Myron Clark Williams (May 2, 1870 – December 18, 1946) was an American banker and politician.

Life

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, Williams was the son of George N. Williams, a banker, and Abigail (Clark) Williams (daughter of Governor

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). He was educated at Canandaigua Academy, and graduated from

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in 1892, as a member of

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. He later served for many years as a Trustee of Williams. After graduation, he became a clerk at the First National Bank in New York City, then at the New York Guarantee and Indemnity Company, and later at the United States Mortgage and Trust Company of which he became Vice President. On April 29, 1897, he married Anna Murphy Plater in

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, a portrait of whom by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury is in the Williams College Faculty Club/Alumni Center, Williamstown. In 1905, he left US Mortgage & Trust to co-organize the Columbia Trust Company of which he became Vice President. On October 23, 1907, he was appointed by Governor Charles E. Hughes Superintendent of Banks. In November 1909, he was appointed

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to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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, and remained in office until the end of 1910. Afterwards he became President of the Windsor Trust Company and then of the Industrial Finance Corporation. He served as a

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representative with the First American Infantry Division in World War I. He was in the field at the Battles of Cantigny and

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. Later he was field director of the Bureau of Army Field Service, in charge of all Red Cross service during the Argonnes Campaign. He finished the war with the rank of

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, and in 1922, he was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross for his services. He died December 18, 1946 in

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Mary Clark Thompson Mary Clark Thompson (1835 – July 28, 1923), born Mary Lee Clark, was a noted philanthropist and wife of banker Frederick Ferris Thompson. Early years Mary Lee Clark was born in Naples, New York in 1835 to Myron Holley Clark (1806–1892) and Zi ...

was his aunt.

Sources

His marriage, in NYT on April 30, 1897

His appointment as Bank Superintendent, in NYT on October 24, 1907

His appointment as Comptroller, in NYT on November 12, 1909

Assumes presidency of Windsor Trust, in NYT on June 16, 1911

The Conspicuous Service Cross awarded, in NYT on December 3, 1922
The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Williams, C to D
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at www.usgennet.org His will filed, transcribed from ''Ontario County Times Journal'' of January 2, 1948, at usgennet {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Clark 1870 births 1946 deaths American bankers New York State Comptrollers Politicians from Canandaigua, New York Politicians from New York City Williams College alumni