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WAKEMAN, SETH, was born at Frank- lin, Jan. 5, 1811 ; studied law, and practiced at Batavia, N. Y .; was district attorney of Genesee county, N. Y., from 1851 to 1857 ; was a member of the Assembly of the state of New York, 1856-57 ; was a member of the state constitutional convention of New York in 1867-68, and was elected a repre- sentative from New York in the Forty-sec- ond Congress as a Republican.
WALBRIDGE, DAVID S., was born in Bennington, July 30, 1802; received his education from the common schools of the vicinity ; has devoted himself to the various employments of the farmer, the merchant, and the miller ; he removed to Michigan in 1842, and was elected a representative in Congress from that state in 1854 and served until 1859.
WALDEN, HIRAM, was born in Rutland Co., Aug. 29, 1800 ; received a limited educa- tion, and having removed with his father to New York, devoted himself to the business of cloth dressing and wool carding ; he took an interest in military affairs, and attained the office of major-general of militia; in 1836 he was elected to the state Legislature ; in 1842 he was elected a supervisor in the county of Schoharie ; and was a representa- tive in Congress from New York from 1849 to 1851.
WALKER, GEORGE H., of Boston, Mass., son of Ralph S. and Jane (Long) Walker, was born at Springfield, Jan. 24, 1852.
Mr. Walker received his early training in the district schools of Vermont and also at- tended the Stevens high school of Clare- mont, N. H. He began his business life in a dry goods establishment in Brooklyn, N. Y., but in the fall of 1873 he became interested in the publishing business, contracted with a New York firm and was engaged with them in various works until 1878, when he went into business for himself in Boston. The firm of George H. Walker & Co. was established at 61 Hanover street, for the publication of real estate atlases. In 1880 he extended his business by establishing a lithographic branch at 81 Milk street, but soon outgrowing their quarters, they removed to 160 Tremont street, where they have since remained, adding new floors and presses, until 1888, when the build- ing was enlarged for their benefit. The es- tablishment is one of the finest of its sort in New England, employing only the best artists. In addition to their other works the State Atlas of Massachusetts is pronounced as fine a work of its class as was ever published.
In 1891 Mr Walker established, with head- quarters in Boston, opposite Trinity Church,
the Walker-Gordon Milk Laboratory for the scientific feeding of infants, which has proved a remarkable success and many thousand in- fants have been fed. The milk is supplied only upon physicians' prescriptions. A similar laboratory has been established at 626 Madi- son avenue, New York, and others are to be established in all large cities.
Mr. Walker was married in 1885, to Irene L., daughter of Robert E. and Irene (White) Loud, of Weymouth, Mass.
WALKER, ALDACE F., of Chicago, Ill., son of Aldace Walker, D. D., and Mary A. (Baker) Walker, was born May 11, 1842, in West Rutland.
He was educated at Kimball Union Acad- emy, Meriden, N. H., and at Middlebury College, graduating in 1862. His legal training was acquired after the war, at Columbia Law School in New York City.
In July, 1862, the year of his graduation from Middlebury College, Mr. Walker en- listed in Co. B, Ist Artillery, 11th Vt. Vols., and was elected first lieutenant. He after- wards became captain of Co. C and Co. D ; and subsequently was major and lieutenant- colonel of the regiment. In 1864 he was breveted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at the battles of the Opiquan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, and was mustered out in June, 1864, with his regiment upon its return to Burlington after the conclusion of the war.
In 1869 he published a book of war remi- niscences entitled " The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley."
He is a member of the Illinois Com- mandery of the Loyal Legion, and has been president of the Vermont Officers Associa- tion.
Mr. Walker's legal career has made him a national reputation. He was admitted to practice in 1867, in the city of New York and at first was managing clerk for the law firm of Strong & Shepard, having their office at 90 Broadway. He was afterwards ad- mitted to partnership and became a member of the firm in 1870. They were engaged in a general practice and did a considerable business, largely connected with railways. Important work was done by Mr. Walker in obtaining land titles for the Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris railway, connecting the Hudson River R. R. with the Harlem R. R., from Spuyten Duyvil to Mott Haven. In 1873 the firm was broken up by the death of the senior partner, Hon. Theron R. Strong ; and Mr. Walker removed to Rutland, becoming a member of the law firm of Prout, Simons & Walker. They transacted a general busi- ness and were the counsel of some impor- tant corporations, including many banks and insurance companies and the Rutland R. R.,
Aldace F. Walker
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the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., the Ver- mont & Canada R. R., the bondholders of the Vermont Central R. R., etc. In 1884 Mr. N. P. Simons withdrew from the firm and the name was changed to Prout & Walker and so remained until Mr. Walker removed to Washington in April, 1887.
In politics Mr. Walker is a Republican, and he was a member of the state Senate from Rutland county in 1882-3, being chair- man of the judiciary committee. In 1887 Mr. Walker was appointed by President Cleveland a member of the Interstate Com- merce Commission on the organization of that body, being one of the two Republican members. His associates upon the commis- sion were Hons. T. M. Cooley, William R. Morrison, Augustus Schoonmaker and W. L. Bragg. Mr. Walker resigned in 1889, and became chairman of the Interstate Commerce Railway Association composed of various railroad lines west of Chicago, with headquarters in that city. Subsequently he became chairman of the Western Traffic Association, a similar organization. He was afterward chairman of the joint committee composed of all roads north of the Ohio and between the Mississippi river and the seaboard. He resigned the latter office in December, 1893, and is now practicing law in Chicago. In addition to his opinions report- ed in the first two volumes of the Interstate Commerce Commission Reports he has writ- ten largely for publication in the Forum and other periodicals, chiefly on railway legisla- tion and other kindred topics.
Mr. Walker was married at Wallingford, Sept. 6, 1871, to Katherine, daughter of Hudson and Diantha Roberts Shaw. They have had four children : Richard (deceased), Roberts, Harold, and Ruth.
WALKER, LUCIUS W., of Chicago, Ill., son of Whitfield and Martha (Hall) Walker, was born at Whiting, Sept. 4, 1823.
For many years and up to 1852 Mr. Walker was a builder, when he removed to Chicago. His early training having been that of a civil engineer, he was engaged by the Illinois Railroad Co., and was located at Champaign, Ill., until 1863, in the com- pany's employ. He then became a manu- facturer of furniture and continued in the business until 1880, which he then closed out and became connected with the Pullman company at Pullman, Ill., where he remained two years as foreman of the wood working machine shop. From February, 1883, to 1891 he has been engaged in superintending the construction of fine residences in Chicago.
Mr. Walker became an inspector of pub- lic buildings for the United States govern- ment in 1891.
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Mr. Walker was married at Orwell, July 16, 1851, to Miss Ellen G., daughter of Reuben and Zylpha Herbert.
WASHBURN, HENRY D., was born in Windsor, March 28, 1832, and during that year was removed by his father to Ohio, was early apprenticed to the trade of a tanner, but not liking the business, became a school teacher, which occupation he followed until his twentieth year, studied law, and gradu- ated at the New York State and National Law School in 1853. He subsequently settled in Indiana, and in 1854 he was appointed auditor of Vermillion county ; elected to the same position in 1856, serving as such until 1861. In July of that year he raised a com- pany for service in the war ; was promoted to the command as colonel of the 18th Ind. Vols. in 1862 ; and in 1864 was brevetted to a brigadier-general, and was mustered out of the service in 1865 ; and was elected a rep- resentative from Indiana to the Thirty-ninth Congress.
WATERMAN, ARBA N., of Chicago, Ill., son of Loring F. and Mary (Stevens) Water- man, was born Feb. 5, 1836, at Greensboro.
ARBA N. WATERMAN.
At the academies and schools in Peacham. Johnson, Montpelier and Georgia, Judge Waterman began his education and gradu- ated in the class of 1853 from Norwich Uni- versity. Determining upon a legal career he selected the Albany school and after pursu-
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ing his studies there was admitted to the
bar in Albany, N. Y., in 1861. He soon went west and the year of his admission to practice located at Joliet, Ills.
Upon the breaking out of the war he en tered the army, enlisting in Co. G, rooth Ill. Vols. as a private, in 1862. He was cn- gaged in the campaign against Bragg in the fall of 1862 and was in the battles of Chica- mauga, Dalton, Altoona and Houston. At Chicamauga he was severely wounded and had his horse killed under him. Judge Waterman's military career was full of honor and his services received recognition by pro- motion to captain of his company and later as lieutenant-colonel of the regiment.
Returning west at the close of the war, in 1865 he began the practice of his profession in Chicago, which he continued with success and distinction. In 1886 he was elected judge of the circuit court, and in 1890 re- ceived the appointment of judge of the apellate court.
In politics he is a Republican. In social life his varied tastes and broad acquirement are indicated by his membership in various societies. He was in the Philosophical, Law, and Social Science congresses of the World's Columbian Exposition. He is a member of the Psychical Research, and the Philosophical societies, and of the Union League, Liter- ary, Alliance, and Irving clubs. He is a comrade in U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R., in the Loyal Legion, and the Veteran Associa- tion.
Judge Waterman was married, in Chicago, in December, 1862, to Ella Hall, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Hall.
WATSON, AUSTIN H., of Stamford, Conn., son of Patrick J. and Caroline La- throp Watson, was born April 24, 1842, at Wilmington.
After attending the public schools he passed his early life about his father's mills, and one year in the army. In 1864 he secured a junior clerkship with the Western Union Telegraph Co., at Rochester, N. Y., and in 1866 was appointed storekeeper in charge of main supply depots of the com- pany at New York. Continued advance in his salary made this an agreeable position, which he retained until he resigned in 1879, to become junior member of the firm of James E. Vail, Jr., & Co., dry goods commis- sion merchants and manufacturers' agents, Worth street, New York. Six years later he purchased Mr. Vail's interest and became senior member of the present firm of Wat- son, Bull & Co., who have largely extended the business dealings with leading wholesale houses throughout the country. He is also president of the Connecticut Witch Hazel
Co., whose production will equal three thousand barrels yearly.
In August, 1862, he enlisted as private in Co. F. 18th Regt. Vi. Vols. Upon the pro- motion of one of his comrades he became the clerk of the regiment, and was thereby relieved of all equipment and company duty. At Gettysburg he selected one of the many abandoned muskets on the field, and with a handful of cartridges sought out his company at the front, where he remained throughout the battle. His conspicuous bravery was known to all the officers of the regiment, and Colonel Veazey, recognizing that this youth was the only detailed man who volun- tarily exposed himself on this sanguinary field, appointed him quartermaster-sergeant of the regiment, the highest honor at his command.
AUSTIN H. WATSON.
Mr. Watson enjoys the genial, social side of life, and in this way has had many duties to perform connected with various associations.
He was the first treasurer of the well known Apollo Glee Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; secretary of the Oxford Club of Brooklyn, 1883 to '85, and of the Telegraphers Mutual Benefit Association, 1876 to '79 ; a director of Stamford Social Club, 1889 to 1892, and is now its president (1893). He is vice- president of the Forest and Stream Club, of Wilmington, and also a director of the Stam- ford Yacht Club ; he is also president of the Clover Club in New York City.
He was singularly fortunate in his marriage, Oct. 28, 1879, to Julia Brainerd Vail, a very
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attractive and noble woman, daughter of James Everett and Ridelia Kenyon Vail, of Brooklyn, N. Y., where they resided till 1886, removing thence to Stamford, Conn. Their home, "Oakdale," on the banks of Rippa- wanna river, while unpretentious, is noted for the cordial, hearty welcome and kindly good cheer extended to all.
WATSON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, of Cambridge, Mass., son of David and Mary (Wilder) Watson, was born at Woodstock, April 8, 1823.
He attended the Woodstock village school, and for three winters an evening school for apprentices, established by the Massachu- setts Charitable Mechanic Association at Boston. David Watson, the father of Ben- jamin, was born at Kennebunk, Me., was educated in the public schools of Boston, where he obtained a Franklin medal in 18or. After serving an apprenticeship at the printer's trade, he established an office at Hanover, N. H., in 1815, but removed three years later to Woodstock, where he started the Weekly Observer, which he published for several years. He returned to Boston in 1834, and in 1840 removed to Concord, N. H., where he was city clerk for many years, and died there March 25, 1867, at the age of seventy-eight. He married, in 1820, Mary, the daughter of Capt. Jacob Wilder, a Revolutionary soldier, a native of Lancas- ter, Mass., who settled in Woodstock in 1790 and died there July 19, 1848, aged ninety-one years.
Benjamin Franklin Watson went to Boston in 1836, and learned the printer's trade in the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, where his father was proof-reader. In 1840 the family moved to Concord, N. H. Ben- jamin worked in the New Hampshire Patriot office fifteen years, and then in 1855 re- turned to Boston and entered the office of the Boston Journal, where he has been em- ployed as proof-reader for thirty-nine years. He was at one time captain of the Ist Co., I Ith Regt. N. H. Militia.
Mr. Watson was married, Nov. 16, 1848, to Mary A. Whipple of Hebron, N. H., who died Nov. 24, 1872, leaving three children : Frank L., Alice F., and Edward P.
WEAVER, GEORGE SUMNER, of Can- ton, N. Y., son of John and Asenath (Wiley) Weaver, was born Dec. 24, 1818, at Rock- ingham.
Mr. Weaver passed through the schools of his vicinity and studied law, yet after seven years of study and teaching he took up the ministry. He was early interested in science and joined the American Geological Associa- tion in Albany, N. Y., and has ever since continued his scientific studies.
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At the age of twenty-seven he entered the ministry of the Universalist church at Spring- field, Ohio. Two years later he settled in Marietta, Ohio, and built an academy, out of which grew Lombard University at Gales- burg, Ill., and Buchtel College at Akron, ()., at both of which places he was for a time settled as pastor. While at Marietta, Mr. Weaver began publishing. His first two books were first given as lectures to his students. The first work was entitled " Lec- tures on Mental Science," the second was " Hopes and Helps for the Young." These were followed in after years by "Ways of Life," "Christian Household," " Moses and Modern Science," " Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women," "The Open Way," "The Heart of the World," "The Lives and Graves of the Presidents," "Looking For- ward," "Heaven,""The Life of J. H. Chapin," besides a number of pamphlets.
Mr. Weaver has had pastoral settlements in St. Louis, Mo., Lawrence, Mass., Canton, N. Y., East Providence, R. I., in addition to the places already mentioned. He has labored earnestly for temperance, education, woman's suffrage, legal and prison reform in which he has stood in advanced move- ments for humanity.
In politics, Mr. Weaver was raised a Dem- ocrat, was borne into Republicanism by con- versation, and into prohibition by necessity.
A life-long peace-man he gave himself to the support and prosecution of the war for the Union. Three times was his congrega- tion thinned out by enlistments, and from it was lost the first man killed in the war- Sumner H. Needham-and Mr. Weaver preached the first sermon over the body of a rebel-slaughtered soldier.
Mr. Weaver is an Odd Fellow, and a Mason, and a member of the Sons of Tem- perance.
He was married, in 1848, to Susan Stay- man, of Ohio, who lived but a few months. Three years after his loss he married Sarah Jane Kendall, of Massachusetts. They had two children : Clara, and Earnest K. The latter, a young lawyer in Buffalo, died by accident, Feb. 5, 1894.
WEBBER, GEORGE W., of Ionia, Mich., was born in Newbury, Nov. 25, 1825 ; removed at an early age to New York state, and in 1852 to Michigan, and located in Ionia county in 1858, and identified him- self to the development of the Grand River Valley ; has large interests in manufacturing. banking, and lumbering concerns : has twice been mayor of Ionia, and a member of the Forty-seventh Congress.
WHITCOMB, JAMES ARTHUR, of Bal- timore, Md., son of Robert Mckay and Dor-
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cas Am (MeDole) Whitcomb, was born March 20, 1854, at Underhill.
His early education was received in the conumnon school in Jeffersonville, the semin ary at Underhill, but with indomitable per- severance and application he passed through the Spencerian Business College and the Law Department of the National University at Washington, D. C., where he graduated. Ile also graduated from the Department of Min- eralogy of the Smithsonian Institute, and, learning shorthand, became the principal and proprietor of the School of Phonography and Typewriting at Washington. Mr. Whit- comb's tastes have ever been studious as is evinced by his knowledge of the French and Spanish languages and of the study of medi- cine, to which he has devoted much of his leisure time.
JAMES ARTHUR WHITCOMB.
As a boy he deserted the parental roof and worked at farming, then as a weaver and then learned a trade. In 1874 he entered the city post office at Washington, D. C., and rose gradually to a clerkship, which, through the courtesy of Chief Clerk Bell of the Inte- rior Department, he exchanged for that of night watchman in order that he might have time to pursue his law studies. He was shortly transferred to the Pension Bureau to perform clerical duties and rated as mes- senger. In this bureau he faithfully served the government for nine and one-half years, retiring by resignation from the position of acting chief clerk of Board of Pension Ap-
peals under Secretary Lamar, to enter into business. This change was forced upon him from disease of eyes brought on by work at night.
Mr. Whitcomb's honorable progress in the department, aside from his first appointment, was entirely without political influence though his faithful abilities were known and recog- nized by Senators Edmunds, Morrill, Blair, Logan, and many others.
He has served in the militia of the District of Columbia, Maryland and elsewhere, about eighteen years. Is a veteran of the 5th Regt. Md. National Guards, and is at present a member of the Fifth Maryland Veteran Corps, and attached to the Gattling Gun as an active.
In social organizations he is an I. O. O. F. of Lodge No. 1, D. C., and a member of Harmony Lodge, F. & A. M.
Mr. Whitcomb was married at Washington, April 23, 1882, to Virginia Hunter, daughter of John J. Commack, of Washington, and Margaret Hunter, of Fairfax, Va. They have three young children.
WHITCOMB, JONADAB BAKER, of Berkeley, Cal., son of Col. Carter and Lucy (Baker) Whitcomb, was born ()ct. 2, 1823, at Saxtons River.
Mr. Whitcomb received his early educa- tion till twelve years of age in his native village ; later at Swanzey, N. H .; later, up to age of seventeen, at the Keene Academy.
In 1840 he was a hotel clerk at Fitchburg ; in 1842 he was in the same vocation at Cambridgeport, Mass .; in 1843 at Provi- dence, R. I., and in 1844 he was in the calling in New York City, making headway all the time. He was head clerk at the famous New York Hotel in 1848 when he heard of the discoveries of California and resolved to go. In company with others, he organized the New York Mining Co., with one hundred members, and bought and equipped the barque Strafferd, which sailed from New York Feb. 4, 1849, for San Fran- cisco, Cal. Mr. Whitcomb, however, trans- ferred his share to his brother Byron, and secured for himself passage on the Portland brig Columbus, and sailed Feb. 3, 1849, for Vera Cruz, Mexico. He became one of a party and arrived at San Diego August 4, after a terrible trip by sea. He secured passage for himself and others on the steamer Panama, and arrived at San Fran- cisco August 18. (Full account of the voy- age was published in a volume by Dr. J. B. Stillman, published by A. Raman & Co., 1877, entitled "Seeking the Golden Fleece and Voyage of the Schooner Dolphin.")
In company with C. W. Dannals he left for the Yuba River, via Sacramento City and arrived at Rases Bar September I, secured a location and mined for six weeks clearing
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$2,000, returned to Sacramento in Novem- ber, all mining on the river being stopped by reason of freshets and rainy season. Here he found his New York Mining Co., and brother Byron, who, with Mr. Dannals and himself concluded to purchase the lot, corner of K and 2d streets and go into trade ; but again high water flooding the city Jan. 2, 1850, he decided then to go back again to the mountains and mines, arriving at Fosters Bar, Yuba River, in February, 1850, where they engaged in mining and trading. Late that fall he had put in a wing dam in the canyon, one mile up stream, which promised well, and in the spring of 1851, after many months of hard labor by whip sawing made sufficient lumber to flume the river five hundred feet and turned it from its bed in August and after eight weeks of prodigious work, secured for himself and others $90,000, in gold dust ; his brother returned to the states, he alone remaining. Much money was lost and won that season.
In 1853 he was impressed by a blind man in Marysville with an idea how to bring water to the high bar at Fosters, which was to go down the river a few miles to the mouth of Oregon Creek and by a ditch take the water up the river ; he did this work by assistance of miners who promised, and did take their pay in water; this project was unique at the time and profitable for a num- ber of years. In 1860 we find him in Marys- ville with his family comfortably situated in his home, yet in 1862 he joined the throng going to Oregon and Idaho on a mining expedition. In 1864 he removed to San Francisco and engaged in the business of real estate, residing in Berkeley with his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Wattes.
He married Cynthia A. Cutter of Grafton, April 5, 1855. She was the daughter of Capt. James and Harriet (Goodridge) Cut- ter. Their children are: Alice Harriet, Frank Randolph, Caroline Goodridge, Hat- tie Demming, and Ralston.
WHITE, MILO, of Chatfield, Minn., was born in Fletcher, August 17, 1830 ; was ed- ucated at common schools ; is a merchant ; was elected to the state Senate of Minnesota, 1872, 1876, and 1881-'82, and was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republi- can ; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.
WHITE, NEHEMIAH, of Galesburg, Ill., son of Justin Morgan and Lydia (Eddy) White, was born Jan. 25, 1835, at Walling- ford.
Professor White's career as an instructor, remarkable as it is, was made possible by the most thorough and extended preparation in the schools of the state. In 1857 he gradu-
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ated at Middlebury College with the degree of A. B., and immediately began his work as associate principal of the Green Mountain Perkins Academy, and continued there dur- ing 1857-'58. The year 1859-'60 was passed as principal of the Clinton (N. Y.) Liberal Institute, and from 1864 to 1865 as principal of the Pulaski (N. Y.) Academy. The St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y., ob- tained his services from 1865 to 1871, as professor of mathematics and natural science and from 1873 to 1875 he served the Buchtel College at Akron, Ohio, as professor of ancient languages. In 1876 he received the degree of Ph. D. from St. Lawrence Univer- sity. As president of the Lombard Univer- sity at Galesburg, Ill., he passed the years from 1875 to 1892 and resigned his office only at the last commencement to take charge of another department of the Univer- sity, the Ryder Divinity School.
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