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mother's deatli in t\w latter year went to Europe, making lier liome principally in Italy. Mr. Sted- uian Bpuke of lier as a realist with the transfigur- ing faculty of an idealist, and jjlaces her among the leading women in American literature of the century. She is the author of: Eodman the Kieper: Southern Sketches (18S0); Anne (1SS2); For the Major (188:3); Ea.-it Angels {liiSd); Jupiter Lights (18JX)); Horace Chase (1894); Mentone, Cairo and Corfu, published postiuimously (1895). She died in Venice, Italy, Jan. 24, 1894, and was i.uried in the Protestant cemetery at Rome.

WOOSTER, David, soldier, was born in Strat- ford, fonn.. Marcli 2, 1710. He was graduated from Yale. A.B., 1738, A.M., 1741. In 1739 he en- tered the provincial army as lieutenant, and took part in the war with Spain, serving as captain of a vessel for coast defences. He married a daughter of Thomas Clap, president of Yale col- lege. He was captain in Col. Aaron Burr's regi- ment in the expedition against Louisburg; com- manded the transport Connecticut and later a cartel-ship sent to England, where he was pre- sented to the king, and was made a captain in Sir William Pepperrell's regiment with lialf pay for life. After peace was declared, he returned to liis family, and was made colonel of the 3d Con- necticut regiment in 17.55. and brigadier-general in 1756. In 1763 he was appointed collector of cus- toms at New Haven. He was sixty-tive j^ears old wJien the war of the Revolution broke out. He tlien resigned all his positions in the British army; originated the plan for tiie capture of Ticonderoga in April, 1775, and was third on the list of the eight brigadier-generals appointed by congress, June 22, 1775, on the organization of tiie Continental army. He had a command under Montgomery in the expedition against Que- bec, and succeeded to the command of the army on the death of Montgomery. He was acquitted by a court of inquiry of blame for the disastrous termination of that cami)aign; resigned his com- mission in the Continental army, and on his re- turn to Connecticut was appointed major-general of militia. In 1777 he commanded the force sta- tioned at Danljury, Conn., where, on April 26, he repulsed Gov. William Tryon's troops, but during the second assault he was shot tlirough the bod}-. On June 17. 1777, a resolution was passed by con- gress, that a monument be ei'ected to his mem- ory, but the sum voted, $500, was never paid. A granite monument was erected to his memory in Danlniry. Conn., in 1854. He died May 2, 1777.

WORCESTER, Dean Conant, scientist, was born in Thetf<jrd. Vt.. Oct. 1, 1866; .son of Ezra Carter and Ellen (Con:int) Worcester; grandson of Leonard and Elizabeth (Iloitkins) Worcester, and of Dean and Almeria (Bonney) Conant, and a descendant of Rev. William Worcester, who

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came to America between 1638-1640, and settled at Salisbury. JIass. He was fitted for college at the Newton High school, Newtonville, Mass.; was graduated from the University of Michigan, A.B., 1889, meanwhile serving as a member of the Steere scientific ex- pedition to the Pliilip- pine Islands, 1887-88, and continued at the university as assist- ant in botany, 1889- 90, assisting in the conduct of the men- age scientific expedi- tion to the Philip- pines, 1890-93. He was married, April 27, 1893, to Marion Fay, daughter of Frederic and Electa Leas; was instructor in zoology, 1893-95,

and as assistant professor of zoology and curator of the zoological museum, 189.5-99. He was ap- pointed a U.S. Pliilippine commissioner by Presi- dent McKinley, Jan. 17,1889, with Admiral George Dewey, U.S.N.,Gen. Elwell S. Otis, U.S.A.. and President Schurman of Cornell, and the commis- sion issued a conciliatory proclamation to the in- surgents, April 4, 1899. In March, 1900. he was reappointed by President McKinle}' on the Phil- ippine civil commission, made up of Judge Wil- liam H. Taft, president. Professor Dean C. Worcester, Gen. Luke E. Wriglit. Henry C. Ida and Professor Bernard Moses (succeeded Jan. 1, 1903, by James F. Smitli) to continue and perfect the work of organization and establishment of a civil government already commenced by the mili- tary autliorities. The new conunissioners reached Manila in April, 1900. Under tiieir direction, government was established in the Pliilippines, June21, 1901, with Judge Taft as military gov- ernor, and on July 3, 1902. civil government was established and military rule terminated in the archipelago by proclamation of the President of the United States.

WORCESTER, Joseph Emerson, philologist, was born in Bedford. N.H., Au- 24. 1784; son of Jes.se Worcester (1761-1834). His father is the author of the MS. " Chronicles of Nissitissit " and of newspaper contributions. Joseph E. Wor- cester worked on a farm; was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1811. A.M., 1814; subsequently taught in Salem. Mass., resided in Andover, Mass.. 1817- 19, and afterward in Cambridge, Mass. He was marrieil in 1841 to Amy Elizabeth, daugliter of Professor Joseph McKean of Harvanl. He edited the American Almanac. 1831-13, and jmblished ^4. Geographical Dictionary, or Universal Gazetteer,