Williams, William – Willis, John William
Williams, William
founder, was born April 14, 1788, in Norwich, Conn.
He was one of the founders of the Norwich Free academy. He died Oct. 28, 1870, in Norwich, Conn.
Williams, William
banker, railroad president, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1815, in Bolton, Conn.
He became a banker and railroad president, and was elected to the legislature of New York in 1866 and 1867. He was elected to the forty-second congress.
Williams, William
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 11, 1821, near Carlisle, Pa. In 1864 he was appointed an additional paymaster in the United States army. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the fortieth congress, and was re-elected to the three succeeding congresses.
Williams, William B
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born July 28, 1826, in Pittsford, N. Y. He was elected judge of probate in Michigan in 1856 and 1860, and was elected to the state senate in 1866 and 1868. He was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses.
Williams, William George
educator, was born Feb. 25, 1822, in Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1844 he was appointed to a place in the first faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware.
His chair is that of Greek language and literature. In 1864 he was chaplain of the one hundredth and forty-fifth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. In 1898 he was the only survivor of the original faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan university, of which he is dean. He has served fifty-three consecutive years without extended absence or sickness.
Williams, William R
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 14, 1804, in New York city. He was a baptist clergyman of New York city, pastor of Amity street church in 1832-85, and the author of Religious Progress; God's Rescues, or The Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son: Discourses on Luke; Miscellanies; Lectures on the Lord's Prayer; Lectures on Baptist History; and Eras and Characters of History. He died April 1, 1885, in New York city.
Williamson, Hugh
educator, physician, surgeon, congressman, author, born Dec. 5, 1735, in Nottingham, Pa. In 1760 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the university of Pennsylvania. He served a number of years in the house of commons, and also served in the continental congress from 1782 to 1785, and from 1787 to 1788. He was a delegate to the convention which framed the con-- stitution of the United States, and signed the same. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1790 to 1793. In 1811 he published a work on the Climate of America; and in 1812, a History of North Carolina. He died May 22, 1819, in New York city.
Williamson, Isaac Dowd
clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1807, in Pomfret, Vt. He was a universalist clergyman of Cincinnati and other cities, and the author of Argument for the Truth of Christianity; The Crown of Life; Philosophy of Odd Fellowship; Philosophy of Universalism; and Rudiments of Theological and Moral Science. He died Nov. 26, 1876, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Williamson, Isaac Halsted
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born in 1769 in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was prosecuting attorney for Morris county, and in 1817 was a member of the New Jersey assembly. He was governor and chancellor of the state from 1817 to 1829, and was president of the state constitutional convention of 1844. He died July 10, 1844, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Williamson, Isaiah Vansant
philanthropist, was born in 1803 in Fallsington, Pa. He established a fund of five million dollars in 1888, and placed it in the hands of a board of seven trustees for the purpose of establishing a free school of mechanical trades. He died March 7, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Williamson, James Alexander
soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 8, 1829, in Adair, Ky. At the close of the Atlanta campaign he was promoted to brevet brigadier-general and brigadier-general, and later to brevet major-general. In 1876 he was appointed commissioner of the general land office at Washington City, and held the office until 1881.
Williamson, John
artist, was born April 10, 1826, in Scotland. Many of his paintings are scenes near Hudson river and in the Catskills. They include Trout Fishing; American Trout; Summit of Chocorua; Autumn in the Adirondacks; A Passing Shower, Connecticut Valley; After the Storm, Blue Ridge; In the Mohawk Valley; Sugar-Loaf Mountain; and The Palisades. He died May 28, 1855, in Glenwood-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.
Williamson, Joseph
lawyer, author, was born in 1828 in Maine. He is a lawyer of Belfast, Maine, and the author of The Maine Register and State Reference Book; Bibliography of Maine; and History of Belfast.
Williamson, Julia May
author, poet, was born in 1859 in Maine. She is a verse-writer of Augusta, Maine, and the author of Echoes of Time and Tide; and The Choir of the Year.
Williamson, Robert Stockton
soldier, author, was born in 1824 in New York. He was a soldier and military engineer, and the author of Report of a Reconnoissance in Calitornia for Pacific Railroad Route; Use of the Barometer on Surveys; and Practical Tables in Meteorology. He died Nov. 10, 1882, in San Francisco, Cal.
Williamson, Samuel E
lawyer, jurist, was born April 19, 1844, in Cleveland, Ohio. This eminent lawyer is general counsel of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad company, and has served as judge of court of common pleas at Cleveland, Ohio.
Williamson, Walter
physician, author, was born Jan. 4, 1811, in Newtown, Pa. He was a homeopathic physician of Philadelphia, and the author of Diseases of Females; and Instructions Concerning Diseases of Females. He died Dec. 19, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Williamson, William Durkee
lawyer; jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, author, was born July 31, 1779, in Canterbury, Conn. He was for seven years in the senate of Massachusetts, before the separation of Maine; and was a senator in the Maine legislature in 1821. He was a member of congress from Maine from 1821 to 1823. He was a judge of probate from 1827 to 1840; was a bank commissioner from 1838 to 1841, and was the author of a History of Maine.
He died May 27, 1846, in Bangor, Maine.
Willie, Asa H
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1829, in Washington, Ga. In 1852 he was elected attorney of the third district of Texas. He served in the confederate army during the war. In 1866 he was elected one of the judges of the supreme court of Texas, and held that office until 1867. He was elected to the forty-third congress.
Willing, Jennie Fowler
educator, was born Jan. 22, 1834, in Canada.
As an educator she was appointed professor of English language and literature at the Illinois Wesleyan university, and as a pioneer in the temperance cause was one of the first crusaders; and elected first president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union, and became first editor of its organ, Our Union.
Willing, Thomas
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1731, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the first to suggest resisting the British in Pennsylvania. He was chairman of a revolutionary meeting in June, 1774, and was a delegate to the continental congress in 1775 and 1776. He was president of the first chartered bank in America. He died Jan. 19, 1821, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Willis, Albert S
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1843, in Shelby county, Ky. He was elected county attorney in 1870 from Louisville, Ky., and reelected in 1874, serving until he was elected to congress. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Willis, Anson
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 28, 1802, in Ulster county, N. Y. He represented New York city in the assembly in 1835-36. Afterward he served two terms as judge of the sixth judicial district court in that city.
He published Our Rulers and Our Rights, or Outlines of the United States Government; and left unfinished Origin of all the Nations of the Earth. He died Dec. 14, 1874, in Portchester, N. Y.
Willis, Benjamin A
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1840 in Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. In 1862 he entered the army as captain of a company raised at his own expense, which was assigned to the one hundred and nineteenth regiment, New York volunteers. He was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress from New York, and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat. He died Oct. 15, 1886, in New York city.
Willis, Evander Berry
journalist, was born Aug. 19, 1847, in Brooklyn, N. Y. For several years he was reporter and correspondent for the New York Herald, and became editor and owner of The Mail of Middleton, N. Y. He has since filled editorial positions on The Daily Union of Madison, Wis.; The Chronicle and The Bulletin, of San Francisco, Cal.; was editor-in-chief of The Chronicle of Virginia City, Nev.; city editor of The Democrat of Scranton, Pa., and is now the managing editor of the Record Union of Sacramento, Cal., one of the foremost daily newspapers on the Pacific coast.
Willis, Francis
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1725, in Frederic county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1791 to 1793.
He died Jan. 25, 1829, in Maury county, Tenn.
Willis, John William
lawyer, was born Sept. 25, 1853, in Winnsboro, La. He received the rudiments of his education in the public and select schools of Evansville, Ind., and subsequently attended the university of Louisiana at New Orleans, La. Since 1876 he has been actively engaged in the practice of law, and has attained eminence as one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Rayville, La.