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has since filled that position, with eminent ability. He is and has been devoted, heart and soul, to the success of this educational institution of his native county, and has refused many tempting offers of higher emolument and honor, to retain the position as its head. In 1881 he declined an offer of the principalship of the State Normal School at Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1888, the presidency of Buck- nell University, in 1899, the offer of appointment by Governor Beaver to the posi- tion of State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and in 1910 the presidency of Girard College. Dr. Philips has always taken a deep interest in the cause of general education and is widely known as an instructor at county institutes in Pennsylvania and other states, and as a platform lecturer on educational topics of the widest range. He was president of the Teachers Association of Pennsyl- vania in 1891, vice-president of the National Educational Association in 1894 and 1910, and is a member of its council, is a member of the College and University Council of Pennsylvania, a trustee of Bucknell University; has been for many years president of the Chester County Historical Society, and he was a member and secretary of the commission which framed the Pennsylvania School codes of 1909 and 1911. He has always taken an active interest in the local institu- tions of his town and county, though consistently refusing to accept public office, with the exception of that of school director. He is a director of the National Bank of Chester County, a manager and vice-president of the Dime Savings Bank of Chester County, and a manager of the Chester County Hospital. Octo- ber 14, 1895, he was admitted a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, as a great-grandson of Lieutenant John Philips, whose record of service to his country in the trying days of the Revolution is given above. Dr. Philips is also widely known as the author of educational text books, his works on astronomy, natural philosophy, civil government of the United States and Pennsylvania, and the geography of Pennsylvania, having had a wide circulation.
George Morris Philips married, December 27, 1877, Elizabeth Marshall, daugh- ter of William H. and Anna (Taylor) Pyle. The former a lineal descendant of Robert Pyle, who came to Pennsylvania in 1683, from Horton, parish of Bishop Cannings, Wiltshire, England, with his wife Mary Stovey and settled in Bethel township, Chester county, where his house was the meeting place for early Friends, to which Society he and his descendants belonged. Robert Pyle was almost continuously a member of the Provincial Assembly from Chester county from 1688 to 1705, and died about 1730. Anna Taylor, the mother of Mrs. Philips, is also a descendant of one of the early Quaker settlers of Chester county, and of the same family to which belonged Bayard Taylor. Mrs. Philips is a mem- ber of the Colonial Dames of America. Dr. and Mrs. Philips have two children : William Pyle Philips, born at. West Chester, June 29, 1882; a graduate of Haver- ford College and Harvard University and a lawyer in New York city; and Sara Elizabeth Philips, born at West Chester, February 16, 1887, a graduate of Vas- sar College.
COLONEL JOSEPH RIPLEY CHANDLER WARD
The ancestor of Colonel Ward, in England, the first of whom we have any record, that can be relied on as authentic, was Henry Ward, Lord of the Manor of Kirby-Beden, in Hertfordshire, who also held an advowson of the manors of Postwick and Great Plumstead, and other estates adjacent, as well as of the manor and rectory on the site of the monastery of Flitcham, and of the manor of Parkway rectory, all in Hertfordshire. He was a member of Parliament for Norwich in 1553, and 1562. He married Margaret, daughter of William Uggs, of Pokethorpe, near Norwich, by whom he had children, Edward, Henry, Miles, Thomas, Margaret, Alice, and Tobias.
MILES WARD, the first American ancestor of Colonel Ward, a son of Henry Ward, Lord of the Manor of Kirby-Beden, appears of record in Salem, Mass- achusetts, as early as 1639. He, with his wife Margaret, and his two sisters, Margaret and Alice, came from Erith, County Kent, England, a few miles be- low London. Miles Ward died in Virginia in 1650. The inventory of his estate was exhibited to the court at Salem, Massachusetts, at September term, 1650, showing, "whatte debtes are to paye, and whatt to recover, as related by himselfe in Virginia, the 9th day of 3 Mo. 1650." The main item of the estate is in England "A Legacie of fortie pounds given by his father, to bee payed to ye said Miles by his brother, which hee both gieth and bequeathes to his foure children." His wife Margaret survived him. The "foure children" were Joshua, John, Lydia, and Martha. The name of the brother who was to pay over the "legacie of fortie pounds" is unfortunately not given, but it was pos- sibly, John Ward, sometime of "Ipswich in New England", whose will, dated December 28, 1652, devises to his cousin Nathaniel Ward," son of my uncle Nathaniel Ward, "a house and land in East Mersey, County of Essex, in Old England given mee by my father in his will". It also mentions his cousins Ward of Wethersfield, cousin Philip Sherman of Rhode Island, and the two younger sons of John Baker or Barker of Boxted, Essex. The will and inventory of Alice Ward, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. was exhibited "IImo. 23, 1654". The will consigns her "daughter-in-law", probably step-daughter, Sarah Ward, and her estate, to the care of John Baker and Elizabeth his wife; the estate to be pre- served "to bring up the childe in the feare of God", etc.
JOSHUA WARD, son of Miles and Margaret, was born at Salem, Massachu- setts, April 25, 1641, married at Salem, January 18, 1668-9, Hannah Flint, daughter of William Flint, and they had four children, viz: Joshua, born Jan- uary 16, 1669-70; Hannah, born January 2, 1671-2; Miles, born March II, 1673-4; and Mary.
MILES WARD, second son and third child of Joshua and Hannah (Flint) Ward, born at Salem, Massachusetts, March II, 1673-4, was one of the prom- inent residents of the ancient New England town where he spent his long life, dying August 20, 1764, in his ninety-first year. A quaint and curious nar- rative written by his grandson Benjamin Ward, in 1760, when the writer was
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twenty-one years of age, tells how at the request of his ancient grandsire, Miles Ward, he got out the family chaise and drove with him "down to the Neck" and all about the town, the old patriarch pointing out to him the changes that had taken place since his youth, the location of the first houses, the changes in the shore line at the neck owing to the cutting of timber, etc. Miles lived on Essex street near the old Meeting House. Miles Ward married (first), in 1694, Sarah Massey (born July 25, 1669, died November 20, 1728), daughter of John and Sarah (Wells) Massey ; and (second) Sarah Ropes (born January 9, 1683, died February 7, 1768), daughter of William and Sarah (Ingersoll) Ropes. He had five sons: Joshua; John, died in infancy; Miles; another John ; and Ebenezer.
MILES WARD (2), son of Miles (1) and Sarah (Massey) Ward, born in Salem, Massachusetts, April 18, 1704, died there, in June, 1792, in his eighty- ninth year. He married (first) in 1727, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Phippen) Webb, who was born in 1709, and died April 17, 1737. By her he had seven daughters, at least four of whom died in infancy; and two sons, Miles and Ebenezer, the latter but five days old at the death of his mother. Miles Ward married (second), October 10, 1737, Hannah (Derby) Hathorne, widow of Benjamin Hathorne, who bore him five daughters and three sons, Samuel, Nathaniel and Joshua. The latter (born October 29, 1752, died Sep- tember 14, 1825) was a prominent merchant and tanner, and lived in a brick house on Washington street, Salem, Massachusetts, where he entertained Gen- eral George Washington when he visited Salem in 1789.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL WARD, eldest son of Miles Ward, last above mentioned, by his second wife Hannah (Derby) Hathorne, was born in Salem, Essex Coun- ty, Massachusetts, April 30, 1740. He was one of the officers selected by Col- onel Timothy Pickering Jr., who had been selected to command the First Essex County Regiment, and his name appears on the list recommended to council for appointment by the Council of Safety, dated at Salem, March 15, 1776, and he was duly commissioned captain of the Fifth Company in that regiment, June 6, 1776. When we consider the fact of his early selection as a commis- sioned officer in the patriot forces of his native county, and his residence in the section which witnesses the first armed opposition to the obnoxious meas- ures of the British ministry, for the enslavement of the Colonists, it is safe to assume that he had previously served on the "Alarm Roll" of some one of the companies of "Minute Men" of his county, but we have no record thereof. Neither do we have a record of his service in the remaining years of the Rev -- olutionary struggle. He was appointed February 28, 1803, United States Naval Officer, for the Port of Salem, and filled that position until his death on July 31, 1812. Captain Samuel Ward married Priscilla, daughter of Gamaliel and Priscilla (Webb) Hodges. She was born February 14, 1750, and died June 2, 1822. They had fifteen children, several of whom died in childhood.
COL. GEORGE WARD, son of Captain Samuel and Priscilla ( Hodges ) Ward, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 14, 1773, and spent his whole life there. He was prominent in public affairs, filling a number of public trusts, and was a colonel of Massachusetts Militia. He married, October 25, 1797, Alicia, daughter of Ezra Burrill. She was born in the same year as her hus- band, and died September 26, 1825. They had nine children, viz: Laura Alicia,
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Charles Burrill, Amelia Henrietta, Samuel Lindsey, George Washington, mem- tioned below, William Wallace, Mary Ann, Ellen Sophia, and Amanda Malvina Ward.
COLONEL GEORGE WASHINGTON WARD, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the fifth child and third son of Colonel George and Alicia (Burrill) Ward, and was born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 13, 1807, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 29, 1859. He was an officer of the Penn- sylvania Militia and served as an aide on the staff of Governor James Pollock with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Colonel George Washington Ward, mar- ried (first) Mary Freed (born in 1813, died December 8, 1835), daughter of David and Susan (Markley ) Freed, by whom he had one son David Freed Ward, born July 23, 1834, died October, 1894, married Antoinette E. Binder and had one son George Freed Ward, who represents the ninth generation of the descendants of Miles Ward. Colonel George W. Ward married (second) Matilda Washington Dawson (born July 8, 1821, died January 20, 1907), daughter of Moses and Jane (Langewell) Dawson, by whom he had six chil- dren, viz :- George Francis, Olivia, William Henry Foster, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Marie Matilda and Jane Kiehl Ward.
COLONEL JOSEPH RIPLEY CHANDLER WARD, son of Colonel George W. and Matilda W. (Dawson) Ward, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1845, inherited the martial spirit of his ancestors and began his own military career at the age of fourteen years. In July, 1859, he accompanied his uncle, by marriage, Lieutenant R. V. Bonneau, of the United States army to the frontier of the United States; crossing the plains from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Union, New Mexico, the trip occupying two months. He remained with his uncle in the military camps at Albuquerque and Santa Fé, New Mexico, until the summer of 1860, when he accompanied a detachment composed of five companies of the Third United States Infantry. His uncle, Lieutenant Bonneau, command- ing Company H, to Texas by the way of the Rio Pecos. This was an entirely new route, never before travelled by white men, except the surveyors who pre- ceeded them. Reaching Fort Clark, Texas, they were stationed there until Texas seceded from the Union in March, 1861, when the United States troops were ordered out of the state. He accompanied the five companies of the Third Infantry to Indianola, where with four companies of the First United States Cavalry, they embarked on the United States transport "Empire City," one day before the Confederate troops under General Van Dorn landed and captured the remaining United States troops. Under the escort of the United States war vessel "Mohawk" the "Empire City" with its cargo of United States troops sailed for New York, where they arrived and disembarked in April. 1861. Colonel Ward separated from his friends and associates of two years at New York City and returned to his family in Philadelphia. Here he found the three-months reg- iments departing for the front, and the war excitement very high. The spirit of loyalty imbibed in his two years residence in military camps on the frontier, was encouraged by the excitement prevailing at the time and when the recruiting began for the three-year regiments, he visited every recruiting office in the city and made application to join the army. He was however greeted with the same reply from all, "too small, we don't want boys." He persisted in his efforts how- ever and finally, through the intervention of relatives, was accepted by Colonel
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Turner Gustavus Morehead, and mustered into the regiment then known as the Fifth California Regiment, afterwards the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, as musician of Company I, August 24, 1861, and went with it to the front. In the spring of 1864, when General Grant assumed com- mand as General-in-Chief of the armies of the United States, he ordered all cavalrymen serving as orderlies at the different Brigade and Division headquar- ters to rejoin their regiments, in order to increase the strength and efficiency of the cavalry force; their places to be filled by volunteers from the infantry men. Musician Ward, tired of being a drummer boy, and anxious to serve his country in a more active capacity, at once made application for a position as orderly. He was ordered to report to Brigade Headquarters, to Captain Seabury, assistant adjutant-general, but when that official saw that he was so small and learned that he was a musician he ordered him back to his regiment. The young musician was, however, so persistent in his desire to do something else than beat a drum, that the adjutant of the regiment after questioning him closely told him he would intercede for him. A few days later he received notice to report to Division Headquarters, where the assistant adjutant-general, Major Norval, also objected to him on account of his size, but finally accepted him, and on April 15, 1864, he reported for duty. During the terrible campaigns be- ginning with the Wilderness and ending before Petersburg, Orderly Ward made every effort to discharge the dangerous and onerous duties of his position to the satisfaction of his superior officers, and was successful in winning the confidence and commendation of General John Gibbon, who commanded the Division, and his staff of officers. June 10, 1864, at Cold Harbor, General Gibbon called him to him and complimented him on the manner in which he had discharged his duties, and soon afterwards made him his special orderly, releas- ing him from all other duties. He had been slightly wounded during the fight at Spottsylvania Court House, on March 12, 1864, in the right shoulder, but remained on duty. Upon arriving at Petersburg, General Gibbon discharged the corporal in charge of the orderlies at headquarters, for some carelessness, and appointed Orderly Ward as corporal in his place. July 20, 1864, Corporal Ward requested General Gibbon to relieve him that he might return home with his regi- ment, whose term of enlistment had expired. The General urged him to remain and promised him further promotion but he decided to return home with his regiment and was mustered out with it at Philadelphia, September 10, 1864. He still retains written testimonials as to the faithful and efficient discharge of his duties, signed by General Gibbon, and members of his staff, and General Joshua T. Owen, the commander of the Brigade.
While awaiting his discharge in Philadelphia, in August, 1864, Corporal Ward was offered and accepted the appointment of paymaster's steward, on board the receiving ship, "Wyoming", at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and filled the duties of that position for two weeks, when the vessel was ordered elsewhere, and he was unable to accompany it because he had not yet received his discharge from the army, and was therefore compelled to resign the naval position. Corporal Ward again enlisted early in the spring of 1865 in the Gray Reserves, of the Philadelphia Militia, later the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, with which he served for four years as a member of Company C. September 27, 1869, he was elected second-lieutenant of Company K, in the Seventh Regi-
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ment, May 25, 1870, was appointed adjutant of the Eighth Regiment, and July 19, 1871, was elected colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. As commander of this regiment he by diligent work brought it up to a state of proficiency and discipline that received special comment from his superior officers. On the reduction of the National Guard and the consolidation of the commands, Colonel Ward was offered command of a battalion but declined, and was mustered out of the service. September 13, 1873, he was appointed major and assistant adjutant-general of the Third Brigade, but re- signed to take up the study of dentistry.
He entered the Philadelphia Dental College, and graduated, as president of his class, in February 1877, and for nearly thirty years practiced his profession in Philadelphia, retiring in 1905. He was for many years active in the dental Societies of the city, serving for years as president and secretary of the Oden- tographic Society of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia County Dental So- ciety ; still holding the office of secretary of the latter. He served for three different terms as Demonstrator of Prosthetic Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College. On the breaking out of the Pittsburgh labor riots in 1877, Colonel Ward recruited and organized a company which was mustered into the service as Company C, Twentieth Veteran Regiment, National Guard of Penn- sylvania, and of which he was commissioned captain. For over two months he did active and arduous service at Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre, and Scranton, and was mustered out of service with his company, at Philadelphia, after peace and order was restored. From that time until the Spanish-American War he had no connection with military affairs except as first lieutenant of the Vet- eran Corps, First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and as military instructor at Girard college, to which position he was elected in 1887, and filled for seven years. He had charge of a battalion of 250 boy students, divided in- to four companies, which maintained the reputation of being the best drilled battalion of cadets outside of West Point Military Academy. Colonel Ward has always taken a lively interest in the Grand Army of the Republic. He joined George G. Meade Post, No. I, January 3, 1868, and for eleven years served as its quartermaster, adjutant and post commander, and has for sev- eral years kept the post together by his personal efforts. He has also held a number of positions in the department and national encampments, and on the staff of the Commander-in-chief.
At the breaking out of the Spanish-American War, in 1898, Colonel Ward promptly tendered his services to the Secretary of War, and the Governor of Pennsylvania, and was selected by Honorable John Wanamaker, to recruit and organize a regiment for service in the war, which Mr. Wanamaker had offered to equip. Colonel Ward, as commander of this regiment, recruited 1300 men and organized twelve full companies, giving his undivided attention to drilling them for five months, but the war ended before their services were required, and neither Colonel Ward or the regiment were mustered into the service of the United States. Colonel Ward is now on the list of the Retired Officers of the National Guard of Pennsylvania with the rank of colonel. He is a mem- ber of the Union Veteran Legion, affiliated with Encampment No. 73, of Philadelphia. He is also a member of the Navy League of the United States ; of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution; the Pennsylvania
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Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, and of the Manu- facturers Club of Philadelphia. He wrote and published a history of his regiment, the 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers, during the War of the Rebellion, and it has been well received as one of the good histories of the war. He also wrote the History of George G. Meade Post, No. I, Department of Pennsyl- vania, Grand Army of the Republic. He has also met with considerable success as a lecturer on the Civil War. His illustrated lectures of the "Battle of An- tietam" and the "Battle of Gettysburg," have been well received, as has his lecture on the "Life of George G. Meade, The Stonewall of Gettysburg".
Colonel Ward is a cousin of the late General Frederick Townsend Ward, of Chinese fame, who organized and for three years commanded the Chinese army, and successfully put down the Tai Ping Rebellion. He was the only foreigner, who was ever made a Chinese God or "Joss" and a shrine was erect- ed in his honor in Peking, where the people went to worship him. He finally fell mortally wounded, at the head of his troops and died on September 23, 1862. He was buried in the Confucian Temple with full military honors, but his body was later brought to this country and buried at Salem, Massachusetts.
Colonel Ward married (first), April 30, 1872, Mayde H., daughter of John and Sarah (Lewis) Williams, of Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. She died March 20, 1908, without issue. He married (second), April 3, 1909, Nellie Tabram Pope, daughter of John C. and Emma (Wheatland) Tabram, of New Jersey.
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FREDERICK CHARLES JOHNSON, M. D.
The Revolutionary ancestor of Dr. Frederick Charles Johnson was Private Robert Frazer, father of Hannah Frazer, who was the wife of Jehoiada John- son, the doctor's grandfather. Robert Frazer was of Scottish birth and ancestry, said to have been related to Sir Simon Frazer, the Scottish chieftain, known in history as Lord Lovat. Robert Frazer, served in the British army against the French in the wars preceding the Revolution and fought as sergeant under Wolfe at Quebec, where he was wounded. Later he came with other Connecticut settlers to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, and was a teacher of the youth of that settlement. In 1777 he enlisted in the Third Connecticut militia, Colonel Obadiah Gore, for service during the Revolution. He died in 1790 and his widow, August 23, 1855. The Colonial ancestry carries back to very early day, in New England. The New Haven, Wallingford, Johnsons, emigrated from England to America about 1638, the year in which there came from England twenty ships and at least three thousand persons. Among them were three brothers: John, Robert and Thomas Johnson, who came from Kingston-on- Hull and landed at Boston. They were Puritans under the leadership of Ezekiel Rogers, a graduate of Cambridge, and a clergyman of Rowley, in Yorkshire, England. He and many of his followers settled on the coast of Massachusetts Bay and called their new town Rowley, after their old home in England. The three Johnsons left Rogers at Boston and repaired to the colony of New Haven, Connecticut, where Thomas and Robert permanently settled, John, how- ever, after a year or two in New Haven returned to Rowley. Blodgett's "Early Settlers of Rowley" mentions him as "Captain John" and names his children and grandchildren : Robert Johnson died in New Haven in 1694. He was the ances- tor of the Stratford Johnsons, the father of Deacon William, of Guilford, Con- necticut (1629-1702), the grandfather of Deacon Samuel, of Stratford (1670- 1727), great-grandfather of William Samuel Johnson, LL.D., the able lawyer and statesman who as attorney for Connecticut figured so prominently in the controversy with Pennsylvania over Wyoming. He represented Connecticut in the Colonial Congress of 1775 and signed the remonstrance to the King against the "Stamp Act".
THOMAS JOHNSON, son of Thomas Johnson, the third of the immigrant brothers, is the American ancestor on the paternal side of the Johnson's of the Wyoming Valley. He was drowned with Thomas Ashley in New Haven har- bor in 1640. His children were Thomas, Daniel, Jeremiah and William.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, son of Thomas Johnson, was of New Haven, Connecti- cut, where in the town records he is sometimes mentioned as "Wingle" John- son and is named as "husbandman" and again as "planter". He was one of the founders or original proprietors of Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1670, and one of the signers of the "compact". In December, 1664, he married Sarah. daughter of John and Jane (Wollen or Woolin) Hall. He died in 1716, and
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