Background
Williams Haynes was born Nathan Gallup Williams Haynes on July 29, 1886 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He was the son of David Oliphant Haynes, a publisher, and Helene Dunham Williams.
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Williams Haynes was born Nathan Gallup Williams Haynes on July 29, 1886 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He was the son of David Oliphant Haynes, a publisher, and Helene Dunham Williams.
Haynes studied economics, chemistry, and biology from 1908 to 1911 as a special student at Johns Hopkins but never took a degree.
From 1911 to 1916 Haynes dallied in various journalistic ventures, editing Field and Fancy (1911), serving as a special correspondent in Canada and Europe (1911-1916), editing the Northampton Herald (1914-1915), and publishing books on terriers and dog breeding.
After Haynes brashly told his father that anyone could improve the magazine, he was challenged to try. Thus, in 1916, his father took him into his firm, D. O. Haynes and Company, which published Drug and Chemical Markets, as secretary and editorial director.
By 1920, Haynes had become publisher. He split the publication in 1926 into Drugs and Cosmetics Industry and Chemical Industries, remaining publisher of the former until 1926 and of the latter until 1939. In 1928 he founded Chemical Who's Who and edited it through five editions. He also founded Plastic Products, which later became Modern Plastics. Haynes also wrote less-technical books on the chemical industry: Chemical Economics (1933), Men, Money and Molecules (1935), Chemistry's Contributions (1936), and other works.
The attention attracted in chemical circles by Haynes's books and magazines led to his being selected to write The American Chemical Industry: A History, published in six volumes between 1945 and 1954. A less massive study had been envisioned in the 1930s by Francis P. Garvan, the founder of the Chemical Foundation, to stimulate the American chemical industry following World War I. Garvan and his associates envisioned a book that would stress the importance of American self-sufficiency in chemicals. Charles H. Herty, a leader of the Farm Chemurgic Council, was expected to write the book. After both Garvan and Herty died in the late 1930s, Haynes was chosen to undertake authorship. Haynes was unwilling, however, to write propaganda to warn American legislators and entrepreneurs of the dangers of chemical insufficiency. For years he had collected materials relevant to his ambition to write a history of the American chemical industry. On the basis of his intimate association with leading industrialists, he proposed a three-volume treatise not restricted to the coal-tar dye industry, as Garvan and Herty had planned, but a history of the American industry from the colonial period to the onset of World War II.
In 1939, Haynes sold his trade magazines to devote his time to his historical projects. He moved permanently into a farmhouse built in 1750 near Stonington, Connecticut, which location permitted him to pursue research at the New York Public Library and at the specialized library of the Chemists Club, also in New York City. He was also within easy reach of libraries at Yale, Brown, and Harvard. Haynes realized that the projected books would be costly to edit and print.
He and his backers sought financial help from the chemical industry. Industrial executives were not interested until Willard H. Dow of Dow Chemical and Edgar M. Queeny of Monsanto pledged the backing of their companies. After an advisory committee was created, financial support was forthcoming from nearly all of the major chemical corporations, particularly after a volume of company histories, written by an author within each company, was included. The project was expanded to five volumes, with a sixth containing the company histories. Two volumes dealing with the 1912-1922 period were published in 1945, with additional volumes appearing at intervals. In 1954 the first volume, covering the years 1606-1911, finally appeared; Haynes was then nearly seventy.
He was an expert on Connecticut history and compiled a three-century chronology of Stonington that was published in 1949. Haynes and his wife wintered in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he developed an enthusiasm for the history of Mexico and its culture. His passion for history transcended research into any one subject, and he became deeply involved in the preservation of historic sites and artifacts in Connecticut and elsewhere, and in the preservation of the environment.
He died in Stonington, Connecticut.
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Haynes was proud of his descent from colonial families and knowledgeable about the colonial period.
Haynes married Elizabeth Bowen Batchelor on June 10, 1911; they had one child. After his first wife's death, he married Dorothy Farrand on June 5, 1926; they had two children.