"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
RAY TOWNSHIP
PAGE 293

DR. RALPH B. WILLIAMSON was born near Watford, Ont., March 4,1851,
and is the ninth of the fourteen children of John and Margaret (Calbert) Williamson,
the former a native of Ireland, the latter of France.  Dr. Ralph B. Williamson was
reared on a farm, and when fifteen years old clerked for his father, and continued
so to do for five years.  He attended the public school, a commercial college at
London, and afterward began the study of medicine with Dr. Harvey, and attended
lectures at Ann Arbor, and at the Cincinnati College of Medicine, from each of
which he received a diploma.  In July, 1876, he located at Vandalia, remained
three years, removed thence to Santa Fe, Owen County, and thence to Paragon.
October 9, 1877, he married Alice E., daughter of William and Jane Williams,
of Owen County,  This union furnished two children--Lionas Listwell Dufferein
and Damietta Bell.  Dr. Williamson was formerly an Odd Fellow, and is in politics
a Democrat.  He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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