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statuesof Com.:M. C. reny. Newport. R.I.(ISGG); Gen. Jolm F. Reynolds, Gettysburg, Pa. (1871); William Gilinore Sininis, Cliarlestou, S.C. (1^73); Gen. Lsrael Putnam, Hartfonl, Conn. (1874); Washington, Newburyport, Mass. (bronze, 1876); Gen. Geo. U.Thomas. Wa-sliington, D.C.. (eques- trian, 1878); Gen. Daniel Morgan, Spartansburg, S.C. (lasO); General Lafayette. Burlington, Vt., (1880); James A. Garfiekl. monument, Washing- ton, D. C. (1887); Henry Ward Beecher, Brook- lyn, N. Y. (1891); General Sheridan. Washing- ton, D.C.: the colossal figure of Poetry in the Congressional library at Washington (1896). and a bronze statue of H. B. Hyde for the Equitable Life Assurance society (1900). In 1903 he was engaged uiH>n the equestrian statue of General Hancock; also a group of colossal marble figures for tiie pediment of the New Stock Excliange, Broad street. New York city, and the figure of Jefferson Accepting the Instrument of Transfer of the L/^uisiana Territory, an heroic statue for the World's fair in St. Louis, Mo., in 1904.

WARD, Lester Frank, paleontologist, was born in Joliet. 111., June 18, 1841; son of Jus- tus and Silence (Rolpli) Ward; grandson of James and Rachael (Hurd) Ward, and of John and Mary (Oslx)rn) Rolph. He attended several schools in Illinois and Iowa until 1860; studied in Towanda, Pa., 1860-63; served in the civil war, 1862-65, being wounded at Chaucel- lorsville: was employed in the U.S. treasury de- partment, Washington, D.C., 1865-81, as chief of the division of navigation and immigration and as librarian of the bureau of statistics, and meanwhile entered Columbian iiniversitj', from which he was graduated, .A..B.,1869, LL.B., 1871; A.M., 1873. He aLso studied botany at Wasliing- ton, D.C., 1872-81. and spent the .summer of 1875 in the Wahsatch mountains, making collections of plants and woods for the Centennial exposition. He was married, March 6, 1873, to Rosamond Pierce, daughter of Darius and Mary (Caswell) Simons of northern New York. He was assist- ant geologist of the U.S. geological survej', 1881- 83; geologist. 1883-92, and paleontologist of the same from the latter year, meanwhile serving as profes^sor of botany in Columbian university, 1884-86. He was appointed curator of botany and fossil plants in the U.S. national museum, in 18-82, and re<"eived the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbian university, 1897. He was made a fellow of the Americ^in Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Anthro- pological, Biological and Geological societies of Washington, of the American Philosophical so- ciety, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Economic associa- tion, the International Geological congress, and

the International Institute of Sociology, of which he was president in 1903. He is the author of: Hackers Genesis of Man (1879); The Floi'a of Washitigfon (1881); Dynamic Sociology (1883); Sketch of Paleobotany (1885); Syn- ojjsis of the Flora of the Laramie Group (1887); Types of the Laramie Flora (ISSl); Geo- graphical Distribution of Fossil Plants (lSS{i): The Psychic Factors of Civilization (1893); The Potomac Formation (1895); Analogies in the Loirer Cretaceous of Europe and America (1896); Outlines of Sociology (IS9S); Cretaceous Formation of the Black Hills (1899): Status of the Mesozoic Floi-as of the United States (first paper, 1900; second jiaper, 1904); Sociology at the Par-is E.rjMsition of 1900 (W0\); Contem- X)orary Sociology (1902); Pure Sociology (1903). His Dynamic Sociology, Psychic Factors and Out- lines of Sociology, were translated into Russian, but the first-named was not permitted to appear, and its Polish translation was also suppressed. Hisbibliogra})hy included 456 titles in 1908.

WARD, Marcus Lawrence, governor of New Jersey, was born in Newark, N.J., Nov. 9, 1812; son of Moses and Fanny (Brown) Ward; grand- son of James and Lydia (Nesbit) Ward, and a descendant of John Ward, Senior, one of the original settlers of Newark, N.J., 1666. He was liberally educated; engaged, like his father, in mercantile pursuits, and was one of the organ- izers of the Republican party in 1855. He was married, June 30, 1840, to Susan Longworth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Longworth) Morris of Newark, N.J. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1860 and 1864, and during the civil war gave his entire at- tention to promoting the physical welfare of the soldiers and their families, fitting out at his own expense a hospital at Newark, which was named the '• Ward U.S. general hospital " in his honor, and after the war, was utilized as a home for wounded soldiers. He also originated a system of free communication between soldiers and their families, and a free pension bureau, of which he assumed the entire financial responsibility. He was the defeated Republican gubernatorial can- didate of New Jersey in 1862; an elector-at-large on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket, 1864, and governor of New Jersey, 1865-68. lie was chair- man of tiie Republican national committee, 1866; a representative from New Jersey in the 43d congress, 1873-75, and declined the appointment of commissioner of Indian affairs in December, 1875. He was a member of the New Jersey His- torical society; of the Newark Library associa- tion; the New Jersey Art Union, and was actively associated with various public movements for tli«* betterment of the unfortunate and down-trodden He died in Newark, N.J.. April 25. 18sM.