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appear in Boston, Mass., in September, 1846, 

 which they did in " Popping the Question." 

 Mr. Vincent died in 1850, and his widow, after 

 a brief retirement, resumed her profession. 

 She joined the stock company of the Boston 

 Museum in 1853, and remained a member of it 

 till her death. During these thirty-four years 

 she had appeared in 450 different characters. 

 Her most popular parts were Mrs. Hardcastle, 

 Dame Casfield, Lucretia McTubb, Lady Duber- 

 by, The Widow Green, and Mrs. Malaprop. 



Waleott, Charles F., an American lawyer, born 

 in Cambridge, Mass., in 1836 ; died in Goose- 

 berry Island, Salem harbor, Mass., June 11, 

 1887. He was graduated at Harvard Univer- 

 sity in 1857, and immediately began practicing 

 law in Boston. At the breaking out of the war 

 he enlisted, and in July, 1861, was commissioned 

 captain in the Twenty-first Regiment of Massa- 

 chusetts Volunteers. With this regiment he 

 served with distinguished honor in North Caro- 

 lina and Virginia, and, after the regiment was 

 transferred to Kentucky in April, 1863, he re- 

 signed his commission and returned home. He 

 was then appointed military secretary to Gov. 

 Andrew, and served as such until October, 

 1864, when he was commissioned lieutenant- 

 colonel of the Sixty-first Regiment. On his 

 arrival at the front he was promoted to the 

 rank of colonel, and for gallant services during 

 the attack on Fort Stedman to that of brevet 

 brigadier-general. After the war he published 

 a history of the Twenty-first Regiment, attend- 

 ed all its annual reunions, and resumed the 

 practice of law in Boston. His death occurred 

 immediately after rowing to his summer- resort 

 in Salem harbor. 



Walter, Thomas I stick, an American architect, 

 born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 4, 1804; died 

 there Oct. 30, 1887. He was for many years 

 professor of architecture in the Franklin Insti- 

 tute, Philadelphia, one of the founders of the 

 American Institute of Architects, and, at the 

 time of his death, its president. Mr. Walter 

 was the designer of the Philadelphia County 

 Prison, 1831 ; Girard College, 1833 ; the ex- 

 tension and dome of the United States Capitol 

 at Washington, D. C., 1851-'65 ; the wing of 

 the United States Patent-Office, 1851 ; the re- 

 constructed Congressional Library building, 

 and the extensions of the United States Trea- 

 sury and Post-Office buildings, 1855. 



Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm, an American 

 educator, born in Langenchursdorf, Saxony, 

 Oct. 25, 1811 ; died in St. Louis, Mo., May 7, 

 1887. He received a preparatory education at 

 Hohenstein and Schneesberg, and entered the 

 University of Leipsic with the intention of 

 studying medicine. The reading of a biography 

 of Oberlin changed his views as to a profession 

 and led him to apply himself to theology. He 

 was graduated at the university in 1833, and en- 

 tered upon the work of the ministry at Braeuns- 

 dorf in 1836. In the latter year he joined 

 a company of Saxon Lutheran emigrants, under 

 the leadership of Martin Stephan, and with 



them settled in Perry County, Mo., subsequently 

 becoming their spiritual director. In 1841 he 

 was called to the pastorate of the Lutheran 

 church in St. Louis; in 1847, on the organiza- 

 tion of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, 

 and adjacent States, was elected its first presi- 

 dent ; and in 1849, on the removal of Concordia 

 College and Theological Seminary from Perry 

 County to St. Louis, was chosen Professor of 

 Theology, which office, together with the pasto- 

 rate of the First Lutheran Church, he held till 

 death. He was a prolific writer for the peri- 

 odicals of his denomination, while of his nu- 

 merous books, two postils, a treatise on the 

 Church and the ministry, a hand-book of pas- 

 toral theology, and an edition of Beyer's " Theo- 

 logical Compend," with annotations, are par- 

 ticularly deserving of mention. 



Ward, George Cabot, an American financier, 

 born in Boston, Mass., in 1825 ; died in New 

 York city May 4, 1887. He removed to New 

 York city while a young man. and was educated 

 for the banking business. Subsequently, be 

 established the firm of S. G. & G. C. Ward, 

 who represented the London banking-house of 

 Baring Brothers. Mr. Ward's abilities and 

 high standing as an executive officer and finan- 

 cier induced many of the large charitable and 

 financial institutions to seek his co-operation 

 in their management; and he thus became an 

 original member of the association which 

 formed the Union League Club in 1863, and a 

 member of the executive committee on its 

 organization ; treasurer of the New York Hos- 

 pital and of the New York Geographical 

 Society; trustee of the Bloomingdale Lunatic 

 Asylum ; promoter of the Newsboys' Lodging- 

 house ; secretary of the Bleecker Street Sav- 

 ings-Bank ; and director of the Union Trust 

 Company and of the Bank of Commerce. 



Washbnrn, William Barrett, an American manu- 

 facturer, born in Winchendon, Mass., Jan. 31, 

 1820; died in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 5, 1887. 

 He was graduated at Yale in 1844. Soon after- 

 ward he engaged in a manufacturing business 

 in Greenfield, Mass., continuing it till his death. 

 He entered political life in 1850, when he was 

 elected a State Senator. At the close of this 

 term he was elected a member of the House of 

 Representatives. He became a Republican on 

 the organization of the party in 1856, and 

 afterward remained an active member of it. 

 In 1862 he was elected a representative in 

 Congress, and was returned every succeeding 

 term till his election to the chief magistracy of 

 the State in 1871. He was re-elected Governor 

 in 1872-'73, and on May 1, 1874, was elected 

 United States Senator by the State Legislature 

 to fill the unexpired term of Charles Sumner. 

 His senatorial term expired March 3, 1875. 

 since when he had held no political office. He 

 was president of the Greenfield National Bank, 

 trustee of Smith College at Northampton, di- 

 rector of the Connecticut River Railroad, cor- 

 porate member of the American Board of 

 Commissioners of Foreign Missions, alumni 



