From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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WESLIE SHERMAN WILLIAMS 
	Weslie Sherman Williams is one of the pioneer farmers and stockmen 
of Washington,having located in Stevens county.where he now resides,as 
early as 1888.
   He was born in Wayne county,Indiana,September 2,1872,and his parents were
Valentine amd Mary (Payne) Williams,both of them natives of Indiana. In 1887
they located in Oregon,remaining there but one year,and coming to Spokane and
Stevens county in 1888,where they have since resided. They were the parents
of three children:E.P.,in Spokane;J.E.,a resident of Stevens county;and the
subject of this article,Weslie Sherman Williams.
   The latter received such education as is afforded by a public school in
Kansas,and at the early age of fourteen years he began to carve out his for-
tune,his first employment being in railroad work. Subsequently he conducted
a milk route,in Oregon,and in 1888 he settled in Stevens county,Washington,
locating a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres,forty acres of which are
under cultivation. The property is fenced and he has six hundred fruit trees,
considerable stock and good buildings.
   Politically Mr.Williams is a Liberal,but he takes the interest of a good 
citizen in all local affairs.political or otherwise. 

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