Williamson, John

Flourished: Kentucky

Williamson was the uncle of Fanny Henning. She was living at his home when her courtship with Joshua F. Speed began, and it was there that she became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln in the summer of 1841.

Robert L. Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed: Lincoln's Most Intimate Friend (Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University, 1943), 16-18, 20-21; Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed.