Horry Herald (Conway SC) August 14, 1913
Noted Capitalist Who Started Career in Horry Dies in Atlanta
J. P. Williams, a well known business man and capitalist of the State of Georgia, died in Atlanta August 5th at an advanced age, after suffering for several years from a form of insanity which had rendered him incapable during his last years of attending to business affairs. He is remembered by many of our older citizens because it was in Horry County that he started a great business career without a penny or means of any kind to start with. He graduated at the University of Virginia and entered service in the Confederate War was Captain at the age of about 20 years.
Immediately after the war, perhaps about 1868, he came to Conway penniless and was engaged as a bookkeeper by James S. Burroughs. The next year he kept books for Beaty and Holliday at Cool Springs. About the next year he engaged in a timber business of his own at Cool Springs, and not very long after that established a mercantile business at Port Harrelson where a large business was conducted by him until 1880, when he sold out at that place and moved to Georgia. At that time he sold out and moved away he had accumulated $50,000 in money and securities. Since he moved to Georgia his estate has a various times been estimated at twenty million. Whether he owned all of this at the time of his death or not we are not informed. He owned a railroad which he built and established running from Georgia to Florida and which he operated in opposition to another company, and for which he was offered at the time by his opponents the sum of seven million.
When he first moved to Savannah Ga., he was a partner with George Watson. After that partnership was dissolved and he was in business for a time with a Mr. Carson, and it was with him that he next incorporated the J. P. Williams Company and with a capital stock to begin with of three and one half million. He was President of the Company for a number of years.
His exact age is not known here, except that he was nearly, if not a little more than 80 years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, who was a Miss Taylor and who has been a life long invalid. She was born in Horry County since known as "Tampico" in the Dog Bluff Township about ten miles from the County Seat and at this time the property of the Hon. R. B. Scarborough.
Memorial created by American sculptor Daniel Chester French Henry Bacon was the architect.
Noted Capitalist Who Started Career in Horry Dies in Atlanta
J. P. Williams, a well known business man and capitalist of the State of Georgia, died in Atlanta August 5th at an advanced age, after suffering for several years from a form of insanity which had rendered him incapable during his last years of attending to business affairs. He is remembered by many of our older citizens because it was in Horry County that he started a great business career without a penny or means of any kind to start with. He graduated at the University of Virginia and entered service in the Confederate War was Captain at the age of about 20 years.
Immediately after the war, perhaps about 1868, he came to Conway penniless and was engaged as a bookkeeper by James S. Burroughs. The next year he kept books for Beaty and Holliday at Cool Springs. About the next year he engaged in a timber business of his own at Cool Springs, and not very long after that established a mercantile business at Port Harrelson where a large business was conducted by him until 1880, when he sold out at that place and moved to Georgia. At that time he sold out and moved away he had accumulated $50,000 in money and securities. Since he moved to Georgia his estate has a various times been estimated at twenty million. Whether he owned all of this at the time of his death or not we are not informed. He owned a railroad which he built and established running from Georgia to Florida and which he operated in opposition to another company, and for which he was offered at the time by his opponents the sum of seven million.
When he first moved to Savannah Ga., he was a partner with George Watson. After that partnership was dissolved and he was in business for a time with a Mr. Carson, and it was with him that he next incorporated the J. P. Williams Company and with a capital stock to begin with of three and one half million. He was President of the Company for a number of years.
His exact age is not known here, except that he was nearly, if not a little more than 80 years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, who was a Miss Taylor and who has been a life long invalid. She was born in Horry County since known as "Tampico" in the Dog Bluff Township about ten miles from the County Seat and at this time the property of the Hon. R. B. Scarborough.
Memorial created by American sculptor Daniel Chester French Henry Bacon was the architect.
Horry Herald (Conway SC) August 14, 1913
Noted Capitalist Who Started Career in Horry Dies in Atlanta
J. P. Williams, a well known business man and capitalist of the State of Georgia, died in Atlanta August 5th at an advanced age, after suffering for several years from a form of insanity which had rendered him incapable during his last years of attending to business affairs. He is remembered by many of our older citizens because it was in Horry County that he started a great business career without a penny or means of any kind to start with. He graduated at the University of Virginia and entered service in the Confederate War was Captain at the age of about 20 years.
Immediately after the war, perhaps about 1868, he came to Conway penniless and was engaged as a bookkeeper by James S. Burroughs. The next year he kept books for Beaty and Holliday at Cool Springs. About the next year he engaged in a timber business of his own at Cool Springs, and not very long after that established a mercantile business at Port Harrelson where a large business was conducted by him until 1880, when he sold out at that place and moved to Georgia. At that time he sold out and moved away he had accumulated $50,000 in money and securities. Since he moved to Georgia his estate has a various times been estimated at twenty million. Whether he owned all of this at the time of his death or not we are not informed. He owned a railroad which he built and established running from Georgia to Florida and which he operated in opposition to another company, and for which he was offered at the time by his opponents the sum of seven million.
When he first moved to Savannah Ga., he was a partner with George Watson. After that partnership was dissolved and he was in business for a time with a Mr. Carson, and it was with him that he next incorporated the J. P. Williams Company and with a capital stock to begin with of three and one half million. He was President of the Company for a number of years.
His exact age is not known here, except that he was nearly, if not a little more than 80 years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, who was a Miss Taylor and who has been a life long invalid. She was born in Horry County since known as "Tampico" in the Dog Bluff Township about ten miles from the County Seat and at this time the property of the Hon. R. B. Scarborough.
Memorial created by American sculptor Daniel Chester French Henry Bacon was the architect.
Noted Capitalist Who Started Career in Horry Dies in Atlanta
J. P. Williams, a well known business man and capitalist of the State of Georgia, died in Atlanta August 5th at an advanced age, after suffering for several years from a form of insanity which had rendered him incapable during his last years of attending to business affairs. He is remembered by many of our older citizens because it was in Horry County that he started a great business career without a penny or means of any kind to start with. He graduated at the University of Virginia and entered service in the Confederate War was Captain at the age of about 20 years.
Immediately after the war, perhaps about 1868, he came to Conway penniless and was engaged as a bookkeeper by James S. Burroughs. The next year he kept books for Beaty and Holliday at Cool Springs. About the next year he engaged in a timber business of his own at Cool Springs, and not very long after that established a mercantile business at Port Harrelson where a large business was conducted by him until 1880, when he sold out at that place and moved to Georgia. At that time he sold out and moved away he had accumulated $50,000 in money and securities. Since he moved to Georgia his estate has a various times been estimated at twenty million. Whether he owned all of this at the time of his death or not we are not informed. He owned a railroad which he built and established running from Georgia to Florida and which he operated in opposition to another company, and for which he was offered at the time by his opponents the sum of seven million.
When he first moved to Savannah Ga., he was a partner with George Watson. After that partnership was dissolved and he was in business for a time with a Mr. Carson, and it was with him that he next incorporated the J. P. Williams Company and with a capital stock to begin with of three and one half million. He was President of the Company for a number of years.
His exact age is not known here, except that he was nearly, if not a little more than 80 years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, who was a Miss Taylor and who has been a life long invalid. She was born in Horry County since known as "Tampico" in the Dog Bluff Township about ten miles from the County Seat and at this time the property of the Hon. R. B. Scarborough.
Memorial created by American sculptor Daniel Chester French Henry Bacon was the architect.
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