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the University of the South, 1889. and J.U.D. elsewhere. He was president of the American Social Science association; vice-president of the Egypt Exploration Fund of England, and of the National Prison congress; a member of the State commission on prisons, and also of that on sculpture; member of the Century, Authors and. Players clubs of New York city; of the Authors and Tavern clubs of Boston, and of numerous kindred organizationsin New York and elsewhere. Mr. Warner's extensive travel-experience, both at home and abroad, resulted in the following de- scriptive publications: Saunterings (1812); Bad- deck, and That Sort of Thing (1874); My Winter on the Nile (1876); In the Levant (1876); In the Wilderness (1878); A Roundabout Journey (ISSZ); Their Pilgrimage (1886); On Horseback (1888); Studies in the South and West (1889); Our Italy, Southern California (1890). His essays include: My Summer in a Garden (1870); Backlog Studies {IS72); Being a Boy (1877); Washington Irving (1881), his initial contribution to the " American Men of Letters Series," of which he was editor; ^4.s We Were Saying{\891); As We Go (1893); The Relation of Literature to Life (1896), lectures de- livered at Princeton, Yale. Trinity, Cornell and Tulane universities, and The People for ^Mlom Shakespeare Wrote (1897). He is also the author of: The Gilded Age, with S. L. Clemens (1873); the trilogy of novels: A Little Journey in the World (1889), The Golden House (1894), and Tliat Fortune (1899); the monographs, Capf am John Smith (1881), and The Woi'k of Washington Irving (1893), and the miscellaneous writings: Tlie American Newspaper (1879); Papers on Pen- ology, with others (1886), and Looking Forivard: Tlie Dual Government Realized (1890). Mr. Warner's most comprehensive editorial work is the construction of ^4 Library of the World's Best Literature (30 vols., 1S96-98). He died in Hart- ford, Conn., Oct. 20, 1900.
WARNER, Hiram, jurist, was born in Hamp- shire county, Mass., Oct. 1-9, 1S02. He received a good education and in 1819 removed to Georgia and taught school, 1819-22. He was admitted to the bar in 1825 and established himself in prac- tice in Knoxville, Ga. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1828-31, judge of the su- perior court, 1833-40: judge of the state supreme court, 1845-53, and was elected a Democratic rep- resentative from Georgia in the 34th congress, serving, 1855-57, and declining re-election in 1856. He was a member of the Democratic national convention of 1860; and a member of the Georgia secession convention of 1861 where he opposed the measure and after the war sustained the re- construction acts of the United States congress. He was appointed judge of the reorganized su- preme court, and in 1873 was appointed chief
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WARNER, James fleech, soldier, was born in Middlebury , Tt. . .Jan. 29, 1836. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1860; pi-o- nioted brevet 2d lieutenant of infantry, July 1. 1860, and served on frontier duty at Fort Wise, Colo., 1860-62. He was promoted 2d lieutenant of 8th infantry, Feb. 28. 1861, and 1st lieutenant, May 30, 1861; appointed colonel of 11th Vermont volunteers. Sept. 1, 1862. and attached to the heavy artillery in the defences of Washington, D.D., 1862-64. He was severely wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864; com- manded the 1st brigade, Hardin's division, in the defences of Washington in July, 1864; took part in the Shenandoah campaign, August-December, 1864, commanding the 1st brigade, 2d division, 6th army corps, in the battles of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, was brevetted brigadier-general, U.S. v., Aug. 1, 1864. for Spottsylvania, Win- chester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, and pro- moted captain, U.S.A., Oct. 8, 1864. He was on leave of absence during part of the Petersburg campaign, but again commanded his regiment in the Appomattox campaign at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865. He was brevetted brigadier- general, U.S.A., April 9, 1865. for gallantry in the field during the rebellion; promoted brigadier- general, U.S. v.. May 8, 1865; was on waiting orders, July, 1885-January, 1806, and mustered out of volunteer service, Jan. 15, 1866. He re- signed his commission in the U.S. army, Feb. 13, 1866, and removed to Albany, where he engaged in paper manufacturing. He was appointed postmaster of Albany by President Harrison. He died in New York city. 3Iarch 16. 1897.
WARNER, Millard Fillmore, educator, was born in Tuscarawas, Ohio, Oct. 15, 1848; son of Jonas and Catherine (Li-ster) Warner; grandson of Daniel and Mary (Simmers) Warner, and of Alfred and Sarah (Haga) Lister, and a de- scendant of Ichabod Warner who came from Eng- land at an early period. He was graduated fromOliio Wesleyan university, A. B., 1871. A.M., 1874; from Drew Theological seminary, Madison, N.J., B.D., 1873, and from the University of the City of New York, M.D., 1877. He served in the Newark (N. J.) confei-ence of the M.E. church, 1873-78, and in the Noi-th Ohio conference. 1878-87. He was married, Jan. 5. 1876, to Mabel Gray. daughter of James and Rachel (Brands) De Witt of Harmony, N.J. He was professor of Hel)rew and English in Baldwin university, Berea, Ohio, 1887-94; acting president of the university, 1894. and president, 1895-99. when he was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. R.M. Freshwater, and engaged in the practice of medicine in Berea and Cleveland. Ohio. 1899-1903. and in Akron. Ohio, from 1903. He was a senator from the twentv-fifth district in
