Author: William Williams
Alternate names: Williams, William, 1862-1947; ويليام وليامز; William Williams federal commissioner of immigration for the Port of New York; Williams, William; উইলিয়াম উইলিয়ামস; ویلیام ویلیامز; William Williams (Commissioner of Ellis Island)
Born: 2 Jun 1862
Died: 8 Feb 1947
Bio: William Williams was a New York lawyer and the Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island for two terms, 1902-1905 and 1909-1913, and the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity from 1914 to 1917. His papers contain correspondence, reports, notices, photographs, scrapbooks, and other items from his terms at Ellis Island and at the Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity. Ellis Island materials include photographic portraits of immigrants in native dress by Augustus F. Sherman and interior and exterior views of the immigration station by Edwin Levick and others.-NYPL