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Rh York city, 20 July, 1832, was graduated at Columbia in 1851, and became a banker. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 12th regiment of New York militia, with which he served in the field from 21 April till 5 Aug., 1861. As colonel of the same regiment he was again in the United States service in 1862, participating as acting brigadier, and personally directing his artillery fire, in the defence of Harper's Ferry, where he was made prisoner and paroled. In 1863 he served again as colonel of the regiment in the Pennsylvania campaign. He partly invented and greatly improved the Ward-Burton breech-loading rifle. After the war he was made a brigadier-general in the state militia service, and served for nearly twenty years. &mdash; William Greene's brother, John, soldier, b. in New York city, 30 Nov., 1838, was graduated at Columbia college in 1858 and at Columbia law-school in 1860, then studied medicine at the New York university medical college, taking his degree of M. D. in 1864. During the civil war he served with his brother in the field as lieutenant, and afterward captain, in the 12th New York National guard, taking part in September, 1862, in the defence of Harper's Ferry, under a heavy artillery fire for three days, when surrounded by a large part of Lee's army under Stonewall Jackson, when he was made prisoner and paroled. Subsequently he became colonel of the 12th New York regiment for eleven years, till October, 1877, and for some time he acted as secretary to the National rifle association. He is the author of many historical papers and of &ldquo;The Overland Route to California, and other Poems&rdquo; (New York, 1875).

WARD, Richard Halsted, microscopist, b. in Bloomfield, N. J., 17 June, 1837. He was gradu- ated at Williams in 1858, and at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York city, in 1862, was assistant surgeon in the military hospital at Nashville, Tenn., for a few months, resigned on account of failing health, and in 1863 established himself in Troy, N. Y. He became interested while in college in botany, and in 1867 accepted the pro- fessorship of that science in Rensselaer polytech- nic institute, while continuing his practice as a physician, and becoming in 1868 physician to the Marshall infirmary. He also delivered lectures on the use of the microscope, and from 1871 till 1883 conducted a department in the " American Natu- ralist " on microscopy, on which subject he has also given lectures in the Rensselaer institute. On botany he has been a frequent lecturer before sci- entific societies and institutions. He has invented an illuminating appliance for binocular micro- scopes and other improvements, and was active in organizing the national committee on micrometry. As an expert in microscopical examinations, he was one of the first to discriminate between different kinds of blood, and his testimony is sought in murder and forgery trials, and in connection with the purity of water-supply and adulterations of food and medicine. He has also been a cultivator of medical microscopy, and has published some original investigations. Dr. Ward is a mem- ber of microscopical societies of this country and Europe, was president of the American society of microscopists, and has been the manager of the American postal microscopical club since 1875. He has contributed to the periodicals that are devoted to his specialty, and was joint editor, with the Rev. Alpheus B. Hervey, of the Ameri- can revision of the work of Jujius W. Behrens on " The Microscope in Botany " (Boston, 1885).— His sister, Anna Lydia, author, b. in Bloomfield, N. J., about 1850, was educated at Ripley female college, Poultney, Vt. She assisted in compiling a '" Dic- tionary of Quotations " (New York, 1881), and has published " A Dictionary of Quotations from the Poets " (1883) ; " Surf and Wave " (1883) ; and " Fa- miliar Quotations from American Authors" in a " Library of Quotations " (4 vols., 1884). She is at present engaged on a " History of Waterbury, Conn.," in association with Miss Sarah J. Pritchard.

WARD, Thomas, poet, b. in Newark, N. J., 8 June, 1807; d. in New York city, 13 April, 1873. He studied at Princeton and at ' Rutgers medical college, New York city, practised his profession two or three years, and after travelling some time in foreign countries returned to that city to follow a life of literary leisure, having married a lady of fortune. He built a large music-hall in his house in New York, in which, between 1862 and 1872, nearly fifty musical entertainments were given. Dr. Ward was the author of "A Month of Freedom " (New York, 1837) ; " Passaic : a Group of Poems touching that River, with oth- er Musings," by "Flaccus"(New York, 1842) ; " Flora, or the Gipsy's Frolic," a pastoral opera, for which he al- so wrote the mu- sic, and which had several pub- lic and pri- vate representa- tions for the benefit of charitable objects, yielding about $40,- 000; and "War Lyrics" (printed privately, New York, 1865). — His nephew, James Warner, poet, b. in Newark, N. J., 5 June, 1817, was educated at the Boston high-school, became the pupil and assist- ant of Prof. John Locke in the Medical college of Ohio, Cincinnati, was professor of general literature and of botany at the Female college of Ohio in 1853-4, and afterward edited for several years the " Botanical Magazine and Horticultural Review " at Cincinnati, in association with Dr. John A. Warder. In 1859 he removed to New York city. Since 1874 he has been librarian of the Grosvenor public library, Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Ward has composed pieces for the voice and the organ, and is a member of botanical and microscopical societies. Besides contributions to periodicals he has published a vol- ume of '• Home-made Verses and Stories in Rhyme," that were usually signed " Yorick " (Boston, 1857) ; " Woman," a poem (1852) ; and " Higher Water," a parody of Henry W. Longfellow's " Hiawatha," descriptive of a freshet in the Ohio river (1855).

WARD, Thomas, A. M. E. bishop, b. in Pennsylvania, 28 Sept., 1823. He is of negro parentage, was brought up on a farm, went to Philadelphia in 1843, attended a Quaker night-school, united with the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1843, and was licensed to exhort in the same year. He preached in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, and was the first secretary of the New England conference of his church. He asked to be sent to do missionary work on the Pacific coast, and arrived there, 19 May, 1854, but returned in 1860 to meet the general "conference in Pittsburg. He went back to his post in 1861, and under his guidance and inspiration societies were organized