D. A. WILLIAMS
D. A. Williams, proprietor of the City Hotel, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1846; removed with parents to Marshalltown, Ia., in 1857. He enlisted in 1863 in the 9th Ia. Cav.; was discharged in 1865, and assisted his father in the stock business; traveled through the west in 1868, handling stock; was engaged in freighting to the Winnebago Agency several years, and was in the stock business at Missouri valley, Ia., some time; also at St. Paul, Minn., Denver, Col., and Texas. In 1875 he established a drug store in Council Bluffs, Ia., which he sold in the summer of 1881 to Shephard Bros. and then moved to Harlan Oct. 11th, 1881; he opened the City Hotel, built and owned by J. M. Long, which is a fine building, well furnished, has one of the finest sample rooms in the west for the accomodation [sic accommodation] of commercial travelers, and has omnibus in connection.
Transcribed February, 2018 by Cheryl Siebrass from: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, published in Sioux City, IA.: Western Publishing Company, 1882, pg. 428.
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