. . rder ofthe Eastern Star, of Worcester; Aleppo•Temple, Mystic Shrine, and the Massa-chusetts Consistory. He is also a menvber of Quinsigamond Lodge of Odd Fel-lows; of Worcester Grange, Patrons ofHusbandry; the Commonwealth Club;the Tatassit Canoe Club; the Chamber ofCommerce; the Worcester County Agri-cultural Society; the Worcester CountyMechanics Association; the Sigma AlphaEpsilon fraternity; of the Polytechnic In-stitute and the Worcester Country Club,in which he served on the first board ofgovernors. He married, June 17, 190
. . rder ofthe Eastern Star, of Worcester; Aleppo•Temple, Mystic Shrine, and the Massa-chusetts Consistory. He is also a menvber of Quinsigamond Lodge of Odd Fel-lows; of Worcester Grange, Patrons ofHusbandry; the Commonwealth Club;the Tatassit Canoe Club; the Chamber ofCommerce; the Worcester County Agri-cultural Society; the Worcester CountyMechanics Association; the Sigma AlphaEpsilon fraternity; of the Polytechnic In-stitute and the Worcester Country Club,in which he served on the first board ofgovernors. He married, June 17, 1900, LeoraLeighton, born at Pepperell, Massachu-setts, April 11, 1879, daughter of Frankand Lillia (Dudley) Leighton. Children,born in Worcester: Frank Leighton, bornJanuary 17, 1902; Robert Dudley, Octo-ber 17, 1903; Lillia Leighton, November4, 1904; Anna Grout, March 6, 1906. WILLIAMS, Lewis, Man of Affairs. In the ancient town of Taunton thereare still representatives of the famousCromwell-Williams line of the familybearing the latter name. Reference is 284. £V k, £■£ UW™, 3 En JOT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY made to some of the posterity of RichardWilliams, who with Oliver Cromwell,the Lord Protector, sprang from thesame ancestor, William Cromwell, a sonof Robert Cromwell, of Carleton uponTrent, a Lancastrian who was killed atthe battle of Towton, in 1461. Manyyears ago the statement was made, andafterward vehemently doubted, that thefamily of Richard Williams, of Taunton,was connected by ties of blood with thatof Oliver Cromwell. This fact was estab-lished by the wonderful patience and per-severance, and at considerable expense,of the late Hon. Joseph Hartwell Wil-liams, of Augusta, Maine, a former gov-ernor of Maine, a direct descendant ofRichard Williams, of Taunton. The fol-lowing is an account of this connectiontaken from the New England Historicaland Genealogical Register of April, 1897,abridged by the late Josiah H. Drum-mond, LL. D., of Portland, Maine. The Cro
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