Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Alfred W. Williams and Louise S. Hull




Husband Alfred W. Williams 1 2




           Born: 22 Dec 1851 - Trumbull Co, OH 1
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           Died: Mar 1920 2
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         Father: Riley Williams (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Rachel Porter (      -      ) 1


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Ida F. Price (      -      ) 1



Wife Louise S. Hull 1

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           Died: 1877 1
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Children
1 F Louise Williams 1

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         Spouse: [Unk] Dixon (      -      ) 1



General Notes: Husband - Alfred W. Williams


He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio. The family soon moved to Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where the future judge grew up and attended public school. His early life consisted largely of hard toil. For seven years he was an employe in one of the iron rolling mills, and for ten years followed the carpenter's trade. He took up the study of law when thirty years of age. The beginning of his advancement and experience in other fields of effort came with his appointment to a clerical position in the house of representatives at Washington in 1881, and he was a clerk in the lower house until January, 1884, when he was transferred to a position in the treasury department.
His experience at the national capital was especially valuable because of the opportunity it afforded to prepare himself for the legal profession. While there he became a student of law in the Columbian University, and graduated in June, 1883, with the degree of LL. B. and in the following year as Master of Laws. With his admission to the bar of Mercer county June 10, 1884, he began practice at Sharon, and practiced in that city twenty years, until elected judge of the thirty-fifth judicial district in 1904. Beginning in 1906 he was a resident of Mercer. He was a Mason and a member of the Presbyterian church. [HMC 1909, 195]

He was supreme solicitor of the Protected Home Circle, serving for nineteen years until elected judge of the Mercer County courts in 1905. In 1915, at the close of his term as judge, Mr. Williams was again elected supreme solicitor of the Protected Home Circle, in which office he served until his death.

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Sources


1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 195.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 295.


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