Ward, Durbin
lawyer, state senator, was born Feb. 11, 1819, in Augusta, Ky.
He served through the civil war, and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He entered the Ohio state senate in 1870.
The plan of the present circuit court system of Ohio was drafted by him. He began, but did not live to complete, a work on constitutional law, to be entitled The Federal Institutes. A volume of his speeches was published by his widow in 1888. He died May 22, 1886, in Lebanon, Ohio.
WARD, DUREN JAMES HENDERSON, educator; clergyman, lecturer, author, was born June 17, 1851, in Canada. He received the rudiments of his education in the high schools of Memphis, Mich.; and attended the Hillsdale college, Harvard university, Berlin university, and Leipsic university; and has had the degrees of D. B., A. M., and Ph. D., conferred upon him. During 1879-82 he was principal of the New Lyme academy, Ohio; in 1887- 89 librarian of Harvard Divinity school; and in 1888-89 was a lecturer on philosophy in the Harvard university. In 1889- 91 he was superintendent of the Adler Ethical Society school of New York city; and during 1891-94 lecturer to the Science Sermons society. Since 1895 he has been minister to the Unitarian society of Dover, N. H.