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

JOHN H. WILLIAMS is a Grant County boy whose success in life has been
won by his sterling integrity and scrupulous honesty.  His industry and 
close attention to business has brought him a competency and today he 
stands in the forefront of Grant County business men.  He is a native 
of Grant County, being the son of W. C. Williams and Bridella Williams, 
born and raised near the little village of Mason, in which most of his 
success in life has been achieved.  His parents were people in humble 
circumstances, but honorable and industrious.  Young Williams when only 
a boy, had a great desire for an education, but the hand of poverty and 
his environments arrested his ambition, and he became a grown man before
he secured enough money to pay his way to school.  After he was twenty 
years of age for several terms he attended the Williamstown High School,
of which Professor E. C. Crabbe was then the principal.  After his 
season in school he occupied himself for several years with school 
teaching and made quite a success of this honorable calling.  Later he 
entered the mercantile business, and opened a general country store at 
Mason, in this county, his old home.  His close application to business,
and fair and honorable dealings with his customers made his business a 
success, and for more than twelve years he has lived and sold goods 
among his old neighbors and friend with an ever widening list of 
acquaintances and scope of influence.  His life has been moral and 
upright, and he has always extended the helping hand to those whom he 
thought deserving.

Williams Crabbe
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