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Walsh, John Johnson
missionary, author, was born April 4, 1820, in Newburg, N. Y. In 1874 he was pastor at Millerton, N. Y., for two years, and subsequently in Amenia. He had just left India for the United States, and thus escaped the massacre of the mission at Futtehghur by the Sepoys in 1857. He published A Memorial of the Futtehghur Mission and her Martyred Missionaries. He died Feb. 7, 1884, in Amenia, N. Y.
Walsh, Michael
educator, author, was born in 1763 in Ireland. He was a popular educator of Massachusetts who published a Mercantile Arithmetic, and a New System of Bookkeeping. He died Aug. 20, 1840, in Amesbury, Mass.
Walsh, Michael
journalist, congressman, was born March 7, 1810, in Ireland. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1853 to 1855. He died March 17, 1859, in New York city.
Walsh, Thomas Y
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1851 to 1853.
Walsh, William
lawyer, congressman, was born May 11, 1828, in Ireland. In 1874 he was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Walsh, William Shepard
journalist, author, was born Feb. 1, 1854, in France. He was a Philadelphia writer, (editor of Lippincott's Magazine in 1886-90, and the author of Authors and Authorship; Pen Pictures of Earlier Victorian Authors: Faust: the Legend and the Poem; Paradoxes of a Philistine; Pen Pictures of Modern Authors; and Our Young Folks' History of the Roman Empire. He died about 1896.
Walter, Alfred
railroad president, was born Oct. 2, 1851, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Since 1894 he has been president of the Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill railroad.
Walter, George William
organist, was born Dec. 16, 1851, in New York city. As an organist he is known for his powers in extemporaneous performance and novelty in registration. His musical library contains more than eight thousand works.
Walter, Nehemiah
clergyman, author, was born in December, 1663, in Ireland. He was a pastor at Roxbury, Mass., from 1688 until his death, and the author of The Sense of Indwelling Sin in the Unregenerate; Sermons; and Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven. He died Sept. 17, 1750, in Roxbury, Mass.
Walter, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 13, 1696, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, the colleague of his father, and the author of Grounds and Rules of Music Explained; and Infallibility May Sometimes Mistake. He died Jan. 10, 1725, in Roxbury, Mass.
Walter, Thomas
botanist, author, was born about 1740 in England. He was a successful planter near Charleston, S. C., and in 1788 published a work entitled Flora Caroliniana. He died in 1788 in Charleston, S. C.
Walter, Thomas Ustick
architect, was born Sept. 4, 1804, in Philadelphia, Pa. Among the many monuments of his skill as designer and architect, are the Girard college, perhaps the finest specimen of classical architecture in America; the iron dome and extension of the capitol at Washington, east and west wings of the patent office, and extension of the general postoffice. He died Oct. 30, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.