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WALKER, Horatio:
Artist; b. Listowel., Ont., Canada 1858; ed. in the public schools of Ontario; studied art in Toronto and N. Y. City. He has specialized in his art, in subjects con- nected with the homes, surroundings, lives and labors of the habitants of Canada, living on the island of Orleans, below Quebec. Has received prizes and diplomas in many art exhibits, including the Expositions at Chi- cago, 1893, and Paris, 1900; also gold medals at Buffalo, 1901, Charleston. 1902. and St. Louis 1904. Mem. Am. Water Color Soc .; Nat. Academician since 1891; mem. Royal Inst. of Painters in Water Color, London. Address: Care N. E. Montross, 372 Fifth Av., N. Y. City.
WALKER, Roberts:
Lawyer; b. Rutland, Vt., Aug. 24, 1874; s. Aldace Freeman and Katharine ( Shaw ) Walker; grad. Amherst, A.B., 1996; Columbia Law Sch., LL.B., A.M., 1999; m. Mohegan; N. Y., June 16, 1901, Edna Morse; two daughters: Katherine, b. 1905, Mary Manning, b. 1907. Director Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf R. R. Co., Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern R'y Co., Multiple Speed and Trac- tion Co .; ass't to general counsel, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacine R'y Co .: ass't to Ist v .. p., St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. Co Republican ; Congregationalist. Mem. Loyal Legion, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kap- pa. Clubs: University, Republican, Rail- road. Address: 115 Broadway, N. Y. City. WALKER, William David:
Bishop of Western N. Y .: b. N. Y. City, June 29, 1:39; grad. from Trinity School. N. Y. City, 1855, Columbia Coll., A.B., 1-59. 1.31. 1862, Gen. Theol. Sem .. 1802; received hon- orary degrees of D.D from Racine Coll., Is~1. Oxford, England, 1:04, S.T.D. from Columbia, 1est, LL.D from Griswold Coll. Ist, Trinity Coll. Dublin, 1991, D.C.L. from King's Coll., 1892; unmarried. Ordered deacon, 1962, and ordained priest 1563, in ministry of Episco- pal church. Viear Calvary Chapel, N. Y. City, 150243; missionary bishop of North Da- kota, 18-3.96, transferred to Western N. Y. 1596. Appt'd by President Cleveland mom. U. S. B'd of Indian Comm'rs IN7. Address: The See House, 314 Delaware Av., Buffalo, V. Y.
WALLACE, Archer Bergen:
Publisher, real estate, auctioneer: b. Free- port, La. I. N. Y .; s. George and Mariana ( Raynor) Wallace: ed. Freeport public schs .. 1-81-92, Claverack Coll. and Hudson River Inst .. 1-92.95; post grad, work at Centenar;
m. Freeport, L. I., Dec. 10. 1999; children : George Donald, b. 1900, Elizabeth Denton. h. 1902, Marion Raynor, b. 1904. On leaving Centenary Collegiate Inst., became reporter on South Side Observer, a large weelly newspaper at Rockville Centre, L. I .; later reporter for several years on Brooklyn Daily Times; newspaper ing'r and publisher since 1902; also book publisher. Treas. and mig'r South Side Observer Co .; pres. and treas. Central Book Co. When Nassau County was formed, was the person who gave it its name "Nassau," and his father was the Assem- blyman who introduced the bill in the State Legislature, forming the new county. Re- publican. In 189s joined Chanler's Vol. Inf. Reg't in N. Y. City; transferred to "Ist Reg't N. G. N. Y., with which served in Cuba, 1:95. Police justice of Freeport, March, 1:99. to Dec. 31, 1903; justice of the peace and cor- oner of Nassau County, Jan. 1. 1904 to Dec. 31, 1907; bonded deputy sheriff of Nassau County, since Jan. 1, 1908. Republican. Methodist. Mem. Alpha Phi fraternity, Odd Fellows, Masons, Royal Arcanum. Red Men. Junior Order United Am. Mechanics, For- esters of America, United Spanish War Vet- erans; chief eng'r Freeport Fire Dep't. and pres. Bug House Hose Co. No. 1, of Nassan. organized in 1-07. Recreations: Motor boat- ing, automobiling, golf, football, basebail. Clubs : Freeport, Hempstead Bay Yacht,
South Shore Yacht. Address: 65 Church S !. , Freeport, L. I.
WALLACE, Dillon:
Lawyer, author; b. Craigsville, N. Y., June 24, 1863; s. Dillon and Rachel Ann ( Ferguson ) Wallace; ed. public schools, Ridgebury, N. Y., and N. Y. Law Sch., LL.B., Isto: m. N. Y. City, April , 1-07, Jennie E. Currie. now deceased. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1su .. and practised until 1906. Was mem. Leoni- das Hubbard Jr. Expedition to Labrador, 1903, and in 1905 himself conducted an expe- dition to Labrador. Author: The Lure of the Labrador Will. 1905: The Long Labrador Trail, 1906: Ungava Bob. 1907: Beyond the Mexican Sierras, 1909. Republican. Fellow m. Geog. Soc., mem. Nat. Geog. Soc. Arctic Club. Explorers' Club. Address: 27 Sum- mit .1v., N. Y. City.
WALLACE, Ernest Hazelwood:
Lawyer; b. Guelph. Ont., Nov. 19, 1%;0; s. John Donald and Hannah ( Patmore) Wal- lace; ed. Hamline Univ .. St. Paul. Minu .. l'h. B., 1997, graduate work in political econ- omy, history and law, Columbia Univ .. .... "9; LL. B., New York Law Sch., I'm4; . N. Y. City. Sept. 23, 198. Alice Cole: one daughter. Helen, b. June 20, 1905. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1900; has practised law in N. Y. City since 1991. Had eight months travel Great Britain and European continent. Fr. intermittently since. Mem. N. Y. State Is sembly, It, deputy att'y con. N. Y. Site. 1905-1. At request of Gov. Clough, organ ized company of militia at Rush City, Minn . upon Me Kinley's first call for troops in spar. ish Am. war, but war was over before the company called out. Democrat. Mem. N Y County Lawyers Ass'n, Am. Political Science Ass'n. Recreations: Tennis, horseback rid- ing. Clubs: Lotos. Harlem. Wichita. dress : 122 W. 114th St., N. Y. City.
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Lawyer; b. Elora, Ont., Canada, Feb. 28, 1849; s. Donald and Harriet . Lasby ) Wal- lace; ed. public schools and by private tu- tors; grad. N. Y. Univ. Law Sch., Isis; in. Freeport, L. I., July 22, 1871. Mariana Ray- nor; children: Harriet R. and Archer B. In law practice since isis; specialties, water rights and municipal law. Secured new in- terpretation of law laid down by the courts as to water rights, Smith v. City of Brook- lyn; numerous cases in Court of Appeals, where he had new principles sustained in in- terpretation of municipal law and lower courts reversed. Republican. Nine years justice of the peace; served in N. L. Legis- lature of 1898, chi'n of com., declined re- nomination. Pres. Village of Freeport two terms. Methodist. Past master Massapequa Lodge, N. Y., F. and A. M., past grand Free- port Lodge, I. O. O. F. Recreations: Eu- ropean travel, also extensive, tours in nearly all States of the Union. Clubs: Freeport, Union League (Brooklyn). Also does some literary work. Author: The Disinherited; Industrial Peace; etc. Address: Freeport, L. I., N. Y.
WALLACE, John Findley:
Civil eng'r; b. Fall River, Mass. : s. David A. and Martha J. ( Findley) Wallace; grad. Monmouth Coll. (LL.D .. D.D) ; m. Rock Island, Ill., 1871, Sarah E. Uher; children, Harold U., Berdena Francis. Ass't civil eng'r, U. S. Corps; engaged on river and harbor works, 1871-76; chief eng'r, Peoria & Farmington R'y and Lowa Central R'y in Ill .; sup't of construction and master of transportation, 1575-26; bridge eng'r Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry in charge of construction of bridge over Missouri River, 1887-89. Resident eng'r, chief eng'r, ass't 2d v .- p., ass't gen. img'r nud gen. mg'r Illi- nois . Central Railroad, 1:00-1004; chief en- gineer Panama Canal, 1904-1905; Isthmian Canal Commissioner, 1905; pres. Electric Properties Co. since 1906; chm'n Board of Directors, Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., engineers and constructors; pres. Gerard Ozone Process Co. Republican; Presbyte- rian. Past pres, and mem. Am. Soc. Civil Eng'rs; past pres. and mem. Am. R'y Ens'r- ing and Maintenance of Way Assin; past pres. and mem. Western Soc. of Eng'rs; mem. Inst'n Civil Ens'rs of Great Britain; mem. Am. Inst. of Elec. Eng rs. Recrea- tions: Golf, hunting, fishing. Clubs: En- gineers, Lawyers, Railroad, (N. Y. City ) ; Metropolitan, Cosmos, ( Washington, D. C.) ; Chicago, U'nion League. Kenwood (Chicago) : Homewood Country ( Flossmoor, Ill. ) : Scars. dale Golf (N. Y.). Address: City Investing Bld'g, 165 Broadway, N. Y. City.
WALLACE, William C .:
Lawyer: b. Su-pension Bridge, N. Y., Ang. 3, 1:69; s. William Il. and Mariotte ( West) Wallace; ed. De Veaux Coll., 195. 86, Phillips Exeter Acad., Ist., Buffalo Univ., Law School. 12. L.I.B. IN: m. N. Y. City, April :0, 19% Mathide Corson; children: Anne Corson, b. 1-95. Kerwin. b. 1903. Admitted to practice law Oct., 1992: in 1893, found co-partnership with Engene Cary for practice of law under firm name of Cary & Wallace, which still continues.
Senate, May, 1908, from 47th Senatorial Dist. to sucreed Senator Franchot, deceased. The Senate stood equally divided on the Anti-Race track gambling bill; Gov. Hughes calls a special senatorial election for the 47th Dist., and after a spirited campaign in which Gov. Hughes took an active part, MIr. Wallace was returned to the special session of the Legislature, the anti-gambling bills were passed by a vote of 26 to 25, MIr. Wal- lace breaking the tie. Trustee Niagara County Savings Bank. Republican. Mem. Phi Delta Phi fraternity. Recreations: Golf, amateur photography. Clubs: Niagara, (v .- p.) Ni- agara Falls Country (chm'n House and Grounds Com.). Address: 1615 Main St., Niagara Falls, N. Y.
WALLACE, William H .:
Merchant: b. N. Y. City, s. John and Ellen ( Mahen) Wallace; ed. public and private schools, N. Y .; m. Brooklyn. N. Y., June 12, 1855, Frances R. Copeland; children : William C. (deceased), Charles R. (de- ceased ), Edward C., Gustavus S., Laura B., Frances E. Traveled often in Europe. Mem. firm Win. H. Wallace & Co .: v .- p. and trustee Franklin Trust Co .; director Central Iron & Steel Co .. Brooklyn Warehouse & Storage Co., Franklin Safe Deposit Co .; trustee Law, Union & Crown Ins. Co. (Lon- don). Union' Assurance Soc, ( London). Re- publican. Episcopalian (Ch. Warden ).
Trustee Brooklyn Hosp. Recreations: Golf,
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Nassau Country, Lawyers., Church. Ad- dress : 451 Clinton Av., Brooklyn, N. Y. WALLACE, William James:
Jurist : b. Syracuse, N. Y., April 14, 1837; s. E. Fuller and Lydia ( Wheelwright ) Wal- lace; grad. Hamilton Coll., A.B., (LL.D.), Syracuse Univ., LL.D .; m. N. 1. City, Ists, Alice Heyward Wheelwright. Mayor of Syracuse 1873: U. S. dist. judge. 1974-32: U. S. circuit judge since 1ss2. Mem. Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Clubs: Metropolitan, Union League, N. Y. Yacht (N. Y. City) ; Century ( Syracuse) : Ft. Orange (AAlbany). Residence : Albany, N. Y. Country residence : Cazenovia. N. Y. Address: 145 State St., Albany, N. Y.
WALLENMEIER, John G., Jr .:
Ex-Stato treasurer of N. Y .; b. Buffalo. N. Y .. Oet. 10. 1962: when was three years old removed with parents to Tonawanda . ed. in public schools until It years old. Then drove mules on the canal and soon, with brother, owned a boat; sold his share at IS, and went to work as biacksinith; at 20 owned a grocery store and conducted it until 1-93; then was appointed the first police justice of the old village of Tona- wanda, and in 198 was elected to same posi- tion for four-year term: appointed post- master of Tonawanda, 1508; elected 1901 as State treasurer of N. Y., and served two Years: renominated, 1926, for same position but defeated with all the rest of the State ticket except governor. Was alternate del- calle to Nat. Republican Convention, Ist. Address: Tonawanda, N. Y.
WALLER, Edmund P .:
Electrical enger; b. Martinsville, Va. Oct. 12. 1.795 s. George E. and Sarah 1 .. (Putzel) Waller: grad. Va. Polytechnic Inst .. B.S. Fire commissioner City of Niagara Falls, (with distinction), 1900. Denvera: Metho- 1801.96; park comm'r I'M 1; elected to Stato
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Eng'rs; mem. Va. Soc. Sons Am. Revolution. [ Recreations: Music; and work among pour Recreations : Golf, tennis, boating. Clubs: boys. Address: 303 Elizabeth St., N. Y. City. Mohawk, Mohawk Golf. Address: 14 Union St., Schenectady, N. Y.
WALSH, Blanche:
Actress; b. N. Y. City, 1873; father was well known politician and some time warden of Ludlow St. Jail; ed. in local schools; m. 1907. Made debut as "Olivia," in Twelfth Night, in Chicago, les9; since 1892 has played under the management of Charles Frohman; appeared in the leading role of Trilby in 1896, and in 1903 played in Tolstoi's Resur- rection, creating part of Maslova; starred in The Straight Road, season 1906-07. Address: 144 Broadway, N. Y. City.
WALSH, James Joseph:
Physician, lecturer and historical writer; b. Archbald, Pa .. April 12, 1865; s. Martin J. and Brigid (Golden) Walsh; grad. Ford- ham Univ., A.B., 1se4, A. M., 1885, Ph.D. 1895, University of Pa., M.D. 1895; LL.D., Fordham, 1900, also studied medicine for three years in Paris, Vienna and Berlin. Dean Fordham Univ. Sch. of Medicine; prof. physiological psychology, Cathedral Coll .; lecturer on biology, Catholic Summer Sch. of America. Author: Pastoral Medicine, 1906 (Longmans) ; Makers of Modern Medicine, 1907: The Popes and Science, 1908 ( Fordham Univ. Press) : The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries. 1907 ( Catholic Summer School Press) : Catholic Churchmen in Science, 1906 ( The Dolphin Press, Phila.) ; also several articles in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Lec- turer on biology, Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Science (5 years) ; lecturer on literature, Univ. Extension. Democrat. Roman Catholic. Fellow N. Y. Acad. Medicine; mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, N. Y. State Med. Soc .; Col- laborating Editor International Clinic; med. correspondent of Internat. Med. Congress, Moscow, 1:97, and Paris, 1900. Trustee Cath- olie Summer School of America. Recreation : Tennis. Mom. Knights of Columbus. Ad- dress: 110 W. 74th St., N. Y. City.
WALSH, Thomas:
Critie and poet: b. N. Y. City, 1875; s. Catherine Farrell Walsh and the late Michael K. Walsh; ed. private schools, Georgetown Coll., D.C., and Columbia Univ., Ph.B., A.M., Ph. D. Contributed special articles and trans- lations to Warner's Library of The World's Best Literature. The New International En. cyclopaedia, and poems and criticism to The Bookman, Critic, Reader. Current Literature, Harper's. Century, Ainslee's, Atlantic. Inde- pendent. Munsey's, The Theatre. The Rosary, Cosmopolitan, Lippincott's, Smart Set, Mes- senger, Scribner's. Everybody's, etc. Mem. Columbia Univ Club and Georgetown Soc. of N. Y. Club: Columbia Univ. Address: Mount Arlington, N. J., and 227 Clinton St., Brook- lyn, N. Y.
WALSH, William H .:
Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus; b. N. Y. City, July 1, 1 55; ed. at St. Francis Xavier Coll., N. Y. City. For- merly director of St. Francis Xavier Pre- paratory Sch., N. Y. City, nud St. John's Hall, Fordham, N. Y .; now in charge of the Italian Mission of Our Lady of Loretto, 303 Elizabeth St .. N. Y. City; also of the Seven Springs Summer Home, a fresh nir place for boys situated at Monroe, N. Y. 1312
WALTON, Robert Kelsey:
Lawyer; b. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 17, 1961: s. Myron K. and Jennie ( Kelsey) Walton; ed. Grand Rapids (Mich. ) public and high schools, and Univ. of Mich., LL.B., 1014. Mem. firm Parker & Wagner, lawyers; ass't counsel U. S. Corporation Co .; ass't sec. Lawyers' Incorporation Co. Republican ; campaign speaker. Mem. bars of N. Y. and Michigan ; mem. Michigan Society. Sigma Chi Alumni Soc. Has travelled through Europe and North America. Clubs : Graduates. University of Michigan. Residence: 45 W. 94th St. Address: 34 Nassau St., N. Y. City. WALWORTH, Charles Lorenzo:
Clergyman ; b. Great Barrington, Mass., Ang. 21, 1867; s. Lyman Wesley and Amis Elmira ( Bloom) Walworth; grad, Syracuse Univ., A.B., A.M., Drew Theol. Sem., B.D., Berlin Univ .; D.D. Syracuse Univ., 190s .; married Sept. 20, 1:90, Antoinette Campbell ; children; C. Lyman, b. 1897, Dorothy S., b. 1000. Joined N. Y. Annual Conference, 1:25, Stationed, Stone Ridge, N. Y., one year: Cornwall, N. Y., five years: Mt. Kisco. N. Y., two years; First Ch., Yonkers, N. Y., five years., Middletown, N. Y. since 1907. Inde- pen lent in politics. Methodist Episcopal. Mem. Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa fra- ternities. Address: 55 W. Main St., Middle- town, N. Y.
WALZ, Edgar A .:
Born Owatonna, Minn .. Mar. 3, 1959; s. Gregory and Magdalena Walz; educated in public schools of Minn .; m. Mankato, Minn., May_ 11, les0, Luella Shaubut; chil- dren : Thomas C., b. les1, Chester S .. b. 1883, Edgar A., b. Iss7, Jack S .. b. 1594, Shau- but G., b. 1597. Went West 1875, and became cowboy in New Mexico, Isis, and later me'r of one of the largest cattle ranches in the territory; later for several years gen. me r of five Pacific Coast States for Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of N. Y. Afterward came to N. Y. City and organized the Nat. Hotel Keepers' Protective Ass'n which now includes in its membership most of the suc- cessful hotel men of the United States. Mexico and Canada; also organized the Travelers Hotel ('redit Letter Co., of all of which organizations is president. Ke- publican. Residence: Monteray Av .. Pelham lleights, N. Y. Address: 12 E. 2d St., N. Y. City.
WANDELL, Samuel Henry:
Lawyer: b. West Monroe. Oswego Co., N. Y., April 19, 1860; s. William H. and Ellen 1.onisa (Leonard) Wandell: ed. Central Square (N. Y.) Acad .: m. Mexico, Oswego Co., N. Y., Dec. 14. Issn, Flora Gaige Hart- son. Engaged in journalism until 1ss2. . 1d- mitted to bar Oct. IN2; ass't dist. att's. Oswego Co., N. Y. 1 2-53. Practised ote year at Pulaski, Oswego Co. : at Syracuse. N. Y. 1883.94; one year in Washington as att'y for corporation: since 1.95 in general practice of law in N. Y. City: specialies. trial of cases and corporation mattels. Democrat (Tammany Hall) : Presbyterian Author: The Law of Inns. Hotels and Boarding Honses: The Law Relating to Pis position of Decedont's Real Estate; The Law
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of the Theatre; collaborated with late Judge McAdam in last edition of McAdam on Landlord and Tenant; also author of various legal monographs, and of a lecture entitled the Rehabilitation of Aaron Burr, in which the character of Burr is defended. Mem. N. Y. State Bar Ass'n, Nat. Geog. Soc., Holland Soc. of N. Y., Tammany Soc. of N. Y., Actors' Church Alliance. trustee
Sunday Kindergarten. Recreations: Golf,
fishing. Clubs : Green Room, AAmerican Playgoers. Address: 69 Wall St., N. Y. City. WARBASSE, James Peter:
Surgeon, author; b. Newton, N. J., Nov. 22, 1866; s. Joseph and Harriet (Northrup) . Warbasse; ed. Columbia Univ., Univ. of Gottingen, Univ. of Vienna; in. April 15, 1903, Agnes Louise, d. Henry Knight Dyer of N. Y .; children: Henry Dyer, Agnes, James Peter, Jr., Richard Northrup. Served two years as interne in Seney M. E. Hosp., Brooklyn; served in Out-patient Dep't, Chambers St. and Roosevelt Hosps. Appt'd ass't surgeon to M. E. Hosp., 1906; acting ass't surgeon U. S. A., 7th Army Corps, Spanish War, 1898; served in Florida and Cuba; capt. ass't surgeon 13th Reg't, N. Y. Art'y, 1899. Chief medical examiner N. Y. City Civil Service Comm'n, 1993. Mem. American Med. Assoc., Kings Co. Med. Soc. (Directing Librarian), Brooklyn Surg. Soc. (pres. 1900) ; Brooklyn Pathol. Soc. (pres. 1897) ; German Med. Soc., N. Y. State Med. Soc., Brooklyn Med. Soc., Associated Phy- sicians of L. I., Ass'n Mil. Surgeons of U. S., Am. Med. Ass'n, L. I. Almani of Co- lumbia Univ. (pres. 1901), United Spanish War Veterans, Alumni Ass'n M. E. Hosp. of N. Y. (pres., 1:03), Sous of Revolution, Verein Alter Deutscher Studenten in America. Author of many original monographs on sur- gical/ subjects published in current medical periodicals. One of American authors of International Text-Book Surgery, · of Keen's Surgery, etc. Editor N. Y. Stato Journal of Medicine. Address: 286 Washing- ton Av., Brooklyn, N. Y.
WARD, Edgar Melville:
Artist, genre painter; b. Urbana, Ohio, Feb. 21, 1839; s. John A. and Elizabeth ( Mac- beth) Ward; ed. Miami Acad. from which received A.M. degree; art studies in Schools of, Nat. Acad. of Design, N. Y. City and Ecole des Beaux Arts. llas ox. hibited frequently at the exhibitions of the Nat. Acad. of Design, in the Salons at Paris, Centennial, World's Columbian, Pan- American and Louisiana Purchase Ex'ns. Prof. in Nat. Arad. Design. Academieian of Nat. Acad. since 1s>3. Address: 51 W. 10th St., N. Y. City.
WARD, George Morgan:
Educator; b. Lowell, Mass .. May 23. 1859; s. Sullivan J. and Mary (Morgan) Ward .; student at Harvard, 2 yrs., class Is1; A.B., Dartmouth. 1 .- 2. A.M., 1-4; Boston Univ. Law School. L.L.B., 15; B.D., Andover Theological Seminary: post grad. work Johns Hopkins (D.D., Dartmouth, Bo; LL .. D., Rol. lins Coll., 19.3); m. June 15, 1-00, Emma Merriam Sprague. Admitted to Mass. bar; ser. Internat. Soc. of Christian Endeavor, 1/5-89: pres. Rollins Coll., Winter Park, Fla., 195 193: pastor in charge of Royal Poinciana Chapel, Palm Beach, Fla., Will .
ters, since 1900; pres. Wells Coll., Aurora, N. Y., since Nov., 1903. V .. p. Am. Humane Soc. Address: Aurora, N. Y.
WARD, George W .:
Lawyer; b. Belvedere, Ill., March 17, 1870: s. George P. and Delia ( McGrevey) Ward; ed. common schools, high schools, and Cor- nell Univ .: m. Troy, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1895, Evelyn Palmer (died April 29, 1908) ; one daughter, Emily Evelyn, b. 1897. Admitted to bar in the State of N. Y., April, 1893. Engaged in practice of law since July. 1593, Dolgeville, .Herkimer County, N. Y. Elected dist. att'y of Herkimer County, Nov., 1900, reelected Nov., at 1903, elected county judge and surrogate Herkimer Co., Nov., 1906, which office stills holds. Director Ist Nat. Bank of Dolgeville, Little Falls & Dolge- ville R. R. Co., Dolgeville Felt Shoe Co. Republican. As dist. att'y of Herkimer County conducted the trial of the indictment of the People v. Chester Gillette, murder in the 1st degree, and conducted the cause as public prosecutor in all the courts. Ad- dress: Little Falls, N. Y.
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WARD, Hamilton:
Lawyer; b. Washington, D. C., Jan. 20, 1871; s. Hamilton and Mary A. ( Chamber- lain) Ward; received a boarding school edu- cation; m. Feb. 18, 1903, Grace E. Marsh; children : Alice E., b. Dec. 28, 1903, Hamilton, b. Feb. 25, 1905, Jolin C., b. June 20, 1906, Marsh, b. Nov. 19. 1907. Admitted to bar of N. Y., Oet., 1892; principal business is trial counsel. Ass't dist. att'y of Erie Co., 1903-07: resigned to enter Spanish War: capt. Company L, 202 N. Y. Vol. Int., July 23, 1998 to April 15, 1899, the first troops in Havana : Supervisor 20th ward, Buffalo, 1901-05; com- mander-in-chief United Spanish War Veter- an», 1907. Republican ; Episcopalian. Mem. Erie County Bar Ass'n, Am. Bar Ass'n,
Buffalo Hist. Soc., Sons Am. Revolution, United Spanish War Veterans, B. P. O. Elks No. 23, St. Andrew's Scottish Soc., Buffalo Orpheus. Landmarks Lodge F. and A. M. 441. Father was mem. 39th, 40th and HIst Congresses, att'y-gen. of N. Y. State, 1>>0-82, Supreme Court justices, 1891-9$: fam- ily has been in the country since the 17th century: mother is prominent in educational and philanthropie work. Address: 7 Erie County Bank Bld'g, Buffalo, N. Y.
WARD, Henry Galbraith:
Jurist; b. N. Y. City, April 19, 1951; s. Houry Dana and Charlotte ( Galbraith) Ward; grad. Univ. of Pa., Ist0; m. Newport, R. I., Aug. 13, 1891, Mabel Marquand; chil- dren: Galbraith, b. 1892, Marquand, b. 1$94. Engaged in the practice of law until appt'd in 1907 to present office of judge of the Cir- cuit Court of the U. S. for the 2d Circuit. Trustee Univ. of Pa. Clubs: University. City, Century, Down Town. Address: $16 Madison Av., N. Y. City.
WARD, John Quincy Adams:
Sculptor: b. Urbana, Ohio, June 20: 1$30: s. John A. and Eleanor ( Macbeth) Ward ; paternal ancestor, John Ward, came to America in 1619, landing at Jamestown, Va .. and maternal ancestor settled in l'a. in los5: ed. in private schools, Urbana, Ohio; m. Ist. 1:59, Anna Bauman; 2d, ists, Julia Devens Valentine; 3d, 1906, Rachel M. Ostrander. 1313
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Studied under Henry K. Browne, sculptor, | since 1500 practising at Albany. Mem. Fa and was his assistant for seven years, spent a year in Washington, went west into the Indian country, and in lett established in N. Y. City; built his first studio at 9 W. 49th St. in 1s09, his second studio at 119 W. 52d St. in 1ss2. Among his works are some of the most important in the country including, equestrian statues of Sheridan and Hancock, in Philadelphia, and in New York City, of the Stock Exchange
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The Indian
Building, the
statues Hunter. The Pilgrim. Shakespeare, and the Seventh Regiment Citizen Soldier (in Cen- tral Park), Washington (in Wall St.), Hen- ry Ward Beecher (Brooklyn City Hall) ; also statues of Commodore Perry (Newport. R. I.), Israel Putnam ( Hartford, Conn.), and many others. Has been pres. Nat. Lead. Design, pres. Nat. Sculpture Soc. from its first organization; honorary mem. of many art societies; v .- p. Century Club: mem. of all principal art museums and associations. Address: 119 W. 52d St., N. Y. City.
WARD, Richard Halsted:
Physician, botanist, microscopist ; b. Bloom- field, N. J., June 17, 1>37; s. Israel Currie and Lydia (Putnam) Ward; grad. Williams Coll .. Mass., A.B., 1>55, A.M., Is61, Coll. Phys. and Surg., N. Y. City, 1862: m. Bloomfield. N. J., June 10, 1562. Charlotte Allen, d. Caleb Dodd Baldwin; children : Prof. Henry Bald- win Ward, Ph.D. ( Univ. of Neb. ), Alice Blatchford, Carolyn (wife William W. Chap- man, Bridgeport, Conn. ), Richard Percy Scottsdale, Ariz. ). Asso. editor American Naturalist, Isf1-2; wrote articles on Micro- scopy in Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, Isst: Plant Organization, 1999: Library Expedients in Microscopy, 1999: also many papers on microscopical and biological subjects in vari- ous scientific journals. Represented this country on Com. of Patrons of Internat. Ex- p'n of Microscopy. Antwerp. 1991; delegate to several meetings of Internat. Med. Con- gress and of British Ass'n for Advancement of Science; Fellow Royal Micros. Soc. 1. 1. A. S., Am. Acad. Medicine: was pres. Am. Microse. Congress, Ists: first pres. Am. Mi- cros. Soc., IST9; honorary mem. Soc. Belge de Microscopie, and connected with many other societies. Attending and consulting physician and chm'n Med. B'd Marshall Infirmary and Sanitarium; also of B'd of Governors (Ist v .- p.). Recreations: Travel (especially in botanical study) and moun- taineering. Address: 53 Fourth St., Troy, N. Y.
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