Biographical Sketch of Henry C. Williams, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Henry C. Williams, editor and proprietor of the "Pacific Herald," a
Democratic organ of Franklin County, was born April 10, 1860, in
Pacific, Mo., and is the eldest of nine children born to Henry and
Elizabeth (Zeiger) Williams, natives, respectively, of Etten, Holand
and Baden, Germany.  Mr. Williams immigrated to the United States in
1853, and first settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he opened a board-
ing house, which he shortly after abandoned to accept a position on
the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, he subsequently obtained a position
on the Missouri Pacific road, and later located at Pacific, attending
to the pump and switch works of the company at that place.  He was a
member of the Catholic Church, of which he was a director, he was also
alderman of Pacific for several terms.  Mrs. Williams came to this
country in 1852 with her father, and first settled in St. Louis, Mo.,
her parents were Joseph and Elizabeth (Alt) Zeiger, the former a 
shoemaker by trade.  Theodore Williams was a farmer by occupation, 
and died in Holland in 1846; his wife died in 1847.  Henry C. Williams
received his education in the public schools in Pacific, and worked in
his father's lumber yard and office until nineteen years of age.  He
then opened his present job printing rooms, and January 29, 1880, he
issued the first number of the "Pacific Herald."  Since his father's
death he and his brother, Joseph P. Williams, have had the management
of the lumber yard, and he is also in partnership with C. C. Close in
the insurance business.  He was made justice of the peace of Boles
Township in 1882, serving until January, 1887, when he was elected 
mayor of Pacific.  He has also served as alderman, and is now notary
public.  Mr. Williams is a rising young man; his paper is a bright,
newsy sheet, averaging 1,000 subscribers, and is appreciated by the
people of the surrounding country, as its prosperity attests.

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