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WILLIAM J. FRYER, farmer, post office Woodville, was born in this county in 1859, the eldest son in a family of four children born to William and Elizabeth (McMillen) Fryer. Two of their children are now living. The grandfather, William Fryer, the pioneer of the family, purchased 450 acres of land in Scott township, where he died, and the house situated on this property was erected on the old foundation walls where the memorable whisky insurrection took place. William married Annie Middleswort, and they had six children: Moses and Leonard (twins), William, Elizabeth, Liza and Jonathan. William, Jr., died April 3, 1866, aged thirty years; his widow, Elizabeth, died in 1873, aged thirty-five years. They had four sons: William J., Jonathan, Sydney and Dallas, of whom William J. and Sydney are now living. William J. was reared on the farm which he owns, containing 160 acres, part of what his grandfather had purchased. He married, in 1880, Annie Coulter, daughter of Goodman Y. Coulter, of this county, and is the father of four children: Elizabeth, William Goodman, Joseph Chess and Julia Adella. Mr. Fryer is a member of the M. E. Church; politically he is a prohibitionist.