Biographical Sketch of J. W. Williams, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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J. W. Williams, lumber merchant at Mountain Grove, Mo., was born in
Indiana, Spencer County, in 1850, the son of William and E. M. 
(Whitton) Williams.  William Williams was born in England, and immi-
grated to America at an early date.  He was married in Indiana, and
lived in Spencer county of that state for many years, engaged in
agricultural pursuits.  He was born in 1828 and died in 1863.  Mrs.
Williams was born in 1822, in Kentucky, and is still living, and is
a resident of Mountain Grove, Missouri.  J. W. Williams was the 
eldest of three children.  He was but fourteen years of age when the
father died, and he began traveling around.  He traveled over thir-
teen states and three territories.  He first worked on a steamboat
between Pittsburg and New Orleans for over six years, and then became
freight clerk on a boat, where he remained for some time.  He then
came to Missouri, and became a carpenter, a joiner, and a millwright.
He followed the saw mill business for four years in Douglas and
Howell counties, afterward sold out, and erected a planing mill in
Mountain Grove in June, 1877.  He ran a large lumber yard, $5,000 of
lumber invested.  Mr. Williams has just returned from a trip through
Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, Indian Territory and New Mexico.  He has 
now determined to remain in Mountain Grove, and is the owner of con-
siderable town property.  He has been the owner of as much as 1,700
acres of land, and is the owner of 80 acres now.  He was married in
June, 1871, to Miss E. H. Huffman, who has borne him two children,
Fred and Addie.  Mrs. Williams is the daughter of James and Melvina
(Lundy) Huffman, the father being a native of Virginia, and of German
extraction.  Mr. Williams affiliates with the Republican party in his
politics.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also
a member of the A. F. & A. M.
 
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