The seal cylinders of western Asia - Primary Source Edition
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Abraham Lincoln: Tributes from His Associates, Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen and Citizens
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Report on the Wolfe expedition to Babylonia, 1884-85
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William Hayes Ward was an American publicist and orientalist.
Background
William Hayes Ward was born in Abington, Massachussets A descendant of William Ward who settled in Sudbury, Massachussets, about 1638, he came of a family of Congregational ministers, his great-grandfather and grandfather having been pastors of the First Church, Plymouth, N. H. , while his father, James Wilson Ward, was for twenty-one years pastor of the First Church, Abington. His mother was Hetta Lord Hayes, oldest daughter of Judge William Allen and Susan (Lord) Hayes of South Berwick, Me.
Education
When William was seven years old his mother died, and his care and education devolved largely on his father. Under his guidance William began the study of Hebrew at the age of six and was required to read through a Hebrew version of the Bible between the ages of six and nine; at nine he began the study of Greek and during the next three years was required to read the whole Bible through in Greek; at twelve he began the study of Latin and during the next three years read the Scriptures through again in that tongue. His father's library was rich in theological and philosophical works, which in his early teens William was encouraged to peruse. For brief periods he attended various schools, a year being spent at Phillips Academy, Andover. At seventeen he entered Amherst College, where he was graduated in 1856. After teaching for a short time he studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and subsequently at the Yale Divinity School. For a few months he served as tutor at Beloit College, Wisconsin, and then went to Andover Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1859.
Career
He was licensed to preach in January 1859. He and his wife offered themselves to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, but were rejected because of the latter's delicate health. Accepted by the Congregational Home Missionary Society, however, they served two years at Oskaloosa, Kan. , enduring many privations and hardships. Ward then resumed teaching, serving on the staff of Williston Academy, Easthampton, Massachussets, and on that of the Free Academy, Utica, N. Y. , and from 1865 to 1867 as professor of Latin and natural science at Ripon College, Wisconsin. In 1868 Henry C. Bowen, proprietor of the New York Independent, offered him a position on the editorial staff of that paper, which he accepted, remaining associated therewith until his death. He served as associate editor, 1868-70; as superintending editor, 1870-96; as editor, 1896-1913; and as honorary editor, 1913-16. He continued his Biblical and oriental studies, the results of which appeared frequently in articles in his paper, and in learned journals of the day. In 1914 he moved from his Newark, N. J. , residence to the ancestral home of the Hayes Family at South Berwick, Me. A carriage accident in 1915 paralyzed his arms, and from that time his strength failed until his death the following year. The range of Ward's intellectual interest was wide. Throughout his life he read Latin and Greek at sight; he was well versed in astronomy and botany; to the Semitic languages he turned for his recreation. He devoted his days to editorial duties; his evenings to study. He followed the work of Rawlinson and others in deciphering the Assyrian inscriptions, and until the coming of Prof. David Gordon Lyon to Harvard in 1882 he was perhaps the only man in the United States who could read Assyrian. At its fiftieth anniversary, in 1876, he presented Amherst College with a translation of the Assyrian texts in its possession. Ultimately he limited his work in the oriental field to the study of Assyrian and Babylonian seals, regarding which he became the leading authority in the world. In addition to many articles on the subject, he published, Cylinders and Other Ancient Oriental Seals in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan (1909) and The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia (1910), which became standard authorities. In 1879 President Charles Eliot offered him the chair of Semitic languages at Harvard, but, believing himself not sufficiently proficient in the grammar of classical Arabic, and regarding the editorial chair as offering a wider scope for his talents, he declined the offer. In the winter of 1884-85 he led the first American exploring expedition to Babylonia and surveyed various sites with a view of determining the best place for a later expedition to excavate. Guided by his results, the University of Pennsylvania uncovered ancient Nippur in 1888-1900.
Achievements
He was twice president of the American Oriental Society. Great as was his eminence as an orientalist, it was equally great as a publicist. He discovered and encouraged budding poets, one of whom was Sidney Lanier, for whose Poems (1884) he wrote a memorial sketch. His last book, What I Believe and Why (1915), is as remarkable for its insight and constructive thinking as for the simplicity of its style.
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Religion
He was liberal in theology, irenic in temper, and possessed of a passion for righteousness in civic and national life. He was active in the organization of the Federal Council of Churches, and gave much time and labor to many other organizations.
Personality
He possessed insight and sound judgment, wielded a facile pen, and wrote in a direct and simple, but flexible style.
Connections
On August 6 married Ellen Maria Dickinson of Sudbury, Massachussets, whose acquaintance he had made at Beloit. They had one child, Herbert Dickinson Ward.
