. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . ALFRED L. WILLIAMS. BENJAMIN O. WILLIAMS. BENJAMIN 0. WILLIAMS. The gentlemau whose name heads this biographicalsketch, and his brother, Alfred L. Williams, were the firsttwo white settlers in Shiawassee County, forty-nine yearsago; and both have been residents in, and among the mostprominent citizens of Owosso, for a period of forty-threeyears,—with the exception of temporary absences in theprosecution of their extended business enterprises father, Maj. Oliver Williams, was also a well-knownand universally respected citi
. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . ALFRED L. WILLIAMS. BENJAMIN O. WILLIAMS. BENJAMIN 0. WILLIAMS. The gentlemau whose name heads this biographicalsketch, and his brother, Alfred L. Williams, were the firsttwo white settlers in Shiawassee County, forty-nine yearsago; and both have been residents in, and among the mostprominent citizens of Owosso, for a period of forty-threeyears,—with the exception of temporary absences in theprosecution of their extended business enterprises father, Maj. Oliver Williams, was also a well-knownand universally respected citizen of Michigan (a resident ofDetroit and of Oakland County) for more than a quarterof a century. In the year 1638, Robert Williams emigrated from Walesto America, and settled in Roxbury, Mass. For more thantwo hundred years his descendants lived in that place, fromwhich most of the families of the name in this countryhave sprung. Oliver Williams, one of the sixth generationfrom his ancestor, Robert, was born in Roxbury, on the 27thof August, 1774. H
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