WATERS, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, genealogist, born in Salem, Massachusetts, 29 March, 1833. After graduation at Harvard in 1855 he engaged in teaching, and was a member of the school committee of Salem in 1881-'2, and its secretary in 1882-'3. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1885 for tracing the family of John Harvard, when other genealogists had failed. He has spent several years in England pursuing genealogical inquiries, on which he is still engaged.