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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           DURIN H. T. WILLIAMS, farmer, section 21, Colfax Township, has
        been all his life a resident of Michigan, having been born Feb. 2,
        1831, in Wayne County.  His parents, BENJAMIN and MARY (TUTTLE)
        WILLIAMS, were natives respectively of Ohio and New York.  They
        married and settled in Michigan, where they passed all the years of
        their married life. The latter died April 22, 1868, and the former
        July 15, 1871, in Shiawassee County.
           MR. WILLIAMS of this sketch is the youngest of their four chil-
        dren. He passed the first 20 years of his life at home, obtaining
        his education at the common schools and in working on the family
        homestead. In 1852 he went to California and remained in the Golden
        State until 1856, when he returned to Shiawassee County, without
        having made a marked success of his trip. In September, 1861, he
        enlisted in the Eighth Mich. Vol. Inf. He was in the service until
        October, 1862, when he received his discharge on account of
        disability.
           In September, 1873, he came to Huron County and made a claim of
        160 acres in Colfax Township, under the regulations of the Home-
        stead Law, on which he has since resided and placed 40 acres under
        cultivation. MR. WILLIAMS is a Republican in political belief, and
        has held the office of Justice of the Peace.
           His marriage to RACHEL WOLFEN occurred Dec. 29, 1849. They have
        had seven children — EMILY J., MARTIN P., DURIN J., SARAH A., DAN.
        S. and DORMAN R.  EVA M. died when 18 months old.  MRS. WILLIAMS
        was born in the State of New York. She and her husband are members
        of the Methodist Church.

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