Waters, Robert – Watson, James
Waters, Robert
educator, author, was born May 9, 1835, in Scotland. He is an educator of Hoboken, N. J., and the author of Life of William Cobbett; Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself; and How Genius Works its Wonders.
Waters, William Everett
educator, author, college president, was born Dec. 20, 1856, in Winthrop, Maine. Since 1894 he has been president of Wells college, of Aurora, N. Y. He was joint author with President Harper, of the Chicago university, of An Inductive Greek Method.
Waterston, Mrs. Anne Cabot
LOWELL [QUINCY], author, poet. She is the author of Verses by A. C. Q. W.; and Adelaide Phillipps, a Record.
Waterston, Robert Cassie
clergyman, author, was born in 1812 in Maine.
He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, and the author of Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture; and Arthur Lee and Tom Palmer. He died in 1893.
Watie, Stand
soldier, was born in 1815 in Cherokee, Ga. He served as a member of the Cherokee, Ga., legislative council, and was speaker of the lower house from 1862 till 1865. He became colonel of the first Cherokee confederate infantry regiment in October, 1861, and was promoted brigadier-general in the confederate army in 1864. He died in August, 1877.
WATKIN, WILLIAM HAMILTON, lawyer, was born March 10, 1871, in Lee, Miss. He attended the university of Mississippi; studied law, and has since attained prominence as an able lawyer of Jackson, Miss.
Watkins, Albert G
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 5, 1818, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He was elected to the Tennessee legislature from his native county in 1845; and was a presidential elector in 1848. He was first elected a representative in congress in 1849, and served by successive re-elections until 1859, except during the thirtythird congress, when he declined the nomination.
Watkins, Jabez B
railroad president, was born June 25, 1845, in Indiana county, Pa. In 1890 he became president of the Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf railway at Lawrence, Kan.
Watkins, Samuel
philanthropist, was born in 1794 in Campbell county, Va.
He bequeathed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars for the establishment of a polytechnic institution in Nashville, which was erected there in 1882. He died Oct. 16, 1880, in Nashville, Tenn.
Watkins, Tobias
physician, was born in 1780 in Maryland. In 1825 he was appointed fourth auditor of the treasury, which office he held until 1830. He died Nov. 14, 1855, in Washington, D. C.
Watkins, Walter Kendall
genealogist, historian, was born Aug. 5, 1855. in Boston, Mass. This noted genealogist and historical writer is secretary of the society of Colonial Wars; registrar of society of Sons of the Revolution; and assistant librarian and curator of the New England Historic Genealogical society.
Watkins, William Brown
philologist, author, was born May 2, 1834, in Bridgeport, Ohio. From 1868 till 1872 he was presiding elder at Steubenville, Ohio, after which he was stationed in Pittsburg for nine years. He is a reader of the historical dictionary of the Philological society now in course of publication in London, and for many years has been preparing an Etymological Dictionary of American Geographical Names.
Watkinson, David
philanthropist, was born Jan. 17, 1778, in England. By his will he gave $40,000 to the Hartford hospital, $20,000 to the orphan asylum, $40,000 for the foundation of a juvenile asylum and farm school for neglected and abandoned children, and $100,000 for a library of reference in connection with the Connecticut Historical society, also making the trustees of the library of reference residuary legatees of his estate. He died Dec. 13, 1857, in Hartford, Conn.
Watmough, John Goddard
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1793, in Wilmington, Del. He was aide-decamp to General Gaines, at New Orleans, and in the Creek Nation in 1814 and 1815; and resigned his commission in 1816. He was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1831. He was high sheriff of Philadelphia city and county in 1835; and was surveyor of that port in 1841. He died Nov. 29, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Watmough, Pendleton Gaines
naval officer, was born May 3, 1828, in Whitemarsh, Pa. He entered the navy in 1841; served on the Brazil station, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific, and shared in the capture and occupation of California during the Mexican war. He returned home in 1847, the following year was graduated at the naval academy, served in the Mediterranean and Pacific and on the coast of China, and resigned in 1858. In 1861 he volunteered for the civil war and was reappointed in the navy. He resigned as lieutenant-commander in 1865, and in 1869-77 was collector of the port of Cleveland, Ohio.
Watrous, Jerome A
soldier, journalist, was born Sept. 6, 1840, in Conklin, N. Y. His place in the history of the civil war is forever fixed by the fact of his having been adjutant general of the famous Wisconsin iron brigade. For many years he has been a journalist of reputation, and his historical articles on the civil war published during the last three years in The Times-Herald have been the most widely read literature of their kind in recent years. On June 16, 1898, he was made a paymaster in the regular army, with the rank of major.
Watrous, John C
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1806 in Colchester, Conn.
He was attorney-general of the republic of Texas; and when it became a state was made judge of the United States court for the eastern district of the state, serving until 1869. He died June 17, 1874, in Baltimore, Md.
Watson, Alfred Augustin
bishop of East Carolina, was born Aug. 21, 1818, in New York city. He served as chaplain to the second regiment of North Carolina state troops from 1861 to 1863, when he was elected assistant to Bishop Atkinson, in charge of St. James's church, Wilmington, N. C., of which he became rector in 1864, and served there until his elevation to the episcopate.
Watson, Benjamin Frank
soldier, journalist, lawyer, was born April 30, 1826, in Warner, N. H. He was editor and proprietor of the Lawrence Sentinel, postmaster of the city, was nominated for mayor, and subsequently elected city solicitor. He was major of the sixth regiment of Massachusetts militia.
Watson, Beriah Andre
physician, author, was born March 26, 1836, in Lake George, N. Y. He is a physician of Jersey City, and the author of Amputations and their Complications; and The Sportsman's Paradise, or the Lake Lands of Canada.
Watson, Cooper K
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.
Watson, David H
journalist, lawyer, was born April 25, 1855, in Fulton county, Ill. He has filled various public omces of trust in Missouri; and is now the editor of The Record of Cabool. He has contributed extensively to current literature on various subjects.
Watson, David K
lawyer, congressman, was born June 18, 1849, near London, Ohio. He was assistant United States district attorney for the southern district of Ohio during the administration of President Arthur; and in 1887 was nominated by the republican state convention of Ohio for attorney-general and elected, and was renominated by acclamation and re-elected in 1889. In 1892 he was appointed special counsel for the United States in the suits brought by the government against the Pacific railroads.
In 1894 he was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican, being the only republican ever elected from the district.
Watson, Elkanah
agriculturist, author. He was a noted traveler and agriculturist, and the author of Men and Times of the Revolution, his best-known work, which is mainly autobiographic.
Other works of his are, Tour in Holland in 1784; History of the Canals in the State of New York from 1788 to 1819; Rise of Modern Agricultural Societies; and History of Agricultural Societies on the Berkshire System. He died Dec. 5, 1842, in Port Kent, N. Y.
Watson, Fletcher B
soldier, educator, lawyer, was born Nov. 27, 1841, in Chatham, Va. During the civil war he served as a sergeant in the confederate army. He has been superintendent of schools, clerk of circuit court; for years was engaged in journalistic work; and is now a prominent lawyer in his native city.
Watson, Henry Clay
journalist, author, was born in 1831 in Maryland.
He was a journalist of Philadelphia, and subsequently of California, and the author of Campfires of the Revolution; Campfires of Napoleon; Romance of History; Lives of the Presidents; Nights in a Block-House; Old Bell of Independence; The Yankee Teapot; Heroic Women of History; and Universal Naval History.
He died July 10, 1869, in Sacramento, Cal.
Watson, Henry Cood
musical critic, was born in 1816 in England. He came to this country in 1840, and was art-critic for the New York World in which he published several poems. He became connected with the Musical Chronicle in 1843, and contributed to various periodicals. He founded the Musical Guest. In 1862 he founded the Art Journal, and in 1863 became critic of the New York Tribune. He died Dec. 2, 1875, in New York city. musical
Watson, James
state legislator, United States senator. He was a member of the assembly of New York during the years 1791, 1794, 1795, and 1796; was a state senator in 1797; and was a senator in congress from New York from 1798 to 1800, when he resigned. He died May 15, 1806, in New York city.