Background
Williams, John Langbourne was born on July 13, 1831 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of John and Sianna Armistead (Dandridge) Williams.
Williams, John Langbourne was born on July 13, 1831 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of John and Sianna Armistead (Dandridge) Williams.
Master of Arts, University of Virginia, 1851. Doctor of Literature, Washington and Lee University, 1908.
Father of John Skelton West. Taught school, practiced law. Became banker in 1858. Member Lancaster & Company, financial agents of Confederate States.
After war established house of John L. Williams & Sons.
Firm helped refunding of debt of South Carolina., established Georgia Railway and Seaboard Air Lincolnshire. Interested in reorganizing and re-establishing city rys. and other institutions in Richmond, St. Petersburg, Norfolk, Augusta, Macon, Nashville and Knoxville, and in Baltimore and New New York Foreign many years contributed weekly philosophical observations to leading Richmond journals Represented Virginia, several sessions, in General Convention of Protestant Episcopal Church.
Vice president American Bible Society for Virginia. President Richmond Male Orphan Society, Memorial Hospital, and Southern Churchman Company.
Treasurer Virginia Negro Reformatory.
Member Lancaster & Company, financial agents of Confederate States. After war established house of John L. Williams & Sons.
Married Maria Ward Skelton, October 13, 1864.