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 WUliam. Hawr Willard. 



M*ML. II : die. 



Igfi) ; - The Messiah < 1874) ; and " The Restitution 



William OhMJaj fliiall. editor, txrn in CharUv- 



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. -.,.. ..- Harvard 1 > .- ool, 

 and * nlilor of the last 8 volume* of t 

 can and EojrtUh Kncyclop*>ln of Law." He pu"- 

 rki i . i ..:.:! Lawi ol the 

 Called Stair*. >th K\planatory Note* a 



, rt, and tin Tn-asurj 

 Dpartmeot(1883 



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laetta - Report*," 1881 ). I lo alao 

 .**"! in the preparation 



Dte*t M (Ts06); was OOUabontor of the u Annual 

 at "an. I nplete Digest." 



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.. . ., . . w there June 18, 1895. lie 

 at the Boston Latin School and at Ilar- 

 : School, being graduated at the lat in 



n-c year* in European 



tel*. He wa* ophthalmic *urgeon to the 6o*t< 

 Hospital from 1864 till 1891 ; was leet un-r in I i 



ol in 1869-*71; and wan I 

 Ophthalmology th 'v\. wh.-n. .n P 



.. i). wm '' nd*x md tir>t 

 FreMdmtof the American Ophthalmological s 

 He trained the Boyboon prize for hi* essay on " Ko- 

 eaoi Advances in Ophthalmic Science," and pub- 

 lished a I luiesof 

 the Bye 11 (186i); Recent Advance* in Ophthalmic 

 w (1866);"0f*ic*l Defect* in School ( hil 

 [1868 1 ; "Our Kjes, and how to take care of 

 [1871); snd-A Diagnosis and Treatment of 

 of the Eve" (1886)T 

 Wlkoa, J*ass P.. lawyer, born in Newark, Ohio, 

 Oct. 19, 18S8; -I..-.1 in r airfield, Iowa, April 22, 1895. 

 He waa apprenticed to a harness maker, and worked 

 at hu trade till 1851, but studied law, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1852. In 1853 he removed to 

 'airfield. Iowa. In 1856 he waa elected to the State 

 CoortiUitional Convention ; in 1857 to the Lcgisla- 

 Ure, in which he wa* made chairman of the Com- 

 mittee oo Way* and Mean* ; and in 1859 to the State 

 Hanat*. where he aenred on the Judiciary Committee, 

 and waa ohoaen presiding officer in 1861. In the hut 

 year he wa* elected to Congress to fill a vacancy, and 

 he wa* three time* re-elected. During the civil war 

 and rvcoofttruetion period* he was chairman of the 

 tee; in 1868 was one of the manag- 

 er* of the impeachment trial of President Johnson ; 

 and in 1M9 wa* appointed a commissioner for the 

 I'arific RailmL H was elected to the United State* 

 BMHI a* a Republican, taking his acat Dec. 4, 1888; 

 WM re-lected in 1888: and retired on March 3, 1695. 

 la 1861 he introduced a rr 



atmmtf the Committee on Military Affairs to report 

 a* additiooal article of war prohibiting the use of 

 fftitad Hutm force* to return fugitive slaves and 

 prm Mint for the diMnia**l fmm the army or navy of 

 a*? ofltear who used troop* for uch * i.urposo. The 

 inmnHln acted according to thin resolution, and the 

 He al*o reported the first hill 

 reported in Om*ra for the enfranchimjment of 



. ........ 



in Congrcas of an amendment 

 / ulavenr ; reported and 

 the Hooae a Mil gjv ing freedom to 

 children of colored soldier*, and ro- 

 MflblBbill. Thr- official 



JJl*" -J**?" n * J h * 



** ***!' -ia in 



N ^ '-.. Hew* 



i*ffct to 0) I n,t~l State, when two vrars old, and 

 ** the Monran Iron Work*, of 



"" impmvement* and 

 architecture, and und. 



substituted for side 

 He apent several yean 



tile wiw arf . 



broad,- -Mini: ni> heavy engine* that had bt-. 



i an. I suportutouding tin- i!- 

 boat* ' tin- l>:iiiui'- Nnvi^'ni 



jiii'l n. . 



..It 1\ thr I' nun lit. l> 



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wa* taken i 

 as ir*niN>rtM and TU 

 tended Uie -'i'' ; ! 



ol \\\ ,,,- 



!..p hiiincliol in tin I 



IU tin- -|.h, 



.nit h- IUH chii-f cii^iiifcr of the Mor^ 

 of ateamMhips. and he In-!-! 



Mi. \^ in- 



,: \\hurt'. It 

 device^ \vl. 

 tin- st-amshi|w ti 



Wright. Edward, mil it:>\ 

 .Innu . 



1895. !! rrmov.-.l t" i 

 to the I.c-i.-laturr in . 

 1862 ho wa- nc<l tnai<>r <>!' ti 



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Int'antrv, uii<l at tin- dosr - 



he wu- 



eral of volunteer*, -.turnr.! t> tin- I<egta0 



ture, nixi \v. i in 1st;.") HUM >-r>-\<.\ry 



B in thr following year. 



<>n ri tiring, in January, 1^7<>, In- Wa* appointed 

 tary of tin- <'aj>itol Ooa 



Wright, Henry, fatlu-r of |>rofm<ional I 

 in Shcllit-I.l, Knirlaii.l, .Ian. 1, l^'.."-; li- 

 City, N. .!., Oct 8, I-'.-"'. ll- came t.. tin- 

 States when an infant aixl Icariir.i tin- j> 



Vrk city. In 1 ^."l he In-. 

 player in the 8t (Jeorgo Cricket Clul 

 organization of t 1 



pioneer in that sport, he joined it. anil 

 played in the prim-ipa! game* of l.r.th <-lt. 

 joined the Union Cricket Clul> of Cincinnati 

 and in the following vear I- 

 mouH Ked Stocking I'.a>e|,all Huh <.f 

 w)ii-h he played center field till 19 

 1882 he was* i <. i >tainj and secretan f ' 



. .>el,all Cloo. and daring thi.s engagatii' 

 t^)k the Boston and Athletic 



for a series . . : \ tho 



Providence (R. I.) club, and in 1 Phila- 



delphia club, reinainiriir with tin- 



failing eye.-i^'ht ohli^ed him to 1 ^ a^H 



partially returned in 1 -'.<". uti'i }.< <1 oQV 



of umpires of the National I.< 



Wylie. Theophilua Adam, e<lu<-at<> r . horn in Phila^H 

 phia, Pa., Oct. 8, 1810; died in ! 



wan a son of Samuel |: 



wan frraduatcd at the t'niverwitv . I', nricyl- 

 vania in 1880, and was appointed an ii. 

 In 1887-'52 he was Professor of Natural Philoa^H 

 and Chemistry in the University of Indiana; inleaV 

 '55 was Professor <>f MathcinatP 



versity, and in 1855-'64 held hi- t'-rmer 



Univernity of Indiana, also acting ns 



1859. From 1864 till hi* retirement, in l^sG, hesertj 



the university as Profo-- 



oo retiring wa* made profe**oi 



t'-r .f t!i' li'-formed I'- 



. 111., in 183H-'52 and i 



the I'niver-ity of Indiana." 

 Yost. George W. N.. in 

 1881; died in New York eit . 

 brought up on Jt farm. d 

 mcohanicH. a nl WH.H apprenticed in an 

 imjilernent manufactory. Aftc-r fervin.' 

 was employed for man) tu *^B 



Acme mowers and reaper-, for w)iieh 

 many valuable improvement- 



came interested in writing machine -. and inveflM 

 the typewriter bearine . ? r-'ion 



of it," see u Annual Cyclopaxlia" for 18M, page 817- 



