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Ward, James H

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 30, 1853, in Chicago, Ill. He engaged in the practice of law in Chicago; and was elected supervisor of the town of West Chicago in 1879. He was a presidential elector in 1884; and in the same year was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.

Ward, James Harman

naval officer, author, was born in 1806 in Hartford, Conn. He was a United States naval officer; and the author of Elementary Course of Instruction in Naval Gunnery; Manual of Naval Tactics; and Steam for the Million. He died June 27, 1861, near Matthias Point, Conn.

Ward, James Warner

poet, was born June 5, 1817, in Newark, N. J. He is a poet; librarian in 1874-95 of the Grosvenor library at Buffalo; and the author of Home-Made Verses and Stories in Rhyme; Yorick, and Other Poems; and Higher Water, a parody upon Hiawatha.

Ward, James William

physician, surgeon, author, was born March 14, 1861, in Minneapolis, Minn. He held the chair of physiology in the Hahnemann Medical college from 1885-86; and is the author of A Year's Work at the Sanatorium Without a Death.

Ward, Jasper D

lawyer, congressman. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-third congress; and five days after its adjournment was appointed United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois in 1875.

Ward, John

soldier, physician, author, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1838, in New York city. He is a soldier and physician of New York city; and the author of The Overland Route to California, and Other Poems.

Ward, John Elliot

lawyer, state senator, was born Oct. 2, 1814, in Sunbury, Ga. In 1838 he was appointed United States district attorney for Georgia; and the following year was elected a member of the state legislature. He was also a member of the state legislature in 1845 and 1853; and in 1854 was elected mayor of Savannah. In 1857 he was elected a state senator, and was chosen its president. During 1859-61 he was United States minister to China.

Ward, John Henry Hobart

soldier, was born June 17, 1823, in New York city. He served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadier-general in 1862.

He took part in the first battle of Bull Run, in which his regiment lost one hundred and twentysix men. He commanded a brigade at Gettysburg, the battle of the Wilderness, and in numerous other battles.

Ward, John Quincy Adams

sculptor, was born June 29, 1830, in Urbana, Ohio. In 1861 he opened a studio in New York, where he has since resided.

The Indian Hunter, completed in 1864 and now in the Central park, won universal praise for its excellence in design and execution, and is among the best of his statues. New York city also possesses a colossal statue of a citizen soldier for the seventh regiment; Shakespeare; and a colossal statue of Washington.

Ward, John Tefft

journalist, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1847, in Norway, N. Y. For twenty years this eminent clergyman has filled pastorates in the free baptist church. He is the editor of The Free Baptist at Minneapolis, Minn.; and author of The Free Baptist Cyclopædia.

Ward, Jonathan

state senator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a state senator from Westchester county, N. Y., from 1807 to 1810; and was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1817.

Ward, Julius Hammond

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Oct. 12, 1837, in Charlton, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman and journalist of Boston on the staff of The Boston Herald. He was the author of Life of J. G. Percival; The Bible in Modern Thought; Life of Bishop White; Phillips Brooks in Massachusetts; The Church in Modern Society; and The White Mountains, a Guide to Their Interpretation. He died in 1897.