WILLIAMS, Worthington Buckingham - Putnam

WILLIAMS, W. B. PO Putnamville, Farmer, Sec 21.

WORTHINGTON B. WILLIAMS, a prominent farmer of Warren Township, was born in New York City in 1815, so of Josiah and Martha {Loomis} Williams, natives of Connectient. The father was born Windham County, December 31, 1783, the mother was born June 9, 1784. They were married at Lebanon, December 9, 1807, and the father followed the mercantile trade in Virginia and New York for many years. He was a intimate friend of Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, and in influential citizen. He was a successful business man, and died at Poughkeepsie, New York, October 7, 1864; the mother died April 13, 1851. They were the parents of eight children -- six daughters and two sons. Mr. Williams was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. W. B. Williams received a collegiate education and in early life followed clerking. He located upon his present farm in 1836, his father having purchased several hundred acres, and has resided in the township ever since. In politics he was formerly a Whig and now a Republican, casting his first presidential vote for General Harrison. He was a staunch Union man during the late Rebellion, and furnished from his home a brother-in-law and two sons to assist in suppressing treason. One was Lieutenant Whitfred Reed, killed at Cedar Mountain. Mr. Williams owns 560 acres of land in this State and Missouri. He was married July 13, 1837, to Lydia A. L. Reed, born in Owen County, Indiana, May 25, 1823, and a daughter of Rev. Isaac Reed, a prominent minister in the Presbyterian church, who was born in the State of New York, August 27, 1788, and died in Illinois, January 14, 1858. Her mother, Elinor Young, was born in Philadelphia, September 22, 1799, and died May 9, 1869. They reared eight children -- six daughters and two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have had eleven children -- Josiah Clinton, Julia Edistina, Ann G., Edwin M., Worthington A., Mary E., Flora W., Martha L., Frances R., Carrie Rowe. Oliver Morton is deceased. Mrs. Williams and children are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Williams is a very social man and the "latch string' is always out. His son-in-law, John H. G. Weaver, now a resident of Eureka, California, was a soldier in the late war. He is a graduate of Hillsdale College, Michigan, and of the law department of Michigan State University, at Ann Arbor. He has served two terms in the California Legislature, and is now practicing law. He is commander of Colonel Whipple Post, No. 49, G. A. R. Edwin R. Williamson, another son-in-law is a member of the Chicago Lumber Company, and is now traveling in Europe, and makes his home in Kansas. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry. One son lives in Kansas and two in Missouri. The two latter were soldiers in the late war. Captain Josiah C. Williams was with Company C., Twenty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville. Edwin M. was a member of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers.