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WARD, Matthias, senator, was born in Elbert county, Ga., in 1800. He removed at an early- age to Madison county, Ala., where he received his education, taught school, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He removed to Jeffer- son, Texas, in 1836; was a member of the Texas congress; one of the first state senators; a del- egate to the Democratic national convention of 1852 and 1856, and to the state conventions of the latter year, serving also as president. He was appointed U.S. senator from Texas to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Pinckney Hen- derson, and served from Dec. 6, 1858, to Jan. 4, 1860, when Louis T. Wigfall was elected. He died in Raleigh, N.G., Oct. 13, 1861.

WARD, May Alden, author and lecturer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1, 1853; daugli- ter of Prince and Rebecca (Neal) Alden; grand- daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (AUington) Alden, and of Henry and Katherine (Bigelow) Neal; a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of Plymouth colony, through the line of: 2d, Jonathan, 3d, Andrew, 4th, Prince, and 5th, Andrew S. She was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan university, M.L.A., 1872, and continued her studies in Halle, and Dresden, Germany, 1873-74. She was married, June 3, 1873, in Me- chanicsburg, Ohio, to William Godman Ward (q.v.). She was elected a member of the Boston Authors' club; was president of the New Eng- land Woman's Press association, 1895-97; presi- dent of Cantabrigia, 1897-1901; and in 1901 be- came president of the Massachusetts State Feder- ation of Women's Clubs. She is the author of; Life of Dante (1887); Petrarch, a Shetch of Ma Life and Works (1891); Old Colony Days (1896); Prophets of the Nineteenth Century (1900).

WARD, Richard Halsted, biologist and micro- scopist, was born in Bloomfield, N.J., June 17, 1837; son of Israel Currie and Almeda (Hanks) Ward; grandson of Nehemiah and Lydia (Nut- man) Ward and of Joseph and Anna (Frary) Hanks. He was graduated from Williams college, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861, and from Columbia, M.D., 1862, giving special attention to the study of botany and microscopy. He was acting assistant-sur- geon, U.S.A., at Nashville, Tenn., in the spring of 1862, spent a year in Minneapolis to recover his impaired health; and in 1863 began the practice of his profession in Troy, N.Y., serving from 1868 as attending, and subsequently as consult- ing, physician to Marshall infirmary and sanita- rium, and also as secretary of its board of gov- ernors. He was married, June 10, 1862, to Char- lotte Allen, daughter of Caleb Dodd and Susan (Moore) Baldwin of Bloomfield, N.J. He was in- structor in botany in Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, 1867-69, and professor of botany, and lecturer on liistology and microscopy, in the in-

stitute, 1869-92; on which subjects he also lec- tured before many scientific societies. Being one of the pioneers as a specialist in microscopy, he did much original work in investigations of water-supply, food and adulterations, blood, handwriting, commercial products, and various economic, sanitary and legal cases; and took part in contriving and introducing improved methods and apparatus in microscopy. He spent his sum- mer vacations in travel, being especially inter- ested in botanizing and mountain climbing; and he thus visited nearly every section of America, and almost every covintry in Europe. Dr. Ward was president of the Troy Scientific association, 1870-77 and from 1880; of the Rensselaer County (N. Y.) Medical society, 1877-78; of the National Microscopical Congress, Indianapolis, 1878; and of the American Society of Microscopists, 1879, and honorary member from 1896; manager of the American Postal Microscopical club, 1875-95, and its president tliereafter; was active in or- ganizing the national committee on micrometry, 1878; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and chairman of its microscopical sub-section, 1872, 1876 and 1877; a member of the American Metrological society, and of the American Forestry' association; a fellow of the American Academy of Medicine; and a fellow or honorary member of several European microscopical societies. He repre- sented America on the committee of Honor and Patronage of the International Exposition of Microscopy, on the tri-centennial of the inven- tion of the microscope, Antwerp, Belgium, 1891; and was a delegate or member at several meet- ings of the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science, and of the International Med- ical Congress. He conducted the department of Microscopy of the American Naturalist. 1871-82: was joint editor with the Rev. A. B. Hervey of the American revision of Julius W. Behrens's "The Microscope in Botany " (1885), and is the author of the article on Microscopy in Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1884, and of many scientific papers in journals, magazines, and the Proceed- ings of societies.

WARD, Samuel, governor of Rhode Island, was born in Newport, R. I., May 27, 1725; son of Richard and Mary (Tillinghast) Ward; grand- son of Thomas W^ard and of John Tillinghast and great-grandson of John Ward who emigrated from Gloucester, England, in 1661 and settled at Newport, R. I., where he died in April, 1698. Samuel was graduated from Cambridge college, England, in 1743; was married in 1745, to Anna, daughter of Simon and Deborah (Greene) Ray of Block Island, and settled in Westerly, R.I. He was a representative in the state legislature for several years; chief- justice of the colony, 1761-