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WILLIAMS, John Wilson Montgomery, clergyman, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, 7 April, 1820. He was graduated at Columbian college, Washington, D. C., in 1845, and subsequently at Newton theological seminary. After preaching for several years in Virginia, 'chiefly at Lynchburg, he was called to the pastorate of the 1st Baptist church of Baltimore, Maryland, where he still remains. He has been president of the Maryland tract society since 1870, vice-president of the Southern Baptist convention, several times moderator of the Maryland Baptist union association, and trustee of Columbian college (now university) since 1851. In 1866 that institution conferred upon him the degree of D. D. Besides several sermons, he has published " Pastor and People, a Lecture" (Washington, 1867): "Reminiscences of a Pastorate of Thirty-three Years" (1884) ; " Training of our Members in the Distinctive Principles of our Denomination a Duty and a Necessity" (Philadelphia, 185;5); and "How to enlarge the Congregation," a tract (1887).
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