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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (VosE WELLSTOOD.) 



ice in that church. He received the degree of D. D. 

 from Rutgers and Union Colleges in 1839, and LL. D. 

 from Jefferson College in 1856. 



Vose, Richard, manufacturer, born in Whitesborough, 

 N. Y., Sept. 2, 1830 ; died in Nyack, N. Y., Feb. 25, 

 1893. He commanded the 71st New York Volunteers in 

 the civil war, and for many years remained at the 

 head of the regiment after its reorganization as a part 

 of the National Guard of the State. Col. Vose invent- 

 ed a number of car-spring appliances, and manufac- 

 tured oar-springs for forty years. 



1862 



graduated 



and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the 

 City of New York in 1885 ; spent a year in special 

 study in Heidelberg and Vienna ; and on his return 

 to New York was appointed chief of the clinic of 

 nervous diseases in the Vunderbilt Clinic. He was 

 in charge of the quarantine station on Fire Island 

 during the cholera excitement of 1892, and contracted 

 a fatal attack of typhoid fever while attending a pa- 

 tient. Dr. Vought was recognized in his profession 

 as an exceptional diagnostician in nervous diseases, 

 and had published " A Chapter on Cholera, for Lay 

 Eeaders," " A Study of the Organisms found in the 

 Blood after Malarial Fever," and a description of sev- 

 eral cases of the rare disease known as acromegalia. 



Walker, Alexander, journalist, born in Fredericks- 

 burg, Va., Oct. 13, 1819; died in Fort Scott, Ark., 

 Jan^. 24, 1893. He was graduated in law at the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, and removed to New Orleans to 

 practice in 1840. He soon became active in journalism 

 and politics, was editor at various periods of the 

 " Jeffersonian," the " Delta," the " Picayune," the 

 " Times," and the " Herald," of New Orleans, and of 

 the " Enquirer," of Cincinnati ; was for some time a 

 city judge ; was a member of the Louisiana Conven- 

 tion that adopted the ordinance of secession ; and was 

 author of " Jackson and New Orleans" (New York, 

 1856), "Life of Andrew Jackson," "Butler and New 

 Orleans," " The Battle of Shiloh," " Dueling in Lou- 

 isiana," " The Story of the Plague, a History of the 

 Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1852, and other historical 

 works. 



Walker, John OK, military officer, born in Cole Coun- 

 ty, Mo., July 22, 1822 ; died in Washington, D. C., 

 July 20, 1893. He was educated at the Jesuit College 

 in St. Louis ; was appointed a lieutenant in the 1st 

 United States Mounted Rifles in 1843 ; served through 

 the Mexican War, in which he was wounded, and pro- 

 moted captain ; and was afterward employed in several 

 Indian campaigns. In 1861 he resigned his commis- 

 sion, and was appointed colonel of the 2d Virginia 

 Infantry in the Confederate service. He was wounded 

 at Malvern Hill, commanded the division that occu- 

 pied Loudoun Heights at the capture of Harper's Ferry, 

 was promoted major-general, fought with his division 

 at Milliken's Bend, Bayou Bourbeaux, Plaquemine, 

 Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins Ferry, and commanded 

 the district of Louisiana and the Department of Lou- 

 isiana and Texas. After the war he was United 

 States- consul-general at Bogota, and the special com- 

 missioner of the Department of State to invite the 

 South American republics to send representatives to 

 the Convention of American Republics in Washing- 

 ton. He was highly complimented by Secretary 

 Elaine for the tact shown in this mission. 



Waters, Horace, manufacturer, born in Jefferson, 

 Lincoln County, Me., Nov. 1, 1812 ; died in New York 

 city, April 22, 1893. He was engaged in mercantile 

 business till 1847, when he began selling pianos for a 

 Boston manufacturer. In 1850 he undertook manu- 

 facturing for himself in New York city ; in 1855 

 failed in business ; in 1858 began publishing the 

 "Sunday-School Bell," the first hymn and tune book 

 of its kind, with the profits from which he re-estab- 

 lished himself; in 1875 again failed; and in 1884 or- 

 ganized a corporation to continue the business. Mr. 

 Waters was an early antislavery man, an original 

 member of the Prohibition party, a liberal supporter 



of Baptist Church enterprises, and the chief promoter 

 of the Waters Normal Institute in Winton, N. C. 



Waterston, Eobert Cassie, clergyman, born in Kenne- 

 bunk, Me., in 1812; died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 21, 

 1893. Early in life he became superintendent of the 

 Sunday school of Father Taylor's Bethel Church in 

 Boston ; subsequently he studied theology in Cam- 

 bridge, and in 1839 he was ordained pastor of the Pitts 

 Street Chapel, where he labored among the poor for six 

 years. He was a member of the Boston school com- 

 mittee for ten years, and a pleasing extempore speaker. 

 He was author of " Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual 

 Culture" (Boston, 1842); "Arthur Lee and Tom 

 Palmer" (1845) ; memoirs of Charles Sprague, George 

 Sumner, William Cullen Bryant, and George B. Emer- 

 son ; and numerous poems and hymns. He be- 

 queathed $40,000 conditionally, and, after the death 

 of his widow, his library and collections of pamphlets, 

 manuscripts, and autographs, to the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society, and $10,000 and his collections of 

 birds, shells, fossils, and minerals to the Society of 

 Natural History. 



Webster, Eras'tus Durnin, journalist, born in Aurora, 

 N. Y., April 16, 1827; died in Washington, D. C., 

 March 22, 1893. lie learned the printer's trade in the 

 office of the Buffalo " Express," established an anti- 

 slavery newspaper in Springville, N. Y., in 1849, 

 founded the Omaha " Republican " in 1859, and was a 

 delegate from Nebraska to the National Republican 

 Convention in 1860. In 1861-'65 he was private sec- 

 retary to Secretary Seward, and during this period he 

 delivered Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the Confederate 

 commissioners, to the commander of the British man- 

 of-war " Rinaldo," and was sent on a secret mission 

 within the Confederate lines in Florida and Georgia. 

 In 1865 he was appointed United States consul at 

 Bradford, England; in 1867, deputy surveyor of the 

 port of New York ; in 1868, assessor of internal reve- 

 nue for the Thirty -second District of New York; in 

 1873, State superintendent of immigration ; and in 

 1877, inspector of internal revenue. He was a dele- 

 gate at large from Nebraska to the National Repub- 

 lican Convention in 1892. 



Weed, Harriet Ann, amanuensis, born in Rochester, 

 N. Y., Feb. 6, 1819 ; died in New York city, Nov. 1, 

 1893. She was the eldest daughter of Thurlow Weed, 

 was educated at the Albany Female Academy, and from 

 the time she left school till the death of her father 

 was his private secretary. She had charge of all his 

 extensive correspondence, and aided him in receiving 

 the public men who for more than a generation 

 thronged his home. In 1861 she accompanied her 

 father on his secret mission to Great Britain and 

 France, undertaken at the request of President Lin- 

 coln, for the purpose of creating a better feeling 

 toward the National cause on the part of the govern- 

 ments of those countries. After her father's death, in 

 1882, she completed his unfinished "Autobiography" 

 (Boston, 1882). 



Wellstood, John Q-eike, steel engraver, born in Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland, Jan. 18, 1813 ; died in Greenwich, 

 Conn., Jan. 21, 1893. He removed to New York 

 city in 1833, was apprenticed to the trade of a 

 bank-note engraver, and organized the firm of Well- 

 stood, Benson & Hanks in 1847. Subsequently the 

 firm name was changed to Wellstood, Hanks, Hay 

 & Whiting, and it continued to be the principal 

 bank-note engraving concern in the country till 1858, 

 when it was merged in the incorporation of the 

 American Bank-Note Company. Mr. Wellstood was 

 superintendent of the lettering department in the cor- 

 poration till 1871, when he withdrew, and founded 

 the Columbia Bank-Note Company, of Washington, 

 D. C. While president of the Columbia company 

 he designed and engraved a large number of plates 

 for the " greenback " notes. His skill was attested by 

 the detail of the lathe work, the intricate pattern of 

 the backs, and the execution of the letters and 

 counters, or figures, no two of which were alike. In 

 1879, when the Government be^an engraving its own 

 plates, he returned to the American Bank-Note Com- 



