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Watt, of r.ose Hill, Lord of Session, judge of commissiiry or probate, who by his courage and energy saved James VI. of Scotland from inunh'r in lo9G, and Edinburgh from military execution by his patriotism. His father, John (1st), was a delegate to the New York assembly, a member and presi- dent of the council, 1757-75, and first president of the New York city hospital. John (2d) was the last recorder of New York under the crown ; was speaker of the New York as- sembly, 1791-93; a representative from New York in tlie 3d congress, 1793- 95, and judge of Westchester county, 1802-08. He was married, Oct. 2, 1775, to his cousin, Jane, youngest daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (daughter of Governor Golden) De Laucey. His son, Robert J. Watts, was a nephew of John G. Leake, of New York city, and when the latter died, lie left his extensive properties to Robert J. Watts, on condition that he should change his name to Leake. Soon after accepting the property, the younger Watts-Leake died, and his father, John Watts, would not incorporate the property thus acquired with his own, but applied the monej'' to founding and endowing the Leake and Watts orphan house in New York city, which in 18S7 was removed to South Yonkers, N.Y., the prop- erty in New York passing to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His youngest daughter, Mary Justine, was married May 15, 1820, to Frederick de Peyster (q.v.). In 1898 a heroic size bronze statue, by George E. Bissell, was erected in Trinity churchyard, by his grandson. Gen. John Watts de Peyster (q.v.). He died in New York city, Sfj.t. 3. 183G.

WATTS, Thomas Hill, governor of Alabama, was born in Butler county, Ala., Jan. 8, 1819 ; son of John Hugliesand Prudence (Hill) Watts ; grandson of Thomas Watts and of Thomas Hill, and a descendant of Welsh and English stock. His paternal grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, who in 1797 removed from Fauquier county, Va., to Greene county, Ga., where he died. His widow Vjecame the wife of Governor Rabun of Georgia. Thomas Hill, his maternal grandfather, resided in Clarke county, Ga. Thomas H. Watts attended the country schools and Mount Airy academy. Dallas coimty, Ala. He was graduntnd from the University of Vir-

ginia. A.R., 18-10, subsequently studying law aiul beginning practice in Greenville, Ala., in 1841. lie was a representative from Butler county in the state legislature, 1842, 18-44 and 1845 ; removed to Montgomery, Ala., 1847 ; was again a repre- sentative in the state legislature, 1849, and a state senator, 1853. He was the unsuccessful "Know Nothing" candidate from the Mont- gomery district for the Soth congress in 1856 ; an elector at large on the Bell and Everett ticket, 1800. and a delegate from Montgomery county to the state constitutional convention of 18G1, sign- ing the ordinance of secession. He recruited the 17th Alabama infantry in September, 1861, and was appointed its colonel, but resigned his com- mission in March, 1862, to become attornej'-gen- eral of the Confederate States by appointment from Jefferson Davis, serving until October, 1863. He was governor of Alabama, 1863-65, after which he resumed the practice of law, in which he was eminently successful. He served as rep- resentative in the state legislature. He was married, first, Jan. 10, 1842, to Eliza Brown, daughter of Wade and Catherine (Carpenter) Allen of Montgomery, Ala. ; and secondlj-, Sep- tember, 1875, to Mrs. Ellen (Noyes) Jackson, of Montgomery. Governor Watts died in Mont- gomery. Ala., Sept. 16. 1892.

WAUD, Alfred R., artist, was born in London, England, in 1828. He studied drawing and paint- ing in London, and in 1858 removed to New York city, where he exhibited at the National Academy of Design. He engaged in periodical and book illustration ; was employed as a war pictorial correspondent for Harper's Weekly, and was one of the first artists in America to illustrate in so- called black and white. After the war he con- tributed many illustrations to the Century Mag- azine and other periodicals, and to " Battles and Leaders of the Civil War." He traveled in the south, making sketches of battlefields for the jiur- pose of illustrating a new series of war pictures, but died before they were completed, at Marietta, Ga., April 6, 1891.

WAUQH, Beverly, M. E. bishop, was born in Fairfax county, Va., Oct. 28, 1789. He entered the ministry of the M.E. church in 1808 ; was stationed at Alexandria, Va., 1808-11, and at Washington, D.C., 1811-28. He was a delegate from the Baltimore conferences to the general conferences of 1816 and 1820, and at the general conference of 1828 ; was chosen assistant editor and book-agent, with headcjuarters in New York city, becoming principal agent in 1832. In 1836 he was consecrated bishop, and in 1852 became senior bishop of the church. He died in Balti- more, Md., Feb. 0. 1858.

WAYLAND, Francis, educator, was born in New York city, March 11. 1796 ; son of Francis