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Rh come to be known as the Calico mining district in San Bernardino county. In 1886 he was elected lieutenant-governor as a Republican. Upon the death of Gov. Washington Bartlett, 12 Sept., 1887, Mr. Waterman was called to the duties of chief executive. During recent years Gov. Waterman has engaged in numerous business enterprises in various parts of California. He is the owner of the famous Stonewall gold-mine in San Diego county, and has extensive ranch properties in southern California. He is president of the San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern railway, and is con- nected with many other public enterprises.

WATERMAN, Sigismund, physician, b. in Bruck, Bavaria, 22 Feb., 1819. He was educated in Erlangen, Bavaria, and was graduated in medi- cine at Yale in 1848. His professional life has been passed chiefly in New York, where he has en- gaged in general practice. In 1857 he was ap- pointed police surgeon, which place he filled for nearly thirty years, and during the civil war he was made one of the draft surgeons. Dr. Water- man became consulting physician in 1875 to the Home for aged and infirm Hebrews, .and is now medical director of that institution. He has de- voted special attention to the use of the spectroscope in the practice of medicine, and has been success- ful in its application. During 1868 he lectured on that subject before the medical societies of New York, and he has since spoken elsewhere on the same topic. He is a member of various medical societies and has contributed to the literature of his profession. Among his papers are " Practical Remarks on Scarlatina " (1859) ; " Therapeutic Em- ployment of Oxide of Zinc" (1861); "Spectral Analysis as an Aid in the Diagnosis of Disease " (1869) ; " The Blood-Crystals and their Physiologi- cal Importance " (1872) ; " Spectral Analysis of Blood-Stains " (1873) ; " The Importance of the Spectroscope in Forensic Cases " (1874) ; and " Re- vivification " (1884).

WATERMAN, Thomas Glasby, lawyer, b. in New York city, 23 Jan., 1788 ; d. in Binghamton, N. Y., 7 Jan., 1862. At an early age he removed with his parents to Salisbury, Conn., where his father, David, established extensive iron-works. The son was graduated at Yale in 1806 in the class with James Fenimore Cooper, studied in the Litchfield law-school, and afterward with Samuel Sherwood in Delhi, N. Y., and after admission to the bar in 1809 remained with the latter until 1812, when he went to Owego. N. Y., for a few months, but settled finally in Binghamton, N. Y., where he practised until about 1830. He served in the lower house of the legislature in 1826, and from 1827 till 1831 in the state senate, where he was one of a committee that made a thorough revision of the statutes of the state. By appointment of the governor he discharged the duties of judge of the court of common pleas for the state. He prepared and published " The Justice's Manual, or a Sum- mary of the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in New York State" (Albany, 1828). — His son, Thomas Whitney, lawyer, b. in Binghamton, N. Y., 28 June, 1821, entered Yale in 1838, but was not graduated. He travelled in Europe in 1842-4, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1848. Until 1870 he practised in New York city, and he then removed to Binghamton. He has edited many law-books, including American editions of J. H. Dart's " Vendors and Purchasers of Real Estate," with notes (New York, 1851) ; J. F. Archbold's " New System of Criminal Proced- ure " (3 vols., New York, 1852) ; Robert Henley Eden's " Treatise on the Law of Injunctions " (2 vols., New York, 1852) ; vols. viii. and ix. of Alonzo C. Paige's " Reports of Cases in the Court of Chan- cery of the State of New York " (1852) ; Murray Hoffman's " Chancerv Reports " (1853) ; George Caines's "New York Reports" (3d ed., 3 vols., 1854) ; vol. ii. of Elijah Paine's " Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Second Circuit, 1816-26" (1856); the 4th American edition of William Pa- ley's " Treatise on the Law of Principal and Agent Chiefly in Reference to Mercantile Translations " (1856) ; and vols xviii., xix., and xx. of John L. Wendell's " Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Judicature and in the Court for Trial of Im- peachments and the Correction of Errors of the State of New York, 1828-'41 " (1857). He is the author of a " Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, to which are added Outlines of the Powers and Duties of Country and Town Officers in the State of New York " (New York, 1849) ; the 3d edition of the " American Chancery Digest," with notes and a copious index (3 vols., 1851) ; " Treatise on the Civil and Criminal Juris- diction of Justices of the Peace for the States of Wisconsin and Iowa : containing Practical Forms " (1853) ; " Treatise on the Principles of Law and Equity which govern Courts in the granting of New Trials in Cases Civil and Criminal " (2 vols., 1855) ; " Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Superior Court and of the Supreme Court of Er- rors of the State of Connecticut from the Organi- zation of said Courts to the Present Time " (1858) ; and a " Treatise on the Law of Set-Off, Recoup- ment, and Counter-Claim " (1869).

WATERS, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, genealogist, b. in Salem, Mass., 29 March, 1833. After gradu- ation at Harvard in 1855 he engaged in teaching, and was a member of the school committee of Sa- lem in 1881-2, and its secretary in 1882-'3. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Har- vard in 1885 for tracing the family of John Harvard, when other genealogists had failed. He has spent several years in England pursuing genealogical in- quiries, on which he is still engaged.

WATERS, Nicholas Baker, physician, b. in Maryland in 1764; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1796. He received a classical education, was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1786, and practised in Philadelphia until his death. In 1790 he married Hester, daughter of David Rittenhouse, the astronomer. He published an abridged edition of "A System of Surgery," by Benjamin Bell, of Edinburgh, to which notes were added by Dr. John Jones (Philadelphia, 1791).

WATERS, Robert, educator, b.' in Thurso, Caithness-shire, Scotland, 9 May, 1835. He came to Canada in 1842, and was taught to read and write by his mother. At the age of thirteen he was employed at setting type, and in 1851 came to this country. In this manner he acquired an educa- tion, and in 1862 he went to France, where, after working in a printing-office for a time, he began to teach. Subsequently he went to Germany to study, and gave instruction there in English and French for four years. In 1868 he accepted an appoint- ment in the Hoboken, N. J., academy, where he remained until 1883, when he became principal of the West Hoboken public school, which place he still holds. Mr. Waters has published a " Life of William Cobbett " (New York, 1883) ; " Shakespeare portrayed by Himself" (1888); "How Genius works its Wonders " (1889) ; and edited and anno- tated "Cobbett's English Grammar" (1883).

WATERSTON, Robert Cassie, clergyman, b. in Kennebunk, Me., in 1812. He studied three