George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College was a college located in the northwestern corner of Hyde Park, Chicago. The college was an expansion of a summer camp founded by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin in 1886. The college remained in Hyde Park from its founding in 1890 until 1965, when it moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. Subsequently, the Hyde Park campus was demolished in 1989. George Williams College can trace its origin to a summer camp founded on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin by YMCA leaders I. E. Brown, William
Adolphus Williams County council. He first married Maria Vanderlip and married Katherine Wylie Raeburn in 1890. In 1903, he was named a police magistrate. Williams died in Vancouver at the age of 77. Adolphus Williams Adolphus Williams (July 18, 1844 – September 3, 1921) was a lawyer, magistrate and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Vancouver City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1894 to 1898. He was born in Aylmer, Ontario, the son of doctor Adolphus Williams, a native of London, England and Jane Burdick, and was educated in St. Thomas and at the Toronto University. Williams