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| | HistoryLink Essay:Williams, W. Walter (1894-1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Walter Williams was born in Iowa in 1894, but came to the Pacific Coast as a boy when his father, a civil engineer, became assistant chief of construction on the White Pass and Yukon railway lines in Alaska. Although the Williams family settled for a time in Skagway, they eventually relocated to Seattle. |
 | | The Williams family returned to Seattle after the war, eventually settling down in the University District. Williams gave up teaching for a job in an iron foundry, but later joined the staff of the King County State Bank. Anna, in the meantime, spent time raising their son Walter B., born to the couple in 1918. |
 | | Williams may have had an ulterior motive for leaving the Washington, D.C. Just two months prior to his resignation, on July 7, 1958, he wed Ruth Meisnest in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was Williams’ third marriage; his second, to Ethel Tobey, whom he wed in the early 1930s, ended with her death in 1953. |
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