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

           [397-398]

           WILLIAM C. WILLIAMSON, stock farmer and general agriculturist,
        on section 11, Hume Township, was born April 14, 1849, in Mercer
        Co., Pa. His father was a physician in early life.  He married
        SELINA C. CAMPBELL, and settled in Milwaukee, Wis., where he died,
        in 1855, aged about 45 years. His wife died in 1878, in Chicago.
           MR. WILLIAMSON was educated in the public schools of Milwaukee
        until he was 11 years of age. His father died when he was seven
        years old, and he was under the guidance of his mother four years
        subsequently, when he went to work on a farm, and spent three years
        in that variety of labor. At the age of 14 years, he became a clerk
        in a store in Meadville, Pa., and operated in the capacity of
        salesman three years, going thence to Erie in his native State,
        and later to Chicago, where he engaged as a clerk in an insurance
        office.  In 1867 he engaged in the interests of WOODS & Co., for
        whom he officiated in the capacity of book-keeper and manager of
        their lumbering and mercantile enterprises.  In 1879, he was one
        of an association that built the salt-block, now owned by AIKENS &
        SOULE. The firm was known as WILLIAMSON, AIKENS & Co. The senior
        member sold his interest in 1883, to the present proprietors. Since
        that time he has given his attention exclusively to his agricul-
        tural affairs and the improvement of his stock. He owns 160 acres
        of land in Hume Township, nearly all of which is improved.
           In political sentiment, MR. WILLIAMSON is in accord with the
        Republican party. He has officiated as Supervisor seven years, —
        from 1876 to 1883, serving the last two terms as Chairman of the
        Board.
           His marriage to CLARA A. SINCLAIR occurred Aug. 12, 1877, and
        of their union two children, HARRIE and WILLIAM, have been born.
        MRS. WILLIAMSON is the daughter of THOMAS and MARY (SOULE) SIN-
        CLAIR, the former a native of Scotland, the latter of New England
        parentage.  (See sketch of T. SINCLAIR.)  She was born Dec. 12,
        1859, at Port Austin.  She was educated at the common schools of
        Huron County, and afterwards attended the College at Flint, Mich.

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