A. J. WILLIAMSON,
farmer; P. O. Piqua; he was born in Greene Co., Ohio, October,
1832, and is a grandson of Hugh Williamson, who
was of Irish birth, and when but a boy emigrated to New York,
where he, near the close of the eighteenth century, married
Isabella Miller; they both lived and died in New
York; their son, Samuel Williamson, the father of
A. J., was born in 1794, and early in the nineteenth
century emigrated to Ohio, locating in Greene Co., where he
engaged in blacksmithing, which was his chief occupation during
life. In 1817, he married Mercer Cozad, of
Greene Co., who was born July 11, 1800; they by this union had
eleven children, of whom Mr. Williamson is the
seventh; he was brought up to farming, and received a common
education; after his majority, he improved his educational
qualities to that of an academical course; he has, for nearly
one score years been a resident of Miami Co., and since coming
here has accumulated considerable property, of which a part, 118
acres, lay in Sec. 24, where he now is located; he owns 80 acres
in Shelby Co., Ohio. In 1860, he married Miss
Isabella Andrews, who was born in Logan Co., Ohio, in 1836,
and died in this county in 1868; by this union there were three
children, viz., James, Sarah and John F.; the
second marriage of A. J. Williamson was celebrated in
1869, with Mrs. Martha Deweese, who was born in Miami Co.
in 1836.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
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