Career
He was the first councilman elected under the 1925 city charter to die in office. Williams was born around 1867 in Utah and began work in a coal mine when he was "little more than 8, to support his mother, his father having died when he was a baby." He attended grammar and high schools at night and when he was 18 he became principal of a school in Lucas, Iowa. They had six children.
After the Williamses moved to Los Angeles, they took up residence in the Silver Lake district.
