History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . M. -^..^^^-^ Mr. Williams from an earlyage was thrown upon iiis ownresources. His foreducation were quite limited,being confined to the districtschool, and one term at AmherstAcademy. He was married,May 29,1836, to Eliza J. Howe,daughter of Sylvanus and SukeyHowe. Mrs. Williams was bornin Enfield, , Nov. 17, have no children. Uponthe death of his mother he cameinto possession of the home-stead and three acres of land,which c
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . M. -^..^^^-^ Mr. Williams from an earlyage was thrown upon iiis ownresources. His foreducation were quite limited,being confined to the districtschool, and one term at AmherstAcademy. He was married,May 29,1836, to Eliza J. Howe,daughter of Sylvanus and SukeyHowe. Mrs. Williams was bornin Enfield, , Nov. 17, have no children. Uponthe death of his mother he cameinto possession of the home-stead and three acres of land,which constituted his start inlife. By indefatigable industryand strict economy he was en-abled to add to the original threeacres nearly fifty more. In 1841he exchanged the place nowknown as the Wellington farmfor the home and farm of DeaconNathaniel C. Dickinson, border-ing Fiddlers Green, SouthAmherst. To the original onehundred acres constituting thefarm he has added about onehundred and fifty acres. In politics he is a himself and Mrs. Williamshave for many years been mem-bers of the South Amherst Con-gregational KlSSaiBllliVKSIl ©F ©IFlEir!) SSOLyaBSli SOUTH AMHERST, MASS. HISTORY OF lIAMPSniUK COUNTY. 251 is iiivon in order the more clearly to sliow the iliiKeiilties andanxieties attendant upon her days of incubation, and becausethe questions involved aroused the people of the Connecti-cut Valley and of Western Massachusetts in scarcely less de-gree than those graver ones which, nearly a half-century be-fore, had precipitated the Kevolution. The later combat, how-ever, was one of words, not swords. At the time of this agitation Dr. Zephaniah Swift Moore waspresident of Williams College, and in all honorable wa^-sfavored its removal to some more promising situation. Thesame is true of Rev. Theophilus Packard, then one of thetrustees of that college. First College Building.—The Held was thus made clear foraction, and on the 15th of March, 1820, the tr
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