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Williams, Francis Howard – Williams, James Tillman

Williams, Francis Howard

journalist, author, was born in 1844 in Pennsylvania. He is a writer of Philadelphia. His plays include The Princess Elizabeth, a Lyric Drama; The Higher Education; A Reformer in Ruffles; Master and Man; Theodora, a Christmas Pastoral.

Other works are, Atman, a Story; The Flute Player, and Other Poems; and Pennsylvania Poets of the Provincial Period.

Williams, Gershom Mott

bishop of Marquette, Mich., was born Feb. 11, 1857, in Fort Hamilton, N. Y. He was appointed speaker at the church congress of 1889 and at the missionary council of 1893 and 1896. He was one of the deputation to the Canadian general synod at Winnipeg in 1896, and in the same year he was appointed select preacher at Cornell university.

Williams, Gustavus Brown

soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 28, 1834, in Uxbridge, Mass. He served as a union soldier during the civil war as sergeant of company K, fifty-first regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He is the author of A History of Mendon, and other historical papers and reports.

Williams, Henry

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in November, 1804, in Taunton, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1839 to 1841, and from 1843 to 1845.

He was a state senator for two years; and was a representative in the state legislature for three years.

Williams, Henry Shaler

educator, author, was born March 6, 1847, in Ithaca, N. Y. He is a professor of palæontology at Cornell university from 1871; and the author of The Bones, Ligaments, and Muscles of the Domestic Cat; and Geological Biology.

Williams, Hezekiah

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1798 in Woodstock, Vt. He was register of probate from 1824 to 1838; and was a state senator from 1839 to 1841. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1845 to 1849. He died Oct. 24, 1856.

Williams, Hubert

lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1853, in Lakeville, Conn. He is a successful lawyer of Salisbury, Conn.; and in 1894 was elected a member of the Connecticut house of representatives.

Williams, Isaac

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1813 to 1815, from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1823 to 1825.

Williams, James

agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1856 and 1862 he was elected to the Delaware state legislature; and in 1866 was elected to the state senate. He was made speaker of the senate in 1869; and was a member of the Baltimore convention of 1872. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Delaware to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Williams, James R

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1850, in White county, Ill. He was master in chancery from 1880 to 1882, and county judge of White county from 1882 to 1886. He was nominee for elector on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket. He was elected to the fifty-first congress at a special election to fill a vacancy; and was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fiftythird congress as a democrat.

Williams, James Tillman

lawyer, poet, was born April 10, 1864, near Pine Apple, Ala. He received a thorough education, and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Hillsboro, Texas. He has written extensively for the periodical press, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have been highly eulogized by the press.