Williams, Robert – Williams, Thomas
Williams, Robert
lawyer, governor, was born in 1765 in Caswell county, N. C. He was appointed governor of Mississippi territory, filling that office from 1805 till 1809. He died in Louisiana.
Williams, Robert
congressman, governor, was born July 12, 1773, in Surry county, N. C. He was an adjutant-general of North Carolina; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1797 to 1803. He was appointed commissioner of land titles in Mississippi territory in 1803, and was governor of the territory of Mississippi from 1805 to 1809. He died about 1820 in Louisiana.
Williams, Robert Willoughby
lawyer, public official, was born Feb. 21, 1845, in Tallahassee, Fla. He received his education at the university of North Carolina, and has attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of the south in Tallahassee, the city of his nativity. He has filled various civil and military offices with distinction, and is now commissioner on uniform state laws for the state of Florida, and a member of the congress of state commissioners.
Williams, Roger
clergyman, author, was born in 1599 in Wales. He was a famous clergyman, minister at Salem, Mass., but banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1635 on account of his views upon religious liberty. In 1636 he founded the city of Providence, and was the chief citizen of the Rhode Island colony until his death. He was the author of Key Into the Languages of America; The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience; The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton's Endeavour to Wash It White in the Bloud of the Lambe; Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined and Answered; and George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes.
He died in 1683 in Rhode Island.
Williams, Roger Butler
manufacturer, banker, was born May 8, 1848, in Ithaca, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, and in 1868 graduated from Yale college.
He is the senior member of Williams Brothers, successful manufacturers of agricultural implements and machinery of Ithaca, N. Y. He has been cashier of the Merchants' and Farmers' National bank of Ithaca; president of the Ithaca Savings bank; president of the board of education; chairman of the board of sewer commissioners; besides filling various other public positions of honor with distinction. He takes an active part in the political affairs of his city, county and state, and is prominent in several fraternal orders.
Williams, Rufus B
farmer, photographer, legislator, was born Aug. 5, 1851, in Winchester, Tenn. He is a successful farmer and photographer, and still resides in his native city. He served with distinction as a member of the fortyeighth and forty-ninth general assemblies of the state of Tennessee. He is a consistent democrat, a brilliant orator and a prominent member of various fraternal orders.
Williams, Samuel
clergyman, educator, author, was born April 23, 1743, in Waltham, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of mathematics at Harvard university in 1780-88, and the author of A Natural and Civil History of Vermont; and History of the American Revolution. He died Jan. 2, 1817, in Rutland, Vt.
Williams, Samuel P
banker, legislator, was born Jan. 20, 1814, in Lebanon, Conn. He is president of the National State bank of Indiana. He was a member of the Indiana house of representatives in 1856 and 1857. In 1854 he founded a female seminary at Lima, and sustained it for over twelve years, when it was purchased by the town for a public school.
Williams, Samuel W
lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born Aug. 28, 1828, in York county, S. C. He has filled the high offices of supreme judge of Arkansas; attorney-general of Arkansas; a member of the state senate of Arkansas legislature, and has contributed valuable papers to law literature.
Williams, Samuel Wells
educator, journalist, author, was born Sept. 22, 1812, in Utica, N. Y. He was a secretary and interpreter of the American legation in China for many years, and after 1877 professor of Chinese at Yale university.
He was the author of China, the Middle Kingdom; Easy Lessons in Chinese; Chinese Commercial Guide; Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect; Syllabic Dictionary of Chinese; and Chinese Topography. He died Feb. 16, 1884, in New Haven, Conn.
Williams, Seth
soldier, was born March 22, 1822, in Augusta, Maine. He was adjutant of the military academy in 1850-53, and subsequently served in the adjutant-general's department until his death. In 1861 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the volunteer army, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1862.
He died March 23, 1866, in Boston, Mass.
Williams, Sherrod
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1835 to 1841.
Williams, Stephen West
physician, educator, author, was born March 27, 1790, in Deerfield, Mass. He was a physician who was medical professor in Willoughby university, Ohio, in 1838-53, and the author of Catechism of Medical Jurisprudence; American Medical Biography; and The Williams Family in America. He died July 9, 1855, in Laconia, Ill.
Williams, Theodore O
educator, lawyer, was born April 17, 1847, in Hannibal, Mo. In 1873 he was admitted to the bar, and is now a prominent lawyer of Osceola, Mo. He has been justice of the peace of Osceola; city attorney; and is now chairman of the democratic committee of that city. Prior to his engaging in law he taught school and filled various public positions of trust in Windsor, Mo.
Williams, Thomas
surgeon, jurist, was born April 1, 1718, in Newton, Mass.
He settled in Deerfield, Mass., where he was judge of probate and of common pleas, and the leading physician in the region. He died Sept. 28, 1775, in Deerfield, Mass.
Williams, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 5, 1779, in Pomfret, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Providence, and the author of Ten Sermons on Important Subjects; The Domestic Chaplain; and Rhode Island Sermons. He died Sept. 29, 1867, in Providence, R. I. vania to the thirty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican.
Williams, Thomas
soldier, educator, was born in 1815 in New York state. He was made a brigadier-general of volunteers in 1861. He died Aug. 5, 1862, in Baton Rouge, La.
Williams, Thomas
agriculturist, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1825, in Greenville county, Va. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1878, and was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-sixth, fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.
Williams, Thomas H
United States senator, was born in 1795 in Virginia. He moved to the northern part of Mississippi soon after the cession of Indian territory to that quarter, and was a senator in congress from Mississippi, by executive appointment, during the years 1838 and 1839.
Williams, Thomas Hill
public official, United States senator, was born in 1780 in North Carolina. In 1805 he was appointed register of the land office, and commissioner for deciding land claims in the territory of Mississippi, and subsequently, for a few years, held the office of collector of the port of New Orleans. He was a senator in congress from Mississippi from 1817 to 1831. He died about 1840 in Robertson county, Tenn.
Williams, Thomas Scott
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born June 26, 1777, in Wethersfield, Conn.
He represented the town of Hartford in the Connecticut general assembly for seven terms, from 1813 to 1829. He was elected a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1817 to 1819. In 1829 he was appointed an associate judge of the supreme court of errors, and in 1834 was appointed chief justice. He was mayor of the city of Hartford from 1831 to 1835, and in 1847 resigned his position as chief justice. He was a presidential elector in 1.848, and was, for twenty years, president of the American asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. He died Dec. 15, 1861, in Hartford, Conn.
Williams, Thomas W
merchant, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1789, in Stonington, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1839 to 1843. He was a member of the legislature in 1846, and was chosen presidential elector in 1848.
Williams, William
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 2, 1665, in Newton, Mass. He was settled as pastor of the church at Hatfield in 1685, and labored there for fifty-five years. He published numerous sermons and theological treatises, and commanded a wide influence in his community. He died Aug. 29, 1741, in Hatfield, Mass.
Williams, William
signer of the declaration of independence, was born April 18, 1731, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a member of the assembly of Connecticut; and a justice of the peace, and was for nearly one hundred sessions, member, clerk or speaker of the house of representatives. At the commencement of the war of the revolution he was a member of the council of safety, and was one of the signers of the declaration of independence. He was a delegate to the con-
Williams, Thomas
lawyer, statetinental congress from 1776 to 1778, and senator, congressman, was born Aug. 28, 1806, in Greensburgh, Pa. He was a state senator from Pittsburg in the legislature in 1838, and the three succeeding years.
In 1860 he was again elected to the lower house of the legislature. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Pennsylagain in 1783 and 1784. When the government treasury was drained, he gave to his country what he called his last mite, which amounted to more than two thousand dollars, and was very fortunate in obtaining donations from others. He died Aug. 2, 1811, in Independence, Conn. .