Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-27
James Williams Meets His Younger
Brother Frank, Whom Re Had
Long Ago Mourned as Dead.
A DISCOVERY MADE BY ACCIDENT.
Comparison of Incidents in Their Lives
Over Friendly Glass Leads to
the Recognition.
FRANK RAN AWAY AND BECAME RICH
His Life Full Of Strange Adventures in Europe and Ii.
Dark Continent.

Two brothers who had not seen each other
for 80 years met accidentally at the Union
station yesterday afternoon.
They were James and Frank Williams
who spent their boyhood days on farm
near Harrisburg Both were stalwart men
and we'll dressed. They happened to be
sitting together in the depot. when, as
strangers, they commenced to talk about
the weather, and finally James asked the
other gentleman to accompany him across
the street to take drink. One thing led
on to another, and as they learned more
about each other'slives they discovered they
were brothers.
Frank lived in Montrose. Col, where be
had accumulated fortune in silver mines,
but his brother stayed with the old folk till
they died, and had Inherited the small es-
tate left.
Had Earned His Inheritance.
He offered to share with his brother, but
the Western man refused, and said that as
he had remained close to his father aud
mother during their old age he was entitled
to it.
Both men cried over their wine, as they
recalled many incidents of their boyhood
days, and it was with much affection and
tears that they parted at the Union depot
last evening. Frank returned to the West,
and while his brother was waiting for
train to go East he told this story:
my brother ran away from home when
he was IA years old. As he was quiet in
demeanor my father and the people of the
town thought some accident had befaIlen
him, and they dragged the creek and
searched for him, but in vain. Several
weeks afterward he turned up in Phila-
delphis, where he learned the machinist's
trade in railroad shop. He fell in with
gang of Socialists, and became an infidel.
Split on Theological Rock.
One day my father, who was a great church.
man, paid him a visit in the Quaker City,
when Frank advanced some of his anti-re-
ligious ideas. The old man was shocked,
and tried to pull the boy back on the beaten
track by force. The boy was proud and
stubborn and tenacious of his rights. He
felt that he had been wrongly treated, and
he decided to 60 to sea with companion.
The last heard of him was 80 years ago,
W uCu lC MIOtC oalu uc was SOluH
away, and would probably never see him
again. He stopped in England and on the
Continent for quite awhile, and while in
London visited Westminster Abbey To q
friend he wrote that he had shed tear over
the grave of Shakespeare at Stratford-op-
Avon. Then he set sail for Africa, as ship
machinist, and spent considerable time in the
Dark Continent, where he had many adven-
tures
Meeting With Misfortune.
HE next visited Australia. where he struck
a panic and almost died of starvation. His
companion worked his way to San Francisco
and soon returned with money, but he didn't
have enough to pay the passage of both to
Frisco. He returned to the United States, and
when he went back to Australia for my brother
the latter had gone to New Zealand. He
livedthere for 10 years. and made
monev as trader. The natives OF
New Zealand are tall, powerful men, but very
intelligent. and he became much attached to
the country. One day, in a fit of homesickness,
he decided to return to the United States and
he came back and settled in Colorado, where
he made a fortune.
him as dead and they died about ten years ago.
moved away from the old homestead, and my
brother, who had been looking for me, lost all
trace. We met to-day by accident and you
don't know how glad was to see that boy once
more. He is my only brother, and l can
scarcelv retain my joy since l know he is still
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