Evert E. Williams

As printed in 1905

EVERT E. WILLIAMS.

The profession of law has an able and successful representative in the person of Mr. Williams, who is engaged in the practice of the same in the village of Oxford and who has gained prestige at the bar of the county and state. Mr. Williams is a native of Preble county, Ohio, where lie was born on the 26th of September, 1867, being a son of John and Caroline (Jordan) Williams, both of whom have ever maintained their home In that county, being representatives of sterling pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye state. The paternal grandfather of our subject was of Welsh extraction and came to Ohio from central Pennsylvania, while the material ancestry is of German extraction. The father of our subject has always been a farmer by vocation and he and his noble wife are held in the highest esteem in the county in which they have passed their entire lives. To them have been born three children: Orion, who died at the age of two years; Viola E., who still remains at the parental home, and Everet E., who is the immediate subject of this sketch.

Evert E. Williams was reared to the sturdy discipline of the homestead farm,

36° and his early educational advantages were such as were afforded in the district schools, which he attended during the winter months, while he assisted in the work of the farm during the summer seasons. His ambition for a more liberal education was quickened and he was known as a most earnest student in his boyhood days, while the advancement which he made may be understood when we state that when he was but sixteen years of age he secured a license to teach. He, however, realized the expediency of continuing his studies, and he thus walked four and one-half miles each morning and night to arid from his home, to attend the high school at West Alexandria. In the fall of 1883 he began teaching in the district schools of his native county, and continued to follow the pedagogic profession until 1885, when he was matriculated in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware,, where he continued his studies for several years. In the fall of 1892 Mr. Williams entered the law office of Judge Elam Fisher and Edwin P. Vaughan, who were associated in practice in Eaton, Ohio, with whom he continued his technical reading during the spring and summer months, teaching during the winter terms, and in the fall of 1893 he passed an examination which entitled him to enter the Cincinnati Law School as a member of its senior class, so that he was enabled to be graduated in that well-known institution as a member of the class of 1894. Therefore he remained with his former preceptors, in Eaton, Ohio, until the ist of January, 1896, when he established himself in practice at Hamilton, Ohio, where he remained until the following November, when he came to Oxford and entered into a professional partnership with

W. J. Rusk, who passed the greater portion of the ensuing year in Texas, for the benefit of his health, the entire business of the firm thus devolving upon Mr. Williams, who purchased his partners interest in the practice in the fall of 1897, since which time he has conducted an individual business here, gaining precedence as an able and discriminating trial lawyer and safe and conservative counsel, while his success has been gratifying and his clientage of representative character. Mr. Williams has been the builder of the ladder upon which he has risen and his course has been such as to retain to him at all times the respect and confidence of those with whom he has come in contact. He is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party but has not been active in its work, preferring to devote his entire attention to his profession. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Freemason, and both he and his wife are members of the American - Reformed and Lutheran churches, respectively.

On the 23d of October, 1898, Mr. Williams was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Sclilingman, of West Alexander, Preble county, where she was born and reared, and they have one son, Charles A., who was born on the nth of July, 1900.

As printed in Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.