Willard, Ashton Rollins – Willers, Diedrich
Willard, Ashton Rollins
lawyer, author, was born in 1858 in Vermont.
He is a lawyer of Boston; and the author of A Sketch of the Life and Work of the Painter Domenico Morelli; and Legislative Handbook Relating to the Preparation of Statutes.
Willard, Charles W
lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born June 18, 1827, in Lyndon, Vt.
He was elected secretary of state in 1855, and declined a re-election. He was elected a state senator in 1860; and in 1861 became the editor of the Green Mountain Freeman. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Vermont to the fortyfirst congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second congress.
WILLARD, MRS. EMMA [HART], educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 23, 1787, in Berlin, Conn. She was a noted educator of Troy, N. Y.; and the author of Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain; History of the United States; Universal History in Perspective; Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood; Last Leaves of American History; and Poems. She wrote the well known poem, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. She died April 15, 1870, in Troy, N. Y.
Willard, Frances Elizabeth
temperance reformer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1839, near Rochester, N. Y. In 1871 she became president of Evanston college; and in 1874 resigned to join the Woman's Christian Temperance union. In 1879 she was elected president, which position she held until her death.
In the cause of temperance she visited every state and territory in the United States, and Europe. She published eight volumes, of which the chief are Nineteen Beautiful Years; Woman and Temperance; Glimpses of Fifty Years; How to Win; Woman in the Pulpit; and A Great Mother. She died Feb. 17, 1898, in New York city.
Willard, George
journalist, educator, congressman, was born March 20, 1824, in Bolton, Vt. He was for two years a professor in Kalamazoo college, Mich.; and was editor and publisher of the Battle Creek Journal. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the fortythird and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Willard, Horace Birney
physician, legislator, poet, was born May 2, 1825, in Volney, N. Y. He graduated in 1849, from the Geneva Medical college, and for twenty years practiced medicine with success, which profession failing health compelled him to abandon. He served several years in the county board of supervisors; one year as mayor Fort Atkinson; and in 1861 served with distinction as a member of the Wisconsin legislature. Mr. Willard has been often called to other places of public trust and responsibility. He is now vicepresident of the Citizen's State bank at Fort Atkinson, Wis., where he now resides. of
Willard, John
lawyer, jurist, was born May 20, 1792, in Guilford, Conn.
He was an eminent jurist of New York city; and the author of Equity Jurisprudence; Treatise on Executors, Administrators, and Guardians; and Real Estate and Conveyancing. He died Aug. 31, 1862, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Willard, John Dwight
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1799, in Lancaster, N. Y. In 1826 he began the practice of law in Troy, N. Y.; and was editor of the Troy Sentinel for a number of years. He served as a state senator; and as judge of the New York circuit court. He was the author of reatise on Equity Jurisprudence; Law of Real Estate; and other works. He left ten thousand dollars to Dartmouth college, from which he graduated in 1819. He died Oct. 16, 1864, in Troy, N. Y.
Willard, Joseph
clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 9, 1738, in Biddeford, Maine. In 1781 he became president of Harvard college. He died Sept. 25, 1804, in North Bedford, Mass.
Willard, Joseph
lawyer, author, was born March 14, 1798, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a successful lawyer of Boston, Mass.; and the author of a History of Lancaster; A Family Genealogy; and other works. He died May 12, 1865, in Boston, Mass.
Willard, Joseph Augustus
lawyer, author, was born in 1816, in Massachusetts. He is a clerk of the superior court of Massachusetts for Suffolk county, from 1865. His connection with courts of justice began in 1846. He is the author of Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers.
Willard, Joseph Clapp
was born Nov. 11, 1820, at Westminster, Vt. Returning from California after a successful career financially, he decided to locate in Washington, D.
C., then scarcely more than an infant city, where he associated himself with his brothers, Edwin Dorr and Henry Augustus, in Willard's Hotel, originally known as Fuller's City Hotel. After having been for years identified with Willard's Hotel, Mr.
Willard became in 1892 sole owner of the property which is yet in his hands. It is the best known hotel in the United States.
Willard, Josiah
lawyer, jurist, was born May 1, 1681, in Massachusetts. He was secretary of Massachusetts from 1717 until his death, being known as the good secretary. He was judge of probate in 1731, and a member of the council in 1734. He died Dec. 6, 1756, in Newport, R. I.
Willard, Samuel
clergyman, college president, author, was born Jan. 31, 1640, in Concord, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, and president of Harvard university, 1701-07.
Of his many works, A Complete Body of Divinity is the best known. Others are, Peril of the Times Displayed; Covenant- Keeping the Way to Blessedness; and Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam. He died Sept. 12, 1707, in Boston, Mass.
Willard, Simon
lawyer, state legislator, was born in April, 1605, in England. He was a founder of Concord; and represented it in the legislature from 1636 till 1654, and was assistant and councilor from 1654 till 1676. He became a magistrate and died while holding a court in Charlestown. He died April 24, 1676, in Charlestown, Mass.
Willard, Sydney
educator, author, was born Sept. 19, 1780, in Beverly, Mass.
He was a professor of Hebrew at Harvard university in 1801-31; and the author of Hebrew Grammar; and Memories of Youth and Manhood. He died Dec. 6, 1856, in Cambridge, Mass.
Willard, Sylvester David
physician, author, was born June 19, 1825, in Wilton, Conn. He was an Albany physician, surgeon-general of New York at the time of his death. The Willard Asylum for the Insane was named for him. He was the author of Biographical Memoirs of Physicians of Albany County; and Annals of the Albany County Medical Society. He died April 2, 1865, in Albany, N. Y.
Willcox, Orlando Bolivar
soldier, author, was born April 16, 1823, in Detroit, Mich. He served with distinction throughout the Mexican and civil wars, and was brevetted major-general of volunteers in 1865. In 1886 he was promoted to brigadier-general of the regular army, and was retired in 1887. In 1888 he was made governor of the Soldiers' Home of Washington, D. C. He is the author of Shoepack Recollections; and Faca, an Army Memoir.
Willcox, Washington F
lawyer, congressman, was born in Killingworth, Conn. He was elected a member of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1862 and 1863; and was elected to the state senate in 1875 and 1876. He was appointed state attorney in 1875, and held that office continuously for eight years. He was elected to the fifty-first congress and reelected to the fiftysecond congress as a democrat. In 1897 he was appointed railroad commissioner; and was elected by his associates chairman of the board.
Willers, Diedrich
soldier, clergyman, was born Feb. 6, 1798, in Germany. For five years he served in the German army, and was at the battle of Waterloo with the allied army under the Duke of Wellington. In 1819 he emigrated to the United States, and was ordained a clergyman in 1821. For sixty years he was pastor of the German reformed church. He stood high in his religious denomination, and frequently presided over its synods.
He died May 13, 1883, in Varick, N. Y.
Willers, Diedrich
educator, lawyer, public official, author, was born Nov. 3, 1833, in Varick, N. Y. He was educated principally in the public schools and under the direction of his father. In his youth he taught school for several years, and afterward graduated from the Albany Law school, and was admitted to the bar.
In 1864 he served as private secretary to Governor Horatio Seymour; was elected supervisor of Varick in 1865-66. For six years he was clerk in the office of the secretary of state of Albany; was eight years a deputy; and for two years served with distinction as secretary of state. In 1878 he was a member of the assembly of the New York state legislature, and was on several important committees.
He still resides in the place of his nativity; has given much attention and research to local history, and is the author of several local publications.