GREENFIELD. 



DEATH OF GOKHAM D. WILLIAMS. 



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Goi-Iiam Deane Wiilinms, for many 

 years a' leading member of the Franklin 

 C'ounty bar, died suddenly iu his office in 

 Pond's new block about noon yesterday. 

 Dr G. P. Twitchell, medical examiner, 

 ^v-a.s called to view the body, and found 

 that death was due to natural causes. 

 Mr AViUiams was the son of Rev George 

 A. and Jane Deane Williams, and was 

 bora at Bridgewater. .January 111, 1842. 

 His father was a Unitarian' clergyman. 

 He was a student at the old Deerfield 

 academy and at Phillips Exeter. He took 

 his college course at Harvard, graduafing 

 in 1865. He studied law iu the office of 

 .Tudge Maftoon, and was admitted to the 

 liar in ISfiS. He became onj; of the lead- 

 ing lawyers of the county. He went to 

 Boston from GreenBeld, and after prac- 

 ticing there for a time moved to Charles- 

 town, W. Va., where he was manager of 

 the Vulcan iron works. He returned to 

 Boston from West A'irginia, and some- 

 thing like a year and a half ago returned 

 to Greenfield, where he opened an office 

 and had been located since. He had a 

 scholarly mind and was very well read. 

 He was the author of "Pen.<ii Statutes of 

 Massachusetts," "Massachusetts Officer" 

 and "Massachusetts Insolvent Law." Attor- 

 ney-General Malone of this state studied 

 law in the office of Mr Williams. 

 He was se(?retary and vice-preside°nt of 



the old Franklin mutual fire insurance 

 company, which went out of existence a 

 few years ago, and was the assignee of 

 a cutlery concern and of the old Green- 

 field tool company. He was chairman Of 

 the republican town committee for sev- 

 eral years. Mr Williams was prominent 

 in Masonic circles, and at the time of 

 his death was recorder of Connecticut 

 A alley commandery. Knights Templar. He 

 was a past master of Bepiiblican lodge 

 of Masons and had been prominent in 

 Titus Strong council. He was of the 

 I'nitarian faith. He was for years a 

 trial justice at Greenfield before "the dis- 

 trict court was established. Mr Williams 

 married Miss Ella C. Taylor, a daughter 

 of the late E. R. Taylor of Greenfield. 

 .She survives him with two daughters. 

 Miss Grace D. Williams and Miss Nellie 

 T. Williams. A sister is Miss Lucia Will- 

 iams, living near Boston. 



