Ward, Anna Lydia
author, was born about 1850 in Bloomfield, N. J. She assisted in compiling a Dictionary of Quotations, and has published A Dictionary of Quotations from the Poets; Surf and Wave; and a History of Waterbury. 1727 in Shrewsbury, Mass. seventeenth congress; declined a re-election; and was appointed a circuit judge in 1823.
In 1828 he was made chancellor of the state of New York, which office he held for twenty years, when the office was abolished. He was the author of Rules and Orders of the New York Court of Chancery; and The Hyde Genealogy. He died Nov. 27, 1867, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.