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Rh of it from its foundation to 1846, a period of fourteen years. In 1851-'6 he had charge of a school for girls in Oxford, N. C. He has received the degree of D. D. from Wake Forest in 1849.

WAIT, William, lawyer, b. in Ephratah, N. Y„ 2 Feb., 1821; d. in Johnstown, N. Y., 29 Dec, 1880. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1846, and became district attorney of Fulton county, N. Y., in 1848. In 1856 he held the office of school commissioner. As a law-writer Mr. Wait was painstaking and accurate. Few legal works have been more widely known or more generally cited as authority than his. He was the author of "The Law and Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in Justices' Courts and on Appeals to the County Courts in the State of New York" (2 vols., Albany, 1865); "New York Annotated Code of Procedure " (1871); "A Table of Cases affirmed, revised, or cited in the Reports of the State of New York" (1872); "The Practice in Courts of Record of the State of New York" (1872): and "Wait's Actions and Defences at Law and in Equity" (7 vols., 1876-'9). Mr. Wait also edited an American edition of Herbert Broom and Edward A. Hadley's "Commentaries on the Law of England " (2 vols., Albany, 1875), and prepared a continuation of Clinton's "Digest of New York Reports," which was published as "Clinton and Wait's Digest of New York Reports" (1876).

WAITE, Carlos Adolphus, soldier, b. in 1800; d. in Plattsburg, N. Y., 7 May, 1866. He entered the U. S. army as 3d lieutenant of infantry, 28 Jan., 1820, became 1st lieutenant, 1 May, 1828, and captain, 3 July, 1836. From 7 July, 1838, till 8 May, 1845, he was captain and assistant quarter-master. He was appointed major of the 8th infantry, 16 Feb., 1847, and served in the Mexican war, receiving the brevets of lieutenant-colonel, 20 Aug., 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, and colonel, 8 Sept., 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Molino del Rey, where he was severely wounded. He was made lieutenant-colonel of the 5th infantry on 10 Nov., 1851, and colonel of the 15th infantry on 5 June, 1860. In 1864 he was placed on the retired list, owing to impaired health, and he resided in Plattsburg until his death. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865, for long and faithful service in the army.

WAITE, Charles Burlingame, jurist, b. in Wayne county, N. Y., 29 Jan., 1824. He was educated at Knox college, Ill., studied law at Galesburg and Rock Island, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. After fifteen years' successful practice, chiefly in Chicago, he was appointed by President Lincoln in 1862 associate justice of the supreme court of Utah. In 1865 he resigned this post and became district attorney of Idaho, and a year later he returned to Chicago, since which time he has devoted himself to literary pursuits. Judge Waite has published a &ldquo;History of the Christian Religion to the Year A. D. 200&rdquo; (Chicago, 1881), and made numerous contributions to the press on suffrage and other politico-legal questions. &mdash; His wife, Catharine Van Valkenburg, author, b. in Dumfries, Canada West, in 1829, was graduated at Oberlin in 1853, and married Mr. Waite the next year. In 1859 she established Hyde Park seminary. She is a graduate of the Union college of law and a member of the Illinois bar. In 1886 she founded the &ldquo;Chicago Law Times,&rdquo; a quarterly magazine, of which she is the editor. Mrs. Waite is active in all movements for the advancement of her sex. At the International council of women at Washington she was elected president of the Woman's

international bar association, 26 March, 1888. She is chief manager of the publishing-firm of C. V. Waite and Co., and has published &ldquo;The Mormon Prophet and his Harem&rdquo; (Cambridge, 1865).

WAITE, Henry Matson, jurist, b. in Lyme, Conn., 9 Feb., 1787: d. there, 14 Dec., 1869. His ancestor, Thomas, who came from England to Massachusetts about 1663, is believed to have been a son of Thomas Waite, one of the judges that signed the death-warrant of Charles I. Henry was graduated at Yale in 1809, studied law with Judge Matthew Griswold and his brother, Gov. Roger Griswold, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and practised law in Lyme. In 1815 he was elected to the legislature, serving several years as representative and as state senator in 1832-'3. He was appointed a judge of the supreme court of errors of Connecticut in 1834, and held that place and that of judge of the superior court for twenty years. In 1854 he was made chief justice of the state by the unanimous vote of the legislature. In 1855 Yale gave him the degree of LL. D. &mdash; His son, Morrison Remick, jurist, b. in Lyme, Conn., 29 Nov., 1816; d. in Washington, D. C., 23 March, 1888. He was graduated at Yale in 1837, where he was a classmate of William M. Evarts, Benjamin Silliman, and Samuel J. Tilden, and began the study of law in his father's office, but in 1838 travelled extensively, and then completed his legal education with Samuel M. Young in Maumee City, Ohio. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and formed a partnership with Mr. Young. He proved himself capable of grasping all the minute details of legal controversies and rose rapidly. The firm removed to Toledo in 1850, and continued until his youngest brother, Richard, came to the bar, when the two brothers formed a partnership. Mr. Waite in the mean time had become widely known for his successful management of difficult cases, and his studious habits and upright character. Opposing counsel often said that his assertion on any question of law was unanswerable. During more than three decades he was the acknowledged leader of the Ohio bar. Politically he was a Whig until the disbandment of that party, after which he was a Republican. But he took no part in political affairs, although repeatedly solicited to accept a nomination to congress, and he declined a seat on the bench of the supreme court of Ohio. In 1849 he was a member of the Ohio legislature. He first attracted national attention as counsel for the United States before the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1871-'2, his associates being Caleb Cushing and William M. Evarts. He assisted in the preparation of the case, and was chosen to argue the liability of the English government for permitting Confederate steamers to be supplied with coal in British ports during the civil war, the robust clearness and directness of his logic carrying conviction on all the points he raised. His argument was published (Geneva, 1872). When he returned in 1872, the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Yale. In 1874 he was the choice of both political parties as a delegate to the Ohio constitutional convention, and on its assembling in Cincinnati he was unanimously elected its president. When the death of Chief-Justice Chase had created a vacancy in the highest judicial office of the United States, two or three eminent jurists were successively nominated for the post, but their names were withdrawn. On 19 Jan., 1874, the president sent to the senate the name of Mr. Waite. The nomination met with general approval, and the nominee received every vote that was cast. Mr. Waite took the oath of