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2833 -- WARD, J. T. -- President of Western Maryland College, was born in Georgetown, D. C., August 21, 1830. His father, the Rev. Ulysses Ward, was a local preacher and an enterprising and useful citizen. He was educated in Washington and Berkeley, Md. In his twentieth year he entered the itinerant ministry in connection with the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and filled appointments successively in Frederick Co., Md., and in Berkeley Co., Va., and was stationed at Cumberland, Md. He edited the Columbian Fountain, a temperance journal, at Washington, from 1846 to 1848, and succeeded the Rev. T. H. Stockton in the M. P. Church, in Philadelphia, in 1848. Returning to Maryland in 1856, he occupied stations in Alexandria and Washington City, and taught in a seminary. In 1867 he was elected president of the Western Maryland College at its organization, and has occupied the same position until the present time (1877).