George W. Williams

Birth Date

1801-10-07

Death Date

1870-01-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bourbon County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of Roger Williams and Mary Kerfoot Williams. Married to Winifred Ware Webb Williams in Bourbon County on March 25, 1824. Father of Ben F. Williams, Nancy Williams, Nancy Williams, Winifred Williams, George Ann Williams, Louisa K. Williams, Fanny Conn Williams, and Charles Anna Williams. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Studied law under Judge Benjamin Mills and admitted to the bar in Bourbon County. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1829 to 1830, 1836, and 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1846 to 1850. Member of the Whig Party. Bourbon County representative to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1849. Founder and president of the Deposit Bank of Paris in 1851. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. Rejected the nomination of the Prohibitionists Party for governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1855. Member of the American ("Know Nothing") Party. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Law partner of John A. Prall in Bourbon County. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1860. Member of the Republican Party. President of the first Republican Party State Convention in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 271A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 271.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 499.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 143A.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 98-101.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 771-72.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000183145.
"An Act to Incorporate the Deposit Bank of Paris, Bourbon County," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1851), 273-81.
"George W. Williams (1801-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial 130074484, accessed May 19, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130074484.

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