of it from its foundation to 1846, a period of fourteen years. In 1851-'6 he had charge of a school for girls in Oxford, N. C. He has received the degree of D. D. from Wake Forest in 1849.
WAIT, William, lawyer, b. in Ephratah, N. Y„ 2 Feb., 1821; d. in Johnstown, N. Y., 29 Dec, 1880. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1846, and became district attorney of Fulton county, N. Y., in 1848. In 1856 he held the office of school commissioner. As a law-writer Mr. Wait was painstaking and accurate. Few legal works have been more widely known or more generally cited as authority than his. He was the author of "The Law and Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in Justices' Courts and on Appeals to the County Courts in the State of New York" (2 vols., Albany, 1865); "New York Annotated Code of Procedure " (1871); "A Table of Cases affirmed, revised, or cited in the Reports of the State of New York" (1872); "The Practice in Courts of Record of the State of New York" (1872): and "Wait's Actions and Defences at Law and in Equity" (7 vols., 1876-'9). Mr. Wait also edited an American edition of Herbert Broom and Edward A. Hadley's "Commentaries on the Law of England " (2 vols., Albany, 1875), and prepared a continuation of Clinton's "Digest of New York Reports," which was published as "Clinton and Wait's Digest of New York Reports" (1876).
WAITE, Carlos Adolphus, soldier, b. in 1800;
d. in Plattsburg, N. Y., 7 May, 1866. He entered
the U. S. army as 3d lieutenant of infantry, 28
Jan., 1820, became 1st lieutenant, 1 May, 1828, and
captain, 3 July, 1836. From 7 July, 1838, till 8
May, 1845, he was captain and assistant quarter-master.
He was appointed major of the 8th infantry, 16 Feb., 1847, and served in the Mexican war, receiving the brevets of lieutenant-colonel, 20
Aug., 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at
Contreras and Churubusco, and colonel, 8 Sept.,
1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at
Molino del Rey, where he was severely wounded. He
was made lieutenant-colonel of the 5th infantry on
10 Nov., 1851, and colonel of the 15th infantry on
5 June, 1860. In 1864 he was placed on the
retired list, owing to impaired health, and he resided
in Plattsburg until his death. He was brevetted
brigadier-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865,
for long and faithful service in the army.
WAITE, Charles Burlingame, jurist, b. in
Wayne county, N. Y., 29 Jan., 1824. He was
educated at Knox college, Ill., studied law at Galesburg
and Rock Island, and was admitted to the
bar in 1847. After fifteen years' successful
practice, chiefly in Chicago, he was appointed by President
Lincoln in 1862 associate justice of the
supreme court of Utah. In 1865 he resigned this
post and became district attorney of Idaho, and a
year later he returned to Chicago, since which time
he has devoted himself to literary pursuits. Judge
Waite has published a “History of the Christian
Religion to the Year A. D. 200” (Chicago, 1881),
and made numerous contributions to the press on
suffrage and other politico-legal questions. — His
wife, Catharine Van Valkenburg, author, b. in
Dumfries, Canada West, in 1829, was graduated
at Oberlin in 1853, and married Mr. Waite the next
year. In 1859 she established Hyde Park seminary.
She is a graduate of the Union college of law and
a member of the Illinois bar. In 1886 she founded
the “Chicago Law Times,” a quarterly magazine,
of which she is the editor. Mrs. Waite is active
in all movements for the advancement of her sex.
At the International council of women at
Washington she was elected president of the Woman's
international bar association, 26 March, 1888. She
is chief manager of the publishing-firm of C. V.
Waite and Co., and has published “The Mormon
Prophet and his Harem” (Cambridge, 1865).
WAITE, Henry Matson, jurist, b. in Lyme,
Conn., 9 Feb., 1787: d. there, 14 Dec., 1869. His
ancestor, Thomas, who came from England to
Massachusetts about 1663, is believed to have been a son
of Thomas Waite, one of the judges that signed
the death-warrant of Charles I. Henry was graduated
at Yale in 1809, studied law with Judge
Matthew Griswold and his brother, Gov. Roger
Griswold, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and
practised law in Lyme. In 1815 he was elected
to the legislature, serving several years as
representative and as state senator in 1832-'3. He
was appointed a judge of the supreme court of
errors of Connecticut in 1834, and held that place
and that of judge of the superior court for twenty
years. In 1854 he was made chief justice of the
state by the unanimous vote of the legislature. In
1855 Yale gave him the degree of LL. D. — His
son, Morrison Remick, jurist, b. in Lyme, Conn.,
29 Nov., 1816; d. in Washington, D. C., 23 March,
1888. He was graduated at Yale in 1837, where
he was a classmate of William M. Evarts,
Benjamin Silliman, and Samuel J. Tilden, and
began the study of law in his father's office, but in
1838 travelled extensively, and then completed his
legal education with Samuel M. Young in Maumee
City, Ohio. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar,
and formed a partnership with Mr. Young. He
proved himself capable of grasping all the minute
details of legal controversies and rose rapidly.
The firm removed to Toledo in 1850, and continued
until his youngest brother, Richard, came to
the bar, when the two brothers formed a partnership.
Mr. Waite in the mean time had become
widely known for his successful management of
difficult cases, and his studious habits and upright
character. Opposing counsel often said that his
assertion on any question of law was unanswerable.
During more than three decades he was the
acknowledged leader of the Ohio bar. Politically
he was a Whig until the disbandment of that party,
after which he was a Republican. But he took
no part in political affairs, although repeatedly
solicited to accept a nomination to congress, and he
declined a seat on the bench of the supreme court
of Ohio. In 1849 he was a member of the Ohio
legislature. He first attracted national attention as
counsel for the United States before the tribunal
of arbitration at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1871-'2,
his associates being Caleb Cushing and William
M. Evarts. He assisted in the preparation of the
case, and was chosen to argue the liability of the
English government for permitting Confederate
steamers to be supplied with coal in British ports
during the civil war, the robust clearness and
directness of his logic carrying conviction on all
the points he raised. His argument was
published (Geneva, 1872). When he returned in 1872,
the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by
Yale. In 1874 he was the choice of both political
parties as a delegate to the Ohio constitutional
convention, and on its assembling in Cincinnati he was
unanimously elected its president. When the death
of Chief-Justice Chase had created a vacancy in the
highest judicial office of the United States, two or
three eminent jurists were successively nominated
for the post, but their names were withdrawn. On
19 Jan., 1874, the president sent to the senate the
name of Mr. Waite. The nomination met with
general approval, and the nominee received every
vote that was cast. Mr. Waite took the oath of
