Williams, Morgan B
manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1831, in Wales. He was appointed to the position of mine superintendent for the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company, which position he held for fourteen years.
He subsequently leased a tract of coal land in the vicinity of Wilkesparre and organized a company known as the Red Ash Coal company, and is at present the vicepresident and general manager of the company, and has been since its organization. He is president of the Williams Coal company of Pottsville. He was elected to the senate of Pennsylvania in 1884, and was a member of the world's fair commission.
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.