Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

W. P. STRATTON.  Like father like son, is a saying that is as old as the
hills, and one which is fully illustrated in the history of W. P.
Stratton, the grocer of North Main Street, who has catered to the better
class of Williamstown people for nearly twenty years.  Born October 9, 
1853, he secured a common school education and grew up like most country
boys of that day and generation.  His father was the Hon. H. D. 
Stratton, for many years the Superintendent of Schools of Grant County, 
besides being in his day one of the leading teachers in the county.  
Will was given the best education that the common schools afforded, 
besides what assistance his father was able to render him in that line. 
His start as a business man began with a clerkship with D. J. 
Charbonneau, with whom he remained four months.  Later he entered the 
store of N. H. Jeffers and remained with him four years, after which he 
served P. T. Zinn as clerk for one year.  In February, 1882, he entered 
business for himself, establishing a grocery, and ever since that time 
he has sold groceries to the people of Williamstown.  He is noted for 
his sterling honesty and close application to business principles, which
have been instilled in him since his youth, and his recommendation of an
article in his store is recognized as a sufficient guarantee of it 
qualities.  He has a trade which no one is able to get from him, and 
which has grown into large proportions for a country town.  There is no 
man in the town more esteemed than he, and no one who has more friends 
and fewer enemies.  His is a stickler after first class goods and allows
none but that kind to fill his shelves, believing that there is more 
satisfaction in that grade in the long run than in any other.  He deals 
exclusively in groceries and farm seed and always keeps a full line of 
the best of that kind of goods on hand.  He is a bachelor.

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