BIO:  Charles WILLIAMS, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Carroll Township, Pg 89

CHARLES WILLIAMS, son of John and Nancy Williams, was born June 18, 1840, and is 
of Scotch-Irish extraction.  He was reared a farmer, and in 1864 began on his 
own account on sixty-four acres on the roads leading from Harrisburg to York and 
from Sidonsburg to Dillsburg.  In the fall of 1862 he was drafted and assigned 
to Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-sixty Pennsylvania Infantry, as corporal; 
was stationed at Suffolk in the Third Army Corps, under Gen. Peck, and was 
mustered out in July, 1863, at Harrisburg.  He was engaged in butchering from 
1870 to 1873, in connection with farming, and in 1877 opened a general store.  
He is a Jeffersonian Democrat; he served as school director in Monaghan Township 
three years, and in Carroll six years, and in the fall of 1884 was elected to 
the legislature by over 3,800 majority.  Since 1861 he has been a member of 
Filey’s Lutheran Church, and has been deacon, elder and trustee many years; he 
has been actively connected with the Sunday-school since boyhood, and in the 
conventions at the upper end held the offices of president and secretary and 
chairman of the executive committee.  In 1861 he married Margaret A., daughter 
of Thomas and Sarah Burtnet, of this township, and of the seven children born to 
him four are living:  Mary Jane, Henry Wesley, Catherine Elizabeth and Martha 
Elverta.