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=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= _E._, 1861- ----. A novelist many years resident in California, but in 1883 an English lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade. The Romance of Judge Ketchum; The Model of Christian Gay; The Quicksands of Pactolus; An Impending Sword; John Christy. _Do. Ho. Lip._

=Vail, Alfred.= _N. J._, 1807-1859. A scientist who was one of the inventors of the telegraph. He published a work on The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph.

=Vail, Stephen Montford.= _N. Y._, 1818-1880. A Methodist clergyman, at one time tried by his church for advocating an educated ministry. Outlines of Hebrew Grammar; Education in the Methodist Church; The Bible Against Slavery. _Meth._

=Vail, Thomas Hubbard.= _Va._, 1812-1889. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kansas, consecrated bishop in 1864. Hannah, a Sacred Drama; The Comprehensive Church.

=Vale, Gilbert.= _E._, 1788-1866. A Brooklyn writer prominent as a free-thinker. Fanaticism; Life of Thomas Paine, _supra_.

=Valentine, David Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1801-1869. The clerk of the New York Common Council, 1831-69, and author of a Manual of the Corporation of New York City; History of New York City.

=Valentine, Milton.= _Md._, 1825- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Gettysburg Theological Seminary from 1884. Natural Theology, or Rational Theism; The Relations of the Family to the Church; The Dynamics of Success; Knowledge by Service; Absolute Christianity; Truth’s Testimony to its Servants: Is the Lord’s Day only a Human Institution? _Sil._

=Valentini, Philipp Johann Joseph.= _P._, 1828-1899. A New York archæologist among whose writings upon Mexican archæology are, The Landa Alphabet: a Spanish fabrication; Mexican Copper Tools; The Olmecas and the Tultecas.

=Vallentine, Benjamin Bennaton.= _E._, 1843- ----. A journalist of New York city, dramatic critic of The Herald. The Fitznoodle Papers; Fitznoodle in America; The Lost Train.

=Van-Anderson, Mrs. Helen [Van Metre].= _Ia._, 1859- ----. A minister and lecturer of Boston. The Right Knock; It is Possible; The Story of Teddy; Journal of a Live Woman. _Le._

=Van Brunt, Henry.= _Ms._, 1832-1903. An architect of note, the designer of Memorial Hall at Cambridge. Greek Lines, and Other Architectural Essays. _Hou._

=Van Buren, John Desh.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A civil engineer of New York city. Investigation of Formulas for the Strength of Iron Parts of Steam Machinery; Quay and Other Retaining Walls.

=Van Buren, Martin.= _N. Y._, 1782-1862. The eighth President of the United States. An Inquiry into the Origin and Causes of Political Parties in the United States is his only writing of importance, except state papers. _See Lives by Emmons, 1835, Grund (in German), 1835, Holland, 1836, Crockett, 1836, Mackenzie, 1846, Butler, 1862, Shepard, 1888, Bancroft, 1889; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Van Buren, William Holme.= _Pa._, 1819-1883. An eminent surgeon of New York city. Contributions to Practical Surgery; Diseases of the Rectum; Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs (with Keyes); The Principles of Surgery. _Ap._

=Vandegrift, Margaret.= _See Janvier, Margaret._

=Vandenhoff, George.= _E._, 1820- ----. An actor and elocutionist of note. Plain System of Elocution; Leaves from an Actor’s Note Book; Dramatic Reminiscences; Clerical Assistant, or Elocutionary Guide; Common Sense; The Art of Reading Aloud.

=Van Deusen, Mrs. Mary [Westbrook].= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A writer of Rondout, New York, whose principal works include, Rachel Du Mont; Gertrude Willoughby, a novel; Colonial Dames of America; Voices of My Heart, a book of verse.

=Van Dyke, Henry Jackson.= _Pa._, 1822-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn. The Lord’s Prayer; The Church: Her Ministry and Sacraments.

=Van Dyke, Henry Jackson.= _Pa._, 1852- ----. Son of H. J. Van Dyke, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Brick Church from 1882. The Reality of Religion; The Story of the Psalms; The National Sin of Literary Piracy; The Poetry of Tennyson; Historic Presbyterianism; Straight Sermons to Young Men; The Christ Child in Art; Little Rivers; The Story of the Other Wise Man; God and Little Children; The Gospel for an Age of Doubt; The Builders, and Other Poems. _Har. Mac. Ran. Scr._

=Van Dyke, John Charles.= _N. J._, 1856- ----. An art critic, librarian of the Sage Library at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Books and How to Use Them; Principles of Art; How to Judge a Picture; Serious Art in America; Art for Art’s Sake; History of Painting; Old Dutch and Flemish Masters. _Cent. Fo. Lgs. Scr. Meth._

=Van Dyke, Joseph Smith.= _N. J._, 1832- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, minister at Cranbury, New Jersey, from 1869. Popery the Foe of the Church; Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic; Through the Prison to the Throne; From Gloom to Gladness; Giving or Entertainment,--Which?; Theism or Evolution. _Fu._

=Van Dyke, Theodore Strong.= _N. J._, 1842- ----. Brother of J. C. Van Dyke, _supra_. A lawyer and sportsman of Southern California. Rifle, Rod, and Gun in California; Southern California; The Still Hunter; Game Birds at Home; Southern California the Italy of America. _Fo._

=Van Horne, Thomas B[udd].= 18-- - ----. A clergyman, chaplain in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the Army of the Cumberland; Life of Major-General Thomas. _Clke. Scr._

=Van Lennep, Henry John.= _A. M._, 1815-1889. A Congregational missionary in Asia Minor, 1839-69. Ten Days Among Greek Brigands; Bible Lands; Travels in Little Known Parts of Asia Minor; The Oriental Album. _Har. C. P. S._

=Vannah, Letitia Catharine.= _Me._, 1857- ----. A verse-writer of Gardiner, Maine, who has published a volume of Verses.

=Van Ness, Thomas.= _Md._, 1859- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Second Church. The Coming Religion; The Ideal Commonwealth; My Visit to Count Tolstoi. _Rob._

=Van Ness, William Peter.= _N. Y._, 1778-1826. A jurist of New York city. Examination of Charges against Aaron Burr; Laws of New York (with Woodworth); Concise Narrative of Jackson’s First Invasion of Florida.

=Van Nest, Abraham Rynier.= _N. Y._, 1823-1892. A Dutch Reformed clergyman in charge of American chapels abroad, and pastor in Philadelphia, 1878-86. Signs of the Times; Life of G. Bethune, _supra_.

=Van Norden, Charles.= _Ct._, 1843- ----. A Congregational clergyman at Suffield, Connecticut. The Outermost Rim and Beyond; The Psychic Factor. _Ap. Ran._

=Van Rensselaer= [rĕn´sĕl-ar], =Cortland.= _N. Y._, 1808-1860. A Presbyterian clergyman who was secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education, 1846-60. Miscellaneous Sermons, Essays, and Addresses; Essays and Discourses.

=Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Mariana [Griswold].= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. An art critic of New York city. Art Out of Doors, a work on gardening; English Cathedrals; Six Portraits; Handbook of English Cathedrals; Henry Hobson Richardson; One Man who was Content, and Other Stories. _Cent. Hou. Scr._

=Van Rensselaer, Maunsell.= _N. Y._, 1819-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Sister Louise: her Life Book; Annals of the Van Rensselaers in the United States.

=Van Santvoord, Cornelius.= _N. J._, 1816-1901. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York State. Memoir of Eliphalet Nott, _supra_; Limitation of the Liabilities of Ship Owners Under United States Laws.

=Van Santvoord, George.= _N. J._, 1819-1863. Brother of C. Van Santvoord, _supra_. A lawyer of Kinderhook, New York. Life of Algernon Sidney; Lives of the Chief Justices of the United States; The Indiana Justice; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions; Precedents of Pleading; Practice in Equity Actions in New York Supreme Court.

=Van Santvoord, Harold.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. Son of G. Van Santvoord, _supra_. A New York littérateur. Half Holidays, a volume of essays.

=Van Schaack, Henry Cruger.= _N. Y._, 1802-1887. Son of P. Van Schaack, _infra_. A lawyer of Manlius, New York. History of Manlius Village; An Old Kinderhook Mansion; Captain Thomas Morris; Life of Peter Van Schaack, _infra_.

=Van Schaack, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1747-1832. A once famous jurist of Kinderhook, New York. Laws of the Colony of New York; Conductor Generalis. _See Life of, by his son, with Journal, Diary, and Letters._

=Vanuxem, Lardner.= _Pa._, 1792-1848. A scientist who was State geologist of New York, 1836-42. Geology of New York, Third District; Essay on the Ultimate Principles of Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, and Physiology (1827), an early declaration of the qualitative interconvertibility of heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.

=Van Zile, Edward Sims.= _N. Y._, 1863- ----. A novelist and journalist of New York city on the staff of The World. Wanted, a Sensation; The Last of the Van Slacks; A Magnetic Man, and Other Stories; Don Miguel, and Other Stories; The Manhattaners; A Crown Prince. _Cas. Lov._

=Varley, John Philip.= _See Mitchell, L. E._

=Varney, George Jones.= _Me._, 1836-1901. Young People’s History of Maine; Gazetteer of Maine; A Brief History of Maine; The Story of Patriot’s Day. _Le._

=Varnum, Joseph Bradley.= _D. C._, 1818-1874. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city. The Seat of Government of the United States; The Washington Sketch-Book.

=Vasey, George.= _E._, 1822-1893. A physician and botanist who was botanist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, 1872-93. Beauties and Utilities of a Library; The Philosophy of Laughing and Smiling; A Descriptive Catalogue of Native Forest Trees of the United States; Grasses of the United States; Agricultural Grasses of the United States; Grasses of the South; Grasses of the Arid Districts; Descriptive Catalogue of the Grasses of the United States; Individual Liberty.

=Vassar, John Guy.= _N. Y._, 1811-1888. A philanthropist of Poughkeepsie, nephew of the founder of Vassar College. Twenty Years Around the World.

=Vassar, Thomas Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. Cousin of J. G. Vassar, _supra_. A Baptist clergyman, author of Uncle John Vassar, or The Fight of Faith, a very popular work.

=Vaughan= [vawn], =John.= _Pa._, 1775-1807. A physician of Wilmington, Delaware, very eminent in his day. Chemical Syllabus; Observations on Animal Electricity.

=Vaux= [vauks], =Calvert.= _E._, 1824-1895. An English architect and landscape gardener who settled in the United States in 1851. With F. L. Olmsted, _supra_, he designed Central Park in New York city, and he was associated with him in many similar works throughout the country. He published Villas and Cottages in the earlier part of his career. _See Annual Cyclopædia, 1895._

=Vaux, Richard.= _Pa._, 1816-1895. Son of R. Vaux, _infra_. A distinguished penologist of Philadelphia. His writings include every annual report of the Eastern Penitentiary for more than fifty years; Recorders’ Decisions; and many volumes on the subject of penology.

=Vaux, Roberts.= _Pa._, 1786-1836. A jurist and penologist of Philadelphia, prominent in all local philanthropic enterprises throughout his life. Memoirs of Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, and Anthony Benezet; Efforts to Improve the Discipline of the Prison at Philadelphia.

=Vedder, Henry Clay.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A journalist for many years, and subsequently professor of church history at Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, Pennsylvania. American Writers of To-day; A Short History of the Baptists. _Bap. Sil._

=Veeder, Mrs. Emily Elizabeth [Ferris].= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A novelist and verse-writer of St. Louis. Her Brother Donnard; Entranced; The Unexpected; In the Garden, and Other Poems. _Lip._

=Venable, Charles Scott.= _Va._, 1827-1900. A Confederate army officer, professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia from 1865, and author of a series of popular mathematical text-books.

=Venable, Francis Preston.= _Va._, 1856- ----. Son of C. S. Venable, _supra_. A professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1880. A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis; The Development of the Periodic Law.

=Venable, William Henry.= _O._, 1836- ----. An educator and littérateur of Cincinnati. School History of the United States; Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley; Let Him First be a Man, a collection of essays on education. His writings in verse include, June on the Miami, and Other Poems; The Melodies of the Heart. _Clke. Le._

=Verdi, Tullio Suzzara.= _Iy._, 1829- ---- A homœopathic physician practicing in Washington from 1857. Maternity; Mothers and Daughters; The Infant Philosopher; Special Diagnosis for Popular Use.

=Verplanck= [vĕr-plănk´], =Gulian Crommelin.= _N. Y._, 1786-1870. A Shakespearean scholar of New York city whose carefully edited Shakespeare appeared in 1846. He was the author of Essays on Revealed Religion; Discourses on American History, Art, and Literature; Discourses and Addresses; Essay on the Doctrine of Contrasts; The Bucktail Bards. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Very, Jones.= _Ms._, 1813-1880. A Unitarian clergyman living at Salem, Massachusetts, who must be accounted as one of the most purely spiritual of American poets. His Essays and Poems appeared in 1839, the poems including fifty sonnets on the Shakespearean model remarkable for their extreme delicacy and purity of conception. A fuller edition of the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a complete and revised edition of Poems and Essays in 1886. _See Memoir, by W. P. Andrews, in Poems, 1883; Biographical Notice, by J. F. Clarke, supra, in Poems and Essays, 1886; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883._ _Hou._

=Very, Lydia Louisa Anna.= _Ms._, 1823-1901. Sister of J. Very, _supra_. For many years a teacher in Salem. Poems and Prose Writings.

=Vethake, Henry.= _B. G._, 1792-1866. A Philadelphia educator who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1836, and provost in 1854. Principles of Political Economy.

=Vetromile, Eugene.= _Iy._, 1819-1881. A noted Italian Jesuit missionary long resident among the Penobscot Indians. Travels in Europe, etc.; The Abenaki and Their History; and several works in the Abenaki language. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Veysey, Arthur Henry.= _E._, 1869- ----. A littérateur of New York city. A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel. _Dil._

=Victor, Mrs. Frances Auretta [Fuller] [Barrett].= _O._, 1826-1902. Sister of Mrs. M. Victor, _infra_, with whom she published Poems of Sentiment and Imagination (1851). After her second marriage to a brother of O. Victor, _infra_, she removed to California. The River of the West; All Over Oregon; The New Penelope, and Other Stories; Atlantis Arisen. _Ap. Lip._

=Victor, Mrs. Metta Victoria [Fuller].= “Seeley Register.” _Pa._, 1831-1885. A novelist and verse-writer of New York city. Fresh Leaves from Western Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan romance; The Senator’s Son, a plea for the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; The Gold Hunters; Miss Slimmens’ Window, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel; Too True; Alice Wilde; The Backwoods Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess’s Client; The Dead Letter; Figure Eight; Passing the Portal; Blunders of a Bashful Man; The Bad Boy’s Diary; The Naughty Girl’s Diary; The Rasher Family, comprise the greater portion of her works. Her poem Compound Interest is still quoted.

=Victor, Orville James.= _O._, 1827- ----. An author and editor of New York city. History of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents and Anecdotes of the War; History of American Conspiracies.

=Viele, Egbert Ludovickus.= _N. Y._, 1825-1902. A military engineer who served in the Civil War, and became Park Commissioner of New York City in 1883. Handbook for Active Service; Topographical Atlas of New York City.

=Vincent, Francis.= _Del._, 1822-1884. A journalist of Wilmington, Delaware, who published A History of Delaware.

=Vincent, Frank.= _L. I._, 1848- ----. A traveler of note. The Land of the White Elephant; Norsk, Lapp, and Finn; Through and Through the Tropics; The Republics of South America; Around and About South America; In and Out of Central America; Actual Africa; Lady of Cawnpore, a novel (with A. Lancaster). _Ap. Fu. Har. Put._

=Vincent, John Heyl.= _Al._, 1832- ----. A Methodist bishop now living at Topeka, of much prominence as the founder of the celebrated Chautauqua Movement in 1878. Studies in Young Life; The Modern Sunday School; Little Footprints in Bible Lands; Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee; Better Not; The Chautauqua Movement; To Old Bethlehem; Our Own Church; Outline History of Greece; Outline History of Rome, include his more important works. _See The Outlook, October, 1896._ _Fu. Fl. Meth._

=Vincent, Marvin Richardson.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary from 1888. Faith and Character; Student’s Handbook of the Topics and Literature of New Testament Introduction; Word Studies in the New Testament; Stranger and Guest; Gates into the Psalm Country; Amusement a Force in Christian Training; The Two Prodigals; The Minister’s Handbook; What Is It To Believe?; God and Bread; The Covenant of Peace; The Law of Sowing and Reaping; Bible Inspiration and Christ; That Monster, the Higher Critic; Christ as a Teacher; In the Shadow of the Pyrenees, from Basque Land to Carcassonne; The Age of Hildebrand. _Do. Ran. Scr._

=Vincent, Thomas McCurdy.= _O._, 1832- ----. An army officer who has published The Military Power of the United States during the War of the Rebellion.

=Vinght, Francisco Javier.= _C._, 1823- ----. A Cuban educator, after 1848 a resident of New York, and professor of Spanish in the University of the City of New York. Spanish Grammar; Spanish and English Phrase Book; El Maestro de Francés; El Maestro de Inglés; Le Maître d’Espagnol; Lector y Traductor Inglés.

=Vinton, Alexander Hamilton.= _R. I._, 1807-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, prominent as a Low Churchman. Bohlen Lectures for 1877; Sermons. _Wh._

=Vinton, Arthur Dudley.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. Son of F. Vinton, _infra_. A lawyer and novelist of New York city. The Pomfret Mystery; The Unpardonable Sin.

=Vinton, Francis.= _R. I._, 1809-1872. Brother of A. H. Vinton, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of Trinity Church, 1855-72. Arthur Tremaine, or Annals of Cadet Life; Evidences of Christianity; Manual Commentary on the General Canon Law of the Episcopal Church.

=Vinton, Francis Laurens.= _Me._, 1835-1879. Nephew of A. H. Vinton, _supra_. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, who rose to the rank of brigadier-general. The Guardian, a poem; Lectures on Machines; Theory of the Strength of Materials.

=Vinton, John Adams.= _Ms._, 1801-1877. A Congregational clergyman and genealogist. The Vinton Memorial; The Symmes Memorial; The Giles Memorial; The Sampson Family in America.

=Virgin, William Wirt.= _Me._, 1823-1893. A jurist who was justice of the supreme court of Maine. The Maine Civil Officer; Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine; Law and Equity Reports.

=Vogdes, William.= _Pa._, 1802-1886. A lawyer and educator of Philadelphia. United States Arithmetic; Elementary Treatise on Mensuration.

=Von Holst.= _See Holst, H. E. von._

=Vos, Geerhardus.= _H._, 1862- ----. A Dutch clergyman, professor of biblical theology at Princeton Seminary from 1894. The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes; Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den Banu Umajja und den Banu Haschim; The Doctrine of the Covenants in Reformed Theology; Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Discipline.

=Vose, George Leonard.= _Me._, 1831- ----. A civil engineer, professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-86. Orographic Geology; Manual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Disasters in America; A Graphic Method for Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary Course of Geometric Drawing; Life of G. W. Whistler, Civil Engineer. _Le._

=Vose, John.= _N. H._, 1766-1840. An educator of Atkinson, New Hampshire, prominent in his day, and author of System of Astronomy; Compendium of Astronomy.

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=Wackerhagen, Augustus.= _G._, 1774-1865. A Lutheran clergyman of Columbia County, New York. Inbegriff des Glaubens und Sittenlehre.

=Wade, William P----.= 18- ----. Treatise on the Law of Notice; On the Operation and Construction of Retroactive Laws; Manual of American Mining Laws in the Western States; The Laws of Notice as Affecting Civil Rights and Remedies; The Law of Attachment and Garnishment.

=Wadsworth, Marshman Edward.= _Me._, 1847- ----. The State geologist of Michigan from 1888. Geology of the Iron and Copper Districts of Lake Superior; The Azoid System (with J. D. Whitney, _infra_); Lithological Studies, are among his writings.

=Wagner, Arthur Lockwood.= _Il._, 1853- ----. An officer in the United States army. Catechism of Outpost Duty; Organization and Tactics; The Service of Security and Information; The Campaign of Königgrätz.

=Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew.= _E._, 1792-1854. A provisional Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, 1852-54. The Land of Bondage; Short Family Prayers; The Pathway and Abiding Places of Our Lord; Lessons on the Church Religious Education; Selected Sermons. _See Lives by Doane, 1856, Norton, 1858._ _Ap. Dut._

=Wait, William.= _N. Y._, 1821-1880. An eminent lawyer of Fulton County, New York. Law and Practice in Civil Actions; New York Annotated Code of Procedure; Actions and Defences at Law and in Equity; Treatise on General Principles of the Law.

=Waite, Charles Burlingame.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A Chicago jurist, author of The Christian Religion to A. D. 200.

=Waite, Mrs. Catherine [Van Valkenburg].= _Ont._, 1829- ----. Wife of C. B. Waite, _supra_. A Chicago lawyer, founder of The Chicago Law Times, and an active advocate of woman-suffrage. The Mormon Prophet and his Harem.

=Waite, Henry Randall.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published The Motive of St. Paul’s Life; Illiteracy and the Mormon Problem; A Boy’s Workshop. _Lo._

=Wakefield, Mrs. Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest.= _N. H._, 1836-1870. A verse-writer remembered for her poem, Over the River. _See Poems of, with Memoir, 1871._

=Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont.= _Ct._, 1804-1876. A Methodist clergyman of New York city among whose writings are, The Heroes of Methodism; Lost Chapters Recovered from Early American Methodism; Reminiscences; The American Temperance Cyclopedia. _Meth._

=Walcott, Charles Doolittle.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A geologist of note, director of the United States Geological Survey from 1894. The Trilobite; Paleontology of the Eureka District; The Cambrian Faunas of North America; The Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olinus Zone; Correlation Papers.

=Walcott, Charles Melton.= _E._, 1815-1868. An actor and playwright of Philadelphia among whose plays are, The Course of True Love; Hoboken; Washington, or Valley Forge; A Good Fellow.

=Walden, Treadwell.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington. Sunday-School Prayer Book; Our English Bible and its Ancestors; The Great Meaning of Metanoia. _Co. Wh._

=Waldo, Frank.= _O._, 1857- ----. A meteorologist of Princeton, New Jersey, formerly a junior professor in the United States signal service. Beside a number of scientific monographs, he has published Modern Meteorology; Elementary Meteorology. _Am._

=Waldo, Samuel Putnam.= _Ct._, 1780-1826. A writer of Hartford, Connecticut. Tour of President Monroe in 1818; Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson; Life of Stephen Decatur; Biographical Sketches.

=Waldstein, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. An eminent archæologist, the director of the American School of Archæology at Athens from 1888. Excavations at the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of Emotion and Intellect; Essays on the Art of Pheidias; The Work of John Buskin; Study of Art in Universities. _Gi. Har._

=Wales, Philip Skinner.= _Md._; 1837- ----. A United States naval officer who has published a Treatise on Mechanical Therapeutics.

=Walke, Henry.= _Va._, 1808-1896. A naval officer appointed rear-admiral in 1870, and the author of Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War.

=Walker, Alexander Joseph.= _Va._, 1819-1893. A lawyer and journalist of New Orleans. Jackson and New Orleans; History of the Battle of Shiloh; Butler at New Orleans; Duelling in Louisiana; Life of General Andrew Jackson.

=Walker, Amasa.= _Ct._, 1799-1875. A political economist of Boston. The Science of Wealth; The Nature and Uses of Money. _Lip._

=Walker, Charles Manning.= _O._, 1834- ----. A journalist of Indianapolis. History of Athens County, Ohio; First Settlement of Ohio at Marietta; Lives of Oliver Martin and Alvin Hovey. _Clke._

=Walker, Cornelius.= _Va._, 1819- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the Virginia Theological Seminary from 1866. Sorrowing Not Without Hope; Outlines of Christian Theology; Lectures on Christian Ethics. _Wh._

=Walker, Edward Dwight.= _L. I._, 1859-1890. A journalist and littérateur of New York city. Reincarnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth.

=Walker, Francis Amasa.= _Ms._, 1840-1897. Son of A. Walker, _supra_. The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1881, and during the Civil War a Federal officer, rising to the rank of colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. A distinguished authority on financial topics; an advocate of bimetallism. Wages; Money; Money in its Relations to Trade and Industry; Political Economy; The Indian Question; Land and its Rent; History of the Second Army Corps; Life of General Hancock; The Making of the Nation; Double Taxation in the United States; International Bimetallism. _See Review of Reviews, February, 1897._ _Ap. Ho. Lit. Mac. Scr._

=Walker, George Leon.= _Vt._, 1830-1900. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of a church in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1879. History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat; Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England. _Do. Sil._

=Walker, James.= _Ms._, 1794-1874. A Unitarian clergyman, minister at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1818-38, president of Harvard University, 1853-60. Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion; Sermons Preached in the College Chapel; Discourses. _A. U. A._

=Walker, James Barr.= _Pa._, 1805-1887. A popular Presbyterian clergyman in Ohio and Illinois. Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation; Poetry of Reason and Conscience; Pioneer Life in the West; God Revealed in Nature and in Christ; Philosophy of Skepticism and Ultraism; The Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man; Living Questions of the Age; Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; Poems. _Meth._

=Walker, James Bradford Richmond.= _Ms._, 1821-1885. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. Comprehensive Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. _C. P. S._

=Walker, James Murdock.= _S. C._, 1813-1854. A South Carolina lawyer. The Theory of Common Law; Tract on Government; The State _versus_ Bank of South Carolina; Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of Real Estate.

=Walker, James Perkins.= _N. H._, 1829-1868. A Boston publisher. Faith and Patience, a story for boys; Book of Raphael’s Madonnas; Sunny-Eyed Tim. _See Memoir of, 1869._

=Walker, Joseph Burbeen.= _N. H._, 1822- ----. An agriculturist of New Hampshire. Land Drainage; Forests of New Hampshire; Prospective Agriculture in New Hampshire; Oats; Rogers the Ranger; Birth of the Federal Constitution.

=Walker, Joseph Henry.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Republican Congressman from Massachusetts whose home is in Worcester. A Few Facts and Suggestions on Money, Trade, and Banking. _Hou._

=Walker, Mrs. Katherine Kent [Child].= _Vt._, 1840- ----. A writer who is best known by a famous paper in The Atlantic Monthly on The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things. Bible Stories for the Young; Life of Christ; From the Crib to the Cross. _Ran._

=Walker, Mrs. Mary Spring.= 18-- - ----. A Boston writer. Wife of J. B. R. Walker, _supra_. The Family Doctor, or Mrs. Barry and her Bourbon; Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his Wine; Both Sides of the Street; Down in a Saloon; White Robes.

=Walker, Robert James.= _Pa._, 1801-1869. The secretary of the United States Treasury, 1845-49, and author of Letters on the Finances and Resources of the United States.

=Walker, Sears Cook.= _Ms._, 1805-1853. Brother of T. Walker, _infra_. An astronomer who published a number of professional monographs.

=Walker, Timothy.= _Ms._, 1806-1856. A jurist of Cincinnati. Elements of Geometry; Introduction to American Law. _Lit._

=Walker, William.= _Tn._, 1824-1860. A famous adventurer who led a filibustering expedition into Nicaragua in 1855, and was afterwards court-martialled and shot by the authorities of Honduras. The War in Nicaragua. _See Walker’s Expedition to Nicaragua, by W. V. Wells, 1856; Reminiscences of the Filibuster War by Doubleday, 1886; Joaquin Miller’s Walker in Nicaragua._

=Walker, William McCreary.= _Md._, 1813-1866. A United States naval officer who published a work on Screw Propulsion.

=Walker, Williston.= _Me._, 1860- ----. Son of G. L. Walker, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, professor of Germanic and Western Church History in Hartford Theological Seminary from 1889. The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism; On the Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus; A History of the Congregational Church in the United States. _Scr._

=Wallace, Horace Binney.= _Pa._, 1817-1852. Son of J. B. Wallace, _infra_. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. Literary Criticisms; Art and Scenery in Europe. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Wallace, John Bradford.= _N. J._, 1778-1837. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Remarks on the Law of Bailment; Reports of Cases of the Third Circuit Court. _See Memoir by his wife, 1848._

=Wallace, John William.= _Pa._, 1815-1884. Son of J. B. Wallace, _supra_. A master in chancery of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Reporters, Chronologically Arranged; Cases in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Third Circuit; Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1863-1874; An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford, the Patriot Printer of 1776. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Wallace, Lew[is].= _Ind._, 1827- ----. A Federal major-general during the Civil War, subsequently a lawyer of Crawfordsville, Indiana, and minister to Turkey, 1881-85. Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ, has been extremely popular, but neither this nor his other romances have met the entire approval of literary critics. His other works include, The Fair God, an Aztec Story; The Prince of India; The Boyhood of Christ; Life of General Benjamin Harrison. _Har._

=Wallace, Mrs. Susan Arnold [Elston].= _Ind._, 1830- ----. Wife of L. Wallace, _supra_. The Storied Sea; Ginevra, a Christmas Story; The Land of the Pueblos; The Repose in Egypt. _Har._

=Wallace, William Ross.= _Ky._, 1819-1881. A lawyer and verse-writer of New York city. Perdita; Alban; Meditations in America, and Other Poems. The Liberty Bell is his best-known poem. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Wallack, Lester= (real name John Johnstone Wallack). _N. Y._, 1820-1888. A noted comedian and dramatist of New York city. The Veteran; Rosedale. _See Galaxy Magazine, October, 1868; Autobiography of, 1889._ _Scr._

=Wallis, Severn Teackle.= _Md._, 1816-1894. A lawyer of Baltimore. Glimpses of Spain; Spain: her Institutions, Politics, and Public Men. A memorial edition of his writings in four volumes was published in 1896. _Har._

=Waln, Robert.= _Pa._, 1765-1836. A Philadelphia merchant. Answer to the Anti-Protection Report of Henry Lee; Seven Letters to Elias Hicks, widely read at the time of their appearance.

=Waln, Robert.= _Pa._, 1794-1825. Son of R. Wain, _supra_. A Philadelphia littérateur. The Hermit in America; American Bards, a satire; Sisyphi Opus, with Other Poems; Life of Lafayette.

=Walsh, Michael.= _I._, 1763-1840. A once popular educator of Massachusetts who published a Mercantile Arithmetic, and a New System of Bookkeeping.

=Walsh, Robert.= _Md._, 1784-1859. A prominent Philadelphian who was United States consul at Paris, 1845-51. In 1811 he established the American Review of History and Politics, the first quarterly in the United States. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain; Letter on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government; Correspondence Respecting Russia; Didactics; The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science. _See Edinburgh Review, May, 1820; North American Review, April, 1820._

=Walsh, William Shepard.= “William Shepard.” _F._, 1854-189-. Grandson of R. Walsh, _supra_. A Philadelphia littérateur, editor of Lippincott’s Magazine, 1886-90. Authors and Authorship; Pen Pictures of Earlier Victorian Authors; Faust: the Legend and the Poem; Paradoxes of a Philistine; Pen Pictures of Modern Authors; Our Young Folks’ History of the Roman Empire.

=Walter, Nehemiah.= _I._, 1663-1750. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1688 until his death. The Sense of Indwelling Sin in the Unregenerate; Sermons; Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven.

=Walter, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1696-1725. Son of N. Walter, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, the colleague of his father. Grounds and Rules of Music Explained; Infallibility May Sometimes Mistake.

=Walter, William Bicker.= _Ms._, 1796-1822. Great-grandnephew of T. Walter, _supra_. A verse-writer who published Poems; Sukey, suggested by Halleck’s “Fanny.”

=Walters, William Thompson.= _Pa._, 1820-1891. A merchant of Baltimore, long prominent as an art patron. Antoine Louis Barye, from the French of Various Critics; The Percheron Horse, from the French of Du Hays; Notes upon Certain Masters of the Nineteenth Century.

=Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm.= _Sxy._, 1811-1887. A Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1839, and was president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at St. Louis, 1849-1887. Dr. Luther’s kleiner Katechismus ausgelegt von Dr. J. C. Dietrich, mit Zusätzen; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Evangelien-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Epistel-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Pastoral-theologie. He was the leader of what are known as Missouri Lutherans. _See Biography of, by Günther (Lebensbild), 1890; Brömel’s Homiletische Characterbilder, 1874._

=Walton, George Edward.= _O._, 1839- ----. A Cincinnati physician, professor of medicine in Cincinnati College from 1880. The Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada.

=Walworth= [wŏ´wŏrth], =Clarence Alphonsus.= _N. Y._, 1820-1900. Son of Reuben Walworth, _infra_. A Roman Catholic clergyman who was one of the founders of the Paulist order in the United States, a prominent temperance advocate, and since 1864 rector of St. Mary’s, Albany. The Gentle Sceptic; The Doctrine of Hell; Andiatorocté, and Other Poems.

=Walworth, Mrs. Ellen [Hardin].= _Il._, 1832- ----. Wife of M. T. Walworth, _infra_. A Saratoga writer who has published Saratoga, the Battle Ground.

=Walworth, Ellen Hardin.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. Daughter of M. T. Walworth, _infra_. An Old World as Seen Through Young Eyes.

=Walworth, Mrs. Jeanette Ritchie [Hadermann].= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A novelist of New York city. Dead Men’s Shoes; The Bar Sinister; The Man at Rossmere; At Bay; Southern Silhouettes; Forgiven at Last; Baldy’s Point; The Silent Witness; Heavy Yokes; An Old Fogy; The Little Radical; Uncle Scipio, are among her numerous fictions. _Cas. Ho._

=Walworth, Mansfield Tracy.= _N. Y._, 1837-1873. Son of Reuben H. Walworth, _infra_. A lawyer once well known as a writer of extremely sensational romances. Among them are, Beverly; Warwick; Lulu; Delaplene; Stormcliff; Mission of Death; Tahara, a Leaf from Empire.

=Walworth, Reuben Hyde.= _Ct._, 1787-1867. An eminent jurist of Saratoga, the last Chancellor of the State of New York. Rules and Orders of the New York Court of Chancery; The Hyde Genealogy.

=Walworth, Reubena Hyde.= _Ky._, 1867-1898. Daughter of M. T. Walworth, _supra_. Where was Elsie?, a comedietta.

=Ward, Aaron.= _N. Y._, 1790-1867. A New York congressman and major-general of militia, the author of Around the Pyramids, a volume of travel.

=Ward, Andrew Henshaw.= _Ms._, 1784-1864. A lawyer of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and subsequently of Newton in the same State. History of Shrewsbury; Genealogy of the Rice Family; The Ward Family.

=Ward, Artemus.= _See Browne, C. F._

=Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart [Phelps].= _Ms._, 1844- ----. Wife of Herbert D. Ward, _infra_, daughter of A. Phelps, _supra_. A popular New England novelist whose life was mainly passed at Andover and Gloucester until her marriage in 1888. She has more recently lived in Newton, Massachusetts. The publication in 1869 of The Gates Ajar, a tale whose theme is the life of departed spirits in the next world, aroused much discussion, and instantly made its author famous. She has since pursued the same motive in Beyond the Gates, and The Gates Between. Her latest works, as a whole, show an increase of power and a higher level of literary excellence. Hedged in; The Silent Partner; Sealed Orders, and Other Stories; Men, Women, and Ghosts; Friends: a Duet; Dr. Zay; The Story of Avis; An Old Maid’s Paradise, and Burglars in Paradise; Fourteen to One, a book of short stories; Donald Marcy; Jack the Fisherman; The Madonna of the Tubs; A Singular Life; The Supply at St. Agatha’s; The Master of the Magicians (with H. D. Ward); Come Forth (with H. D. Ward); What to Wear?; The Struggle for Immortality, a collection of essays; Chapters from a Life, an autobiography. Less widely known as a poet, her Poetic Studies, and Songs of the Silent World, perhaps represent her highest point of attainment. Her juvenile books include, Gypsey’s Rainy Day Book; My Cousin and I; The Trotty Book; Trotty’s Wedding Tour and Story Book. _See Vedder’s American Writers._ _Hou._

=Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton.= _N. Y._, 1812- ----. A Presbyterian missionary in India, 1836-47, and subsequently a minister in Geneseo, New York. India and the Hindoos; Christian Gift, or Pastoral Letters Upon Character; Summer Vacation Abroad; History of the Churches of Rochester, New York.

=Ward, Henry Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. Nephew of F. Ward, _supra_. A naturalist of note, professor in the University of Rochester, 1860-75. Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri; Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in Royal Museums of Europe.

=Ward, Henry Dana.= _Ms._, 1797-1884. A Baptist clergyman prominent as an opponent of freemasonry. Freemasonry: its Pretensions; The Gospel of the Kingdom; The History of the Cross; The Faith of Abraham and Christ.

=Ward, Herbert Dickinson.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. Son of W. H. Ward, _infra_. The Captain of the Kittie Wink; A Dash to the Pole; The New Senior at Andover; The White Crown, and Other Stories; The Burglar who Moved Paradise. _Hou. Ll. Lo. Lov. Rob._

=Ward, Mrs. H. O.= _See Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara._

=Ward, James Harman.= _Ct._, 1806-1861. A United States naval officer. Elementary Course of Instruction in Naval Gunnery; Manual of Naval Tactics; Steam for the Million.

=Ward, James Warner.= _N. J._, 1818- ----. A verse-writer; librarian, 1874-1895, of the Grosvenor library at Buffalo. Home-made Verses and Stories in Rhyme; Yorick, and Other Poems; Higher Water, a parody upon Hiawatha.

=Ward, John.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. Cousin of S. Ward, _infra_. A soldier and physician of New York city. The Overland Route to California, and Other Poems.

=Ward, Julius Hammond.= _Ms._, 1837-1897. An Episcopal clergyman and journalist of Boston on the staff of The Boston Herald. Life of J. G. Percival, _supra_; The Bible in Modern Thought; Life of Bishop White, _infra_; Phillips Brooks in Massachusetts; The Church in Modern Society; The White Mountains, a Guide to their Interpretation. _Ap. Do. Hou._

=Ward, Lester Frank.= _Il._, 1841- ----. A botanist and geologist employed in the United States Geological Survey. Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity; Sketch of Paleontological Botany; Synopsis of the Flora of the Laramie Group; Types of the Laramie Flora; Geographical Distribution of Fossil Plants; Dynamic Sociology; The Psychic Factors of Civilization; The Principles of Sociology. _Ap. Gi._

=Ward, Matthew Flournoy.= _Ky._, 1826-1863. A writer of Louisville. Letters From Three Continents; English Items.

=Ward, Mrs. May [Alden].= _O._, 1853- ----. President of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Petrarch; Dante: Sketch of his Life and Works; Old Colony Days. _Rob._

=Ward, Nathaniel.= _E._, _c._ 1580-1652. A Puritan clergyman, minister at Ipswich, 1634-36, and a resident of the colony of Massachusetts until 1646, when he returned to England, and was rector of Shenfield in Essex, 1647-52. He is famous as the author of The Simple Cobler of Aggavvam in America, a piece of satire as able as it is vindictive and intolerant. The first code of laws made in New England was drafted by Ward in 1639, and formally adopted in 1644. It is styled The Body of Liberties. Mercurius Anti-mechanicus, or the Simple Cobbler’s Boy with his Lap-full of Caveats, is usually attributed to Ward, and probably with truth. Other writings ascribed to him are, A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army; A Sermon before Parliament (1647). _See Tyler’s American Literature; Memoir by John Ward Dean, 1868._

=Ward, Samuel.= _N. Y._, 1814-1884. A once prominent banker of New York city who published Lyrical Recreations.

=Ward, Thomas.= _N. J._, 1807-1873. A littérateur of New York city. A Month of Freedom; Passaic: a Group of Poems; Flora, or the Gypsy’s Frolic, a pastoral opera; War Lyrics.

=Ward, William Hayes.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Independent, and eminent as an Assyriologist. Notes on Oriental Antiquities.

=Warden, David Baillie.= _I._, 1788-1845. A consul and secretary of the United States legation at Paris from 1804 until his death. Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments; Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of the Negroes (1810); Description of the District of Columbia; Bibliotheca Americana Septentrionalis; L’art de vérifier les dates: chronologie historique de l’Amérique; A Statistical History of the United States.

=Warden, Robert Bruce.= _Ky._, 1824- ----. A lawyer formerly of Cincinnati, but since 1873 of Washington. A Familiar Forensic View of Man and Law; A Voter’s Version of the Life and Character of Stephen Douglas; Private Life of Salmon Chase.

=Warder, John Aston.= _Pa._, 1812-1883. A Cincinnati physician very active in promoting a general interest in forestry and landscape gardening. Hedge Manual; American Pomology.

=Ware, Henry.= _Ms._, 1764-1845. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of Hingham, 1787-1805. His election in the latter year to the Hollis professorship of divinity at Harvard University precipitated the dissensions which ultimately resulted in dividing the Congregational body into Unitarian and Trinitarian portions. Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists; Inquiry into Foundation, Evidences, and Truth of Religion. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Ware, Henry.= _Ms._, 1794-1843. Son of H. Ware, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of the Second Church in Boston, 1817-30, and Parkman professor at Harvard University, 1830-42. The Vision of Liberty, an ode; Hints on Extemporaneous Speaking; Discourses on the Offices and Character of Christ; Sermons on Small Sins; On the Formation of Christian Character, which has been very widely read; Life of the Saviour; Lives of Priestley and Noah Worcester, _infra_. _See Memoir by John Ware, infra; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ _A. U. A._

=Ware, John.= _Ms._, 1795-1864. Son of H. Ware, 1st, _supra_. A Boston physician, professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1832-58. History and Treatment of Delirium Tremens; Hints to Young Men on the Relation of the Sexes; Success in the Medical Profession; Life of Henry Ware, _supra_. _A. U. A._

=Ware, John Fothergill Waterhouse.= _Ms._, 1818-1881. Son of Henry Ware, 2d, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Baltimore, and subsequently of Boston. Wrestling and Waiting; Sermons; War Tracts; The Silent Pastor; Home Life. _El. Le._

=Ware, Mrs. Katherine Augusta [Rhodes].= _Ms._, 1797-1843. The wife of a United States naval officer. She published The Power of the Passions, and Other Poems.

=Ware, Mrs. Mary Greene [Chandler]=, _Ms._, 1818- ----. Wife of J. Ware, _supra_. Elements of Character; Thoughts in My Garden; Death and Life.

=Ware, Nathaniel A----.= _Ms._, _c._ 1789-1854. A Southern writer whose later years were spent in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Views of the Federal Constitution; Notes on Political Economy.

=Ware, William.= _Ms._, 1797-1852. Son of H. Ware, 1st, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of New York city, 1821-36, whose historical novels are still popular. Letters from Palmyra, republished as Zenobia; Probus, afterwards called Aurelian; Julian; American Unitarian Biography (edited); Lectures on the Works of Washington Allston; Sketches of European Capitals; Life of Nathaniel Bacon in Sparks’s American Biography; Sermons Illustrative of Unitarian Christianity; Unitarianism the Doctrine of Matthew’s Gospel. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ _Est._

=Ware, William Robert.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. Son of H. Ware, 2d, _supra_. A professor of architecture in Columbia College School of Mines from 1881. He has published Modern Perspective. _Mac._

=Warfield, Benjamin Breckenridge.= _Ky._, 1851- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of didactic and polemical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1887. The Divine Origin of the Bible; Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament; The Canon of the New Testament; The Gospel of the Incarnation, include his more important works.

=Warfield, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Ware].= _Mi._, 1816-1877. Daughter of N. Ware, _supra_. A Kentucky novelist who with her sister Eleanor wrote The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems; The Indian Chamber, and Other Poems. Her own separate writings include, The Household of Bouverie; The Romance of the Green Seal; Miriam Monfort; Hester Howard’s Temptation; A Double Wedding; Lady Ernestine; Miriam’s Memoirs; Sea and Shore; The Cardinal’s Daughter; Ferne Fleming; The Romance of Beauscincourt.

=Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley.= _Ky._, 1861- ----. A lawyer and educator, president of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1891. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, an Historical Study.

=Waring= [wā´rĭng], =George Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1833-1898. An eminent sanitary engineer, superintendent of the street-cleaning department of New York city, 1895-97. The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns; A Farmer’s Vacation; The Bride of the Rhine; Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps; Village Improvements; Farm Villages; Elements of Agriculture; Draining for Profit and Draining for Health; Book of the Farm; How to Drain a House; Sewage and Land Drainage; Sanitary Condition of City and Country Dwellings; Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal. _Co. Hou. Vn._

=Warman, Cy.= _Il._, 1855- ----. A Colorado journalist who was for a time a railway engineer. Tales of an Engineer, with Rhymes of the Rail. _Scr._

=Warner, Adoniram Judson.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Federal officer during the Civil War, since 1866 a resident of Ohio. Appreciation of Money; Source of Value in Money.

=Warner, Amos Griswold.= _Ia._, 1861-1900. A professor of applied economics in Leland Stanford Junior University, who, beside reports as superintendent of charities for the District of Columbia, published, American Charities: a Study in Philanthropy and Economics; Three Phases of Coöperation in the West. _Cr._

=Warner, Anna Bartlett.= “Amy Lothrop.” _N. Y._, 1820- ----. Sister of S. Warner, _infra_, and co-author with her of Say and Seal; Wych Hazel; Books of Blessing; Ellen Montgomery’s Bookshelf. Among her separate novels and religious and other works are, Dollars and Cents; My Brother’s Keeper; Stories of Vinegar Hill; The Fourth Watch; The Other Shore; Three Little Spades, a Child’s Book of Gardening; Gardening by Myself; Up and Down the House. _Har. Lip. Ran._

=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= _N. J._, 1855- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of New Orleans. English History in Shakespeare’s Plays. _Lgs._

=Warner, Charles Dudley.= _Ms._, 1829-1900. A popular novelist and essayist of Hartford, editor of The Hartford Courant from 1867, and one of the editors of Harper’s Magazine, 1884-1898. As a humorous writer he presents the literary and not the newspaper aspect of American humour. My Summer in a Garden; Backlog Studies; Saunterings; Being a Boy; Baddeck and that Sort of Thing; Mummies and Moslems; In the Wilderness: Adirondack Essays; Life of Washington Irving; Life of Captain John Smith; In the Levant; My Winter on the Nile; A Roundabout Journey; On Horseback, a Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, with Notes of Travel in Mexico and California; The Work of Washington Irving; Studies in the South and West; Southern California; A Little Journey in the World; Their Pilgrimage; The Golden House; As We Go; As We Were Saying; The Relation of Life to Literature; Our Italy. _See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American Authors._ _Har. Ho. Hou._

=Warner, Eliza A----.= 18-- - ----. A writer of Northampton, Massachusetts, among whose works are, Tom Tracy; The Red House; Our Two Lives.

=Warner, Susan.= “Elizabeth Wetherell.” _N. Y._, 1818-1885. A once famous novelist of Highland Falls, New York, whose Wide, Wide World, a priggish religious tale appearing in 1849, attained an extraordinary popularity in America and England. Among her other works are, Queechy; The Old Helmet; Stephen, M. D.; The Hills of the Shatemuc; Melbourne House; Daisy; Diana; The Law and the Testimony, a theological work. _Lip. Put._

=Warner, Zebedee.= _Va._, 1833- ----. A minister of the sect of United Brethren. Christian Baptism; Rise and Progress of the United Brethren Church; Life of Jacob Buchtel; The Roman Catholic not a True Christian Church.

=Warren, Cornelia.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. Miss Wilton, a novel. _Hou._

=Warren, Gouverneur Kemble.= _N. Y._, 1830-1882. A lieutenant-colonel in the engineer corps, major-general of United States volunteers, and brevet major-general in the United States army. Explorations in the Dacota Country in 1855; Exploration of the Country Between the Missouri and the Platte Rivers; The Battle of Five Forks, Virginia.

=Warren, Henry White.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A Methodist bishop living in Denver. The Bible in the World’s Education; Lectures on the Bible in English; Sights and Insights, or Knowledge by Travel; Studies of the Stars; Recreations in Astronomy. _Har. Meth._

=Warren, Ira.= _Ont._, 1806-1864. A journalist and physician of Boston. Causes and Cure of Puseyism; The Household Physician.

=Warren, Israel Perkins.= _Ct._, 1814-1892. A Congregational clergyman, editor of The Christian Mirror at Portland, Maine, from 1875. Three Judges; Chauncey Judd; The Seaman’s Cause; Sadduceeism; The Parousia; The Book of Revelation: an Exposition, include his principal works. _Cr. Fu._

=Warren, John.= _Ms._, 1753-1815. A Boston physician, professor of anatomy at Harvard University from 1783. He was a brother of General Joseph Warren who fell at Bunker Hill. Mercurial Practice in Febrile Diseases.

=Warren, John Collins.= _Ms._, 1778-1856. Son of J. Warren, _supra_. A Boston physician who succeeded his father as professor of anatomy at Harvard University in 1815. He was one of the founders in 1820 of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and its chief surgeon till his death. He published, Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart; Surgical Observations on Tumors, and lesser works. _See Life of, by E. Warren, 1860._

=Warren, John Collins.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. Son of J. M. Warren, _infra_. A professor of surgery at Harvard University from 1887. The Anatomy and Development of Rodent Ulcer; Pathology of Carbuncle and Columnal Adipose; The Healing of Arteries after Ligature in Men and Animals; Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics.

=Warren, Jonathan Mason.= _Ms._, 1811-1867. Son of J. C. Warren, _supra_. A Boston physician. Surgical Observations, with Cures and Operations. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Warren, Mrs. Mercy [Otis].= _Ms._, 1728-1814. Sister of James Otis, _supra_, very prominent as a literary figure in her day, and especially esteemed as a political satirist. The Group, a political satire; History of the American Revolution; three tragedies, including The Adulator, the Sack of Rome, The Ladies of Castille; Poems: Dramatic and Miscellaneous. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Mrs. Ellet’s Women of the Revolution; Life of, by Alice Brown, supra, 1896._

=Warren, Nathan Boughton.= _N. Y._, 1805-1898. An author of Troy, New York. The Ancient Plain Song of the Church; The Order of Daily Service, with the English Musical Notation; The Holidays; Hidden Treasure, a Goblin Story.

=Warren, Samuel Edward.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. An educator of Newton, Massachusetts. Elementary Projection Drawing; General Problems of Shades and Shadows; Problems in Stone Cutting; Descriptive Geometry; Machine Drawing; The Sunday Question, are among his published works.

=Warren, Thomas Robinson.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. A traveller and merchant. Dust and Foam Tracks; The Yachtsman Primer; Shooting, Boating, and Fishing; On Deck; Juliette Irving and the Jesuit.

=Warren, William.= _Me._, 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman at Gorham, Maine. School Geography; Household Consecration; The Spirit’s Sword; Twelve Years Among Children; These for Those.

=Warren, William Fairfield.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A Methodist clergyman, president of Boston University from 1873. Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; The True Key to Ancient Chronology; In the Footsteps of Arminius; Constitutional Law Questions in the Methodist Church; The Quest of the Perfect Religion; The Story of Gottlieb. _Fl. Hou. Meth._

=Warriner, Edward Augustus.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Victor La Tourette; Kear, a Poem; I Am That I Am, a Metrical Essay.

=Warriner, Francis.= _Ms._, 1805-1866. A Congregational clergyman who was a United States naval chaplain, 1831-1834. The Cruise of the Potomac.

=Warrington.= _See Robinson, W. S._

=Washburn, Charles Ames.= _Me._, 1822-1889. A diplomatist who was minister to Paraguay, 1863-68. The History of Paraguay; From Poverty to Competence: Graduated Taxation; Political Evolution; Philip Thaxter; Gomery of Montgomery. _Le._

=Washburn, Edward Abiel.= _Ms._, 1819-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of Broad Church views, rector of Calvary Church, New York city. The Social Law of God; Voices from a Busy Life, a volume of verse; The Relation of the Episcopal Church to Other Bodies; Epochs of Church History; Beatitudes, and Other Sermons. _Dut. Wh._

=Washburn, Emory.= _Ms._, 1800-1877. A lawyer of Worcester, 1828-56; was governor of Massachusetts, 1854-56; and professor of law in Harvard University, 1856-76. Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts; History of Leicester, Massachusetts; Treatise on American Law of Real Property; American Law of Easements and Servitudes; Testimony of Experts; Lectures on the Study and Practice of the Law. _Hou. Lit._

=Washburn, Francis.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Newburg, New York. Meditations on Charity; The Soul Athirst, and Other Sermons; Thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer. _Wh._

=Washburn, Israel.= _Me._, 1813-1883. Brother of C. A. Washburn, _supra_; governor of Maine, 1861. Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal, of Livermore, Maine. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Washburn, Peter Thacher.= _Ms._, 1814-1870. A lawyer of Woodstock, Vermont, and governor of his State in 1869. Reports of the Supreme Court of Vermont; Digest of All Cases in the Vermont Supreme Court.

=Washburn, William Tucker.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A lawyer and novelist of New York city. Fair Harvard; The Unknown City, a story of New York; Spring and Summer, a collection of verse.

=Washburne, Elihu Benjamin.= _Me._, 1816-1887. Brother of C. A. Washburn, _supra_, but adding an “e” to the family name. A statesman who was secretary of state in 1869, and minister to France, 1869-77. Sketch of Edward Coles and the Slavery Struggle of 1823-24; Recollections of a Minister to France. _Scr._

=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= _Va._, 1856- ----. A distinguished educator of African descent, president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1881. Up from Slavery.

=Washington, Bushrod.= _Va._, 1762-1829. Nephew of G. Washington, _infra_. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases in the Virginia Court of Appeals; Reports of Cases in the United States Circuit Court, Third District, 1803-27. _See Life by H. Binney, 1858._

=Washington, George.= _Va._, 1732-1799. The first president of the United States, and known to general literature by his Farewell Address. His writings, including his Diary and Correspondence, have been edited in fourteen volumes by W. C. Ford, _supra_. _See United States histories; Lives by Marshall, Bancroft, Irving, Paulding, Sparks, Weems, Ramsay, E. E. Hale, Lodge, and many others; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Put._

=Washington, Mrs. Lucy Hall [Walker].= _Vt._, 1835- ----. A temperance reformer and verse-writer, the wife of a Baptist clergyman at Port Jervis, New York. Echoes of Song; Memory’s Casket.

=Wasson, David Atwood.= _Me._, 1823-1887. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, prominent as a radical thinker, who lived at West Medford after his retirement from the ministry. Poems; Essays: Religious, Social, Political. _See Memoir of, by O. B. Frothingham, supra._ _Le._

=Waterbury, Jared Bell.= _N. Y._, 1799-1876. A Presbyterian clergyman who was city missionary of Brooklyn. Advice to a Young Christian; Voyage of Life; Sketches of Eloquent Preachers; Southern Planters and Freedmen, are among his works.

=Waterhouse, Benjamin.= _R. I._, 1754-1846. A physician who was professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1783-1812, and of natural history at Brown University, 1784-91. Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine; The Principles of Vitality; The Botanist; The Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, a novel.

=Waterman, Thomas Glasby.= _N. Y._, 1788-1862. A lawyer of Binghamton, New York, who published The Justice’s Manual.

=Waterman, Thomas Whitney.= _N. Y._, 1821-1898. Son of T. G. Waterman, _supra_. A lawyer of Binghamton, New York, who edited many law books and wrote, The Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in New York; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices in Wisconsin and Iowa; Principles of Law and Equity; The Law of Set-Off; The Law of Trespass; The Law Relating to Specific Performance of Contracts; The Law of Corporations other than Municipal.