| |
| | Saints Without Halos: A Mormon History Website |
 | | Frederick Granger Williams, October 28, 1787, in Suffield, Hartford Co., Connecticut, the oldest of five children. |
 | | 1799 family moves to Cleveland where William's father has contract with the Connecticut Land Company to build a combination sawmill and grist-mill built, "the first in the neighborhood and probably the third in the Western Reserve, on the Mill Creek falls (Broadway near Warner Road)." He receives option on 1,306 acres at a discount. |
 | | 1802 in the first election held in Cleveland township, William Wheeler Williams is elected one three trustees and one of two "overseers of the poor." In the same year, he sells the mill land and probably the mill. |
| www.saintswithouthalos.com /b/williams_fg.phtml (1530 words) |
|