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WILLIAMS. WILLISTON. 66 1 enlarged the Home for Destitute Children, and founded the Catholic Union. The chief labor of his life, however, has been the erection of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, located at the junction of Wash- ington and Union Park streets, Boston, one of t lie largest and most magnificent edifices of the kind in this country. The first sod tit' the cathedral lot was turned April 27, [866, on Bishop Williams's forty- fourth birthday. The corner-stone was laid Sunday, September 15, 1867. JOHN J. WILLIAMS On May 2, 1S75, the ceremony of con- ferring the pallium of an archbishop on the Right Reverend John J. Williams took place, being one of the must notable events in the history of the Catholic church in Boston. The new cathedral, not then quite finished, was temporarily fitted up for the occasion, Bishop McNeir- ney of Albany celebrating the solemn high mass. Bishop Goesbriand preached the sermon, and the pallium, which had been brought from Rome by an ablegate of the Pope, Mons.Cassar Roncetti, accom- panied by his secretary, I >r. Ubalbi, and by a nobleman of the Papal Guard, Count Marefoschi, was conferred on Archbishop Williams by Cardinal McCloskey, of New York, in the presence of all the bishops of the ecclesiastical province of New York, and the clergy of this and the neighboring dio- ceses, and before an assembly of about six thousand persons. WILLIAMS, MOSES, son of Moses B and Mary J. (Penniman) Williams, was born in Roxbury, Norfolk county, Decem- ber 4, 1846. He obtained his preparatory education in the Brookline public schools ; entered Harvard College in 1864, and was gradu- ated in the class of 186S. He chose the profession of law, and after the usual course of training, was ad- mitted to the Massachusetts bar, Decem- ber 20, 1868. He immediately began the practice of law, in which he has since continued with honorable success, with offices in Boston and residence in Brookline. He is now president of the Third National Rank of Boston. Mr. Williams was married in Brookline, September 10, 1S68, to Martha C, daugh- ter of Henry and Annie (Loder) Fininley. Of this union are five children : Moses, Mary Eleanor, Hugh, Constance Martha, and Gladys Williams. WILLISTON, A. LYMAN, son of J. Pay- son and Cecilia (Lyman) Williston, was born in Northampton, Hampshire county, 1 >ecember 13, 1834. The schools of the town gave him his early education, until fitted for Williston Semi- nary, where he pursued his academic course to a finish. His tastes were in the line of a business career rather than professional, and he concluded not to pursue his studies through to a collegiate course, though he has since been made an honorary alumnus of Amherst College, with the degree of A. M. Mr. Williston successively held the posi- tion of clerk, superintendent, manager, president, and treasurer of the Greenville Manufacturing Cotton Mills in Northamp- ton, from 1852 until their close in 1884. He is now president of the Lirst National Bank of Northampton, and proprietor and manufacturer of Payson's Indelible Ink, established by |. 1'avson Williston in 1834. lie was a member ot the board of alder- men of Northampton, in 1886 and '87. He has been a trustee of Mt. Holyoke Seminary and College twenty-two years, and its treasurer for sixteen years ; a trustee of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, its presi- dent four years, and treasurer ten years ; a trustee of Smith College, Northampton ; trustee of trust funds for Williston Semi-