library, and the government hospital for the in- sane. Among the works of his private practice in Philadelphia were the designs for St. George's hall, the Preston retreat, and the Biddle and Cowper- thwaite places on Delaware river. He assisted the architect of the new Public buildings at Philadel- phia in their erection, and was so engaged till his death. He was a member of the Franklin institute after 1829, held its professorship of architecture, and in 1860 delivered a course of lectures on that subject in Columbia college, New York. He was a member of the American philosophical society after 1841, and was one of the original members of the American institute of architects, of which he was president at the time of his death. He re- ceived the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Lewisburg, Pa., in 1853, and that of LL. D. from Harvard in 1857.
WALTER, William Henry, musician, b. in
Newark, N. J., 1 July, 1825. He removed to New
York in 1842, was appointed organist in Trinity
parish in 1847, and placed successively in charge
of the music at St. John's chapel, St. Paul's, Trin-
ity church, and Trinity chapel, where he remained
until 1869. He studied composition under Dr.
Edward Hodges, was appointed organist at Colum-
bia college, New York, in 1856, and in 1865 re-
ceived the honorary degree of Mus. Doc. from that
institution, with which he is still connected. His
published works are " Manual of Church Music "
(New York, 1860); "Chorals and Hvmns" (1866);
" Common Prayer with Ritual Song " (1868) ; " Les-
sons in Music" (1882); and "Mass in C," with
Latin and English text (1886). — His son, George
William, organist, b. in New York city, 16 Dec,
1851, at the age of eleven was placed under the
musical instruction of John K. Paine, of Boston,
and subsequently under Samuel P. Warren, of New
York. In 1869 he went to Washington, D. C, and
was given the degree of Mus. Doc. by Columbian
university of that city. His compositions are rather
for the virtuoso than for the popular ear. As an
organist he is known for his powers in extemporane-
ous performance and novelty in registration. His
musical library contains more than 8,000 works.
WALTER, William Joseph, author, b. in
England ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 9 Oct., 1846. He
was a professor in St. Edmund's college, Ware,
England, till 1839, when he emigrated to this
country, and settled in Philadelphia, where, at the
time of his death, he acted as secretary to the
British consul. His chief publications were " Ac-
count of a Manuscript of Ancient English Poetry,
entitled ' Clavis Sciential, or Bretayne s Skyll-Kay
of Knawing,' by John de Wageby " (London. 1816) ;
editions of "Marie Magdalen's Funerall Teares"
and others of Robert Southwell's poems ; " Sir
Thomas More : his Life and Times " (Philadelphia,
1839) ; " Beauties of Sir Thomas More " (Baltimore,
1840): "Mary, Queen of Scots: a Journal of her
Twenty Years' Captivity, Trial, and Execution"
(Philadelphia, 1840); "St. John Chrysostom "
(1841) ; and " The New Following of Christ " (1841).
WALTERS, William Thompson, merchant,
b. on the Juniata river, Pa., 23 May, 1820. He is
of Scotch-Irish ancestrv, and his father, Henry
Walters, a banker of Pennsylvania, sent him to
Philadelphia to be educated as a civil engineer.
He was placed in charge of a large smelting
establishment in Lycoming county, Pa., where
under his management the first iron that was
manufactured in the United States from min-
eral coal was made. In 1841 he removed to Bal-
timore, Md., and engaged in the general commis-
sion business, and in 1847 he established the
firm of W. T. Walters and Co.. wine-merchants.
When the first line of steamers between Baltimore
and Savannah was established he was chosen its
president, and from that time he has been a direc-
tor in every line from Baltimore to the south. Af-
ter the civil war he aided in the reorganization of
the southern steamship lines. For many years he
has been a director of the Northern Central rail-
way company, and he is also interested in many
southern lines. From 1861 till 1865 he resided in
Europe, where he became the personal friend of
many prominent continental artists, and travelled
extensively to study the history and development
of art and to purchase pictures for the collection
that he had begun at an early period. He was
art commissioner from the United States to the
Paris exposition of 1867, that in Vienna in 1873,
and that in Paris in 1878. He is one of the per-
manent trustees of the Corcoran art gallery in
Washington, D. C, and is also chairman of the
purchasing committee, a trustee of the Peabody
institute, and chairman of its committee on art.
He is also a trustee of the estate left for art
uses by the sculptor William H. Rinehart, who
was enabled to procure his' art education largely
through the generosity of Mr. Walters. Albert
Wolff, the French critic, says that Mr. Walters's
private collection is the most complete gallery of
French pictures in the world with a single excep-
tion. He owns a large and rare collection of
Bonvin's water-colors, and many Barye bronzes.
His collection of Oriental porcelain, and ceramics
numbers 3,000 pieces. For many years Mr. Wal-
ters has annually opened his gallery to the pub-
lic, and the proceeds are devoted to the Poor
association of Baltimore. He has given to the
city of Baltimore several bronzes, which adorn
the four public squares adjoining the Washington
monument. They are the great lion, a master-
piece made by Antoine Louis Barye, in 1847,
for the Tuileries ; four groups — " War," " Peace,"
" Strength," and " Order " — productions of the
models made by Barye for the exterior decoration
of the Louvre ; and a reproduction in bronze by
Barbedienne of " Military Courage," made by Paul
Dubois for the Lamoriciere monument in Nantes.
He has also given to the city a reproduction in
bronze of the statue of Chief- Justice Taney in An-
napolis, Md., made by Rinehart. During his visit
to Europe, Mr. Walters became interested in the
Percheron horses ; he brought eighteen of them to
the United States in 1866, and extended the importa-
tion of this stock. To increase an intelligent inter-
est on this subject, he published " The Percheron
Horse," from the French of Charles Du Hays, with
artistic etchings (printed privately, New York,
1886). He has also published "Antoine Louis
Barye, from the French of Various Critics " (Balti-
more, 1885), and " Notes upon Certain Masters of
the XIX. Century " (New York, 1886).
WALTHALL, Edward Cary, senator, b. in Richmond, Va., 4 April, 1831. He was educated at Holly Springs, Miss., studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practised at Coffeeville, Miss. In 1856 he was elected district attorney of the 10th judicial district of Mississippi, and he was re-elected in 1859, but resigned m 1861 and entered the Confederate army as a lieutenant in the 15th Mississippi infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and commanded the regiment in the battle of Fishing Creek, or Mill Springs, Ky., 19 Jan., 1862. Subsequently he became colonel of the 29th Mississippi regiment, and he was promoted brigadier, 13 Dec, 1862, and major-general, 6 June, 1864. His service was
