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FRED G.
WILLIAMS, D. D. S. Among the professional men of Wilmington,
this county, few occupy a higher position in society, or in the ranks of
the professions with which they are connected than the gentleman whose
name the reader notes above. Born in this county, Doctor
Williams has spent the greater part of his life here and has attained
high rank in the difficult profession to which he has applied himself with
such conscientious devotion. Of recent years there has been a wonderful
advancement in the science of dental surgery, modern research having
revealed many things to emphasize the importance of the proper
preservation of the teeth, in consequence of which the public has been
giving a degree of attention to dentistry that a generation ago hardly
would have been thought of. This has meant the most studious attention on
the part of the dental surgeons to keep pace with the rapid progress of
modern science, and those who thus have kept pace have become the leaders
of their profession in their several communities. Without any violation of
the strict code of ethics binding the men connected with the healing and
restorative professions, it very properly may be. said in this connection
that Doctor Williams is included among those who have kept
.fully abreast of the wonderful advances recently made in his chosen
calling and is thus counted among the leaders in his profession in this
part of the state, his extensive practice being regarded as conclusive of
this.
Fred G. Williams was born in Blanchester, in Marion
township. Clinton county,
Ohio, on August 9, 1870, the only child and son of Judge Ambrose N. and
Martha E. (Ball) Williams, the former of whom was born in Perry
township, Brown county, Ohio, on October 13, 1842, and died at his home in
Wilmington, this county, on July 7, 1896, and the latter of whom was born
at Pomeroy, this state, on August 13, 1844, and is still living in
Wilmington.
Ambrose N. Williams was the son of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Robinson) Williams, both natives of Harper, Pennsylvania.
Samuel Williams was a noted school teacher In his day. In
1837 he came to Ohio, locating in Brown county, where, for seven years, he
taught school with much success, his useful career being cut short by
death in 1844. His widow married, secondly, John Frazee, who
located in Blanchester, this county, where for many years he served as
justice of the peace. Both John Frazee and his wife were
Baptists and were influential citizens of the Blanchester neighborhood. It
was there that Ambrose Williams was reared and received his
early education, learning the painting trade in his youth. In 1861, when
nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the Union army for service in the
Civil War, serving as first sergeant of Company C, Seventy-ninth Regiment,
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with the army until mustered out at the
close of the war, seeing much active service. Sergeant Williams
was with Sherman's army on the celebrated march to the sea and
participated in many desperate engagements, his regiment having been in
the very thick of some of the hardest-fought battles of the war.
At the close of the war, Sergt. Ambrose N. Williams
returned to Blanchester, resuming the peaceful occupation of painting for
a time, and in 1867 began the study of law in the office of Judge Doan.
Under this admirable old preceptor he made such excellent progress that he
presently was admitted to the bar and soon began to attract the attention
of other and older lawyers. He rapidly acquired favor with the public and
in 1884 was elected to the office of probate judge of Clinton county, a
position which he held through successive re-elections to the time of his
death, in 1896, and in which he performed a most admirable service to the
people of this county.
It was some little time after returning from the war
that Ambrose N. Williams was united in marriage with Martha E.
Ball, who was the daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Morris)
Ball, natives of Pennsylvania, who, in 1839, came to Ohio, locating in
the town of Pomeroy, whence, after a few years, they moved to Warren
county, this state, later coming to Clinton county, locating in
Blanchester, where the rest of their lives were spent. Thomas
Ball was a school teacher in his younger years, but later became a
painter and was thus engaged during his long residence in Blanchester,
where he became one of the best-known men in that neighborhood. He and his
wife were devout members of the Friends church and exerted a wide
influence for good in their community. They were the parents of five
children, two sons and three daughters. Thomas Ball died at
the age of sixty, his widow surviving him many years, she living to the
ripe old age of eighty-three. Judge Williams was a member of
the Baptist church and took much interest in the affairs of the
congregation to which he was attached, having been for many years a
trustee of the church. Upon his election to the office of probate judge,
he moved to the county seat and the rest of his life was spent in
Wilmington, he becoming a man of large influence there. His death, in
1896, was widely mourned, for he was a good man and had done well his part
in life.
Fred G. Williams received his elementary
education in the public schools of Blanchester, completing his common
school education in the Wilmington schools, after which he took a course
in Wilmington College. Following this he entered upon the study of dental
surgery in the office of Dr. W. R. Hale, at Wilmington, and after
two years of close application there attended the Ohio Dental College for
one year, at the end of which time he entered the Cincinnati Dental
College, from which he was graduated in 1892. Upon receiving his diploma,
Doctor Williams returned to Wilmington and in 1893 opened an
office there for the practice of his chosen profession, remaining there
until 1904, in which year he went to Jamestown, this state, where he
practiced until the year 1910, returning in that year to Wilmington, where
he ever since has been very successfully engaged In practice.
On October 6, 1897, Dr. Fred G. Williams was
united in marriage to Genia Walker, who was born in
Highland, Highland county, Ohio, daughter of Bruce M. and
Catherine (Hickson) Walker, both of whom are still living, Bruce M.
Walker being the agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
Lancaster, Ohio. To the union of Fred G. and Genia (Walker) Williams
two children have been born, Kathryn, born on August 23, 1898, and
Winifred, January 30, 1901.
Doctor and Mrs. Williams
are members of the Baptist church and their children have been reared in
that faith. Doctor Williams gives much and Intelligent
attention to Sunday school affairs and is secretary of the Baptist Sunday
school. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and takes a
prominent part in the local affairs of that popular organization.
Doctor and Mrs. Williams are deeply concerned in the
welfare of the community and are to be found among the foremost promoters
of all movements designed to further the common good hereabout. A leader
in his profession, public spirited and enterprising, Doctor
Williams occupies a position of importance in the community to which
he has for years given his best endeavors and is held in the highest
regard by all who know him. |
GEORGE P. WORRELL, the
proprietor of one hundred and eleven acres of good farming land in Clark
township, and a brother of James G. Worrell, of this township,
was born on Aug. 10, 1868, in Mason county, West Virginia, the son of
Granville and Louisa (Hubbard) Worrell, both natives of the eastern
part of West Virginia.
The paternal grandfather of George P. Worrell
was James Worrell, who spent all his life in Virginia. The
maternal grandfather of Mr. Worrell was Samuel Hubbard,
who lived and died in Mercer county, West Virginia.
Granville Worrell was educated in the early
subscription schools of Carroll county, West Virginia and after his
marriage there moved to Gallia county, Ohio during the Civil War, living
there until 1870, when he returned to West Virginia and settled on the
Kanawha river. HE died in Nicholas county, West Virginia, as did
also his wife. During the Civil War, he was drafted in the
Confederate army but later deserted and, upon immigrating to Ohio,
joined an Ohio regiment of the Union army and served until the close of
the war. He was a drummer in the regiment and during his entire
service was not wounded nor taken prisoner. He and his wife had
twelve children. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
George P. Worrell was educated in the schools of
West Virginia and began life on his own responsibility by working by the
month in Clinton County, Ohio. On March 4, 1904, he purchased one
hundred and eleven acres of land in Clark township, where he now lives.
George P. Worrell was married on Dec. 9, 1896,
to Magnolia Emma Emery, of Highland county, Ohio, the daughter of
John Emery, a farmer of Highland county, John Emery was
born near New Market, Highland county, Mar. 27, 1819, a son of Samuel
and Sarah (Anderson) Emery, early settlers of Highland county.
They came to Highland county, likely, from Pennsylvania. The
former was a farmer and was educated in the early schools of Highland
county. John Emery became a farmer also and owned fifty
acres of land. He was married on Mar. 25, 1852, to Barbara
Emery, the daughter of William and Phoebe Emery, of New
Market. William Emery, who was, for some time, a resident
of near New Market, later moved to Missouri, where he and his wife died.
John Emery died in 1910, on the farm. His wife had died
previously, in 1897. They had eleven children. During the
Civil War he served for one hundred days in the Union army. He and
his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
To Mr. and Mrs. George P. Worrell have been born
three children, Chester Emery, Lura Evelyn and Raymond
Harold. The Worrell family are all members of the
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