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Watts, Henry Miller – Waxham, Frank E

Watts, Henry Miller

lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 10, 1805, in Carlisle, Pa. He practiced law in Pittsburg, Pa.; was appointed deputy attorney-general; and was a representative in the state legislature from 1835 to 1838.

He then settled in Philadelphia, and was appointed United States attorney for the district of Philadelphia; and in 1868 was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Austria.

Watts, John

major general, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1749, in New York city. In the military service of the state of New York he rose to the rank of brigadier general. He was a member of congress from 1793 to 1795. He died Sept. 3, 1836, in New York city.

Watts, John S

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1816, in Boone county, Ky.

He served in the legislature of Indiana; was twice elected a prosecuting attorney; and in 1851 was appointed an associate justice in New Mexico. He was elected a delegate from New Mexico to the thirtyseventh congress; took an active part in raising troops for the union army during the rebellion; and in 1868 was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Mexico.

Watts, Robert

educator, was born in 1812, in Fordham, N. Y. From 1839 till his death he was professor of anatomy in the college of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city, and from 1859 he was one of the attending physicians of the nursery and child's hospital. He died Sept. 8, 1867, in Paris, France.

Watts, Thomas Hill

statesman, lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 3, 1819, in Butler county, Ala. In 1842 he was elected to the legislature, and he was returned in 1844 and 1845. He removed to Montgomery county in 1847, and was in 1849 sent to the legislature from that district; and in 1863-68 was governor of Alabama.

Waugh, Beverly

bishop, was born Oct. 28, 1789, in Fairfax county, Va. In 1808 he entered the ministry, and at the end of three years he was stationed in the city of Washington. He was elected by the Baltimore conferences to the general conferences of 1816 and 1820. In 1852 he became senior bishop of the church. He died Feb. 9, 1858, in Baltimore, Md.

Waugh, Dan

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1842, in Indiana. He served three years as private in company A, thirty-fourth Indiana volunteer infantry. He was elected to the office of judge of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit for six years; and was elected from Indiana to the fifty-second and fiftythird congresses.

Waugh, Frederick Judd

artist, was born Sept. 13, 1861, in Bordentown, N. J. He has been successful as a landscape and marine painter; and in painting portraits and allegorical figures.

Waugh, Ida

artist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1896 she received the three hundred dollar prize awarded for the best picture painted by an American woman at the New York Academy of Design.

Waugh, John

clergyman, author, poet, was born March 21, 1814, in England. He is an eminent presbyterian clergyman of Cohocton, N. Y. In 1888 he published a work entitled Messiah's Mission.

Waul, Thomas N

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1815, in Sumter district, S. C. Having removed to Texas he was elected one of her representatives in the first confederate congress. He was a brigadier-general in the confederate army.

Waxham, Frank E

physician, educator, was born Dec. 1, 1853, in La Porte county, Ind. In 1878 he graduated from the Chicago Medical college; and subsequently studied in London and Berlin.

He now fills the chair in the Gross Medical college of Denver, Col. He is versatile writer, and a constant contributor to medical and secular journals.

He has also published numerous pamphlets on medical subjects. a