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Wanger, Irving Price

lawyer, congressman, was born March 5, 1852, in North Coventry, Pa. He was elected district attorney of Montgomery county, Pa., in 1880 and again in 1886. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Wanton, Joseph

merchant, governor, was born in 1705 in Newport, R. I. He was governor of Rhode Island during 1769-75. He died July 19, 1780, in Newport, R. I.

WARD, A. H., congressman. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy.

Walworth, Reubena Hyde

author, was born Feb. 21, 1867, in Louisville, Ky. She is the author of Where Was Elsie?, a comedietta.

Ward, Artemas

soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born in He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature; and was a judge of the court of common pleas for the county of Worcester. In 1775 he was appointed majorgeneral of the American army. He was a delegate to the provincial congress, and a representative in the United States congress from Massachusetts from 1791 to 1795. He died Oct. 28,1800, in Shrewsbury, Mass.

Ward, Artemas

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1762, in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1817; and in 1821 was appointed chief justice of the court of common pleas of the state, which office he held for nineteen years. He died Oct. 7, 1847, in Boston, Mass.

Ward, Edgar Melville

artist, was born Feb. 24, 1839, in Urbana, Ohio.

His Brittany Washerwomen was at the salon of 1876, the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876, and at Paris in 1878 with Venetian Water-Carriers and The Sabot- Maker.

Ward, Hamilton

lawyer, congressman, was born July 3, 1829, in Salisbury, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected district attorney for Allegany county at Belmont, holding the office three years, and was reelected in 1862. During that year he was active in raising and organizing state troops. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican.

Ward, Henry

congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1732, in Rhode Island. He was appointed secretary of Rhode Island in 1760; was a supporter of the revolution; and a member of the congress which met in New York in 1765. He was a member of the committee of correspondence during the revolution; and held the office of secretary from his appointment until his death. He died in December, 1797.

Ward, Henry Augustus

naturalist, author, was born March 9, 1834, in Rochester, N. Y. He is a naturalist of note, professor in the university of Rochester in 1860-75; and the author of Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri; and Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in Royal Museums of Europe.

Ward, Henry Dana

clergyman, author, was born in 1797 in Massachusetts. He was a baptist clergyman prominent as an opponent of Freemasonry; and the author of Freemasonry: Its Pretensions; The Gospel of the Kingdom; The History of the Cross; and The Faith of Abraham and Christ. He died in 1884.

Ward, Herbert Dickinson

author, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts.

He is the author of The Captain of the Kittie Wink; A Dash to the Pole; The New Senior at Andover; The White Crown, and Other Stories; and The Burglar Who Moved Paradise.

Ward, Horatio

banker, philanthropist, was born in 1810 in New York city. He bequeathed $100,000 to the National Soldiers' and Sailors' home of Washington, D. C.; and an equal sum for the education of soldiers' orphans. He died in April, 1868, in England.