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Wackerhagen, Augustus – Wade, James F

Wackerhagen, Augustus

was born May 22, 1774, in Germany. He was a lutheran clergyman of Columbia county, N. Y.; and the author of Inbegriff des Glaubens und Sittenlehre. He died Nov. 1, 1865, in Clermont, N. Y.

Waddell, Alfred Moore

soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1834, in Hillsborough, N. C. He served in the confederate army as lieutenant-colonel of cavalry. He was elected to the forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Waddell, Hugh

soldier, was born in 1734 in Ireland. He was lieutenant in Colonel James Innes's regiment in the Virginia campaign of 1754, became captain in 1755, built Fort Dobbs, and commanded there in 1756-57. He became colonel in 1759. In 1771 he commanded the expedition against the regulators with the rank of major-general. He died April 9, 1773, in Castle Haynes, N. C.

Waddell, Hugh

lawyer, state senator, was born in 1799 in Newfields, N. C. He represented Orange county in the legislature in 1828; was speaker of the North Carolina state senate in 1836-37, and again a member of that body in 1844-46. He died Nov. 1, 1878, in Wilmington, N. C.

Waddell, James

clergyman, was born July 29, 1739. He was blind, and the original subject of William Wirt's beautiful sketch of The Blind Preacher. He died Sept. 17, 1805, in Virginia.

Waddell, John Newton

educator, was born April 2, 1812, in Willington, S.

C. In 1865-74 he was chancellor of the university of Mississippi, and in 1879-88 he occupied the same post in the Southwestern Presbyterian university, Clarksville, Tenn. Since 1874 he has been secretary of the board of ministerial education of the southern presbyterian church.

Waddell, Moses

clergyman, college president, was born July 29, 1770, in Rowan county, N. C. In 1819-29 he was president of the university of Georgia. He published Memoirs of Miss Catherine Elizabeth Smelt. He died July 21, 1840, in Athens, Ga.

Waddell, William Henry

lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 23, 1864, in Crittenden county, Ky. This able lawyer of Jasper, Tenn., has been county attorney, and served two terms in the Tennessee state legislature.

Waddill, James Richard

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1842, in Springfield, Mo. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1863, when he resigned. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1874; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortysixth congress as a democrat.

Wade, Decius C

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 23, 1835, in Andover, Ohio. In 1860 he was appointed county judge of Ashtabula county, Ohio, and was twice elected to that position, serving seven years. In 1869 he was elected a state senator, and while serving in that capacity in 1871 was appointed chief justice of Montana; and was reappointed in 1875; again reappointed in 1879, and for a fourth term in 1883.

Wade, Edward

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1803, in West Springfield, Mass. He was elected justice of the peace in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1832; removed to Unionville, and remained until 1837; finally settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-third congress, and was three times re-elected.

He died in August, 1866, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Wade, James F

soldier, was born in 1843 in Ohio; and is a son of Hon. B.

Wade. He was brevetted a number of times during the civil war for gallant services, and in 1866 was appointed captain in the sixth cavalry. About 1890 he was commissioned brigadier-general; and during the Spanish-American war in 1898 had command of the United States forces at Tampa.