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ilelegate to the World's Convention of the Evan- gelical Alliance, Berlin, 1857. He was pastor of the Bromtiekl Street church, Boston, 1859-60. He wsis married, April 14, 1861, to Harriet Cor- nelia, daughter of John M. and Mary J. (Tlioinp- son) Merrick of Wil- brahain, Mass. For twenty years, she was editor of the Heathen Women's Friend in English and German, and one of the founders and managers of the IMas- sacliusetts Society for the Universitj' Edu- cation of "Women. ' She died Jan. 7, 1893.

Dr. Warren was pro- " fessor of systematic

theology in the Mis- sions-anstalt, Bre- men, Germany, 1861-6; professor of systematic theology in the Boston Theological seminary, 1866-73. and acting president of the institution. In 1873, upon the opening of Boston university, lie was made its president and professor of the comparative history of religion, comparative the- ology, and the philosophy of religion, which po- sitions he held, 1873-1903. He was also the first president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1876 {corporate member of the American Oriental Society from 1877, and a trustee of Wellesley college from its origin. Among the more significant features of Dr. Warren's life-work may be named: a new presentation of confessional theology to the theo- logians of Europe; the reorganization of the oldest theological seminary of the Methodist Church; the organization of Boston universit)'; a reconstruction of ancient cosmology and mythical geography, particularly the Homeric; the discovery — as many believe — of the cradle of the human race; and the promotion of interna- tional university co-operation in advancing the highest as well as the broadest educational ideals. President Warren received the honorary degree of D.D. from Ohio Wesleyan university in 1862, and that of LL.D. from Wesleyan in 1874. His contributions to literature include titles filling nearly four octavo pages of the " Alumni Record " of Wesleyan university. In his earlier years he published miscellaneous translations, poetic and and other, from the Spanisli, German, Dutch and Latin languages. During the thirty-five years ending 1903 he gave an annual educational re- port in which the living issues of the day were more or less fully discussed. To the successive ■volumes of the " Boston University Year Book "

he also contributed valuable educational, scientific and professional essays. Six of his publications were written and printed in the German language, and one or two were trans- lated into Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish and Arabic. The best -known are the following: True Key of Ancient Cosmology (1883); Paradise Found — the Cradle of the Human Face at the North Pole (1885); 77te Quest of the Perfect Re- ligion (1886); In the Footsteps of Arminitis (1888); 77(6 Story of Gottlieb (1890); Constitu- tional Law Questions in the Methodist Episcopal C7i?trc/( (1894); The Religions of the World and the World Religion (1900).

WARRINGTON, Lewis, naval officer, was born in Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 3, 1782. He attended the College of William and Mary and 'entered the U.S. navy as midshipman, Jan 6, 1800. He was attached to the frigate Chesapeake in the suppression of the West Indian pirates, 1800-03; served on the schooner Vixen, in Com- modore Preble's squadron, during the war with Tripoli; was promoted acting lieutenant and transferred to the brig Siren in 1805 and to the Enterprise in 1806. He returned to America on the Enterprise; was commissioned lieutenant, Feb. 7, 1807; was executive of the Siren, bearing dispatches to France, 1809-11; served in the frigates Essex and Congress, 1811-13; and was appointed 1st lieutenant of the frigate United States in March, 1813. He was promoted master- commandant, July 24, 1813; and while in com- mand of the sloop Peacock of the squadron under Commodore Decatur, he captured the British sloop Epervier. He was promote*! captain, and received a gold medal, and the thanks of congress for this important capture; commanded the frigate Macedonian of the Mediterranean station, 1816-18, and was transferred to the frigate Java in 1818 and to the frigate Guerriere in 1820. He was commandant at the U.S. navy yard, at Nor- folk, Va., 1821-24 and 1832-39, and' at Pensacola, Fla., in 1826; commanded the West India squad- ron, 1824-26; was a member of the board of naval commissioners, 1827-31 and 1840, and presi- dent of the board in 1841. When the navy was reorganized he was appointed chief of the bureau of yards and docks in 1842 and of the bureau of ordnance in 1847, serving till 1851. He died in Wasliinston. D.C.. Oct. 12. ls51.

WASHBURN, Cadwallader Colden, governor of Wisconsin, was born in Liverniore, Maine, April, 22, 1818; son of Israel and:\Iartha (Benja- min) Washburn, and brother of Eliliu Benjamin and Israel Wasliburn, Jr. He worked on his father's farm, and obtained emploj'ment in a store in Hallowell, 1835-38; taught school in W^isca-sset. 1838-39; studied law under liis uncle, Reuel Washburn, and in the office of Joseph B.