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versities of Edinburgh and Leyden, from which latter he was graduated. M.D., 1780. He prac- tised in Newport, R.I., 1780-83; was the first to occupy the Hersey chair of the theory and prac- tice of medicine at Harvard, which he held, 1783- 1813, and was meanwhile professor of natui'al history at Brown university, 1784-91. The botan- ical lectures of Iiis annual lecture courses at Har- vard, first published in the Monthly Anthology, 1801-08, and as The Botanist, 1811, resulted in the establishment of a professorship in botany and entomology, and a botanic garden at Harvard. Dr. Waterhouse was the first to introduce Dr. Jetiner's discovery of inoculation into America, pubhshing an article on the subject in the Colum- bian Sentinel, Marcli 12, 1799. He subsequently became a pupil of Jenner, and on his return suc- cessfully experimented on his four children. No statute relating to vaccination, however, was en- acted b}' the Massachusetts legislatui'e until 1810. Dr. Waterbury was medical superintendent, by appointment from President Jefferson, of the U.S. medical ports in New England, 1812-20. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from Harvard, 1786; was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: a member of the American Philosophical society; of the Man- chester (England) Literary and Philosophical so- ciety, and of other learned organizations. His publications include: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine (1780); On the Principlefi of Vitality (1790); Rise, Progress and Present State of Medicine (1792); Prospect of Exterminating the Small-Pox (1800); Heads of a Course of Lec- tures on Natural History (1810); The Botanist (1811); The Journal of a Young Man of Massa- chusetts (1816). and a treatise on the " Letters of Junius," ascribing their authorship to Lord Chat- ham (1831). A portrait of Dr. Waterhouse by Stuart hangs in the Redwood library of Newport. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 2, 1846.

WATERLOO, Stanle3, author, was born in St. Clair county, Mich., May 21, 1846; son of Charles Harlson and Mary Jane (Beebe) Water- loo; grandson of George and Aley (Bell) Water- loo and of Henry and Betsey (Archer) Beebe, and a descendant of George Waterlow, of Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England, and of John Beebe of Broughton, England, whose family landed in Connecticut, June, 1650. He attended the pub- lic schools; was a student at the University of Michigan, 1865-68, but did not graduate; en- gaged in journalism in Chicago. 111., 1870-71; was one of the owners of the St. Louis (Mo.) Journal, 1872, and subsequently editorially con- nected with the St. Louis Republic, Chronicle and Globe- Democrat. He was married, Feb. 11, 1874, to Anna Charlotte, daughter of John and Jane Maria (Carroll) Kitton of St. Clair, Mich.

He founded the St. Paul (Minn.) Day in 1884; was editor-in-chief of the Washington (D.C.) Capital and Critic, 1889, and of the Chicago (111.) Mail, 1887-88. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the University of Michigan, 1898, and was twice president of the Chicago Press club. The titles of his books include: A Man and a Woman (1892); Honest Money (1895); An Odd Situation (1896); The Story of Ab (1897); Armageddon (1898); The Wolf's Long Howl (1898); The Launching of a Man (1899): The Seekers (1899); These are my Jeivels (1902); and The Story of A Strange Career (1902).

WATERMAN, Marcus, artist, was born in Providence, R.I., Sept. 1, 1834; son of William Henry and Martha Burrill (Pearce) Waterman; grandson of Nathan and Nancy (Wheaton) Wa- terman and of Earl D. and Lydia (Wheaton) Pearce, and a descendant of Col. Richard Wat- erman, one of the original twelve settlers and owners of Rhode Island. He was graduated from Brown university, M.A., 1855, and painted in New York city, 1856-70, where he was made an associate of the National Academy of Design, 1861. After leaving New York, much of his work went to Boston, and in 1874 he established himself in that city. He traveled extensively in Europe and Algeria, 1879-83 and 1884. His can- vases include New England forest interiors and many Oriental compositions, the latter class em- bracing: Maroof in the Desert; Duel by 3Ioon- light; The Journey to the City of Brass (1888), and illustrations to the "Thousand and One Nights." His forest scenes are hundreds in num- ber and widely distributed. His later pictures are mostly Oriental in subject. He was elected to membership in many art clubs ajid societies, and was vice-president of the Paint and Clay club of Boston in 1903.

WATERMAN, Robert Whitney, governor of California, was born in Fairfield, N.Y.. Dec. 15. 1826. His father died before he attained his majority, and he left home to seek his fortune in the West. He found employment as a clerk in a small store in Sycamore, 111., until 1846, when he commenced business on his own account in Belvidere, 111. He was postmaster at Genoa, 111., 1849-50; engaged in mining in California. 1850-53; and in business in Wilmington. 111., where he published the hidependent, 1852-60. He took part in the Fremont and Dayton cam- paign of 1856, and in 1860 he became propri- etor of a ranch in California, subsequently dis- covering a silver mine in Mohave Desert, San Bernardino county. Through the development of this mine and through other mining interests he acquired a large fortune, and was president of the San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern railway. He was lieutenant-governor of California, 1886,