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His earlier education was obtained under the old district school system in that town, but his eagerness for books, which he mainly secured through the district school libraries then introduced throughout the State by Horace Mann, while superinten- dent of state education, was so great, that his parents determined to give him all the educational advantages within their reach.
He was prepared for college at Monson Academy, under the Rev. James Tufts, and entered Yale College in the fall of 1856, where he was graduated in the summer of 1860. Two events were prominent during this period of his education. One was the passing through a period of religious doubt, in which he gave up the evangelical teachings of the Congregational body, with which he was first associated, and became an agnostic. Before he was graduated he had returned to a settled belief, and became a communicant in St. Paul's Episcopal church in New Haven. This determined the religious direction of his life. The other event which dominated his college career was the training for the work of a
writer, for which he showed an aptitude, and before he was graduated he had al- ready undertaken to write a biography of the Connecticut poet, James Gates Perci- val. This he completed in 1866, and the work was published in the fall of that year by Ticknor & Fields, Boston.
Mr. Ward was in doubt during his col- lege life whether to follow the career of an editor, for which he had a strong natural inclination, or to enter upon the clerical profession. His choice of the Episcopal church as his religious home, and the as- cendency of religious purpose which fol- lowed that step, led to his study of theology at the Berkeley Divinity School at Middle- town, Conn., where he remained two years, being admitted to deacon's orders by Bishop Williams in June, 1862. He passed his diaconate in charge of Grace chapel in Yantic, in the same state, and was advanced to the order of priest by the same bishop, in Trinity church, Norwich, in 1863.
He removed from Yantic to take charge of Christ church, Ansonia, in February, 1864, where he soon built up a thriving parish. In the summer of 1865 he was in- duced to change from Ansonia to Cheshire, where he had charge of St. Peter's parish until December, 1867, and where he wrote the greater part of his "Life and Letters of J. G. Percival."
During this period and earlier, his con- nection with the press was extensive. His earliest writing was a paper on Percival in the "Christian Examiner," for September, 1859, which was followed by a critical arti- cle on his poetry in the "North American Review," for July, 1860. He was after- wards a frequent contributor to both of these periodicals, one of his essays bringing him the friendship of the late Sir Henry Taylor. He was also a writer in the " Na- tion " and the "Round Table," and had constant editorial connection with the church press,
In December, 1867, he removed to Maine, where, under Bishop Neely, for seven years he had charge of an extensive mis- sionary field at Thomaston and Rockland. In the early part of 1875, having been greatly over-worked in the discharge of the duties of his young parishes, he re- turned to his native state, and took charge of St. Michael's parish, Marblehead, where he remained until his health was fully restored.
During this interval of waiting his thought broadened into new channels, and as health returned to him he began to write leaders for the "New York
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Times," " The Boston Herald," and other influential daily and weekly papers, on the religious, social, and educational questions of the day. In this field he found an in- creasing demand for his work, and though he removed to Boston in the winter of 1878 to organize and build up a people's Episcopal church in that city, and for three seasons had Sunday afternoon lec- tures in Union Hall, which were intended to lead the way to this kind of parish, he gradually found that in the field of editorial writing there was an unorganized parish which awaited him, and in which his suc- cess was such, that, on taking advice with those best able to counsel him, he relin-
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quished the special work for which he came to Boston. He henceforth gave his time entirely to the thorough and compre- hensive studies which prepare one to discuss the questions in religion, social movement, and the direction of education, that require treatment in the daily and weekly press, and in other places where public discussion is carried on. Mr. Ward has been connected in this service, mainly with the " Boston Herald," since Septeni- ber, 1877, but it is also known that he is a constant leader writer on the subjects which he has specially studied, for the New York daily and weekly press.
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In addition to his special work in the "Herald," he has also had charge of its literary department, and its important re- view articles are nearly always from his pen. He also writes frequently for the monthly magazines, on literary, social, and religious subjects. He resides in Brook- line, and though not connected with any parish, is an active and influential church- man, and combines what is strongest and best in the high and broad schools of religious thought.
He was married to Olive Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Bradford) Witter, of Brooklyn, Conn., at Trinity church, in that town, September 2, 1862, and has two children : Mary Olive, born April 6, 1867, and Grace Witter, born June 12, 1876.
Mr. Ward's constant labors as a clergy- man-journalist have interfered with his intended contributions to literature, but during the present year he has completed a constructive study of the relations of the Christian church to our own time, which has recently been published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., under the title of " The Church in Modern Society," and he is understood to have two other books on hand, one of which will be devoted to the New England development of the century, while the other will be a short- ened history of the origin and growth of the Episcopal church in America.
WARE, MOSES EVERETT, is the son of Leonard and Sarah Anna (Minns) Ware, and was born in Boston, August 4, 1841.
After graduating from the Roxbury high school in 1858, he went into the counting-room of Wyman & Arklay, im- porters of Dundee linens.
In 1860 he became a member of the 4th battalion infantry - went to the war as Ist sergeant of company G, 45th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers ; and in 1862 he returned as 2d lieutenant of the same company ; raised a company in twenty- four hours to answer the call from Presi- dent Lincoln for troops for the defense of Washington, in 1864, and went as captain of company H, in the 6th regiment, Mas- sachusetts volunteer militia.
He is a member of the Unitarian, the Massachusetts, and the Roxbury clubs, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Association of Officers of the 45th Regi- ment, and a director in the Roxbury Char- itable Society.
In 1887 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives, and in 1888 was honored with a re-election, serving each
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year on the committee on finance - the latter year acting as its chairman.
He is a partner in business with his brother, under the firm name of Leonard Ware & Sons, oil merchants.
His father, Leonard Ware, lately de- ceased, was a native of Wrentham, and in his youth came to Boston, where he has passed a long and successful business life. His mother, Sarah Anna Minns, was the daughter of Thomas and Susannah Minns. His grandfather, Thomas Minns, was the editor and one of the proprietors of the "New England Palladium " (Young & Minns) from 1794 to 1828, and a corner- stone of the old Whig party in its early years. He was a member of the Boston common council for four years, from 1829 to '32, a representative of Boston in the Legislature for seven years, from 1829 to '35, and his mantle seems to have fallen on worthy shoulders in the person of his grandson.
Mr. Ware's grandmother, Susannah Minns, was descended from the well-known Boylston and Cunningham families, distin- guished alike in the city and state for great public spirit, and large and far-sighted benefactions. Mrs. Minns's direct ances- tor, Peter Boylston, was the grandfather of John Adams, the second president of the United States.
Mr. Ware was married, October 29, 1867, at Roxbury, to Agnes Maria, daughter of James P. and Maria H. (Storer) Wheeler, of Eastport, Maine. Their children are : Bertha Agnes, Leonard Everett, and Storer Preble Ware.
WARNER, LEWIS, son of Thomas and Sarah Warner, was born in Springfield, Hampden county, September 21, 1839.
He was educated in the schools of that city, graduating from the high school in the class of 1856. He entered what is now the Agawam National Bank of Spring- field, as clerk, February 4, 1857, and con- tinued in that position until March 4, 1860, when he entered the Chicopee National Bank of Springfield, as teller, where he re- mained until December 26, 1865. He then assumed the duties of cashier in the Hamp- shire County National Bank of Northamp- ton, which he continued to discharge until he was made president of the bank, Sep- tember 6, 1887, which position he now holds.
He was elected treasurer of Hampshire county in 1879 by a liberal vote from both parties, though the nominee of the Demo- crats. He has since been continuously re- elected to the office, which he now holds.
In 1886 he was the Democratic nominee for state treasurer and receiver-general, and was nominated by his party for mem- bership in the governor's council in 1887.
Mr. Warner is widely and justly known as a liberal, enterprising, public-spirited citizen, whose energy, integrity, and faith- fulness in the performance of every public and private trust make his an honored name in the city of his adoption.
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He is an Odd Fellow, and Free Mason, and takes an active interest in each of these fraternities.
Mr. Warner was married in Springfield, November 22, 1866, to Lusanna P., daugh- ter of Luke and Harriet E. Pratt. He has two children now living : Mabel A. and Lewis E. Warner. He lost a son, Freder- ick P., who died in 1883.
WARREN, JOSEPH HUCKINS, son of Joseph and Caroline E. (Huckins) Warren, was born in Effingham, Carroll county, N. H., October 2, 1831. His father was the seventh son of General James Warren, distinguished in the revolutionary war and in that of 1812. His great grandfather was Captain John Warren, of French and Indian war fame. His maternal ancestors were in the line of descent from the Duch- ess of Marlborough. His maternal grand- father, Joseph Huckins, was a very promi-
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nent man in New Hampshire, and was high sheriff of that state, and grand master of F. & A. M. in New England, holding the jewels and archives of the order, when the Morgan excitement against Masonry was so bitter.
Mr. Warren began his school life at a private kindergarten, one of the first in this country organized for object-teaching. At the age of twelve he was placed under the tuition of his sister in Newton. At six- teen he entered West Lebanon Academy, Maine.
In 1849 he began the study of medicine at the medical school, Castleton, Vt. Sub- sequently he attended lectures at Harvard medical school. He was graduated from the medical school, Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1853, and subsequently received from Bowdoin the degree of A. M. After a time spent in special study, with Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York, he began
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practice in 1853 at Newton, having previ- ously jomed the Massachusetts Medical Society. Here he practiced three years ; was a member of the school board, and held other offices of trust and honor. His health failed him from over-work, and he , removed to Dorchester, where his field of labor was more easily attended, and where he regained his health.
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At the breaking out of the rebellion, Dr. Warren was among the first to volunteer, and he was in Baltimore with the Massa- chusetts troops when the first volunteers were mobbed in the streets of that city. He was afterward commissioned by Presi- dent Lincoln medical director and surgeon in General Casey's division, and of provis- ional troops; and he was President Lin- coln's private medical attendant and con- sulting physician. His labors were espec- ially arduous, and he did much to alleviate the suffering of the soldiers by the erection of barrack hospitals, and brought order out of chaos by the proper systematizing of the service. He saw active service in the field before Yorktown, and soon after was dis- abled while bearing special dispatches to Washington, and was obliged to resign.
He has indulged quite extensively in foreign travel, for health and pleasure, and officially, as delegate from the American Medical Association, of which he is vice- president. He read papers before the British Medical Association at Cambridge and the Academy of Medicine at Paris. In the same year he published in London a " Practical Treatise on Hernia," a second edition being published in 1882 in America. He operated in Guy's Hospital in London and elsewhere to demonstrate the method. He later published a "Plea for the Cure of Rupture," and has written many mono- graphs and medical papers, as well as ar- ticles relating to general literature. He was among the first, if not the first, to aspi- rate the pericardium (April, 1855), and to perform the operation of paracentesis tho- racis (August, 1856). He engaged in medical journalism in Florida, while travel- ing there for his health, publishing " Tech- nics," and establishing the "Southern Sun," a newspaper of independent character. The publication of "Technics" and also of " Modern Life" was continued in Boston after his return, and they are now merged in " Notes Current."
Dr. Warren is a member of the British Medical Association; a permanent member and now vice-president of the American Medical Association, fellow of the Mas- sachusetts Medical, and Suffolk District Medical societies; an honorary member of the Vermont State Medical Society and Otsego Medical Society of New York, and past member and president of Putnam County Medical Society and State Medical Society, Florida. He is a trustee of the Boston Penny Savings Bank, and is a mem- ber of a number of literary, historical, sci- entific, and social societies.
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The Norwich University, of Northfield, \'t., conferred upon him in 1889 the hon- orary degree of LL. D.
Dr. Warren was married September 24, 1854, to Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Caswell and Mary (Warren) Everett. Of this union were two children : a daugh- ter, deceased, and a son, Charles Everett Warren, physician and author, who is as- sociated with his father.
WARREN, NATHAN, son of Nehemiah and Sally (Wyman) Warren, was born in Waltham, Middlesex county, February II, 1838.
He received a common school and aca- demic education in the schools of Waltham, where he fitted for college, but changing his plans, he sought a business career, and in pursuance of this, entered a wholesale dry-goods house in Boston. Upon the failure of this house he was in New York for a short time in a commission house, just previous to the breaking out of the civil war.
In 1862 he enlisted in the 45th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and served with that regiment in North Carolina during its period of enlistment. Subsequently in the war he was in the department of the Gulf, where he acted as provost-marshal of one of the parishes of Louisiana, and later, at its close, was in the war depart- ment in Washington.
After the war he was interested in the shipping business in Boston, and in this connection visited the Cape Verd Islands and several points on the coast of Africa. He has also traveled quite extensively through Europe, and before the advent of railroads in that section of the country, crossed the great plains of the Northwest and Yellowstone region on a horseback trip with an exploring party.
He has been connected with life insur- ance business for some years, and has given considerable study and attention to its theory and practice. He is the cashier of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York, and its representative in Boston.
Mr. Warren was married in Springfield, January 18, 1883, to Charlotte E., daugh- ter of Francis B. and Charlotte (Hare) Bacon. Of this union is one child : Rich- ard Warren.
Mr. Warren represented Waltham in the Legislature in 1880 and '81, and served as chairman of the insurance committee on the part of the House, and as a member of the special joint committee for the compi- lation of the present code of the public stat-
utes. He was chairman of the board of trustees of the public library of Waltham, for several years, master of Monitor Lodge of Free Masons two years, and has always been active as a public-spirited citizen in whatever has related to the welfare of the community in which he has lived. He has been quite prominent in political matters ; has been a member of the Republican state central committee ; and in 1888 was president of the Republican Club of Wal- tham.
Mr. Warren has been considerably inter- ested in historical research, local and gen- eral, and has been a frequent contributor editorially and otherwise to the Boston press on questions of public interest.
WARREN, WILLIAM FAIRFIELD, son of Mather and Anne M. Warren, was born at Williamsburgh, Hampshire county, March 13, 1833.
He was graduated from Wesleyan Uni- versity in 1853. In 1855 and '56 he was in charge of a church in Andover, and from 1856 to '58 studied in Berlin, Halle, and Rome. He traveled in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, etc., residing in all, over seven years abroad.
In 1859-'60 he was pastor of the Brom- field Street M. E. church, Boston ; from 1861 to '66 professor of systematic theology in the Missions-anstalt, Bremen, Germany ; from 1866 to '73 professor of systematic theology in the Boston Theological Semi- nary, and acting president of the same. From 1873, the year of its foundation, to the present time, he has been president of Boston University, professor of compara- tive history of religion, comparative theol- ogy, and the philosophy of religion. He received the degree of D. D. from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1862, and that of LL. D. from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1874.
Among the more significant features of Dr. Warren's life-work thus far may be named : a new presentation of theology to the theologians of Germany ; the re-or- ganization of the oldest theological semi- nary of the Methodist Episcopal church ; the organization of the Boston University; the reconstruction of ancient cosmology and mythical geography, particularly the Homeric ; the discovery - as many believe -- of the cradle of the human race ; and the promotion of international university co-operation in advancing the highest as well as broadest educational ideals.
President Warren has been a copious writer, the titles of a part of his publica- tions filling nearly four octavo pages of the
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" Alumni Record " of his alma mater. In his earlier years he published miscellane- ous translations from the Spanish, German, Dutch, and Latin languages. The last twenty-two years he has annually published one or more educational reports in which the living issues of the day are more or less fully discussed.
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In the successive volumes of the " Bos- ton University Year Book" he has also printed not a few educational, scientific, and professional essays. At the same time he has contributed annually more or less freely to the scholarly periodical press. Six of his publications were written and printed in the German language ; of these the more important were: "Anfangsgruende der Logik" (1863) ; "Einleitung in die systematische Theologie " (1865); and "Ver- such einer neuen encyklopacdischen Einrich- tung und Darstellung der theologischen Wis- senschaften " (1867).
The following are some of his essays and addresses with the year of their issuc; " De Reprobatione " (1867) ; "Systems of Ministerial Education " (1872) ; "The Christian Consciousness" (1872) ; " Ameri- can Infidelity " (1874) ; "The Taxation of Colleges, Churches, and Hospitals. Tax- exemption the Road to Tax Abolition " (1876); " The Gateways to the Learned
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Professions "(1877) ; "Review of Twenty Arguments employed in Opposition to the Opening of the Boston Latin School to Girls " (1877) ; "The Liberation of Learn- ing in England" (1878) ; "Joint and Dis- joint Education in the Public Schools " (1879) ; "Hopeful Symptoms in Medical Education " (1880) ; "New England The- ology " (1881); "True Key to Ancient Cos- mology and Mythical Geography " (1882); "Homer's Abode of the Dead " (1883) ; " All Roads lead to Thule " (1886) ; "The Quest of the Perfect Religion " (1887) ; "The True Celebration of the Four-hun- dredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America by Columbus " (1888) ; " The Cry of the Soul. A Baccalaureate Address" (1888) ; "The Gates of Sunrise in Baby- lonian and Egyptian Mythology " (1889).
In 1885 he published an elaborate study of the pre-historic world, entitled " Para- dise Found. The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole." This work quickly reached the eighth edition. A smaller book entitled "In the Footsteps of Arminius - A Delightsome Pilgrimage " was issued in 1888.
President Warren married Harriet M., daughter of John M. and Mary J. Merrick, April 14, 1861. Their children are four : Mary Christine, William Marshall, Annie Merrick, and Winifred Warren.
WASHBURN, JOHN DAVIS, was born in Boston, March 27, 1833, being the eld- est son of John Marshall Washburn, who married, in 1832, Harriet Webster, daughter of Rev. Daniel Kimball (Harvard, 1800).
His parents moved to the town of Lan- caster, in Worcester county, when he was five years of age. At the age of twenty he was graduated from Harvard Univer- sity in the class of 1853, and entered the profession of law, studying first with Hon. Emory Washburn and George F. Hoar in 1854, and later receiving a diploma from the Harvard law school in 1856.
He practiced law in Worcester in part- nership with Hon. H. C. Rice, taking a prominent place, first as an insurance attor- ney, and lastly succeeding the late Hon. Alexander H. Bullock as general agent and attorney of the insurance companies (1866). From 1866 to '69 he was Gov- ernor Bullock's chief-of-staff, with the rank of colonel. From 1871 to '81 he was trustee of the Worcester lunatic hospital, and from 1875 to '85 filled the same rela- tion to the Massachusetts school for the feeble-minded.
He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives from 1876 to '79, and state
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senator from the city of Worcester in 1884, rendering excellent public service.
His association has always been sought in corporate and financial affairs. From 1866 to 'So he was a director of the Citi- zens' National Bank. He has been a member of the board of investment of the Worcester County Institution for Savings since 1871, and trustee and treasurer of the Memorial Hospital since 1872. He has been a director of the Merchants' and Farmers' Insurance Company since 1862, and succeeded the Hon. Isaac Davis as president in 1883.
His native kindly instincts and tastes have brought him into intimate connection with all matters that have to do with educational and intellectual advancement. Since 1871 he has been a councilor and secretary of the American Antiquarian Society, and is a councilor of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society. He is also an original member of the American His- torical Association, and since 1884 has been a corresponding member of the Geor- gia Historical Society. He is a member of the overseers' committee on the gov- ernment of Harvard University, and one of the directors of the Alumni Association of the same institution. He is one of the board of trustees, and secretary of the new Clark University of Worcester. In 1889 he was appointed minister resident and con- sul to Switzerland by President Harrison.
Colonel Washburn was married in 1860, to Mary F., daughter of Charles F. Put- nam (Dartmouth, 1830), and has one daughter : Edith, who married, in 1884, Richard Ward Greene, of Worcester.
WATERHOUSE, FRANCIS ASBURY, son of Francis Asbury and Emeline (Newman) Waterhouse, was born in Scar- borough, Cumberland county, Me., Janu- ary 27, 1835.
He attended the public schools in Hallo- well, Me., passing at an early age through the primary, grammar and high school grades ; was fitted for college at the Hal- lowell Academy; entered Bowdoin College in 1853, and was graduated in the class of 1857. Three years later he received the degree of A. M.
Shortly after graduation he went South to teach in a boarding-school near Natchez, Miss. This position he held one year, when he resigned to take the position of tutor in a planter's family. He returned to Hallowell in the spring of 1859, and was elected principal of the Hallowell Academy. In the spring of 1861 he was elected to the position of principal of the
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