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Walthall, Edward Cary

soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born April 4, 1831, in Richmond, Va. He received an academic education at Holly Springs, Mississippi; studied law at Holly Springs, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and commenced the practice of law the same year in Coffeeville, Miss.

In 1856 he was elected district attorney for the tenth judicial district of Mississippi, and re-elected in 1859, resigning that office in the spring of 1861. He then entered the confederate service as a lieutenant in the fifteenth Mississippi regiment; was soon after elected lieutenant-colonel of that regiment. In the spring of 1862 he was elected colonel of the twenty-ninth Mississippi regiment, and was promoted to brigadier-general in 1862, and major-general in 1864. After the surrender he practiced law at Coffeeville until 1871, when he moved to Grenada, and there continued practice until 1885. He was a delegate-at-large to the national democratic conventions of 1868, 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1896; except in 1868 was chairman of the Mississippi delegation in these conventions. He was appointed to the United States senate in 1885 to fill a vacancy, and was elected for the unexpired term the following year, receiving the re-election in 1888, and again in 1892. In 1894 he resigned on account of ill health.

WALTHER, CARL FERDINAND WIL- HELM, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 25, 1811, in Saxony. He was a lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1839, and was president of the Lutheran Theological seminary at St. Louis in 1849-87. He was the leader of what are known as Missouri lutherans. He died May 7, 1887, in St. Louis, Mo.