Representative Matthias Williams View All Years

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Matthias Williams

Keokuk County

MATT WILLIAMS Born in Rush county, Indiana, October 17, 1833, and lived there until he came to this county in 1846, and settled in Lancaster township, where he owned a farm of 160 acres. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits the early years of his life and held various township offices. Mr. Williams having a taste for the profession of law, after preparing himself, was admitted to the bar, in April 1870. In 1877 he was elected to the lower house of the state legislature and served his term acceptably to his constituents and creditably to himself. In 1856 he married Miss Martha Vittetoe, a native of Johnson County, Indiana. She died in June 1864. He married his second wife, Henrietta Morrow, in 1866. He has one daughter by first marriage: Margaret (wife of Wm. Eulin); and four by second marriage: Martha, Lillian, Jettie, and Mattell. He practiced law in Iowa, Colorado, and Oklahoma. He was county attorney of Pawnee County, Oklahoma, when he died in 1899.

House District 28