John R. Williamson, 8 North 52 West

John claimed a quarter in section 11, 8N 52W in 1875.

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POSSIBLY

John Williamson was born November 18, 1824 in Wiston and Roberton, Lanarkshire, Scotland to William Williamson and Mary Clerkson.

In 1841 Devonshire, England, Ann A. Granville is 5, born at Stoke Damerel, with William 60, Mary 45, Louisa 11, Edin 7, and Grace 2.

July 1873 at the Denver Fourth of July " John Williamson, of Platte Canon, gave his experience as a foreigner coming to this country; expressed his satisfaction with the people and the institutions of 'this land of liberty.' Mr. Williamson was loudly applauded."

In 1880 Jefferson County, Colorado, John Williamson 56 born in Scotland is farming, Annie Williamson 45 Wife born in England .

In 1880 John Williamson is 75, married 42 years to Annie Williamson 64 Wife, John W. Williamson 24 Son, and Elliot H. Seward 24 Boarder. Annie has had two children, one living.

October 1884 Denver "John Williamson, Esq., the owner of a beautiful country place in Jefferson county, and a prominent stock man, was in the city, yesterday, interviewing friends and attending to business."

March 1902 "FROM JOHN WILLIAMSON.
To The Rocky Mountain News;
The friends of the Bucklin bill claim that it is not a single tax measure, nor is it, but it is at the same time an adoption of the principle. Mr. Henry George’s proposal was to make only one tax and that to be collected from land. He wanted to have taken for public use all economic rent, which he defined as the field from all land above the poorest in cultivation. And that point is reached in most cases when the land cultivated allows no margin after supporting the family of the cultivator. This point has already been reached in Colorado —in fact, some land occupied is so poor that but for being able to use the public domain the owners could not live from it. and this constitutes Mr. Georg'e’s datum line upon which he builds his scheme of taxation. From land that grows more than will support the workers, the single tax is to be taken so that if the poorest land in use grows five bushels of wheat to the acre, land that will grow ten would have to pay a tax of five bushels, and land yielding say fifty would be taxed forty-five bushels, less the cost of handling. This would reduce the income of all farmers to the level of the very poorest-a bare subsistence, and this is the outlook the apostle of the single tax invites farmers to help to establish. It does not seem to have occurred to Mr. George that land without labor, like all other materials, is of small value. It is supposed that the United States did not contain more than 1,000,000 of inhabitants when the Indians had exclusive possession and that is probably as many as it would support, as all life has a tendency to increase to the limit of subsistence. But by the application of social methods to cultivation it now feeds 76,000.000 of people and a large surplus to spare. When the Indians were here alone, small as their numbers were, I doubt if their lives were much of a sinecure for, judging by others in a similar condition, the price of life is an incessant struggle, and even then their condition is said to be one of chronic hunger. It Is evident from this that the single tax would not come from land, hut from the labor applied to land, and why that kind of labor should be taxed and all others exempted is an arrangement of which I am unable to see the justice. A farmer uses land as other workmen do tne materials they handle, which is to increase their value and which increase is easily one hundred fold, but is only obtainable by men working together. A maker of pins couM probably not make one, working alone, whereas ten working together could make 1.000 in the same time. In this case both the increased crops and the increased number of pins are alike social values, and are. therefore, according to Mr. George’s theory, the property of society. But he proposes that only the farmer or users of land shall pay taxes and all other be exempted. If this is honest it is more than I can understand, and. possibly I might say with Lord Dundreary, that it is one of those mysteries that no fellow can understand.
JOHN WILLIAMSON, Glen-Plym, Littleton."

In 1900 John, born November 1824, is farming, with Annie, April 1835, immigrating in 1872, married 42 years.
John W. is 24, as is Elliot H. Seward, 24, born in New York, a farmer.
John Williamson BIRTH 1825 North Lanarkshire, Scotland DEATH 10 Aug 1911 Jefferson County, Colorado, BURIAL Burial Details Unknown MEMORIAL ID 145954887.
" John Williamson BIRTH 1825 North Lanarkshire, Scotland DEATH 10 Aug 1911 Jefferson County, Colorado, BURIAL Burial Details Unknown MEMORIAL ID 145954887.
" John Williamson, pioneer and widely known resident of Deer Creek, southwest of Littleton in Jefferson County, died at his residence Thursday, August 10th, of paralysis, aged 87 years. The deceased was a native of Scotland, and came to America in 1872. He has been a resident of Deer Creek the past 39 years and enjoyed a wide acquaintance and respect of his friends.
He leaves a widow and son. Funeral services were held Saturday. Interment at Riverside cemetery, Denver.

Paper: Littleton Independent, Colorado;
Date: August 18, 1911, front page.
* (Note) Record of cremation at Riverside Cemetery on 12 August 1911. Riverside Cemetery has no record of interment of ashes. "

Ann Agnes 'Annie' Granville Williamson BIRTH 1836 Devon, England DEATH 21 Oct 1911 Jefferson County, Colorado, BURIAL Burial Details Unknown MEMORIAL ID 145954983 .

John William Williamson and Olive Mabel Rabb married on 27 Mar 1912 in Littleton.
In 1920 Jefferson County, William J. Williamson 43 is farming, Olive M. Williamson 41 Wif,e John R. Williamson 6 Son, and Joe F. Walter 25 Hired Man .

Mabel Olive Rabb Williamson BIRTH Apr 1878 Indiana, DEATH 1956 BURIAL Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado, MEMORIAL ID 142773088 .

In 1950 John R. is in Littleton, a substitute mail clerk, married to Octabia.

Octava M. Williamson BIRTH 1915 DEATH 1963 BURIAL Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado, MEMORIAL ID 142773033.

John R. Williamson BIRTH 1913 DEATH 2 Sep 2001 BURIAL Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado, MEMORIAL ID 142773011.

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