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Williams, Nathan

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1805 to 1807. He served in the state assembly from Onondaga in 1816, 1817 and 1818.

WILLIAMS, NELSON GROSVENOR, soldier, was born May 4, 1823, in Bainbridge, N. Y. He was made brigadier-general in 1862. In 1869 he entered the United States custom service in New York city.

Williams, Nelson Monroe

lawyer, poet, was born March 23, 1853, in St.

Paris, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer of Hamilton; is deputy grand master of the grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio, and is called the Masonic Poet of Ohio.

Williams, Peter

lawyer, public official, was born Dec. 17, 1831, in Wales. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Wisconsin; has been postmaster at Cambria; clerk of the county circuit court, and state agent of the Wisconsin public school for dependent and neglected children. He has been prominently identified with the passage of several bills of importance to his state, and has contributed valuable articles to law literature and current publications.

Williams, Reuel

lawyer, state senator, United States senator, was born June 2, 1783, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a representative and senator in the legislature of Maine for twelve years, and was a senator in congress from 1837 to 1843.

He died July 25, 1862, in Augusta, Maine.

Williams, Richard

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 15, 1836, in Findlay, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

Williams, Robert

clergyman, was born in 1745 in England. He was the first to print methodist books in this country, and gave a wide circulation to Wesley's sermons until the conference that admitted him appropriated the right of publication. He died Sept. 26, 1775, in Norfolk county, Va,

Williams, Robert

lawyer, governor, was born in 1765 in Caswell county, N. C. He was appointed governor of Mississippi territory, filling that office from 1805 till 1809. He died in Louisiana.

Williams, Rufus B

farmer, photographer, legislator, was born Aug. 5, 1851, in Winchester, Tenn. He is a successful farmer and photographer, and still resides in his native city. He served with distinction as a member of the fortyeighth and forty-ninth general assemblies of the state of Tennessee. He is a consistent democrat, a brilliant orator and a prominent member of various fraternal orders.

Williams, Samuel

clergyman, educator, author, was born April 23, 1743, in Waltham, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of mathematics at Harvard university in 1780-88, and the author of A Natural and Civil History of Vermont; and History of the American Revolution. He died Jan. 2, 1817, in Rutland, Vt.

Williams, Samuel P

banker, legislator, was born Jan. 20, 1814, in Lebanon, Conn. He is president of the National State bank of Indiana. He was a member of the Indiana house of representatives in 1856 and 1857. In 1854 he founded a female seminary at Lima, and sustained it for over twelve years, when it was purchased by the town for a public school.

Williams, Samuel W

lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born Aug. 28, 1828, in York county, S. C. He has filled the high offices of supreme judge of Arkansas; attorney-general of Arkansas; a member of the state senate of Arkansas legislature, and has contributed valuable papers to law literature.

Williams, Samuel Wells

educator, journalist, author, was born Sept. 22, 1812, in Utica, N. Y. He was a secretary and interpreter of the American legation in China for many years, and after 1877 professor of Chinese at Yale university.

He was the author of China, the Middle Kingdom; Easy Lessons in Chinese; Chinese Commercial Guide; Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect; Syllabic Dictionary of Chinese; and Chinese Topography. He died Feb. 16, 1884, in New Haven, Conn.