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WARD 288 WARD 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. WARD, MRS. HUMPHRY (MARY Augusta Arnold), an English novelist; born in Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 11, 1851; eldest daughter of Thomas Ar- nold, second son of the great Dr, Arnold of Rugby. In 1872 she married Thomas Humphry Ward (born in 1845), the edi- tor 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 "Macmil- lan'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 Oily" (1881), "Miss Bretherton" (1884), a slight but promising novel, and the translation of Amiel's "Private Journal" (1885) pre- pared the way for the widely read spirit- ual 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 Bannis- dale" (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. WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, an American sculptor; born in Urbana, 0., June 29, 1830. In 1850 he entered the studio of Henry K. Brown, where he re- mained 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 Rey- nolds, General Washington, General Is- rael Putnam, an equestrian statue of General Thomas, General Daniel Mor- gan 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. WARD, JSTATHANIEL, an English- American lawyer, clergyman, and au- thor; born in Haverhill, England, about 1578. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1634; lived in Ipswich (Agawam) ; re- turned to England in 1647. While a pas- tor 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 Par- liament" (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. WARD, WILLIAM HAYES, an American editor, clergyman, and Assyri- ologist; 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 profes- sor at Ripon College in 1860-1868; be- came editor of the "Independent" in 1870. In 1884 he went to Babylon in charge of an exploring expedition. He wrote much on Oriental archaeology for the "Bibliotheca Sacra," and other jour- nals, and prepared the report of the ex- pedition of 1884, and published "Biog-