Williams, Joseph
lawyer, jurist.
He was an early emigrant to Iowa, and in 1838 was appointed a United States judge for that territory. He was subsequently appointed to the same office in Kansas.
WILLIAMS, JOSEPH HARTWELL, lawyer, state senator, author, was born Feb. 15, 1814, in Augusta, Maine. He was president of the Maine state senate in 1857, and became acting governor on the resignation of Hannibal Hamlin in February of that year. In 1864-66 and 1874 he was a member of the legislature. He is the author of A Brief Study in Genealogy, treating of the Cony family, to which his mother belonged.