Morgan County UT Archives Biographies.....Williams, Joseph April 11, 1850 - 
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     Since September, 1907, Joseph Williams has resided in Ogden and is now
partially living retired from active business although he is still a director
and the vice-president of the Security State Bank of Ogden. At different periods
he has been closely associated with industrial and commercial activity, being
for a long period at the head of a general mercantile establishment at Morgan.
He was born in Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1850 and came to Utah with his parents
in the fall of 1861, when a lad of eleven years. He is a son of Daniel and Eliza
Williams, who settled in Morgan county, Utah. In the following spring Daniel
Williams settled in the town of Morgan, where he took up land and established a
limekiln, which he operated for several years, furnishing lime for the railroad
companies when they built their lines through that section. He hauled his
product by oxen to this valley and exchanged the lime for other produce. He also
conducted a general store at the time the railroad was being built, or in 1870.
He and his son Joseph opened a produce and general merchandise establishment at
Morgan, which they conducted in a partnership relation until 1880, when they
dissolved their business interests, Joseph Williams then becoming sole
proprietor of the store, while his father afterward concentrated his attention
upon ranching, cultivating a tract of land which he and his son Joseph had owned.

     Joseph Williams continued in the mercantile business until 1900, when he
incorporated the enterprise and divided his stock with his three sons, while he
also retained an interest in the business and other shares were held by a Mr.
Kingston. The store has since been successfully conducted but Joseph Williams
has sold his share in the business, which is now carried on under the name of
the J. Williams & Sons Company.

     It was in 1875 that Joseph Williams was united in marriage to Miss Eliza
McCasland, a daughter of Oliver and Eliza McCasland, who came from Ireland to
the new world and made their way to Utah in 1873, settling in Morgan. To Mr. and
Mrs. Williams have been born five children, of whom four are living: Joseph,
Daniel Oliver, Albert L. and Della A., while the other child died in infancy.

     In September, 1907, Mr. Williams removed with his family to Ogden, where he
has since made his home, and he is now one of the directors and also the vice
president of the Security State Bank of Ogden. His political allegiance is given
to the republican party and he keeps well informed concerning the vital problems
and issues of the day. He served for one term as a member of the city council
and also for eight years as postmaster of Morgan and at all times he has
manifested a public-spirited devotion to the general good. His aid and influence
are ever on the side of progress and improvement and his cooperation can at all
times be counted upon to further any plan or measure for the benefit and
upbuilding of the district in which he lives.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1919


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