1. Michael Booth, 1st Asst. Sergeant- 3. T. C. Coil, 3rd Asst. Sergeant-atat-Arms. Arms. geant-at-Arms. 2. Wm. F. Corcoran, 2nd Asst. Ser- 4. Thomas O'Donnell, 4th Asst. Sergeant-at-Arms. 5. Stanley Harrison, 5th Asst. Sergeant-at-Arms. WA JAMES M. WILLIAMS, OF CLEVELAND. President Pro Tem. of the Senate. AS born in Plainfield, Coshocton County, Ohio, July 22, 1850. His father, Heslip Williams, a leading physician of Coshocton County, was a native of Ohio, and a member of the House of Representatives of this State in 1845 and 1846, and of the Senate in 1854 and 1855. His grandfather, Levi Williams, was a native of Staunton, Virginia. He came to this State with General Wayne's army at the time of the establishment of the Greenville treaty line. He was a captain in the service, and on their march West the army encamped where the public square of Cleveland is now located. His great-grandfather, David Williams, and his great-great-grandfather, Richard Williams, were both in the Colonial Army during the War of the Revolution, and were in General Washington's army at the surrender of Yorktown. His ancestors on the paternal side came originally from England, settling in Virginia. His mother, Charlotte Miskimen, was also a native of Ohio. Her father, James Miskimen, came to Ohio in 1803, from Washington County, Maryland. Mr. Williams' education was obtained in the common schools of his native county, at the Newcomerstown, Ohio, high school, and at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in the class of 1873. He studied law in the office of Judge J. C. Pomerene, of Coshocton, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1875. He practiced law at Coshocton until 1888, when he removed to Cleveland. He enlisted as a private soldier in Company C, 3rd United States Cavalry, during the late Civil War, when he was only thirteen years old, and served in campaigns in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. |