Overview
Harrison Charles Williams (March 16, 1873 – November 10, 1953) was an American entrepreneur, investor, and multi-millionaire.
Early life
Harrison Williams was born in Avon Township, Ohio in 1873 to Everett Williams and Laurett A. Williams. He graduated from Elyria High School in 1890.
Adult life and career
In 1900, he married Katherine Gordon Breed in Pittsburgh. She died in 1915.
Williams abandoned an unsuccessful bicycle manufacturing business in Lorain in 1903. He went to New York City and took a job with a carpet sweeper company.
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