Williams, John S
soldier, lawyer, journalist, public official, was born Dec. 14, 1825, in Lockport, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected mayor of the city of Lafayette, Ind., and was re-elected in 1858. He was for some time editor of the Lafayette Daily American. In 1861 he recruited the sixty-third regiment of Indiana volunteers, and was commissioned colonel of the regiment. In 1866 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the eighth district of Indiana. In 1869 he became the publisher of the Lafayette Sunday Times, and in 1885 was appointed third auditor of the United States treasury department.