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HENRY WARREN WILLIAMS, deceased, was born in Groton (now Ledyard), New London county, Conn., in 1816. His earliest ancestor in America, Robert Williams, came from England to Roxbury, Mass., in 1632. About 1700 we find his progenitor in a direct line in New London county, Conn. His parents were Warren and Elizabeth Stanton (Gallup) Williams. Warren’s father was Seth, the latter a son of Henry, whose father bore the same name. Our subject attended the common school until fourteen years old, when he began to prepare for admission to Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1837. He taught school for a year, and came to Pittsburgh in 1838; read law with Walter H. Lowry, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. For five years he practiced in partnership with his preceptor, when the latter was appointed judge of the district court. He was then associated with William M. Shinn until his election to the district court in 1851 on the anti-Masonic whig ticket. He was re-elected at the end of his first ten-year term, and remained until his promotion, in 1868, to the supreme bench of the state, where death found him Feb. 19, 1877. He was made a ruling elder in the Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh in 1858, and filled that position during his remaining years; was a member of the General Assembly at four sessions, of the committee on laws in the fusion of the old and new schools, and the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. In 1866 Amherst College conferred on him the degree of LL. D. His wife was Lucy Jane Stone, a native of New Jersey, whose ancestors came from England to Hampshire county, Mass., about 1650.