John Stanton Williams (8 October 1814 – 14 November 1876) with

Stephen Barker Guion Stephen Barker Guion (June 17, 1820 – December 20, 1885) with John Stanton Williams formed the Williams & Guion Black Star Line. Biography He was born on June 17, 1820. In 1848 with John Stanton Williams he started the Williams & Guion Black ...

owned and operated the

Williams & Guion Black Star Line The Black Star Line was the name used by American sailing packets owned by the New York firm of Williams and Guion from 1848 to 1866. The line owned 18 ships on the Liverpool-Queenstown-New York route. The line was shut down in 1863 because of t ...

. He was born in 1814 and married Mary Maclay Pentz (c. 1810–1891). They owned a tract in Somerset, New Jersey, which was inherited by their son, Stephen Guion Williams, on February 28, 1891. He died in 1876.

Stephen Guion Williams

Stephen Guion Williams earned the first

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from

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in 1883. By 1892 he was a practicing law in New York City. Tulipwood 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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