Bio of WILLIAMS, James Franklin (b.1853), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol II, pg 131-132
JAMES FRANKLIN WILLIAMSON
James Franklin Williamson, a patent attorney of Minneapolis, was born in Osborn,
near Dayton, Ohio, January 9, 1853, and is a son of George C. and Sarah A.
William son, who were of Scotch-Irish and German ancestry, respectively. The
paternal grandfather, James W. Williamson, was a pioneer settler in the Miami
valley of Ohio, where he took up his abode in 1803.
James F. Williamson was educated in the common schools and in Princeton
University, which he entered in 1873, being graduated on the completion of a
four years' literary course with the Bachelor of Arts degree. In the same
year-1877-he was elected to the Fellowship of Social Science. He continued his
studies at Princeton for two years more, giving special attention to
jurisprudence, civil government, political economy and philosophy, and in 1879
received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on examination in postgraduate work.
Mr. Williamson began the study of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the office of
George Hoadley, later governor of that state, and in 1881 removed to
Minneapolis, where he continued his studies in the office and under the
direction of Lochren, McNair & Gilfillan. In December, 1881, he was admitted to
the bar, and after a competitive examination he was appointed, late in 1881, a
member of the examining corps of the United States patent office, continuing in
that position for several years. In 1885 he resigned from the government service
and opened an office in Minneapolis, making a specialty of patent and trade-mark
law. He has long had a well established reputation as a practitioner before the
United States courts and the patent office in these technical and exacting
branches of law.
On the 9th of June, 1896, Mr. Williamson was married to Miss Emma F. Elmore and
they have two sons: George Franklin and Ralph Elmore. In politics Mr.
William-son is a stalwart democrat and was an active supporter of Woodrow Wilson
for the presidency, serving as vice president and acting president of the
Woodrow Wilson Club of Minneapolis. He was one of two delegates from Hennepin
county to the Baltimore and St. Louis conventions, and was the Minnesota
representative on the notification committees. Mr. Williamson belongs to the
Minneapolis Club, to the Civic and Commerce Association and to the University
clubs of Minneapolis and Chicago. He is also a member of the American and the
State Bar associations. He has attained a distinguished position as a patent
attorney and his practice has brought him into prominence in various sections of
the country.