Chauncey Pratt Williams
American historian, banker, and soldier
About Chauncey Pratt Williams
Lived 1860 – 1936 (aged 75–76).
Chauncey Pratt Williams (December 6, 1860 – December 25, 1936) was an American historian, banker, and soldier.
Williams graduated from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, where he was a member of the varsity crew, and the Albany Law School. Williams wrote extensively on the history of the American West, including biographies of the trappers Antoine Robidoux and Bill Williams; United States Senator Philip Schuyler; and frontiersmen John Hoback and John Coulter. His works on this subject are held at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
In 1886 he married Emma McClure.
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American historian, banker, and soldier (1860–1936)
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Chauncey Pratt Williams was born in 1860.
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Chauncey Pratt Williams died on 25 December 1936.
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