Watts, Henry Miller – Weadock, Thomas a. E
Watts, Henry Miller
lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 10, 1805, in Carlisle, Pa. He practiced law in Pittsburg, Pa.; was appointed deputy attorney-general; and was a representative in the state legislature from 1835 to 1838.
He then settled in Philadelphia, and was appointed United States attorney for the district of Philadelphia; and in 1868 was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Austria.
Watts, John
major general, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1749, in New York city. In the military service of the state of New York he rose to the rank of brigadier general. He was a member of congress from 1793 to 1795. He died Sept. 3, 1836, in New York city.
Watts, John S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1816, in Boone county, Ky.
He served in the legislature of Indiana; was twice elected a prosecuting attorney; and in 1851 was appointed an associate justice in New Mexico. He was elected a delegate from New Mexico to the thirtyseventh congress; took an active part in raising troops for the union army during the rebellion; and in 1868 was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Mexico.
Watts, Robert
educator, was born in 1812, in Fordham, N. Y. From 1839 till his death he was professor of anatomy in the college of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city, and from 1859 he was one of the attending physicians of the nursery and child's hospital. He died Sept. 8, 1867, in Paris, France.
Watts, Thomas Hill
statesman, lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 3, 1819, in Butler county, Ala. In 1842 he was elected to the legislature, and he was returned in 1844 and 1845. He removed to Montgomery county in 1847, and was in 1849 sent to the legislature from that district; and in 1863-68 was governor of Alabama.
Wauchope, Samuel
soldier, public official, was born March 10, 1783, in Lexington, Va. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, in which he was also paymaster.
He was elected commissioner of revenue; was high sheriff of his county; and died in 1854.
Wauchope, Samuel Augustine
physician, surgeon, was born June 28, 1822, in Rockbridge county, Va. He attended the Washington and Lee university, and the university of New York city. He taught school until he graduated in medicine; practiced in his native state for a number of years, when he moved to Georgia, where he attained success in his profession and became one of the leading physicians and surgeons of that state. He now resides in Tallahassee, Fla.
Waugh, Beverly
bishop, was born Oct. 28, 1789, in Fairfax county, Va. In 1808 he entered the ministry, and at the end of three years he was stationed in the city of Washington. He was elected by the Baltimore conferences to the general conferences of 1816 and 1820. In 1852 he became senior bishop of the church. He died Feb. 9, 1858, in Baltimore, Md.
Waugh, Dan
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1842, in Indiana. He served three years as private in company A, thirty-fourth Indiana volunteer infantry. He was elected to the office of judge of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit for six years; and was elected from Indiana to the fifty-second and fiftythird congresses.
Waugh, Frederick Judd
artist, was born Sept. 13, 1861, in Bordentown, N. J. He has been successful as a landscape and marine painter; and in painting portraits and allegorical figures.
Waugh, Ida
artist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1896 she received the three hundred dollar prize awarded for the best picture painted by an American woman at the New York Academy of Design.
Waugh, John
clergyman, author, poet, was born March 21, 1814, in England. He is an eminent presbyterian clergyman of Cohocton, N. Y. In 1888 he published a work entitled Messiah's Mission.
Waul, Thomas N
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1815, in Sumter district, S. C. Having removed to Texas he was elected one of her representatives in the first confederate congress. He was a brigadier-general in the confederate army.
Waxham, Frank E
physician, educator, was born Dec. 1, 1853, in La Porte county, Ind. In 1878 he graduated from the Chicago Medical college; and subsequently studied in London and Berlin.
He now fills the chair in the Gross Medical college of Denver, Col. He is versatile writer, and a constant contributor to medical and secular journals.
He has also published numerous pamphlets on medical subjects. a
Way, Andrew John Henry
artist, was born April 27, 1826, in Washington, D. C. At the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 he received a medal for two panels.
His numerous works include A Christmas Memory; Prince Albert Grapes; Flora and Pomona; Wild Fowl; A Sportsman's Luck; To my Sweetheart; and Preparation for Apple Toddy. He died Feb. 7, 1888, in Baltimore, Md.
Way, George Brevitt
artist, was born Oct. 29, 1854, in Baltimore, Md.
Among his works are Sunset; Twilight on the Susquehanna; Village Scene in Brownsville; and On the Upper Potomac.
Wayland, Francis
clergyman, college president, author, was born March 11, 1796, in New York city. He was a baptist clergyman eminent as a metaphysician, and was president of Brown university in 1827-55. He was the author of Elements of Moral Science; Intellectual Philosophy; Human Responsibility; Elements of Political Economy; Occasional Discourses; Moral Law of Accumulation; Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution; Sermons to the Churches; Principles and Practice of Baptist Churches; and Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel. He died Sept. 30, 1865, in Providence, R. I.
Wayland, Francis
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Aug. 23, 1826, in Boston, Mass. In 1864 he was elected judge of probate for New Haven; and in 1869 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Connecticut. In 1872 he was appointed to a professorship in the Law school of Yale, and in the next year he was made dean of that school. He published papers on Tramps; and Out-Door Relief, prepared for the American Social Science association.
Wayland, Heman Lincoln
clergyman, journalist, author, was born April 23, 1830, in Providence, R. I. He is a baptist clergyman, editor of The National Baptist at Philadelphia in 1872-94, and editor of The Examiner from 1894. He is the author of Life and Labors of F.
Wayland; and Faith and Works of Charles Spurgeon.
Wayne, Anthony
soldier, statesman, was born Jan. 1, 1745, in East Town,. Chester county, Pa. In 1773 he was elect-- ed a representative in the Pennsylvania. general assembly.
In 1775 he entered the army as colonel, and at the close of the campaign was made brigadiergeneral. In 1781 he led the Pennsylvania line to form a junction with Lafayette in Virginia, and engaged in the capa ture of Cornwallis, after which he conducted the war in Georgia with equal suc-- cess, receiving from the legislature of that state, as a reward for his services, a valuable farm, upon which he retired after the war. In 1787 he was a member of the convention for framing the constitution.
He concluded a treaty, Aug. 3, 1795, with the hostile tribes northwest of the Ohio, and attained the rank of major-general.
He was called Mad Anthony. He died in December, 1796, in Erie, Pa.
Wayne, Isaac
congressman, was born in 1770 in Warren county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825. He died Oct. 25, 1852, in Chester county, Pa.
Wayne, James Moore
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was. born in 1790 in Savannah, Ga. He was elected a member of the general assembly as an opponent of the relief law; and was re-elected the following year. He was mayor of the city of Savannah; and on his resignation of that office was chosen judge of the superior court. He was elected a member of congress in the session of 1829 and 1830, and served until 1835. He was appointed to a seat on the bench of the United States supreme court in 1835. He died July 5, 1867, in Washington, D. C.
Wead, Charles Kasson
electrician, author, was born Sept. 1, 1848, in Malone, N. Y. He is an electrician of Hartford; and the author of Aims and Methods of the Teaching of Physics; and Lecture Notes on Sound and Light. a
Weadock, Thomas a. E
lawyer,. congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1850, in Ireland. In 1877 he was appointed prosecuting attorney of Bay county, and served till 1878. He was mayor of Bay City from 1883 to 1885; and was member of the board. of education of Bay City for a short time.
He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as democrat.
He now practices law in Detroit, Mich.; and also is associated with his brother, John C. Weadock, in the law office at Bay City. a