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Portrait of Nicholas Williamson, Local Mayor From 1898 to 1902. here are certain family names so intimately associated with New Jersey, Middlesex county and New Brunswick that mention of them at once brings up memories of the (state, county and city. There are the names Neilson, Kirkpatrick Demarest, Benedict, and many others. They have stood high in the two professions that are at the top of them all, in value and importance to the human race, medicine and the law. Without them, what would industrial and commercial supremacy be worth? Of all these names none stands higher or is remember ed with greater esteem than that of Williamson. In New Brunswick especially, from early times down to our day, it has been a name to fcless ana to take pride in. This story is about one of the Nicholas Williamsons. There have been several men in Middlesex county to bear the same name with honor and the esteem of their contemporaries. Some years ago one of them died at his home in North Brunswick township, where he had made his home for a long time, mucn to the regret or his neighbors and friends, even though he left a son, Isaac Voorhees Williamson, to carry on the farm and up hold family traditions and friendships and to take an important part in township politics. But this story is not about the Williamsons who have made their home in the county, tempting as that material is, but it is rather about those in New Brunswick, since it would take too long a story to try to include them all. Since the early men of that illustrious name, the bearers of it have been notable men in the business and professional worlds and as just plain good citizens, probably the most difficult, certainly the most worthwhile position to fill, for steady, every-day goodness, is no easy matter for any man, desirable as it may be. It surely is one great test of excellence. This story is about that Nicholas Williamson who was in business with Christopher Meyer in New Brunswick during the city's early years as a manufacturing city, especially in the rubber industry. When Christopher Meyer wanted to start the Novelty Rubber Company in New Brunswick in 1855, he looked about him for leading men in the city to join him in his new enterprise, with the result that the Nicholas Williamson of that day was made secretary of the new firm, whose works were on Neilson street, above the railroad bridge, as an old book in the Voorhees Library of Rutgers University states. They manufactured goods in quantity and of such excellence and popularity that they enjoyed an international reputation and were shipped to the four quarters of the globe. And these goods amounted to about $600,000 a year and included various kinds of hard rubber articles. This Nicholas was born in New Brunswick, and has left descendants who are eminent citizens to day, both men and women. Grandchildren by a son, are the present Nicholas Williamson, his sisters. Misses Helen Williamson and Julia B. Williamson, who live on Union street, and Miss Agnes Williamson Storer, who lives on George street, the child of a daughter, who, all of them, live up to their eminent name and the fine traditions of their grandfather, in business and in all that makes for the best kind of social life, in both city and state. The son bears an enviable reputation, and the three women, who are prominent and influential members of the Jersey Blue Chapter of the D.A.R., are interested in every good work for the civic and social life of New Brunswick, as well as worthwhile agencies in the state. The people of New Brunswick gave evidence of their appreciation of the life and services of the man who lived here during the middle of the last century by electing him for their mayor from 1898 to 1902, succeeding Honorable J. H. Van Cleef, who had the distinction of a unanimous election as mayor. Whoever should have been the successor of a man so popular must have enjoyed the utmost confidence of his fellow townsmen, and well-merited confidence at that, for as he lived in New Brunswick all his life, his fellow citizens knew him well. And he made them a fine mayor. in view of the fact that Mr. Williamson was so prominent in the social and industrial life of New Brunswick it may be said that at the present time there are many men and women living who remember him with pleasure and esteem, and that his descendants are keeping his memory green by their interest in all that pertains to the civic life of the present day.

For the large word count, this biography has very little information in it. It does not even contain a date of birth and a date of death.

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