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Williams, John Stuart

soldier, state legislator, United States senator, was born in 1820 in Montgomery county, Ky.

He was a representative in the Kentucky state legislature in 1857. He entered the confederate service in 1861 as colonel, and was promoted to brigadier-general, serving throughout the war. In 1875 he was again in the legislature, and was elected a senator of the United States in 1878.

WILLIAMS, JOHN WILSON MONT- GOMERY, clergyman, author, was born April 7, 1820, in Portsmouth, Va. He has been president of the Maryland Tract society since 1870, vice-president of the southern baptist convention, several times moderator of the Maryland Baptist Union association, and trustee of Columbian university since 1851.