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Mr. John Quincy Adams Ward is the son of John A. and Eleanor Ward, and was born in Urbana, O., June 29th, 1830. He displayed a talent for modeling when a lad, and when nineteen years of age, while visiting his sister, Mrs. J. W. Thomas, in Brooklyn, began the study of sculpture in the studio of Henry K. Brown, where he remained until 1857, assisting in many of his instructor's works, including the Washington statue in Union Square. He then spent two winters in Washington and modeled busts of Alexander H. Stephens, Joshua R. Giddings, and other states- men. He also made the sketch for the Indian Hunter, the first statue erected in Central Park. To complete this he visited the Northwest and made original studies of Indians. In 1861, Mr. Ward opened his studio in New York and has since practiced his profession here. He became an associate of the National Academy of Design, in 1863, vice-president in 1870 and president in 1874.
At present, Mr. Ward is regarded as one of the foremost American sculptors. His Ameri- canism has always been one of his characteristics. He has visited Europe several times, but has never been tempted to attain foreign artistic development and bias. His work records features of American character and he has set an example that an American can attain national reputation without leaving his own country. His first serious study was the statuette of The Freedman. A partial list of his important works approximately in order of production would include the Good Samaritan, at Boston, Indian Hunter, Citizen Soldier (Seventh Regiment Memorial), The Pilgrim, and Shakespeare, in Central Park; Commodore Perry's statue at Newport; Lafayette, at Burlington, Vt .; General Daniel Morgan, at Spartanburg, S. C .; Washington, before the Sub-Treasury in New York; the equestrian statue of General G. H. Thomas, in Washington; the Garfield monu- ment, in the same city; the Beecher monument, in Brooklyn; William E. Dodge, in Herald Square; Horace Greeley, in Printing House Square; Roscoe Conkling, in Madison Square; and the Holly monument, Washington Square; besides many monumental and portrait busts of distinguished men. Mr. Ward has been twice married. His first wife, Anna Bamman, died in 1870, and in 1877 he married Julia Devens Valentine, who died in 1879. Mr. Ward's first residence and studio was on West Forty-ninth Street, but he now occupies a more commodious studio in West Fifty- second Street, which he built in 1880. He is vice-president of the Fine Arts Federation, president of the National Sculpture Society, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the American Academy in Rome, an honorary member of the National Institute of Architects, a member of the Architectural League, vice-president of the Century Association, and a member of the Union League Club and the Ohio Society.
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REGINALD HENSHAW WARD
A MONG the Normans who accompanied William the Conqueror to the conquest of England in 1066 was Ward, one of the noble Captains. Subsequently the name appears as William de la Ward, residing in Chester in 1175.
The arms anciently belonging to the family were: Azure, a cross baton, or .; crest, wolf's head erased; and these were retained by the Durham branch of the family, to which belonged William Ward, who came to America.
William Ward was a resident in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639, a representative to the General Court in 1644, and one of the founders of the adjoining town of Marlborough in 1660. He had a family of fourteen children, and his grandson, Nahum Ward, 1684-1755, was a sea captain and shipmaster, one of the first settlers and proprietors of Shrewsbury, a magistrate, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas, representative to the General Court for seven years, a Colonel of the militia, and altogether a substantial man, and the most prominent member of his father's family.
In the following generation, a son of Colonel Nahum Ward distinguished himself as one of the most notable public men of the Revolutionary period. Artemas Ward, who was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1727, was a justice of the peace when he was twenty-five years of age, a Major of the militia in 1755, a Major in the expedition under General Abercrombie against Canada, returning as Lieutenant-Colonel, and a representative to the General Court. In 1774, the Pro- vincial Congress elected him a Brigadier-General, and in May of the following year he became Commander-in-Chief of the Massachusetts forces. When Washington was elected to command the Continental Army, in 1775, Artemas Ward was chosen first Major-General. He was sixteen years a representative in the Massachusetts Legislature, serving as Speaker in 1785, a Member of Congress 1791-95, president of the Massachusetts Executive Council, and Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in his native county. One of the sons of General Ward, Captain Nahum Ward, was a Revolutionary soldier, and another, the Honorable Artemas Ward, was a graduate from Harvard, a Member of Congress and Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Massachusetts. Another son, Thomas W. Ward, 1758-1835, was seventeen years a magistrate and a sheriff eighteen years.
Mr. Reginald Henshaw Ward is a great-grandson of Thomas W. Ward. Through his grandmother, he is also of ancient lineage. She was Sarah Henshaw, a direct descendant of Joshua Henshaw, who came from Liverpool, England, in 1653, and settled in Massachusetts. Mr. Ward's grandfather, Andrew Henshaw Ward, was a graduate from Harvard in 1808, a lawyer, a custom house officer in Boston, United States Commissioner of Insolvency, justice of the peace, antiquary and author. He was born in 1784, and married Sarah Henshaw, of the Henshaw family, which was ably represented in the Parliamentary Army and otherwise prominent in public life in England. He died in 1864. Andrew Henshaw Ward, the father of Mr. R. H. Ward, was born in 1824 and was for many years in the wholesale drug business in Boston, in the firms of Henshaw, Ward & Co., and Ward & Boot. His wife was Anna Harriet Walcott Field, of Providence, R. I., and this marriage allied him to the Field and Walcott families, both of English origin and among the earliest settlers of the United States. The Field family was one of the largest owners of real estate in and about Providence, R. I., and the Walcott family which settled in Connecticut has given to the country some of its most brilliant public men.
Mr. Reginald Henshaw Ward was born in Newtonville, Mass., April 22d, 1862. After a thorough public school education, he entered upon a business career as a clerk in a banking house in Boston, and in 1885, with J. F. A. Clark, established the banking and brokerage house of Clark, Ward & Co., of Boston and New York. In 1889, he married Edith Ward Newcomb, daughter of H. Victor Newcomb, and also a descendant of the Ward family. Mr. Ward is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Country, Turf and Field and Suburban clubs, and belongs to the Sons of the Revolution, the New England Society, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Military Order of Foreign Wars.
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LUCIEN CALVIN WARNER, M. D.
W ARNER MOUNTAIN, which rises from the Housatonic Valley, in Berkshire County, Mass., takes the name of a family descended from the earlier settlers of the old Plymouth Colony, which furnished some of the most prominent pioneers of the hill country of Western Massachusetts. Dr. Lucien Calvin Warner belongs to this Colonial family, being a descendant of Abel Warner, who was born about 1755 and resided in Hardwich, Worcester County, Mass. The wife of Abel Warner was Sarah Cook, a direct descendant of Francis Cook, who was one of the famous company which came over in the Mayflower, and was a relative of Captain John Cook, the celebrated navigator. Among the children of Abel Warner were Justus Warner, the father of Charles Dudley Warner, and Ira Warner, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Ira Warner married Asenath Hitchcock, of Hadley, and moved to Windsor, Berkshire County, where his son, Alonzo F. Warner, was born.
The first half of the present century witnessed a further movement of the energetic popu- lation of Western New England. Dr. Warner's father, Alonzo F. Warner, was among the number who joined the exodus and became a citizen of Cortland County, N. Y. He married Lydia Anne Converse, who also came of New England parentage. Their son, Dr. Lucien Calvin Warner, was born at Cuyler, N. Y., in 1841.
Dr. Warner entered Oberlin College, but left his studies during the progress of the Civil War to enter the army, serving in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteers, and after completing the term of his enlistment, returned to college and was graduated in 1865. He then was graduated from the medical department of the New York University in 1867, and spent six years in the practice of medicine. In 1873, he gave up the practice of his profession, came to New York and engaged in business. He is now connected with a large number of financial and business institutions as president, director, or partner, and has large mill interests.
Dr. Warner is widely known for the interest he takes in public affairs, and especially in benevolent and philanthropic work. Besides being active in church affairs, he was for ten years president of the Harlem branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, chairman of the State Committee of that organization, and has been for several years chairman of the International Committee, a trustee of Oberlin College, a trustee of the local, State and International Young Women's Christian Association, a member of the executive committee of the American Missionary Association, and president of the Congregational Church Building Society. Dr. Warner's gifts to educational and charitable institutions have been generous. He gave a building costing over one hundred thousand dollars to Oberlin College for a conservatory of music, was largely instrumental in the erection of a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar building for the Harlem branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, and in connection with his brother built a club house at Bridgeport, Conn., for the use of the girls in their employ.
Dr. Warner married, in 1868, Keren S. Osborne, daughter of Judge Noah Humphrey Osborne, and a descendant of Michael Humphrey, who came from England and settled in Windsor, Conn., in 1643. Their children are: Agnes Eliza, Franklin Humphrey, Lucien Thompson and Eliza- beth Converse Warner. Their eldest daughter, who is a graduate of Oberlin, married, in 1896, Seabury C. Mastick, a member of the New York bar. Dr. Warner's remaining three children, it should be mentioned, have also entered Oberlin College, the two sons being members of the senior class, and the daughter a member of the sophomore class. Dr. Warner is a member of the Mer- chants' Club, Harlem Club, Congregational Club, of which he was for some years the president, Ardsley Casino and the Chamber of Commerce. His residence is at Irvington-on-Hudson, and is regarded as one of the finest country mansions overlooking the historic Hudson. It is built of granite and Carlisle sandstone in early English style. His art treasures have been collected in the course of extensive tours in Europe, and comprise a valuable example of Andrea del Sarto, together with pictures by Zeim, Rico, Schenck, Detti, Henry, Rehn, Guy and other modern masters.
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GEORGE HENRY WARREN
T HE father of the subject of this sketch was George Henry Warren, Sr., a noted lawyer of New York. He was born in Troy, N. Y., in 1823, graduated from Union College in 1843, and was engaged in the practice of law and in financial operations in New York through- out his life. On the maternal side, George H. Warren, Sr., was descended from John Bouton, a Huguenot who came to Boston in 1635. He joined in the migration to Hartford in 1636 and, assisting in the settlement of Norwalk in 1661, was a selectman of that place in the year 1671, and died in 1703 or 1704.
John Bouton's wife was Abigail Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin, who came to New England in 1635 from London with his wife, Elizabeth, and was one of the original proprietors of Hartford in 1638 and a representative from Norwalk in 1654. Sergeant John Bouton, 1659-1749, son of John Bouton, married Sarah Gregory, daughter of John Gregory, of Norwalk, and grand- daughter of John Gregory, of New Haven. His daughter, Elizabeth Bouton, married Edmund Warren, the great-great-grandfather of George H. Warren, Sr. Edmund Warren was a resident of Oyster Bay, Long Island, and of Norwalk, Conn., and died in 1749. He was the son of Richard Warren, or Warring, who was one of the original proprietors of Brookhaven, Long Island, settled in 1655. In the records of Brookhaven appears the signature of Richard Warring in his own hand- writing, and the name is written " Waring." Eliakim Warren, son of Edmund Warren, was born at Norwalk, Conn., in 1717, married Anna Reed in 1738, and their son, Eliakim Warren, who was born in Norwalk in 1747, removed in 1798 to Troy, N. Y., where he was senior warden of St. Paul's Church from 1804 until his death, in 1824. His wife was Phoebe Bouton, 1754-1835, who came of the same family as the wife of his grandfather.
Nathan Warren, the father of George H. Warren, Sr., was born in 1777 in Norwalk, and died in 1834 in Troy. He was a prominent business man of Troy and a vestryman of St. Paul's Church. His wife, Mary Bouton, was born in Norwalk in 1789, and died in Troy in 1859. She was the daughter of Nathan Bouton, 1756-1838, and his wife, Abigail Burlock, 1736-1827. She was the great-granddaughter of Jachin Bouton, the brother of Elizabeth Bouton, who was the granddaughter of John Bouton, the pioneer, and the wife of Edmund Warren, of Oyster Bay, Sergeant John Bouton being the great-great-grandfather of both Nathan Warren and his wife. Mrs. Warren was devoted to charity and religious work. In 1844, she built and endowed the Church of the Holy Cross in Troy, supported the Mary Warren Free Institute, and contributed generously to other educational and religious undertakings.
The mother of Mr. George Henry Warren was Mary Caroline Phoenix, a daughter of the Honorable Jonas Phillips Phoenix. She was born in 1832 in New York, was married in 1851 and descends from families that have been distinguished in the history of New York and Connecticut. She is a sister of Lloyd Phoenix, Phillips Phoenix, and also of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, the anti- quarian and genealogist, who died in 1881. A full account of her ancestry on both her father's and her mother's side is given in the article relating to Phillips Phoenix.
Mr. George Henry Warren was born in Troy, N. Y., October 17th, 1856, and is a stock broker, having been also educated as a lawyer, and is a graduate from the Columbia College Law School. He is a member of the Bar Association. He married in 1885 Georgia Williams, of Ston- ington, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Warren live in East Sixty-fourth Street and at Seafield, Newport, R. 1. Mr. Warren is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Metropolitan and Union clubs. His children are George Henry Warren, Jr., and Constance Whitney Warren. The mother of Mr. Warren, Mrs. George Henry Warren, Sr., lives at 520 Fifth Avenue, and also has a resi- dence at Newport, R. I. Younger sons of the family are Whitney Warren and Lloyd Warren, members of the Union, Racquet and Calumet clubs. The sisters of Mr. George Henry Warren are Mrs. R. Percy Alden, Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. William Starr Miller and Emeline W. D. Warren, who is unmarried.
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JAMES MONTAUDEVERT WATERBURY
C NE of the most prominent figures in society, club life and sport, Mr. James M. Waterbury is a Puritan by race, the family of which he is the head descending from a founder of Connecticut. John Waterbury, his ancestor, was born in England, in 1615, came to America in the early years of the struggling Colonies, and settled, in 1646, at Stamford, Conn., which then formed part of the debatable ground between the Dutch, of Manhattan, and the English, of New Haven. From this pioneer, who died in 1658, sprang a family of eminence during Connecticut's Colonial era, and which furnished a member of Washington's staff, in the person of General Waterbury, while in later times its members have gained distinction in many and varied spheres of activity.
The present Mr. Waterbury's father, Lawrence Waterbury, a descendant of the Revolu- tionary hero, was not only one of the most successful and influential of New York's merchants in the period prior to and immediately succeeding the Civil War, but is remembered as originator of an institution in which all Americans take a legitimate pride. With his brother, James M. Waterbury, he founded the New York Yacht Club, in 1844, and was one of the nine yacht owners who incorporated the club, and constituted the nucleus of that famous body, probably the foremost of its kind in the world.
His interest in yachting ceased only with his death, and he also took an extremely active part in establishing and promoting those yachting events which are classical to the present generation of sportsmen. The late Lawrence Waterbury married Caroline A. Cleveland, daughter of Palmer Cleveland, one of the most eminent lawyers of Connecticut, who, in his lifetime, held various positions of note in that State. His wife, Mr. Waterbury's grandmother, was Catherine Living- ston, one of the prominent New York family of that name, whose history is interwoven with that of the State in the Colonial and Revolutionary period.
Born at New York, in 1851, Mr. James M. Waterbury was an only son. His three sisters are now Mrs. John S. Ellis, Mrs. Frank C. Winthrop and Mrs. Pierrepont Edwards. He graduated at Columbia College, in the class of 1873, and immediately entered business under his father's guidance, becoming, in a short time, a member of the latter's firm, and ultimately its head. Inheriting commercial talent of a high order, as well as wealth, Mr. Waterbury has been instrumental in carrying out many great enterprises, and has been intimately associated with the leading financiers and men of affairs of the country.
In 1874, Mr. James M. Waterbury married Kate Anthony Furman, their children being eight in number. It may also be noted that the younger generation of the family inherit their father's tastes for sport, his sons being distinguished in the polo field. Mr. Waterbury's home, Pleas- ance, at Westchester, N. Y., is renowned for its hospitality, and, in making their permanent home in that district, Mr. and Mrs. Waterbury have done much to attract other residents of social position to Westchester. The Country Club, at Westchester, one of the most popular institutions of fashionable New York in the present generation, of which Mr. Waterbury became president, owes its success and vogue, in a large degree, to his efforts on its behalf to promote its interests and influence.
Mr. Waterbury has long been prominent in the club life of the metropolis, and is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Riding, Racquet and Tuxedo clubs, and the Down- town Association. He has held the position of director or officer in a number of the most prominent organizations of this kind, and has served in an official capacity in various semi-public and benevolent bodies. In the realm of outdoor sports, his inherited devotion to yachting is shown by active membership in the New York and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, while among the many other organizations of a similar character, of which he is a conspicuous supporter, are the Coney Island Jockey Club, the American Hackney Association, the Rockaway and Meadow Brook Hunts and the Newport Golf Club.
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GEORGE GOODHUE HEPBURN WATSON
N TEW YORK in no other way manifests its position as the cosmopolis, or world city of the Western hemisphere, better than by the manner in which it attracts within the sphere of its social and commercial life representatives of leading families from all portions of the continent. The great Canadian Dominion comes under this influence as readily as any American State, and furnishes an important and valuable constituent element in the great city's upper classes. It is particularly strong in the banking profession, the financial interests of Montreal and other seats of the wealth, culture and refinement of the Dominion, being closely interwoven with those of New York. Mr. Watson exemplifies these circumstances, having been born at Montreal, Prov- ince of Quebec, in 1857, and represents families of the highest social and political standing in Canadian annals.
His father, Walter Watson, is of Scotch birth, and has been long a prominent and respected banker in this city, representing in the financial centre of the West some of the largest British and Canadian banking interests. His wife, the mother of Mr. George G. H. Watson, came of a family of the highest personal and political importance in Canada. She was the daughter of the late Honorable George Jervis Goodhue, 1800-1873, long a member of the Canadian Parliament and a prominent figure in the politics of the separate Provinces prior to their federation, and later in those of the Dominion after the passage of the British North America Act in 1867 by the Imperial Parliament.
His marriage illustrated the tendency toward alliances between members of the Canadian aristocracy of wealth and talent and the families of the military and civilian representatives of the English rule stationed in Canada. Mrs. Goodhue, the grandmother of Mr. Watson, was Louisa Mathews, a daughter of Major Mathews, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Richmond and an officer of distinction in the British service, who came to Canada with the forces which, until within recent years, were maintained in garrisons throughout the Provinces. The Goodhue family is one of antiquity in American history, having branches in both the United States and Canada, and furnishes many names of distinction. The genealogy of the family was compiled by E. R. Andrews, and published in book form at Rochester, N. Y., in 1891. The family has been conspicuous in American annals on both sides of the international boundary, many of its members having occupied high stations in professional and business life, and has not been without some notable representatives in the metropolis.
Mr. George G. H. Watson is a graduate of Hellmuth College, London, Province of Ontario, and, after the completion of his education, engaged in the banking profession in this city, having been connected with the New York Stock Exchange for some years. He has traveled abroad exten- sively, and took much interest in military matters, having held commissions as First and Second Lieutenant in the Twenty-Second Regiment, National Guard, State of New York, giving efficient service to his command. In 1883, Mr. Watson married Annie Townsend Barber, born 1857, at Davenport, la., a lady whose descent is given in full in the genealogy of the Barber family, pub- lished in 1890, and in that of the Atlee family, published in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have two children, Walter Malcolm and George Atlee Watson.
Though taking considerable part in metropolitan society, a patron of the opera, and possessed of a keen enjoyment for sport, Mr. Watson prefers a permanent rural residence, and lives in Elizabeth, N. J., where he has a handsome home adorned by a well-chosen collection of paintings and engravings, mainly antiques. Among his art treasures, an original painting of Washington, by Rembrandt Peale, holds the place of honor. He is also an eager collector of postal cards, and ranks as the leading expert on that subject in the United States, if not in the world, having published a catalogue of the leading postal cards of all countries. At present he conducts and issues a monthly, The Postal Card, for collectors, which has a wide circulation among those interested in such pursuits both here and abroad.
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EDWIN HENRY WEATHERBEE
O N both the paternal and maternal side, the subject of this article descends from New England ancestry. The family line which he represents is an ancient English one, being traced back to the Norwegian and Danish conquest of the Northern counties of the present kingdom. This is shown by the name itself, which is a territorial one, indicating the establishment of the family, and the calling after it of Wetherby, a well-known and picturesque market town in the county of Yorkshire, situated between the cities of York and Leeds, and possessing an interesting history and many local antiquities of a notable character. It was called by the Saxons Wedderbi, the final syllable being the Danish equivalent of the English town or the Norman-French ville, and would thus denote that it was originally the seat of a race of large landed possessions and decided importance. References to the Weatherbee family are, indeed, not lacking in the earlier records of the landed aristocracy of England, and its branches, it would seem, extended throughout the Northern and Eastern counties. As far back as 1461, mention is made in an ancient record of the daughters and coheiresses of Thomas Wetherby, a landed proprietor of Intwood, Norfolk, and similar references to the family occur in wills and deeds in subsequent generations.
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