Lewis K. Williams
Lewis K. Williams, farmer, P. O. Kent, was born in Franklin Township, this county, January 15, 1842, son of Austin and Adaliue (Knowlton) Williams, the former a native of Massachusetts, the latter of Vermont. His paternal grandfather was Dudley Williams, who came from Russell, Mass., to Franklin in 1820, and located on the farm now owned by Henry Lake. He afterward removed to Wisconsin and died there. He reared a family of five children: Calvin (deceased), Austin (deceased), George, Fanny (deceased) and Polly (Mrs. Sylvester Huggins). The maternal grandfather of our subject was William Knowlton, formerly of Vermont and an early settler of what is now Kent. Austin Williams, the father of our subject, was reared on a farm and always followed farming as an occupation. In his early manhood his father gave him forty acres of land, on which he moved after his marriage and to which he added by purchase until he had accumulated 320 acres, where he lived and died April 1, 1872, in his sixty-fifth year. He had four children: Lewis K., William D. (deceased), Scott T. and Charles A. The subject of this sketch, a farmer, was reared on his father's farm and educated in the common and high schools of Kent. In 1865 his father gave him and his brother, William D., 120 acres of land, which they worked together for two years. He then purchased William D.'s interest and conducted the farm himself up to 1883, in which year he rented his farm and, having purchased a residence in Kent, removed there, where he now resides. He was married November 30, 1869, to Abbie, daughter of Deacon Lyman and Lucy C. (Stebbins) Sabin, of Hampshire County, Mass. In politics Mr. Williams is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885