Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Williams, William T. 1854 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com July 31, 2005, 11:42 pm Author: Biographical Publishing Co. DR. WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS, a leading physician and surgeon, who also is engaged in business as a druggist in Mount Carmel, is a son of Thomas T. and Margaret (Hughes) Williams. He was born in Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, April 27, 1854. He is one of the most energetic and enterprising citizens of Northumberland County and holds high rank as one of the leading physicians and surgeons, not only of the county but of this state. The parents of our subject came to the United States in April, 1855, William then being their only child, and located at Scranton, Pa. The father, who was born in Wales, December 25, 1830, had been a furnace mason in Wales, and naturally he followed his trade as mason after locating in Scranton. He worked at his trade and prospered in Scranton until about 1864, when he removed to Northumberland County, locating at Mount Carmel, where he engaged in mining and contracting and where he has since resided almost continuously. The father was one of the organizers of the Congregational Church in the borough and for many years has served as a deacon in that church. In politics he has been a Republican and has served as a member of the school board, always taking an active interest in his party and its success. He married the mother of our subject in Wales and there have been born to them four children, as follows: William T., our subject; John, who was a merchant in Mount Carmel up to his death in August, 1886; Margaret, who is a teacher in the public schools of Mount Carmel, in which she has taught for ten years, and who also is a graduate of the Millersville State Normal School; and Mary, who is at home and is one of the most popular clerks in the dry goods store of E. C. Tier. The paternal grandparents of our subject were Thomas Williams and Mary Rosser, and those on the maternal side were John and Margaret (Hughes). After attending the public schools of Mount Carmel the subject of this review, William T. Williams, at the age of thirteen years, entered the shops of the Mount Carmel Iron Company where he worked for five years, learning the trade of machinist and going to night schools during that period. At the age of nineteen years he graduated from the Mount Carmel High School. About that time our subject's father removed his family to Knoxville, Tenn., the father's purpose in migrating being to engage in iron ore mining. The family soon returned to Mount Carmel, however, but William remained in Knoxville where he read medicine with Dr. D. V. Boynton, a prominent practitioner of that .city. He then entered the Louisville Medical College, attending two courses of lectures, and then, in September, 1874, returned to the North and entered the Medical University of the City of New York, from which he graduated March 14, 1875. In the spring of that year Dr. Williams located in Plains, Luzerne County, Pa., where he practiced medicine for one year. He removed to Mount Carmel in January, 1876, and since has devoted himself to his practice there which has grown constantly and which is one of the largest held by any physician in Northumberland County. In addition to his regular practice Dr. Williams is local surgeon for the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley railroads which positions he has filled most acceptably for some time, and he also is engaged in the drug business with Dr. R. W. Montelius, with whom he has been associated since 1886. Dr. Williams was united in marriage on April 13, 1880, to Jennie Jeffries, daughter of Howell and Sarah Jeffries of Mahanoy City, Pa., and to them have been born two children: Thomas Lamar, who is a student at Bucknell University in the freshman class; and Harold, deceased. Our subject is an Odd Fellow; stands high in the Masonic orders, being a Knight Templar; is a trustee of the Congregational Church of Mount Carmel, and is superintendent of its Sunday school; he also is president of the County Sunday School Association and president of the Wyoming Sunday School Union; is a member of the Schuylkill County Medical Society and an ex-president of the society; a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society; of the American Medical Association; was a member of the International Medical Congress of 1887; and is a member of the International Association of Railway Surgeons. In politics Dr. Williams is a Republican and he has served on the board of school directors of Mount Carmel. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb