Williams, Dudley R. W. 1825 - 1909

WILLIAMS, OTIS, CLARK

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Date: 3/6/2020 at 11:36:10

Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 06 Jan. 1910. From an unknown news source.

Dudley R. W. Williams was born at Ledyard, Conn., April 14, 1825, and on New Years day, 1910, was laid to rest in the old cemetery at Garnavillo beside his mother and one brother. He came to Garnavillo to join his brother, Judge Elias H. Williams in 1846 and they both enlisted in the Mexican war. After the war he studied law at Chicago and was admitted to the Bar. For a time he was engaged in lumbering in the pineries in northern Wisconsin and in 1860 was a member of the Wisconsin legislature. Afterwards he engaged in the promotion and construction of a railway from Woodman to Lancaster and near its completion sold out to the Chicago and Northwestern Company. In 1884 he was married to Mrs. Alice Otis and continued in reconnoitering and making preliminary surveys with a view of railway construction and as an aid thereto spent some time in England, returning in 1900. In 1908, with his wife, he went again to London, returning in 1909. He had in view the construction of a shorter line with better grades than any existing road from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. He died Dec. 31, at the home of his niece, Mrs. H. G. Clark, of Hub City, Wis. His wife survives him. - News.