BIO:  William E. 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, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 169

WILLIAM E. WILLIAMS is the third son of Evan and Elizabeth Williams, and was born in north 
Wales August 5, 1830.  His parents died in Wales, and he, with two brothers and a sister, came 
to America in 1852, and settled near the slate quarries of York County, Penn., where he worked 
for John Humphrey for several years.  He afterward entered the mercantile business, first with 
E. D. Humphrey, and later with E. E. Williams and H. Evans, under the firm name of William E. 
Williams & Co.  Besides the store at West Bangor, the firm now own several tracts of slate 
land, both in York County and Harford County, Md.  They have a large and productive quarry in 
the latter place, purchased in 1874 from Isaac Parker, from which, in 1883, they took out more 
than 3,000 squares of roofing slate.  Mr. Williams was married, at Manchester, Wis., in 1863, 
to Elizabeth Roberts, and has five children:  John R., William, William R., Elizabeth Maritte 
and Maggie.  He has held the office of judge of elections, and has been a school director two 
terms.  He has also been assistant postmaster at West Bangor for about twenty-eight years.  The 
family are connected with the Calvinistic Methodist Church.