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 WARD. WARD. 629 grammar school, with Mr. Walton as the originator. A second series of arithmetics by George A. Walton and Mrs. E. N. L. Walton was published in 1870 — this was called "The Normal Series." It finally gave way to the " Franklin Mathematical Series," prepared by Mr. Walton and Mr. Seaver, the present superintendent of the Boston schools. Mr. Walton has won an enviable repu- tation as an instructor in teachers' insti- tutes, and as inspector of public schools. The honorary degree of A. M. was con- ferred upon him by Williams College, in recognition of his successful services in the cause of education. Mr. Walton was for many years treasurer of the American In- stitute of Instruction, and subsequently held the office of president. He served as alderman in the city of Lawrence, and on the school committee in the city of Newton. He was married August 27, 1850, to Electa Noble, daughter of Martin and Su- san (White) Lincoln. There were born to them live children, of whom two (boys) died in infancy, and three are living : Har- riet Peirce, wife of J. R. Dunbar, judge of the superior court, George Lincoln, prac- ticing physician (neurologist), of Boston, and Mary Alice Walton. WARD, Julius Hammond, the son of Hammond and Laurinda (Lathe) Ward, was born on the 12th of October, 1S37, in Charlton, Worcester county, the birth- place also of both of his parents. His earlier education was obtained under the old district school system in that town, but his eagerness for books, which he mainly secured through the district school libraries then introduced throughout the State by Horace Mann, while superinten- dent of state education, was so great, that his parents determined to give him all the educational advantages within their reach. He was prepared for college at Monson Academy, under the Rev. James Tufts, and entered Vale College in the fall of 1856, where he was graduated in the summer of i860. Two events were prominent during this period of his education. One was the passing through a period of religious doubt, in which he gave up the evangelical teachings of the Congregational body, with which he was first associated, and became an agnostic. Before he was graduated he had returned to a settled belief, and became a communicant in St. Paul's Episcopal church in New Haven. This determined the religious direction of his life. The other event which dominated his college career was the training for the work of a writer, for which he showed an aptitude, and before he was graduated he had al- ready undertaken to write a biography of the Connecticut poet, James Gates Perci- val. This he completed in 1S66, and the work was published in the fall of that year by Tick nor & Fields, Boston. Mr. Ward was in doubt during his col- lege life whether to follow the career of an editor, for which he had a strong natural inclination, or to enter upon the clerical profession. His choice of the Episcopal church as his religious home, and the as- cendency of religious purpose which fol- lowed that step, led to his study of theology at the Berkeley Divinity School at Middle- town, Conn., where he remained two years, being admitted todeacon'sorders by Bishop Williams in June, 1862. He passed his diaconate in charge of Grace chapel in Yantic, in the same state, and was advanced to the order of priest by the same bishop, in Trinity church, Norwich, in 1S63. He removed from Yantic to take charge of Christ church, Ansonia, in February, 1864, where he soon built up a thriving parish. In the summer of 1865 he was in- duced to change from Ansonia to Cheshire, where he had charge of St. Peter's parish until December, [867, and where he wrote the greater part of his " Life and Letters of J. G. Percival." During this period and earlier, his con- nection with the press was extensive. Hi*, earliest writing was a paper on Percival in the "Christian Examiner," for September. 1859, which was followed by a critical arti- cle on his poetry in the " North American Review," for July, [860. He was after- wards a frequent contributor to both of these periodicals, one of his essays bringing him the friendship of the late Sir Henry Taylor. He was also a writer in the " Na- tion " and the "Round Table," and had constant editorial connection with the church press. In December, 1867, he removed to Maine, where, under Bishop Neely, for seven years he had charge of an extensive mis- sionary field at Thomaston and Rockland. In the early part of 1875, having been greatly over-worked in the discharge of the duties of his young parishes, he re- turned to his native state, and took charge of St. Michael's parish, Marblehead, where he remained until his health was fully restored. During this interval of waiting his thought broadened into new channels, and as health returned to him he began to write leaders for the " New York