Union County NJ Archives Obituaries.....WILLIAMSON, Emily E. Hornblower July 13, 1909
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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 1, New Series, 1916, Page 104.

  MRS. EMILY E. HORNBLOWER WILLIAMSON, who died on July 13, 1909, was the wife 
of Benjamin Williamson, the eldest son of the late Chancellor Benjamin 
Williamson and grandson of the late Governor Williamson of New Jersey.  She 
was the daughter of Erastus F. and Emily N. Read Hornblower.  In 1885 she 
founded the State Charities Aid and Prison Reform Association.  In 1899 she 
was elected president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs.  In 1902 she 
was appointed Probation Officer of Union County by Judge Vail, an office she 
held unitl the time of her death.  She was a director of the Federation of 
Women's Clubs, a member of the National Board of Charities and Correction, a 
member of the State Board of Children's Guardians, a member of the State 
Charities Aid Assocaition, a member of the Woman's Advisory Committee of the 
University of New York, secretary of the Institution for the Feeble-minded at 
Vineland, N. J., member of the Sorosis, of New York, a member of the Monday 
Club, of Elizabeth, secretary of the Home for Aged Women, President of the Day 
Nursery Association (now Egenolf Day Nursery), and president of the first 
conference of Charities and Corrections.  She was identified from its 
beginning with the New Jersey Review of Charities and Corrections.  She was 
appointed by President Roosevelt to be a delegate to the Congress of the 
International Prison Assocation at Budapest, and at the time made an extensive 
tour of Eurape, inspecting prisons.  She was active in bringing about the 
establishment of the State Reformatory at Rahway.  She was also well known for 
her magazine work.  She became a contributing member of this Society on May 
19, 1887.

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