WILLIAMS COUNTY OHIO
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COUNTY INFORMATION
1895 Map of Ohio
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Map modified with permission of Ray Sterner from http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
DATE CREATED
1820
PARENT COUNTY
Darke
COUNTY SEAT
Bryan
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Williams County Probate Office
100 S Main St # E
1 Courthouse Square
Bryan, OH 43506-0000
419-636-2059
Williams County Clerk of Courts
1 Courthouse Square Bryan, OH 43506
(419) 636-1548
Williams County Recorder
1 Courthouse Square Bryan, OH 43506
419-636-3259
Williams County Records Center
107 West Butler Bryan, OH 43506
419-636-8253
Williams County Engineers Office
12 953 Rd G Bryan, OH 43506
419-636-2454
Williams County Health Department
310 Lincoln Ave. Montpelier, OH 43543
419-485-3141
Bryan City Clerk
321 W. Bryan St. Bryan, OH 43506
419-636-4232
Village of Edgerton
Village Hall
103 S. Michigan Edgerton, OH 43517
419-298-2912
Village of Edon
East Indiana St. Edon OH 43518
419-272-2512
Village of Montpelier
211 Jonesville St. Montpelier, OH 43543
419-485-5543
Village of Pioneer
205 S. State St. Pioneer, OH 43554
Village of Stryker
North Defiance St. Stryker, OH 43557
419-682-2191
Village of West Unity
P. O. Box 207 118 W. Jackson St. West Unity, OH 43570
419-924-2215
Bryan Public Library
Williams County Public Library
107 East High Street
Bryan, OH 43506-1702
419-636-6734 or 419-636-6735
Fax: 419-636-3970
Reference: 419-636-6734
E-Mail: [email protected]
School Year Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9:00 am - 8:00pm
Friday - Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday CLOSED
Summer Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 8:00pm
Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 9:00am - 1:00pm
Sunday CLOSED
Ohioiana Room
aka "Van Gundy Room"
Main research library for
Williams County genealogy/history
Edgerton Public Library
319 N. Michigan Ave. Edgerton, OH. 43517-9719
419-298-3230
Special collections
Bound copies of the "Edgerton Earth" newspaper
Edon Public Library
104 E. Indiana Edon, OH 43518
419-272-2839
Montpelier Public Library
216 E. Main Montpelier, OH 43543
419-485-3287
Fax: 419-485-5671
Contact Page
Hours:
Monday �� -- �� 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday �� -- �� 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday* �� -- �� 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday �� -- �� 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday �� -- �� 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday* �� -- �� 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
* In the summer, the library closes
Wednesday at 5 pm and Saturday at 12 noon
Summer hours begin in June and end
after the Williams County Fair
---Microfilm copies of the "Montpelier
Leader-Enterprise"; 1880 to the present
---Indexed Newspaper obituaries (card file)
Pioneer Public Library
106 Baubice Pioneer, OH 43554
419-737-2833
Special collections
---History of the village of Pioneer
and its founder, Philetus Wilson Norris
Stryker Public Library
204 N. Defiance Stryker, OH 43557
419-682-5081
West Unity Public Library
117 E. Jackson West Unity, OH 43570
419-924-5237
Carnegie Public Library
322 S. Wayne Angola, IN 46703
219-665-3362
Defiance College
Pilgrim Library
701 N. Clinton Defiance, OH 43512
419-783-2481
Defiance Public Library
320 Fort St. Defiance, OH 43512
419-782-1456
Johnson Memorial Library
West High St. Hicksville, OH 43526
419-542-6200
Napoleon Public Library
310 W. Clinton Napoleon, OH 43545
419-485-3287
Northwest State Community College
Rt 1 Box 246 A. Archbold, OH 43502
419-267-5511
American Legion Post 284
519 East Butler Bryan, OH 43506
419-636-3237
---Military museum about Williams County Veterans
Bryan Historic Homes Association
P. O. Box 7042 Bryan, OH 43506
---Association's records housed
at the Bryan Public Library
Scout David Williams Chapter NSDAR
Jacquelyn Whetro, Registrar
10533 SR 107 Montpelier, OH 43543
419-485-4264
Email: [email protected]
Williams County Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 293 Bryan, OH 43506
Williams County Historical Society
619 East Main Montpelier, OH 43543
419-485-8200
Email: [email protected]
---Maintain a museum & a large farm museum
---Maintain several historic sites in the county
Center for Archival Collections
Bowling Green State University
Jerome Library, 5th Floor
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Bryan Chamber of Commerce
138 S. Lynn, Bryan, OH 43506
419-636-2247
Edgerton Chamber of Commerce
P. O. Box 399 153 N. Michigan Ave. Edgerton, OH 43517
419-298-2335
Edon Area Chamber of Commerce
P. O. Box 218 Edon, OH 43518
Montpelier Area Chamber of Commerce
410 West Main Montpelier, OH 43543
419-485-4416
Pioneer Chamber of Commerce
P. O. Box 633 Pioneer, OH 43551-0633
419-737-2273
OTHER INFORMATION
Williams County borders the state of Indiana and Michigan about 50 miles west of Toledo. Heavily timbered and difficult of access, this section of Ohio was the last to be settled. David Williams was a Revolutionary War hero.
Williams County was originally much larger and the city of Defiance was the original county seat. Bryan became county seat when Defiance County was formed, which greatly reduced the size of Williams County. Bryan maintains a branch of Bowling Green State University.
Industries in Williams County include; machinery, transportation equipment, metlas, air tools, candy, toys, rolled copper and brass, truck bodies, mobile homes, concrete mixers, metal stampings and mufflers.
Clerk of Courts has divorce & civil court records. Probate office has birth and death records from 1867 to 1908, probate records, wills, estate records, marriage records and misc. records from 1824 to present. Williams County Records Center has many of the older county records from the various county offices. The Williams County Engineer's Office has the original (unindexed) road survey & ditch record books. The County Health Department has birth and death records (alphabetized card index) for the entire county except for the City of Bryan from 1908 to the present. Bryan City Clerks office has death and birth records (computer index) for Bryan City only from 1908 to the present.
CORRECTION on 2/22/1999: The Williams County Records Center Houses All of the Probate Courts Early Birth, Death, & Will Records and Early and Present Day Estate & Marriage Records. Clerk of Common Pleas Court has case files from the early 1800s through to the mid 1970's.
INFORMATIONAL LINKS
Bibliography (Includes detailed sources for all the information on this and the connected pages.) |
Hixson Plat Maps, Ohio Townships W. W. Hixson & Company, Rockford, Illinois
(These plat maps were published without dates or copyright notice,
but are believed to be from the 1920s and 1930s. The W. W. Hixson
Company published an Ohio Atlas around 1925 with individual County
maps and Township plat maps.) |
Vital Statistics (Includes Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce, Land, Will & Estate Records.) This is an area
that explains where to look for vital records in the state of Ohio. |
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