W WABASH-WALDECK WABASH, a town, the county-seat of Wabash county, Ind. It contains numerous mills, factories and machine shops, and has excellent educational facilities. Population in 1890, 5,196. WABASHA, a town, county-seat of Wabasha county, Minn., on the Mississippi. It contains a shipyard and a number of manufactories. Population in 1890, 2,487. WACKE, a German miners' term to designate a soft variety of trap, that has an argillaceous aspect, and a greenish gray color. It is associated with trappean rocks and often passes into basalt or greenstone. WACO, a city of Texas. Population in 1890, 14,445. See Britannica, Vol. XXIV, p. 304. WAD, in Gunnery, a compressible disc forced home in the barrel after the powder, to confine the latter to the least possible space before its explosion. For great guns the wad is commonly made of rope; for small arms, of pasteboard. WADDILL, JR., EDMUND, member of Congress, born in Virginia in 1885. He was brought up on a farm; was deputy clerk of the courts of New Kent, Hanover and Henrico counties, and of the circuit court of the city of Richmond; entered upon the practice of the law in 1878; in 1880 was elected by the legislature of Virginia judge of the county court of Henrico; resigned this office in 1883 to accept the office of United States attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, which position he filled till 1885; was elected in the latter year to the legislature, in which body he served till he resigned to take his seat in Congress in 1889. WADE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, senator, born in West Springfield, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800; died at Jefferson, Ohio, March 2, 1878. He began to practice law in Ohio in 1828. In 1847 he became president judge of the Third Ohio district. In 1857 he was elected United States Senator as a Whig. In this position he voted for the repeal of the fugitive slave law, and opposed every measure in the interest of slavery. He advocated negro suffrage in the District of Columbia, and pushed the homestead bill till it was passed in 1862. His rough and ready frankness brought him the title of "honest Ben Wade." He was last heard of in 1877 as violently opposing the mild policy of President Hayes toward the South. WADE, WILLIAM H., member of Congress, born in Ohio in 1835. He was raised on a farm; was educated in common schools and at Grove School Academy; is a farmer; enlisted in the Union army in 1861, and was mustered out in 1866; removed to Missouri in 1866, and engaged in farming; was a member of the State house of representatives of Missouri in 1881, 1882, 1883, and 1884; was elected Congress in 1885, and sat until 1891. WADERS, OR WADING BIRDS, a designation often applied to the whole order Grallæ, or Grallatores, but really appropriate only to some of them, the more aquatic in their habits, as herons, snipes, and rails. WADSET: in Scotch law, the old name for a mortgage. The modern name is bond and disposition in security. WADSWORTH, JAMES W., member of Congress, born in Philadelphia on Oct. 12, 1846. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1881 was elected a Representative from the 27th Congressional District of New York to the 47th Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of E. G. Lapham. He was reëlected to the 48th Congress. In 1890 he was elected from the 31st New York district to the 52nd Congress. WAGENINGEN, an old town in the Netherlands, province of Gelderland, situated near the Rhine, to which access is had from it by a canal. Ship-building, brick and tile making, tanning leather, rope-spinning, etc., with agriculture, are the chief sources of wealth. Population, 5,632. WAIBLINGEN, a town of Würtemberg, on the Rems, in the circle of the Neckar. Population, 3,260. WAITE, MORRISON R. (1816-1888), Chief Justice of the United States, was son of Henry M. Waite, an eminent jurist, and is believed to have been descended from Thomas Waite, one of the judges who signed the death-warrant of Charles I. e was born in Connecticut; graduated at Yale; studied law; removed to Ohio; was a State legislator in 1849; became prominent as a lawyer in Toledo; was sent to Geneva in 1871 as United States counsel in the Alabama case; was president of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio in 1873; and became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1874. WAKEFIELD, a town of Massachusetts, ten miles north of Boston. It contains a number of manufactories and an excellent public library. Population in 1890, 6,970. WALDECK. For general article on the German Principality of WALDECK, see Britannica, Vol. XXIV, pp. 321-2. Waldeck had an area in 1885 of 438 square miles, and a total population of 56,575. The population was divided for administrative purposes in "circles,” as follows: Twiste, 16,155; Eisenberge, 17.570; Eder, 14,875; Pyrmont, 7,977. The debt of Waldeck in 1890 was 2,229,900 marks; the estimated revenue and expenditure each in 1891, 1,187,810 marks. REIGNING PRINCE AND FAMILY.-Georg Victor, born Jan. 14, 1831; the son of Prince Georg Friedrich and Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg; succeeded to the throne at the death of his father, under the guardianship of his mother, May 14, 1845; married, Sept. 26, 1853, to Princess Helena, born August 12, 1831, daughter of the late Duke Wilhelm of Nassau; widower Oct. 27, 1888. Offspring-I. Princess Pauline, born Oct. 19, 1855; married May 7, 1881, to the Hereditary Prince Alexis of Bentheim-Bentheim. II. Princess Emma, Jan, 10, 1926 setsoch tork Prese 10, General Lew Wallace Tells How He Came to Write "Ben Hur" BY G. SCHLOTTERBECK I was out that year in advance of the Victor Herbert orchestra, and we were booked for a night per formance at Crawfordsville. Arrived at the little Indiana town, I was curious to meet Wallace. The manager of the hotel, however, advised strongly against any effort at an interview, "comforting" me with the assurance that "the old man ACE ed to allow the stage presentation. 1609 WILLIAM, filibuster, born at Nasl.1824, died at Trujillo, Honduras, in lied law at Nashville, and medicine of "Ben Hur." Klaw and Erlanger,, Germany. In July, 1853, in CaliMovie fans are in a state of ex-producing firm of New York, had nized an expedition for the conquest pectancy as prospect of viewing on approached him with an alluring f Sonora, Mexico. This expedition the screen General Lew Wallace's financial proposition for the theater. But in June, 1855, he landed at rights, but Wallace had replied he masterpiece, "Ben Hur," which, folwould entertain the proposal on one igua, with 62 followers and a small lowing its premiere in New York condition only, to-wit, that the Nicaraguans, and there endeavored city 10 days ago, was unanimously Christus must never appear on the sion of the southern transit route. acclaimed by Gotham's critics as the stage in person, on the ground of ted at Rivas, but, being reënforced sacrilege. After numberless suggesmost stupendous motion picture yet tions, aimed at overcoming this ob- soldiers, he routed the Nicaraguan produced. jection, a man named Young had irgen, on September 1, took possesThe film presentation of this clas-conceived the idea of shooting a y of Granada, and by a treaty with sic recalls a delightful, top-note fan-like shaft of light from the flies afternoon I passed with General onto the stage every time the Christ eader was made secretary of war and Wallace in his home at Crawfords- was slated to appear. The novela-chief. In a war with Costa Rica he ville, Indiana, notably because from device satisfied Wallace fully andefeat in March, 1856, by a victory in the general himself I learned how proved one of the most effective illusions ever applied to stage use. ed president in June, he issued curand why he came to write "Ben Hur." Instinctively, at this point, I drewarge scale, reëstablished slavery, and out my pencil and pad for the pur-d by Pres. Pierce. His tyranny propost of taking notes. Instantly the t. He was taken by a United States gruff old war hero flew into a tantrum of wild rage. York, but released in January, 1858. "So you're one o' those hells-fire, he landed with a small force at Trunewspaper men, too?" he shouted at is, and issued a proclamation against me. "Sewer rats, scum of the earth, that's what they are. Ought to kill nt. On Sept. 3, 1860, he surrendered You know what man-of-war, whose commander devery one of 'em. those fellows did to me? Not long the Honduras authorities. The lathates newspaper men, and he'll kick ago I spoke before the G. A. R. and by court-martial and shot him Sept. story saying that I had accused ker's account of the War in NicaraGeneral Grant of such stupidity in efore his last expedition, appeared at directing the Civil war that, but for me, the enemy would have captured ALFRED RUSSEL, an English natur-the city of Washington. It's a lie, a damned lie, I tell you. I never Usk in 1822, and educated at Hertford old veterans have been cursing me said anything of the sort, but the hool. In 1848 he accompanied Mr. mazon, and embodied the results of ever since. Now, you get!" and, suiting the action to the word, hens in the regions of that river in Amazon and Rio Negro. He subseeded to Southern Asia, and spent ong the Malays, collecting material e work The Malay Archipelago. His it scientific works are, Tropical Naphical Distribution of Animals; Island Ributions to the Theory of Natural Sewallace published in 1882, Darwinism. Sh of his Land Nationalization, its Neime had to the will offer a gymJed H. the establishment of the phonic syncopated orchestra of 18. the largest orchestra of this kind e ever presented before Detroit thea- I ter-goers with the exception of Pal Whiteman and his organization. you downstairs." Nothing daunted, I made the attempt. the newspaper hounds sent out a Directed to the Wallace home, I found a large, frame-built, whitepainted country mansion, planted in one corner of a lot that occupied a full city square. Eager to find my bearings, I strolled leisurely through the spacious yard, admiring the beautiful birch trees planted there. There were 27 of them, each send-threatened me with his right boot. ing its lower row of limbs to the Not to be balked. I assured the ground in the graceful curve of a general I had no sinister motive in woman's train, and forming a leafy seeking the interview, and assured tent of green about the trunk. that I would submit to him, before article any Gathering courage then, I mount- publishing. I might ed the front steps of the house, write. pulled the old-time knob on the door bell and announced myself to the answering maid. In a few moments, very few. General Wallace appeared with the spanking welcome: "Well, what the hell do you want?" After considerable persuasive talk, he accepted my assurance, calmed down, and we resumed our conversation, which I climaxed with the question, "General, how did you come to write 'Ben Hur' ?" "That's an interesting story," he began, with the glow of enthusiasI declared myself with words of tic fire. "Here's how it happened: admiration for his superb birch "Bob Ingersoll, the infidel, and I trees; happy move, because, were the closest of friends. I looked as I learned later, this was the key to upon him as a new Messiah, come his rough but kindly heart. Sym-to redeem mankind from its ignopathetically he escorted me through his miniature forest, reciting the individual history of each tree, with special emphasis on the one he had brought from San Francisco in a flour sack, had planted with his own hands, and had seen expand into stately growth. With boyish joy he pointed out the famous "Ben Hur" tree, under which for two years he had sat, writing his soon-to-become worldfamed Biblical story. One stormy night, he explained, lightning had struck this tree, sending all its limbs crashing to the ground. Years now had bleached the stubby trunk to a pasty white, while nearby lie the riven limbs, which, he insisted, no one must re move. rance and superstition. So inter- "The first chapter came easily; it practically wrote itself. Then I ran it out of material and could go farther. I confided the difficulty to the shrewd little wife, and again she a came with the quiet advice: 'Why don't you go to the library and read everything yuo can find about this man, Jesus?' "One Sunday morning, how well I remember that day, we arrived in a city of the west just as the people were flocking into the churches. "With a sneer, Ingersoll blurted "I followed the suggestion, and out: 'Say, Lew, why don't you use had my awakening. The more I your powers of writing and com- read, and the deeper I delved into pose a book showing up these poor my subject, the clearer it became fools, who believe in the Myth la- that Jesus was not a myth at all, y beled Jesus? The whole world of that He did live and walk in Pal-·sound thinking men and women estine, that He did perform mira- d will rise to you and you'll become cles and that He did exert a mighty, immortal.' revolutionary influence on the world S "The idea appealed to me enor- about Him. But most amazing of lHaving gained his confidence, the mously, and instantly I said, 'I'll all was the fact that this proof was d general invited me into his private do it.'' supplied, not by bishops, priests. library, a small building of brick, "When I got back home. I out- preachers and lay churchmen, but in the lower corner of the yard, lined the plan to my wife, who was by infidels like Bob Ingersoll and chaste, classic in design and light- deeply devout and religious. The myself. ed only from delicately stained win-wife did not start a lecture nor try "I was licked, completely licked, is dows in the roof. to dissuade me. She simply said, but for two weeks I was too proud For an hour we discussed music, very quietly: "That isn't a bad to admit defeat to my calmly-waithe politics, war and, in particular, a idea, Lew, only be sure of youring wife. Finally, however, I did d personal letter he had just received ground. You're undertaking a heavy, tell her, and though I knew that of from the pope, congratulating him important task, and you can't af- she chuckled to herself, she never on the fact that "Ben Hur" had been ford to be careless with your facts, gave the slightest indication of translated into Italian and was be- because you will be attacked from pleasure and satisfaction at my di ing published and circulated in all sides and be torn to pieces if lemma. Rome. you make one unverified statement.' "'You started out to dest and HOLIDAYS CONTINUOUS 2 to 11 P. M. Grand CAD. 8779 RIVIERA GRAND RIVER AVE ONE WEEK, BEG. MAT. TODAY (SUNDAY), JAN. 10 DOUGLAS MACLEAN Geo. M. Cohan's Greatest Comedy KEYS TO POPULAR DAILY Mats. at 1:30 Doors Open 1:00 Eves. at 6:45 Doors Open 6:30 born August 2, 1858; married Jan. 7, 1879, to King Wilhelm III. of the Netherlands. III. Princess Helena, born Feb. 17, 1861; married April 27, 1882, to Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain; widow March 28, 1884. IV. Prince Friederich, born Jan. 20, 1865. V. Princess Elizabeth, born Sept. 6, 1873. After the war between Austria and Prussia, at the end of 1866, a "Treaty of Accession" was signed by the prince in July 18, 1867, by which he surrendered his chief sovereign rights to King Wilhelm I. for ten years, retaining merely nominal power, and renewed Nov. 24, 1877, till Jan 1, 1888. A treaty, made March 2, 1887, continuing the arrangement for the future, making it terminable on notice given. CONSTITUTION AND FINANCE.-The charter of the principality was granted August 17, 1852. It provided for a legislative assembly of forty-one members, but this number is now reduced to fifteen, with authority restricted to purely local affairs. In terms of the "Treaty of Accession" all public officials are appointed by the King of Prussia, and take the oath of fidelity to him. Prussia also manages the finances of the principality. WALDOBORO, a town of Maine, on Medomak River. It is interested chiefly in shipbuilding, and is the seat of a United States customs district. Population in 1890, 3,500. WALHALLA, a town, the county-seat of Oconee county, S. C., and the seat of Adger College. WALKER, AMASA, political economist, born at Woodstock, Conn., in 1799; died at Brookfield, Mass., in 1875. In 1848 he became a member of the Massachusetts assembly, and in 1849 of the senate. In 1851-2 he was secretary of State, and in 1862-3 a member of Congress. From 1859 till 1869 he delivered annually a course of lectures on political economy in Amherst College. He published Nature and Uses of Money (1857), and Science of Wealth (1866). His son, FRANCIS AMASA WALKER, statistician, born at Boston in 1840, served in the war of the Rebellion; was wounded at Chancellorsville, and taken prisoner. He emerged from the strife with broken health and the brevet of brigadier-general. In 1869 he was appointed chief of the bureau of statistics at Washington and superintendent of the ninth census. In 1872 he became professor of political economy in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, and in 1881 president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He published The Wages Question; The World's Fair (1876); Money in Relation to Trade and Industry; Political Economy (1882); Land and Its Rent (1883), and History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac (1886). WALKER, ROBERT JAMES, statesman, born at Northumberland, Pa., in 1801; died at Washington, D. C., in 1869. He began the practice of law at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1819. In 1826 he removed to Natchez, Miss., where he soon rose to prominence. In 1836, and again in 1840, he was elected to the United States Senate. By President Polk he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury, which office he held till 1849. In 1857 President Buchanan made him governor of Kansas. During the war he advocated the emancipation of the negro slaves as a political necessity. In the year 1863 he acted as financial agent of the United States Government in Europe, and succeeded in negotiating 250 millions of dollars of 5-20 bonds. Returning home in 1864 he devoted himself thereafter to a large law practice at Washington and to writing for the "Continental Monthly" articles on financial and political topics. WALKER, WILLIAM, filibuster, born at Nasl.ille, Tenn., in 1824, died at Trujillo, Honduras, in 1860. He studied law at Nashville, and medicine at Heidelberg, Germany. In July, 1853, in California, he organized an expedition for the conquest of the State of Sonora, Mexico. This expedition was frustrated. But in June, 1855, he landed at Realejo, Nicaragua, with 62 followers and a small force of native Nicaraguans, and there endeavored to take possession of the southern transit route. He was defeated at Rivas, but, being reënforced by 170 native soldiers, he routed the Nicaraguan army at La Virgen, on September 1, took possession of the city of Granada, and by a treaty with the opposing leader was made secretary of war and commander-in-chief. In a war with Costa Rica he retrieved a defeat in March, 1856, by a victory in April. Elected president in June, he issued currency on a large scale, reestablished slavery, and was recognized by Pres. Pierce. His tyranny produced a revolt. He was taken by a United States ship to New York, but released in January, 1858. In June, 1860, he landed with a small force at Trujillo, Honduras, and issued a proclamation against the government. On Sept. 3, 1860, he surrendered to a British man-of-war, whose commander delivered him to the Honduras authorities. The latter tried him by court-martial and shot him Sept. 10, 1860. Walker's account of the War in Nicaragua, written before his last expedition, appeared at Mobile in 1862. WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL, an English natur-alist, born at Usk in 1822, and educated at Hertford Grammar School. In 1848 he accompanied Mr. Bates to the Amazon, and embodied the results of his observations in the regions of that river in Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. He subsequently proceeded to Southern Asia, and spent eight years among the Malays, collecting material for his valuable work The Malay Archipelago. His other important scientific works are, Tropical Nature; The Geographical Distribution of Animals; Island Life, and Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. Dr. Wallace published in 1882, Darwinism. The publication of his Land Nationalization, its Necessity and its Aims, led to the establishment of the Land Nationalization Society of which he is president. He was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1868, and in 1870 the Gold Medal of the Société de Géographie of Paris. In 1889 he published Darwinism: an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with some of its Applications, which was received with great interest in the scientific world. WALLACE, LEWIS, general and author, born at Brookville, Franklin county, Ind., in 1827. He served in the Mexican war as lieutenant of Indiana volunteers. During the civil war he commanded a division of the capture of Fort Donelson, and was promoted major-general of volunteers in March, 1862. In 1863 he prevented the capture of Cincinnati by Gen. Kirby Smith. On July 9, 1864, he intercepted Gen. Early, who was marching upon Washington with 28,000 men, while he had only 5,800 men. Wallace was defeated by the overwhelming numbers of the enemy, yet he detained Early for some days, and thus enabled Grant's troops to re-inforce Washington before the Confederates could get there. Wallace was mustered out of volunteer service in 1865; returned to the practice of law at Crawfordsville, Ind. ; was governor of Utah in 1878-81; and served from 1881 till 1885 as United States Minister to Turkey. He is the author of two successful novels, entitled The Fair God, a story of the conquest of Mexico, and Ben Hur, a Tale of Christ (1880); also of a Life of Benjamin Harrison (1888), and of The Boyhood of Christ (1888). WALLACE, RODNEY, member of Congress, born in New Hampshire, in 1823. He was educated in the common schools of New Hampshire; is a manufacturer of paper; was selectman of Fitchburg in 1864, 1965, and 1867; was representative to the general court of Massachusetts in 1873; was councilor of State of Massachusetts in 1880-82; and was elected to Congress in 1889. WALLACE, WILLIAM COPELAND, member of Congress, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1856. He graduated at Wesleyan University in 1876, and at Columbia College Law School in 1878, and has since been in the practice of law; was Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1880-83; and was a member on Congress from 1889 to 1891. WALLACE, WILLIAM HARVEY LAMB, general, born at Urbana, Ohio, in 1821; died at Savannah, Tenn., in 1862. At the capture of Fort Donelson in February, 1862, he was colonel, but commanded a brigade, and bore so conspicuous a part that he was made brigadier-general. At the battle of Shiloh he commanded the division of Gen. C. F. Smith, who was absent on account of sickness. When the three other divisions were routed, Wallace, in conjunction with Gen. Hurlbut, for six hours held the field against the force of the enemy flushed with victory. At the end of the struggle he fell mortally wounded, and was taken to Savannah. WALLA WALLA, a city of Washington. Population in 1890, 4,709. See Britannica, Vol. XXIV, p. 328. WALLINGFORD, a town of Connecticut, on the Quinepiac River. It is the seat of the Wallingford community, and manufactures silver-ware, britannia-ware and buttons. Population in 1890, 6,538. WALLINGFORD, a small but ancient parliamentary municipal borough of England, mostly in the county of Berks, on the right bank of the Thames, thirteen miles northwest of Reading. The earthworks with which the Romans encompassed the town are still distinctly traceable. Population of municipal borough, 2,972. WALL-PIECE, a small cannon mounted on a swivel, on the wall of a fortress, for the purpose of being fired at short range on assailants in the ditch or on the covert way. There are distinct evidences that the great wall of China was originally constructed for the reception of wall pieces. WALL-PLATE, a piece of wood laid along the top of the wall of a building to receive the feet of the rafters of the roof. WALSH, ROBERT, author and journalist, born at Baltimore in 1784; died at Paris, France, in 1859. After studying law at Georgetown, D. C., and in Europe, he devoted himself to literature and journalism. He founded in 1811 the "American Review," the first quarterly in America, carrying it on for two years. In 1817-19 he edited "The American Republic." In 1821 he established, with Mr. Frye, the "National Gazette," which shortly became a daily, and was enriched for fifteen years with his genial articles on books, art and science. From 1827 to 1857 he again conducted the "American Review." In 1845 he was appointed United States Consul at Paris, where he remained till his death. He contributed to Lieber's Encyclopædia Americana the articles on American biography. WALSH, WILLIAM J., Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin, born in that city in 1841, and educated at Maynooth and Dunboyne. In 1867 he was elected professor of theology at Maynooth, of which institution he became president in succession to the late Dr. Russell. He was appointed archbishop of Dublin in 1885. Dr. Walsh is an ardent Nationalist, and has exerted great influence in the promotion of the Parnellite movement. WALTHALL, EDWARD CARY, United States Senator, born in Richmond, Va., April 4, 1831. He received an academic education at Holly Springs, Miss.; was admitted to the bar in 1852; was elected in 1856 district attorney for the tenth judicial district of Mississippi, and reëlected in 1859; resigned that office in the spring of 1861, and entered the Confederate service as a lieutenant in the 15th Mississippi regiment; was soon after elected lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; in the spring of 1862 was elected colonel of the 29th Mississippi regiment, was promoted to brigadier-general in December, 1862, and major-general in June, 1864; after the surrender practiced law at Coffeeville until January, 1871, when he removed to Grenada and continued the practice there until March, 1885; was appointed to the United States Senate and took his seat March 12, 1885; was elected by the legislature in January, 1886, for the unexpired term: was reëlected, and took his seat March 3, 1889. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895. WALTHAM, a city of Massachusetts. Population in 1890, 18,707. See Britannica, Vol. XXIV, p. 339. WALTHER, CARL FERDINAND WILHELM, Lutheran theologian, born at Langenschursdorf, Saxony, in 1811; died at St. Louis, Mo., in 1887. He graduated at the University of Leipzig in 1833. In 1839 he came to St. Louis, Mo., where he became pastor of a Lutheran church in 1841, and first president of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri. He published Die Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche; AmerikanischLutherische Evangelien-Postille; A.-L. Pastoral Theologie, and Epistel-Postille (1882). WALTON, GEORGE. a signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Frederick county, Va., about 1740; died at Augusta, Ga., in 1804. He studied law in Georgia, and was admitted to the bar at Augusta in 1774. He was very active in promoting the revolution in Georgia, and from February, 1776, till October, 1781, he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and the Articles of Confederation in 1777. Being commissioned colonel of militia in 1778, he took part in the defense of Savannah, where he was dangerously wounded, and remained a prisoner till September, 1779. The following month he was elected governor of Georgia, and again attained that dignity in 1789. He was four times judge of the superior court of Georgia. In 1795 he was chosen United States Senator. WALWORTH, REUBEN HYDE, jurist, born at Bozrah, Conn., in 1788; died at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1867. He studied law and was admitted to the bar at Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1809. In 1821-23 he was a member of Congress; in 1823 he became circuit judge, and in 1828 chancellor of the State of New York. This position he filled with great credit for 20 years, until the constitution of 1848 abolished the court of chancery. Chancellor Walworth was considered the greatest equity jurist of America; besides he was of a genial, winning manner and very benevolent. He was the author of Rules and Orders of the New York Court of Chancery, and prepared the Hyde Genealogy (2 vols. 1864), said to be the most elaborate work of its kind at that time. WAMPUM, a name given to shells and shellbeads, used as money, and worn for ornaments in strings and belts by the North American Indians. |