George N. Williamson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1279-1280 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GEORGE N. WILLIAMSON has been successfully engaged in the practice 
of law in the city of Aberdeen, Brown county, for the past twelve years, 
and is one of the representative members of the bar of the state. 

	He is a native of the state of Minnesota, having been born in 
Rochester, Olmsted county, on the 20th of December, 1865, and being a 
son of Nathan N. and Mary Williamson, the former of whom was born in the 
state of New York and the latter in New England, while they were 
numbered among the pioneers of Minnesota, the father having been for 
many years engaged in the contracting business at Rochester. The subject 
received his early educational discipline in the public schools of 
Oronoco and Rochester, Minnesota, and then entered the law department of 
the University of Minnesota. He was admitted to the bar of his native 
state in 1889 and the same year to that of the new commonwealth of South 
Dakota, since he located in Aberdeen in 1892 and here initiated the 
active work of his profession, in which he has been most successful, 
being an able trial lawyer and a duly conservative counselor, he is a 
close student of his profession and gives careful preparation to every 
cause which he presents before court or jury. In politics he is an 
independent Republican and while he takes an active interest in public 
affairs and in the success of the party cause, he has never been 
ambitious for political office. He has attained the thirty-second degree 
in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, and is also identified 
with the Knights of Pythias. 

	On the 15th of April, 1896, Mr. Williamson was married to Miss May 
M. Mackenzie, who was born in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 3d 
of August, 1875, being a daughter of Alexander C. and Annie Mackenzie. 
Of this union have been born three children, Alan N., Marjorie and 
Helen.