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McWilliams Hardware/Tin Shop

Palmyra, WI [Jefferson Cty]

 

Inside McWilliams Hardware/Tin Shop

On left owner James W. McWilliams and his son Walter T. McWilliams

The children are Walter's [left to right] Lorraine, Duane, Lucille and Doris

 

Excerpt from book by Flare Fredricksen, Before all the river bottom goes by:

“Jim McWilliams had a tin shop and Ed Rundell a watchmaker's shop in the next building.”

[Flare Fredericksen was the "paper boy" for these businesses]

 

James W. McWilliams shoveling outside Palmyra Tin Shop/Hardware

 

Walter T. McWilliams Family outside of Palmyra Tin Shop owned by his father James W. McWilliams:

Left to right Walter T., Lorraine, Lillian (wife) Duane & Lucille (twins), Doris, and in front James.