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Descendants of Samuel Williams, Sr. (1777-1859), who was born in Prince George's Co., Maryland and died in Marion Co., Kentucky. He was a teacher, farmer and surveyor. He married (1) 1797 in Washington Co., Ky., Elizabeth Mock. They had one child, Elizabeth (b. 1799), who married James Jackson. He married (2) 1801 Mary (Polly) Head and (3) Sarah?. He had thirteen children with his second wife. Samuel lived in Washington Co., Ky. in the 1790's until he sometime in the 1840's moved to Marion Co., Ky. Descendants live in Kentucky, California, Kansas, Texas, Alabama and elsewhere.
John Austin (ca.1739-1818/1823) married Charity Kendrick abuut 1761/1762 and lived in Frederick (now Montgomery) County, Maryland. Their son, John Kendrick Austin (1770-1857), married Cassandra Odle in 1799, and moved to Ohio County, Kentucky. Descendants lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for twenty-six years helped to transform America by linking the nation. Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&O’s success ignited “railroad fever” and helped to catapult railroading to America’s most influential industry in the nineteenth century. Taking the B&O helm during the railroads’ expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. The Confederates attacked the B&O 143 times, but could not put “Mr. Lincoln’s Road” out of business. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth. Sander explores how—when he was not fighting fierce railroad wars with competitors—Garrett steered the B&O into highly successful entrepreneurial endeavors, quadrupling track mileage to reach important commercial markets, jumpstarting Baltimore’s moribund postwar economy, and constructing lavish hotels in Western Maryland to open tourism in the region. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and opulent lifestyles of the Gilded Age tycoons in this richly illustrated portrait of one man’s undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology. Chronicling the epic technological transformations of the nineteenth century, from rudimentary commercial trade and primitive transportation westward to the railroads’ indelible impact on the country and the economy, John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett’s twenty-six-year reign.
Mr. Hurley's Our Maryland Heritage Series continues with this book, which investigates the Waters Families, being principally the descendants of John Waters (c. 1648). The family descendants are primarily from Montgomery and Frederick Counties in Maryland
Includes entries for maps and atlases.