OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (\VAED-WARRE.N.) 



resigned; took his seat March 12, 1885; and, in 

 January, 1886, was elected to fill the unexpired 

 term. He was re-elected in 1888, and again in 

 1892, more than three years before the expiration 

 of his term. He resigned in January, 1894, for the 

 rest of that term, but returned and took his seat at 

 the beginning of his next term, March, 1895. He 

 served as chairman of the Committee on Military 

 Affairs, and was a member of the Committees on 

 Public Lands and on Improvement of the Missis- 

 sippi River. 



Ward. Hamilton, jurist, born in Salisbury, 

 N. Y., July 3. 1829: died in Belmont, N. Y.. Dec. 28, 

 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, and 

 from 1857 to 1863 was district attorney of Allegany 

 County, N. Y. He was a member of the 39th, 40th, 

 and 41st Congresses, and during his service there- 

 in he was a member of the committee on the assas- 

 sination of President Lincoln, and also of the com- 

 mittee charged with preparing articles of impeach- 

 ment against President Johnson. In 1879 he was 

 elected Attorney-General of the State of New York, 

 on the Republican ticket. . While in that office, for 

 but one term of two years, he broke up the system 

 of private sales of land in the Adirondack moun- 

 tains, whereby the State had been a heavy loser. 

 In 1890 he was one of a commission to propose 

 amendments to the State Constitution. Early in 

 1891 he was appointed a justice of the Supreme 

 Court in the 8th District to fill a vacancy, and in 

 November of that year he was elected to that office 

 on the Republican ticket. In 1895, under the new 

 Constitution, he was designated to serve in the 

 appellate division of that court, in Rochester. 



Wardrop, David W., soldier, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., in 1824; died in Boston, Mass., July 

 12, 1898. At the beginning of the civil war he was 

 commissioned colonel of the 3d Massachusetts Vol- 

 unteers. He was mustered out July 22, 1861 ; re- 

 entered the service, Aug. 21, 1861, as colonel of the 

 99th New York Infantry, Naval Brigade : and was 

 finally mustered out of the service Jan. 17, 1805. 

 with the rank of brevet brigadier general, having 

 served as military governor of Roanoke island. He 

 was department commander of the Veteran Union 

 of Massachusetts at the time of his death. 



Waring, George Edwin, sanitary engineer, 

 born in Poundridge, N. Y., July 4, 1833 ; died in 

 New York city, Oct. 29, 1898. "lie was educated 



in the public and 

 private schools of 

 Stamford, Conn. ; 

 studied in Bart- 

 lett'sSchool, Pough- 

 keepsie, from 1847 

 till 1849; and in 

 1853 took a course 

 in agriculture and 

 agricultural chem- 

 istry under Prof. 

 Mapes. He lec- 

 tured during the 

 winters of 1853- 

 '55, before farmers' 

 clubs, on improved 

 met IK ids of farm- 

 ing, and attracted 

 the attention of 

 Horace Greeley, 

 who made him manager of the Greeley experi- 

 mental farm at Chappnqua. N. Y. In 1857 he 

 was appointed agricultural and drainage engineer 

 of Central Park. He planned tin- present system 

 of drainage there, and held the office till the civil 

 war began. He was commissioned major of HOtli 

 New York Volunteers (Garibaldi Hussars) in May. 

 1861, and served three months in the Army of 



the Potomac. In August following he was trans- 

 ferred to the Department of the Southwest as a 

 major of cavalry under Gen. Fremont. He was 

 detailed for recruiting in St. Loiiis ; raised six 

 troops of cavalry called the Fremont Hussars, 

 which, with the Benton Hussars, were formed into 

 the 4th Missouri Cavalry, and was made colonel of 

 the regiment, and served with it till the end of the 

 war. He was mustered out of the service in March, 

 1865. From 1867 till 1877 he was manager of the 

 Ogden Farm, at Newport. R. I. He gave up this 

 post to devote his entire time to sanitary engineer- 

 ing. At the time of the outbreak of yellow fever 

 at Memphis, in 1878, he changed the sewerage sys- 

 tem of that city, separating house drainage from 

 surface drainage, and this system was adopted in a 

 large number of cities of the United States. In 

 1882 Col. Waring was appointed a member of the 

 National Board of Health, which post he held sev- 

 eral years. For a time, in 1894, he was assistant 

 engineer of New Orleans. On Dec. 30, 1894, he .vas 

 selected by Mayor Strong as commissioner of street- 

 cleaning for New York city. He took charge Jan. 

 15, 1895, and remained in office till Jan. 1, 1898. 

 He systematized the work of the department, and 

 not only cleaned the streets of the city, but kept 

 them clean. A novel innovation made by him was 

 the uniforming of the street sweepers in white can- 

 vas suits. In 1898, when it was decided to appoint 

 a commission to choose camp sites in Cuba for the 

 American army of occupation and to suggest plans 

 for improving the sanitary condition of Havana, 

 Col. Waring was the first man selected. He was 

 appointed Oct. 2, and went to Cuba shortly after- 

 ward. He spent some time in Havana, and soon 

 after his return to New York was fatally stricken 

 with yellow fever. In his report to the President, 

 completed a few days before his prostration, he 

 suggested improvements which would cost several 

 million dollars. He was the candidate of the 

 Citizens' Union for State Engineer and Surveyor 

 at the time of his death. Col. Waring was an hon- 

 orary member of the Royal Institute of Engineers, 

 Holland ; member of the Institution of Civil Engi- 

 neers, England ; fellow of the Sanitary Institute of 

 Great Britain ; and corresponding member of the 

 American Institute of Architects. He published 

 " The Elements of Agriculture" (1854) ; " Draining 

 for .Profit and Draining for Health" (ISC.Ti: 

 "Earth Closets" (1869); "Earth Closets and Earth 

 Sewage" (1870); "Handy Book of Husbandry" 

 (1870); "Whip and Spur" (1875): ''A Farmer's 

 Vacation" (1876): "Sanitary Drainage of Hou>es 

 and Towns" (1876); "The Bride of " the Rhine" 

 (1877); "Sanitary Condition of City and Country 

 Dwelling Houses " (1877): "Village Improvements 

 and Farm Villages" (1877): "Tyrol and the Skirt 

 of the Alps" (1880): "How to" Drain a House" 

 (1885); "Sewerage and Land Drainage" (1> 

 and "Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal t< r 

 Towns "(1894). . 



Warren, Nathan Bonghton, author nml com- 

 poser, born in Troy, N. Y., July 4, 1805 ; died there, 

 Sept. 3, 1898. He" was the first to introduce the 

 choral service of the English Church into American 

 use. which he did in 1844 in a mission church 

 which his mother had founded. lie was exci piion- 

 ally skilled in musical knowledge, and received the 

 degree of doctor of music from Trinity College. 

 Besides composing several anthems he was the au- 

 thor of "The Order of Daily Service with the Mu- 

 sical Notation as used in English Churches" (New- 

 York, 1846); "The Ancient Plain Song of the 

 Church " (1855): ''The Holidays: Christinas. Easier, 

 and Whitsuntide, their Social Festivities. Customs. 

 and Carols" (1868): "Hidden Treasure: A Goblin 

 Story for Christmas" (1872); "Lanfurd Hall and 



