. Leslie's history of the greater New York . mpany, the Texas Central Bailroad, the Mexican Telegraph Com-pany, and the Eastmans Company. He has served as President of the New York Clearing House Asso-ciation. Holding that position in1893, he was ex officio member of thehistoric Clearing House Committeewhich so skillfully stayed thei:)rogress of the panic of that year,preventing a complete collapse, andturning the tide almost at once to-ward a restoration of confidence.]\Ir. ^^illiams was born in EastHaddam, Conn., October !», 1820,and was educated in the ])ublicsrhools and Brainerd
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . mpany, the Texas Central Bailroad, the Mexican Telegraph Com-pany, and the Eastmans Company. He has served as President of the New York Clearing House Asso-ciation. Holding that position in1893, he was ex officio member of thehistoric Clearing House Committeewhich so skillfully stayed thei:)rogress of the panic of that year,preventing a complete collapse, andturning the tide almost at once to-ward a restoration of confidence.]\Ir. ^^illiams was born in EastHaddam, Conn., October !», 1820,and was educated in the ])ublicsrhools and Brainerd lather, 1 >r. Datus Williams, wasfor forty years the leading physi-cian of East Haddam. and waslineally descended rroiii IJobertWilliams, of Koxbury, Mass., wherehe was admitted a freeman in 1038.;Mr. Williams married, in 1807, Yir-cKORUE ( WILLIAMS. giula, daughtcr of Aaron King, of Massachusetts, and has had fivechildren, of whom but one now survives. Mrs. Williams is a graduateof Rutgers Female Sciiiiiiarv of New York TOWXSEND, JOHN POMEROY, for many years a member of thewell-known mercantile firm of Duttou ^S: Townsend, from which heretired in 1882, was in 1883 elected President f)f the New York Mart-time Exchange, of Avliich he had previously been Yice-President; thesame year became Treasurer of the New York Produce Exchange;from 1889 to 1894 was President of tlie Knickerbocker Trust Com-pany, tile ailairs of which he brilliantly administered, and from1891 until his deatii in 1898 was President of the Bowery SavingsBank, the most poweiliil savings institution in the world, havingassets of nearly 80>,<.<»- Of the latter institution he hadbeen First Sice-Presideut for twelve years. Second Vice-Presidentfor eight years, and trustee for thiity years. He was consid-ered the greatest authority on savings institutions, having contiib-titeil aiticles to encyclopedic ^\orks, prei)arc(l paiiei-s for couven- EXCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK BIOGRAPHY. 135 Tioij
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