Williams, John Mason – Williams, Robert
Williams, John Mason
lawyer, jurist, was born June 24, 1780, in New Bedford, Mass. He became associate justice of the Massachusetts court of common pleas in 1821, and its chief justice in 1839- 44. In 1844-56 he was commissioner of insolvency. He was also author of a pamphlet entitled Nullification and Compromise. He died Dec. 28, 1868, in New Bedford, Mass.
Williams, John M. S
merchant, ship owner, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1818, in Richmond, Va.
He was a member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1856, and of the senate in 1858. He was a presidential elector in 1868, and was elected to the forty-third congress. He died March 19, 1886, in Cambridge, Mass.
Williams, John S
soldier, lawyer, journalist, public official, was born Dec. 14, 1825, in Lockport, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected mayor of the city of Lafayette, Ind., and was re-elected in 1858. He was for some time editor of the Lafayette Daily American. In 1861 he recruited the sixty-third regiment of Indiana volunteers, and was commissioned colonel of the regiment. In 1866 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the eighth district of Indiana. In 1869 he became the publisher of the Lafayette Sunday Times, and in 1885 was appointed third auditor of the United States treasury department.
Williams, John Sharpe
lawyer, cotton planter, congressman, was born July 30, 1854, in Memphis, Tenn. He engaged in the practice of his profession and the varied pursuits of a cotton planter in Yazoo, Miss. He was elected from Mississippi to the fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Williams, John Skelton
railroad president, was born July 6, 1865, in Powatan county, Va. Since 1895 he has been president of the Georgia and Alabama railroads, and is also president of numerous corporations at Richmond, Va.
Williams, John Stuart
soldier, state legislator, United States senator, was born in 1820 in Montgomery county, Ky.
He was a representative in the Kentucky state legislature in 1857. He entered the confederate service in 1861 as colonel, and was promoted to brigadier-general, serving throughout the war. In 1875 he was again in the legislature, and was elected a senator of the United States in 1878.
Williams, John Wilson Mont- Gomery
clergyman, author, was born April 7, 1820, in Portsmouth, Va. He has been president of the Maryland Tract society since 1870, vice-president of the southern baptist convention, several times moderator of the Maryland Baptist Union association, and trustee of Columbian university since 1851.
Williams, Jonathan
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born May 26, 1750, in Boston, Mass. He was for several years a judge of the court of common pleas in Philadelphia. He was appointed major of artillery in 1801, and inspector of fortifications. He was superintendent of West Point academy; was lieutenant-colonel of engineers in 1802; colonel from 1808 to 1812, and was general of New York militia from 1812 to 1815. He was elected a representative in congress from Philadelphia in 1814, and was vice-president of the American Philosophical society. He was the author of On the Use of the Thermometer in Navigation; Elements of Fortification, 1801; and Kosciusko's Movements for Horse Artillery, 1808. He died May 16, 1815, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Williams, Joseph
lawyer, jurist.
He was an early emigrant to Iowa, and in 1838 was appointed a United States judge for that territory. He was subsequently appointed to the same office in Kansas.
Williams, Joseph Hartwell
lawyer, state senator, author, was born Feb. 15, 1814, in Augusta, Maine. He was president of the Maine state senate in 1857, and became acting governor on the resignation of Hannibal Hamlin in February of that year. In 1864-66 and 1874 he was a member of the legislature. He is the author of A Brief Study in Genealogy, treating of the Cony family, to which his mother belonged.
Williams, Joseph Lanier
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1800 in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1837 to 1843, and was appointed an associate judge of the United States court for the territory of Dakota, residing at Yankton.
Williams, Lemuel
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1799 to 1805. He died in 1827.
Williams, Lewis
congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1786, in Surry county, N. C.
He entered the house of commons of his native state in 1813, and was re-elected in 1814. He was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1842, where for his many good qualities and his long service, he was known as the Father of the House.
He died Feb. 20, 1842, in Washington, D. C.
Williams, Mamie L
educator, was born Nov. 4, 1874, in Corinth, Miss. For six years she taught school in Mississippi, and has since taught several years in Tennessee. She graduated from the State Normal school of Mississippi, and the Rust university of Holly Springs; has attended summer normals in Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan, and Boston, and is one of the foremost educators of the south.
Williams, Marmaduke
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born April 6, 1772, in Caswell county, N.
C. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina. In 1810 he moved, with his family, to Madison, county, Ala., and thence to Tuscaloosa in 1818. He was repeatedly elected to the legislature, and was a delegate from Tuscaloosa county to the convention which framed the state constitution. In 1832 he was elected judge of the county court, which office he held until 1842. He died Oct. 29, 1850, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Williams, Mary Ann
philanthropist, was born Aug. 10, 1822, in Milledgeville, Ga. She originated and named April 26 as a date to wreathe the graves of our martyred dead with flowers. She died April 15, 1874, in Columbus, Ga.
Williams, Mrs. Mary Bushnell
author, poet, was born in 1826 in Baton Rouge, La. She has contributed to periodical literature, and her poetry has been much admired, notably the verses entitled The Serfs of Châteney. She is the author of a volume of Tales and Legends of Louisiana.
Williams, Milton Bryant
educator, clergyman, was born Aug. 24, 1869, in Ontario, Canada. He received his degree of A. B. from the Northwestern university of Evanston, Ill.; and took a postgraduate course in biblical interpretation in the university of Chicago. For several years he was engaged in educational work; has attained prominence as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate in Aurora, Ill.
Williams, Morgan B
manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1831, in Wales. He was appointed to the position of mine superintendent for the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company, which position he held for fourteen years.
He subsequently leased a tract of coal land in the vicinity of Wilkesparre and organized a company known as the Red Ash Coal company, and is at present the vicepresident and general manager of the company, and has been since its organization. He is president of the Williams Coal company of Pottsville. He was elected to the senate of Pennsylvania in 1884, and was a member of the world's fair commission.
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Williams, Nathan
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1805 to 1807. He served in the state assembly from Onondaga in 1816, 1817 and 1818.
Williams, Nelson Grosvenor
soldier, was born May 4, 1823, in Bainbridge, N. Y. He was made brigadier-general in 1862. In 1869 he entered the United States custom service in New York city.
Williams, Nelson Monroe
lawyer, poet, was born March 23, 1853, in St.
Paris, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer of Hamilton; is deputy grand master of the grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio, and is called the Masonic Poet of Ohio.
Williams, Peter
lawyer, public official, was born Dec. 17, 1831, in Wales. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Wisconsin; has been postmaster at Cambria; clerk of the county circuit court, and state agent of the Wisconsin public school for dependent and neglected children. He has been prominently identified with the passage of several bills of importance to his state, and has contributed valuable articles to law literature and current publications.
Williams, Reuel
lawyer, state senator, United States senator, was born June 2, 1783, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a representative and senator in the legislature of Maine for twelve years, and was a senator in congress from 1837 to 1843.
He died July 25, 1862, in Augusta, Maine.
Williams, Richard
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 15, 1836, in Findlay, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Williams, Robert
clergyman, was born in 1745 in England. He was the first to print methodist books in this country, and gave a wide circulation to Wesley's sermons until the conference that admitted him appropriated the right of publication. He died Sept. 26, 1775, in Norfolk county, Va,