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276 Under President Harrison's administration Gen. Warner was postmaster of the city.

WARNER, Wyllys, clergyman, b. in Plymouth, Conn., 6 Jan., 1800; d. in Chicago. 11 Nov., 1869. He was graduated at Yale in 1826, taught for a year in Norwich, Conn., and then entered the Vale theological seminary. Soon after he entered that institution a movement was made to endow the professorship of sacred literature, and he spent some time during the second winter of his course in soliciting subscriptions to complete that endow- ment, with such success as to direct his future life. In the spring of 1839 he was called to a tutorship, and at the following commencement was appoint- ed financial agent of the college. In June, 18:30, with the view of spending the ne.xt winter in New Orleans, he was ordained at New Haven as an evangelist. In the capacity of financial agent he was employed with but little interruption, preach- ing occasionally, until December, 1832. By his personal efforts a general fund of $100,000 was secured, and other large additions were made to the resources of the theological and academical de- partments. On the death of James Hillhouse, in 1832, iMr. Warner succeeded him as treasurer of the college. This office he held until 1852, when his resignation was accepted. In 1858 he was chosen secretary of the corporation, which office he retained until his death. The old divinity col- lege, the college library building, the Hopkins grammar-school building, and the Lincoln school- house were built under his direction, and in part with the funds procured through his efforts.

WARREN, Edward Walpole, clergyman, b. in London, 28 Nov., 1839, and was graduated from Magdalene college, Cambridge. He entered the English church, and was rector of Compton Marten, near Bristol, from 1870 until 1883, and from that date for four years he was vicar of Holy Trinity, Lambeth, London. In 1887 he became rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York, retain- ing charge until its consolidation, in 1893, with St. James, organized in 1810, the two parishes form- ing one of the most important in the city, as in 1898 Miss Rhinelander, having erected, at a cost of $250,000, on the former country estate of her family, a memorial church with complete parish buildings as a memorial of her ancestors, presented it to the corporation of St. James. Before coming to this country Dr. Warren achieved reputation throughout England as a mission preacher, and maintains that character in this country, having been heard at important mission meetings in many different states. Among his various literary treas- ures is the beautiful original manuscript of " Ten Thousand a Year." written bv his father, Samuel Warren (1807-77), a distingu'ished English law- yer, who was also the author of two other popu- lar novels — " Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician " and " J«ow and Then."

WARREN, Francis Emroy, senator, b. 20 June, 1844, at Hinsdale, Mass. He received a common-school education and studied althellins- dale academy. In 1862 he enlisted in the 49th Massachusetts regiment, and served as private until it was mustered out of service; he received a medal of honor for special gallant rv in battle before Port Hudson, La., 27 May. 1863. After the war he took up farming and stock-raising in Massachusetts until 1868, when he removed to Wyoming, which was then part of Dakota. Here he entered into real-estate, live-stock, and electric-lighting business. In 1873 he was presi- dent of council in the Wyoming legislature, and was a member of council in 1884. He alse served a-s mayor of Cheyenne, and three times as treasurer of Wyoming. In 1888 he was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Chicago. Presi- dent Arthur ap|)ointed him governor of Wyoming. (Cleveland removed him, and Harrison reappointed him. He served as governor of the territory until it was admitted as a state, when he was elected governor. He was elected to the U. S. senate as a Republican, taking his seat 1 Dec, 1890, and was re-elected for the term expiring in March, 1901.

WATERSTON, Robert Cassie, clergyman, b. in Kennebunk, Maine, in May, 1812: d. in Boston, 21 Feb., 1893. Early in life he became superin- tendent of Father Taylor's Bethel church in Bos- ton, subsequently studying theology in Cambridge, and in 1839 he was ordained pastor of the Pitts street Unitarian chapel, where he labored among the poor for six years. He was a member of the Boston school committee for ten years, and a pleasing preacher and extemporary speaker. Dr. Waterston was the author of "Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture" (Boston, 1842); "Arthur Lee and Tom Palmer" (1845); and addresses on his friends William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sprague, George Sumner, and George B. Emerson; also numerous hymns and poems. He bequeathed $40,000 conditionally, and after the death of his widow his valuable library and collection of pamphlets, autographs, and manuscripts, to the Massachusetts historical society; also $10,000, and his collection of birds, shells, fossils, and minerals, to the Society of natural history.—His wife, Anne C., youngest daughter of Josiah Quincy, b. in Boston, 27 June, 1813; d. there, 14 Oct., 1899. She was a schoolgirl when her father, who was second mayor of Boston and president of Harvard, entertained Lafayette, and in later years she was intimate with Webster, John Quincy Adams, and many other eminent men, who were welcomed in her father's house at Cambridge. Upon the death of their daughter, only nineteen, Bryant wrote a beautiful poem and sent it to Mrs. Waterston. She was herself a poet, and in 1863 printed privately a volume of poems for distribution among her friends.

WATKINS, John Elfreth, civil engineer, b. in Ben Lomond, Va., 17 May. 1853. He was graduated from Lafayette in 1871 with the degree of C. E., and in 1874 received the degree of M. S. in the same institution. He began his career with the Delaware and Hudson canal company, after which he passed to the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, continuing with that corporation in various capacities until 1887, but returned in 1893 to take charge of the exhibit of the Pennsylvania railroad at the World's fair in Chicago, with which he remained connected until 1894, Meanwhile, in 1885, he had become honorary curator of transportation in the U. S. national museum in Washington, which relation became active in 1887. Subsequent to the World's fair he became director of the department of industrial arts in the Field Columbian museum in Chicago, but resigned in 1894 and returned to the U. S. national museum, becoming curator of technological collections, which place, together with that of chief of division of buildings and superintendence, he now fills. Mr. Watkins is a member of various scientific societies, including the Philosophical society of Washington, of which he is secretary. He has devoted much attention to the study of the history of transportation and similar subjects, in connection with which he has published the "Beginnings of Engineering" (1888); " Development of American Hail and Track " (1889) ; and the " History of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1846-1896 " (1898), the lat-