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62, ami was elected governor in 17G2. serving suc- cessive re-t-'leetioiis in 170)5 ami 170G. lie wjus one of the foumlers of Riioile Island college, and a trustee. 1704-7G; refused to enforce the Stamp Act, and took a decided stand against the agres- sions of England; was chosen as colleague with Stephen Hopkins as a delegate from Rhode Island to the Continental congress, 1774-76, and was chairman of the committee that reported in favor of appointing Col. George Washington as general of the American army, lie died of small- pox at riiiladolpliia, Pa., and was buried in the churchyard of the first Baptist church in Phil- adelphia, where a monument was erected to his memory by the Riiode Island legislature, and in 1S60 his remains were removed to Newport, R.I. The date of liis death is March 25, 1776.

WARD, Samuel, diplomatist, was born in New York city. Jan. '-27. 1S14; son of Samuel and Julia (Cutler) W;ud; grandson of Col. Samuel and Phtebe (Greene) Ward, and of Benjamin Clarke and Sarah (Mitcliell) Cutler; great-grandson of Gov. Samuel (q.v.) and Anne (Ray) W^ard and of Gov. William and Catharine (Ray) Greene, and a descendant (maternally) from John Demer- maker, who came from Holland to Massachusetts and changed his name to Cutler. His father was a founder of the University of the City of New York, and treasurer of its council, lSol-32, and president of the City Temperance society. He attended Round Hill school, Northampton, JIass., and was graduated from Columbia college, New York, A.B., 1831, A.M., 1834. He traveled and studied abroad, becoming proficient in the German, Spanish and French languages, and in 1835 became a partner in his father's banking liouse in New York city. In 1848 he went to Cal- ifornia, where lie mastered the dialects of the In- dian tribes, and in 1854 visited Mexico. He was secretary of a government expedition to Para- guay in 1858; was .sent on a diplomatic mission to Nicaragua in 1862, and on his return in 1868, settled in Washington, D.C., dividing his time between that place and England. He was the original of Francis Marion Crawford's (q.v.) Mr. Bellingham in " Dr. Claudius." The honorary degree of Ph.D. was ,confeiTed on him by Tubingen. He was twice married: first, in 1835, to a daughter of William B. and JMargaret R. (Livingston) Astor of New York city; and sec- ondly, in 1843, to Medora, daughter of John R. and Suzette Grymes of New Orleans, La. He is the author of: Lyrical Recreations (1865). He died in Pegli. Italy. May 10, 1884.

WARD, William Godman, educator and author, was born in Sandusky, Oliio, Nov. 5, 1848: son of Hibbard Porter and Ann Matilda (Burdett) Ward; grandson of Zephaniah and Joanna (Ward) Ward, and of John Morg;in and

Isabella (Campb<^ll) Burdett, and a descendant of William Ward of Caml)ridge and Sudbury, l\Iass, who was in Sudbiny as early as 1039, as local records show. From William the descent was through: 2d, Samuel, 3d, Joseph, 4th, Phineas, 5th, Phineas 2d, 6th, Zephaniah. He was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan university, A.B

1872, A. M. 1875; from Drew Theological sem- inary, B. D., 1873, and was a student of history at the University of Halle, Prussia, 1873-74, and in Berlin, Germany, 1886. He was married, June 3,

1873. to May Alden (q. v.). He was principal in l)ublic schools three years before leaving college, and was principal of Vermillion institute, Hayes- ville, Ohio, 1875-76. He served in the North Ohio conference, 1876-85; was professor of liistory and political science in Baldwin uni- versity, Berea, Ohio, 1887-90; president of Spokane (Washington) college, 1890-92; pro- fessor of rhetoric and English criticism, Syracuse university, 1893-94, and professor of English literature and head of the department of Eng- lish, 1894-98. In 1898 he was appointed professor of English literature in Emerson College of Oratoiy, Boston, Mass., which he had already served as lecturer for several years. He became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa societj' and of the Boston Authors club. He is the author of: Tennysoii's Debt to Environment (1898); The Poetry of Robert Brotiming (1898); Art for Schools (1899); Studies in Literature (1901).

WARD, William Thomas, soldier, was born in Amelia county, Va., Aug. 9, 1808. He attended St. Mary's college near Lebanon, Ky.; subse- quently studied law; was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Greensburg, Ky. He served in the Mexican war as major of the 4th Kentucky volunteers, 1847-48; was a member of the state legislature, 1850, and a Whig represent- ative from Kentucky in the 32d congress, 1851- 53. He was commissioned brigadier-general. U.S. v., Sept. 18, 1861: recruited a brigade of twenty-two comi)anies. and was in command c>f the entire force south of Louisville, Kj'. He took part in the pursuit of Gen. John H. Morgan, 1862; served in the Army of the Ohio in Novem- ber, 1862, and in General Sherman's Atlanta cam- paign commanded the 3d division, 20th corps, Army of the Cumberland, temporarily command- ing the l.st brigade in the same corps and being wounded at Resaca, May, 1864. He served with distinction at Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; resumed command of his division on the march to the .sea, and for his gallantry in the engage- ments which terminated in Johnston's surrender, was bre^'etted major-general, F^b. 24, 1865. At the close of the war lie took up the practice of law which he prosecuted with eminent success in Louisville, Ky., where he die<l. Oct. 12, 1878.