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From Leading events in Johnson County, Iowa, history (1912)
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.
As printed in Leading events in Johnson County, Iowa, history (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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