Willett, Joseph Edgerton – Williams, Charles Kilbourne
Willett, Joseph Edgerton
educator, author, was born Nov. 17, 1826, in Macon, Ga. He is a professor of natural science in Mercer university, Macon, Ga., from 1849; and the author of The Wonders of Insect Life.
Willett, Marinus
soldier, was born July 31, 1740, in Jamaica, N. Y.
He served with distinction through the revolutionary war; and in 1792 was appointed a brigadier-general. In 1807 he was mayor of New York city. He published an Autobiography. He died Aug. 22, 1830, in New York city.
Willett, William Marinus
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 3, 1803, in New York city. He was a methodist clergyman and educator; and the author of Scenes in the Wilderness; A New Life of Summerfield; Life and Times of Herod the Great; Herod Antipas: The Messiah; and The Restitution of All Things. He died in 1895.
Willetts, Deborah
was born in 1789 in Marshfield, Mass. She was a skilful grammarian, and was often consulted on difficult questions by Goold Brown, who in the preface of his celebrated grammar, acknowledged his indebtedness to her. She died in 1880 near Mechanic, N. Y.
Willetts, Jacob
educator, was born in 1785 in Fishkill, N. Y. He was an accomplished mathematician, and published text-books of geography, arithmetic, and bookkeeping, which were much used throughout the world. He died Sept. 12, 1860, near Mechanic, N. Y.
Willey, Austin
clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 24, 1806, in Campton, N. H. He was a congregational clergyman of Maine, long prominent as an abolitionist, and the editor of The Advocate of Freedom, in 1839-58. After the latter date he lived at Northfield, Minn.
He was the author of Family Memorial; and History of the Anti-Slavery Cause in State and Nation. He died in 1896.
Willey, Benjamin Glazier
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 1, 1796, in Conway, N. Y. He was a congregational clergyman of New Hampshire who wrote a History of the White Mountains. He died April 17, 1867, in East Summer, Maine.
Willey, Calvin
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 15, 1776, in East Haddam, Conn. He served in the Connecticut state legislature and senate a number of years; and was postmaster at Stafford Springs eight years. He was a judge of probate for seven years; and in 1824 was a presidential elector. He was a senator in congress from 1825 to 1831. He died Aug. 23, 1858, in Stafford, Conn.
Willey, Henry
botanist, lawyer, journalist, author, was born July 19, 1824, in Geneseo, N. Y. He is the author of List of North American Lichens; Introduction to the Study of Lichens; and Synopsis of the Genus Athona.
Willey, Norman Bushnell
governor, was born March 25, 1838, in Guilford, N. Y. He was a successful miner and was elected governor of Idaho in 1890.
Willey, Waitman Thomas
lawyer, lecturer, United States senator, was born Oct. 18, 1811, in Monongalia, W. Va.
In 1861 he was elected senator in congress; and at the close of that year was a delegate to the Wheeling constitutional convention. In 1863 he was elected a senator in congress from West Virginia; and in 1864 was re-elected to the senate for the term commencing in 1865 and ending in 1871.
Williams, Abram Pease
agriculturist, merchant, United States senator, was born Feb. 3, 1832, near Portland, Maine. In 1861 he moved to San Francisco; and is an importer, stock raiser, and farmer. He was one of the founders of the San Francisco board of trade, and its first president; and is a member of the San Francisco chamber of commerce.
He was elected United States senator by the California legislature in 1886 to fill a vacancy.
Williams, Alfred Mason
journalist, author, poet, was born in 1840 in Massachusetts.
Williams, Benjamin
state legislator, congressman, governor, was born in 1754 in North Carolina. He was a patriot of the revolution; and was a member of congress from 1793 to 1795. He also served many years in the state legislature; and was twice elected governor of North Carolina, in 1799 and 1807. He died in 1814 in North Carolina.
Williams, Betsey
philanthropist, was born in 1789 in Cranston, R. I. She inherited a farm of one hundred acres, by direct succession through five generations, from Roger Williams, and bequeathed it to the city of Providence to form the park that bears his name. She died Nov. 27, 1871, in Cranston, R. I. He was a Providence journalist, editor of The Journal; and the author of The Poets and Poetry of Ireland; Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry; and Sam Houston and the War of Independence in Texas. He died in 1896.
Williams, Alpheus Starkey
soldier, journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1810, in Saybrook, Conn. From 1840 to 1844 he was judge of probate for Wayne county, Mich.; was recorder of the city of Detroit; and from 1843 to 1847 was editor and owner of the Detroit Daily Advertiser. He served through the Mexican war as lieutenant-colonel; and in 1849 was appointed postmaster of Detroit. When the civil war began he was made major-general of militia, and was president of the state military board. He was subsequently appointed a brigadier-general in the national army, and performed much service on the upper Potomac. From 1866 to 1869 he was minister resident to San Salvador.
In 1874 he was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress. He died Dec. 21, 1878, in Washington, D. C.
Williams, Andrew
manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1828, in Canada. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth congress as a republican. WILLIAMS, MRS. ANNA [BOLLES], author, was born in 1840 in Connecticut.
She is a writer of Springfield, Mass., who has written a number of popular juvenile tales. She is the author of Birchwood; Professor Johnny; The Fitch Club; Who Saved the Ship?; Rolf and His Friends; Scotch Caps; Giant Dwarf; and Riverside Museum.
Williams, Archibald H. A
soldier, agriculturist, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1842, in Franklin county, N. C.
He served four years in the army of northern Virginia, and at the surrender of Appomattox Court-House was captain of his company. Since the war he has been engaged in farming and merchandising; and was instrumental in building the Oxford and Henderson railroad, which was for several years under his management.
He has twice represented Granville county in the North Carolina legislature; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Williams, Barney
actor, was born in 1823 in Ireland. In 1867 he became manager of Wallack's old Broadway theater in New York city and subsequently he played with success in this country, Great Britain and Canada. Mr. Williams attained a wide reputation as an Irish comedian. Among his last plays were The Emerald Ring; The Connie Soogah; and The Fairy Circle. He died April 25, 1876, in New York city.
Williams, Mrs. Catherine R
[ARNOLD], author, was born in 1787 in Providence, R. I. She was a Providence writer; and the author of Original Poems; Religion at Home; Tales: National and Revolutionary; Fall River, an Authentic Narrative; Neutral French; Annals of the Aristocracy of Rhode Island; and Aristocracy: a novel. She died Oct. 11, 1872, in Providence, R. I.
Williams, Ceylon F
musician, business man, was born Oct. 6, 1842, in Dupage county, Ill. He served in the civil war in company A, first regiment Nebraska volunteer infantry, as a musician. He then engaged in telegraphy, and railroading; was a steamboat pilot; and filled several public positions. He next studied real estate law, and in 1876 established a real estate, mortgage and loan business in Nebraska. He is now a broker and financier of Seattle, Wash. He has been an Odd Fellow for over thirty years, and in 1896-97 was elected grand master of Washington.
Williams, Channing Moore
bishop, was born July 18, 1829, in Richmond, Va. He was consecrated missionary bishop of China, with jurisdiction in Japan, in 1866.
Williams, Charles Frederic
author, was born in 1842 in Massachusetts. He is the author of The Tariff Laws of the United States, with Explanatory Notes; and Index of Cases Overruled by the Courts of America, England, and Ireland from 1873 to 1887. He edited the last eight volumes of The American and English Cyclopædia of Law. He died in 1895.
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Williams, Charles G
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1829, in Royalton, N. Y. He was a presidential elector in 1868; and was elected to the state senate for two years. was elected to the forty-third and fortyfourth congresses; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses. In 1883 he was appointed register of a land district in southern Dakota.
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Williams, Charles Kilbourne
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 24, 1782, in Cambridge, Mass. 1812 he served during one campaign on the northern frontier. Between 1809 and 1821 he was several times a representative in the Vermont legislature; again in 1849. He was state's attorney in 1814 and 1815; was a judge of the supreme court from 1822 to 1824, and from 1829 to 1842; and was collector of customs for the district of Vermont from 1825 to 1829. He was chief justice of the supreme court of Vermont from 1843 to 1846; and was president of the council of censors in 1847. He was governor of Vermont from 1850 to 1852. He died March 9, 1853, in Rutland, Vt. /