Background
Starting in 1860, he apprenticed in San Francisco as a draftsman at the architectural firm of his father, Stephen H. Williams, and Henry W. Cleaveland.
Starting in 1860, he apprenticed in San Francisco as a draftsman at the architectural firm of his father, Stephen H. Williams, and Henry W. Cleaveland.
Williams worked as an architect from 1869 to 1887. His first such work was with his father, in the firm then named South.H. Williams & Son, while the elder and younger Williams were both living in San Francisco. Subsequently, Williams partnered with Justus Krumbein from 1875 to 1878.
Williams was an architect of cast-iron buildings in the United States and Canada.
Williams died of pneumonia in January 1888.