. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. ^^Z^"^^^"^^^. /^^^ ^ IRA C. WILLIAMS. Ira C. Williams was bora in the town of Rushville, Yates Co., N. Y., May 8,1809. His father, Joseph H. Williams, was a native of Connecticut, settled in Yates County, in 1801, was a blacksmith by trade, and followed farming and blacksmithing while a resident of that county. He married Margaret Foster, a native of Massachusetts, prior to migrating fr
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. ^^Z^"^^^"^^^. /^^^ ^ IRA C. WILLIAMS. Ira C. Williams was bora in the town of Rushville, Yates Co., N. Y., May 8,1809. His father, Joseph H. Williams, was a native of Connecticut, settled in Yates County, in 1801, was a blacksmith by trade, and followed farming and blacksmithing while a resident of that county. He married Margaret Foster, a native of Massachusetts, prior to migrating from his native place. He died at the age of seventy-two, in 1837, at the residence of his daughter, in Ohio. His wife died Sept. 15, 1831, at Rushville, aged sixty-two. Their children were Mrs. Clark Green ; Mrs. Rodolphus Morse; Mrs. James Loomis; Mrs. James Holden, of Rushville; Mrs. Willard Fay; Joseph H.; Mrs. John Van Housen; Colonel John F.; Ira C, of Prattsburgh; and Mrs. Theodore Baker, of Ohio; of whom only four survive. The youngest was the first to die, but lived to be upwards of fifty years of age. Mr. Williams remained at home until he was nineteen years of age, when he traveled through many of the western States, visiting places of interest, and looking for a place to begin life, for himself. After about two years he returned, and in the year 1833, Jan. 1st, married Anna M. Benedict, of Jerusalem, Yates Co., N. Y. Their children of this marriage are Francis, a lawyer at Corning, N. Y.; Ezra (deceased) ; Mrs. Daniel Sargent, of Rochester; Forrest H., of Rochester; Mrs. Edward Yan Housen, of Prattsburgh; Theodore B., graduate of Rochester Univer- sity and of Auburn Theological Seminary, now a Presbyterian clergyman in Michigan; Ira C, graduate of Long Island College Hospital, a doctor in Michigan; Helen M. (deceased); and Charles R., a graduate of Princeton College with high honors, now principal of the High School at Auburn. Mr. Williams settled in Prattsburgh in 18
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