Biography of Samuel Greenberry Williamson

SAMUEL GREENBERRY WILLIAMSON, secretary, treasurer
and general manager of the Iaeger Motor Company at
Iaeger, McDowell County, was born in Berkeley County,
West Virginia, March 28, 1894, and is a son of Samuel
Johns and May B. (Ditto) Williamson, the former of whom
likewise was born in Berkeley County and the latter of
whom was born in Washington County, Maryland.

Samuel Johns Williamson, who died in his native county
in 1904, at the age of thirty-five years, gained a liberal edu-
cation largely through private study and through the me-
dium of correspondence schools and a business college at
Louisville, Kentucky. As a youth he became a successful
teacher in the rural schools, and thereafter he served eight
years as a teacher in the high school at Martinsburg, West
Virginia, in which connection he drove daily a distance of
seven miles to and from his home farm. At the time of
his death he had a contract to teach mathematics in the
Concord State Normal School at Athens, West Virginia.
His father, Samuel Johns Williamson, was born in Berke-
ley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and there passed
his entire life as a farmer, his homestead place having been
a part of a tract of land granted to the Johns family in
1753, the patent to the property having been signed by
Governor White, then chief executive of the Old Dominion
commonwealth or colony. This historic instrument is now
in the possession of the subject of this sketch, by whom it
is valued as a family heirloom. Samuel J. and May B.
(Ditto) Williamson are survived by two sons and two
daughters, all of whom are graduates of the Shepherds
College State Normal School of Virginia. As descendants
on the maternal side of Capt. John Miller the two daughters
are members of the Society of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Mrs. May B. (Ditto) Williamson graduated
from Berkeley Female Seminary, and thereafter was for one
year a teacher in that institution. The religious faith of
the Williamson family for generations was that of the Pres-
byterian Church, but Samuel J. and May (Ditto) William-
son were active members of the Methodist Protestant
Church. He was a republican in political adherency. Mrs.
Williamson survived her husband by about fourteen years,
and was fifty-one years of age at the time of her death.

Samuel G. Williamson gained his earlier education in the
rural schools of his native county, and in 1912 he gradu-
ated from the Shepherds College State Normal School. He
taught in the school of his home district when he was a
youth of eighteen years. In 1913 he attended the summer
school of the University of West Virginia, as did he also
the sessions of 1915 and 1916. He did successful work as
a teacher in the high school of Leetown, Jefferson County,
West Virginia, and in 1917-18 gave similar service in the
high school at Welch, McDowell County.

On the 15th of May, 1918, he entered the military serv-
ice of the United States in connection with the World war.
He received preliminary training in the City of Richmond,
Virginia, where he remained three months. He was then
sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, where after artillery train-
ing he was commissioned second lieutenant. He remained
at Camp Taylor until he received his honorable discharge,
and he is now commander of the Three Hundred and Twen-
ty-fifth Ammunition Train, Reserve Corps.

After his discharge from the army Mr. Williamson be-
came principal of the high school of Iaeger, and in 1921
he assumed his present position, that of secretary, treas-
urer and manager of the Iaeger Motor Company, which has
the local agency for the Ford automobiles. Mr. Williamson
is a republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and
is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Delta Tau
Delta college fraternity. He is one of the progressive and
popular young business men of Iaeger.



From The History of West Virginia, Old and New, page 90-91

Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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