John Stanton Williams (8 October 1814 – 14 November 1876) with
Stephen Barker Guion owned and operated the
Williams & Guion Black Star Line.
He was born in 1814 and married Mary Maclay Pentz (c. 1810–1891). They owned a tract in
Somerset, New Jersey
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from
Columbia University
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in
political science
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in 1883. By 1892 he was a practicing law in New York City.
Tulipwood
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was built for him in 1892 and was the third house built by Williams family members on that site.
On November 9, 1914, he married Charlotte Grosvenor Wyeth.
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1876 deaths
1814 births
Businesspeople from New York City
19th-century American businesspeople
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