WARD, WILLIAM HAYES

(18351916), an American clergyman and As graduated from Amherst College, in 1856, and from And over Theological Seminary, in 1859, after which he taught in Ripon College for eight years. In 1870 he became editor of the Independent. In 1884 he went to Babylon at the head of an exploring expedition, making a number of important archeological discoveries. He wrote A Biography of Sidney Lanier (1885); Notes on Oriental Antiquities; The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia (1910), and What I Believe and Why (1915). town, Nagpur, Central Provs., Brit. India; centre of cotton trade. Pop.