My intuition tells me that this might be Jerusha's husband, William B. Williams, born 1854 in SW Wisconsin, died 1899 in Jasper Co Mo. Or, it could be Jerusha's brother-in-law Jacob Warriner who was married to Jerusha's sister Bett. The Warriners lived down in Benton Co AK.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...