FITCH R. WILLIAMS

Senator from Antrim and other counties in 1877, was born in Amenia, N. Y., December 18, 1834. He removed to Michigan in 1845, graduated from the Michigan University in 1858, and was immediately appointed instructor in the literary department. While teaching he attended lectures in the law department. He was, for two years. a professor in Albion college, and commenced the practice of law at Albion in 1866. He removed to Elk Rapids, in 1870. He has three times been prosecuting attorney of that county. He has also for three years acted as judge of probate under appointment by the governor. In politics a Republican.
 

FITCH R. WILLIAMS, attorney at law, was born in Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1834. He removed with his parents to Michigan in 1845, and prepared for the university at Albion College. He graduated in the literary department of the Michigan University in 1858, and was at once appointed instructor in that department. While teaching there he attended lectures in the law department. He was for two years a professor in Albion College, and commenced the practice of law in Albion in 1866. On Aug. 12, 1862, he was married to Miss Elizabeth J; Roberts, of Ogladen, N. Y. She was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1838. They have one son, Fitch Roberts, born in Elk Rapids, Aug. 25, 1874.

 In 1870 Mr. Williams came to Elk Rapids, Antrim County, from Albion, and at once resumed his legal practice, being the first attorney to locate permanently in the county. Since then he has been three times elected as prosecuting attorney for the county, and has served three years as judge of probate by appointment of the governor.

In 1876, by a large majority of the voters of the district, he was, as Republican candidate, elected senator from the thirtieth district, then composed of the counties of Wexford, Missaukee, Kalkaska, Grand Traverse, Benzie, Leelanau, Crawford, Otsego, Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet, Manitou and Cheboygan. Since his return from the senate he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession in all courts of the state, and in which lie has attained a leading position; having been counsel for tie state in important railroad tax cases before the supreme court. He is a large owner of real estate in Antrim County and is actively interested in its material and intellectual development, and has served for several years on the school board of - Elk Rapids. In 1879 Mr. Williams was appointed by the governor on the board of trustees of the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, at Kalamazoo, and filled the office until 1883.

Title: Biographical history of Northern Michigan, containing biographies of prominent pioneer citizens ...Publication date: 1905.