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400 ington he expressed himself in favor of an elegant uniform and soldierly appearance in preference to poorly clad troops with a greater amount of ammu- nition. He was called " Black Snake " by the In- dians, perhaps because that reptile will attack any other species and rarely gets the worst of an en- counter. After he defeated them in 1794 he was given the name of "Wind" or "Tornado," because "he was exactly like a hurricane, that drives and tears and prostrates everything before it." His body was removed from Presque Isle in 1809 by his son, and buried in Radnor churchyard in his native county, where the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati caused a marble monument to be erected, which was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on 4 July of that year. His portrait was painted by Charles Wilson Peale and by John Trumbull, from whose picture our vignette is copied. Wayne's residence at Easttown, Chester co., Pa., is represented in the accompanying illus- tration. See " Life of Anthony Wayne, by John Armstrong, in Sparks's " American Biography," and " Orderly Book of the Northern Army at Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence " (Albany, 1859). — His son, Isaac, b. in Warren county, Pa., in 1770 ; d. in Chester county. Pa., 25 Oct., 1852, received a public-school education, was graduated at Dickinson college, and acquired the title of colo- nel by his military experiences. He studied law, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1795. In 1814 he was the Federal candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, but was defeated. He was elected to congress from Pennsylvania as a Federalist, and served from 1 Dec, 1823, to 3 March, 1825.— His great-nephew, William, b. 6 Dec, 1828, is the grandson of Gen. Wayne's daughter, and took the name of Wayne, being the representative of the family and the owner of Waynesborough. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1846, and during the civil war held the rank of captain in the 97th Pennsylvania volunteers. From 1881 till 1887 he served as a member of the Penn- sylvania assembly.

WAYNE, Henry Constantino, soldier, b. in Savannah, Ga., 8 Sept., 1815 ; d. there, 15 March, 1883. He was educated at Northampton and Cam- bridge, Mass., and at the U. S. military academy, where he was graduated in 1838. He served on the northern frontier at Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1838-40, during the Canadian border disturbances ; on the Maine frontier at Houlton in 1840-'l, pending the disputed- territory controversy, and at the tJ. S. military academy in 1841-6 as assistant instructor of artillery and cavalry, of the sword-exercise and of infantry tactics, and as quartermaster. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in the 1st artillery, 16 May, 1842. He was on quartermaster duty during the war with Mexico, 1846-'7. He took part in the battles of Churubusco and Contreras, being brevetted major for gallant conduct in those engagements. From 1848 till 1855 he was in charge of the clothing bureau of the quartermaster-general's office at Washington, D. C. Soon after the annexation of the territory acquired by the United States from Mexico, the question of transportation coming up, Maj. Wayne suggested that camels should be used as a means of conveyance over the plains of Texas and New Mexico. The government adopted the suggestion, and Maj. Wayne was sent to Egypt to investigate and report upon the subject. On his return his recommendations were adopted, and he was employed in Texas in 1857-8 in testing the adaptability of these animals for army transportation. He was again employed at the quartermaster-general's office from 1858 till 1860, when he resigned to become adjutant- and inspector-general of the state of Georgia under the Confederacy. He received in 1858 a first-class gold medal from the Societe imperiale zoologique d'ac- climatation of Paris, for the successful introduc- tion and acclimation of the camel in the United States. He was also the author of " The Sword Ex- ercise, arranged for Military Instruction " (1856).

WAYNE, James Moore, jurist, b. in Savannah, Ga., in 1790; d. in Washington, D. C, 5 July, 1867. He was graduated at Princeton in 1808, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1810, and began practice at Savannah. He served for two years in the state house of representatives, was elected mayor of Savannah in 1823, and chosen judge of the superior court in 1824, serving for five years. He was a member of congress in 1829-'35, took an active part as a debater, and was a sup- porter of Gen. Andrew Jackson, who appointed him, 9 Jan., 1835, associate justice of the U. S. su- preme court. His opinions upon admiralty juris- prudence are cited as being of high authority. In congress he favored free-trade, opposed internal improvements by congress, except of rivers and harbors, and opposed a recharter of the U. S. bank, claiming that it would confer dangerous political powers upon a few individuals. He took an active part in the removal of the Indians to the west. Judge Wayne presided in two conven- tions that were held for revising the constitution of Georgia. Princeton college gave him the de- gree of LL. D. in 1849.

WEAD, Charles Kasson, physicist, b. in Ma- lone, N. Y., 1 Sept., 1848. He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1872, afterward was appointed professor of physics in the Pittsburg (Pa.) high-school, and in 1877 accepted a similar chair in the University of Michigan, where he con- tinued until 1885. Subsequently he settled in Hart- ford, and became an electrician. Since 1880 he has been a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He has prosecuted origi- nal experimental work in acoustics, the results of which he has contributed to the "American Jour- nal of Sciences " and other periodicals. He has published " The Aims and Methods of the Teach- ing of Physics " (Washington, 1884).

WEAKLEY, Robert, pioneer, b. in Halifax County, Va., 20 July, 1764 ; d. near Nashville, Tenn., 4 Feb., 1845. He joined the Revolutionary army at the age of sixteen, and served in it till the close of the war. He then emigrated to the country beyond the Alleghanies, taking with him his entire worldly possessions, a horse, saddled and bridled, and one dollar and seventy-five cents in currency. He soon rose to the rank of colonel in the force of riflemen with which James Robertson beat off the raids of the Creeks and Cherokees. When but twenty-two years of age he was chosen a member of the convention that North Carolina convened to ratify the Federal constitution, and subsequently he was a member of the Tennessee house of representatives. In 1809 he was elected to congress, and in 1811 he was chosen a member of the state senate, of which he was speaker from 1819 till 1821, and again from 1823 till 1825. His last office was that of member of the convention to revise the constitution of Tennessee in 1834. In early life he was a zealous member of the Methodist church, but, marrying a lady who was not a church member, he was called to account for thus violating the rules of the denomination. He was told that if he expressed his regret, no further action would be taken ; but he refused to do so, and thenceforward was connected with no religious body.