The Johnson County histories sketch four Williams households and never say that any of them were related, so each is kept apart here. Benjamin Williams of Columbiana County, Ohio, settled in Oxford Township in 1844 with his wife Susannah and died there in 1855, leaving seven children. Enoch Williams came from Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his parents George and Mary in 1856, farmed in Cedar Township, and married Mary S. Sutliff, a pioneer's daughter, in 1867. Robert Williams, born in Denbigh, North Wales, in 1842, came to Iowa City in 1868 and ran the dry goods firm of Waterman & Williams, while Irvy Err Williams, born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1868, came from Maryland to North Liberty in 1899 and bought the lumber yard there in 1910. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Johnson County history.
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Pioneer farmer, Oxford Township
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, (deceased); was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, August 20, 1807, where he spent his early life, and married Susannah Concle, in December, 1830; she also being a native of that county. They came to Johnson county, Iowa, and settled on section six, in Oxford township, in 1844, where Mr. Williams died August 19, 1855, leaving seven children, viz.: Jesse, now in California; Peter, now in Oxford; Tanner, now Mrs. Wallace; Josephine, now Mrs. Mahoney; Lue, still at home; Mary, now Mrs. Morland, and Mattie, now Mrs. Merritt. Josephine was married December 24, 1865, to Jerry Mahoney, a native of Ireland; he dying December 20, 1873, leaving four children, viz.: Mary E., Kitty, John M. and Susan. She is now living on her farm in section thirty-one.
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Farmer, Cedar Township
ENOCH WILLIAMS, farmer. Cedar township, post-office, Solon; was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1840, where he spent his boyhood days, and is a son of George and Mary Williams. In the spring of 1856 they emigrated to Iowa and settled in Johnson county, where he has since resided, and now owns 160 acres of well improved land. He was married February 7, 1867, to Mary S. Sutliff, daughter of Allen C. Sutliff, one of the pioneers of Johnson county. By this union there are five children now living, viz.: Allen G., Ellen G., Kate S.. Jesse E., and Ralph E.
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Dry goods merchant, Iowa City
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Lumber dealer, North Liberty
IRVY ERR WILLIAMS
Irvy Err Williams removed from Carroll county, Maryland, to North Liberty, Iowa, in 1899. At that time he was thirty-one years of age and unmarried. Previous to his location in Iowa Mr. Williams had been engaged in farming in Maryland, his entire efforts up to the age of twenty-four being expended on the home farm of his father in Carroll county. When twenty-four years of age, in 1892, he began business for himself as a farm hand, and continued in that line until 1899, the date of his removal to Iowa. Mr. Williams' parents were farmer folks, and were for a considerable period of their lives residents of Pennsylvania. It was in Adams county, in the Quaker state, that our subject was born, January 26, 1868. In 1875 he removed with his parents to Maryland. Henry Tritt Williams, his father, died in Maryland in June, 1911, at the advanced age of eighty-four. The mother, Amanda Jane Hummer, died in August, 1910, at the age of sixty-eight. Our subject is the third child in a family of nine, all of whom reached maturity and all of whom were married with one exception. Mr. Williams was seven years of age when he removed to Maryland with his parents, and his education was received in the public schools of that state.
In 1900 Mr. Williams began working in the Linebaugh Lumber yard at Iowa City, where he continued for five years, thereafter removing to North liberty and continuing work in the same yards at that point. In 1910 he purchased the North Liberty yards of Mr. Linebaugh and changed the name of the enterprise to North Liberty Lumber Company. The business has developed into an important enterprise, including coal, cement, building supplies, and wire fencing.
Mr. Williams was married in 1907, at Iowa City, to Miss Rebecca Paulus, daughter of John and Henrietta (Detwiler) Paulus. They have one child, Florence Mildred, bora April 28, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Lutheran church.
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