-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ID: I0642 Name: James E. WILLIAMS Sex: M Birth: 19 DEC 1834 in Maryland Death: 12 JUN 1918 in Boyds, Maryland Note: MD Death Record Williams, James E. married died on June 12, 1918 - Boyds, Md., age 33 yrs., 5 mos., 24 days born on Dec. 19, 1834 - Md. Father: Sam Williams Mother: Catherine Lewis buried: Boyds, Md.
Sentinel Nespaper - April 18, 1902 Mr. J. E. Williams Retires The Boyd's correspondent of the Baltimore Sun gives the following in regard to a promiment citisen of our county. Mr. James E. Williams, one of the most known farmers of Montgomery county, is winding up his farming affairs, and retires from active agricultural operations this year. His last year as a farmer has been the most succesful of his career. He rised more wheat, corn, hay and other products than in any year of the 85 which he has soent as a tiller of the soil. He is now 88? years old, and the story of his life is a lesson to those who believe farming does not pay, and shown what energy intelligently directed will accompish. Mr. Williams started in life as a carpenter, and saved enough from his earnings at his trade to start a little stores at Clarksburg, Montgomery county, in 1863. There he stayed through the Civil War, losing some of his goods by the raids made by the strag giers of McClellan's army, and from some of the Confederates as well, but in most of the cases he was remunerated to some extent for the loses. In 1865 he moved to Germantown, this county, to engages in the same business with Mr. Joshua Dorsey then a prominent man of this county, but not being impressed with that locality he returned to Clarksburg to engage in the same business. In 1868, seeing that the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod Company contempiated the building of the present Metropoitan Branch and that there would be a good opening here, he bought 73 acres of land for about $6 an acre and erected a store here, taking into partnership with him Col. James A. Boyd, a weathly railroad contractor, who had the contract for grading part of the roadbed. After three years Mr. Boyd withdrew from the firm and Mr. Williams formed a partnership with Mr. Mahion T. Lewis. They continued in this partership up to about 1894, when Mr. Williams retired. He was followed a few years after by Mr. lewis, who gave up active business. While engaged in the mercantile business here, Mr. Williams was railroad agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for 16 years, and postmaster for 35 years. In addition to his mercantile business Mr. Williams titled his soil increased his holdings from time to time until now his real estate includes about 1,?00 acres of land, and some of his original 72 acres for which he paid $6 an acre cannot be bought for #300 an acre on account of its desirabilty for building purposes. His farm property has about 15 dwellings upon it, four barns and any number of small outbuildings. Over half of the town of Boyd's was built by him, and practically all of its enterprises were started by him. He has now found on his farm clay of good quality, which has been tried by sample, that will make fine brick and terra soils piping and tile, and will soon go to Chicago to purchase machinery for the purpose of starting a brick kilo. It the deposit of clay is. as he thinks, of inexhaustible quanlity, he will form a stock company and go into the business on a large scale. He has found baryies, which is a white substance used in the manufacture of white lead, but he has as yet not fully developed it. In addition to his other interests Mr. William is a large stockholders in the Montgomery County national Bank, at Rockville, and a director of the same institution. He has been a great admirer of the Baltimore Sun, and a constant reader of it all his life. He has rented one of his farms to his son, William M. Williams, and two others to well known farmers of Montgomery county. In closing his career as a farmer he raised 3,000 Bushels of wheat, hundreds of tons of hay, and something over 700 barrels of corn, a large quanity of which he sold to the United State Government for experimental planting in the islands recently acquired by this county. If he had sold all the products of his farms at the average figures it would have brought him nearly 4,000. This does not include about 2,500 gallons of milk that he stopped during the year to Washington, at 14 cents a gallon net. He con...
Father: Samuel M. WILLIAMS b: ABT. 1807 in Mont. Co., MD Mother: Catherine Kezid Kitty LEWIS b: ABT. 1810 in Mont. Co., MD
Marriage 1 Sarah Jane BURDETT b: JAN 1837 in Maryland Married: 4 OCT 1856 in Mont. Co., Maryland Children William M. WILLIAMS Florence WILLIAMS b: ABT. 1859 Cora L. WILLIAMS b: ABT. 1867 Lula Z. WILLIAMS b: ABT. 1869 James WILLIAMS b: ABT. 1872 John WILLIAMS b: ABT. 1874 Willie WILLIAMS b: ABT. 1876 Buy Ink Cartridges & Refill Kits at MyInks
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MD Death Record Williams, James E. married died on June 12, 1918 - Boyds, Md., age 33 yrs., 5 mos., 24 days born on Dec. 19, 1834 - Md. Father: Sam Williams Mother: Catherine Lewis buried: Boyds, Md.
Sentinel Nespaper - April 18, 1902 Mr. J. E. Williams Retires The Boyd's correspondent of the Baltimore Sun gives the following in regard to a promiment citisen of our county. Mr. James E. Williams, one of the most known farmers of Montgomery county, is winding up his farming affairs, and retires from active agricultural operations this year. His last year as a farmer has been the most succesful of his career. He rised more wheat, corn, hay and other products than in any year of the 85 which he has soent as a tiller of the soil. He is now 88? years old, and the story of his life is a lesson to those who believe farming does not pay, and shown what energy intelligently directed will accompish. Mr. Williams started in life as a carpenter, and saved enough from his earnings at his trade to start a little stores at Clarksburg, Montgomery county, in 1863. There he stayed through the Civil War, losing some of his goods by the raids made by the strag giers of McClellan's army, and from some of the Confederates as well, but in most of the cases he was remunerated to some extent for the loses. In 1865 he moved to Germantown, this county, to engages in the same business with Mr. Joshua Dorsey then a prominent man of this county, but not being impressed with that locality he returned to Clarksburg to engage in the same business. In 1868, seeing that the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod Company contempiated the building of the present Metropoitan Branch and that there would be a good opening here, he bought 73 acres of land for about $6 an acre and erected a store here, taking into partnership with him Col. James A. Boyd, a weathly railroad contractor, who had the contract for grading part of the roadbed. After three years Mr. Boyd withdrew from the firm and Mr. Williams formed a partnership with Mr. Mahion T. Lewis. They continued in this partership up to about 1894, when Mr. Williams retired. He was followed a few years after by Mr. lewis, who gave up active business. While engaged in the mercantile business here, Mr. Williams was railroad agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for 16 years, and postmaster for 35 years. In addition to his mercantile business Mr. Williams titled his soil increased his holdings from time to time until now his real estate includes about 1,?00 acres of land, and some of his original 72 acres for which he paid $6 an acre cannot be bought for #300 an acre on account of its desirabilty for building purposes. His farm property has about 15 dwellings upon it, four barns and any number of small outbuildings. Over half of the town of Boyd's was built by him, and practically all of its enterprises were started by him. He has now found on his farm clay of good quality, which has been tried by sample, that will make fine brick and terra soils piping and tile, and will soon go to Chicago to purchase machinery for the purpose of starting a brick kilo. It the deposit of clay is. as he thinks, of inexhaustible quanlity, he will form a stock company and go into the business on a large scale. He has found baryies, which is a white substance used in the manufacture of white lead, but he has as yet not fully developed it. In addition to his other interests Mr. William is a large stockholders in the Montgomery County national Bank, at Rockville, and a director of the same institution. He has been a great admirer of the Baltimore Sun, and a constant reader of it all his life. He has rented one of his farms to his son, William M. Williams, and two others to well known farmers of Montgomery county. In closing his career as a farmer he raised 3,000 Bushels of wheat, hundreds of tons of hay, and something over 700 barrels of corn, a large quanity of which he sold to the United State Government for experimental planting in the islands recently acquired by this county. If he had sold all the products of his farms at the average figures it would have brought him nearly 4,000. This does not include about 2,500 gallons of milk that he stopped during the year to Washington, at 14 cents a gallon net. He con...
More About James Emory Williams: Date born 2: December 19, 1834, Maryland.3444 Died 2: June 12, 1918, Boyds, Maryland.3444
More About James Emory Williams and Sarah Jane Burdett: Marriage: October 04, 1856, Mont. Co., Maryland.3444
Children of James Emory Williams and Sarah Jane Burdette are:
James Emory Williams (b. 1834, d. June 12, 1918)
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