My Genealogy Hound

T. M. WILLIAMS, president of Actual Business College, No. 1 Sixth avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., is a son of D. P. Williams, who was born on the homestead now occupied by his mother, in 1815. Rev. Matthew Williams, father of D. P., was a native of Ireland, came to America about 1797, and settled on four hundred acres in what is now Richland township. He was one of the early Covenanter ministers. He had eleven children, eight of whom still live, viz.: Joseph, in McKeesport; Rev. John B., at White Lake, N. Y.; William, in Pittsburgh; Matthew, in Butler county; Mary, in Allegheny; Nancy Jane, and Annie, in Braddock. D. P. Williams always followed farming, and died in 1882. He had ten living children, of whom James C. and Harry are proprietors of Curry University, Pittsburgh; J. T., Lizzie J. and Annie M. are in Allegheny; Maggie A., David P., Jr., Joseph D. and Gertrude C. are at home. T. M. Williams is president of the Actual Business College of Pitts burgh, co-author of the Actual Business Accountant, 586 pages, and of a new and original system of rapid business writing. He is without a superior as a penman and teacher. He married Ida M., daughter of Capt. H. C. Richmond, late superintendent of water-works and afterward of poor-farm of Allegheny, and has two children, Vernon Richmond and Percy Howard.