Labette County Biographies
From the "Portrait and Biographical Record of Southeastern Kansas"
Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1894
LEE WILLIAMS, M. D., a practicing physician and surgeon of Oswego, was born at
Pleasant Hill, Miami County, Ohio, June
23, 1850. His father, Isaac, was also a native of
Miami County, whither Grandfather John Williams came in an early day and entered a tract of
land from the Government. Isaac Williams was
a farmer by occupation, and for about one years served as a Justice of the Peace. He
married Sarah Waymire, and they became the parents of twelve children, five of whom are still
living.
Orphaned by his father's death when he was a
mere child, our subject developed habits of self-reliance and determination, and was obliged to
earn his own support from boyhood days. He
was reared on the old homestead in Miami County, and received his education at Pleasant Hill. He
commenced the study of medicine with Dr. S. W.
Keister, now a a resident of Troy, Ohio, and later
prosecuted his studies in the Louisville Medical
College. In 1877 he was graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, and
locating in Tippecanoe City, Ohio, commenced the practice of his
profession, remaining in that place about eight
months.
In April, 1878, the Doctor came to Oswego, and
has since engaged in practice at this place. He
also superintends the management of a valuable
farm, consisting of two hundred and thirty acres,
located one mile from the city, and from the
rental of the land derives a fair income. he is
one of the Directors of the Oswego State Bank.
Politically, he is a Republican, and socially is
identified with the Masonic fraternity and the
Modern Woodmen of America. In 1870 he married Miss Lucy
Davenport, a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, and they are the parents of
two children: Carrie (deceased) and Cora.
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