WARD, William Hayes, Assyriologist, born in Abington, Massachusetts, 25 June, 1835. He was graduated at Amherst in 1856, and entered Union theological seminary, New York city, was a tutor at Beloit college in 1857-'8, and then completed his theological studies at Andover seminary, being graduated in 1859. He preached for one year at Oskaloosa, Kansas. receiving ordination on 8 January, 1860, resumed teaching at Williston seminary, Easthampton. Mass., in 1861, taught natural science at the Utica free academy in 1863-'5, and was subsequently professor of Latin at Ripen college, Wisconsin, till 1868, when he went to New York city as associate editor of the "Independent," of which he became superintending editor two years later. In September, 1884. he went, in charge of the Wolfe expedition, to Babylonia, and remained about a year, exploring the ruins south of Bagdad. He received the degree of D. D. from the University of the city of New York and from Rutgers college in 1873, and that of LL.D. from Amherst in 1885. Dr. Ward, who still edits the "Independent," is the author of articles on oriental archaeology in the "Proceedings" of the Palestine exploration society, the American archaeological institute, and the American oriental society, as well as in " Bibliotheca Sacra" and other periodicals. He wrote a biographical introduction to the " Poems " of Sidney Lanier (New York. 1884), and on his return from the East prepared a report of the expedition in pamphlet-form.