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of: Tlie Three Guardsmen (1849), which he brought out at the Bowery theatre, New York city ; TJie Foicr Musketeers (1849) ; The Fortunes of War (1851) ; Two to One (1854) : First Impres- sions (1856), and wrote : The Veteran (1859) ; Central Park (1862) ; Rosedale (1863), and Mem- ories of Fifty Yeaj's, posthumously (1889). He died at his "home, Stamford, Conn., Sept. 6, 1888.

WALLER, David Jewett, Jr., educator, was born in Bloomsburg, Pa., June 17,1846; son of the Rev. David Jewett (1815-1893) and Julia (EUmaker) Waller ; grandson of Phineas and Elizabeth (Jewett) AValler and of Levi and Han- nah (Hopkins) Ellmaker, and a descendant of William Brewster, Plymouth, Mass., 1620, Charles Chauncy, president of Harvard, 1654, the Rev. George Phillips, Watertown, Mass., June, 1630, the Rev. Peter Bulkley, Concord, 1634, Maxi- millian Jewett, Rowley, Mass., 1641, and Joseph Waller, Boston, 1669. His father was graduated from Williams, A.B., 1834, A.M., 1837 ; attended Princeton Theological seminary, 1834-37 ; was pastoral Bloomsburg, Pa., 1839-71 ; missionary there, 1871-93, and a trustee of Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., 1849-93. David J. Waller, Jr., was graduated from Lafayette, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1873 ; was a tutor in the college, 1870-71 ; attend- ed Princeton Theological seminary, 1871-72, was licensed to preach by the i)resbj'tery of North- umberland in 1873, and was graduated from Union Theological seminary in 1874. He was married, May 14, 1874, to Anna, daughter of Mat- thias S. and Lydia (Billig) Appelman of Blooms- burg, Pa. He was ordained by the Central presbytery of Philadelphia, Nov. 30, 1874 ; was pastor at Philadelphia, 1874-76, and stated supply at Orangeville, Rohrsburg and Raven Creek, Pa., 1876-77. He was principal of the State Normal school, Bloomsburg, Pa., 1877-90 ; superintend- ant of public instruction for the state of Penn- sylvania, 1890-93, and in the latter year became principal of the Indiana (Pa.) Normal school, a position he still held in 1903. He received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from Lafayette in 1880, and that of D.D. from Ursinus college, College- ville. Pa., in 1892.

WALLER, Elwyn, chemist, was born in New York city, March 22, 1846 ; son of Joseph Fer- nando and Martha (Brooks) Waller, and brother of Frank Waller (q.v.). He was graduated from Harvard college, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870, and from Columbia college, E.M., 1870, Ph.D. 1875. He was connected with the Columbia Scliool of Mines, as private assistant to Dr. C. F. Chandler, 1870-71 ; as assistant instructor in analytical chemistry, 1871-77 ; instructor, 1877-85, and professor. 1885-93, in which latter year he re- signed, and established himself as an analytical and consulting chemist in New York city,

making his home in Morristown, N.J, He served as mineralogist to the Santo Domingo ex- pedition, January-April, 1871, and as health in- spector and chemist of the New York health de- partment, 1872-85. He was married ; first, July 15, 1880, to Ella, daughter of John Trumbull and Sarah Grace (Carrol) White of New York city, who died Jan. 7, 1887 ; and secondly, Dec. 2, 1888, to Margaret Vandever, daughter of Stanton and Margaret (Vandever) Dorsey of Germantown, Pa. He was elected a member of the American Chemical society, the American Institute of Min- ing Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; the New York Acad- emy of Sciences ; the British Society* of Public Analysis ; the Society of Chemical Industry of England ; The London, Paris and Berlin chemical societies and the Torrey Botanical club. Dr .Wal- ler was made associate chemical editor of the School of Mines Quarterly in 1881 and on editorial staff of the American Chemist, 1870-74, and edited, completed and revised ' ' Quantitative Analysis " by F.A. Cairns (1880 ; 3d ed., 1896). He is the author of the chapter on " Disinfection " in Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene" (1879), and of that on "Water" in Parkes's "'Manual of Practical Hy- giene" (1883), and of contributions on sanitary and analytical chemistry in scientific publica- tions.

WALLER, Frank, artist, was born in New York cit}% June 12, 1842 ; son of Joseph Fernando and Martha (Brookes) Waller ; grandson of Henry and Melinda (Gordon) Ver Planck Waller and of Joshua and Martha (Moore) Brookes, natives of London and Norwich, England, and residents of New York city ; great-grandson of Col. Alexan- der Gordon of New York ; greats-grandson of Gen. James and Mary (Ball) Gordon, and great-- grandson of the Rev. Eliphalet Ball of Ballston, N.Y., known as "third cousin" of General Washington. Frank Waller attended the Free academy. New York city, 1863, being obliged to leave on account of ill health ; was engaged in mercantile pursuits, 1863-68, and as an artist, 1868-88, studying under John G. Chapman in Rome, Italy, 1870-71, and spending the following year in travel in Egypt. In 1888 he established himself as an architect in New York city, making his home in Morristown, N.J. He was twice married ; first, June 6, 1883, to Almira Stone, daughter of the Hon. Edward Weeks B. and Catherine (Peet) Canning of Stockbridge, Mass.. and secondly, Dec. 28. 1896. to Elizabeth Van- dever. daughter of Stanton and Margaret (Van- dever) Dorsey of Germantown, Pa. He was one of the incorporators of the Art Students' league of New York city, in 1875, serving as its first corporate president, 1875-77 ; was honorary sec- retary of the Egypt Exploration Fund society,