WADS WORTH, JAMES SAMUEL

(1807), a United States army officer, born in Gene see, N. Y. He was educated at Harvari and Yale and studied law with Daniel Webster after which he was admitted to the bar in 1833. Early in 1861 he enlisted in the Union army, the following August was appointed a brigadier-general and in 1862 became military governor of the District of Columbia. He participated, as the commander of a division, in the battles of Fred ericks burg, Chancellorsville and _ Gettysburg and was killed in the Battle of the Wilderne , May 6, 1864. JR. (1877), a United States senator, born at Gene see, N. Y., son of James W. and Louise Travers -Wads worth. He was educated at Yale. After 1899 he was engaged in live stock and general farming busine at Mount Morris, N. Y., in addition to which he was a director of the Gene see Valley Nat. Bank and the Livings ton County Trust he was a member of the New York A embly, was a delegate of the Republican National Convention, 1908, 12, and 1916 and in 1915 was elected United States senator from New York for the term of 1915-27.