensively on temperance and prohibition; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems. She resides in South Dakota, where she is active as an organizer in religious and temperance work.
Waterman, Lewis Edson
inventor, was born Nov. 20, 1837, in Decatur, N. Y. He is the inventor of the Waterman fountain pen.
Waterman, Marcus
artist, was born Sept. 1, 1834, in Providence, R. I.
His landscapes include Gulliver in Lilliput, which was at the Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, in 1876; The Roc's Egg; The Journey to the City of Brass; and numerous American forest scenes and Arabian subjects.
Waterman, Sigismund
physician, surgeon, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 22, 1819, in Bavaria. In 1857 he was appointed police surgeon, which place he filled for nearly thirty years, and during the civil war he was made one of the draft surgeons. Among his papers are Practical Remarks on Scarlatina; Therapeutic Employment of Oxide of Zinc; and Spectral Analysis as an Aid in the Diagnosis of Disease.
Waterman, Sylvanus Dexter
soldier, educator, was born Sept. 14, 1842, in Litchfield, Maine. In 1861 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and served gallantly through the civil war in the third regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He has attained success in educational work; has been superintendent of schools in Greencastle, Ind.; principal of grammar schools in Louisville, Ky.; for twelve years was principal of the high school in Stockton, Cal.; and is now principal of high school and general superintendent of public schools of Berkeley, Cal. In 1882 he was republican nominee for state superintendent of public instruction of California.
Waterman, Thomas Glasby
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 23, 1788, in New York city. He was a lawyer of Binghamton, N. Y., who published The Justice's Manual. He died Jan. 7, 1862, in Binghamton, N. Y.
Waterman, Thomas Whitney
lawyer, author, was born June 28, 1821, in Binghamton, N. Y. He is a lawyer of Binghamton who, besides editing many legal works, has written The Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in New York; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices in Wisconsin and Iowa; Principles of Law and Equity; The Law of Set- Off; The Law of Trespass; The Law Relating to Specific Performance of Contracts; and The Law of Corporations other than Municipal.
WATERS, MRS. CLARA [ERSKINE] [CLEMENT], author, was born Aug. 28, 1834, in St. Louis, Mo. She is an artwriter of Boston, and the author of Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art; Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works, a Handbook; Christian Symbols (with K. Conway); Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works (with L. Hutton); Life of Charlotte Cushman; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; Stories of Art and Artists; Naples, the City of Parthenope; Venice, Mediæval and Modern; Constantinople, the City of the Sultans; History of Painting for Beginners and Students; and Rome, the Eternal City.
Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert
genealogist, was born March 29, 1833, in Salem, Mass. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1885 for tracing the family of John Harvard, when other genealogists had failed. He has spent several years in England pursuing genealogical inquiries.
Waters, Julius S
lawyer, legislator, was born March 25, 1836, in Warrick county, Ind. In 1858 he was a candidate for the legislature in his native county and state; and in 1860 was a member of the Indiana state commission when Benjamin Harrison was nominated for supreme court reporter. In 1864-65 he was engaged in journalistic work, and has published and edited papers in Nebraska, Kansas and Idaho. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar; was county attorney in Kansas in 1868; and received the reelection in 1870, 1876 and 1878. In 1880 he was elected to the Kansas legislature, and received the re-election to the session of 1882. In 1883 he was appointed receiver of the United States land office at Hailey, Idaho; served four years, and was elected district attorney of Alturas county, Idaho, in 1888. In 1896 he was elected to the Idaho legislature from Lincoln county. He is a recognized leader in the house of representatives; is a versatile writer, a ready speaker, and a brilliant orator.