Willard (EMMA HART an American educator)
EMMA (HART), an American educator; born in Berlin, Conn., Feb. 23, 1787. She did much for bettering the education of women. Her books, educational and general, include: "A Plan for Improving Female Educa- History of the United tion" (1819); "A His States" (1828); "Poems" (1830); containing the popular song "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep"; "Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain" (1833); "Universal History" (1) (1835); "Respiration and Its Effects"; and "Morals for the Young" (1857). She 1870. died in Troy, N. Y., April 15,
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William Henry
FORT, a fort at the head of Lake George, N. Y.; in the town of Caldwell. It was taken from the English by the French and Indians under Montcalm, in August, 1757.
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William of Malmesbury
an English historian; born about 1095. He was librarian of the monastery at Malmesbury. He wrote: "History of the English Kings," and its continuation "Modern History," the two being the source from which all subsequent histories of England have drawn; "History of the Prelates of England"; "Lives" of St. Patrick, St. Dunstan, St. Wulfstan; several books of miracles; etc. He died in Malmesbury, about 1142.
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William of Newburgh
an English chronicler, one of the chief authorities for the reign of Henry II.; born in Bridlington, Yorkshire; lived from 1135 to 1200. His "History of Affairs in England" is divided into five_books, extending from 1066 to 1198. It is clear, sound, and unprejudiced, the characters drawn with discrimination, and the narrative is especially valuable as an authority on the struggle between Becket and the king.
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William of Tyre
a Syrian historian; born about 1137. He was Archbishop of Tyre (1175). He wrote "History of the Sovereigns of the East," and "History of Events in the Lands Across the Sea," a fine record of the Crusades from 1127 to 1184, first printed in 1549. There are German and French translations of the latter.
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William of Wykeham
an English statesman; born in Wykeham, Hampshire, England, in 1324. He received a liberal education from the lord of the manor of Wykeham, and was afterward recommended by him to the notice of Edward III. Having taken holy orders he was elevated to the rich see of Winchester, and in 1367 appointed to the chancellorship of England. He founded (1373) a grammar school at Winchester, which still exists; and about the same time founded a college at Oxford, now. called New College. In the last years of his life he rebuilt Winchester Cathedral. He died in 1404.
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William Rufus
Son of William the Conqueror, and tyrant of England in the eleventh century; a wicked and cruel prince. He was much disliked, particularly by the priests and monks, whom he reduced to the extremest poverty. One day when he was out hunting (in the year 1100, the forty-fourth year of his life, the thirtieth of his reign) he was killed by an arrow launched by an invisible hand. While he was drawing his last breath the comte de Comonailles, who had been separated from the hunt, saw a shaggy black goat carrying off a mangled human form, pierced by an arrow. The comte cried aloud to the goat to halt, and asked who he was, and where he was going. The goat responded that he was the devil, and was carrying off William Rufus, to present him before the great tribunal, where he would be condemned for his tyranny and forced to accompany him (the devil) to his abode.
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Williams
SIR GEORGE, founder of the Young Men's Christian Association; born in Dulverton, Somersetshire, England, Oct. 11, 1821. In 1841 he went to London; gathered together the young men employed in the same establishment as himself, and on June 12, 1844, organized, with 12 of them, a band called the "Young Men's Christian Association," which was designed to be "a society for improving the spiritual condition of young men engaged in the drapery and other trades." He was the first treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was always devoted to its interests. He was knighted in 1894. He died Nov. 6, 1905.
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Williams (II)
HENRY SMITH, an American physician and author, born in Durand, Ill., in 1863. He graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1887, and from the Chicago Medical School in 1884. From 1898 to 1902, he was engaged in post-graduate work in hospitals and served in Berlin, Paris, and London, as a specialist in mental diseases in several hospitals for the insane. He was medical superintendent of Randall's Island Hospital in 1892. He wrote "The Story of the Nineteenth Century Science" (1900); "The History of Art of Writing" (1902); "The Conquest of Nature" (1911; "The Wonders of Science in Modern Life" (1912); "Miracles of Science" (1913); "Luther Burbank-His Life and Work" (1915). He also edited several sets of volumes, including "The Works of Luther Burbank” (1915).
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Williams (III)
JOHN SKELTON, an American banker and public official, born in Powhatan co., Va., in 1865. He was educated at Richmond, Va., and at the University of Virginia. He was the organizer and, from 1899 to 1904, the president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway System, as well as the organizer and president of a number of banks, trust companies, and industrial institutions. In 1901 he was the chairman of the trust company section of the American Bank- 1913, he was ers' Association. In March, appointed by President Wilson, first assistant secretary of the Treasury, and in January, 1914, comptroller of the currency, to which latter office he was re- 1919, and from which he reappointed in signed at the end of Mr. Wilson's second administration in 1921. He was at various times a member of the advisory board of the Interstate Commerce Commission on the valuation of railroad, steamship, telegraph, and telephone lines; a member of the advisory committee to the director-general of railroads for special supervision of railway financing; a member of the Capital Issues Committee; a member of the central committee and the national treasury of the American Red Cross (since 1913); and director of the division of finance and purchases under the director general of railroads.
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Williams (JESSE LYNCH an American writer)
JESSE LYNCH, an American writer, born in Sterling, Ill., in 1871. After graduating from Princeton in 1892, he engaged in newspaper work for several years and in 1895 published "Princeton Stories". This was followed by "The Stolen Story, and Other Newspaper Stories" (1891); "New York Sketches" (1902); "The Married Life of the Frederic Carrols" (1910); "And So They Were Married" (1915). He also wrote several successful plays, including "Why Marry," produced in 1917, when he was awarded the Pulitzer prize by Columbia University for the best American play produced in that year. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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