Denver-Huerfano County CO Archives Biographies.....Williams, J. Ben 1888 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 February 8, 2009, 9:41 pm Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918) J. BEN WILLIAMS. J. Ben Williams is numbered among the typical young men of the west—men who are bending every effort toward the development of business interests and projects, actuated by the laudable ambition of attaining substantial and honorable success. He is directing his labors in the field of insurance and has made for himself a creditable place in this connection. Denver numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in this city on the 12th of August, 1888. His father, James Williams, was born in England and after crossing the Atlantic to the new world made his way to Denver, where he entered the insurance field as a representative of a number of English companies. He was united in marriage to Miss Ella S. Parish, a native of the state of New York. J. Ben Williams, the only child of that marriage, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, began his education in the public schools of Denver, and mastering the lessons of successive grades, was steadily promoted until he entered the East Denver high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1907. Later he went to Huerfano county, where he spent five years, during which period he was successfully engaged in farming over one thousand acres of land, which he brought under a high state of cultivation and from which he annually gathered good crops. At length, however, he determined to sever his connection with agricultural interests and returned to Denver, where he has since made his home. Here he started to follow in the business footsteps of his father by entering the insurance field and became general agent for the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company of London, England. He has his offices at No. 607 First National Bank building. He has already built up a business of gratifying proportions and it has come to be widely recognized that few men are as well informed concerning insurance of every phase as Mr. Williams. In 1912 occurred the marriage of J. Ben Williams and Miss Julia Harrison, a daughter of Meyer Harrison, a prominent insurance man of Denver. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and while he is a stanch champion of its principles he does not seek or desire office, neither is he connected with clubs or lodges. He is ail active, energetic man who is concentrating his attention upon business affairs and by reason of his undivided attention is meeting with notable and well deserved success. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/denver/bios/williams280nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb