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pealed to readers. It was as a contribution of the writer to the discussion of a burning question, and its unexampled popularity was much more than merely literary. The success of ' The Wide, Wide World,' on the other hand, was purely ar- tistic, so to speak. It owes nothing to the subject and nothing to incidents. There is not a touch of melo- drama in its treat- ment, and it has as little story as if it had been written by Hen- ry James." Taine ex- pressed his astonish- ment that in America " a three-volume nov- el is devoted to the history of the moral progress of a girl of thirteen." Miss War-

ner was buried, by

her desire, near the Cadets' monument in the West Point cemetery, shown in the illustration. Her tombstone bears the inscription : " The author of 'The Wide, Wide World' was bom 11 July, 1819, and passed gently into the life that knows no end- ing, 17 March, 1885. In trust for a few of the friends that loved her, her sister has placed this stone. Auf Wiedersehen." — Her sister, Anna Bartlett, b. in New York in 1820, has published, under the f)en-name of " Amy Lothrop, the novels of " Dol- ars and Cents " (New York, 1853), and " My Broth- er's Keeper " (1855) ; also " Stories of Vinegar Hill " (6 vols., 1871), '" The Fourth Watch " (1872), " Gardening by Myself " (1872), " Miss Tiller's Vege- table Garden " (1873), and " The other Shore " (1873).

WARNER, Willard, senator, b. in Granville, Ohio, 4 Sept., 1826. He was graduated at Marietta college in 1845, went to California in 1849, en- gaged in mercantile business in Cincinnati after his return in 1852, and a few years later became general manager of the Newark machine-works. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- vention in 1860. In December, 1861, he joined the volunteer army as major of the 76th Ohio infantry, and was engaged at Fort Donelson, at the siege of Corinth, and in the Vicksburg campaign. In 1863 he became lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, which he led from Vicksburg to Chattanooga, and through the battles of Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, and at Ringgold, where he broke through Gen. Patrick Cleburne's strongly posted lines. In the Atlanta campaign he served on the staff of Gen. William T. Sherman as inspector-general. On 20 Oct., 1864, he was appointed colonel of the 180th Ohio volunteers. He was brevetted briga- dier- and major-general of volunteers in March, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services, and was mustered out in July. He served one term in the Ohio state senate immediately after the war, re- moved to the south in 1867, where he engaged in cotton-planting, was a member of the Alabama legislature in the succeeding year, and was elected to the U. S. senate as a Republican from Alabama on the reorganization of the state government, serving from 25 July, 1868, till 3 March, 1871, when his term ended. He was collector of customs at Mobile. Ala., from July, 1871, till February, 1872, when he declined the appointment of governor of New Mexico, as he did also that of minister to the Argentine Republic. He was a member of the Republican national convention of 1868, of the Cincinnati convention that nominated Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, and of all that have since been held. In 1873 he organized the Tecumseh iron company, of which he has since been the general manager, and in 1887 he was elected president and manager of the Nashville iron, steel, and charcoal company. He resides at Tecumseh, Ala.

WARNER, William, congressman, b. in Wis- consin in 1840. He was educated at Lawrence university, Wis., and at the University of Michi- gan, but was not graduated. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but entered the army in 1862, and served till the end of the civil war in the 33d and 34th Wisconsin regiments. He then set- tled in the practice of his profession at Kansas City, Mo., became city attorney in 1867, and cir- cuit attorney in 1869, and in 1871 was elected mayor. He was a Republican presidential elector in 1872, U. S. district attorney for western Mis- souri in 1882-'4, and twice received the votes of the Republican members of the legislature for U. S. senator. In 1884 he was chosen to congress, and he was re-elected in 1886. He was the first department commander of the Grand army of the republic in Missouri, and was chosen commander- in-chief at the National encampment in 1888.

WARNER, Zebedee, clergyman, b. in Pendle- ton county, Va., 28 Feb., 1833.. He was educated at Clarksburg (Va.) academy, which he left in 1852. He entered the ministry of the United Brethren in Christ in 1854, was presiding elder in 1862-'9, in charge of a church at Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1869-'80, and was presiding elder of the district in 1880-'5. He was graduated in the Chautauqua Sunday-school normal course in 1879. He was elected corresponding member of the General mis- sionary society in 1885, has been seven times in the general conference, and was for two years president of the Eastern Sunday-school assembly. He was for eight years teacher of theology in the Parkersburg conference, and since 1858 has been a trustee of Otterbein university, which conferred upon him the degree of D. D. in 1878. He published " Christian Baptism " (Parkersburg, 1864) ; " Rise and Progress of the United Brethren Church " (1865) ; " Life and Times of Rev. Jacob Bachtel " (Dayton, Ohio, 1867) ; and " The Roman Catholic not a True Christian Church " (Parkersburg, 1868).

WARREN, Cyrus More, chemist, b. in Ded- ham, Mass., 15 Jan., 1824. He was graduated at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1855, and spent three years studying chemistry, chiefly at Heidelberg and Berlin. On his return he devoted himself to original research, especially in connec- tion with the volatile hydrocarbons, and his later investigations have resulted in practical applica- tions in the use of coal-tar and asphaltum for roof- ing and paving purposes, which have been intro- duced by the Warren chemical and manufacturing company and the Warren-Scharf asphalt paving company, of which corporations he is president and treasurer. In 1866-'8 he held the chair of organic chemistry in the Massachusetts institute of tech- nology. He has obtained patents for a process of fractional distillation, for various improvements in asphalt roofing and paving materials, and for a method for the distillation of anthracene. Prof. Warren is a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences and of the American association for the advancement of science. His papers, de- scriptive of his original researches, have been pub- lished in the " American Journal of Science " and in the " Memoirs of the American Academy."

WARREN, Fitz-Henry, soldier, b. in Brimfield, Mass., 11 Jan., 1816; d. there, 21 June, 1878.