Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Andrew C. Williams

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SOURCE:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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Hon. Andrew C. Williams was born in Champaign County, Ohio, July 7, 1819, and is the son of Silas
and Susanna (Cock) Williams. The father was born in North Carolina in 1782, and at the age of
eight moved with his parents to Virginia, remaining in Grayson County until 1813, when the family
moved to Ohio. Here he died in 1844. He was a farmer by occupation. The mother was born in
Virginia about 1786, and died in Ohio in 1839. They were the parents of ten children, three now
living: George and Enoch in Ohio, and Andrew C. in this county. The latter was reared on a farm
in Ohio, where he lived until 1850, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He then moved to Oskaloosa,
Iowa, engaging in the lumber business; was president of the National State Bank of that city for
a time, was also interested in the First National Bank at that place, and also tilled the soil
for some time. In 1869 he moved to Leaven worth County, Kas., and engaged in farming, and was
also interested in milling. He represented that county in the State Legislature in 1871, and was
county commissioner of his county one term. He was appointed Indian agent by Gen. Grant, and took
the Wichita Agency and afterward the Pawnee Agency. He then purchased a farm near Arkansas City,
Kas., and here resided until 1885. when he located where he now lives, in Flint Township, five
miles northeast of Siloam Springs, where he has 120 acres, seventy under cultivation and ten
acres in orchard. Four springs, which unitedly constitute one of the finest springs in the
county, issue within a radius of ten feet, boil up in the level uplands, making a stream large
enough to turn a mill wheel. October 3, 1839, Mr. Williams married Miss Ruth Stanton, a distant
relative of Secretary Stanton. Five children were born to this union: Sarah (deceased); Hannah,
wife of J. A. Stafford; Mary, wife of Mayor F. P. Schiffbauer, of Arkansas City, Kas.; Arabella,
and Enoch (deceased). Mr. Williams is a Union Labor man, and he and family are members of the
Friends Church.