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tain, liis regiment leading in the assault and cap- ture uf Rossville Gap, Sept. 20. 1803; was again on the staff of General McClernand, 1864; after- ward served in General Banks's Texas campaign and as judge of the military court. Department of the Gulf, 1SG4-65. After the war he settled in Ni'w Orleans, La.; was a delegate to the Pliila- delphia Union convention, 18G6, and in the same year was sent to the 40th congress, but failed to obtain a seat, congress deciding not to re-admit Louisiana to the Union. He represented Plaquemines parish in the general assemblj-; was governor of Louisiana, 1868, and military governor of the state by appointment from Gen- eral Grant, until the new constitution of tiie state was accepted by congress in 1868, wlien he was inaugurated and continued to serve until 1873. He subsequently became a sugar planter in Plaquemines parish. La.; was a member of the state legislature, 1876-77, and was married, May r.O. 1877, to Sally, daughter of James M. Duraiid. He was a delegate to the state constitutional con- vention, 1879; collector of customs of the port of New Orleans, La., 1880-93; a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1886 and 1900, and in 1890 built the New Orleans, Fort Jackson and Grand Isle railroad, of which he was presi- dent in 1903. He made his home on his planta- tion in Plaquemines parish, La.

WARNER, Adoniram Judson, soldier, was born ill Wales, Erie canty, N.Y., Jan. 13, 1834; son of Levi and Hepsibah (Dickinson) Warner; grandson of Omri and Prudence (Hollister) Warner and of Salmon and Phebe (Baker) Dick- inson, and a descend- ant of Charles War- ner of Sandersfield, Mass., and later of Rutland, Vt. Heat- tended the schools at Beloit, W^is., and New York Central college, and was principal of the Acad- emy at Lewiston, Pa.; superintendent of public schools in Mifflin county, and principal of the Mer- cer Union schools, 1856-61. Hewasmar- rie<l, April ."J, 18.'56, to Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Lyman and Sarah Nims (Porter) Butts of "Wayne county, N.Y. At the outbreak of the civil war lie joined the Federal army as captain in a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers; was Successively advanced to the ranks of lieutenant- colonel and colonel, and brevetted brigadier- general, U.S. v., March 13, 1865, and colonel,


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U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps. He was severely wounded at Aiitietam in 1862: was commander of a post at Indianapolis, Iiid., where he was ad- mitted to the bar. He moved to Marietta, Ohio; engaged extensively in the railroad, coal and iron business; was a Democratic representative from the 15th and 17th congressional districts in the 46th, 48th and 49th congresses. 1879-81 and 1883- 87. He was subsequently engaged in tiie con- struction of electric roads, and the development of water powers in the south. He was president of the American Bimetallic union from its organ- ization, and is the author of: Ajijireciatioii of Money (1877); Source of Value of Money (1883); a number of pamphlets on economic questions, and had a history of the bimetallic movement in the United States in preparation (1903).

WARNER, Charles Dudley, editor and autiior, was born in Plainfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1829; son of Justus and Sylvia (Hitchcock) Warner; grandson of Abel and Sally (Cook) "Warner and of Samuel and Thirza (Cooley) Hitchcock and a de- scendant of Francis Cook of the May- flotcer. Upon his father's death in 1834, he was taken to Charlemont, Mass., and in 1842 removed to Cazenovia, N.Y. He was graduated from Hamilton col- lege, A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854, contribut- ing while in college to the Knickerbocker and Putnam's maga- zines; was a member

of a surveyor's party on the Missouri frontier, 1853- 54; was graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania, LL.B., 1856, and practiced law in Chi- cago, 111., 1856-60. He was married in 1856, to Susan, daughter of William Eliot and Susan (Smythe) Lee of New York city. He was as- sistant editor of the Hartford (Conn.) Press. 1860-61, to which paper he had previously con- tributed; succeeded Joseph R. Hawley (q.v.) as editor-in-chief, 18G1-C7, and after the consolida- tion of the Press with the Courant, was co-pro- prietor and co-editor, 1867-84. In 1884 Mr. War- ner joined the editorial staff of Harper's Maga- zine, coniiucting " The Editor's Drawer" until 1892, and sulisequently " The Editor's Study" until its discontinuance in 1898, after which date he retired from active literary labors. He received thehonorary degree of A.M. from Yal^. 1872. and from Dartmouth, 1884: thatof L.II.D. from Ham- ilton, 1886, and from Princeton, 1896; D.C.L. from


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