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342 library, and the government hospital for the in- sane. Among the works of his private practice in Philadelphia were the designs for St. George's hall, the Preston retreat, and the Biddle and Cowper- thwaite places on Delaware river. He assisted the architect of the new Public buildings at Philadel- phia in their erection, and was so engaged till his death. He was a member of the Franklin institute after 1829, held its professorship of architecture, and in 1860 delivered a course of lectures on that subject in Columbia college, New York. He was a member of the American philosophical society after 1841, and was one of the original members of the American institute of architects, of which he was president at the time of his death. He re- ceived the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Lewisburg, Pa., in 1853, and that of LL. D. from Harvard in 1857.

WALTER, William Henry, musician, b. in Newark, N. J., 1 July, 1825. He removed to New York in 1842, was appointed organist in Trinity parish in 1847, and placed successively in charge of the music at St. John's chapel, St. Paul's, Trin- ity church, and Trinity chapel, where he remained until 1869. He studied composition under Dr. Edward Hodges, was appointed organist at Colum- bia college, New York, in 1856, and in 1865 re- ceived the honorary degree of Mus. Doc. from that institution, with which he is still connected. His published works are " Manual of Church Music " (New York, 1860); "Chorals and Hvmns" (1866); " Common Prayer with Ritual Song " (1868) ; " Les- sons in Music" (1882); and "Mass in C," with Latin and English text (1886). — His son, George William, organist, b. in New York city, 16 Dec, 1851, at the age of eleven was placed under the musical instruction of John K. Paine, of Boston, and subsequently under Samuel P. Warren, of New York. In 1869 he went to Washington, D. C, and was given the degree of Mus. Doc. by Columbian university of that city. His compositions are rather for the virtuoso than for the popular ear. As an organist he is known for his powers in extemporane- ous performance and novelty in registration. His musical library contains more than 8,000 works.

WALTER, William Joseph, author, b. in England ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 9 Oct., 1846. He was a professor in St. Edmund's college, Ware, England, till 1839, when he emigrated to this country, and settled in Philadelphia, where, at the time of his death, he acted as secretary to the British consul. His chief publications were " Ac- count of a Manuscript of Ancient English Poetry, entitled ' Clavis Sciential, or Bretayne s Skyll-Kay of Knawing,' by John de Wageby " (London. 1816) ; editions of "Marie Magdalen's Funerall Teares" and others of Robert Southwell's poems ; " Sir Thomas More : his Life and Times " (Philadelphia, 1839) ; " Beauties of Sir Thomas More " (Baltimore, 1840): "Mary, Queen of Scots: a Journal of her Twenty Years' Captivity, Trial, and Execution" (Philadelphia, 1840); "St. John Chrysostom " (1841) ; and " The New Following of Christ " (1841).

WALTERS, William Thompson, merchant, b. on the Juniata river, Pa., 23 May, 1820. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestrv, and his father, Henry Walters, a banker of Pennsylvania, sent him to Philadelphia to be educated as a civil engineer. He was placed in charge of a large smelting establishment in Lycoming county, Pa., where under his management the first iron that was manufactured in the United States from min- eral coal was made. In 1841 he removed to Bal- timore, Md., and engaged in the general commis- sion business, and in 1847 he established the firm of W. T. Walters and Co.. wine-merchants. When the first line of steamers between Baltimore and Savannah was established he was chosen its president, and from that time he has been a direc- tor in every line from Baltimore to the south. Af- ter the civil war he aided in the reorganization of the southern steamship lines. For many years he has been a director of the Northern Central rail- way company, and he is also interested in many southern lines. From 1861 till 1865 he resided in Europe, where he became the personal friend of many prominent continental artists, and travelled extensively to study the history and development of art and to purchase pictures for the collection that he had begun at an early period. He was art commissioner from the United States to the Paris exposition of 1867, that in Vienna in 1873, and that in Paris in 1878. He is one of the per- manent trustees of the Corcoran art gallery in Washington, D. C, and is also chairman of the purchasing committee, a trustee of the Peabody institute, and chairman of its committee on art. He is also a trustee of the estate left for art uses by the sculptor William H. Rinehart, who was enabled to procure his' art education largely through the generosity of Mr. Walters. Albert Wolff, the French critic, says that Mr. Walters's private collection is the most complete gallery of French pictures in the world with a single excep- tion. He owns a large and rare collection of Bonvin's water-colors, and many Barye bronzes. His collection of Oriental porcelain, and ceramics numbers 3,000 pieces. For many years Mr. Wal- ters has annually opened his gallery to the pub- lic, and the proceeds are devoted to the Poor association of Baltimore. He has given to the city of Baltimore several bronzes, which adorn the four public squares adjoining the Washington monument. They are the great lion, a master- piece made by Antoine Louis Barye, in 1847, for the Tuileries ; four groups — " War," " Peace," " Strength," and " Order " — productions of the models made by Barye for the exterior decoration of the Louvre ; and a reproduction in bronze by Barbedienne of " Military Courage," made by Paul Dubois for the Lamoriciere monument in Nantes. He has also given to the city a reproduction in bronze of the statue of Chief- Justice Taney in An- napolis, Md., made by Rinehart. During his visit to Europe, Mr. Walters became interested in the Percheron horses ; he brought eighteen of them to the United States in 1866, and extended the importa- tion of this stock. To increase an intelligent inter- est on this subject, he published " The Percheron Horse," from the French of Charles Du Hays, with artistic etchings (printed privately, New York, 1886). He has also published "Antoine Louis Barye, from the French of Various Critics " (Balti- more, 1885), and " Notes upon Certain Masters of the XIX. Century " (New York, 1886).

WALTHALL, Edward Cary, senator, b. in Richmond, Va., 4 April, 1831. He was educated at Holly Springs, Miss., studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practised at Coffeeville, Miss. In 1856 he was elected district attorney of the 10th judicial district of Mississippi, and he was re-elected in 1859, but resigned m 1861 and entered the Confederate army as a lieutenant in the 15th Mississippi infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and commanded the regiment in the battle of Fishing Creek, or Mill Springs, Ky., 19 Jan., 1862. Subsequently he became colonel of the 29th Mississippi regiment, and he was promoted brigadier, 13 Dec, 1862, and major-general, 6 June, 1864. His service was