Ward, Aaron
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born July 5, 1790, in Sing Sing, N. Y. In 1814 he served in the regular army as a captain. After the war he became district attorney for the county of Westchester; and subsequently attained the position of major-general of the New York militia. He served as a representative in congress from 1825 to 1829, from 1831 to 1837, and from 1841 to 1843. In 1846 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He was the author of Around the Pyramids, a volume of travel. He died March 2, 1867, in Georgetown, D. C. -WARD, ANDREW HENSHAW, lawyer, antiquarian, author, was born May 26, 1784, in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was a lawyer of Shrewsbury, Mass., and subsequently of Newton in the same state; and the author of History of Shrewsbury; Genealogy of the Rice Family; and The Ward Family. He died Feb. 18, 1864, in Newtonville, Mass.