Ward, Elijah
merchant, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1816, in Sing Sing, N. Y. He was president of the Mercantile Library association of New York city in 1839. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress; in 1860 was elected to the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1862 to the thirty-eighth congress. He was, for several years, judge advocate-general of New York with the rank of brigadier-general; and was also elected to the forty-fourth congress. He died Feb. 7, 1882, in Roslyn, N. Y.
WARD, MRS. ELIZABETH STUART [PHELPS], author, was born in 1844 in Massachusetts. She has recently lived in Newton, Mass. The publication in 1869 of The Gates Ajar, a tale whose theme is the life of departed spirits in the next world, aroused much discussion, and instantly made its author famous. She has since pursued the same motive in Beyond the Gates, and The Gates Between. She is the author of Hedged In; The Silent Partner; Sealed Orders, and Other Stories; Men, Women, and Ghosts; Friends: a Duet; Dr. Zay; The Story of Avis; An Old Maid's Paradise, and Burglars in Paradise; Fourteen to One, a book of short stories; Donald Marcy; Jack the Fisherman; The Madonna of the Tubs; A Singular Life; The Supply at St. Agatha's; The Master of the Magicians (with H. D. Ward); Come Forth (with H. D. Ward); What to Wear?; The Struggle for Immortality, a collection of essays; and Chapters from a Life, an autobiography. Less widely known as a poet, her Poetic Studies, and Songs of the Silent World, perhaps represent her highest point of attainment. Her juvenile books include, Gypsey's Rainy Day Book; My Cousin and I; The Trotty Book; and Trotty's Wedding Tour and Story Book.
WARD, FERDINAND DE WILTON, missionary, author, was born July 9, 1812, in Bergen, N. Y. He was a presbyterian missionary in India in 1836-47, and subsequently a minister in Geneseo, N. Y. He is the author of India and the Hindoos; Christian Gift, or Pastoral Letters Upon Character; Summer Vacation Abroad; and History of the Churches of Rochester, N. Y.
WARD, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, physician, surgeon, was born July 10, 1860, in San Francisco. She has the largest practice of any woman physician west of Chicago, and has written extensively for medical journals.