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following night sent forward intrenching tools to the Hill, followed by 1,200 men who arrived about 11 p.m., and, contrary to orders, threw up forti- fications on Breed's Hill. On June 17th, having been appointed by congress first major-general of the Continental army, he held the nominal com- mand of the forces around Boston until General Washington's arrival, when he commanded the right wing of the army, and directed the work of fortifying Dorchester Heights. He resigned his commission in April, 1776, but at Washington's request continued in service until the following May; was elected chief-justice of the court of common pleas of Worcester county, Mass., in 1776; was a member of the legislature, 1776-91, serving as speaker of the house, 1785; president of the executive council of the state in 1777, and elected a delegate to the Continental congress in 1779, but was prevented by ill health from taking his seat. He was a Federalist representative from Massachusetts in the 2d and 3d congresses, 1791-95. Of his children, Capt. Nahum was a Revolutionary soldier; Artemas, Jr., became ohief- justice of the Massachusetts court of com- mon pleas, and Thomas W. (1758-1835), was a magistrate and sheriff of Shrewsbury for eight- e.en years. General Ward died in Shrewsbury, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800.

WARD, Edgar Melville, artist, was born in Urbana, Ohio, Feb. 24, 1839; son of John Ander- son and Eleanor (Macbeth) Ward, and brother of John Q. A. Ward (q.v.). He was graduated from Miami university, A.B.. 1858, A.M., 1861; was a student at the National Academy of De- sign, 1870-71, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 1872-78. He was elected an asso- ciate of the Nationel Academy of Design in 1875; an Academician, 1883, and professor of drawing and painting in the academy from 1882. He was married, Dec 13, 1882, to Isabella, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Eichelberger of Urbana, Ohio. He exhibited at the National Academy, the Centennial exposition, 1876, the Paris Salons of 1878 and 1879 and various other exhibitions. His canvases, which are chiefly genre paintings, in(dude: Brittany Washerwomen (1876); Vene- tian Water-Carriers (1878); Paternal Pride (1878); The Sabot-maker (1878); The Last Shock <1880); The Tobacco Field (1881); Scene in a Foundry (1883); Locksmith (1883); Lace-Makers (1885); Motherly Care (1885); The Cobblers (1886); The Blessing (1886); Quilting Party (1893); The Coppersmith in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (1896); The Taxidermist (1896); Spinning (1897); Reeling Yarn (1899); Reverie (1901): Hungry Jack (1902).

WARD, Elijah, representative, was born in Sing Sing, Sept. 16, 1816; nephew of Aaron Ward (q.v.). He was educated under private instruc- X. — 20

tors and entered upon a mercantile career, which he abandoned to study law in the Univer- sity of the City of New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, beginning practice in New York city; was judge-advocate-general of the state, 1853-55, and was a delegate to the Democratic national convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856. He was a Democratic representative from New York in the 35th, 37th and 38th congresses, 1857- 59 and 1861-65; visited Europe, May-October, 1865, and from August, 1866, to September, 1868, and was elected to the 44th congress, serving, 1875-77. He is the author of two reports on " The Commercial Relations between the United States and the British Provinces," and of Speeches on Commercial, Financial, and other Subjects (1877). His biograpiay was written by Robert Hadfield. He died in Roslyn, L.I., N.Y., Feb. 7, 1882.

WARD, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps), author, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1844; daughter of the Rev. Austin and EHzabeth (Stuart) Phelps. She was baptized Mary Gray, but was given her mother's name in 1852. She was educated in private schools at Andover, in Mrs. Edward's seminaiy in that town, and in 1857 wrote her first story, which appeared in the Youth's Companion. She left school in 1863; engaged in near-by mission work among the fac- tory girls, and began to devote herself to se- rious literary work. She also gave much of her time to the advancement of women, and to tem- perance and kindred reforms, and delivered a course of lectures on representative modern fic- tion at Boston university in 1876. She was mar- ried, Oct. 20, 1888, to Herbert D. Ward (q.v.). Slie contributed to Harper's, the Atlantic, the Century and other magazines. Her first writings were Sunday-school books and other juveniles, of which she wrote a dozen before she became known to maturer readers as the author of: The Gates Ajar (1866 and 1869). This was followed by: Men, Women and Ghosts (1869); The Trotty Book, juvenile (1869); Hedged Li (1870): The Silent Partner (1871); Trotty's Wedding Tour, and Story Book, juvenile (1873); What to Wear essays (1873); Poetic Studies (1875); The Story of Avis (1877); Sealed Orders (1879); Friends: A Duet (1881); Doctor Zay (1882); Beyond the Gates {\88d); So7igs of the Silent World (1884); Old Maids, and Burglars in Paradise (1885); Tlie Madonna of the Tubs (1886); The Gates Be- tween (1887); Jack, the Fisherman (1887); The Struggle for Immortality, essays (1889); Come Forth! (with Herbert D. Ward, 1890); The Master of the Magicians {with Herbert D. Ward, 1890); Fourteen to One (1891); Donald Marcy (1893); A Singidar Life (1894); The Supply at Saint Agatha's (1896); The Story of Jesus Christ: An hiterpretation (1897).