Title: Samuel Wells Williams
Content:  Samuel Wells Williams (22 September 1812 – 16 February 1884) was a linguist, official, missionary and Sinologist from the United States in the early 19th century.
Title: Samuel Williams (minister)
Content:  Samuel Williams (23 April 1743–2 January 1817) was an American minister and educator.
Title: Samuel Williams (American author)
Content:  Samuel Williams (1826 – June 30, 1881) was an American newspaper editor and author of Welsh descent. He was born in Utica, New York. He worked for the Albany Evening Journal and San Francisco Evening Bulletin. After his death, his widow Elizabeth Balmer became the wife of William Barnes Sr.
Title: Samuel Williams (missionary)
Content:  Samuel Williams (17 January 1822 – 14 March 1907) was a New Zealand missionary, educationalist, farmer and pastoralist.
Title: Samuel Williams (Australian politician)
Content:  Samuel Connell Williams (1878 &ndash; 12 October 1962) was a Welsh-born Australian politician. He was born in Pontypridd to station master Connell Williams and Annie Williams. At a young age he worked in the Rhondda Valley coal mines before going to sea with the Royal Navy around 1902, eventually settling in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1909. He became a diver and mariner, and in 1918 married Olive Elizabeth Harland, with whom he had a daughter. In 1924 he came to Sydney with a dredge and was employed by the Maritime Services Board. Long involved in the Labor Party and the union movement, he was state secretary of the Dredge and Maritime Service Employees Association from 1939 to 1957. From 1943 to 1962 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Williams died in Sydney in 1962.
Title: Samuel Wells Williams
Content:  He returned to the United States in 1877 where he spent the last eight years of his life. Williams became the first Professor of Chinese language and literature in the United States at Yale University as well as the president of the American Bible Society on February 3, 1881. "He also revised his book, The Middle Kingdom. In his later years, he heavily corresponded with missionaries remaining in China, the American Bible Society and with Scribners concerning the publishing of The Middle Kingdom."
Title: Samuel Williams (engraver)
Content:  Samuel Williams (23 February 1788 &ndash; 19 September 1853) was a British draughtsman and wood-engraver.
Title: Samuel Cole Williams
Content:  Samuel Cole Williams (January 15, 1864 &ndash; December 14, 1947) was an American jurist, historian, educator, and businessman. He was born and raised in the state of Tennessee, where he primarily had his career in Johnson City in East Tennessee.
Title: Samuel Wells Williams
Content:  Williams was born in Utica, New York, son of William Williams (1787–1850) and the former Sophia Wells, an elder of the First Presbyterian Church. Among his siblings were brothers William Frederick Williams (who worked with Dr. H. A. DeForest in Beirut, Lebanon) and Henry Dwight Williams. His father's Williams family moved from Massachusetts to Utica in 1800 where his father joined his uncle, William McLean, and assisted in publishing the Whitestown Gazette (today the Observer-Dispatch) and Cato's Patrol (later renamed the Patriot after it was sold to John H. Lathrop in 1803). His became a partner in 1807, and later a master printer and journalist before serving in the War of 1812. At age 8 he was impressed by the departure to Ceylon as a printing missionary of a James Garrett who was associated with his father's printing business. He studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. There he assisted in the writing of a botanical manual by Senior Professor and co-founder Amos Eaton, published 1833. On graduation he was elected as a professor of the institute.
Title: Samuel Williams (minister)
Content:  Working as a priest in Bradford, Massachusetts, he continued his astronomic and scientific inquiries and regularly featured in the Salem newspaper. In 1780 he dedicated himself full time to scientific pursuits, trading his pastorate in Bradford for a post as Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard. His teaching was commemorated by the likes of John Quincy Adams, a pupil of his, and his papers were published by the APS and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Like many of his contemporaries, his writing and lectures spanned various fields and topics, ranging from astronomy, heat, electricity, air, magnetism, earthquakes, eclipses, and weather phenomenon. He earned honorary 

Question: What is Samuel Wells Williams's occupation?
Answer: missionary.
Christian missionary.