WARD, Thomas, poet, born in Newark, New Jersey, 8 June, 1807; died in New York city, 13 April, 1873. He studied at Princeton and at Rutgers medical college, New York city, practised his profession two or three years, and after travelling some time in foreign countries returned to that city to follow a life of literary leisure, having married a lady of fortune. He built a large music-hall in his house in New York, in which, between 1862 and 1872, nearly fifty musical entertainments were given. Dr. Ward was the author of "A Month of Freedom "(New York, 1837); "Passaic: a Group of Poems touching that River, with other Musings," by "Flaceus" (New York, 1842); "Flora, or the Gipsy's Frolic," a pastoral opera, for which he al so wrote the music, and which had several public and private representations for the benefit of charitable objects, yielding about $40,000; and " War Lyrics" (printed privately, New York, 1865).--His nephew, James Warner, poet, born in Newark, New Jersey, 5 June, 1817, was educated at the Boston high-school, became the pupil and assistant of Professor John Locke in the Medical college of Ohio, Cincinnati, was professor of general literature and of botany at the Female college of Ohio in 1853-'4, and afterward edited for several years the "Botanical Magazine and Horticultural Review" at Cincinnati, in association with Dr. John A. Warder. In 1859 he removed to New York city. Since 1874 he has been librarian of the Grosvenor public library, Buffalo, New York Mr. Ward has composed pieces for the voice and the organ, and is a member of botanical and microscopical societies. Besides contributions to periodicals he has published a volume of "Home-made Verses and Stories in Rhyme," that were usually signed "Yorick" (Boston, 1857) ; "Woman," a poem (1852); and " Higher Water," a parody of Henry W. Longfellow's " Hiawatha," descriptive of a freshet in the Ohio river (1855).