Mingo County, West Virginia         Biography of Harry G. WILLIAMS

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg.61

HARRY G. WILLIAMS has been successfully engaged in the real-estate
and insurance business in the City of Williamson, Mingo County,
since 1911, and his insurance agency, of general order, is one
of the most substantial in Mingo County.

Of English and Irish Ancestry, Mr. Williams is a scion of families
founded in Virginia many generations ago, his maternal grandfather
having been a prominent civil engineer in that historic old
commonwealth. He is a son of Cyrus and Octavia (Davis) Williams
and was born at Tazewell, Virginia, August 20, 1880. His father
was long a representative farmer and citizen of Tazewell County,
and served as a member of a Virginia cavalry regiment under Gen.
Jubal A. Early, throughout the Civil war, he having made a splendid
record as a gallant young soldier of the Confederacy and having
never been wounded or captured.

In 1899 Harry G. Williams graduated from the high school at Richland,
Tazewell County, Virginia, and for three years thereafter he was a
student in the private academy conducted by Professor McIlvain at
Bowen Cove, Virginia. He then took a position in the First National
Bank of Montgomery Indiana, where he remained eighteen months. He
then came to Williamson, West Virginia, to assume the position of
assistant cashier of the First National Bank, a position which he
retained until December, 1911, when he resigned and forthwith
established his present real estate and insurance business, in
which he has achieved unequivocal success. He has been decisively
progressive and public-spirited as a citizen, and while he has had
no desire for public office he gave four years of effective service
as a member of the Board of Education at Williamson. In the World
war period he was chairman of the local Draft Board, was a vigorous
worker in the drives in support of patriotic objects, including the
Government war loans, and was treasurer of the local chapter
of the Red Cross, a position which he still retains. Mr. Williams
is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is a valued member of
the local Kiwanis Club, is an active member of the Williamson Lodge
of Elks, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian
Church in their home city.

At Montgomery, West Virginia, a town named in honor of the family
of which his wife is a representative in the maternal line, Mr.
Williams was united in marriage, in 1906, with Miss Myrtle Smith,
a daughter of Green and Willie (Montgomery) Smith, Mr. Smith being
a leading contractor and builder at Montgomery. Mr. and Mrs.
Williams have a winsome little daughter, Octavia.