Michigan historical collections . udden. He had been suffering from malaria andgeneral weakness, but nothing serious was expected. He developed alarmingsymptoms Tuesday and sank rapidly. His wife, his son Tyrrell and hisdaughter were at his bedside. His funeral will take place Friday, at Fort Wayne,Ind., his boyhood home, where he will be buried in the Williams family lot. Dr. Williams was born at Indianapolis, Ind., his father being a Presbyterianelder. He was graduated from Miami university, Ohio, and Princeton theologicalseminary. While still a young man he married Miss Elizabeth Brown
Michigan historical collections . udden. He had been suffering from malaria andgeneral weakness, but nothing serious was expected. He developed alarmingsymptoms Tuesday and sank rapidly. His wife, his son Tyrrell and hisdaughter were at his bedside. His funeral will take place Friday, at Fort Wayne,Ind., his boyhood home, where he will be buried in the Williams family lot. Dr. Williams was born at Indianapolis, Ind., his father being a Presbyterianelder. He was graduated from Miami university, Ohio, and Princeton theologicalseminary. While still a young man he married Miss Elizabeth Brown Riddle,daughter of Rev. Dr. David H. Riddle, who was the last president of Jeffersoncollege, now Washington and Jefferson college. Mrs. Williams survives her hus-band, and he also leaves five children; four sons, David R., who is in the chemi-cal business here; Jesse Lynch of New York, a well-known magazine writer;Tyrrell W., a lawyer at St. Louis; Burton, a cattleman in New Mexico, andone daughter. Miss Susan Creighton REV. MEADE C. WILLIAMS. EARLY FUR TRADE IN NORTH AMERICA. 5& Following this era, the forests themselves, so long the homes of thesinimalsand the scene of their slaughter, became a most valuable ele-ment in our western settlements by the development of the lumber trade,connecting with human habitations and a higher form of social the soil itself, which for centuries had been covered by the denseforests, served another end in the interest of man by its trees givingway to the plow. The last form of industrial development in connec-tion with the land has to do with the earth beneath. The fur-bearinganimals to a great extent gone, the forests largely a thing of the past,the surface of the earth occupied and tilled, the enterprise of mandelves below and brings up the long hidden treasures of ore, coal andoil, which prove such mighty factors in modern civilization. But the fur trade was the pioneer industry in North America. Itstigents penetrated t
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