Williams, George W
lawyer, banker, state senator, was born Oct. 7, 1801, in Bourbon county, Ky. In 1864, at Louisville, he was chosen permanent president of the first republican state convention ever held in Kentucky. He was the founder of the Deposit bank of Paris, Ky., and for many years its president. He was a member of the Kentucky state senate.
WILLIAMS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, soldier, author, was born Oct. 16, 1849, in Bedford Springs, Pa. He is a writer of African descent who served in the federal army during the civil war, and as lieutenant-colonel of artillery in the republican army of Mexico in 1865-67, and who was minister to Hayti in 1885-86. He is the author of History of the Negro Race in America: The Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion; and History of the Reconstruction of the Insurgent States.