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Title: A sketch of the life and services of Otho Holland Williams
Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday
evening, March 6, 1851

Author: Osmond Tiffany

Release Date: November 19, 2008 [EBook #27293]

Language: English

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A SKETCH

OF THE

LIFE AND SERVICES

OF

Gen. Otho Holland Williams,

READ BEFORE THE

Maryland Historical Society,

ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1851.

By OSMOND TIFFANY.

[Illustration]

BALTIMORE:

PRINTED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO.

No. 178 MARKET STREET.

1851.

MR. PRESIDENT:

The events of the American Revolution are so nearly connected with our
own times, that the actors in that great struggle seem yet to be to us
as living men. We open the portal of the past century, and are with
those who once like ourselves, breathed and thought, and who now, lie
not silent or forgotten in the tomb.

Their deeds live in our memory; their examples are glorious as of old:
their words of hope in dark hours, and of their joy in success, still
burn before us:--they have become the great historians of their age.
Among this band of gallant men, who gave themselves with all their soul
to liberty, I could name none of our native State, who displayed a more
patient, disinterested, and zealous spirit, than the pure and chivalrous
Otho Holland Williams.

He was born in the county of Prince George's, in March, 1749. His
parentage was highly respectable, his ancestors emigrating from Wales,
and he being of the second generation after their settlement in
Maryland.

Had his days been wholly passed in the enjoyment of peace, his influence
would not have been lost. He would still have left to his friends the
same invaluable legacy of a good name, but it