come to be known as the Calico mining district in San Bernardino county. In 1886 he was elected lieutenant-governor as a Republican. Upon the death of Gov. Washington Bartlett, 12 Sept., 1887, Mr. Waterman was called to the duties of chief executive. During recent years Gov. Waterman has engaged in numerous business enterprises in various parts of California. He is the owner of the famous Stonewall gold-mine in San Diego county, and has extensive ranch properties in southern California. He is president of the San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern railway, and is con- nected with many other public enterprises.
WATERMAN, Sigismund, physician, b. in
Bruck, Bavaria, 22 Feb., 1819. He was educated
in Erlangen, Bavaria, and was graduated in medi-
cine at Yale in 1848. His professional life has
been passed chiefly in New York, where he has en-
gaged in general practice. In 1857 he was ap-
pointed police surgeon, which place he filled for
nearly thirty years, and during the civil war he
was made one of the draft surgeons. Dr. Water-
man became consulting physician in 1875 to the
Home for aged and infirm Hebrews, .and is now
medical director of that institution. He has de-
voted special attention to the use of the spectroscope
in the practice of medicine, and has been success-
ful in its application. During 1868 he lectured
on that subject before the medical societies of New
York, and he has since spoken elsewhere on the
same topic. He is a member of various medical
societies and has contributed to the literature of
his profession. Among his papers are " Practical
Remarks on Scarlatina " (1859) ; " Therapeutic Em-
ployment of Oxide of Zinc" (1861); "Spectral
Analysis as an Aid in the Diagnosis of Disease "
(1869) ; " The Blood-Crystals and their Physiologi-
cal Importance " (1872) ; " Spectral Analysis of
Blood-Stains " (1873) ; " The Importance of the
Spectroscope in Forensic Cases " (1874) ; and " Re-
vivification " (1884).
WATERMAN, Thomas Glasby, lawyer, b. in
New York city, 23 Jan., 1788 ; d. in Binghamton,
N. Y., 7 Jan., 1862. At an early age he removed
with his parents to Salisbury, Conn., where his
father, David, established extensive iron-works.
The son was graduated at Yale in 1806 in the
class with James Fenimore Cooper, studied in the
Litchfield law-school, and afterward with Samuel
Sherwood in Delhi, N. Y., and after admission to
the bar in 1809 remained with the latter until
1812, when he went to Owego. N. Y., for a few
months, but settled finally in Binghamton, N. Y.,
where he practised until about 1830. He served in
the lower house of the legislature in 1826, and from
1827 till 1831 in the state senate, where he was one
of a committee that made a thorough revision of
the statutes of the state. By appointment of the
governor he discharged the duties of judge of the
court of common pleas for the state. He prepared
and published " The Justice's Manual, or a Sum-
mary of the Powers and Duties of Justices of the
Peace in New York State" (Albany, 1828). — His
son, Thomas Whitney, lawyer, b. in Binghamton,
N. Y., 28 June, 1821, entered Yale in 1838, but was
not graduated. He travelled in Europe in 1842-4,
studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New
York in 1848. Until 1870 he practised in New
York city, and he then removed to Binghamton.
He has edited many law-books, including American
editions of J. H. Dart's " Vendors and Purchasers
of Real Estate," with notes (New York, 1851) ; J.
F. Archbold's " New System of Criminal Proced-
ure " (3 vols., New York, 1852) ; Robert Henley
Eden's " Treatise on the Law of Injunctions " (2
vols., New York, 1852) ; vols. viii. and ix. of Alonzo
C. Paige's " Reports of Cases in the Court of Chan-
cery of the State of New York " (1852) ; Murray
Hoffman's " Chancerv Reports " (1853) ; George
Caines's "New York Reports" (3d ed., 3 vols.,
1854) ; vol. ii. of Elijah Paine's " Reports of Cases
argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the
United States for the Second Circuit, 1816-26"
(1856); the 4th American edition of William Pa-
ley's " Treatise on the Law of Principal and Agent
Chiefly in Reference to Mercantile Translations "
(1856) ; and vols xviii., xix., and xx. of John L.
Wendell's " Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court
of Judicature and in the Court for Trial of Im-
peachments and the Correction of Errors of the
State of New York, 1828-'41 " (1857). He is the
author of a " Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of
Justices of the Peace, to which are added Outlines
of the Powers and Duties of Country and Town
Officers in the State of New York " (New York,
1849) ; the 3d edition of the " American Chancery
Digest," with notes and a copious index (3 vols.,
1851) ; " Treatise on the Civil and Criminal Juris-
diction of Justices of the Peace for the States of
Wisconsin and Iowa : containing Practical Forms "
(1853) ; " Treatise on the Principles of Law and
Equity which govern Courts in the granting of
New Trials in Cases Civil and Criminal " (2 vols.,
1855) ; " Digest of the Reported Decisions of the
Superior Court and of the Supreme Court of Er-
rors of the State of Connecticut from the Organi-
zation of said Courts to the Present Time " (1858) ;
and a " Treatise on the Law of Set-Off, Recoup-
ment, and Counter-Claim " (1869).
WATERS, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, genealogist,
b. in Salem, Mass., 29 March, 1833. After gradu-
ation at Harvard in 1855 he engaged in teaching,
and was a member of the school committee of Sa-
lem in 1881-2, and its secretary in 1882-'3. He
received the honorary degree of A. M. from Har-
vard in 1885 for tracing the family of John Harvard,
when other genealogists had failed. He has spent
several years in England pursuing genealogical in-
quiries, on which he is still engaged.
WATERS, Nicholas Baker, physician, b. in
Maryland in 1764; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1796.
He received a classical education, was graduated
in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in
1786, and practised in Philadelphia until his death.
In 1790 he married Hester, daughter of David
Rittenhouse, the astronomer. He published an
abridged edition of "A System of Surgery," by
Benjamin Bell, of Edinburgh, to which notes were
added by Dr. John Jones (Philadelphia, 1791).
WATERS, Robert, educator, b.' in Thurso,
Caithness-shire, Scotland, 9 May, 1835. He came
to Canada in 1842, and was taught to read and
write by his mother. At the age of thirteen he was
employed at setting type, and in 1851 came to this
country. In this manner he acquired an educa-
tion, and in 1862 he went to France, where, after
working in a printing-office for a time, he began to
teach. Subsequently he went to Germany to study,
and gave instruction there in English and French
for four years. In 1868 he accepted an appoint-
ment in the Hoboken, N. J., academy, where he
remained until 1883, when he became principal of
the West Hoboken public school, which place he
still holds. Mr. Waters has published a " Life of
William Cobbett " (New York, 1883) ; " Shakespeare
portrayed by Himself" (1888); "How Genius
works its Wonders " (1889) ; and edited and anno-
tated "Cobbett's English Grammar" (1883).
WATERSTON, Robert Cassie, clergyman, b. in Kennebunk, Me., in 1812. He studied three
