Born: Ju­ly 2, 1855, Brook­line, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: May 6, 1915, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Williams re­ceived de­grees from Har­vard Un­i­ver­si­ty (AB 1876), Har­vard Di­vin­i­ty School (BD 1882), and West­ern Re­serve Un­i­ver­si­ty (LittD 1911). He was pas­tor of the Un­i­tar­i­an Church in Win­ches­ter, Mass­a­chu­setts (1882), and of All Souls, New York Ci­ty (1883-1896). He went on to serve as head­mas­ter of Hack­ley School in Tar­ry­town, New York, un­til 1905, and head­mas­ter of the Rox­bu­ry La­tin School (1907-1909). His works in­clude:

• Character Build­ing, 1894
• Po­ems of Be­lief, 1910
• Transla­tion of The El­e­gies of Ti­bull­us from Vir­gil’s Ae­neid and, in 1890, he and his wife Vel­ma ed­it­ed Hym­nal: Amore Dei.
• Transla­tion of Vir­gil’s Georg­ics and Ec­logues, 1915

Sources

Hymns

1. As the Storm Re­treat­ing Leaves the Vales in Peace
2. Glory Be to God on High
3. Hast Thou Heard It, O My Brother
4. I Long Did Roam Afar from Home
5. In the Lone­ly Mid­night
6. Lord, Who Dost the Voices Bless
7. My Country, to Thy Shore
8. My Heart of Dust Was Made
9. When Thy Heart with Joy O’erflowing