WILLIAMS, JOHN SEKEELTON

(1865), an American financier and railway executive born in Powhatan County, Virginia. He was educated at the University of Virginia. From 1899-1904 president of a railway company and chairman of a trust company. Upon accepting an appointment from President Wilson, in 1913 as first a istant secretary of the Treasury he ~esigned from all other companies. In 1914 he was appointed by President Wilson comptroller of the currency and again reappointed in 1919. He resigned in 1921. Eng. clergyman; b. Wales; ed. Charter house, and Pembroke, Cambridge; minfster at Salem; preacher of toleration. Banished for unorthodoxy, he settled amongst the Indians, from whom he purchased Rhode Island. Obtained charter from England, 1644. Pres. of colony, 1654-58.