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OBITUAEIES, AMERICAN. 



investigated the encroachments over the harbor 

 of New York by builders. 



WARE, JAIRUS died at Salem, Mass., August 

 27th. He was ex-Justice of the Supreme Court 

 of Massachusetts, and the author of several 

 legal works. 



WAUGH, WILLIAM B., died May 18th. He 

 was the son of the late Bishop Waugh of Mary- 

 land, and Chief of the Civilization Division of 

 the Indian Bureau. He entered it in 1846, 

 resigned in 1857, but reentered the service in 

 1865. 



WEBSTER, ALBERT F., died at sea, on his 

 way to the Sandwich Islands, in February. 

 He was a journalist and writer for the maga- 

 zines, and the author of "Boarding-House 

 Sketches," which appeared APPLETONS' JOUR- 

 NAL. 



AVEBSTER, JOHN A., senior officer of the 

 United States Revenue Service, died in Har- 

 ford County, Md., aged 91 years. When the 

 British fleet bombarded Fort McHenry in 1814, 

 he commanded the six-gun battery on the Ferry 

 Branch and repulsed the enemy, and was pre- 

 sented with several swords for gallant services 

 in this action. He retired from active service 

 a few years ago, but with full pay. 



WELLS, Captain ELIJAH, died in Baltimore, 

 Md., October 12th, aged 60 years. He was 

 one of the oldest journalists in Maryland, and 

 established the Port Tobacco Times, of which 

 paper he was editor and proprietor more than 

 thirty years ago. 



WESTERN, PAULINE LUCILLE, actress, died in 

 Brooklyn, K. Y., January llth. She was born 

 in New Orleans, January 8, 1843, and made 

 her first appearance on the stage with her sis- 

 ter Helen as "change" artist at her father's 

 theatre in Washington, D. C. In 1859 or 1860 

 she appeared at the Holiday Street Theatre, in 

 "East Lynne," achieving her first success. 

 During the war she traveled with a combina- 

 tion troupe, playing Nancy Sylces in " Oliver 

 Twist," with E. L. Davenport as Bill Sykes, 

 and J. W. Wallack, Jr., as Fagin. In 1865 she 

 played in Philadelphia under Colonel Sinn's 

 management, appearing in "Eleanor's Vic- 

 tory," " Lucretia Borgia," "Jane Eyre," "The 

 Child Stealer," "Mary Tudor," "Cynthia," 

 besides the two plays already mentioned. She 

 appeared in the principal theatres in the United 

 States, and at the time of her death was play- 

 ing a star engagement at the New Park Thea- 

 tre, Brooklyn. 



WHITE, EDWIN, died at Saratoga Springs, 

 N". Y., June 7th, aged 60 years. He was born 

 at South Hadley, Mass., and in 1849 he was 

 elected a member of the National Academy of 

 Design, and in the next year pursued his stud- 

 ies in painting in Paris, where he remained 

 four years. He revisited this country, but only 

 for a short period, and returned to Europe, 

 where he labored for many years, becoming 

 well known in London, Paris, and Antwerp. 

 In 1875 he took a studio in the Young Men's 

 Christian Association Building. His genre 



paintings were numerous, and his best-known 

 historical works are the "Evening Hymn of the 

 Huguenots " and the " Signing of the Compact 

 on Board the Mayflower." At the National 

 Academy of Design in 1876 he had on exhibi- 

 tion " Giotto sketching the Head of Dante," 

 " Chapel in Church of St. ^Egidius, Nurem- 

 berg," " Cafe" at Cairo," and " Moonlight on 

 the Arno." 



WILLETT, Colonel JAMES M., died at Buffalo, 

 N. Y., June 6th, aged 46 years. He was born 

 in Washington County, N. Y., graduated at the 

 Law School in Albany, 1856, and began the 

 practice of law at Batavia in 1857, and was 

 elected District Attorney of Genesee County 

 in 1859. In 1862 he entered the army, and was 

 made major of the 128th Regiment of New 

 York Infantry, and afterward became its colo- 

 nel. Subsequently he was placed in command 

 of the First Brigade of the Second Division of 

 the Second Army Corps, which he retained un- 

 til the close of the war. He was an unsuccess- 

 ful Democratic candidate for Congress in 1864, 

 and for the State Senate in 1876. For several 

 years he was manager of the State Asylum for 

 the Blind at Batavia, and was one of the vice- 

 presidents of the State Bar Association. 



WILSON, Captain ANDREW, died at Montgom- 

 ery, N. Y., aged 88 years. He was the oldest 

 ex-member of the Legislature of New York ; 

 represented Orange County in the Assembly 

 in 1819 ; was a veteran of the war of 1812, and 

 one of the founders of the Orange County Bi- 

 ble Society. 



WILSON, Lieutenant THOMAS P., died at Santa 

 Barbara, Cal., March 10th, aged 32 years. He 

 entered the Naval Academy, September 30, 

 1861, and was appointed from New York. He 

 served throughout the late civil war, and be- 

 came lieutenant-commander in 1869. 



WINAKS, Ross, died in Baltimore, Md., April 

 llth. He was born in Sussex County, N. J., 

 in 1796, and laid the foundation of his fortune 

 by raising horses and by the large sales of a 

 plough of his own invention. He projected a 

 railway for cars drawn by horses, invented the 

 friction-wheel for cars, was the first to con- 

 struct eight-wheeled cars, established the larg- 

 est railway machine shop in the country, 

 invented the " camel-back " locomotive, and 

 build the cigar-shaped steel boat which was to 

 cross the ocean in four days. He built the first 

 successful locomotive used on the Baltimore 

 & Ohio road ; but his greatest work was the 

 building of railroads in Russia, particularly 

 the line from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Dur- 

 ing the war he took an active part in politics, 

 and was elected to represent Baltimore in the 

 extra session of the State Legislature in 1861, 

 but on the following day was arrested and im- 

 prisoned at Fort McHenry, but was soon liber- 

 ated. He wrote a religious work entitled 

 " One Religion Many Creeds." 



WOOD, WILLIAM, died in New York City, 

 April 9th. In 1822 he was admitted into the 

 publishing house of William Wood & Son, 



