Charles H. Williams
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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Charles H. Williams, who is prominently identified with the 
sheep industry in Deer Lodge Valley, Deer Lodge County,Montana, 
dates his birth in Appaloosa County Iowa, September 28, 1856.
Zadok Williams, his father, was born in Vermont, February 2, 
1825, his father being of German and his mother of French 
descent. He married A.E. Jackson, a native of Cleveland 
Ohio, her father being a cousin of the noted American
soldier and Patriot, General Andrew Jackson. After their 
marriage they were for a time residents of Sheboygan 
Wisconsin and he cleared up a farm out of the timber 
there. In 1854 they sold out and removed to Iowa and 
from there they subsequently went to Selma Kansas 
where he still resides. They had five children, of 
whom only two are now living, Charles H. being the 
second born.Charles H. Williams was educated in the 
normal school at Kirksville, Missouri and for a number 
of years was a popular and successful teacher in Iowa. 
While engaged in teaching he was also interested in 
farming operations there.In 1882, accompanied by his 
wife and child, he made the overland journey to 
Montana, traveling with his own carriageand horses. 
His mother and his wife's people, the whole Davis 
family, came at the same time. They were seventy-nine
days in making the journey and now look back upon the 
trip as a prolonged picnic, in which they hunted and fished
to their hearts' content, nothing occurring to mar its 
pleasure.Upon his arrival in Montana, Mr. Williams came 
direct to Deer Lodge and purchased his present farm of 
160 acres and at once engaged in the sheep business. In 
this he has been greatly prospered. His partner, H.B. 
Davis, his brother-in-law, soon joined him here and 
they have since added to his original purchase of land 
until now they have 2,000 acres. They cut 250 tons of 
hay and raise 2,500 bushels of grain annually and they 
now have about 6,500sheep. They have imported Shropshire 
rams direct from England and they raise some pure-
blooded Shropshires for sale.Most of their sheep, 
however, are Shropshire crossed with grade Merino.On 
their land is a valuable stone quarry from which they 
are now furnishing stone for the building of the wall
around the State Penitentiary at Deer Lodge. This 
stone is an excellent quality of sandstone and they 
have an inexhaustible quantity.Since locating here, 
Mr. Williams have built the nice residence he and his 
family occupy. He was married in Missouri,March 6, 1
880 to Allie Davis, a native of Missouri. At the time 
they came to Montana they had one child, Henry Lee,
and since then three children have been added to their 
family--Bessie, Earl D and Ray.

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