Background
Ward, William Hayes was born on June 25, 1835 in Abington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review James Wilson and Hetta Lord (Hayes) Ward.
Ward, William Hayes was born on June 25, 1835 in Abington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review James Wilson and Hetta Lord (Hayes) Ward.
Brother of Susan Hayes West. Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1856, Master of Arts, 1859. Union Theological Seminary, 1856-1857.
Graduate Andover Theological Seminary, 1859. Doctor of Divinity, Rutgers, 1873, New York University, 1873.
Doctor of Laws, Amherst, 1885.
Father of Herbert Dickinson West. Ordained Congleton ministry, 1860. Pastor Oskaloosa, Kansas, 1859-1860, teacher Utica (New York) Free Academy, 1863-1865. Professor Latin and sciences, Ripon (Wisconsin) College, 1865-1867.
Associate editor, 1868-1870, superintending editor, 1870-1896, editor-in-chief
1896-1913, honorary editor, since 1913, The Independent, New New York Lecturer on Assyriology, Yale, 1878-1879. Director Wolfe expedition to Babylonia, 1884-1885.
Trustee Amherst, since 1891. President American Oriental Society, 1890-1894, 1909-1910.
Author: World’s Christmas Hymn, 1883.
Report of the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia, 1885. Biography of Sidney Lanier. 1885; Cylinders and Other Oriental Seals in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia, 1909.
What I Believe and Whv. Also various notes on Oriental antiquities, et cetera
Home: South Berwick, Maine.
Married Ellen M. Dickinson, 1859 (died 1874).