Arthur Williams

Arthur Williams (August 14, 1868 – April 14, 1937) was an American electrical engineer and an executive at the New York Edison Company, a Federal Food Administrator of the City of New York, a local politician in Roslyn Harbor, New York, and the first president of The National Association of Corporation Schools in 1913.

Biography Youth and early career Williams was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1868, the son of Rev. Christopher S. and Hannah Sanford (Rogers) Williams. He was educated in the public and private schools of Hartford, Connecticut, and New York City.

At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Williams was in charge of the Volunteer Forces which mined New York harbor. This work was done under the direction of the regular army, and he commanded a volunteer electrical force organized from members of local electrical companies. He served under Colonel William Ludlow, who was in charge of fortifications and torpedo defenses at Sandy Hook, and Major Henry M. Adams, who occupied a similar position at Forts Wadsworth and Hamilton. Williams always took an active part in accident prevention, a work carried on under the direction of the American Museum of Safety, of which he was president, and was deeply interested in various charity and philanthropic organizations. The National Association of Corporation Schools (past-president), the Technical Publicity Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Political and Social Science, Municipal Art Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Society for the Protection of the Adirondacks, Electro -Chemical Society, International Engineering Congress, New York Zoological Society, Broadway Association, Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New England Society, International Law Association, of London, England.

Death Williams died on April 14, 1937 in Miami Beach, Florida, aged 68.

Awards and honors For the interest Mr. Williams had shown in French affairs, the government of that country decorated him as an officer de la L'lnstruction Publique – and, for his work in connection with the American Museum of Safety, the King of Spain made him a Knight of the Royal Order of Isabel the Catholic.