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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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en the United States and Spain,and of the protocol of January 12, 1877, negotiated at Madridby the late Caleb Cushing, Mr. Williams rejected the pressurebrought upon him to ask the government at Washington tostation a vessel of war in the harbor of Havana, fully believingin his ability to defend and to obtain all the stipulated rights ofAmerican citizens without any such aid, having, besides, reasonsto suspect that the calling of a man-of-war might become adoubtful expedient. His last important official act was the defense of the men ofthe Competitor expedition, which vessel had been capturedwith officers and crew while landing arms and recruits for theinsurgents in the province of Pinar del Rio on the north coast ofCuba. For his action in this matter he was highly complimentedby the Department of State. Reasoning from the fundamental principles of economics, Mr.Williams frequently pointed out in his consular reports, yet un-published, the disasters that awaited Spanish power in Cuba.
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CHARLES T. WILLS THE ancestors of Mr. Wills were orthodox English Quakers,who came to this country with William Penn, and settledon the Rancocas River, near Rancocas, and about three milesfrom Mount Holly, New Jersey. The original progenitor of hisfathers family was Dr. Daniel Wills, who had a grant of eightthousand acres of land from King George III. The old home-stead and several hundred acres of land were held by the familyunder the original charter until a few years ago. Charles T. Wills is the son of Chalkley J. and Ann D. Wills.The elder Mr. Wills was a builder in New York city, and his sonwas born in East Tenth Street, December 13, 1851. He was sent to a Quaker school, known as Westtown Insti-tute, near Westchester, Pennsylvania, where he remained threeyears, and was prepared for Princeton College. Circumstancesinterfering with his plans for pursuing a college course, he leftthe institute in his eighteenth year, and learned the trade ofbricklaying. He served his apprenticeship

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