Mary Wilhelmine Williams

[citation needed] At the age of eighteen Williams attended San Jose State Normal School in California and graduated in 1901.

[4] From 1918 to 1919 Williams served the government of Honduras as a cartographic, geographic, and historical specialist in relation with its border disagreements with Guatemala and Nicaragua.

The US State Department appointed Williams to serve on a variety of committees dealing with Latin American problems.

[5] Williams was an ardent pacifist and feminist, joining the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and serving as the president of its Baltimore branch from 1933 to 1939.

[4] In 1925, she joined the National Woman's Party after being convinced by an article she read by M. Carey Thomas that endorsed its proposed Equal Rights Amendment.

"[1] As a teacher, Williams is remembered for her thorough standards of scholarship, her persistence for complete mastery of a subject matter, and her encouragement of students in undertaking independent research.