[1] During the Civil War, he served under Millard Fillmore's command in the Union Continentals, a corps of home guards over the age of 45 from Upstate New York.
[1] After the Civil War, in 1869, Williams while president of the Buffalo and Erie Railroad, helped organize its consolidation into the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.
[1] Williams met Lovisa Kirkland Stedman while living in Windham, Connecticut.
They had three children:[1] He lived in retirement until his death at his home in Buffalo, New York, on September 10, 1876.
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