Captain James T Williamson

 

Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Sep 1873, page 4

The Newport Ferry


The Newport Ferry franchise has changed hands.  The style will still be Air & Williamson, but the Captain James T Williamson who has bought in is no relative to and is of a different kettle of fish from the Captain Williamson who has sold out.  The public can not but be the gainer, for the incoming partner is a high toned gentleman, of liberal views in all things, broad ideas in business matters, especially.

In this he is congenial to his new associate, Captain "Bill" Air, who has always proved himself the worthy successor of his father, the hearty Scotch Ferryman of the pioneer days of Cincinnati and whose name and fame, as a man and a citizen, were always dearer to him than the difference between high and low fare, if that difference was to be extorted from the pocket of the laboring man.

 

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