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Waldo, Leonard – Wales, Samuel
Waldo, Leonard
astronomer, author, was born March 4, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was appointed assistant at the Harvard observatory in 1875, and continued there until 1880, after which, until 1887, he was astronomer in charge of the horological bureau of the Winchester observatory of Yale. He is the author of cyclopædia articles and popular papers on technical subjects.
Waldo, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1721 in Maine. In 1760 he was appointed judge of probate for Cumberland county, Maine. He died April 16, 1770, in Maine.
Waldo, Samuel Lovett
artist, was born April 6, 1783, in Windham, Conn. For fifty-three years he painted portraits in New York city; among them are those of General Macomb; and Mayors Willett, Radcliffe, and Allen. He died Feb. 16, 1861, in New York city.
Waldron, Henry
civil engineer, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1819, in Albany, N. Y. He was elected to the legislature of Michigan in 1843; served as a representative in congress during the years 1855-58; and was also elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was elected a representative to the forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Waldstein, Charles
archæologist, author, was born March 30, 1856, in New York city. He is an eminent archæologist, and the director of the American School of Archæology at Athens from 1888. He is the author of Excavations at the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of Emotion and Intellect; Essays on the Art of Pheidias; The Work of John Ruskin; and Study of Art in Universities.
Wales, George E
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Windham county, Vt. He served six years in the state legislature, and was speaker in 1823 and 1824. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1825 to 1829; and was judge of probate for Hartford county from 1843 to 1848.
Wales, James Albert
caricaturist, was born Aug. 30, 1852, in Clyde, Ohio.
In 1881 he went abroad, and after his return he became one of the founders of The Judge, and was for some time its chief cartoonist. He returned to Puck in 1885. He was the only prominent caricaturist of the newer school who was a native American. He died Dec. 6, 1886, in New York.
Wales, John
United States senator, was born July 31, 1783, in New Haven, Conn. He was a senator in congress from Delaware from 1849 to 1851 to fill a vacancy. He died Dec. 3, 1863, in Wilmington, Del.
Wales, Leonard E
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 26, 1823, in Wilmington, Del. In 1864 he was appointed judge of the superior court of Delaware for New Castle county; and continued in this position until 1884, when he resigned to accept the appointment of United States district judge for the district of Delaware.
Wales, Philip Skinner
naval officer, author, was born Feb. 27, 1837, in Annapolis, Md. He is a United States naval officer who has published a Treatise on Mechanical Therapeutics.
Wales, Salem Howe
journalist, was born Oct. 4, 1825, in Wales, Mass.
He was president of the department of parks, New York city, in 1873; president of the department of docks in 1876; and of the park commission in 1880-85. He wrote a series of letters on European travel in 1855 and 1867 for the New York Sun and Scientific American.
Wales, Samuel
clergyman, educator, author, was born March 2, 1748, in Raynham, Mass. He was minister of Milford in 1770-82, and in the latter year received the degree of D. D. from Yale, where he was professor of divinity from 1782 till his death. He published Dangers of Our National Prosperity, an election sermon. He died Feb. 18, 1794, in New Haven, Conn.