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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (WADHAMS WATTERSOX.) 



newly opened Utica and Schenectady Eailroad, of 

 which Erastus Corning was president. In 1848 he 

 was appointed general superintendent, and, on the 

 consolidation of the various roads between Albany, 

 Buffalo, and Niagara Falls, under the name of the 

 New York Central, he was given a similar office in 

 that corporation, which he lield until 18(55, having 

 full charge of the reorganization and management of' 

 the road. He was elected to Congress from the 18th 

 New York District as a Democrat in I860, and there 

 served on the committees on Post-offices and Post- 

 roads and on Expenditures in the War Department. 

 In 1862, at the request of the Secretary of War, he 

 accepted temporarily the orfice of director and super- 

 intendent of the military railroads of the United 

 States. After resigning the s-aperintendency of the 

 New York Central Railroad, Mr. Vibbard settled in 

 New York city and applied himself to interests with 

 which he had been connected for several years. He 

 was one of the principal owners of the Day Line of 

 steamers plying between Albany and New York, and 

 was the capitalist in a large mercantile establishment 

 in New York doing business almost exclusively with 

 the Southern States. He was a director in the orig- 

 inal Greenwich Street Elevated Railroad Company 

 and in the central branch of the Union Pacific Com- 

 pany. In recent years he had been interested in rail- 

 road and other enterprises in the Southern States 

 and in South America. 



Wadharns, Edgar Philip, Koman Catholic Bishop of 

 Ogdensburg, N. Y., born May 21, 1817 : died Dec. 5, 

 1891. He was a native ot Lewis, Essex County, 

 N. Y., whence his family removed in 1822 to West- 

 port. His parents were "Episcopalians, and destined 

 their son for the ministry. He was graduated at 

 Middlebury College in 1838, entered the General 

 Theological Seminary, New York city, where he re- 

 ceived deacon's orders, and was sent to take charge of 

 the missions at Port Henry and Ticonderoga. The 

 tractarian movement in England was then at its 

 height, and was beginning to be reflected in this 

 country by numerous conversions from Anglicanism 

 to Roman Catholicism. Of these converts, Mr. Wad- 

 hams was one of the first, being received into the 

 Church in June, 1846. He went to St. Mary's Sem- 

 inary, Baltimore, as a student, and was ordained 

 priest Jan. 15, 1850, by the Rt. Rev. John McCloskey 

 (afterward Cardinal),* then Bishop of Albany, and 

 was immediately appointed assistant in the Albany 

 cathedral. Here he remained for many years, his 



fenial social qualities and his sterling honesty en- 

 earing him to all the citizens, both Catholic and 

 Protestant. In the latter part of 1865 he was made 

 pastor of the cathedral and vicar-general of the 

 diocese. In 1872 the diocese of Ogdensburg was 

 created, Father Wadhams was unanimously recom- 

 mended for its first bishop, and he was consecrated 

 at Albany, May 5, 1872, by Archbishop McCloskey. 

 He devoted himself to building churches and paro- 

 chial schools in his diocese, and founded a college at 

 Watertown, under the care of the Fathers of the 

 Sacred Heart. He never indulged in controversy, 

 and his administration was marked by his modest 

 and unostentatious efforts to extend the sphere of in- 

 fluence of his Church. All his financial obligations 

 were promptly met, and the affairs of the diocese 

 were brought to a very prosperous condition. Feel- 

 ing the increasing weight of years, some months be- 

 fore his death he caused steps to be taken looking to 

 the appointment of a coadjutor, and the matter was 

 under consideration at Rome. 



Wadleigh, Bainbridge, lawyer, born in Bradford, 

 N. II., Jan. 4, 1831; died iii Boston, Msiss., Jan. 24, 

 1891. He received an academical education, was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1850, and settled in Milford, N. II. 

 In 1855, 1856, 1859, 1860, 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872 he 

 was a member of the State House of Representatives, 

 and in 1872 was elected United States Senator as a 

 Republican. He was a mi'iiiber of the committees on 

 Patents, on Military Affairs, and on Elections. In 

 1880 he removed to Boston and resumed practice. 



Walker, David 8., jurist, born in Logan County, Ky., 

 in 1815 : died in Tallahassee, Fla., July 20, 1891. He 

 removed to Florida about 1840, was the first State 

 Senator from Leon and Wakulla Counties after 

 Florida was admitted to the Union, and for many 

 vears was the leader of the Whig party in that State. 

 He was elected Governor in 1865, and 'held the office 

 till 1868. He held several offices of trust at different 

 times, was once a candidate for the United States 

 Senate, and at the time of his death was judge of the 

 2d Judicial Circuit Court. 



Walling, George Washington, ex-Superintendent of 

 police in New York city, born in Middletown town- 

 ship, Monmouth County, N. J., May 1, 1823; died in 

 Holmdel, Monmouth County, N. J., Dec. 31, 1891. 

 lie was a son of Leonard Walling, a member of the 

 Legislature of New Jersey, and a grandson of Daniel 

 Walling, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. The 

 first years of his manhood were spent as a sailor on 

 the steamboats plying the harbor and rivers of New 

 York city. In 1845 he was employed on the revenue 

 steamer " Spencer " ; was appointed a policeman of 

 the city of New York on Dec. 22, 1847 ; was pro- 

 moted captain in October, 1853, inspector Nov. 21, 

 1866, superintendent July 23, 1874; resigned June 9, 

 1885, and was granted a pension for his long and 

 faithful services. He was engaged in suppressing 

 the Astor Place riots in 1.849; had command ot 

 a portion of the police force in the draft riots of 

 July, 1863, when his services were especially con- 

 spicuous and effective ; and was in command of the 

 police in the Orange riots of July, 1871. After his 

 retirement he returned to the county of his birth. 

 At the time of his death he was a resident of Keyport, 

 Monmouth County, N. J., one of the directors of the 

 Keyport Banking Company, and chief of the fire de- 

 partment of that town. 



Waterman, Robert Whitney, capitalist, born in Fair- 

 field, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1826 ; died in San Diego, Cal., 

 April 12, 1891. He removed to Sycamore, 111., while 

 a youth, worked in a country store till 1846. then en- 

 gaged in business for himself in Belvidere, 111., and in 

 1850-'52 was an unsuccessful miner in California. In 

 1853 he established the u Independent " in Wilming- 

 ton, 111. ; in 185i'i was active in the Fr6mont presiden- 

 tial canvass ; and in 1 858 took the stump in the Lincoln- 

 Douglas senatorial contest, 1 ie returned to California 

 in 1860 and purchased a ranch, which proved an 

 unsuccessful venture; and, greatly reduced in funds, 

 he went on an extensive prospecting tour and ulti- 

 mately struck a rich silver ledge in Mohave Desert, 

 which became the famous Calico mining district. 

 From that time his career was prosperous, and besides 

 his mining holdings he acquired large ranch properties. 

 In 1863 he made his permanent residence in Califor- 

 nia; in 1886 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of the 

 State on the Republican ticket ; and in September, 

 1887. on the death of Gov. Bartlett, he became Gov- 

 ernor, and held the office till 1891. 



Watterson, Harvey Magee, journalist, born in Bedford, 

 Tenn., Nov. 23, 1811 ; died in Louisville, Kv., Oct. 1, 

 1891. He received a classical education in Princeton, 

 Ky., established a newspaper in Shelbyville, Tcnn., 

 in 1831 ; was elected to the Legislature* in 1835, and 

 to Congress in 1838 and 1840, and then, declining a 

 renomination, was sent on a diplomatic mission to 

 Buenos Ayres, where he remained a year. On his 

 return he was re-elected to the Legislature, of which 

 he became Speaker. In 1847-'51 he was editor and 

 proprietor of the " Nashville Union," and in 1851 he 

 was appointed editor of the "Washington Union."' 

 In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Democratic 

 Convention, where he voted for Stephen A. Douglas, 

 and was also a Douglas elector-at-large, and in 1861 

 he was a delegate to the State convention called to 

 consider the question of secession. In all his politi- 

 cal life he had been dominated by an uncompromising 

 devotion to the Union, and, finding that his efforts to 

 avert the impending disaster were futile, he retired to 

 his Beach Grove home till the questions leading to 

 the war had been settled by force of arms. When 



