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Williston, Timothy – Willson, Marcius

Williston, Timothy

clergyman, author, was born in 1805 in New York.

He was a presbyterian clergyman, and the author of Orthodox Paths Restored; Talks to My Bible Class; Christ's Millennial Reign; and Premium Essays.

Willits, Edwin

lawyer, congressman, was born April 24, 1830, in Otto, N. Y. He was prosecuting attorney of Monroe county, Mich., from 1860 to 1862, and was a member of the state board of education from 1860 to 1872. He was postmaster at Monroe from 1863 to 1866. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. In 1885 he was elected president of the State Agricultural college.

Willoston, Lorenzo P

lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He moved to Pennsylvania and was appointed from that state an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Dakota.

Willoughby, James Amos

journalist, legislator, was born May 2, 1855, in St. Clair county, Ill. He is a prominent journalist of Belleville, Ill., and was elected a member of the state senate of the Illinois legislature in 1894.

WILLOUGHBY, JOHN WALLACE CUNNINGHAM, college president, was born Aug. 20, 1845, in Knox county, Tenn.

In 1883 he became president of the Washington college in Tennessee, holding this position until 1891.

Willoughby, Westel

JR., congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1816 to 1817.

Wills, James

philanthropist, was born in 1760 in England. He bequeathed to the mayor and corporation of Philadelphia and to their successors forever, more than $122,000 to found the Wills hospital for the relief of indigent blind and lame.

He died in 1830 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Wills, John Calvin

druggist, physician, was born in 1860 in Gainesville, Ga. He received a thorough education, and the degrees of M. D. and Ph. G. were conferred upon him. For ten years he was a prescription druggist in Jacksonville and Starke, Fla., and is now a successful physician of Lake Butler, Fla.

Willson, David Burt

educator, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Sept. 27, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was ordained as a reformed presbyterian, and was pastor in Allegheny from 1870 till 1875, when he was chosen to his present post in the seminary there as professor of theology. Besides publishing occasional addresses he edited an edition of Lyman's Historical Chart; and since 1874 has been editor of the Reformed Presby terian and Covenanter in Pittsburg.

Willson, Forceythe

poet, was; born April 10, 1837, in Little Genesee, N..

Y. He was a verse-writer at one time on the staff of the Louisville Journal, and the author of The Old Sergeant, and Other Poems. He died Feb. 2, 1867, in Alfred,.

N. Y.

Willson, James Mcleod

clergy-- man, author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, in Elizabeth, Pa. He was a reformed pres-- byterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of The Deacon; Bible Magis-- tracy; Civil Government; Social Religious Covenanting; and Witnessing. He. died in 1866.

Willson, James Renwick

clergyman, author, was born April 9, 1780, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was a reformed presbyterian clergyman in New York and. Pennsylvania, and the author of History of the Church of Scotland; The Written Law; and Historical Sketch of Opinions on the Atonement. He died Sept. 29, 1853, in Coldenham, N. Y.

Willson, Marcius

educator, author,. was born Dec. 8, 1813, in West Stockbridge, Mass. He is an educator of Vineland, N. J., and the author of Civil Polity and Political Economy; Mosaics of Bible:

History; and many school text-books.