Ward, James Thomas
educator, clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 21, 1820, in Georgetown, D. C. He studied at the Columbian academy of Washington, D. C., and the Brookville academy, Maryland.
In 1840 he was licensed to preach; and has since attained eminence as a clergyman, and has filled pastorates in various prominent churches of Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He is the author of Fifty Short Letters to Save Souls; A Tribute to the Memory of George A.
Johnson; Thanksgiving Sermon and Christmas Poem; Sunday Address in Rhyme; Daily Manual for Bible Readers; and a series of sixty papers entitled Sketches and Reminiscences of American Protestant Ministers. During 1868-86 he was president of the Western Maryland college; and in 1886 was elected president of the Westminster Theological seminary of the methodist protestant church, which position he still holds.