George M. Williams,
livery, was born in Owego, Tioga County, N.Y., and came to Mercer County
in 1874. He married Maria, a daughter of Joseph Cubbison, who
settled in a log cabin in Fairview Township, where he lived for over
fifty years. Mr. Williams, after marriage went to Talbot County,
Md., and farmed for two years. He then returned to this county, bought a
farm, which he sold in one year, and went into the oil business in
Venango, Warren, Butler, Armstrong and Clarion Counties for three years.
He then bought a farm in Fairview Township, and after farming two years
sold and bought another in Jefferson Township, where he remained until
April 1, 1887, when he engaged in the livery business at Mercer. He is a
member of the present town council, is a Republican, and with his wife
belongs to the Second Presbyterian Church. Their children are: Mary,
Harry, Edwin, Edna and Ida. He served as school director while in
Jefferson Township.
History of Mercer
County, 1888, pages 700-701
