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Willis, Albert S – Williston, Seth

Willis, Albert S

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1843, in Shelby county, Ky. He was elected county attorney in 1870 from Louisville, Ky., and reelected in 1874, serving until he was elected to congress. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.

Willis, Anson

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 28, 1802, in Ulster county, N. Y. He represented New York city in the assembly in 1835-36. Afterward he served two terms as judge of the sixth judicial district court in that city.

He published Our Rulers and Our Rights, or Outlines of the United States Government; and left unfinished Origin of all the Nations of the Earth. He died Dec. 14, 1874, in Portchester, N. Y.

Willis, Benjamin A

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1840 in Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. In 1862 he entered the army as captain of a company raised at his own expense, which was assigned to the one hundred and nineteenth regiment, New York volunteers. He was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress from New York, and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat. He died Oct. 15, 1886, in New York city.

Willis, Francis

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1725, in Frederic county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1791 to 1793.

He died Jan. 25, 1829, in Maury county, Tenn.

Willis, John William

lawyer, was born Sept. 25, 1853, in Winnsboro, La. He received the rudiments of his education in the public and select schools of Evansville, Ind., and subsequently attended the university of Louisiana at New Orleans, La. Since 1876 he has been actively engaged in the practice of law, and has attained eminence as one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Rayville, La.

Willis, Jonathan Spencer

clergyman, congressman, was born in Oxford, Md. He filled pastorates in Maryland, Delaware, Philadelphia, New York city and Stamford, Conn., retired from the ministry in 1884 and settled on a farm near Milford, Del. He was nominated in 1894 and elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Willis, Nathaniel

journalist, was born June 6, 1780, in Boston, Mass. He established the Eastern Argus at Portland, Maine, in 1803, the Boston Recorder in 1816, which was the first religious newspaper in America, and the Youth's Companion in 1827, the first American juvenile paper. He died May 26, 1870, in Boston, Mass.

Willis, Richard Storrs

journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 10, 1819, in Boston, Mass. He has edited the New York Musical World and Once a Week; contributed to current literature, and published Church Chorals and Choir Studies; Our Church Music: a Book for Pastors and People; and Carols and Music Poems.

He contributed to National Hymns (1861) and to the American edition of the Life of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

Williston, Payson

author, was born in 1763 in West Haven. He was the author of a work entitled Annals of the American Pulpit. He died Jan. 30, 1856, in Easthampton.

Williston, Samuel

manufacturer, philanthropist, was born June 17, 1795, in Easthampton, Mass. In 1840 he established the Williston seminary in his native town, to which he has given in all nearly a half million dollars. He died July 18, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa. au-

Williston, Seth

clergyman, thor, was born April 4, 1770, in Suffield, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman in New York state, and the author of Discourses on the Sabbath; Moral Imperfections of Christians; Harmony of Divine Truth; and Millennial Discourses.

He died March 2, 1851, in Guilford Center, N. Y.