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 444 WALTHAM WALTON the buildings, which occupied 14 years in their erection, were constructed throughout under his direction. In 1851 his plans for the exten- sion of the United States capitol were adopted, and he was appointed architect of that work. He held the office 14 years, daring which, in addition to the capitol extension, he designed and executed the iron dome of the capitol, the congressional library, the east and west wings of the patent office, and the extension of the general post office. He also designed the new treasury building and the government hospital for the insane. He was professor of architec- ture in the Franklin institute of Pennsylvania. WALTHAM, a town of Middlesex co., Massa- chusetts, on the Charles river and the Fitch- burg railroad, 10 m. W. by N. of Boston ; pop. in 1850, 4,464; in 1860, 6,397; in 1870, 9,065; in 1875, 9,945. The most populous portion of the town is built principally on one street more than a mile long, and contains numerous fine residences. It is lighted with gas, and has water works recently erected and a good fire department. Waltham is extensively engaged in manufacturing. The chief establishments are the cotton cloth and hosiery factory and bleaching and dye works of the Boston manu- facturing company, and the works of the Ame- rican watch company, the most extensive in the world, and the first established (1854) for making watches by machinery. Hollow ware, machinery, paper, cabinet ware, and boots and shoes are also produced. There are a national bank with a capital of $150,000, and a savings bank with $1,150,000 deposits. The assessed value of property is more than $10,000,000. The town contains a high school, two grammar schools, about 25 of lower grades, and a Swe- denborgian theological school. The free pub- lic library contains nearly 8,000 volumes. Two weekly newspapers are published. There are eight churches : Baptist, Congregational, Epis- copal, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Sweden- borgian, Unitarian, and Universalist. Waltham was separated from Watertown and incorpo- rated in 1738. WALTIIER VON DER VOGELWEIDE ("Walter of the bird meadow"), a German, minnesinger, born in Franconia or Austria between 1165 and 1170, died in Wurzburg about 1228. He was of a noble but not wealthy family, and learned the art of poetry under Reinmar. He found his first patron at Vienna in Duke Fred- erick, and about 1187 began to compose poems. After the death of the duke in 1198, he led for many years a wandering life, attaching himself to a number of princes in succession. Toward the close of his life he received from the emperor Frederick II. a valuable fief near Wurzburg. His early verses were chiefly love songs, but in later years he treated of the cru- sades and the civil commotions in Germany. Editions of his poems have been published by Lachmann (1827; 4th ed., 1864), Wackernagel and Rieger (1862), and Pfeiffer (1864). Horing has furnished a Glossarium to his poems (1844), and his life has been written by Uhland (1822) and Menzel (1865). WALTON. I. A N. county of Georgia, bound- ed N. E. by the Appalachee river and drained by the head streams of the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers; area, 320 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 11,038, of whom 4,162 were colored. The surface is elevated and undulating, and the soil generally fertile. Iron ore and granite abound, and gold has been found. The county is in- tersected by the Georgia railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 46,772 bushels of wheat, 178,553 of Indian corn, 84,022 of oats, 20,865 of sweet potatoes, 81,219 Ibs. of butter, 6,160 of wool, and 3,586 bales of cotton. There were 1,288 horses, 2,064 milch cows, 8,627 other cattle, 4,219 sheep, and 9,555 swine. Capital, Monroe. II. A N. W. county of Flor- ida, bordering on Alabama, bounded E. by the Choctawhatchee river and S. by Choctaw- hatchee bay, and intersected by the Yellow Water river; area, 1,480 gq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,041, of whom 405 were colored. The sur- face is level, and the soil is fertile in the N". and poor in the S. part. It is partly covered with forests of pine. The chief productions in 1870 were 35,574 bushels of Indian corn, 19,164 of sweet potatoes, 17,150 Ibs. of butter, 4,125 of wool, 1,627 of tobacco, and 299 bales of cotton. There were 287 horses, 2,770 milch cows, 7,978 other cattle, 2,537 sheep, and 5,886 swine. Capital, Euchee Anna. WALTON, Brian, an English prelate, born at Cleveland, Yorkshire, in 1600, died in London, Nov. 29, 1661. He graduated at Cambridge, and before 1639 was prebendary of St. Paul's and chaplain to the king. He was active in ecclesiastical disputes, and in 1642 was sum- moned before the house of commons and or- dered into custody as a delinquent. He took refuge at Oxford, and there formed the plan of his polyglot Bible. Subscriptions to the amount of 9,000 were made by May, 1658, and its publication was completed in 1667 (6 vols. fol., London). (See POLYGLOT.) He de- fended it against the strictures of John Owen in a reply entitled "The Considerator Consid- ered" (1659). Upon the restoration he was reinstated in his preferments, and was conse- crated bishop of Chester, Dec. 2, 1660. He also wrote an Introductio ad Lectionem Lingua- rum Orientalism (London, 1654), and a Latin dissertation on the oriental languages and the various texts of Scripture (Deventer, 1658). WALTON, George, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Frederick co., Va., about 1740, died in Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2, 1804. He first learned the carpenter's trade, then studied law in Georgia, and began practice in 1774. He was one of four persons who in July of that year signed a call for a public meeting at Savannah to devise measures of resistance to the crown. In February, 1776, he was ap- pointed a delegate to congress, and was elect- ed to it in 1777, 1778, and 1780. He was com- missioned a colonel in the militia in December,