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 (,(„.) WILLIAMS. WILLIAMS. Penelope Frances, Sidney Faneuil, and Edith Gertrude Willard. Mrs. Willard's great grandmother was Mary Faneuil, the sister of Peter Faneuil. Mr. Willard is a prominent Mason and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He is descended from a worthy line of ancestors, who have been prominent in the history of the State for generations. Among them, Joseph and Samuel Willard were each president of Harvard University, in which, also, his father, Sidney Willard, was librarian and professor of Oriental languages and Latin. On his mother's side, his grandmother twice removed was Anne Dudley, more famil- iarly known as Anne Bradstreet, the wife of Governor Simon Bradstreet. WILLIAMS, Franklin Hubbard, the son of Oliver and Marian Williams, was born in Sunderland, Franklin county, Feb- ruary 2, I.S34. lie received his early education at the district school of his native town, after i FRANKLIN H. WILLIAMS. which he attended three terms at the Wil- liston Seminar)-, Easthampton, leaving there in November, 1 S54. Alter traveling two winters in the South, he commenced farming with his father at Sunderland, in the spring of 1850. At the age of twenty-three Mr. Williams took charge of his father's farm, and upon his decease came into the possession of the property. He has always taken an active interest in all agricultural subjects, and is one of the most enterprising and progressive farmers of the district. He has been a member of the school board and has held other town offices. Mr. Williams was married in Sunderland, February 13, 1S67, to Jane S. Sanderson, by whom he has four children : Frank O., Arthur Sanderson, Milton Hubbard, and Jennie Maud Williams. WILLIAMS, JOHN J., son of Michael and Ann ( F.gan) Williams, was born in Huston, April 27, 1822, and when but a mere child began the foundation of his education in the primary department of Mrs. Newmarch's kindergarten school, afterwards becoming a pupil of Father Filton. In [833, at the age of eleven years, he was sent to St. Sulpice College, Montreal, Canada, where he remained about eight years. He embarked for Paris in 1841, and on his arrival there entered the cele- brated seminary of St. Sulpice, being then about twenty years of age. He was or- dained a priest in 1845, being then twenty- three years of age. Returning to this country he officiated for many years in the old Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Franklin Street, Boston. In 1855 he was appointed rector of the cathedral, and after serving two years in that capacity, was made vicar-general in 1857, and administered the diocese during the last years of Bishop Fitzpatrick's epis- copate. His direct connection with the old cathedral was severed in 1857, by his appointment as pastor of St. James church on Albany Street. n the 19th of January, 1866, in the forty- fourth year of his age, he was appointed bishop of Tripoli in partialis infidelium, and coadjutor of the bishop of I'.oslon, with the right of succession. He became, by Bishop Fitzpatrick's death, bishop of Boston, and was consecrated on the nth of March, 1866. After his promotion to the bishopric, he assisted at two very important councils, viz., the Plenary Council of Baltimore, held in iS66, and the Ecumenical Council, held in Rome i86o-'7o. Bishop Williams was instrumental in the establishment of the House of the Good Shepherd, the Redemptorist and Oblate Fathers, Little Sisters of the Poor, anil In- fant Asylum. He also re-organized and