WI BIO - Eau Claire Co - WILLIAMSON, Allan History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 337 Allan WILLIAMSON, foreman, lumber yards of the Phoenix Manufacturing Company, was born in 1844 in Grenville [Ontario], Canada. In 1844 the Counties of Grenville, Leeds, and Carleton belonged to what was called the Johnstown District. In January 1850 Johnstown District became the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.] Allan WILLIAMSON came to Eau Claire [Eau Claire County, Wisconsin] in 1869. Allan WILLIAMSON served in the Fenian raid [the one which occurred in 1866, since he would have been in Eau Claire already by the second Fenian raid in 1870]. Submitted by Cathy Kubly