BIO: Clark Williams; New York State
surname: Williams, Clark

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Clark Williams, Superintendent of Banks, was born in Canandaigua, new
York, in 1870; and is a grandsono f Myron H. Clark, Governor of New York State
in 1855 and 1856. His father was Captain George N. Williams, a banker for many
years in Canandaigua. Mr. Williams prepared for college life in the
Canandaigua Academy, and was graduated by Williams College in the class of
1892. He then accepted a position in the First National Bank of New York.
Subsequently he became a clerk in the New York Guaranty and Indemnity Company,
and was in its employ for a year. Following this he became an official of the
United States Mortgage and Trust Company as Assistant Secretary, Assistant
Treasurer, Treasurer, and Vice-President. He resigned his position in the
United States Mortgage and Trust Company in order to participate, in 1905, in
the organization of the Columbia Trust Company, of which he became the Vice-
President. This position heheld when on October 23, 1907, he was appointed
Superintendent of Banks by Governor Hughes. Mr. Williams was President of the
trust company section of the American Bankers Association in 1906 and was a
member of the Executive Council of that association for the four years
preceding the appointment as Superintendent of Banks.