Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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E. BURR WILLIAMS

E. Burr WILLIAMS, editor and proprietor of the Dunlap Reporter was born in Essex, Vt., December 25, 1868, and is the son of Lyman S. and Mary (GORTON) WILLIAMS, who had a family of three children, of whom our subject was the second child. He attended his first term of school at Estherville, Iowa, to which point his parents moved when he was three years of age. Subsequently he attended school at Essex., Vt, and completed his education at Columbus Junction, Iowa.

When thirteen years of age he commenced working in a newspaper office, and has followed that line, generally speaking, ever since, the art preservative having been a special hobby of his life. In March, 1891, he came from Estherville to Dunlap ad purchased the Reporter.

His parents still reside at Estherville, Iowa, where his father is Postmaster at present, but is a contractor and builder and has also followed farming. He served from 1861 to 1865 in Company I, Sixth Vermont Infantry, enlisting as a private and coming out as a Captain. See history of Dunlap for detailed history of Reporter.

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