Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Williams, Thomas 1837 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Williams, Thomas, Ohio, was born in Remsen, Oneida county, in 1837, a son of 
Lewis R. Williams, a native of Oneida county, where his father was a very 
successful farmer. The wife of Lewis R. was Eleanor R., by whom he had eight 
children. He died in 1877 and his wife is still living. Thomas was reared on a 
farm and at twenty-one years of age started in life for himself. For a number 
of years he worked for Gardner Hinckley. In 1862 he enlisted in the One 
Hundred and Twenty-first New York Infantry, Company C, under Captain Moon, and 
served three years. He was in the battles of South Mountain, 2d Antietam, 
Wilderness, Gettysburg, Shenandoah Valley, etc., and at the Wilderness he was 
wounded in the breast, but remained with the regiment. While with Sheridan he 
was wounded in the left shoulder and was taken to Saterlee Hospital, 
Philadelphia, and remained four months, and was discharged. At the close of 
the war he returned to Gang Mills and worked for Gardner Hinckley. He then went
to Ohio and purchased a farm, on which he remained three years and then 
returned to Gang Mills and worked for Hinckley & Ballou six years. In 1880 he 
returned to Ohio and has since lived on a farm. In 1872 he married Helen 
Hagadorn, a native of Morehouseville, by whom he has had these children: 
Alida, Ella, Mary J., Annie and Ira, all of whom are living. Mr. Williams is a 
Republican and has been highway commissioner and justice of the peace two 
terms. He is a member of the G. A. R. Thomas Post at Prospect, N. Y.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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