Wade
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American statesman; born in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800. About 1821 he removed to Ohio, where he was employed as a school teacher for several years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1827. In 1837 and 1841 he was elected State Senator; in 1847 was chosen presiding judge of the 3d Judicial District of Ohio; and in 1851, 1857, and 1863 was elected United States Senator. He was an advocate of the Homestead bill, voted for the repeal of the Fugitive-Slave Law, and opposed the Nebraska-Kansas bill of 1854. During the Civil War he was prominent in public affairs. In the session of 1861- 1862 he was appointed chairman of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. He also served as president of the Senate and acting Vice-President of the United States. At the Republican National Convention, in Chicago, May 21, 1868, he received more votes on the first four ballots for the nomination for Vice- President than any other candidate; but failed to obtain the nomination. Excepting to serve as a commissioner to Santo Domingo, he took no prominent part in public affairs after 1869. He died in Jefferson, O., March 2, 1878.
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Wade (II)
SIR THOMAS FRANCIS, an English dipomatist; born in 1818; entered the army in 1838, and served in China and other parts of the East. He was appointed interpreter to the garrison at Hong Kong (1843), assistant Chinese secretary (1847), vice-consul at Shanghai (1852), and Chinese secretary at Hong Kong (1855). His intimate knowledge of the Chinese character and language led to his being attached to Lord Elgin's mission to China (1857- 1859), and as Chinese secretary he accompanied his lordship to Peking on his special mission (1860). In 1862 he became Chinese secretary and translator to the British legation legation in China; acted as chargé d'affaires at Peking (1864-1865 and 1869-1871), and in the last of these years was appointed envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary, and chief superintendent of British trade in China. In November, 1875, he was made a K. C. B. for his success in diplomacy and in furthering the interests of British commerce. He was the author of "Tziü-Erk Chi" (1867), a progressive manual of the Chinese 'tongue. He died at Cam-. bridge, July 31, 1895.
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Wade (JAMES F an American military)
JAMES F., an American military officer; born in Ohio, April 14, 1843; entered the Union army as 1st lieutenant in the cavalry in 1861; served with distinction throughout the Civil brevetted colonel and War; was Brigadier-General of volunteers in 1865; commissioned major of the 9th Cavalry, U. S. A., in 1866 1866 ; promoted colonel in 1891, and Brigadier-General in 1897; and in May, 1898, was appointed a Major- General of volunteers. After the war with Spain, in which he took an active part, he was placed at the head of the American Cuban Evacuation Commission; in January, 1899, became military governor of Cuba. He was made majorgeneral in 1903; served in the Philippines, 1901-1904; from 1904 to 1907 commanded the Atlantic Division. He was retired in the latter year.
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Wadham College
a college connected with Oxford University, England; founded in 1610 by Dorothy, widow of Nicholas Wadham, of Mayfield, Somersetshire, England, for a warden, 15 fellows, 15 sch scholars, 2 chaplains, and 2 clerks. There are now 8 fellows, 18 scholars, and some 100 under-graduates. Wadham College, whose library is rich in rare Spanish books, presents to 10 livings.
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Wadi
in Palestine and Arabia, either a river or river valley, or the basin of a torrent. Rehan thinks this word was adopted by the Greeks and corrupted into casis. It has passed into the Spanish guad, with which many of the Spanish river names begin; thus Wadi-l-Kebir (Arab. "great river") appears as Guadalquivir, Wadi-l-hajarah ("river of stones") as Guadalaxara. The ravines of Malta commonly go by the name of vyed or wied, a corrupted form of wadi.
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Wadlin
HORACE GREELY, an American statistician; born in Wakefield, Mass., Oct. 2, 1851; was educated at public and private schools, and studied architecture in Salem and Boston, Mass.; was an architect in the latter city in 1875-1879. He then became special agent for the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, and in 1888 was made its chief. He held a seat in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1884-1888; was supervisor of the United States census in 1890 and 1900, and of the State census in 1895. His publications include: "Reports on the. Sta Statistics of Labor of Massachusetts" (12 vols. 1888-1901); Annual Statistics of Manufactures of Massachusetts (14 vols. 1886-1901); "The Decennial Census of Massachusetts" (7 vols. 1895); "Carroll, Davidson Wright, a Memorial" (1911). 1
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Wadsworth
JAMES SAMUEL, an er: born in American military officer; 30, '1807; was Geneseo, N. Y., Oct. 30, educated at Harvard and Yale; studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Union army early in 1861; was appointed a Brigadier- General in August; and t; and became military governor of the District of Columbia in March, 1862. He was engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and and the Wilderness as the commander of a division, and was killed in the last named battle, May 6, 1864.
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Wadsworth (ELIOT an American public)
ELIOT, an American public official, born in Boston, in 1876. He graduated from Harvard in 1898. He was a member of the firm of Stone & Webster, electrical engineers, from 1907 to 1916. In the latter year he resigned to become vice-president of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross, and served in this capacity until 1919. He directed the work of the Red Cross in the United States and in France during the World War, and received decorations for his services from several foreign ign governments, as well as the Distinguished Service Medal of the United States Government.
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Wadsworth (II)
JAMES WOLCOTT, JR., a United States Senator from New York. He was born at Geneseo, N. Y in 1877, and graduated from Yale in 1898. He engaged in stock raising and general farming and conducted a large ranch in Texas. From 1911 to 1913 he took an active part in politics and was a member of the New York Assembly from 1905 to 1910 acting as speaker from 1906 to 1910. He was elected United States Senator from New York in 1914, and was re-elected in 1920 by a majority of over 400,000. During his term in the Senate, he was chairman of the Military Committee, and had much to do with the passage of the Military Organization Bill in 1920.
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