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For the interest Mr. Williams had shown in French affairs, the government of that country decorated him as an officer de la L'lnstruction
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Company, and director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Morris Plan of New York. He was a director of the New York Association for the Blind, Chrystie Street House, Upanin Club of Brooklyn, Municipal Art Society, National Employment Exchange, and the
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