Northumberland-Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....Williams, John P. 1859 - living in 1899

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JOHN P. WILLIAMS, a very successful, energetic and enterprising business man of

Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, is a son of Abram and Anna (Whitehead)

Williams. He was born near Centralia, Columbia County, Pa., December 7, 1859.



  When twelve years of age, following in the footsteps of his father, the

subject of this review, John P. Williams, began to earn his living by working

about the mines at Girardville. He worked his way up until he was made

loader-boss at the Shenandoah City Colliery which position he faithfully

fufilled for some time. He then removed to Strong, the mining suburb of Mount

Carmel, where on September 7, 1892, he took the position of assistant

inside-boss at the Pennsylvania Colliery. Mr. Williams is also engaged in the

ice business in Mount Carmel, being a member of the firm of Cross & Company,

extensive dealers in ice, his son-in-law, Mark Cross, being the active manager

of the business.



  In politics Mr. Williams is an active Republican. He was appointed postmaster

at Strong a year after removing to Mount Carmel and engaging in the mines at

Strong. Fraternally our subject is a member of Shenandoah Lodge, No. 11-2, P. CX

S. of A., of Shenandoah.



  Mr. Williams won as his wife Mrs. Mary Williams, widow of Hector Williams, and

their family consists of four very bright and interesting children: Ruth, who

married Mark Cross of Sunbury on June 17, 1896, and they have one child, Stuart;

Abram; Letitia, and John. In mining and in general business our subject has

exhibited excellent ability and he has pushed rapidly to the front. He is

regarded as one of the most energetic and progressive of the younger business

men of Mount Carmel and his friends unite in predicting for him a very bright

and prosperous business career.



  Abram Williams, father of our subject, was a native of Wales where he was born

in 1825. He left his native home and came to the United States when fourteen

years of age. He first settled at Minersville, Schuylkill County, where he

followed mining. Subsequently he went to the bituminous coal fields but later he

returned to the anthracite fields and became a boss for the Rippler Colliery

between Ashland and Centralia and he was a boss or superintendent in mines

during the remainder of his active lifetime, excepting a brief period when he

was engaged in the grocery business at Shenandoah. He was an earnest member of

the Methodist Church in which he was very active. He died at the age of

sixty-eight years, leaving these children: Jennie, born in 1850, who first

married Thomas Gibson of Danville, Pa., and had one child, Anna, and whose

second marriage was with William Wiest of Philadelphia; William, born in 1854;

Abraham, born in 1857; Lizzie; John P., the subject of this review; and Adam.

William is an assistant inside-boss at the Strong Colliery and married Hattie

Worthly who has borne him a son, Lear. Abraham, who married Mary Harris, is a

fire-boss at the Shenandoah City Colliery and has three children: Annette,

Lizzie and Abraham. Lizzie is the wife of Asbury Wilde, of West Pittston, Pa., a

screen manufacturer, and they have five children: Harry, Kenneth, Harriet,

Eugene and Leon. Adam was born January 26, 1868, worked about the mines in

various capacities and in 1894 removed to the Pennsylvania Colliery where he has

since been a stable-boss. He is a Republican and a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M.

He married Cora Moll on January 28, 1893, and to them have been born four

children, as follows: Anna; Harold, who died in infancy; Cora; and Addison.







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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)







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