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

           [350-353]

           ORTICE B. WILLIAMS, proprietor of the Winsor House, at Port
        Austin, was born Jan. 4, 1819, in the township of Hamburg, Erie
        Co., N.Y.  His parents, NATHAN and SARAH (POTTER) WILLIAMS, were
        members of the agricultural community.  MR. WILLIAMS was brought
        up on his father's farm, and followed the same vocation, chiefly,
        until his removal to Detroit in 1850. He passed a year there as a
        saw-mill laborer, proceeding thence to Newport, now Marine City,
        St. Clair County, where he operated as a filer in the gang saw mill
        of E. B. WARD. A year later he went to Forestville, Sanilac County,
        in the same interest, where he operated two years as foreman of a
        saw-mill. In 1854 he came to Port Austin to assume charge of the
        saw-mill of SMITH, DWIGHT & Co., and was employed in the same
        establishment, under different owners, until the mill was destroyed
        by fire in December, 1878.
           In 1867, he built a hotel at Port Austin, which was managed by
        an assistant, until he was released by the fire referred to from
        his position in the sawmill, when he took charge of the hotel. In
        1878, he bought the old court-house building, which he connected
        with the hotel building, for the purpose of enlarging and increas-
        ing his facilities for the accommodation of the public. He keeps a
        temperance house, and a livery in connection, with horses and
        equipments suitable for the accommodation of his patrons. He also
        runs a free "bus" to all trains and boats. He formerly owned a fine
        farm of 160 acres in Hume Township, which he exchanged, in 1867,
        for the hotel property.
           MR. WILLIAMS has always been warmly interested in school
        affairs; is a member of the Pioneer Society of Huron County, and of
        the Masonic fraternity.
           He was married first in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 25, 1840, to LAURA
        A., daughter of NEWELL BURROWS, and a native of Orleans Co., N.Y.
        She died in Buffalo.  MR. WILLIAMS was again married at Forest-
        ville, Sanilac County, to MARY A. HANFORD, a native of Vermont.
        Two children were born of the second marriage: NELLIE E., wife of
        H. G. SNOVER, an attorney of Port Austin, and STELLA E., wife of
        ROBERT H. ATKINS, conductor on the Port Huron & Northwestern
        Railroad.

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