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Williams, John Augustus

educator, lecturer, author, was born Sept. 21, 1824, in Bourbon county, Ky. He has attained success as a lawyer of Harrodsburg, Ky.; has been of president of the Prospect Hill seminary, Kentucky; president of the Bourbon institute; president of the Christian college of Columbia, Mo., and president of the Daughters' college Kentucky. He has been professor of the Kentucky university of Lexington; president of the Kentucky State college, and grand lecturer of grand lodge for Kentucky. He is the author of a work entitled Rosa Emerson, a story of a young woman's influence in the lodge, the church and the school. He is also the author of The Life of John Smith, and other works.