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York city, and is the author of: Princeton Stories (1895); Histoid of Princeton University in colla- boration with John DeWitt (1898); Hie Stolen Story and Other Neivspaper Stories {IS^^); The Adventures of a Freshman (1899); Neio York Sketches (1902).

WILLIAMS, John, senator, was born in Surry county, N.C., Jan. 29, 1778; son of Col. Joseph and Rebecca (Lanier) Williams, a soldier in the Revolutionary war; grandson of Nathaniel AVil- liams, and of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hicks) Lanier, and a great-grandson of John Williams, the immigrant. His brother Lewis (q.v.) was a representative in congress, and his brothers Robert (q.v.) and Thomas L. (q.v.) were distinguished jurists. John Williams served as captain in the 6th U.S. infantry, April, 1799-June, 1800; studied law in Salisbury, N.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1803, and began practice near Knoxville, Tenn. He served as captain in the regular army in the war of 1812, and also as colonel of a regiment of East Tennessee mounted volunteers, which he had raised and which he successfully led into Florida against the Seminoles; was commissioned colonel of the 39th U.S. infantry, June 18, 1813, and sub- sequently served under General Jackson against the Creek Indians in Alabama, participating in the battle of Horse-Shoe Bend, March' 27, 1813. He completed the unexpired term of U.S. Sena- tor George W. Campbell, resigned, served, Dec. 4, 1815-March 3, 1828, and officiating as chairman of the committee on military affairs. He was defeated for re-election in 1823 by Andrew Jack- son, with whom he was in personal as well as political antagonism. He was charge d'affaires to the Central American Federation by appointment from President John Quincy Adams, Dec. 29, 1825-Dec. 1, 1826; subsequently a state senator, and declined a justiceship in the supreme court of Tennessee. He was married to Melinda, daughter of James and Mary (Lawson) White. He died in Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 10, 1837.

WILLIAnS, John, fourth bishop of Connecti- cut, and 54th in succession in the American episco- pate, was born in Deerfield, Mass., Aug. 30, 1817. He attended Harvard college, 1831-33; was gradu- ated from Washington (now Trinity) college, Hart- ford, Conn., in 1835; studied theology under Dr. Samuel Jarvis, and was admitted to the diaconate and advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Tliomas C. Brownell, in 1838. He was a tutor at Wasliing- ton college and assistant at Christ cluirch. Middle- town, Conn., 1837-40, and rector of St. George's church, Schenectady, N.Y., 1840-48; being promi- ment among the proposed successors to Bishop B.T. Onderdonk of New York in 1845. He was president of Trinity college, and professor of history and literature, 1848-53. He was elected assistant bishop of Connecticut, and was con-

secrated Oct. 29, 1851, by Bishops Brownell, Hopkins and DeLancy, assisted by Bishops Eastburn, Henshaw, Chase and George Burgess. He was vice-chancellor of Trinity college, 1853- 65: chancellor, 1865-99, and lecturer on history there, 1853-92. In 1854 the Berkeley Divinity school was founded at Middletown, Conn., and he was dean of the institution and principal instructor in doctrinal theology, history of the Reformation and prayer book, 1854-99. On the death of Bishop Brownell, in 1865, he succeeded to the diocese of Connecticut as its fourth bishop. He was appointed first lecturer on the Bishop Pad- dock foundation, at the General Theological seminary, New York city, in 1881, and de- livered the first series of Bedell lectures at Gambler college, Ohio, the same year. In 1887, on the death of Bishop Horatio Potter, he became senior bishop of the American church, on the death of the Bishop of British Guiana, senior bishop of the entire Anglican communion in America, and on the death of Bisliop Southgate, in 1894. senior bishop of the episcopate with the Archbishop of Canterbury as the acknowledged head. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Union in 1847; by Trinity in 1849; Columbia in 1851, and Yale in 1883, and that of LL.D by Hobart in 1870. He edited, with addi- tional notes, anAmerican edition of Bishop Har- old Browne's Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Arti- cles (1864), and is the author of Ancient Hymns of Holy Church (1845); Thoughts on the Gospel 21iracles (1848); Paddock Lectures on " The Eng- lish Reforviation" (1881); Bedell Lectures on '• The World's Witness to Jesus Christ (1882); Historical Sermons in the Seabury Centenary (1885); Studies on the Book of Acts (1888). He died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 7. 1899.

WILLIAMS, John Joseph, R.C. archbishop, was born in Boston, Mass., April 27, 1822; son of Michael and Ann (Egan) Williams. His father came from Ireland to Boston in 1818. He was educated at the Cathedral parochial school in Boston; was graduated from the College of Sul- picians, Montreal, Canada, 1841, and subsequently studied theology in the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, France, where he was ordained to the priesthood. May 17, 1845, by Archbishop Augusta Affre. He was assistant in the Cathedral at Boston, 1845-55, and rector, 1855-57; vicar-general and rector of St. James's parish. Boston, 1857-66, and was appointed bishop of Tripoli, i.p.i., and coadjutor-bishop with Bishop Fitzpatrick, but before his consecration, upon the deatli of the latter, succeeded by brief of appointment as bishop of Boston, and was consecrated as such, March 11, 1866, in St. James's church, by Arch- bisliop McCloskey, assisted by Bishops Loughliii and Conroy. Bishop Williams attended the