MR. ROBERT R. WILLIAMS. DODGEVILLE, IOWA COUNTY, WISCONSIN.

ROBERT R. WILLIAMS, Sec. 12; P. 0. Dodgeville; born December 3rd, 1814, in Carnarvonshire, North Wales; is a son of Robert and Sarah (Jones) Williams; came to America and Iowa Co. in 1844; mined lead in Dodgeville until 1849, then bought his present farm, comprising 240 acres, of the United States; paid $100 for the claim and spent the first two years in a rude shanty; today we see the roomy farmhouse and substantial barns, standing as monuments to his care and industry; he celebrated his adopted country's centennial by erecting a model stone granary; the stone walks, and groves and orchards of his own planting, show that his life has been spent in useful activity.

Mr. Williams married, April 21st, 1848, in Dodgeville, Elizabeth Jones, a native of Merionethshire, Wales; she came to America in 1840, and at her death, April 7th, 1869, left ten children — Robert, Mary A., Sarah, Ellen, William, Abel, Elizabeth, Harriet, Maria and Edwin, all born in this town.

Mr. W. is a Republican.

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