D.R. Williamson
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 694

D.R. Williamson, controlling interests in copper and porphyry 
mines in the Miami district of Gila County has been a 
resident in this part of Arizona since 1885.  He is a 
native of California, born in 1863, a son of Angus and 
Catherine Williamson, the former was born in Scotland 
and the latter in England.  They crossed the Atlantic to 
America in 1852 and pushed westward to San Francisco 
where the father conducted a general store for a few years, 
after which he went to San Leandro, where he established 
a similar enterprise until 1857.  In that year he removed 
to Suisun and was identified with mercantile pursuits for 
a number of years and afterward conducting a similar 
enterprise in Fairfield.  In 1874 he went to southern 
California, where he engaged in the stock business for 
three years and thence on to Oregon, settling near 
Portland, whence he removed to Seattle Washington 
purchasing land on which he operated a truck farm 
until his death in 1901.  His wife survives him and 
makes her home in Los Angeles having reached the age 
of eighty six years.  Nine children were born to them: 
Mary Jane, wife of J.R. Davisson of Suisun; A.D. of 
Globe Arizona, engaged in mining for gold on Spring 
Creek; J.H. engaged in ranching near Riverside, Ca; 
Helen T, wife of L.L. Bowen, real estate dealer in 
Los Angeles; D.R., subject of this sketch; Catherine 
Sophia, wife of J.H. Jones, engaged in commission 
business in Chico, Ca; Annie Laurie, engaged in 
teaching school; Florence N, wife of Charles 
Reynolds, attorney of Seattle, WA; and Edward T, 
cashier of Butte Co. Savings Bank of Chico, Ca.

D.R. Williamson laid aside his schoolbooks at age 
thirteen and obtained employment in a railroad station 
and rose to telegraph operator which occupation he 
followed for ten years.  He then secured a clerical 
position for the U.s. government at San Carlos and 
did work in that capacity for seven years.  In 1888 
he came to Globe and began mining, prospecting and 
developing mines in Gila County.  In 1897 he was
 elected sheriff, serving at the same time as U.S. 
deputy Marshall.  When he retired from that office 
he became an agent for Wells Fargo Express Company, 
the Gila Valley Railroad and the Western Union 
Telegraph Company.

In 1905 he married Miss Josephine Hamm, native of 
Missouri and a daughter of Frederick A. and Josephine 
Hamm.  Her father as also born in Missouri and her 
mother in Pennsylvania, both being of German ancestry.  
Their marriage occurred in Missouri and they made their 
home in that state until 1885 when they went to 
Albuquerque New Mexico where the mother died in 1903.  
The father afterward removed to Arizona and is now 
making his home with the subject of our review, 
having reached the age of seventy.  Mrs. Williamson 
is the third in their family of four children.  She 
taught school until her marriage.  Two daughter and 
one son have been born: Kathryn, born in 1906; 
Josephine born in 1908 and Daniel Jr. born in 1913.


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