JOHN LL. WILLIAMS M.D., CAMBRIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
Cambria; was born in Carnarvonshire, North Wales, July 15th, 1826, son of William S. Williams; his mother's maiden name was Jane Owens. His parents started for America May 24th, 1847, and his father died on Lake Michigan, on the way to Wisconsin, July 7th, 1847; his mother died about a month after arriving in Springvale.John Ll. first read medicine in Llanrwst, North Wales, in the office of Dr. William Hughes; attended one course of lectures in Glasgow, Scotland, and received a license to practice; when he was 20 years of age, he commencred practice in Cambria, in 1847, when it was called Langden's Mills, and only three persons in the village, after coming to Wisconsin, he attended lectures in Chicago, and is a graduate of Rush Medical College, February 28th, 1854.
He was married, in Portage City, Wisconsin, to Elizabeth Evans, who was born January 8th, 1833, in the same county as her husband, in North Wales, daughter of Robert Evans. Has three children - Jane E., William E. and Mary Ann, all living at home.
He was Town Superintendent of Schools several years, under the old system, and Justice of the Peace. After the battle of Pittsburg Landing, the Doctor, with forty seven others, visited Chicago, to go down and attend the wounded, and in 1864, went to Vicksburg, and had charge of all the hospitals in the post, for four months. He also taught the first school in Springvale, in a "dugout," three nights in a week, in the fall of 1847.
Wisconsin County History and Findagrave.
JOHN LL. WILLIAMS M.D., CAMBRIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
John Ll. Williams wvas born at Trefriw, Caernarvonshire, Wales. He read medicine in Llanrwst, and also attended lectures in Glasgow, Scotland, where he received license to practice. In 1847 he came to this country, and taught the first school in Springvale, Columbia county, in a "dug-out." The same year he began to practice medicine at Cambria, when only three persons were living in the village. The county rapidly filled up, and Cambria soon became the center of quite a numerous and thrifty population, and here the remaining years allotted to him were spent. After a time he took a course of lectures at Rush Medical College, in Chicago, from which he received a diploma in 1863.He continued to practice at Cambria until his death in September, 1888, when over sixty-three years of age. He was a surgeon and physician of high repute, and acquired a wide acquaintance. He was called upon to fill some local positions of trust and honor, but was never a politician.
During the Civil war he tendered his services to the United States hospital department, and was sent to Vicksburg, where he wvas put in charge of the various hospitals of the post, and continued in that important position for four months. His parents were William and Jane (Owens) Williams, who started for the United States in 1847. The voyage lasted ten weeks, and the elder Mr. Williams died of fever on the way. Mrs. Williams died in the town of Springvale a.few months later, leaving three sons and two daughters. Mrs. Louis Lloyd is her only surviving child. She lives at Cambria.
Mrs. John Ll. Williams lived until 1894, when she was in her sixty-fourth year. She was born in Caernarvonshire, where her father, Robert Evans, was accidentally killed in a slate quarry. His widow, Mrs. Mary Evans, came to the United States and died in Cambria, at the age of seventy-four.