Excerpt from Legal Ethics and Suggestions for Young Counsel
He was born July 30, 1830, at Harford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, and received his early education at the village school of his native place, afterwards attending Franklin Academy of Harford.
When he became of age he removed to Wellsboro, Tioga County, where he was, in 1854, admitted to the Bar. He seems from the beginning to have been a close student and to have impressed those about him with a very high regard for his intellectual powers.
After a practice extending over a period of some ten years his reputation as a lawyer and a scholar was widely known, and his ability and sterling qualities were so thoroughly recognized that in 1865 he was appointed by Governor Curtin additional law judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, then consisting of the Counties of Tioga, Potter, Elk, McKean and Cameron, being subsequently elected for the full term. In the year 1871 he became President Judge of Tioga County, to which office he was again elected in the year 1881.
Upon the death of Chief Justice Mercur, in 1887, Judge Williams was commissioned an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and sat in that tribunal down to within a few days of his death, which occurred January 25, 1899.
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