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Williams Family Biographies
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| Description: Biography of Major Archie P. Williams |
State: LA |
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| Source: Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 457. Published by the Goodspeed Publ |
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Biography: Maj. Archie P. Williams, secretary and treasurer of the New Basin Canal and Shell road, is a member of one of the oldest families in Louisiana. He was born in Rapides parish, May 15, 1845, and is the son of J. P. and Marie (Bushnell) Williams, the former a native of Rapides parish and the latter a member of one of the most prominent families of Baton Rouge. J. P. Williams was a sugar planter and owned one of the largest sugar plantations in the state. His grandfather, Archie P. Williams, was in his time one of the most extensive sugar planters in Louisiana and the owner of Willow Glen sugar plantation, near Alexandria. He was a native of Kentucky and in politics a whig. J. P. was also a whig, taking an active interest in politics, but would never accept a public office. He died before the war. Of a family of nine children born to him three sons and two daughters are yet living: one daughter, the wife of Judge T. H. Lewis, an attorney of Opelousas, and the other of Hon. Frank D. Chretien, of New Orleans. The sons are Austin D., manager of "Baton Rouge Advocate;" P. D., a planter of St. Landry parish, and Archie P., our subject. Archie P. Williams received his education at the Virginia Military institute, when Stonewall Jackson was a professor in the same, and at the Louisiana Military institution at Alexandria, when Gen. W. T Sherman was the president. He is the only man now living, or that ever lived, who can boast of having had these two great generals as teachers. In May, 1861, he left school to join the Second Louisiana infantry, as a private in Company B, being color bearer, and while in the regiment took part in a number of battles in Virginia, among which are the battle of Yorktown, seven days before Richmond and the Wilderness. At the latter place he was severely wounded by a gunshot in the arm and leg. Later he was promoted to lieutenant in regular confederate service and assigned to duty in Texas under Maj. E. A. Burke, chief of transportation, then as aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. A. P. Bagby, commander of the cavalry in the trans-Mississippi department. Mr. Williams was commissioned major, and at the close of the war was inspector-general on the staff of Gen. Bagby. When he was wounded he was taken prisoner and was in the hospital at Alexandria, Va., and at Washington, D. C. After peace was declared he became a planter in Rapides parish, Baton Rouge and also West Baton Rouge, and in the last named place married Miss Daisy Le Blanc, daughter of Octave Le Blanc, of one of the old and honored families in Louisiana. By this union five children were born?one son and four daughters. His wife died in Florida and he afterward married Miss Minnie Holleyman, daughter of Dr. A. T. Holleyman, a prominent physician of Jacksonville, Fla. Major Williams was deputy sheriff of St. Landry parish, deputy clerk of the supreme court at Opelousas, notary public and later chief of the "Times-Democrat's" expedition through the Florida everglades, the only expedition of the kind ever made with success. He was also
employed in the United States engineer's department on the coast of Florida. He was recently appointed secretary and treasurer of the New Basin canal and shell road by Governor Nicholls and was reappointed by Governor Foster. He is a prominent member of the Southern Yacht club and an active and interested worker in the Democratic club of New Orleans. He is also prominent in the social orders of the K. of H. and the A. F. & A. M.
Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 457. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.
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| Description: Biography of Charles C. Williams |
State: MO |
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| Source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 551 |
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Biography: WILLIAMS, Charles C. - b: 1822 Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV residence: Clinton Twp Charles C. Williams, M.D., dealer in drugs, medicines, books, stationery, etc., was born in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, June 22, 1822. His parents, Joseph and Hester Williams, were natives of Berks County, Pennsylvania, and moved to Virginia at an early day. In 1830 they went to Harrison County, Ohio, where Charles was reared to manhood, receiving his education from the Allegheny College of Meadville, Pennsylvania. In 1849 he began the study of medicine with Dr. H. T. Grier, of Bellsville, Ohio, under whom he was a student for three years. The latter part of that time, however, he attended a course of lectures of the Sterling Medical College, and also during the term of 1854-5, at the close of which he graduated. In March, 1856, he located in Atchison County, Missouri, and began the practice of medicine and there resided till 1867, when he came to Clinton and continued his practice for one year. In 1868 he purchased a half interest in the drug store of Estes & Stone, buying the interest of the latter (the firm was then known as Estes & Williams), and two years later he became sore proprietor and has since successfully controlled the business. Dr. Williams was united in marriage in 1858 to Miss Barbara A. McNeal, a native of Tennessee. They have seven children: Charles V., Barton P., Harry M., Clinton C., Lillie P., Albia and Maude. Dr. W. held the office of coroner of Henry County for two years.
Source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 551 |
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| Description: Biography of Edward G. Williams |
State: LA |
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| Source: A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 163, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical |
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Biography: Edward G. Williams, industrial chemist at New Orleans, is a recognized authority on the technical processes involved in cotton seed oil manufacture.
He was born at New Orleans, November 15, 1887, son of Edward A. and Marion (James) Williams. His father, who died in 1918, was for nearly twenty years secretary of the Orleans Parish School Board. The son was educated at New Orleans, attending the Boy's High School, and in 1908 graduated front Tulane University, where he specialized in chemistry. For fifteen years his experience has made him familiar with many phases of industrial chemistry, though particularly with vegetable oil manufacturing. From the point of view of the chemist he is also an expert on cotton seed oil crushing machinery. Mr. Williams maintains a completely equipped laboratory for his work in the Title Guarantee Building, New Orleans. His work is mainly along the lines of efficient control of vegetable oil manufacturing plants, particularly those producing cotton seed oil, peanut oil and cocoanut oil, he has been technical advisor on subjects of mechanical equipment for a number of such industrial plants over the South. During the World war be erected at New Orleans a plant for the recovery of vegetable oils for glycerin and fats used for the manufacture of explosives, being given the entire responsibility of purchasing and installing the machinery, and superintending production in the plant.
Mr. Williams was instrumental in forming a special course in industrial chemistry in the night high school of New Orleans, primarily for the benefit of employees of local industrial plants. For about eight years he taught this special course in chemistry. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemistry, a member of the American Chemical Society, is serving as referee chemist for the American Oil Chemist Society, is a member of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association, of the Louisiana Engineers Society, and of the Louisiana and University Clubs.
NOTE: A signed photograph/painting accompanies this narrative in the referenced source.
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 163, by Henry E. Chambers.
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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| Description: Biography of H. M. Williams |
State: LA |
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| Source: Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 458-459. Published by the Goodspeed |
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Biography: H. M. Williams is a well-known planter of Louisiana, but was born, in Mississippi in 1845 and when eight years of age came to Louisiana with his parents. His father, B. H. Williams, was born in Ohio and in a very early day moved to Wilkinson county, Miss. In 1850 he was taken with the gold fever and after fifteen years spent in the West, returned to his old home, where he died two years later. H. M. Williams was an attendant of a private school until fifteen years of age, but the war coming up about this time he left school to enlist in the confederate service, becoming a member of Company E, First Louisiana cavalry, and was a participant in many engagements in Tennessee and Kentucky, among which may be mentioned the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Perryville, Chattanooga and Richmond. While with Scott's command in the last mentioned engagement he received a slight wound. He served for a time as courier on Scott' s staff. His last service was on the Naval expedition on Lake Maripan with Holmes. After the war he returned to Louisiana and engaged in farming, and although commencing on very limited means he has succeeded reasonably well and is now the owner of two plantations, embracing 720 acres, one-half of which is under cultivation. He handles eighty bales of cotton yearly, and he is continually improving his place and thus adds not only to its beauty but to its value. He is industrious and honorable and as what he now has has been earned through his own efforts, his career is deserving of emu1ation. In 1868 he was married to Miss Lida Stockton Austin, a native of Pennsylvania, but was called upon to mourn her death in 1876, their union having resulted in the birth of one son, Hunter, who has been an attendant of the University of Louisiana. In 1890 he took for his second wife, Miss Fannie L. Haralson of Louisiana. They are Episcopalians.
Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 458-459. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.
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| Description: Biography of John L. Williams |
State: LA |
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| Source: A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 82, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical |
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Biography: Rev. John L. Williams, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for over thirty years, is state superintendent of the Louisiana Child Finding and Home Society, Inc., and has held that office since the organization of the society January 26, 1917. Its offices are at 211 Camp Street in New Orleans.
John Lancaster Williams was born in Lawrence County, Alabama, October 4, 1870, the son of a farmer, but other ancestors were scholars and professional men. His grandfather, Dr. Joseph E. Williams, was for thirty-five years a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, and on retiring at the age of sixty-three, moved to a plantation in northern Alabama, where he died in 1872. George W. Williams, father of Rev. John L., was reared on the Alabama farm, and devoted his active career to farming. In 1891 he moved to Texas and acquired a valuable farm near Fort Worth. George W. Williams married Sarah S. McVeigh, who finished her education in the Richmond Female College of Virginia, and for a number of years was a teacher. Her father, Lancaster E. Mc Veigh, a native of Richmond, was long recognized as one of the ablest mathematicians in the South. He taught in the University of Virginia; was superintendent of public instruction for the state of Tennessee; was president of the Soule University near Leighton, Alabama, and died at the age of eighty-six, in 1891.
John Lancaster Williams, oldest in a family of five sons, grew up on the farm in northern Alabama, attended local schools and in 1889 graduated from the Southern University at Greensboro, Alabama, taking the Bachelor of Arts degree, and subsequently was given the degree of B. D. by Vanderbilt University at Nashville, where he also completed his divinity course. He was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1891. For a quarter of a century he was in itinerant ministry, holding pastorates in Alabama, Texas, California, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
The Louisiana Child Finding and Home Society, of which he has been superintendent since 1917, is an inter-denominational charity of Louisiana, organized and incorporated for the purpose of caring for orphans and other dependent children by placing them in proper family homes rather than in institutions and asylums. Under the direction of Rev. Mr. Williams this institution has performed wonderful service and realized the aims of its founders. It is conducted under religious auspices, but independently of politics or denominational control.
Rev. Mr. Williams has been active in all the child welfare organizations at New Orleans and Louisiana. He is a member of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic fraternity,Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 82, by Henry E. Chambers.
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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