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Ward, William Greene – Ware, William Hibbert

Ward, William Greene

lawyer, soldier, was born July 20, 1832, in New York city. In 1863 he served as colonel of the regiment in the Pennsylvania campaign. After the war he was made a brigadier-general in the state militia service, and served for nearly twenty years.

Ward, William Hayes

clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 25, 1835, in Abington, Mass. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Independent, and eminent as an Assyriologist. He is the author of Notes on Oriental Antiquities.

Ward, William Lukens

manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1856, in Greenwich, Conn. He was elected to congress and also as elector at the same election; and was elected from New York to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Ward, William Thomas

congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1808, in Amelia county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1851 to 1853.

He died Oct. 12, 1878, in Louisville, Ky.

Wardell, Daniel

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1791 in Bristol, R. I. He was four times elected to the legislature of New York from Rome; and was for several years judge of a county court. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1837.

Warden, David Baillie

public official, author, was born in 1778 in Ireland. He was a consul and secretary of the United States legation at Paris from 1804 until his death. He was the author of Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments; Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of the Negroes; Description of the District of Columbia; and a Statistical History of the United States. He died Oct. 9, 1845, in Paris, France.

Warder, John Aston

physician, author, was born Jan. 19, 1812, near Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Cincinnati physician very active in promoting a general interest in forestry and landscape gardening. He was the author of Hedge Manual; and American Pomology. He died July 14, 1883, in North Bend, Ohio.

Ware, Ashur

educator, journalist, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 10, 1782, in Sherburne, Mass. He moved to Portland, Maine, in 1817, and was judge of the United States district court of Maine from 1822 to 1866; and was first secretary of state for Maine in 1820. He published Reports of Cases in the United States District Court of Maine, from 1822 to 1839; and also wrote several legal essays and orations. He died Sept. 10, 1873, in Portland, Maine.

Ware, Eugene Fitch

soldier, lawyer, legislator, poet, was born May 29, 1841, in Hartford, Conn. He served five years in the volunteer army; and five years in the Kansas state senate.

He is a successful lawyer of Fort Scott; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Rhymes of Ironquill. He is a constant contributor to current newspapers and magazines; and his poems have been incorporated in several standard collections.

Ware, Nathaniel A

author, was born Aug. 16, 1789, in Abbeville, S. C.

He was a southern writer whose later years were spent in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. He was the author of Views of the Federal Constitution; and Notes on Political Economy. He died in 1854 in Galveston, Texas.

Ware, Nicholas

United States senator, was born in 1769 in Carolina county, Va. He was a senator in congress from Georgia from 1821 to the time of his death. He died Sept. 7, 1824, in New York city.

Ware, William Hibbert

poet, was born Dec. 24, 1863, in England. He is the author of an Epic Poem, published in one volume.