WI BIO - Dunn Co - WILLIAMSON, James

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 290

James WILLIAMSON, rotary sawyer for Knapp, Stout & Company, Downsville [six 
miles south of Menomonie, in Dunn County, Wisconsin], was born in Scotland in 
1845. [Downsville was the site of one of the major Knapp, Stout & Company 
mills.] He came to America with his parents in 1848, who settled in Toronto, 
Canada. He went to Minnesota in 1860, and in 1862 enlisted in Company C, 4th 
Minnesota, and served until the close of the war [1865]. He was in many 
important battles and campaigns, including Sherman's march through Georgia.

Mr. WILLIAMSON came to Dunn County in 1865, and has been in the employ of the 
company [Knapp, Stout & Company] since that time. He [James WILLIAMSON] 
married Eliza VANCE. He is engaged in the mill at Downsville during the 
sawing season, and during the Winter in the pineries as head scaler.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly