Pardon C. Williams
American lawyer and politician (1823–1906)
Pardon Clarence Williams (July 12, 1842 – January 18, 1925) was an American lawyer and judge from New York.
Life
Williams was born on July 12, 1842, in Ellisburg, New York, the son of farmer William Williams Jr. and Jerusha Plummer.
Williams attended school in Pierrepont Manor. He then went to Union Academy in Belleville and the Clinton Liberal Institute. He spent two years at St. Lawrence University. He began teaching when he was 14 and spent the next six winters as a teacher while working on the family farm in the summers. In 1862, he moved to Watertown and began studying law in the firm Hammond & Bigelow. He was admitted to the bar in 1863.
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