Surname: Ward Forename(s): James Warner b. 1816. d. 1897. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet. Born in Newark, New Jersey. Father was a bookseller, but died when Ward was
four years old. Attended Boston High School. Worked for the publishers Henry W. Derby
& Co. Regularly published in Cincinnati Gazette. Publications include Woman: A Poem (1832), Yorick and Other Poems (1838), The Song of Higher-Water (1855). Biographical information: The Poets and Poetry of the West, ed. by William T. Coggeshall, Follett, Foster, and Company, 1860, p. 255; VIAF. (AC)