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Samuel Cutler Ward was born on January 27, 1814 in New York City, the son of Samuel Ward, 1786-1839 and Julia Rush (Cutler) Ward, and elder brother of Julia Ward Howe.
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Samuel Cutler Ward was born on January 27, 1814 in New York City, the son of Samuel Ward, 1786-1839 and Julia Rush (Cutler) Ward, and elder brother of Julia Ward Howe.
He attended Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachussets, presided over by George Bancroft, and Columbia College, New York, where he received the degree of B. A. in 1831. He then spent sometime in Europe - studying in France, where he purchased the library of Legendre, the mathematician, and in Germany, where he showed equal enthusiasm for student social life and the reigning intellectual fashions.
Returning to New York with a reputation for both fashionable and intellectual distinction, he contributed "additions and improvements" to the first American edition (1832) of An Elementary Treatise on Algebra by J. R. Young, is credited with reviewing books on Locke and Euler for the American Quarterly Review (December 1832, December 1833), and took a prominent part in the social life of the wealthy and leisured class until he entered the banking house of Prime, Ward & King, of which his father was a member. Banking was not to his taste, however, and soon after his father's death in 1839 he withdrew from the firm. Lacking the austerity and the financial aptitude of his father, Ward had lost his fortune by 1849 and in that year he joined the gold rush to California. There followed about a decade of adventurous wandering which gave rise to numerous legends. According to his own statements, he mastered every Indian dialect in California in three weeks, conducted a ferry and a billiard parlor, and adapted himself with great success to a rough and primitive environment. In San Francisco he made the acquaintance of young James R. Keene and became his confidant; later Keene was able to give his friend invaluable financial advice, which Ward reciprocated by advice and information on social and personal matters. He visited Paraguay and Nicaragua on official or semi-official missions in 1858 and 1862 respectively, and in 1860 published a polemical pamphlet, Exploits of the Attorney General in California, "by an early Californian, " severely criticizing Jeremiah Sullivan Black, attorney general in President Buchanan's cabinet. During the closing years of the Civil War and the administrations of Johnson and Grant he lived in Washington through the sessions of Congress, a lobbyist in the employ of financiers interested in national legislation. His dinners, breakfasts, and other entertainments gained a reputation for elegance, and public officials were eager to be the recipients of his hospitality. He was not only a gourmet, however, but a man of marked social gifts, able to persuade conversationally as well as gastronomically, and was credited with an influence which won him the title "King of the Lobby. " In 1865 he published a volume of verse, Lyrical Recreations, which he reissued in 1871. Warm-hearted, charming, generous to the point of prodigality, Ward had an immensely wide acquaintance and was beloved by a considerable circle of intimates. Among these were Seward, Sumner, Garfield, Evarts, Bayard, Ticknor, Thackeray, and William H. Russell, the British war correspondent, whom he accompanied on a tour through the Confederacy in the early weeks of the Civil War. He was a friend and adviser of Longfellow, and in June 1882 contributed a revealing article, "Days with Long-fellow, " to the North American Review. One of his closest friends in New York was William Henry Hurlbert of the World, who with Ward and the young Earl of Rosebery formed the "Mendacious Club, " of three, when Rosebery visited the United States in the early seventies. These ties of affection were lasting; Ward became "Uncle Sam" to Rosebery, who later characterized him as "the uncle of the human race". He was as well known in London as in New York, and was caricatured by "Spy" in The Vanity Fair Album (1880). Devoted to all his sisters' children, he was especially close to his brilliant nephew F. Marion Crawford, and gave much attention during his last years to launching Crawford on his literary career. Death came to him at Pegli, Italy, with nieces and nephews around him, The Rubaiyat on the bed beside him, and a copy of Horace under his pillow.
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Crawford wrote afterward to Julia Ward Howe, "He died as he had lived, full of thought and care for others, combined with a vagueness concerning all points of morality, which would have been terrible in a man less actively good than he was".
In 1837, he had married Emily, daughter of William B. Astor. She died at the birth of their only child, Margaret, and in 1844 Ward married Medora Grymes, daughter of John Randolph Grymes of New Orleans. Two sons, both of whom died young, were born of this marriage, which proved unhappy and resulted in separation.