Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Williams, Alexander Dennis (b. 1878) --------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia Blue Book West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1918 Compiled and edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate The Tribune Printing Company, Charleston, West Virginia Page 747. State Road Commission A. DENNIS WILLIAMS, Chairman, (Republican), was born on a farm in Pocahontas county, May 22, 1878; educated in the public schools of that county and Concord State Normal, at Athens, and studied engineering in the field under Major P. B. Houston. Mr. Williams' early life was spent on a farm. He taught three terms of public school, from 1895 to 1898, an from the latter year until 1901 was in the engineering department of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. In 1901-2 he was engineer for the Greenbrier & Iron Mountain Railway; 1902-3 engineer for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company and the G. C. & E. Railway; 1903-13 had a general engineering office at Marlinton, Pocahontas county, during which time he was engineering for the M. & C., G. & C. and G. & I. M. Railways, and many lumber and industrial companies. Mr. Williams was elected to the legislature from Pocahontas county in 1908, and represented that county in the session of 1909, serving as chairman of the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation, and was in a measure instrumental in the passage of the revised road laws enacted at that session, which laid the foundation for the present road development in the State. He was appointed as Chief Road Engineer by Governor H. D. Hatfield, July 8, 1913, and served as such until May 23, 1917, when the law under which he was serving was supplanted by the acts of 1917. June 1, 1917, Governor John J. Cornwell commissioned him as a member of the State Road Commission for a term of four years. In the organization he was elected chairman. Mr. Williams is a member of the Methodist Protestant church. He represented the West Virginia Conference in the General Conference at Pittsburgh, in 1908; at Baltimore in 1912; at the General Special Conference on Church Union at Columbus, Ohio, in 1914; and the General Conference at Zanesville, Ohio, in 1916. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Adrian College, Michigan, from 1908 to 1916, and in the latter year was elected a member of the General Educational Board. He has been elected annually to the West Virginia Conference, and has served as President of the Laymen’s Council since 1908. He represented the State as one of the delegates to the Head Camp Meeting, M. W. of A., at Peoria, Illinois, in 1908. Was elected president of the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Association at Nashville, Tenn., October 19, 1917. On the 23rd of January, 1902, Mr. Williams was married to Miss Lulu A. Waugh. He is connected with horticultural, agricultural, manufacturing and mining development enterprises located in the State. ------------------------------------------------------------------- BIRTH-REGISTER, Pocahontas County WV Page 86, Line 117 Alexander D. Williams was born May 22, 1878 son of Dr. & Hannah E. Williams MARRIAGE-REGISTER, Pocahontas County WV page 54, line 4 A. D. Williams (age 23) married Lula A. Waugh (age 22) on Jan 23, 1902 in Pocahontas County, WV ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Pocahontas County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/pocahontas/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------