Calvin Williams is a native of Monson, Massachusetts, and was born in 1799. When five years of age, his parents moved to Cortland county, New York, and in 1823 to Erie county, in the same State. Mr. Williams moved to Michigan in 1833, and in 1837 came to Prophetstown, where he still lives, working at his trade of carpenter, although seventy-eight years of age. He married Miss Sally Hill in 1823, their children being: Enos, living in Portland; Emily, who married Johnson W. Gage, and lives in Prophetstown; Harriet , who first married Ryland Smith, and, after his death, Henry Myers, and lives in Prophetstown; Eliza, wife of David Barber, living in Prophetstown; Armina, wife of Andrew J. Seely, living in Portland; Lovina, wife of Richard Thompson, livitig in Portland; and Nathan, who married Miss Lillian Parish, and lives in Sterling.
Bent & Wilson History of Whiteside County
