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344 from February, 1776, till October, 1781, was a dele- gate to the Continental congress, signing the Dec- laration of Independence in the former year. In December, 1778, he was appointed a colonel of militia, commanded a battalion on the right of Gen. Robert Howe's army when Savannah was taken by the British, was severely wounded in the thigh, and. having been taken prisoner, was not liberated till September, 1779. In October of the same year, and again in 1789, he was chosen gov- ernor of Georgia. He was appointed chief justice of the state in 1783, and in 1787 was elected a dele- gate to the convention for framing the constitution of the United States, but did not take his seat. In 1793 he was again a judge of the supreme court, and in 1795-'6 he was U. S. senator. He was also one of the U. S. commissioners to negotiate a treaty with the Cherokee Indians in Tennessee, and was several times a member of the legislature of Geor- gia. Gen. Mcintosh, then in command of the militia in Georgia, accused Mr. Walton of indirect participation in the production of a forged letter, dated 30 Nov., 1779, which was transmitted to the president of congress, requesting his removal from the command of the troops in the state. This ac- cusation was considered by the legislature of Geor- gia in January, 1783. A vote of censure was passed on Mr. Walton, and the attorney-general was rec- ommended to institute such proceedings against him as the case required. This action of the legis- lature seems strangely inconsistent with Mr. Wal- ton's appointment by the same body as chief justice of Georgia on the preceding day. — His son, George, held the office of secretary of state for West Florida under the administration of Andrew Jackson.

WALTON, George Edward, physician, b. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 25 Dec, 1839. He was gradu- ated at Bellevue hospital medical college, New York, in 1864, and, after serving as acting as- sistant surgeon in the National army, visited Eu- rope for study in 1865, and, returning in 1866, be- gan practice in Cincinnati. He afterward became professor of the principles and practice of medicine in Cincinnati college, took the chair of medicine and surgery in 1880, and was president of the Cin- cinnati academy of medicine in 1880-'l. In addi- tion to monographs on European and American climatic resorts, and contributions to periodicals, he has published " Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada " (New York, 1872).

WALTON, William, British author, b. in Eng- land in 1784; d. at Oxford in 1857. He was Brit- ish resident at Santo Domingo, and, in addition to articles for reviews and magazines, published " Present State of the Spanish Colonies (2 vols., London, 1810) ; " Historical Account of Peruvian Sheep "(1811); "Sketch of the United States of America, 1800-1810, by Le C. F. de Beaujour," translated (1814) ; " Expose of the Dissensions of Spanish America " (1814) : " Reports on Mines in Hayti" (1825); "Memoir on Slavery in Brazil," translated (1826) ; and " Spain ; or Who is the Law- ful Successor to the Throne ? " (1834).

WALTON, William Claiborne, clergyman, b. in Hanover county, Va., 4 Nov., 1793 ; d. in Hart- ford, Conn., 18 Feb., 1834. He was the son of a blacksmith, and received but few advantages of early education, but afterward studied at Hamp- den Sidney college, and was licensed as a preacher of the Presbyterian church, 22 Oct., 1814, at Fred- ericksburg. He afterward preached at Smithfield and Berryville, Va., at Washington, D. C, for a short period in 1821, and in February, 1823, became ,pastor of the 3d Presbyterian church, Baltimore. In May, 1827, he was installed as pastor of the 2d Presbyterian church at Alexandria, which charge he retained till 1832. In November, 1830, he was deputed by the presbytery of the District of Co- lumbia to attend the annual meeting of the synod of Virginia, and in 1832 he was chosen missionary agent and evangelist for the presbyteries of East and West Hanover. Subsequently he became pas- tor of the Free church, Hartford, Conn. He was remarkably successful as an evangelist, and con- tributed in a considerable degree to the revival of religion in the Presbyterian, Congregational, and other churches during 1831, whereby more than 100,000 persons were brought into church com- munion. He published a small volume of sermons, besides separate discourses, and a sketch of the life of his daughter, Margaret Ann. A poem com- memorative of him was written by Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney after his death, and his life was pub- lished bv Joshua N. Danforth (New York, 1837).

WALWORTH, Jeannette Ritchie Hadermann. author, b. in Philadelphia. Pa., 22 Feb., 1837. She removed to Natchez, Miss., while a child, with her father, Charles Julius Hadermann, a German baron, who was afterward president of Jefferson college. On his -death the family re- moved to Louisiana, and when she was sixteen years old Miss Hadermann became a governess. Having married Maj. Douglas Walworth, of Nat- chez, she accompanied him to his plantation in southern Arkansas, thence removed to Memphis, Tenn., and finally to New York city, where she now resides. In addition to contributions to the periodical press, the " Continent," and other maga- zines, she has published " Forgiven at Last " (Phila- delphia, 1870); "The Silent Witness "(1871); "Dead Men's Shoes" (1872); "Heavy Yokes" (Boston, 1874); "Nobody's Business" (New York, 1878); " The Bar Sinister " (1885) ; " Without Blemish " (1885) ; " Alice and Scruples " (1886) ; " At Bay " (New York, 1887); "The New Man at Rossmere" (1887); "Southern Silhouettes" (New York, 1887); "True to Herself" (New York, 1888); 'That Girl from Texas " (New York, 1888).

WALWORTH, John, pioneer, b. in Groton, Conn., in 1765; d. in Cleveland. Ohio, 10 Sept., 1812. He settled at Pairiesville, Ohio, in 1800, and in 1802 was made justice of the peace for Trumbull county. In 1803 Gov. Tiffin appointed him associate judge of the superior court. In 1806 he held simultaneously four distinct offices — those of inspector of the port of Cuyahoga, collector of the district of Erie, associate judge of Geauga county, and postmaster at Cleveland, to which place he had removed in 1805. The post-office at Cleveland was kept in the upper story of a small building on Superior street, and the total receipts of the office for the first quarter were only $2.83. The place had then a population of less than fifty, and a mail came to it only twice a week. When it arrived Mr. Walworth delivered the letters personally, carrying them around in his hat; and that duty performed, it is said that he would lock up his office and "go a-fishing with the boys." He held the offices of associate judge and collector of customs till his death, and was much esteemed. — His wife, Julianna Morgan, b. in Groton, Conn., 31 Dec, 1769; d. in Cleveland, 2 March, 1853, was one of the three women that refused to leave their homes when the stampede occurred at Cleveland on the occasion of Gen. William Hull's surrender. She was an accomplished horsewoman, and often took long horseback journeys with her husband, once crossing the Alleghames with him, and going in this manner to the eastern states by way of Pittsburg and Philadelphia