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 WAYNE

WAYNE

1850-51; a resident graJiuite of Brown, 1851-52, and tutor in the University of Rochester, 1852- 54. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1854; was pastor of the Third (now Main Street) Baptist church, Worcester, Mass., 1854-61; chaplain of the 7th Connecticut regiment of volunteers, 18G1-64, and home missionary among the freedmen at Nashville, Tenn., 1864- 65. He was professor of logic and rhetoric, Kalamazoo (Mich.) college, 1865-70; president of Franklin (Ind.) college, 1870-72; editor of the National Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa., 1872-94, and assistant editor of the Examiner, Philadelphia, 1895-93. He was twice married: first, Oct. 1, 1857, to Elizabeth Grout, daughter of Aaron and Eliza (Hapgood) Arms of Worcester, Mass.; sec- ondly, Sept. 10, 1891, to Frances Mary Green of Providence, R. I. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon liim by Brown in 1869. He was president of the Philadelphia Baptist Minis- ters' conference, the Pennsylvania Baptist State Mission society, the New England Society of Pennsylvania, the American Social Science as- sociation, and the Contemporary club of Phil- adelpliia. He is the author of: The Life and Labors of Francis Wayland, with his brother, Francis Wayland, Jr. (2 vols., 1867) and oi Charles H. Spnrgeon: His Faith and Works (1892); also of numerous addresses and papers upon sociol- ogical, educational and kindred subjects. He died in Wernersville, Pa., Nov. 7, 1898.

WAYNE, Anthony, soldier, was born in East- town. Chester county. Pa., Jan. 1, 1745; the only son of Isaac Wayne, the former an arjny officer, legislator and farmer, whose father was a native of Yorkshire, Eng., removing first to county Wicklow, Ireland, and later o Chestter county. Pa. He at- tended the Philadel- piiia academy; be- came a land sur- veyor, and upon the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin was employed by a land company in Nova Scotia. In 1769 he was married, and became a farmer and surveyor in Chester county. He was a member of the pro- vincial convention of 1774. assembled to devise a means of .settlement of the difficulties between England and the colonies; and of the Pennsyl- vania convention of the same year; was a dele- gate to the colonial legislature, 1774-75, and a member of the committee of safetv in 1775. On

the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he re> cruited among his neiglibors a companj' which was enlarged into the 4th regiment of Pennsyl- vania troops; was elected its colonel, Jan. 3, 1776, and was assigned to Gen. John Thomas's brigade of the Northern army, Jan. 3, 1776. He attacked the British at Three Rivers, where he was wounded and obliged to withdraw his troops to Ticonderoga, which place he commanded. He was commissioned brigadier-general, Feb. 21, 1777; joined General Washington's army in New Jersey; commanded a division at Brandywine and opposed the passage of the river a^t Chadd's Ford by the Hessians, and at the close of the day safely withdrew his troops. He led the attack at Warren Tavern; was attacked by a superior force at Paoli, Sept. 20, 1777, and effected a successful sortie which enabled him practically to hold his ground, but subjected him to a court of inquiiy, which acquitted him with the highest honors. At the battle of Germantown he drove the enemy back before the general retreat was expected. He went into camp with Washington's army at Valley Forge, where he made a successful raid into the British camp, capturing much needed provisions and supplies. He took part in the battle of Monmouth under Lee, and after being ordered to retreat by Lee, Washington assumed command, and Wayne brought his troops into position and repulsed a bayonet charge by Col. Henry Monckton, securing victory to Washing- ton's army and the death of every British officer engaged in the cliarge. He commanded a corps of light infantry organized by Washington in 1779, and on July 15 marched toward the garrison at Stony Point on the Hudson, advanced in two columns at midnight, surprised the British pickets, gained the center of the fort, and though severel}' wounded, entered the fort supported by his aides and received the surrender of the gar- rison. For this exploit a gold medal was pre- sented him by congress, and he received the thanks of the general as.sembly of Pennsylvania and of congress. He failed in an effort to capture Fort Lee in 1780, and on Jan. 1, 1781, he succeeded in amicably quelling the mutiny in the Pennsyl- vania line. He joined Lafayette in Virginia, and took part in the battle at Jamestown Ford, where he fell back after a desperate charge in which he succeeded in relieving Lafaj'ette, who was in danger from a projected manoeuvre of the enemy, thus saving the entire army froin defeat. He served at Green Springs and at Yorktown, where he opened the first parallel, covered the advance of the second parallel on the 11th. and supported the French allies on the 14th. He joined Gen. Nathanael Greene after the surrender, and on June 23, 17^2, he was attacked by a body of Creek Indians under a British officer who gained posses-