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II. Vanderbilt. wliom she married in L8 



:;oted f.r the simplicity of her home life and 

 her quiet methods of charity. For 



many years prior to her deatli >he had been par- 

 ticularly interested in the work of St. Bartholo- 

 mew's Church and its miion in New York city. 

 She erected the new parish house a- a joint gift 

 from herself and her iius. and the gr 



part of the large amount of money she annually 

 in charity passed through the hands of the 

 Rev. Dr. David II. Greer, the rector. She be- 

 queatl. ' trtholomew's Church. x250,000. 



Wales. Gcorze \\ .. art collector and benefactor, 

 born in Randolph. Mass.. in June. lsi5 : died in 

 Newport. K. I.. July 7. \*W. He accumulated a 

 larire fortune in mercantile business in Bo-ton, and 

 nent spent money liberally in charity 

 and the gratification of a taste for literature and 

 art. He was the principal benefactor of the B 



urn of Fine Arts and of the Charming Memo- 

 rial Church in Newport. About thirty j 

 while visiting Florence. Italy, he became inte: 

 in collecting rare specimens of pottery and porce- 

 lain. This taste he continued to gratify till his 

 death, when he had made two collections, at an ex- 

 penditure of several hundred thousand dollars, that 

 are now almost priceless. One collection he placed 

 on exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts, and pre- 

 sented it to the institution with sundry other arti- 

 cles, numbering in all over TOO pieces, in 

 The other collection he retained in his Boston resi- 

 dence. Mr. Wales provided in his will that after the 

 death of his widow the Museum of Fine Arts should 

 receive 30.000 : the collection of pottery and glass 

 in his residence : his books on pottery, engraving, 

 glass making, lace, painting, architecture, and fine 

 n general : and 12 paintings, including works 

 of Marinari. Siliverti, Calvert. and Page. 



Walke, Henry, naval officer, born near Ports- 

 mouth. Va.. Dec. 24, 1808 : died in Brooklyn. N. Y.. 

 March 8. 1896. He was appointed a midshipman in 

 the United States navy Feb. 1. 1 X 27: was promoted 

 1 midshipman. June 10. 1833: lieutenant, Feb. 

 0. 1S39; commander. Sept. 14. 183") : captain. July 



16. 1802: com- 

 modore. July 25. 

 1866: and 'rear 

 admiral. July 13. 

 : and was 

 retired April 26. 

 1881. His first 

 important 

 vice was ren- 

 dered during the 

 Mexican War 

 cutive offi- 

 cer of the bomb 

 iirig" Vesuvius." 

 when he took 

 part in the cap- 

 ture of Vera Cruz 

 and the success- 

 ful operations 

 against Taba-- 



co, Tuspan. and Alvarado. Immediately prior to 

 the beginning of the civil war he was on duty at 

 the Pensacola Navy Yard, where he adopted meas- 

 ures that prevented the occupation of Fort Pickens 

 by the Confederates. He also on his own responsi- 

 bility, and contrary to the orders of his superior offi- 

 tnd the Secretary of the Navy, secured the 

 safety of all loyal officers, sailors, marines, and Gov- 

 ernment employees at that station and removed 

 them to New York on the seizure of the navy yard. 

 For this disobedience of orders he was court-mar- 

 tialed and publicly reprimanded by Secretary W 

 though unofficially his action was commended, On 



t 



duty with tin 

 sissippi flotilla and was "inmandofih, 



Taylor." At the battle of B.-lmm.- 

 manded the squadron tl. ited with 



Grant and prevented the Confederate- from cutting 

 off a part of the National army on r 

 transport-, a -ervice for which he was officially com- 

 plimented by Gen. Grant. Ib 

 mand of the gunboat "Carondelet." carryi: . 

 guns and partially ironclad. In this \-e el he took 

 art in the battle of Fort Henry, the 

 first National victory in We-tcrn " 



for which he received the thanks of the Secretary of 

 the Navy, of < :id of the State of Ohio. 



<>n Feb.' 13. 1M52. lie opened alone the battle of 

 Fort Doiielsoii, and on the 14th he was the ! 

 retire from the front line of battle. With tin 



he took part in the bombardment of Island 

 Xo. 10 on March 17. and on April 4 voluntarily ran 

 the gantlet of the Confederate batteries and princi- 

 pally captured the batteries below the island on the 

 6th and Tth. For this feat, the first that had been 

 attempted on the Mississippi, he was commended 

 by Flag-Officer Foote and the Secretary of the 

 Navy. At the battle of Fort Pillow he led the fleet 

 and rescued the gunboat " Cincinnati." and at Mem- 

 phis. June 6. he was second in the line of battle and 

 his gunboat was the principal one that engaged the 

 ram "Arkansas." On July 16 he was given com- 

 mand of the partly protected ram " Lafayette." in 

 which he passed the Vicksbur? batteries on April 

 16. At the battle of Grand Gulf. April 29. 1863, he 

 led the second division of the fleet, and unaided si- 

 lenced the main fort on Point of Rocks. Subse- 

 quently he dispersed the Confederates under Gen. 

 Taylor at Simmesport. La. : blockaded the mouth 

 of Red river: commanded the "Sacramento" in 

 search of the "Alabama": blockaded the Confed- 

 erate steamer " Rappahannock " at Calais, France, 

 till the close of the war: and intercepted her when 

 she escaped into British waters under the British 

 flag. He retired voluntarily to hasten the promo- 

 tion of junior officers. 



Wallace. William A., lawyer, born in Clearfield. 

 Pa., Nov. . ied in New York city. May 22. 



1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. and be- 

 gan his political career in 1862, when he was elected 

 to the State Senate. By re-elections he served there 

 till 1875, and was presiding officer in 1871. In 1^74 

 he was a member of the commission to propose 

 amendments to the State Constitution, and the same 

 year was elected United States Senator to succeed 

 John Scott. Republican. While in the Senate he 

 served on the Committees on Finance. Appropria- 

 tions, and Foreign Relations. In 1882 he was again 

 elected to the State Senate, and in this term intro- 

 duced the present arbitration statute and several 

 amendments to the railroad laws of the State. He 

 was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for 

 Governor of Pennsylvania in 1890, but withdrew in 

 favor of Robert E. Pattison. 



Warner. Olin Levi. N. A., sculptor, born in Suf- 

 field, Conn.. April 9. 1*44 : died in New York city, 

 Aug. 14. 1896. On his father's side Mr. Warner was 

 :ided from the brother of Col. Seth Warner, who 

 fought at Bennington and Hubbardston with Ethan 

 Allen. His father, for a time an itinerant Metho- 

 dist minister, was a man of great mechanical inge- 

 nuity, and one of his father's brothers : 

 certain uncultivated artistic feeling, but aside from 

 this, students of heredity could find little to account 

 for the very high order of artistic temperament 

 which Mr. Warner displayed. In his early 

 his father removed to Amsterdam, Montgomery 

 County. N. Y.. to take charse of his grandfather's 

 affairs, and this was young Warner's home until he 

 was fifteen. He attended the district school, spent 



