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N.H., where she was residing in 1903. Her bibli- ography, comprised largely of translations from the French, in which she acquired an unexcelled reputation, includes : The Other Side of War (1888), republished as The Cruel Side of War (1898) ; 2'he Works of Honore. de Balzac (40 vols., 1883-97) ; The Centenary Edition of Balzac (31 vols., 1899 ei seq.), with a Memoir of Balzac and two additional volumes, Tlie Personal Opinions of Balzac, and " Letters to Madame Hanska" The Wo7-ks of Moliere (6 vols., 1889-97 ; Memoirs of the Due de Saint-Simon and of many others entitled Versailles Historical Memoirs (20 vols., 1898-1902) ; Tlie Tartar in Books, by Daudet (2 vols.. 1899), and the elder Dumas's TheSperonara (1902).

WORTH, Jonathan, governor of North Caro- lina, was born in Guilford, N.C, Nov. 18, 1802 ; son of Dr. David Worth. He attended the " old field schools " and Greensborough aca- demy ; studied law and taught school ; was ad- mitted to the bar, 1825, and began practice in Asheborough, N.C. He was married in 1822 to a niece of Judge A. D. Murphy of Orange county, N.C. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1829-34, and 1862-63 ; state sena- tor, 1841, 1858, and 1861-62, and although orig- inally an opponent of secession, supported the Confederate government upon the withdrawal of his state from the Union. He was state treasurer, 1863-65, and again for a short time under the provisional government of the state, and governor of North Carolina, 1865-68. He died in Raleigh. N.C. Sept. 5, 1869.

WORTHINQTON, George, second bishop of Nebraska and 138th in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born in Lenox, Mass., Oct. 14, 1840. He was graduated .from Hobart college, A.B., 1860, A.M., 1863 : and .rom the General Theological seminary. New York city, in 1863. He was ordered deacon in June, 1863, and or- dained priest in 1864 ; was assistant at St. Paul's church, Troy, N.Y., and rector of Christ church, Ballston Spa., N.Y., and of St. John's Detroit, Mich., 1868-85. He declined the appointment of missionary bishop of Shanghai in 1883, and was twice elected to the episcopate of Michigan, but the laity refused to confirm him. He was elected bishop of Nebraska to succeed Bishop Clarkson, deceased, and was consecrated in St. John's church, Detroit, Feb. 24, 1885, by Bishops Coxe, Hare, and McLaren. Hobart gave him the hon- orary degree of S.T.D. in 1876 and that of LL.D. in 1885.

WORTHINQTON, Thomas, governor of Ohio, was born in Jefferson county, July 16, 1773 ; son of Robert Worthington of Berkeley county, Va. He received a liberal education ; shipped before the mast, 1790-93 ; went to Ohio Territory in the

party of Edward Tiffin (q.v.) 1796, and located in 1797 in Ross county. He married Eleanor Swearingen. He was a member of the terri- torial legislature, 1799-1801 serving as x)ro tem- pore speaker, surveyor of public lands, a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1802, and with John Smith was one of the first U.S. senators from Ohio, drawing the short term and serving, Oct. 17, 1803-March 3, 1807. He was re- elected U.S. senator in place of Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., resigned, and served from Jan. 8, 1811, until his resignation in 1814 to take the governorship of Oliio. During his senatorial career he was influential in determining the boundaries of Ohio, and was employed as com- missioner to treat with Tecumseli and other In- dian chiefs. He was governor of Ohio by two elec- tions, 1815-18, and while governor, was arrested for debt and marched off for jail, but was not locked up, the matter being adjusted. He was canal commissioner, 1818-27, and again a repre- sentative in the state legislature, 1821-22 and 1823-24. He was prominent in promoting the educational progress of Ohio, founding the state library, and was one of the original vice-presi- dents of the American Bible society. He died in Chillicothe, Ohio, June 20, 1827.

WRIGHT, Ambrose Ransom, soldier, was born in Louisville, Ga., April 26, 1826 ; son of Ambrose Ransom and Sarah (Hammond) Wright. He received a liberal education and engaged in the practice of law. He left the Democratic for the Know-Nothing party, voted the Bell and Everett ticket in 1860, and subsequently advocated secession, being detailed by the convention of Georgia a commissioner to persuade Maryland to withdraw from the Union. He entered the Confederate army as a private in 1861 ; was com- missioned colonel, 3d Georgia regiment, May 8, 1861 and as such commanded the military forces at Roanoke Island, N.C, being frustrated in his plan to destroy the Hatteras light-house and to move upon Hatteras Inlet. He was trans- ferred to the 38th Georgia infantry, Oct. 15, 1861, and at the battle of South Mills, April 19, 1862, took his stand about three miles from that place, where he made the so-called "Roasted Ditch" and gallantly resisted the enemy. He was pro- moted brigadier-general, June 3, 1862. com- manded the 3d brigade, Huger's division, Ma- gruder's command, in the seven days' battles around Richmond, June-July, 1862 and a bri- gade in Anderson's division, Longstreet's corps at the second Bull Run, Aug. 29-30, 1862, in the Marj-land campaign, at Fredricksburg and in the Chancellorville campaign. He commanded the same brigade in Anderson's division, A. P. Hill's corps, Army of Northern Virginia, at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, where on the second day of the