Wallace Williamson
Wallace Williamson (deceased) was born in Washington county, Penn., December 15, 1817, but was brought up principally in Bethlehem, Stark Co., Ohio. At sixteen years of age he started on foot to the Maumee Swamps, Ohio, where his uncle, George Robinson, was acting as a civil engineer on the Ohio Canal. He learned that profession under his uncle, and followed it for about twenty-five years on that and the Ohio & Pennsylvania Canals. He married, January 4, 1842, Miss Alvira S. Judd, born May 5, 1822, in Ravenna Township, this county. Her father, Charles Judd, of Hamilton County, N.Y., came when a young man, in 1818, to this county, where he married Miss Lucina, daughter of the pioneers, Moses and Mary (Abels) Smith, who settled here from Litchfield County, Conn., in 1805. Mr. Judd died November 17, 1864. His widow still survives him at the advanced age of eighty-five years, being the oldest continuous resident of Ravenna Township now living. Mrs. Williamson is their only child. Seven years after their marriage Mr. Williamson purchased the old Judd family homestead of 126 acres near the corporation line of Ravenna. He devoted his time partly to this, and partly to canal and railroad engineering. He had an accidental fall on his premises on February 12, 1881, which resulted in his death on the 21st of that month. He was an active man in agricultural affairs, taking a very prominent part in the Portage Agricultural Society. He was a leading member of the P. of H., being an influential member of the State and National Granges. His widow and their only son - Marshall - survive him, and reside at the family homestead. Mrs. Williamson is a pious member of the Disciples Church, the faith of her father and mother.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885