W. C. Williams & Brothers

Submitted by Mike Miller

W. C. Williams & Bro., architects, New Orleans, La. These brothers, W. C. and C. Milo Williams, established their business at 47 Carondelet street, New Orleans, in 1884. They are both practical men, of experience, thorough training, and well qualified for executing all work appertainlug to their profession. The father of the brothers, William H. Williams, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1817, and was a son of Jacob Williams who was a merchant of that city. William H. Williams was educated in his native city, and in 1848 he immigrated to New Orleans, where he was subsequently married. He was a civil engineer and followed his profession up to the time of his death in 1886. He was prominently identified officially with the city of Carrollton, which was at that time an independent municipality. He was surveyor of the city and held other prominent positions after coming to New Orleans. For a number of years he was connected with the levee board of the city, and was engineer on the great delta survey of the Mississippi river. He was one of the representative man of the city and held many positions of trust. He was president of the Carrollton school board for seventeen years. In politics he was democratic. His wife, whose maiden name was Lavinia Pollard, was the daughter of Charles Pollard of Virginia. The senior member of the firm, W. C. Williams, was born in New Orleans in 1860; was educated in that city and there learned his profession. The junior member, C. Milo Williams was born in New Orleans in 1867. For the past six years he has been deputy surveyor of New Orleans. The firm has been unusually successful in a business way, and they are wide-awake, enterprising men. Among the prominent buildings they have planned and supervised are: the Quarantine buildings at Cubbitt Gap, the Louisiana Furniture factory in New Orleans, the Felicity Street Methodist Episcopal church and a large number of private residences averaging in price from $3,000 to $20,000.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 460. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.