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322 retaining this office until his death, and thus holding the first probate courts in Maine. For eight years he was a member of the legislature. — Another son, Francis, b. in Falmouth, Me., in 1723; d. in London, England, in 1784, was graduated at Harvard in 1747. He was appointed collector of the first custom-house in Maine in 1758, his authority extending from Cape Porpus to the Kennebec, and held this post until 1770. In 1763 he issued, "in pursuance of strict orders from the surveyor-general, a proclamation against smuggling rum, sugar, and molasses, which had previously been winked at, and the officers were directed to execute the law with rigor." In 1762-'3 he was a representative to the general court from Falmouth, but, forfeiting the favor of the popular party, he was not re-elected. After the burning of Falmouth he went to England, and never returned, for in 1778 he was proscribed and banished as a loyalist, and his property, which passed to the state under the confiscation act, was sold in 1782.

WALDO, Samuel Lovett, artist, b. in Windham, Conn., 6 April, 1783 ; d. in New York city, 16 Feb., 1861. He had art instruction in his native state, and painted in Charleston, S. C. He went to London in 1806, and three years later opened a studio in New York, where he remained until his death. He was successful as a portrait-painter, and was elected an associate of the National academy in 1847. His likeness of Peter Remsen is owned by the New York historical society, and several of his portraits are in the city-hall. New York. About 1812 William Jewett came to him for instruction, but proved so useful that they formed a partnership. They jointly executed several works, in which they were successful. Among these is one of John Trumbull, the painter, and another of Chief-Justice Andrew Kirkpatrick, of New Jersey.

WALDO, Samuel Putnam, author, b. in Connecticut in 1780; d. in Hartford, Conn., in March, 1826. He was the author of " Narrative of a Tour of Observation made during the Summer of 1817, by James Monroe, President of the United States, with Sketch of his Life " (Philadelphia, 1818; Hartford, 1820); "Memoirs of Gen. Andrew Jackson" (Hartford, 1820); "Life and Character of Stephen Decatur" (2d ed., Middletown, Conn., 1821); and "Biographical Sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Paul Jones, Edward Preble, and Alexander Murray" (Hartford, 1823). He also prepared for publication Archibald Robbins's " Journal of the Loss of the Brig ' Commerce ' upon the Western Coast of Africa." (See Riley, James.)

WALDRON, Richard, soldier, b. in Alcester, England, 2 Sept., 1615; d. in Dover, N. H., 27 June, 1689. He came to this country first in 1635, and, remaining two years, made some land purchases and returned to England. There he married, and came in 1640 to reside permanently at Cocheco (now Dover), N. H. He was elected a representative to the general court at Boston in 1654-'76, and in 1666-'8 was speaker of the house, also in 1673, 1674, and 1679. In 1672 he was given commission as captain, and in 1674 he was made sergeant-major in the military forces of the province. In 1680 he became major-general. In January, 1680, he was elected one of the first councillors of the province. In 1681, upon the death of President John Cutts, Waldron was chosen as deputy president to fill the place made vacant. His command over the military forces threw him into constant association with the Indians. Owing to trouble in 1676, they treasured up a grudge against him, which culminated in his death thirteen years later in a barbarous manner. — His son, Richard, b. in Dover, N. H., in 1650 ; d. there, 30 Nov., 1730, was deputy to the first assembly in 1680, a councillor in 1681, chief justice of the court of common pleas, judge of probate, and for many years chief military officer of New Hampshire. He represented Portsmouth, N. II., at Boston in 1691. In 1681 he married Hannah Cutts, a daughter of President Cutts, who died with her infant son the following year. In 1693 he married Eleanor, a daughter of Richard Vaughan, and grandniece of John Cutts. — Their son, Richard, b. in Portsmouth, N. H„ 21 Feb., 1694; d. there in 1753, was graduated at Harvard in 1712, was a judge and councillor and secretary of the province in 1737. He was for many years widely known as Secretary Waldron. He married Elizabeth Westbrooke, daughter of Col. Thomas Westbrooke, 31 Dec., 1718. — Their great-grandson, Edmund Quincy Sheafe, clergyman, b. in Dover, N. H., 6 July, 1812; d. in Pikesville, Md., 16 April, 1888, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1833, and was for many years a professor in New York and Philadelphia. Later he read law, and went into practice in Cincinnati in 1842. On 15 Dec, 1847, after becoming a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, and studying divinity under Bishop Kenrick, he was ordained priest. Before his ordination he was Erofessor of belles-lettres in the University of St. Louis. His first pastorate was the southern half of New Jersey, and next the Cathedral church of Philadelphia, where he remained eight years, founding a Magdalen home, and St. Vincent's asylum for the care of infants. From 1857 till 1860 he had charge of St. Matthew's church at Washington, D. C. From 1860 till 1869 he was president of Borromeo college, Pikesville, Md. He resigned his office in 1869, and the last nine years of his life were spent in the seclusion of a home for aged and infirm clergymen in Pikesville.

WALDSEEMÜLLER, Martin (valt'-zay-muel'-ler). German geographer, b. in Freiburg about 1470; d. after 1522. He published an &ldquo;Introduction to Cosmography, with the Four Voyages of Americus Vespucius&rdquo; (1507), in which he advocated the application of the name America to the New World.

WALDSTEIN, Charles, archæologist, b. in New York city, 30 March, 1856. He studied at Columbia in 1871-&rsquo;3 and at the University of Heidelberg in 1873-&rsquo;5, where he received the degree of Ph. D. on completing his course. In 1876 he was at Leipsic, but in October of that year he went to London, where he studied in the British museum. He delivered a course of art lectures in the museum during that winter, then spent the greater part of the years 1878-&rsquo;9 in Italy and Greece, and was present at the German excavation at Olympia. On his return to England in 1880 he delivered lectures in various places, becoming university lecturer in classical archaeology in Cambridge in that year. His influence was soon felt by the art students there, and in 1882 he was made &ldquo;reader&rdquo; in Greek art in the university (a new form of professorship). He turned his attention toward founding a new archæological school, and for its purposes a museum of art has been created in connection with the Fitzwilliam museum, of which latter institution he has since 1883 been a director. In 1888, while still holding his appointments in Cambridge, he was called to the directorship of the American school of archæology at Athens. His reputation has been gained chiefly by his discoveries, among which are that the so-called &ldquo;Apollos&rdquo; are simply athletes, the identification of a head found in the Louvre as the work of Pheidias, and that of a Hermes in Ephesian silver-work on a