Biography of 	W. C. Williams, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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W. C. Williams & Bro., architects, New Orleans, La.  These brothers, W. C. and C. Milo
Williams, established their business at 47 Carondelet street, New Orleans, in 1884.  They are
both practical men, of experience, thorough training, and well qualified for executing all work
appertainlug to their profession.  The father of the brothers, William H. Williams, was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1817, and was a son of Jacob Williams who was a merchant of that city.
William H. Williams was educated in his native city, and in 1848 he immigrated to New Orleans,
where he was subsequently married.  He was a civil engineer and followed his profession up to
the time of his death in 1886.  He was prominently identified officially with the city of
Carrollton, which was at that time an independent municipality.  He was surveyor of the city
and held other prominent positions after coming to New Orleans.  For a number of years he was
connected with the levee board of the city, and was engineer on the great delta survey of the
Mississippi river.  He was one of the representative man of the city and held many positions of
trust.  He was president of the Carrollton school board for seventeen years.  In politics he
was democratic.  His wife, whose maiden name was Lavinia Pollard, was the daughter of Charles
Pollard of Virginia.  The senior member of the firm, W. C. Williams, was born in New Orleans in
1860; was educated in that city and there learned his profession.  The junior member, C. Milo
Williams was born in New Orleans in 1867.  For the past six years he has been deputy surveyor
of New Orleans.  The firm has been unusually successful in a business way, and they are
wide-awake, enterprising men. Among the prominent buildings they have planned and supervised
are:  the Quarantine buildings at Cubbitt Gap, the Louisiana Furniture factory in New Orleans,
the Felicity Street Methodist Episcopal church and a large number of private residences
averaging in price from $3,000 to $20,000.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 460.  Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.