Ward (II)
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS, an American novelist and poet; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1844. In 1888 she married Herbert D. Ward, with whom she sometimes collaborated. Among her books are: "The Gates Ajar" (1868), one of the most successful of American stories; "Men, Women, and Ghosts (1869); "The Silent ; "The Trotty tty Book" (1869); "The Story of Avis" (1877); "Old Maid's Paradise" (1879); "Beyond the Gates" (1883); "Dr. Zay" Zay" (1882); "The Gates Between" (1887); "The Master of the Magicians" (1890); and "Come Forth" (1890). Jointly with her husband she wrote: "Poetic Studies," verse (1885); "Songs of the Select World" (1885); and "The Struggle for Immortality" (1889), a volume of es- "The Story of Jesus Christ" says. (1897); "Walled In" (1907); She died in 1911.
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Ward (III)
HENRY AUGUSTUS, an American naturalist; born in Rochester, N. Y., March 9, 1834; became assistant to Prof. Louis Agassiz at the Harvard Scientific School in 1854; studied in Paris and traveled through Europe and the Orient in 1855-1859; was Professor of Natural Sciences in Rochester University in 1860-1865; and manager of gold mines in Montana and South Carolina in 1866-1869. In 1870 he began to travel in various countries, making large and valuable cabinets of mineralogy and geology, which he distributed among the universities and colleges of the United States. He founded, at Rochester, N. Y., an establishment where these cabinets were prepared, taxidermy executed, and natural-science collections arranged; was acting naturalist on the United States expedition to Santo Domingo; and wrote "Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri," and "Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in the Royal Museums of Europe." He died July 4, 1906.
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Ward (IV)
MRS. HUMPHRY (MARY AUGUSTA ARNOLD), an English novelist; born in Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 11, 1851; eldest daughter of Thomas Arnold, second son of the great Dr. Arnold of Rugby. In 1872 she married Thomas Humphry Ward (born in 1845), the editor of "The English Poets" (4 vols. 1880- 1881), "Men of the Reign" (1885), "Men of the Time" (12th ed. 1887), and "The MRS. HUMPHRY WARD Reign of Queen Victoria" (1887). She began early to contribute to "Macmillan's Magazine," and gave the fruits of her Spanish studies to Smith and Wace's "Dictionary of Christian Biography." A child's story, "Milly and Olly" (1881), "Miss Bretherton" (1884), a slight but promising novel, and the translation of Amiel's "Private Journal" (1885) prepared the way for the widely read spiritual romance of "Robert Elsmere" (1888). Its successor, "David Grieve" (1892), showed all its faults but hardly all its merits, and yet is said to have brought its author in the first two months no less than $90,000. "Marcella" appeared in 1894; a short story, "Bessie Costrell," in 1895; "Sir George Tressady," a sequel to "Marcella," in 1896; "Helbeck of Bannisdale" (1898); "Eleanor" (1900); "Lady Rose's Daughter" (1903); "The Case of Richard Meynell" (1911); "Eltham House" (1915); "England's Effort" (1916); "A Writer's Recollections" (1918). She died in 1920.
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Ward (NATHANIEL an English- American)
NATHANIEL, an English- American lawyer, clergyman, and author; born in Haverhill, England, about 1578. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1634; lived in Ipswich (Agawam); returned to England in 1647. While a pastor in Massachusetts he wrote the "Body of Liberties," adopted December, 1641, the first code of laws established in New England. His other writings are: "The Simple Cobler of Agawam" (1647); "A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army" (1647); "A Sermon Before Parliament" (1647); and "Mecurius Anti- Mechanicus; or, The Simple Cobler's Boy, with his Lap-full of Caveats" (1648). He died in Shenfield, Essex, about October, 1653.
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Ward (V)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, an American sculptor; sculptor; born in Urbana, O., June 29, 1830. In 1850 he entered the studio of Henry K. Brown, where he remained six years. In 1861 he opened a studio in New York, where he modeled his "Indian Hunter," "The Good Samari tan," Commodore M. C. Perry, with re-' liefs, "The Freedman," and many busts and small works. In 1869 he built a studio in Forty-ninth Street, New York, where he made the "Citizen Soldier," and statues of Shakespeare, General Reynolds, General Washington, General Israel Putnam, an equestrian statue of General Thomas, General Daniel Morgan and Lafayette. He built a larger studio in 1882, where he made the colossal statue of Washington for the New York subtreasury building, a colossal statue of President Garfield, "The Pilgrim," etc. He designed the crowning group of "Victory" in the arch for the Dewey reception in New York in 1899. He was vice-president, and for one term president of the National Academy of Design. He died May 1, 1910.
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Ward (VI)
WILLIAM HAYES, an American editor, clergyman, and Assyriologist; born in Abington, Mass., June 25, 1835; was graduated at Amherst (1856); and at Andover Theological Seminary (1859). He was a pastor of the Congregational Church and professor at Ripon College in 1860-1868; became editor of the "Independent" in 1870. In 1884 he went to Babylon in charge of an exploring expedition. He wrote much on Oriental archæology for the "Bibliotheca Sacra," and other journals, and prepared the report of the expedition of 1884, and published "Biography of Sidney Lanier" ier" (1885), "Notes on Oriental Antiquities"; "The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia" (1910); "What I Believe and Why" (1915). He died in 1916. toelfossi
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Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-), an American poet and novelist. She was the daughter of Austin Phelps and was married in 1888 to Herbert D. Ward. Her first work was The Gates Ajar, published in 1868. It attracted wide attention, and is believed to have had considerable influence on the prevailing views concerning the future life. It was followed some years later by Beyond the Gates and The Gates Between. Other writings are Men, Women, and Ghosts, The Story of Avis, Hedged In, and Songs of the Silent World. Mrs. Ward's style is original, vigorous, and usually impressive. She has something to say and says it well, although at times her writing is more intense and highly wrought than her subject seems to require.
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Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold
Mary Augusta Arnold (1851-), an English novelist. She is the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold of Rugby. She was born at Hobart, Tasmania, her father holding an educational post at that place. The family returned to England in 1856. In 1872 Miss Arnold was married to Thomas Humphry Ward. She has used the name of Mrs. Humphry Ward as a pen name . Mrs. Ward's first literary work was a child's story. She translated Amiel's Journal and wrote Miss Bretherton, but her work attracted no special attention until the appearance of Robert Elsmere in 1888, which made its author famous at once. Other novels are The History of David Grieve, Marcella, Eleanor, Lady Rose's Daughter, The Marriage of William Ashe, and Helbeck of Bannisdale. Mrs. Ward's novels are conceived powerfully and are well executed, although they vary greatly in point of excellence.
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