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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883

Page 339

   CAPT. JOHN WILLIAMS, of the Ashbed Mine, was born in 
 Cornwall, Eng., June 27, 1841; he was engaged in mining
 in his native country in his youth.  In 1862, he came to
 America; stopped awhile in Massachusetts, and, in the
 latter part of the same year, came to Lake Superior; he
 worked three years in the Phoenix Mine; then worked in 
 the Garden City and Central Mines, and returned, after
 a year and a half, to the Phoenix; he was employed there
 several years, and then worked awhile at the Schoolcraft,
 Copper Falls and Hecla mines, and returned to the Phoenix
 again.  In 1880, he was appointed captain in charge of the
 working of the Ashbed Mine.
 
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