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county. Ohio, in 1859, and in 1S60 was married to Phoebe Neill. In June, 1861, he was appointed an inspector on the staff of Gen. Charles "W. Hill of the Ohio militia in western Virginia with the rank of major ; was promoted colonel in 1862, and transferred to the Army of the Tennessee, where he served in the 1st brigade, Sherman's division, at Sliiloh. He commanded the •46th Ohio volunteers in the 2d brigade, 1st division, 16th army corps, at Vicksburg ; and commanded the 2d brigade, 4th division. 17th corps, at Chatta- nooga, after Gen. John M. Corse was wounded. He commanded the 2d brigade, 4th division, 15th army corps, at Dallas. Ga., May 28, 1864. where he reported 244 dead and wounded Confederates left in his fort after the assault by Armstrong ; at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, and at Ezra Chapel, July 28. He was given command of the 2d brigade, 1st division, 15th corps, July 30, 1864 ; fought at Jonesboro, Aug. 31, and at Griswold- ville, November, 1864, where he was again wounded, and after the campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas he reached Washington and was mustered out of the volunteer service, Feb- ruary. 1866, and became warden of the Ohio pen- itentiary. He was collector of internal revenue, 1869-72 ; mayor of Columbus, 1883-87 ; member of the Columbus school board, and its president for several years. He was promoted brigadier- general, July 30, 1864, for gallantry at Atlanta, and bre vetted major-general for Griswoldville. He died at Omaha, Neb., May 2, 1898.

WALDEN, John florgan, M.E. bishop, was born in Lebanon, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1831 ; son of Jesse and Matilda (Morgan) Walden ; grandson of Benjamin and Hannah (Cooley) Walden, and a descendant of John Walden, who emigrated from England to Virginia, and of his son, James Walden, among the first settlers of Kentucky at Boone's Station. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Farmers' (Bel- mont) college, near Cincinnati, Ohio, vi.B., 1852 ; taught school, 1852-54 ; edited and published the Independent Press in Fairfield, 111., 1854-55. and the Cliindoii'an, a free-state paper in Quindaro, Kan., 1857-58. The intervening time. 1855-57, he was reporter on the Daily Commercial, Cin- cinnati. He was a member of the Topeka legis- lature, 1857, and of the Leavenworth constitu- tional convention. 1858, and in the same year was elected superintendent of public instruction. He returned to Ohio in September, 1858, and joined the Cincinnati conference of the Methodist Epis- copal church. He was married, July 3, 1859, to Martha, daughter of Ebenezer P. and Sarah (Bonar) Young of Fredericktown. Ohio. He was corresponding secretary of the Freedmen's Aid commission, an undenominational organization, 1862-66 ; first corresponding secretary of a simi-

lar society of the M.E. church, 186&-68. and be- came its president, 1885, and was a publishing agent of the western Methodist Book Concern, 1868-84. He was elected bishop in 1884, in which capacity he gave all conferences and missions of his church in the United States at least one an- nual visit, and visited her missions in Europe, Asia, Mexico and South America. He was a member of five general conferences, 1868-84, and of the ecumenical conference at London, Eng- land, in 1881, and at Washington, D.C., in 1891. He received from Belmont college the honorary degrees A.M., 1856, D.D., 1865, and from McKen- dree college, LL.D., 1878.

WALDSTEIN, Charles, archaeologist, was born in New York city, March 30, 1856 ; son of Henry and Sophie Waldstein. He attended Columbia college, 1871-73, and was graduated from the University of Heidelberg, A.M., Ph.D., 1875. He continued his studies in Leipzig and at the British museum, London, 1876-77, giving a course of art lectures in the museum in the latter year ; trav- eled in Italy and Greece, 1878-79, witnessing the German excavation of Olympia ; and was lecturer ' on classical archteology in the Cambridge univer- sity, England, 1880. He was actively influential in establishing a school of archaeology and a museum of art in connection with the Fitzwilliam Museum of Archaeology and Art, of which latter museum he was director, 1883-89, delivering a series of lectures before the Royal Institute of Great Britain, in April, 1883, and a lecture at Columbia college. New York city, in 1886. Pro- fessor Waldstein officiated as director of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1889-95. and as professor, 1895-97 : was a fellow of King's college, Cambridge, England, 1893, and Slade professor of fine arts in tlie col- lege, from 1895. He directed the excavations of the American Archaeological institute at Plataea, Eretria, Heraion of Argos and other places, mak- ing several important discoveries. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Cambridge university, England, in 1882. and by Columbian university, 1884; that of L.H.D. by Columbian, and of Litt.D. by Cambridge in 1887. He was made Kniglit-Commander of the Hellenic order of the Redeemer and of the Ernestine Saxon order. He was an associate editor of the American Journal of Archceology, and is the au- thor of: Excavations at the Heraion of Argos: Balance of Emotion and Intellect (1878); Essays on the Art of Phidias (1885); The Work of John Ruskin ; TJie Study of Art in Universities; Tlie Surface of Things; The Jewish Question; The Expansion of Western Ideals and the World's Peace.

WALES, John, senator, was born in New Haven, Conn., July 31, 1783; son of the Rev.