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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 31 Oct 2003 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Washington Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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E. T. M. WILLIAMS, farmer; P.O. Clarksville; was born in Washington Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Aug. 9, 1826; he is a son of John L. and Mary (McDowell) Williams, who were natives of Bucks Co., Penn.; the former was born Aug. 10, 1786, and the latter Aug. 12, 1789. They came to Cincinnati in the year 1800, and settled in Washington Township, Warren Co., in 1822, where they both ended their days; the former Dec. 12, 1857, and the latter April 3, 1863. Mr. Williams, the subject of this sketch, passed his early life upon his father’s farm, and received his education in the common schools of the day. The spring of 1848, he went to Clinton Co., where he was engaged in lumbering till 1852, when her returned and resumed his former occupation. He purchased his present farm of his father in 1853, and has since resided upon it, pursuing the avocation of farming and the rearing of live stock, making a specialty in sheep. Mr. Williams is a man of strict integrity and of stirring enterprise, and stands foremost both as a citizen and a farmer in the township. Mr. Williams was married the first time Dec. 9, 1852, to Miss Mary E. Andrews, who died Aug. 28, 1865, leaving four children, viz.: Horace (now of Vermillion Co., Ill.), Ida, Hugh and Mary. Mr. Williams was again married April 15, 1868, to Mary E. Wilkerson, by whom he has had three children – Martha, Nellie and Alice. Mrs. Williams is a member of the M. E. Church. Mr. Williams is connected with the Masonic fraternity, and politically he is a Republican. He served his township as Clerk from 1861 to 1869, and from 1875 to 1876. He owns a farm of 250 acres with excellent improvements; a $3,500 residence adorns his farm; it was built in 1869. |
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