TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - BIO: WILLIAMS, Carlos Grant (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, 1925
Volume III, page 220

        CARLOS GRANT WILLIAMS, director of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station at Wooster, has been a prominent influence in Ohio agriculture for
many years, at first as a local leader and contributor to the agricultural
press, and now for over twenty years as an official in the agricultural
experiment station.
        Mr. Williams was born in Gustavus, Trumbull County, Ohio, January
18, 1863, son of Carlos A. and Elmina (Moore) Williams, his father a native
of Connecticut and of old Colonial ancestry. His mother was born in Ohio.
His parents spent all their lives as farmers in Trumbull County, where his
father died in 1879, leaving seven children.
        Carlos Grant Williams was sixteen years old when his father died,
and then took active charge of the home farm. By personal experience he
knows all the problems of the practical farmer. He was educated in county
schools and in the Gustavus Academy, where he completed a literary and
scientific course. For several years he taught a country school during six
months of the year, the while he spent the summer seasons as a farmer. He
early became interested in the scientific side of farming, both as an
observer and as an experimenter, and for a number of years was a lecturer
over the state at Farmers' Institutes. He wrote for a number of periodicals
on agricultural subjects, including the County Gentleman, the Rural New
Yorker, and the Ohio Farmer.
        On January 1, 1903, Mr. Williams came to the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment station as chief of the department of agronomy, and has been
head of that department now for over twenty years. In January, 1921, he was
made director of the station. The station is organized for its work in ten
departments, chemistry, dairying, entomology, farm management, forestry,
horticulture and soils. The plant at Wooster consists of about 700 acres of
state-owned land, with office buildings, laboratories, barns and
miscellaneous buildings needed in the station's work. The station also has
supervision and operation of tracts of land, including state forest tracts,
there being a total of over 2700 acres in experiment farms, and over 10,000
acres in state forests. It is not too much to say that every farm in Ohio
has been directly or indirectly influenced for good through the work
carried on in various departments comprising the experiment station. In
addition to the hundreds of practical farmers who observe directly the work
done on the various experimental tracts, the results are also described in
detail in bulletins, of which some 400 have been published. Mr. Williams
himself is the author of ten technical bulletins and is joint author of
eight others. He has been a contributing editor to the Ohio Farmer since 1908.
        In 1913 he was appointed one of the four agricultural commissioners
of Ohio, serving in that office two years. At the time of the World war, he
was appointed a member of the Ohio Council of Defense and president of the
Wayne County Red Cross. He is a director of the Peoples Savings & Loan
Company of Wooster, of the Commercial Banking & Trust Company of Wooster,
and is a trustee of the Wooster Public Library. He votes as a republican,
is a member of the Congregational Church, and is a Royal Arch Mason, a
member of the Grange and Rotary clubs.
        He married in 1896 Miss Mayme Elder, who was born at Johnsonville,
in Trumbull County, Ohio, and is of Scotch ancestry. They have three
children, Margaret, Ruth and Robert. The two daughters are graduates of
Oberlin College, where the son is also attending.


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