Alleghany-Charlotte County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Williamson, David Allen 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Alice Warner http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 September 8, 2008, 10:41 am

Author: Lyon G. Tyler LLD

David Allen Williamson. David Allen Williamson, an honored member of the
Virginia bar, has been in practice in Alleghany county since 1891, the year of
his admission to the bar. He is a son of David Williamson, deceased, born in
Fifeshire, Scotland, who after coming to the United States pursued the quiet
life of a farmer until his death. He  married Sarah Elizabeth Hammersley, of
Charlotte county, Virginia, and left two sons and five daughters: William
Leybourne, born in Alleghany county, Virginia, in 1863, now connected in an
official capacity with the Southern Railway Company; David Allen, of  further
mention; Malinda Hays, married B. F. Early; Jean S., unmarried; Martha A.,
married E. P. Davis: Sarah E., deceased ; Mary E., married W. M. Smith. 

David Allen Williamson, third son of David and Sarah Elizabeth (Hammersley)  
Williamson, was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, July 23, 1865. He obtained
his academic education in private and public schools, and at Washington and Lee
University, whence he was graduated Bachelor of Laws, class of "91." He was
admitted to the bar of Alleghany county in the same year and located at Clifton
Forge, and afterward removed to Covington, the capital of the county, where he
has since been continually in general practice in the courts of Alleghany and
adjoining counties, and of Clifton Forge, thirteen miles distant. He is a member
of the American and Virginia State Bar associations, a Mason, inclines to the
Presbyterian church in religion, and in politics is a Democrat. Mr. Williamson
is highly regarded as a lawyer and counsellor, and is interested in all that
pertains to the public good.

Additional Comments:
From Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. IV 1915.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/alleghany/bios/williams158gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/

File size: 2.4 Kb