William Hayes Ward (June 25, 1835 – August 28, 1916) was an American clergyman, editor, and Orientalist.

Biography

William Hayes Ward was born in

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on June 25, 1835. After attending Berwick Academy in Maine, adjacent to the family Hayes House, Ward from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1852,

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in 1856, and the

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in 1859. He served as

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of a church at

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in 1859–60, and as professor of

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at Ripon College in

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(1865–68). He joined the editorial staff of the New York ''Independent'' in 1868 and remained with the ''Independent'' thereafter, rising by degrees to editor in chief (1896–1913), and then honorary editor. He directed the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia (1884–85) and was twice president of the

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(1890–94 and 1909–10). He was the father of Herbert D. Ward. William Hayes Ward died at his home in

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on August 28, 1916.

Works

* ''The World's Christian Hymns'' (1883), with his sister Susan Hayes Ward * ''Report of the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia'' (1885) * ''Biography of Sidney Lanier'' (1885) * ''Cylinders and Other Ancient Oriental Seals in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan'' (1909) * ''The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia'' (1910) * ''What I Believe and Why'' (1915)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, William Hayes American biographers American theologians American book editors American orientalists American Congregationalists Phillips Academy alumni People from Abington, Massachusetts 1835 births 1916 deaths Amherst College alumni Ripon College (Wisconsin) faculty