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(Buffalo Courier; Buffalo, NY. Friday, September 28, 1883, page unknown.)
Josiah B. Williams, a venerable and wealthy citizen of Ithaca, died Wednesday in his seventy-third year. He was a senator from the twenty-fifth district from 1832 to 1833 inclusive and a presidential elector for this state on the Fremont ticket in 1856. A native of Middletown, Conn., he came to Tompkins county in 1810 with two brothers. Commercial connection with the Erie canal made all three prosperous, and Mr. Josiah Williams went into banking, founding in 1838 what is now the First National bank of Ithaca – of which he was president till his death – and also into development of railroads, telegraph lines and iron and coal mines. He was one of the incorporators of Cornell university and for years a member of its board of trustees.
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(Buffalo Courier; Buffalo, NY. Friday, September 28, 1883, page unknown.)
Josiah B. Williams, a venerable and wealthy citizen of Ithaca, died Wednesday in his seventy-third year. He was a senator from the twenty-fifth district from 1832 to 1833 inclusive and a presidential elector for this state on the Fremont ticket in 1856. A native of Middletown, Conn., he came to Tompkins county in 1810 with two brothers. Commercial connection with the Erie canal made all three prosperous, and Mr. Josiah Williams went into banking, founding in 1838 what is now the First National bank of Ithaca – of which he was president till his death – and also into development of railroads, telegraph lines and iron and coal mines. He was one of the incorporators of Cornell university and for years a member of its board of trustees.
Family Members
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George Russell Williams
1843–1907
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Charles Hardy Williams
1845–1846
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Henry Shaler Williams
1847–1918
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Roger Butler Williams Sr
1848–1933
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Mary Louisa Williams
1850–1869
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Augusta Hardy Williams
1852–1952
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Thomas Walker Williams
1854–1854
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Charlotte Elizabeth Williams
1855–1927
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Jane Edwards Williams Newman
1857–1950
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Ella Susan Williams
1860–1941
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Clara Williams Tanner
1862–1949
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Otis L Williams
1865–1931
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