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Williamson, Isaac Halsted

lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born in 1769 in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was prosecuting attorney for Morris county, and in 1817 was a member of the New Jersey assembly. He was governor and chancellor of the state from 1817 to 1829, and was president of the state constitutional convention of 1844. He died July 10, 1844, in Elizabethtown, N. J.

WILLIAMSON, ISAIAH VANSANT, philanthropist, was born in 1803 in Fallsington, Pa. He established a fund of five million dollars in 1888, and placed it in the hands of a board of seven trustees for the purpose of establishing a free school of mechanical trades. He died March 7, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa.

WILLIAMSON, JAMES ALEXANDER, soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 8, 1829, in Adair, Ky. At the close of the Atlanta campaign he was promoted to brevet brigadier-general and later to brevet major-general. In 1876 he was appointed commissioner of the general land office at Washington City, and held the office until 1881.