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396 College of physicians and surgeons in 1835. While an undergraduate he was appointed lecturer on an- atomy in Vermont medical college, and in 1838 he was professor of anatomy there and at the Berk- shire medical institution at Pittsfield, Mass. From 1839 till his death he was professor of anatomy in the College of physicians and surgeons, New York city, and from 1859 he was one of the attending Ehysicians of the Nursery and child's hospital, during all this period he was extensively engaged in private practice. He was one of the founders of the New York pathological society and for several years its presiding officer. Dr. Watts contributed many articles to medical periodicals and revised and edited, with notes, several manuals of anatomy.

WATTS, Robert, author, b. in Moneylane, County Down, Ireland, 10 July, 1820. He re- moved to this country and was graduated at Wash- ington college, Lexington, Va., in 1849, and at Princeton theological seminary in 1852. He en- tered the ministry of the Presbyterian church, es- tablished the Westminster church in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1852, and became its pastor in 1853. Re- turning to Ireland, he was installed as pastor in Dublin in 1863, and in 1866 was appointed profes- sor of systematic theology in the Assembly's col- lege at Belfast. He has published "Calvin and Calvinism " (Edinburgh, 1866) ; " Utilitarianism " (Belfast, 1868); " What is Presbyterianismf " (1870) : " Prelatic Departures from Reformation Princi- ples" (Edinburgh, 1871); "Arminian Departures from Reformation Principles" (1871) ; " Atomism " (Belfast, 1874); " Herbert Spencer's Biological Hy- pothesis " (1875) ; " The Doctrine of Eternal Pun- ishment" (1877); "The New Apologetic" (Edin- burgh, 1879) ; " The Newer Criticism " (1881) ; and " The Rule of Faith and the Doctrine of Inspira- tion " (London, 1885).

WATTS, Stephen, lawyer, b. about 1743 ; d. in Louisiana in 1788. He was the son of Stephen Watts, of Southampton, Bucks co., Pa., and was graduated at the College of Philadelphia (now Uni- versity of Pennsylvania) in 1762, becoming a tutor while still a student. In 1766 John Sargent, a member of the British parliament, offered to the college a gold medal for the best English essay on the " Reciprocal Advantage of a Perpetual Union between Great Britain and her American Colonies." Young Watts competed for the medal, and his es- say on the subject was published (Philadelphia, 1766). The medal was won by John Morgan, who shortly afterward became the founder of the first medical school in America. Watts was elected on 8 March, 1768, a member of the American philo- sophical society. He studied law, and in 1769 was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. In 1774 he settled in Louisiana, and afterward became re- corder of deeds of the English settlement on the Mississippi. His wife was a daughter of Ralph Assheton, a provincial councillor of Pennsylvania, and his daughter, Margaret Cyrilla, became the wife of Don Manuel Gagoso de Lemos, who was brigadier-general and governor of the Spanish colo- ny at Natchez until 1797, when he succeeded the Baron de Carondelet as governor of Louisiana. Mr. Watts contributed to John Beveridge's " Epis- tolae Familiares"(1765).

WATTS, Thomas Hill, statesman, b. in Butler county, Ala., 3 Jan., 1819. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1840, and began the practice of law at Greenville, in his native county, in 1841. In 1842 he was elected to the legislature, and he was returned in 1844 and 1845. He removed to Montgomery county in 1847, and was in 1849 sent to the legislature from that district and in 1853 to the state senate. In 1861. with William L, Yancey, he represented Montgomery county in the Secession convention. In the same year he went to the seat of war as colonel of the 17th Alabama regiment, remaining there until April, 1862, when he was called by Jefferson Davis to act as attorney- general in his cabinet. In 1863 he was elected governor of Alabama, and he held this post until the close of the civil war. He is active in the re- ligious enterprises of the Baptist denomination, to which he belongs.

WAUGH, Beverly, M. E. bishop, b. in Fairfax county, Va., 28 Oct., 1789 ; d. in Baltimore, Md.. 9 Feb., 1858. At the age of fifteen he became a mem- ber of the Methodist church at Alexandria, Va. It is supposed that he was employed in one of the government offices for three or four years, for through life he was noted for his excellent pen- manship and accuracy in accounts. From the time he was eighteen years old until a short time before his death he kept a journal which amounted to several manuscript volumes. In 1808 he entered the ministry, and at the end of three years he was stationed in the city of Washington. He was elected by the Baltimore conferences to the general conferences of 1816 and 1820. In 1824. on account of his favoring the election of presiding elders, which the majority of his conference did not ap- prove, he was not a representative. In 1828 he was again elected a member, and he was at that time chosen assistant editor and book-agent and removed to the city of New York. In 1832 he was made principal agent, though not a member of the gen- eral conference, and in 1836 he was made bishop. In this post he continued, travelling almost con- stantly until 1852, when he became senior bishop of the church. After that time his health gradii- ally failed until he died. He is buried in Mount Olivet cemetery, Baltimore, near the graves of Bishops Asbury and Emory.

WAUL, Thomas N., lawyer, b. in Sumter dis- trict, S. C, 8 Jan., 1815. He was educated at the University of South Carolina, studied law in Vicks- burg, Miss., under Sargeant S. Prentiss, and began to practise in 1835. While residing in Mississippi he was chosen judge of the circuit court. Having re- moved to Texas, he was elected one of her repre- sentatives in the 1st Confederate congress. He was a brigadier-general in the Confederate army, hav- ing raised a command that was known as " Waul's legion," and he was severely wounded during an engagement in Louisiana. Both in Mississippi and Texas he has been active in the affairs of the Baptist denomination, with which he is associated.

WAY, Andrew John Henry, artist, b. in Washington, D. C, 27 April, 1826; d. in Baltimore, Md., 7 Feb., 1888. He studied first with John P. Frankenstein in Cincinnati, then with Alfred J. Milller in Baltimore, and in 1850 went to Paris. After a stay in Europe of four years he returned to his native country, settling in Baltimore. For some time his attention was given mainly to portraiture, but a fruit-piece that he painted about 1859 attracted the attention of Emanuel Leutze, on whose advice he devoted himself thenceforth to the painting of still-life subjects. In this branch he had great success, excelling especially in the representation of grapes. At the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 he received a medal for two panels. His numerous works include "A Christmas Memory" (1870); "Prince Albert Grapes " and " Flora and Pomona " (1874) ; " Wild Fowl " (1882) : " A Sportsman's Luck '" (1883); and "Tomv Sweetheart" and "Preparation for Apple Toddy" (1887). Several of his