Wagner, Webster
inventor, state senator, was born Oct. 2, 1817, in Palatine Bridge, N. Y. In 1867 he manufactured the first drawing-room car, and founded the Wagner Palace-Car company, of which he was president until his death.
He also invented the oval car-roof, and patented the elevated panel. Mr. Wagner was elected as a republican to the New York assembly in 1870, and from 1871 till 1882 he was state senator. He died Jan. 13, 1882, near Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y.
WAINWRIGHT, JONATHAN MAY- HEW, bishop, author, was born Feb. 24, 1793, in England.
He was a provincial protestant episcopal bishop of New York in 1852-54. He was the author of The Land of Bondage; Short Family Prayers; The Pathway and Abiding Places of Our Lord; Lessons on the Church Religious Education; and Selected Sermons. Besides his published works he contributed freely to the leading religious periodicals of the United States. He died Sept. 21, 1854, in New York city.