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Will, Thomas Elmer

educator, college president, was born Nov. 11, 1861, in Stones Prairie, Ill. He has attained success in educational work; has lectured extensively; and is now the president of the Kansas State Agricultural college of Manhattan.

Willard, Ashbel P

governor. He was governor of Indiana from 1857 until his death, in 1861. He died in 1861.

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, 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, 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, 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, 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.