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274 master of New York city by Lincoln, and later was surveyor of the port for four years. — His brotiier, Tiiaddeiis Burr, lawyer and avitlior, b. in GreentieUl Hill, Fairtield co.. Conn., 2;J Dec, 18^4. lie was graduated from I'rinceloM, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. Since then he has given much of his time to positive philosophy, to literature, and to reform. 11 is ])ub- lications include "An Epitome of Positive Pliilos- ophyand Religion" (New Vork, 1870); " The Re- ligion of Humanity " (Boston, 1878); " Liberty and Purity " (New York, 1881); " The Age of Revision" (Boston, 1883); and " Evolution or Creation " (New York, 188y). His works are to be collected under the title of " Constructive Liberalism," and he has readv translations of Goethe's religious poems.

WALCOTT, Charles Carroll, soldier, b. in Columbus, Ohio, 36 June, 1838; d. in Omaha, Neb., 3 May, 1898. His father was a soldier in the war of 1813, and his grandfather in the Revo- lution. The son was educated at the Kentucky military institute, and upon graduation he became a civil engineer. When the war broke out he raised a company, and in June, 1861, he was made a major. In 1863 he became a colonel, and in 1864 a brigadier-general for gallantry at Atlanta. He served with Oen. Sherman on the march to the sea. At Shiloh he was wounded. At Kenesaw mountain he was again wounded. At Griswold- ville he was hit by a sliell, and for bravery in this action he received the promotion of major-general by brevet, among the youngest of the major-gen- erals of the volunteer army. After being mus- tered out in 1866 he became warden of the Ohio penitentiary. In 1868 he was a presidential elec- tor, and in 1869 was appointed internal revenue collector by President Grant, serving until 1883. In Ai)ril, 1883, he was elected mayor of Columbus, and was re-elected in 1885. For twenty years Gen. Walcott was a member of the school board of Columbus, and its president for seven years.

WALES, Leonard Eugene, jurist, b. in Wil- mington, Del, 26 Nov., 1833; d. there. 8 Feb., 1897. He was graduated at Yale, and admitted to the bar in 1848. He served as associate editor of the " Delaware State Journal," a Whig newspaper. In 1849 he was appointed clerk of the U. S. court for the district of Delaware, and in 1853-4 he served as city solicitor. He enlisted in the 1st Delaware volunteers in 1861, and in 1863 he was appointed a commissioner of enrollment to superintend the drafting of troops. In October, 1864, he became associate judge of the state courts for Newcastle county, which position he continued to till until his appointment as judge of the U. S. district court for Delaware in March, 1884.

WALKER, Edith, lawyer, b. in Genesee coun- ty, N. Y., in 1833. After an academic education he studied law in Batavia, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar in Buffalo in 1854, but he soon after- ward removed to Logansport, Ind. In 1860 he was appointed general solicitor of the Cincininiti, Richmond and Logansport railroad, and on the extension of the road to Chicago and the removal of its offices to that city he also removed tliitlier. He has held the same post for several other large roads and companies, and has become widely known as a corporation lawyer. Mr. Walker was exceedingly active in the organization of the World's Columbian exposition of 1893.

WALKER, James Alexander, soldier, b. in Augusta county, Va., 27 Aug., 1833. He was educated at the Virginia military institute, gradu- ating in 1853. He studied law at the University of Virginia, and practised in Pulaski county until, when he was elected attorney for the com- monwealth. In April, 1861, he entered the Con- federate army as captain in a volunteer infantry company called the Pulaski guards, which became Company C of the 4th Virginia infantry. In July following he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and assigned to the 13th Virginia infantry, A. P. Hill, cohmel, commanding. On the promotion of Col. Hill in Alareh, 1863, he was made colonel of the regiment, and held that position until the follow- ing May, when he was appointed brigadier-gen- eral iu the Confederate army and assigned to a command of the "Stonewall Brigade" in Gen. Edward Johnson's division, which he commanded until he was wounded at Spottsylvania Court- House. During the summer and fall of 1864 he was in eonnnand of the reserve forces on the Rich- mond and Danville and South Side railroad, ex- tending from Danville to Richmond and from Lynchburg to Petersburg. In February, 1865, he was assigned to Early's division, which he com- manded at the surrender at Appomattox. He was present and engaged in all of the principal battles of the Army of northern Virginia. After the war he resumed the practice of law, and in 1873 was a member of the Virginia legislature. In 1877 he was lieutenant-governor of Virginia, and was elect- ed to the 54th and re-elected to the 55th congress from the &th congressional district of Virginia.

WALKER, John Brisben, publisher, b. on the Alleghany river, Pennsylvania, 10 Sept., 1847. He studieil at Georgetown college until 1865, and then spei^it three years at the U. S. military acad- emy, resigning his cadetship to enter the Chinese military service, accompanying J. Ross Browne, the U. S. minister to China. He returned to this country in 1870, and engaged in manufacturing in West Virginia until the panic of 1873 broke up his undertaking. He then acted as a special writer for the Cincinnati "Commercial"; subse- quently becoming managing editor of the Pitts- burg "Telegraph," and in 18t6 of the Washington " Daily Chronicle." In 1879 he moved to Colorado and engaged in alfalfa farming on a large scale; he also conducted important engineering opera- tions that resulted in reclaiming a wide tr;icl of land in Denver from the overflow of the Platt« river. In 1889 he moved to New York city and bought the "Cosmopolitan" magazine, which he has since conducted at Irvington, where he has ercete<l a large and complete establishment.

WALKER, John George, soldier, b. in Jeffer- son City, Mo., 23 July, 1833: d. in Washington, D. C, 20 July, 1893. lie was educated at the Jesuit college of St. Louis, and in ]lay, 1846, was ap- pointed 1st lieutenant of the mounted rifles. U. S. army, and brevet captain, August, 1847. He par- tici|iated in the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, and Molino del Rey; in the latter he was severely wounded. After the Mexican war he served with his regiment in Oregon. California, Texas, and New Mexico. He resigned from the U. S. army, 31 July,. He was appointed major of the corps of cav- alry in the Confederate states army in August, 1861; brigailier-general. 9 Jan., 1863: and major-general, 8 Nov., 1863. In June, 1864, he was as- signed to the command of the district of west Louisiana in the trans-Jlississippi department, and in August to the eonnnand of the district of Texas. New Mexico, and Arizona, This command he held up to February, 1865. when he assumed commanil of Wharton's cavalry corps, and on 12 May took comnumd of Forney's division, trans-Mississippi department. At the close of the war he went to Mexico, and thence to England. On