This is a transcription of the biography of Dr. William Richards of White Creek from History of Washington County, New York with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some if its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1878.
Dr. William Richards was a native of Waterbury, Conn., the son of Colonel Richards, a distinguished officer in the Revolutionary war, and his early feelings and sympathies were strongly enlisted on the side of the colonies in their struggle for freedom.
Dr. Richards removed to White Creek, in this State, about fifty years since, where he resided the greater portion of that time, engaged in the practice of his profession. He was a physician of great skill and prudence, and possessed to an uncommon degree the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.
He was frequently elected to offices of trust and responsibility in the county of Washington, and represented that county in the Legislature of the State in 1820.
In all the domestic relations of life his character was a model; and in public life his judgment was sound and discriminating and his integrity unquestioned. He died in White Creek, in 1844, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.